Stillingia Sylvatica
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General
Stillingia Sylvatica.
Stillingia sylvatica. Queen's Delight. (Pine barrens from Virginia to Florida.) N. O. Euphorbiaceae. Tincture of the root after flowering.
Clinical
Bones, diseases of; nodes on. Clergyman's sore throat. Elephantiasis. Haemorrhoids. Headaches, syphilitic; mercurial; catarrhal. Hip-joint disease. Influenza. Larynx, affections of. Liver, affections of. Nodes. Periostitis. Psoriasis. Rheumatism. Scrofula. Syphilis.
Characteristics
Still. has long been a popular remedy for syphilis in the southern states of U.S. T. Y. Symons introduced it into professional medicine, and Hale to homoeopathy.
H. R. Frost, A. B.
Nichols, J. M. Cunningham, and others proved it, chewing the root or taking the tincture. One prover chewed the bark.
The proving shows an action closely parallel with that of syphilis, attacking the genito-urinary organs, throat (pharynx, larynx, and trachea), mouth, head, and bones. I have cured with it syphilitic cough of the hoarse, barking type. In one case of secondary syphilis the patient (who was taking Still. 1) complained that the medicine made his legs and feet feel tired and his feet feel sore. Still. attacks the periosteum and produces pain in the bone.
It has removed nodes on the forehead, tibia, and elsewhere, and arrested caries of the nasal bones. Pain in the cranial bones and the headaches of syphilis. It is not confined to syphilitic cases in its action. It has a popular repute in scrofula, skin affections, liver diseases, and rheumatism—all of which the provings confirm.
One prover was cured of a pustular eruption during the proving. In chronic rheumatism Hale classes it with Phyt. and K. iod. Peculiar Sensations are: As of a heavy substance pressing on brain. Tongue as if scalded (Still. has the irritating properties of the Euphorbians).
As if room were too warm. Pains are sharp, shooting, darting. The cartilages of larynx and trachea are sore and feel bruised. Dryness is a common feature.
Hale quotes a case of secondary syphilis treated by Preston, one of the provers. The patient, a man, suffered extreme torture from bone pains. After receiving Still. he slept well. The immense nodes disappeared from head and legs; and "from the most deplorable, down-hearted (sometimes almost raving from derangement), miserable, thin-looking object, he changed into a buoyant, joking, rotund-looking fellow." The symptoms were < by movement.
< Walking. Pressure > pain in forearm. < Exposure to cold or to air. Warmth > itching of legs.
Relations
Antidote to: Merc. Antidoted by: Ipec. (nausea from the fumes). Compare: In syphilis, Syph., Med., Merc., K. iod. Chronic rheumatism, Guaiac., Phyt. Nodes, Mang., Corydalis, Staph. Hip disease, Nat. s. (Still. secondary or inherited syphilis, pains in and through hip < night, < wet weather; Nat. s. hydrogenoid constitution, pains < night rouse patient from sleep, > turning over in bed).
Mind
Depression of spirits; and gloomy forebodings.—Intellect dull and stupid.
Head
Dizziness and throbbing in head
Persistent dull headache in vertex
Dull, heavy pain in r. side of head
In frontal region a feeling as of a heavy substance pressing on brain, becoming sharp and darting, almost unendurable
Pains in head, with inflamed and watery eyes, and general soreness of muscles
Sharp darting pains in r. occipital protuberance
Mercurial, syphilitic, and catarrhal headaches
Bone swellings in head and forehead, in latter size of hen's eggs
Mercurial periostitis of skull.
Eyes
Eyes inflamed and watery, with severe headache and general muscular soreness, as if he had taken cold.—Sharp darting pain over l. eye; lachrymation of both eyes, esp. after reading; r. eye <.
Ears
Burning in l. ear in evening; next morning a vesicular eruption.
Nose
Catarrhal discharge, first watery then muco-purulent; followed by small abscesses on inside of r. nostril
Sharp burning sensation in r. nostril, 6 a.m. on waking
Influenza
Necrosis of bones of nose.
Face
Pains under malar bone, extending transversely through face
Stinging darting pains in face; with frontal headache
Periostitis of facial bones.
Mouth
Paroxysms of neuralgic toothache
Tongue: coated heavily; yellowish white; white; feels rough and sore
Scalded sensation on tongue, with soreness in region of larynx
Heat in mouth and fauces
Taste: salty; bitter in morning
Increased flow of saliva.
Throat
Smarting, stinging, dryness and rawness of fauces
Constriction of throat
Intense burning in fauces and throat extending to stomach;
< on any attempt to swallow.
Stomach
Appetite: increased; lost
Regurgitation and vomiting of ingesta
Pyrosis daily, 3 p.m. to bedtime
Nausea with constipation
Sickness and salivation
Faint, empty sensation in stomach
Distress; griping; cramps in stomach.
Abdomen
Torpidity of liver with jaundice, great depression, constipation
Severe cramps in both hypochondria
Sharp darting in l. hypochondrium, followed by passage of flatus
Borborygmi
Colic, periodical
Heavy pain in hypogastric region.
Stool And Anus
Severe attack of piles lasting several weeks
Pain in rectum and sphincter with stool; burning and tenesmus; lasting half an hour after
Bowels loose and irregular
Stools: copious, acid, frothy, bilious; papescent; white like curds; dysenteric
Constipation, stools delayed.
Urinary Organs
Dull pain in region of kidneys
Incontinence of urine
Violent smarting burning through whole length of urethra < by micturition, with difficulty in voiding urine
Urine: increased; flocculent, mucous sediment.
Male Sexual Organs
On micturating, sharp pain in glans extending up urethra, so severe as to cause perspiration
Slight drawing up in r. testis
Dull tearing pain in l. testis
Gonorrhoea.
Female Sexual Organs
Both ovaries pained very severely.—Copious muco-purulent leucorrhoea, with rheumatic pains.
Respiratory Organs
Laryngitis, esp. if syphilitic, with hoarseness and dry spasmodic cough; or cough may be loose
Hoarseness and chronic laryngeal affections in public speakers
Croup
Slight uneasiness and tickling in trachea and bronchi, < on rising in morning
Tickling sensation in trachea in evening which = dry, spasmodic cough
Slight lame feeling seemingly in cartilages of larynx
Hoarse cough
Bruised feeling in trachea
Short, hacking cough
Cough deep and loose.
Chest
Oppression of chest
Darting pain in thorax, with tickling in throat and short, hacking cough
Sharp darting pains through chest and shoulders
Sore aching above l. clavicle
Raw feeling in chest whole length of sternum
Incipient phthisis in persons of strumous habit.
Heart
Boring pains about region of heart, with irregular pulse.—Pulse weak and very irregular.
Back
Aching in back and down thighs and legs.—While sitting pain in l. lumbar region, darting forwards.
Limbs
In evening pains in r. elbow and leg, aching and pulsating, with soreness.
Upper Limbs
Pain in r. scapula runs up neck
Soreness and aching in humerus
Sharp shooting pains in both arms, from middle third of humerus down to fingers
Very large node on olecranon
Aggravating pains in l. elbow, shooting towards shoulder and head; slighter in r. elbow and wrist.
Lower Limbs
Aching pain in r. leg
Pains in l. lower anterior third of leg
Burning-itching of legs
Enlargement of tibia to such a degree as to deprive the child of all power of motion; limbs contracted and swollen
Ulcers on legs, venereal, chronic, and indolent
Periostitis and nodes of tibia
Syphilitic and gonorrhoeal sciatica; l.—sided complaints—(Legs and feet feel tired, and feet sore.)
Generalities
Soreness of muscles all over; feels as if he had taken a severe cold.—Weak and emaciated.—Symptoms lasted eight weeks.—Nothing seemed to >; much < by exposing parts to cold or even to air; > from the aggravation only by covering with flannel or getting into bed.
Skin
(Pustular eruptions healed rapidly during the proving.)
Itching and burning-itching of legs < exposure to air
Vesicular eruption on ears
Scrofulous, venereal, and other skin diseases
Ulcers with unhealthy skin
Elephantiasis
Lepra.
Sleep
Unusual drowsiness all day, with general malaise and headache.—Very sleepy after eating.
Fever
Cold on going to bed; immediately after broke out in sweat, with excessive warmth all night
Feverish heat, evening
Fever 1 a.m.; gets into heavy sleep
During day, room felt too warm
Great warmth in face like catarrhal fever.