Stillingia Sylvatica still.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Queen's Root (STILLINGIA)

General

Chronic periosteal rheumatism, syphilitic and scrofulous affections. Respiratory symptoms well marked. Torpor of lymphatics; torpid liver, with jaundice and constipation.

Mind

Gloomy forebodings; depressed.

Respiratory

Dry, spasmodic cough. Larynx constricted, with stinging in fauces. Trachea feels sore when pressed. Hoarseness and chronic laryngeal affections of public speakers.

Urinary

Urine colorless. Deposits white sediment; urine milky and thick.

Extremities

Aching pains in bones of extremities and back.

Skin

Ulcers; chronic eruptions on hands and fingers. Enlarged cervical glands. Burning, itching of legs; worse, exposure to air. Exostosis. Scrofuloderma; syphilis, secondary eruption and later symptoms. Valuable for intercurrent use.

Modalities

Worse, in afternoons, damp air, motion. Better, in morning, dry air.

Relationship

Compare: Staphis; Mercur; Syphil; Aur; Corydalis (syphilitic nodes).

Dose

Tincture and first potency.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Nash d. 1917; public domain)

Leaders

Extreme torture from bone pains and periosteal affections, especially in the "tibia," syphilitic eruptions, etc.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Stillingia sylvatica. Queen's Delight. (Pine barrens from Virginia to Florida.) N. O. Euphorbiaceæ. Tincture of the root after flowering.

Clinical

Bones, diseases of; nodes on. Clergyman's sore throat. Elephantiasis. Hæmorrhoids. 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 homœopathy. 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. ─ Gonorrhœa.

Female Sexual Organs

Both ovaries pained very severely. ─ Copious muco-purulent leucorrhœa, 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 gonorrhœal 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.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

Cockup Hat, Queen's Root. Euphorbiaceæ.
Grows in pine barrens from Virginia to Florida.
The male and female flowers are distinct upon the same plant, they are yellow and grow in the form of a spike ; the plant, if wounded, emits a milky juice.
Provings by Frost, Nichols, Eckles, Cunningham, Ingraham, Hale's New Rem., 2d ed. ; Preston, Tr. Penn. Soc. ; Taber, Lype, Ohio Med. and Surg. Rep., vol. 9.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Laryngitis , Hale, A. H. O., vol. 7, p. 537 ; Bone pains , Martin, T. H. M. S. Pa., 1870, p. 78 ; Secondary syphilis , McMechan, Hale, A. H. O., vol. 7, p. 31 ; Martin, Hah. Mo., vol. 6, p. 126 ; Scrofulosis , Hale, N. E. M. G., vol. 12, p. 445.

Mind

Depression of spirits, gloomy forebodings.
Deplorably downhearted ; suffering extreme torture from bone pains ; immense nodes on head and legs ; looks thin and miserable. θ Secondary syphilis.

Sensorium

Dizziness with throbbing in head.

Inner head

Mercurial, syphilitic or catarrhal headaches.

Outer head

Persistent dull headache in vertex.
Dull heavy pain in right side of head.
In frontal region a feeling as of a heavy substance pressing upon brain, becomes sharp and darting, almost unendurable.
Pains in head, with inflamed and watery eyes, and general soreness of muscles.
Bone swellings on head and forehead, on latter as large as a hen's egg.
Mercurial periostitis of skull. θ Syphilis.

Sight and eyes

Eyes inflamed and watery, with severe headache and general muscular soreness, as if he had taken cold.

Hearing and ears

Burning in left ear in evening ; next morning a vesicular eruption.

Smell and nose

Catarrhal discharge from nose, at first watery, then muco-purulent, with soreness of mucous membrane, followed by a small abscess on inside of right nostril.
Influenza.
Inflammation and necrosis of bones of nose.

Upper face

Stinging, darting pains in face, with frontal headache.
Pain under malar bone, extending transversely across face.
Periostitis of facial bones.

Teeth and gums

Paroxysms of neuralgic toothache.

Taste, speech, tongue

Tongue coated : yellowish white ; heavily ; white ; slightly, in morning.
Scalded sensation on tongue, with soreness in region of larynx.

Palate and throat

Smarting, stinging, dryness and rawness of fauces.
Constriction of throat.
Slight inflammation of left tonsil, lasting several days.
Burning in throat, with painful deglutition.

Hypochondria

Torpidity of liver, with jaundice and great depression of mind, with constipation.

Abdomen and loins

Colic, periodical.

Urinary organs

Dull pain in region of kidneys.
Incontinence of urine.

Male sexual organs

Sharp pains in penis.
Violent smarting burning pains throughout entire length of urethra ; difficult micturition.
While urinating has a sharp pain in glans penis, extending up urethra.
Pains in urethra so severe as to cause perspiration.
Urethral irritation and chordee.
Gonorrhœa ; gleet.
Syphilis ; primary, secondary and mercurial.

Female sexual organs

Copious muco-purulent leucorrhœa, with rheumatic pains.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Laryngitis, especially if syphilitic, with hoarseness and dry spasmodic cough, or it may be loose.
Hoarseness and chronic laryngeal affections of public speakers.
Croup.
Slight uneasiness and tickling in trachea and bronchi, < on rising in morning.
Tickling sensation in trachea toward evening, which caused a dry, spasmodic cough.
Dryness and soreness in region of larynx.
After exerting her voice unusually and catching cold, tickling in larynx, with loose cough ; sensation of lameness in cartilages of larynx and trachea ; constriction in region of larynx ; bruised sore feeling in cartilages of larynx.
Bronchial troubles, asthma, whooping cough, etc.

Cough

Short hacking cough.
Toward evening, excessively dry, spasmodic cough, produced by a tickling in trachea.
Cough deep and loose.
Short hacking cough with inflammation of fauces.

Inner chest and lungs

Oppression of chest.
Darting pains in thorax, with tickling in throat, and short hacking cough.
Sharp, darting pains through chest and shoulders.
Incipient phthisis, in strumous habits.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Pulse weak and irregular.
Boring pains about region of heart, with irregular pulse and a feeling of distress.
Pulse about 90 ; weak and very irregular, except at times during day, when he has spells as if room were too warm, and pulse becomes regular, with general perspiration.

Upper limbs

Sharp shooting pains in both arms, from middle third of humerus down to fingers.
Sharp shooting pains in upper third and inner side of forearm.
Very large node upon olecranon.

Lower limbs

Aching pain in right leg.
Pains in left lower anterior third of leg.
Burning itching of legs.
Enlargement of tibia to such a degree as to deprive child of all power of motion ; limbs contracted and swollen.
Ulcers on legs, venereal, chronic and indolent.
Periostitis and nodes of tibia.
Syphilitic and gonorrhœal sciatica ; left-sided complaints.

Limbs in general

In evening pains in right elbow and leg, aching and pulsating, with soreness.

Sleep

Unusual drowsiness all day, with general malaise and headache.
Very sleepy after eating.
Dull and sleepy.

Time

Morning : after burning vesicular eruption, tongue slightly coated ; slight tickling in trachea and bronchi < on rising.
During day : pulse 90, except at times when room seems too warm, then normal.
All day : drowsiness.
At 1 P. M. : fever ; gets into heavy sleep.
Toward evening : tickling sensation in trachea ; excessively dry spasmodic cough.
Evening : burning in left ear ; pain in elbow and leg ; feverish heat.
At night : excessive warmth.

Temperature and weather

Warmth : itching of legs >.
Exposure to cold air : legs itch.

Fever

Cold on going to bed ; immediately after, broke out in perspiration, with excessive warmth all night.
Feverish heat in evening.
Fever at 1 P. M. ; gets into a heavy sleep.

Attacks, periodicity

Periodical : colic.
For six or eight weeks : itching of legs.

Locality and direction

Right : heavy pain in side of head ; abscess on inside of nostril ; aching in leg ; pain in elbow and leg.
Left : burning in ear ; slight inflammation of tonsil ; pain in lower anterior third of leg ; syphilitic complaints.

Sensations

As of a heavy substance pressing upon brain ; tongue as if scalded ; as if room were too warm.
Pains : in head ; under malar bone ; in urethra ; in lower anterior third of leg ; in right elbow and leg.
Sharp pain : in penis ; in glans penis.
Sharp darting : in frontal region in face ; in thorax ; through chest and shoulders.
Sharp shooting pains : in both arms.
Violent burning pain : along urethra.
Boring pains : about region of heart.
Throbbing : in head.
Aching pain : in right leg ; in long bones.
Dull pain : in vertex ; in right side of head ; in region of kidneys.
Burning : in left ear ; in throat.
Burning itching : of legs.
Stinging : in face ; of fauces.
Smarting : of fauces ; along urethra.
Soreness : of muscles ; of mucous membrane ; in region of larynx ; in elbow and leg.
Rawness : of fauces.
Constriction : of throat ; in region of larynx.
Lameness ; in cartilages of larynx and trachea.
Tickling : in trachea and bronchi.
Dryness : of fauces ; in region of larynx.

Tissues

Secondary syphilis ; eruptions, bone affections ; great depression of spirits ; sciatica ; patient is broken down, mercury cannot be used, iodide of potassium is useless.
Chronic periosteal rheumatism.
Distressing aching pains in long bones, with nodes. θ Secondary syphilis.
Malaise, drowsiness, and feeling of distress.
Scrofulous periostitis.
Enlarged cervical glands ; moist, brownish, excoriating eruption on scalp ; muco-purulent discharge from nose, with excoriations of upper lip and alæ nasi ; dull, pasty complexion ; capricious and unnatural appetites ; tumid and enlarged abdomen ; white, pasty stools, very fetid ; dull, red, tubercular (or syphilitic) eruption on skin, ulcerating, and discharging a large quantity of unhealthy pus ; tendency to laryngeal cough. θ Scrofulosis of children.

Skin

Pustular eruption on arm.
Ulcers, with unhealthy skin.
Scrofulous, Venereal, and other skin diseases.
Chronic eruptions on hands and fingers.
Excessive itching of legs below knees, continuing six or eight weeks, but no eruption ; this itching occurred only on exposure of parts to atmosphere or cold, > by warmth and in bed.
Elephantiasis ; lepra.

Relations

It antidotes : Mercur .
Compare : Staphis . in bone affections ; Natrum sulph . in sycosis.