Stillingia Sylvatica

Sti//. 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 homeopathy.
• ▸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 Szi//. 1) complained that the medicine made his legs and feet

• ▸feel tired and his feet feel sore.
• ▸Sti//.
• ▸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 (Szi//. 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 S7i//.
• ▸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.

Gloomy forebodings; depressed.

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.

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 inflamed and watery, with severe headache and general muscular soreness, as if

• ▸he had taken cold.
• ▸—Sharp darting pain over 1.
• ▸eye; lachrymation of both eyes, esp.
• ▸after reading;

tT. eye =,

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.

Pains under malar bone, extending transversely through face.—Stinging darting pains in

face; with frontal headache.—Periostitis of facial bones.

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.

Smarting, stinging, dryness and rawness of fauces.—Constriction of throat.—Intense

burning in fauces and throat extending to stomach; < on any attempt to swallow.

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.

Torpidity of liver with jaundice, great depression, constipation.—Severe cramps

in both hypochondria.—Sharp darting in 1. hypochondrium, followed by passage of

• ▸flatus.
• ▸—Borborygmi.
• ▸—Colic, periodical.
• ▸—Heavy pain in hypogastric region.

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.

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.

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

Both ovaries pained very severely.—Copious muco-purulent

leucorrheea, with rheumatic pains.

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 1.

testis —Gonorrheea.

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

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.

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 1.

clavicle-—Raw feeling in chest whole length of sternum.—Incipient phthisis in persons of

strumous habit.

Boring pains about region of heart, with irregular pulse.—Pulse weak and very

irregular.

Aching in back and down thighs and legs.—While sitting pain in 1. lumbar region,

darting forwards.

• ▸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.—A ggravating pains in |. elbow, shooting towards shoulder and head; slighter in r.

elbow and wrist.

• ▸Aching pain in r.
• ▸leg.
• ▸—Pains in 1.
• ▸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 gonorrhceal sciatica; 1.
• ▸—sided

complaints—(Legs and feet feel tired, and feet sore.)

Aching pains in bones of extremities and back.

• ▸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.

(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.

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

eating.

Cold on going to bed; immediately after broke out in sweat, with excessive warmth

• ▸all night—Feverish heat, evening.
• ▸—Fever | a.
• ▸m.
• ▸; gets into heavy sleep.
• ▸—During day, room felt

too warm.—Great warmth in face like catarrhal fever.

• ▸Bones, diseases of; nodes on.
• ▸Clergyman's sore throat.
• ▸Elephantiasis.
• ▸Hemorrhoids.

• ▸Headaches, syphilitic; mercurial; catarrhal.
• ▸Hip-joint disease.
• ▸Influenza.
• ▸Larynx, affections of.

• ▸Liver, affections of.
• ▸Nodes.
• ▸Periostitis.
• ▸Psoriasis.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Scrofula.
• ▸Syphilis.

• ▸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).

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

Tincture and first potency.

Queen's Root (STILLINGIA)

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