Staphisagria – Stavesacre

The mother tincture is prepared from the carefully dried ripe seeds of the plant Del- phinium staphisagria L., a native of Southern Europe. N.O. Ranunculaceae.

The main indications are:

Irritability, sensitivity. Teeth turn black and crumble away. Hunger with a full stomach. Craving for alcoholic drinks. Neuralgia of the testes and ovaries. Pains in

the hips, driving the patient out of bed in the morning. Gums spongy and bleeding. Irritable, naughty children, throw everything away, want to have everything, strike their parents. Scurvy. Eczema of the scalp. Falling out of the hair. Vaginismus. Styes, Meibomian cysts.

Consequences of cutting injuries, thus also to be tried in post-operative intestinal paralysis and abdominal distension with wind, and also in keloids.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Delphinium staphisagria, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for staphisagria: rashes; eye inflammations; dental diseases; digestive in- sufficiency; conditions of irritation of the urinary tract collection system and of the reproductive organs; neuralgia; colic; pain and sequelae following traumata and sur- gery; behavioural disorders; emotional discord or upset.