Stellaria Media

• ▸The first mention of Ste/.
• ▸appeared in H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxviii.
• ▸284 (June, 1893).
• ▸F.
• ▸H.

Brett gave an experience with the tincture applied externally, in the case of his wife to enlarged,

inflamed gouty fingers-joints, and in his own case to painful, aching great toes. In each case a

few applications removed the trouble. Brett was led to this use by having heard a rumour that

• ▸"chickweed poultices" were good for gouty joints.
• ▸In the same volume, p.
• ▸560, F.
• ▸Kopp

published a proving of the tincture on himself. The symptoms of the proving make up my

Schema. Kopp took frequently repeated doses of the tincture, and also chewed some of the weed.

The pains induced were of a rheumatic character, and were so severe that they had to be

antidoted with Nux and Bry. Kopp confirms Brett's observations in the value of external

applications of Stet. Internally he gave the 2x. The most prominent symptom, apart from the

rheumatic effects, was the pain, swelling, and soreness of the liver. The pains were > by motion,

• ▸and were accompanied by soreness.
• ▸Bellairs (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxi.
• ▸24), published this case: "E.
• ▸B.
• ▸, 18, had

had rheumatic fever which had left him in a hopeless state of chronic "shifting" rheumatism:

pains now in ankle, now in knee, now in arm, wrist or fingers. Ste/. 2x, taken three times a day,

completely cured in a month. Bellairs suggests that "shifting-pains" may be a keynote; and Kopp

• ▸confirms this.
• ▸Brett (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxxiv.
• ▸93) cured himself with Ste/.
• ▸1 of a violent attack of sickness,

with sharp pains in stomach, increasing in violence and culminating in an explosive vomit. The

liver was much enlarged, hard to the touch. The pain began in the region of the gall bladder.

Vomiting ceased after the first dose, and the liver enlargement quickly subsided. Cooper gave

much relief with a single dose of R in the case of a woman, 55, who had psoriasis, dating from

twenty-one years back, with irritation in the spots, chiefly on flexures of joints, with much

irritation of scalp and soreness of eyeballs.

Pains < on motion; parts sore to touch.—Symptoms come on rapidly after

taking the drug; next morning on rising bruised feeling all over thighs as from over-exertion.

• ▸General irritability.
• ▸Lassitude, indisposition to work.
• ▸Smarting and burning in eyes, feel protruded.
• ▸Dull, frontal headache; worse in morning and left side with sleepiness.
• ▸Neck muscles stiff and sore.
• ▸Eyes feel protruded.

Rheumatic pains over r. side of head, esp. at back; sore to touch—Rheumatic pains;

darting through whole head < r. side; through 1. half of forehead, over eye; sore to touch.

• ▸R.
• ▸eyeball sore to touch.
• ▸—Flushes of heat below r.
• ▸lid.
• ▸—Darting pain in r.
• ▸eye.
• ▸—Vision

dim.

Persistent taste of the drug with slight acrid feeling.—Heat and dryness of mouth;

numbness of lower gums and tip of tongue.—Sensation as if incisors set on edge.

• ▸Liver engorged, swollen, with stitching pain and sensitive to pressure.
• ▸Clay-colored stools.
• ▸Hepatic torpor.
• ▸Constipation or alternating constipation and diarrhoea.

Stomach and bowels sore, < by touch.—Navel sore to touch.—Soreness and

dragging pains in lower bowels.—Wandering pains around navel, settling between navel and

• ▸liver.
• ▸—Sensation as if liver too large for body.
• ▸—Burning pains all over liver.
• ▸—Liver sore to

• ▸touch.
• ▸—Burning pressure in region of liver.
• ▸—Bilious feeling.
• ▸—Pains in r.
• ▸groin.

Short cough from tickling on upper chest, < deep

inspiration.—Hawking of viscid, saltish mucus.

Rheumatic pains across small of back, < bending.—Loins stiff and sore —Dull pain

under r. scapula.

Darting, rheumatic pain: down r. arm, and in middle of index finger of 1.

hand.

• ▸Rheumatic pains: in r.
• ▸hip; 1.
• ▸foot; ankle; 1.
• ▸knee, gradually extending along

thigh; below r. knee-cap; in calves which are sensitive.

• ▸Rheumatoid pains in different parts of the body.
• ▸Sharp pain in small of back, over kidneys, in gluteal region, extending down thigh.
• ▸Pain in shoulders and arms.
• ▸Synovitis.
• ▸Bruised feeling.
• ▸Rheumatic pains in calves of legs.

Compare: Pulsat (similar in rheumatism, pains shifting, worse rest, warmth; better cold air).

Tincture, externally. Internally, 2x potency.