Homeopathy Remedy Stillingia Sylvatica


Stillingia Sylvatica homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Stillingia Sylvatica …


      A tincture is made of the fresh root.

Generalities

      Distress, miserable feeling all the forenoon, headache, eyes inflamed and watery, soreness of all muscles, feeling as if he had taken a severe cold. Malaise; about bedtime, (>) after sleeping all night. Weakness; with feeling as if emaciated; with sleepiness, heaviness (<) legs, soreness of whole body, disinclination to move, desire to go where I will not be annoyed, the duties of my profession are irksome, head heavy, relaxation of muscle of neck, brain feels too large for skull, difficulty in keeping eyes open. Aggravation from exposure of the parts to cold or even to the air, amelioration from covering with flannel or by getting into bed. Amelioration after a good night’s rest.

Mind

      Gloomy forebodings. Spirits depressed. Stupid.

Head

      Aching; (<) forehead and vertex; running from anterior part of temples. Dizziness; and throbbing. Shooting in r. frontal bone running down to eye. Darting pain in sinciput extending to occiput; over l. eye, with lachrymation, (<) r. eye, more profuse when reading. Pain in forehead; like a current running from median line to occipital process and l. cerebellum, also in evening; as from a weight on brain, the pain became darting and almost unbearable; heavy. Pain in temples; through T. and forehead; intermittent; darting, in l. Pain in r. side of head. Darting pain in r. occipital protuberances.

Clinical Moist, brown excoriating eruption on the scalp.

Nose and Face

      Abscesses in side of r. nostril. Discharge from nose at first watery, then muco-purulent, nostrils sore inside. Sharp burning in r. nostril at 6 A.M. on waking. Stinging-darting pain in face. Pain under malar-bone, extending transversely through

Mouth

      Spells of neuralgia in teeth. Tongue coated; white; yellowish- white. Tongue feels rough and sore. Heat in mouth, fauces, oesophagus and stomach. Rough, dry feeling. Salivation. Taste salt; T. bitter in morning.

Throat

      Inflammation of fauces; of l. tonsil. Choking resembling globus hystericus, Nux. vom. ad Chelid. Sensation of a ball preventing sleep till after 1 A.M. Smarting and stinging. Rawness in fauces. Soreness of pharynx. Irritation of fauces. Tickling, with hacking cough; T. in fauces, with dryness and hacking cough. Dryness of fauces. Burning in fauces; increasing till throat became very sore; in throat extending to stomach, as if deprived of epithelium, (<) swallowing.

Stomach

      Appetite increased; lost. Regurgitations of food and vomiting of ingesta. Pyrosis every day from 2 P.M. till bedtime; everyday from 3 P.M. till bedtime. Nausea. Vomiting. Cramps. Griping in epigastrium, then diarrhoea; G. in epigastrium at 6 P.M., then diarrhoea, with much flatus, next day feeling of impending diarrhoea. Distress in epigastrium. Burning. Faint, empty feeling.

Abdomen

      Rumbling; (>) escape of flatus and smoking. Darting pain; in l. hypochondrium, beginning in ascending colon and passing through descending colon, then escape of flatus. Cramps in hypochondria. PAin in umbilical region; heavy, in hypogastrium.

Anus

      Piles. Pain in sphincter during stool, and in rectum. Bruised pain in sphincter. Burning during stool, with tenesmus; B. during stool, with tenderness, afterwards uneasiness in rectum.

Stool

      Loose, with tenesmus and burning in anus; L. and bilious; L., two near together, with tenesmus and burning in anus, which lasted half an hour; L. and irregular, afterwards constipation with nausea, and when lying down slow and irregular pulse, afterwards sensation of impending diarrhoea. Acrid, frothy, bilious, copious, twice in one day, with tenderness and burning in anus. Six within two hours, three copious, the last three scanty white, resembling dysentery, then another, white and resembling curds. Urgent immediately after breakfast. Delayed; and during the evacuation pain in rectum and sphincter.

Clinical White, pasty, fetid stools.

Urinary Organs

      Pain in urethra; during micturition; smarting burning, (<) micturition, with difficulty in voiding urine and pain in region of kidneys. Scalding in urethra during micturition, with uneasiness at neck of bladder as if inflamed. Urine increased; and scalding and high-colored, inclined to foam, and containing brick-dust sediment, also high-colored; and thick, milky, containing much chloride of sodium. White sediment. Dark brownish sediment (before the proving the sediment was flocculent mucous.)

Sexual Organs

      Sharp pain in glans extending up urethra during micturition, causing sweat, next day sharp pain on walking. Drawing up of r. testicle. Heavy pain in l. testicle. Pain in ovaries.

Clinical Syphilitic eruptions. Secondary syphilis, especially bone-pains, sciatica, particularly of l. side. Bone-pains, with nodosities on the skull and long bones (Asafoetida, Silicea, Mercurius).

Respiratory Organs

      Constriction of larynx. Bruised feeling in trachea on pressure; B. feeling, with irritation in bronchi. Lame feeling in cartilages of trachea. Uneasiness in trachea and bronchi on going to bed, (<) next morning on rising, with tickling. Cough, hacking; C. dry in evening, from tickling in trachea, C. afterwards loose and deep; dry spasmodic, towards evening, from tickling, next day deep and loose.

Clinical Laryngitis, with sensation of lameness of the cartilages, feeling of constriction and soreness.

Chest

      Pain in l. clavicular space; sore, along l. clavicle in evening, and in shoulder. Darting pain through chest; and through shoulders. Raw feeling in sternum. Oppression.

Heart and Pulse

      Boring in region of heart. Pulse rapid. Pulse irregular; in morning; and full; and rapid, weak, but regular during the heat and sweat.

Back

      Pain in evening, extending down thighs and legs; in r. scapula, running up to neck; in r. kidney; across region of kidneys; shooting forward in l. loin when sitting. Darting pain in l. kidney on waking at 6 A.M., then in r., with heavy pain in l. testicle.

Extremities

      Pulsating pain in r. elbow and r. leg in evening, with soreness. (Aching in bones and muscles, with increase of the soreness caused by severe exercise and felt before the proving.).

Upper Extremities

      Shooting from middle third of humeri down to fingers. Aching in humerus, on and above olecranon, with soreness. Pain in r. elbow, forearm and wrist, (<) motion; sharp, in bend of l. elbow, (<) hanging down; in l. elbow, extending towards shoulder and hand, as if bones were sore and would separate, (<) l., temporarily (>) change of position, with aching in l. carpal and metacarpal bones. Shooting in upper third and inner side of forearm at 9.30.A.M., (<) letting limb hang down and (>) pressure. Pain in finger-joints.

Lower Extremities

      Aching in evening; in r. hip and l. foot; in hip-joint when riding, (<) bending backward or forward, and walking, with stiffness; on outside of r. thigh and leg, running down to foot; heavy, in r. thigh and leg; drawing, in l. knee, affecting gastrocnemius and biceps. Stabbing in r. knee. Sensations in popliteal spaces. Pain in r. leg; in calves; in tendo-achillis; in leg and sole in morning; in lower anterior third of l. leg in afternoon when driving; posteriorly in r. leg after retiring. Dull feeling in calves. Pain in external malleoli; darting, in outer part of r. ankle. Aching in foot over r. instep; (<) standing and attempting to walk. Uneasiness of l. foot. Pain in third r. toe when in the house; in metatarsal joints of toes when walking, extending to heels.

Skin

      Smarting from rubbing on it the juice of the root, with irritation. Itching below knees; burning, below knees, (<) exposure to air.

Clinical Enlarged cervical glands. Tubercular eruptions, with tend to ulcerate.

Sleep

      Sleepiness early in evenings; by spells during the day.

Fever

      Coldness on going to bed, but soon sweat and heat. Feeling as if the room were too warm by spells during the day, with sweat. Heat in face like catarrhal fever. Burning in l. ear at night before sleep, next morning vesicles upon it. Sweat.

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.