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Was there something you mentioned about a nose piercing?

Did you get that just before the relapse? The nose piercing may have caused the it. Piercing appears to create 'holes' in the vital energy from what I have noticed over the years in patients. I am not sure why.

Just repeat the Lachesis and we will see if it puts you back where you were.

This sounds like further aggravation. A good sign the remedy may be working.

Dear K, Again, I would like to request David and you to consider Staphysagria right now. Don't you want to feel well K?

Thanks for asking K. The reason for Staphysagria at this time is to take care of your anger, irritation and the impact of nose pierced last may on your health.

Therefore, please take Staphysagria 200C, daily one dose, for 3 days to iron out your current issues.

A bundle of prayers for your comfortable life.

Regards
Nawaz

Taking a new remedy so quickly while another one is already acting is not appropriate, and can create complications. Wait until we see what the Lachesis does before calling for remedy changes.

A quick aggravation, according to Kents 12 Observations as well as many other authors, is considered a good sign. However, there are other reasons why people aggravate, so we need to wait and see what comes after the aggravation to be sure.

How long one must wait in this situation?

Long enough for the aggravation to finish - a week is not unreasonable. How long you wait depends on the individual case, what kind of problem you are dealing with. Obviously in acutes you might only wait a single day, or even just a few hours. In chronics, and when there is no danger to the patient, you can easily wait 1-2 weeks.

Thanks!

Hi, So, you have been pretty busy:) Thanks! You are more than welcome.

You may post a pic as it will certainly help.

A bundle of prayers for your happy life.

Regards
Nawaz

Rajan Sankaran, 'Soul of Remedies' STAPHYSAGRIA

They are morbidly sensitive. The effect of this sensitivity is very deep and long lasting. They set for themselves a task which is nearly impossible. That task is to maintain their dignity despite being beaten down, insulted and humiliated. The main feeling of Staphysagria is one of dignity and honour, like a person of noble birth. He feels that he should live up to his sense of dignity and honour (which is often far more than needed in a man in his position). He should not do anything that is undignified, even though others may do so. He should never lower himself to the other man's level (and retaliate by acting as he does). He must never lose his control, since it would be very much below his honour and dignity to do so. If somebody insults him, he has to keep control as befits his noble birth. He cannot lose his temper and become abusive or violent. Were he to do so, he would feel very upset and feel that he had done himself an indignity and this, to him, would be worse than the effect of the insult itself. Hence the sentence in Phatak's Materia Medica: 'Great indignation about things done by others or by himself, grieves about the consequences'. This for me is a very significant sentence. He worries about the effect of such a lack of control on his reputation. The sentence in Phatak's Materia Medica is: 'Very sensitive to what others say about him'. The feeling seems to be that his survival depends upon maintaining a very high reputation and self-control, of being a very superior, calm and dignified person who wins the respect of all by his noble actions... a person who is much above the ordinary.
Staphysagria shares with Aurum a 'Fear of heights, of falling'. He should bear all the humiliations but must not respond or he will lose his dignity.
At a point the Staphysagria person can find it too much to keep the control. He starts to lose it and the first signs are found as the suppressed anger begins to surface:
o Trembling in anger.
o Voice lost during anger.
o Face red in anger.
o Weakness after anger.
o Hemiplegia after anger.
o Anger, throws things away.
o Strike, desire to.

hese are the first signs of losing control. Later, when the situation has become desperate and he feels the demand on him is too much, he may throw to the wind all his reputation and honour, and become the opposite, i.e. a person of ill-repute, who is looked down upon and treated with utmost disrespect. Here we have the rubric: 'Libertinism'. On the physical level, there may be loss of control over muscles. He can get: 'Convulsions from being unjustly accused' (Synthetic Repertory, Vol. II).
Staphysagria imposes on himself a very strict code of honour and is very indignant with himself if he doesn't uphold it. So he has to suppress a lot of his urges, especially in the sexual sphere. He is very timid and cowardly, and has feelings of guilt. He cannot express his increased sexual desire directly for fear of being hurt and out of a sense of shame, and because of his self-respect Staphysagria is not one who can ogle at women. He therefore suppresses his desire and we get the characteristics: 'Dwells on sexual matters'. There is also a prominent tendency to masturbation. To control the anger and the passion - to swallow the ego and hurt - becomes a survival mechanism. This is the situation that can present the maximum problems, for example in the area of sexuality a person intensely concerned with his honour and reputation will be too embarrassed to express his sexuality openly and this aspect will be suppressed, expressed only in his fantasy ('Ailments from embarrassment' and 'Sexual-minded'). But even these fantasies can produce intense guilt and fear in a Staphysagria person, guilt that he is indulging in such fantasies and fear that it may be discovered by others. The whole edifice of honour and reputation that he has built up and guarded will collapse. This leads to an intense state of anxiety, a neurotic anxiety with the feeling that somebody is behind him, and so he constantly keeps looking back. The need to keep perfect control, to live far beyond his capacity makes of Staphysagria a syco-syphilitic remedy. The sycotic aspect is manifested in the reserved, almost secretive nature and the constant apprehension that others might find his weakness, which is the losing of self-control. This need for control is sometimes seen in the struggle to give up smoking.

The main characteristic of Staphysagria is extreme sensitivity and reactivity, both emotionally and physically. If you touch the Staphysagria patient at his sensitive point, which is his honour, reputation and self-respect, there will be an immediate intense reaction though it is often suppressed. Kent writes: 'A man insulted by someone beneath his station could not react outwardly, went home sick, weak and trembling.' Physically too, Staphysagria is indicated in extremely sensitive conditions like a painful surgical scar or a sensitive tooth. In Phatak's Repertory it is the only remedy listed in the rubric: 'Sensitive, morbidly'. Also there is hardening, to cover up the sensitivity as is shown by a tendency to styes and tumours. This sensitivity could only be found in a plant and not in a metal, salt or animal. In its nature it has the softness of a plant rather than hardness of a mineral or the competitiveness of an animal.
In my experience, I have seen that with Staphysagria there can be two extremes, one which has such suppressed emotions where the person will tell that: 'I last got angry seventeen years ago', and the one who cannot control - as Phatak says: 'Violent outbursts of passion', 'Always angry'. The Staphysagria patients we see in practice lie somewhere between these extremes, and the common theme which links them all are matters of honour and respect, and the internal feeling that they have is of a very high reputation to live up to.

Staphysagria can have many fears: fear of being insulted, of being mortified, fear of being killed; he can be afraid even of his own shadow.
I have observed that Staphysagria is very apologetic during the consultation, as if to ward off any rudeness of the physician and to avoid being reprimanded by him. He has anticipation because of sensitivity to hurt. The patients apologize for everything - if they missed their turn in the consultation; or if they have not taken the medicine for a few days and are not feeling better, they usually blame themselves for it. I recall a patient who when entering the consultation room paused and asked if she should leave her slippers at the door. We see here someone who is careful and cautious in finding out what is the norm of the clinic before she does anything, because she does not want a reprimand from me and doesn't want to be admonished. Behind this sensitivity to being reprimanded and being admonished, one can perceive the expression of a delusion, which is that as long as she is following the rules of the person in authority, she is okay. Her perception of reality is that she is always under somebody whom she has to obey and whom she has to follow.
It is as if Staphysagria has made a contract with the rest of the world regarding just behaviour. The problem is, he has signed it, but the world has not.
The situational Materia Medica of Staphysagria is that of a man who comes from an honourable background, but at present is poor or dependent, or under someone who humiliates him. He cannot openly revolt or show his anger since he feels he would be belittling himself in doing so. It is a situation of being unjustly treated by a person on whom he is dependent, so there is:

o The need for justice.
o Egotism.
o Insulted feeling.
o Mortification.
o Suppressed anger.
o Occasional violent outbursts of anger.
But it is not like the rage of Lyssinum with its biting and kicking. It is not a situation of being tormented like Lyssinum but just being treated unfairly, mortified, insulted. It is not something active, not taking a stick and poking the ribs. Telling you to get out creates the Staphysagria feeling, whereas taking a stick poking your ribs three times a day creates that of Lyssinum.
Here I recall the situation of Mahatma Gandhi. He was born in a country ruled by the British, who had a contempt for those with dark skin. However Gandhi showed such nobility and uncompromising dignity that he won the respect not only of his countrymen, being called Mahatma or Great Soul, but also of the very people who oppressed and insulted him. He did this by showing self-control, control on violence and by his rigid persistence with truth and morality.

Harilal, the eldest son of Gandhiji, in my view was in a completely given up state of Staphysagria. He was already born with the Staphysagria state inherited from his father. To add to it he had to live up to a reputation of being the son of Gandhi. He coped well at first, joined the freedom struggle in South Africa and like his father was imprisoned several times. But soon, with the increasing demands on him, both from society and from his father, super-added to an already Staphysagria state, he gave up completely and took to all kinds of bad habits, bringing much dishonour to his family.
I have observed that Staphysagria does not have the attitude of Platinum. He is not outwardly egoistic nor does he put on airs like a king or queen. I have found these persons to be soft, quiet, reserved, often humble-looking, but have strongly felt in their presence the need to treat them with honour and respect. Their sensitivity to being spoken to rudely or to being treated disrespectfully is palpable. This very contrast between their appearance and their sense of honour is the 'indication' that I have used time and again to spot the Staphysagria patients, sometimes in the very first minute of an interview.
Besides Staphysagria, the other c-ancer miasm remedies belonging to the plant kingdom that I know of are Ignatia and Anacardium.
Carcinosinum is complementary to Staphysagria but the Carcinosinum situation is caused by being heavily controlled by the person on whom one depends, whereas that of Staphysagria is caused by being insulted by him.
The other remedy complimentary to Staphysagria is Sulphur. The Staphysagria state is the one in which the person feels humiliated and insulted. Naturally this state will arise more easily in one who originally had pride and egotism than in one who did not. We know that Staphysagria is often followed by Sulphur. In other words a Sulphur state of egotism predisposes to a Staphysagria state of humiliation.
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Dear K, do you have a 100% match with Lachesis?

The childhood stuff does not sound like Staphysagria. This is a very animal description - the kingdom themes of domination, control, space being invaded, fighting against someone stronger, jealousy, one-up-manship, rivalry - all point to Animal not Plant.

There are some more interesting expressions and themes appearing though - the invisible shroud, repulsion, disgust, self-loathing, isolation, wearing a mask - I wonder if perhaps you might need a different animal remedy. We can explore that if necessary.

Remedies are never given on the basis of social upbringing - the practitioner has to filter out those things that are explainable by culture and society, to find those things that are individual.

Photos wont help me in any way - I don't decide on remedies on the basis of appearance.

Hi K, Thanks for sending the pic's and these are already telling me a lot about your personality and other internal issues.

I would like to again request you guys to take Staph 200c dose asap that is safe during the monthly cycle. Your current symptoms are really calling for this remedy.

Many prayers for your good health.

Regards
Nawaz

That isn't how we understand Staphysagria. I also don't think it is what we understand Lachesis is good for either.

Staphysagria is about Pride and Humiliation. It is about not letting yourself react to situations that create anger, indignation, hurt ego. Staphysagria says 'I will control myself in those situations where I feel humiliated, enraged, criticized' and promptly suppresses their feelings, so that they don't humilate themselves further by losing control. This remedy has no particular relationship to romantic disappointment (above what any remedy can have since it is a common human experience), but certainly some kinds of relationship break ups will activate this specific sensitivity they have. It is important when using a remedy for any reason, to make sure it has a particular connection to the problem, and that the problem is defined enough to be able to match it to the remedy (so 'emotional trauma' describes the majority of problems patients have).

Let me look at what you have written. It is rich with new expressions, issues, problems - I think I can get a more precise prescription for you using it.

Is there any harm to take a dose of Staph 200C?

Look, in my opinion this seems to go far beyond the power of Staphysagria to heal. However, I cannot predict what it would do if given. I don't believe it is the deepest medicine here, but it may still have an effect.

Kay let me know if you want me to keep working on your case.