Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
642.13.10
642.13.10 Delphinium staphisagria, Staphysagria
Names: flower bud the shape of a dolphin snout.
English: Larkspur; Lice-bane; Stavesacre.
Culture: hero Ajax, dishonoured and totally distraught, kills himself and from his blood come the first buds.
Mind
Feels kept in dependency, unjust; given only the second place.
Anger, rage, frustration, < options taken away.
Sensitive, < slight mental impressions.
Offended easily, indignation, mortification, insulted, hurt pride, vexation, < least action, < harmless words, sexual abuses
Apathetic, indifferent, low-spirited, weak memory
Ill-humoured children cry for things which, after receiving, they petulantly push or throw away
Sad, chagrin, reserved displeasure.
Onanism; persistently dwelling on sexual subjects; constantly thinking of sexual pleasures.
Ailments from onanism and sexual excesses; pride, envy or chagrin.
Dreams: anxious, frightful; disagreeable; restless; bitterness; indifferent.
Dreams: business of the day; exertion; driving a car, fast; future.
Dreams: anger, angry; quarrels, strife; murder; fights with animal.
Dreams: disease; sick people; death; teeth falling out.
Dreams: humiliation; mortification; shameful; bad luck; misfortune.
Dreams: naked women; amorous.
General
Sensation: stinging, smarting, pains, like the cutting of a knife.
Desire: tobacco; food, hunger, = full stomach.
Sleep: sleepy all day, awake all night.
Physical: < mechanical injuries, < sharp-cutting instruments; < surgery, operations; < loss of vital fluids.
Body
Fever; ravenous hunger for days before attack.
Energy: weakness; nervous, < hard work; sick, trembling, exhausted; prostration; scorbutic cachexia.
Head: pain, as a round ball in forehead sitting, < emission
Eyes: styes, chalazae, nodosities, upper lids.
Face: sunken; guilty, abashed look.
Mouth: toothache, < menses; teeth decayed, crumble, black, dark streaks, painful, < touch of food or drink, = biting or chewing, < cold air, < cold drinks and after eating.
Lungs: cough, croupy, < daytime, < dinner, < meat, << tobacco smoke, vexation, indignation, < cleaning the teeth, < winter.
Stomach: hanging down relaxed.
Abdomen: hanging down relaxed; colic, < lithotomy or ovariotomy.
Urinary: urging, ineffectual, young married women, < coition, < difficult labour; burning in urethra when not urinating; urging and pain after urinating in prostatic troubles of old men; prolapse of bladder.
Male: spermatorrhoea; erections, < toothache; relaxation, atrophy.
Female: vulva sensitive, painful, < touch, clothing; relaxation, atrophy.
Back: backache, < night in bed, < before rising; sciatica, < summer.
Limbs: arthritic nodosities of joints, fingers, suppuration; body aches all over.
Skin: eczema: yellow, acrid moisture oozes from under crusts; vesicles, < contact with exudation; itch wandering, < scratching; fig-warts, dry, pedunculated, cauliflower-like, < mercury.