Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics

Stillingia Sylvatica still.

Allen (1889)In every bookSave

General

A tincture is made of the fresh root.

Generalities

Distress, miserable feeling all the forenoon, headache, eyes inflamed and watery, soreness of all muscles, feeling as if he had taken a severe cold. ▶ Malaise; about bedtime, amel. after sleeping all night. ▶ Weakness; with feeling as if emaciated; with sleepiness, heaviness agg. legs, soreness of whole body, disinclination to move, desire to go where I will not be annoyed, the duties of my profession are irksome, head heavy, relaxation of muscle of neck, brain feels too large for skull, difficulty in keeping eyes open. ▶ Aggravation from exposure of the parts to cold or even to the air, amelioration from covering with flannel or by getting into bed. ▶ Amelioration after a good nights rest.

Mind

▶ Gloomy forebodings. ▶ Spirits depressed. ▶ Stupid.

Head

Aching; agg. forehead and vertex; running from anterior part of temples. ▶ Dizziness; and throbbing. ▶ Shooting in right frontal bone running down to eye. ▶ Darting pain in sinciput extending to occiput; over left eye, with lachrymation, agg. right eye, more profuse when reading. ▶ Pain in forehead; like a current running from median line to occipital process and left cerebellum, also in evening; as from a weight on bring, the pain became darting and almost unbearable; heavy. ▶ Pain in temples; through T. and forehead; intermittent; darting, in left. ▶ Pain in right side of head. ▶ Darting pain in right occipital protuberances.

Clinical

Moist, brown excoriating eruption on the scalp.

White, pasty, fetid stools.

Syphilitic eruptions. ▶ Secondary syphilis, especially bone-pains, sciatica, particularly of left side. ▶ Bone-pains, with nodosities on the skull and long bones (Asaf., Sil., Merc.).

Laryngitis, with sensation of lameness of the cartilages, feeling of constriction and soreness.

Enlarged cervical glands. ▶ Tubercular eruptions, which tend to ulcerate.

Nose and Face

Abscesses in side of right nostril. ▶ Discharge from nose at first watery, then muco-purulent, nostrils sore inside. ▶ Sharp burning in right nostril at 6 A.M. on waking. ▶ Stinging-darting pain in face. ▶ Pain under malar-bone, extending transversely through face.

Mouth

Spells of neuralgia in teeth. ▶ Tongue coated; white; yellowish-white. ▶ Tongue feels rough and sore. ▶ Heat in mouth, fauces, œsophagus and stomach. ▶ Rough, dry feeling. ▶ Salivation. ▶ Taste salt; T. bitter in morning.

Throat

Inflammation of fauces; of left tonsil. ▶ Choking resembling globes hystericus, amel. Nux. vom. and Chelid. ▶ Sensation of a ball preventing sleep till after 1 A.M. ▶ Smarting and stinging. ▶ Rawness in fauces. ▶ Soreness of pharynx. ▶ Irritation of fauces. ▶ Tickling with hacking cough; T. in fauces, with dryness and hacking cough. ▶ Dryness of fauces. ▶ Burning in fauces; increasing till throat became very sore; in throat extending to stomach, as if deprived of epithelium, agg. swallowing.

Stomach

Appetite increased; lost. ▶ Regurgitation of food and vomiting of ingesta. ▶ Pyrosis every day from 2 P.M. till bedtime; every day from 3 P.M. till bedtime. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Vomiting. ▶ Cramps. ▶ Griping in epigastrium, then diarrhœa; G. in epigastrium at 6 P.M., then diarrhœa, with much flatus, next day feeling of impending diarrhœa. ▶ Distress in epigastrium. ▶ Burning. ▶ Faint, empty feeling.

Abdomen

Rumbling; amel. escape of flatus and smoking. ▶ Darting pain; in left hypochondrium, beginning in ascending colon and passing through descending colon, then escape of flatus. ▶ Cramps in hypochondria. ▶ Pain in umbilical region; heavy, in hypogastrium.

Anus

Piles. ▶ Pain in sphincter during stool, and in rectum. ▶ Bruised pain in sphincter. ▶ Burning during stool, with tenesmus; B. during stool, with tenderness, afterwards uneasiness in rectum.

Stool

Loose, with tenesmus and burning in anus; L. and bilious; L., two near together, with tenesmus and burning in anus which lasted half an hour; L. and irregular, afterwards constipation with nausea, and when lying down slow and irregular pulse, afterwards sensation of impending diarrhœa. ▶ Acrid, frothy, bilious, copious twice in one day, with tenderness and burning in anus. ▶ Six within two hours, three copious, the last three scanty white, resembling dysentery, then another, white and resembling curds. ▶ Urgent immediately after breakfast. ▶ Delayed; and during the evacuation pain in rectum and sphincter.

Urinary Organs

Pain in urethra; during micturition; smarting burning, agg. micturition, with difficulty in voiding urine and pain in region of kidneys. ▶ Scalding in urethra during micturition with uneasiness at neck of bladder as if inflamed. ▶ Urine increased; and scalding and high-colored, inclined to foam; and containing brick-dust sediment also high-colored; and thick milky, containing much chloride of sodium. ▶ White sediment. ▶ Dark brownish sediment (before the proving the sediment was flocculent mucous.).

Sexual Organs

Sharp pain in glans extending up urethra during micturition, causing sweat next day sharp pain on walking. ▶ Drawing up of right testicle. ▶ Heavy pain in left testicle. ▶ Pain in ovaries.

Respiratory Organs

Constriction of larynx. ▶ Bruised feeling in trachea on pressure; B. feeling, with irritation in bronchi. ▶ Lame feeling in cartilages of trachea. ▶ Uneasiness in trachea and bronchi on going to bed, agg. next morning on rising, with tickling. ▶ Cough, hacking; C. dry in evening from tickling in trachea, C. afterwards loose and deep; dry spasmodic, towards evening, from tickling, next day deep and loose.

Chest

Pain in left clavicular space; sore along left clavicle in evening, and in shoulder. ▶ Darting pain through chest; and through shoulder. ▶ Raw feeling in sternum. ▶ Oppression.

Heart and Pulse

Boring in region of heart. ▶ Pulse rapid. ▶ Pulse irregular; in morning; and full; and rapid, weak but regular during the heat and sweat.

Back

Pain in evening, extending down thighs and legs; in right scapula, running up to neck; in right kidney; across region of kidneys; shooting forward in left loin when sitting. ▶ Darting pain in left kidney on waking at 6 A.M., then in right, with heavy pain in left testicle.

Extremities

▶ Pulsating pain in right elbow and right leg in evening, with soreness. ▶ (Aching in bones and muscles, with increase of the soreness caused by severe exercise and felt before the proving).

Upper Extremities

▶ Shooting from middle third of humeri down to fingers. ▶ Aching in humerus, on and above olecranon, with soreness. ▶ Pain in right elbow, forearm and wrist, agg. motion; sharp, in bend of left elbow, agg. handing down; in left elbow, extending towards shoulder and hand, as if bones were sore and would separate, agg. left, temporarily amel. change of position, with aching in left carpal and metacarpal bones. ▶ Shooting in upper third and inner side of forearm at 9.30 A.M., agg. letting limb hand down and amel. pressure. ▶ Pain in finger-joints.

Lower Extremities

Aching in evening; in right hip and left foot; in hip-joint when riding, agg. bending backward or forward, and walking, with stiffness; on outside of right thigh and leg, running down to foot; heavy, in right thigh and leg; drawing, in left knee, affecting gastrocnemius and biceps. ▶ Stabbing in right knee. ▶ Sensations in popliteal spaces. ▶ Pain in right leg; in calves; in tendo-achillis; in leg and sole in morning; in lower anterior third of left leg in afternoon when driving; posteriorly in right leg in afternoon when driving; posteriorly in right leg after retiring. ▶ Dull feeling in calves. ▶ Pain in external malleoli; darting in outer part of right ankle. ▶ Aching in foot over right instep; agg. standing and attempting to walk. ▶ Uneasiness of left foot. ▶ Pain in third right toe when in the house; in metatarsal joints of toes when walking, extending to heels.

Skin

Smarting from rubbing on it the juice of the root, with irritation. ▶ Itching below knees; burning below knees, agg. exposure to air.

Sleep

Sleepiness early in evening; by spells during the day.

Fever

Coldness on going to bed, but soon sweat and heat. ▶ Feeling as if the room were too warm by spells during the day, with sweat. ▶ Heat in face like catarrhal fever. ▶ Burning in left ear at night before sleep, next morning vesicles upon it. ▶ Sweat.