STILLINGIA SYLVATICA


Stillingia Sylvatica homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe…


Introduction

Stillingia sylvatica, Linn.

Natural order: Euphorbiaceae.

Preparation, Tincture of the root.

Mind.

Depression of spirits (eleventh day), and gloomy forebodings (twelfth day); low spirits (fourteenth day). Intellect dull and stupid (ninth and tenth days).

Head.

Dizziness (first day). Throbbing and dizziness of the head (after second dose, third day). Dull pain in the head (after fourteen hours and a half). Pains in the head (third day).

Headache (after second dose, fourth day). Slight headache (after four hours). Forehead. Dull heavy pain in the frontal portion of the head (after twenty minutes). A feeling as if a heavy substance was pressing on the brain, the front part; the pain became very sharp and darting, in fact, almost unendurable (first day). Violent frontal headache (one hour after second dose, third day). Slight frontal headache (sixth day). Headache, in the evening; a constant flowing pain, like a current, running from the median line of the forehead to the occipital process and left cerebellum; this symptom was noticed several days since (eighth, ninth, and, tenth days). Severe sharp shooting in right side of frontal bone, running downward to the eye (after six hours, third day). Sharp darting pain in the sinciput, extending to the occiput (sixth day). Temples. Slight headache, running from anterior portion of temples; the pain is dull and constant (fourth day). A slight, constant, dull pain through the temples and forehead (twelfth day). Headache, dull and constant, with pressing through the temples (thirteenth day); headache through the temples continued to trouble at intervals (fifteenth to eighteenth day). Darting pain in the left temporal region, as if a piece of wire or some sharp-pointed instrument had been thrust into the temples (fourth and fifth days). Vertex. Slight, but persistent headache; pains mostly at the top and at the front of the head.

Parietals. Dull pain in the right side of the head. Occiput.

Sharp darting pain in the right occipital protuberance (eighth day).

Eye.

Eyes inflamed and watery (third day). Sharp darting pain over the left eye, with slight lachrymation from both eyes, more profuse when reading; right eye affected more than left (eighth day).

Nose.

Small abscesses in the side of the right nostril (sixth day).

Catarrhal discharge from the nose, at first watery, then mucopurulent; nostrils sore on inner surface (fifth day); some catarrh (sixth day). Return of nasal catarrh, the discharge being more watery and containing less of mucus than before (eleventh day). Woke at 6 A.M., feeling a sharp burning sensation in the right nostril (ninth day).

Face.

Pain under malar bone, extending transversely through the face (twelfth day). Stinging-darting pains in the face (one hour after second dose, third day).

Mouth.

Teeth. Spells of neuralgic toothache (eleventh day). Tongue.

Tongue coated heavily, yellowish-white (eleventh day); coated white (twelfth and fourteenth days). Tongue slightly coated; color, white. Tongue slightly furred (fourth day). Tongue slightly coated (after four days). Tongue feels rough and sore (after second dose). General Mouth. Considerable heat in mouth and fauces, extending down the oesophagus, with burning in the stomach. Rough, dry feeling in the mouth (seventh day). Taste.

Salty taste in the mouth (after second dose). Bitter taste in the mouth, in the morning (third morning). The taste of this root is pungent, and leaves on the root of the tongue and fauces an impression biting and irritating, exciting a flow of saliva.

Saliva. Increased flow of saliva.

Throat.

A severe choking sensation resembling globus hystericus; it was impossible to dislodge it until I had recourse to Nux vomica and Chelidonium Maj. (second day). Sensation as if there were a ball or lump in my throat, so that I could not get to sleep until after 1 A.M. (eighth night). Tickling in the throat and short hacking cough (fifth day); cough continues, at times quite severe (sixth day). Slight soreness of the throat was perceptible about the region of the pharynx. Tonsils and Fauces. Inflammation of the left tonsil, lasting several days. Dryness and tickling of the fauces, with short hacking cough (after four hours). Fauces inflamed (second day). Irritation of the fauces. Smarting and stinging in the fauces, after an hour subsiding, leaving a feeling of rawness and smarting in them; dryness of the fauces (first day); smarting, stinging, and dryness of the fauces all day (second day); smarting and stinging pains in the fauces (after second dose, third day); smarting pains (after second dose, fourth day). Intense burning feeling in the fauces and throat, which extended to the stomach; felt as if the whole surface had been deprived of its epithelium, causing an intense burning sensation when any attempt to swallow was made; this sensation continued in the stomach two hours (after two hours); slight burning sensation in the stomach (second day). Slight warmth of the fauces (after second dose). Considerable heat in the fauces, which gradually increased until the throat became very sore (sixth day).

Stomach.

Appetite. Increase of appetite. Loss of appetite (seventh day).

Eructation and Heartburn. Severe regurgitation of food, and actual vomiting of the ingesta for some time after eating (second day). Pyrosis coming on each day about 3 P.M. and lasting until bedtime (have never suffered from similar attack previous to the proving). Pyrosis was a constant attendant while proving the remedy, commencing about 2 P.M. and continued until bedtime.

Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea. Nausea accompanied the constipation. If we remain in a close room where the root is being boiled, and the vapor passes into the room, a sense of sickness at the stomach is excited, with a disposition to discharge saliva, with headache and other unpleasant symptoms.

Sick and qualmish at the stomach (after two hours and a half); sickness relieved by Ipecac. In persons susceptible to the operation of emetics, vomiting follows. Stomach. Faint, empty sensation in my stomach (seventh day). Great distress in epigastrium (eighth day). At 6 P.M. experienced a griping pain in the epigastrium, soon followed by diarrhoeic evacuations, with an abundant discharge of flatus (sixth day); a continued feeling of impending diarrhoea (seventh day). Griping pains in the epigastrium, followed by a diarrhoeic stool (after four days). – Severe cramps in the stomach.

Abdomen.

Hypochondria. Severe cramps in both hypochondriac regions.

Sharp darting pain in the left hypochondrium; appears to begin in the ascending colon and passes through the transverse into the descending colon, followed by escape of flatus (fourth and fifth days). Umbilicus. Colic like pains; violent pains in the umbilical region (one hour after second dose, third day).

General Abdomen. Slight borborygmus, with escape of flatus (after second dose). Severe rumbling in the bowels, as if diarrhoea was about to set in, which was relieved by escape of flatus; this lasted about two hours, but was finally relieved by smoking (fourth and fifth days). Constant rumbling in the bowels, relieved by escape of flatus (tenth day). Considerable rumbling in bowels (seventh day). Sharp darting pains in my bowels (fifth day). Heavy pain in the hypogastric region (first day).

Rectum and Anus.

For several days after taking the last dose, had severe attack of piles, the first I had ever suffered; the attack lasted several weeks before I was entirely relieved by the use of proper remedies. Considerable pain in the rectum and sphincter ani with the stool (fifth day). Pain in the sphincter ani, as though the muscle had been bruised (ninth day). On voiding stool, very severe burning at the anus and considerable tenesmus (twelfth day). With the evacuations from the bowels, some tenderness and a burning sensation in the anus, which subsided after half an hour, leaving an uneasy sensation in the rectum (fourth day).

With the loose evacuations, great tenesmus and burning at the anus, which lasted half an hour (eleventh day).

Stool.

Diarrhoea. After a short time my bowels became very loose and irregular; this condition was soon followed by constipation, accompanied with nausea, together with a slow and irregular pulse when lying down; subsequently, a sensation as though diarrhoea were about to set in. Two copious, acrid, frothy, bilious evacuations from my bowels, with some tenderness and a burning sensation in the anus (fifth day); at 2 P.M. a loose, papescent, bilious evacuation, accompanied by loss of appetite (seventh day); two loose evacuations following each other at short intervals, with great tenesmus and burning at the anus, which lasted half an hour (eleventh day); as usual, an evacuation immediately after breakfast, the call being urgent (twelfth day).

Bowels began to move (after four hours); in two hours had six evacuations, three of which were copious, the last three rather scanty, but white, and resembled dysenteric stools; another action, the substance passed being white and resembling curds. A diarrhoeic stool followed by griping pains in the epigastrium (after four days). Constipation. At 2 P.M. had passage of the bowels, being nineteen hours over my regular time; it was attended with considerable pain, which was entirely confined to rectum and sphincter ani (fifth day). Constipation was induced while I was under the influence of the drug, there being a delay of stool of several beyond the usual time.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.