Stillingia Sylvatica
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
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 [1]
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 [2]
Dizziness with throbbing in head.
INNER HEAD [3]
Mercurial, syphilitic or catarrhal headaches.
OUTER HEAD [4]
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 [5]
Eyes inflamed and watery, with severe headache and general muscular soreness, as if he had taken cold.
HEARING AND EARS [6]
Burning in left ear in evening ; next morning a vesicular eruption.
SMELL AND NOSE [7]
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 [8]
Stinging, darting pains in face, with frontal headache.
Pain under malar bone, extending transversely across face.
Periostitis of facial bones.
TEETH AND GUMS [10]
Paroxysms of neuralgic toothache.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]
Tongue coated : yellowish white ; heavily ; white ; slightly, in morning.
Scalded sensation on tongue, with soreness in region of larynx.
PALATE AND THROAT [13]
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 [18]
Torpidity of liver, with jaundice and great depression of mind, with constipation.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]
Colic, periodical.
URINARY ORGANS [21]
Dull pain in region of kidneys.
Incontinence of urine.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS [22]
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 [23]
Copious muco-purulent leucorrhœa, with rheumatic pains.
VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA [25]
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 [27]
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 [28]
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 [29]
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 [32]
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 [33]
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 [34]
In evening pains in right elbow and leg, aching and pulsating, with soreness.
SLEEP [37]
Unusual drowsiness all day, with general malaise and headache.
Very sleepy after eating.
Dull and sleepy.
TIME [38]
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 [39]
Warmth : itching of legs >.
Exposure to cold air : legs itch.
FEVER [40]
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 [41]
Periodical : colic.
For six or eight weeks : itching of legs.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
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 [43]
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 [44]
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 [46]
Pustular eruption on arm.
Ulcers, with unhealthy skin.
Scrofulous, Venereal, and other skin diseases.
Chronic eruptions on hands and fingers.
Elephantiasis ; lepra.
RELATIONS [48]
It antidotes : Mercur .
Compare : Staphis . in bone affections ; Natrum sulph . in sycosis.