Stillingia silvatica
Plant · Euphorbiaceae
Queen's Delight from Virginia to Florida, used for syphilis and scrofulous affections. Shows action on periosteum with bone pains, throat affections, and skin eruptions. Dull intellect and depression with gloomy forebodings. Attacks periosteum and produces nodes.
Key symptoms
- Dull heavy pain pressing on brain in frontal region
- Sharp darting pains in occipital protuberance
- Bone swellings in head and forehead
- Mercurial syphilitic and catarrhal headaches
- Intense burning in fauces and throat
- Hoarseness and dry spasmodic cough
- Sharp darting pains through chest and shoulders
- Aching in back and down thighs and legs
Worse (aggravation)
- By movement and walking
- Exposure to cold or to air
- When attempting to swallow
Better (amelioration)
- Pressure better for pain in forearm
- Warmth better for itching of legs
Queen's Root (STILLINGIA)
Chronic periosteal rheumatism, syphilitic and scrofulous affections. Respiratory symptoms well marked. Torpor of lymphatics; torpid liver, with jaundice and constipation.
Mind
Gloomy forebodings; depressed.
Respiratory
Dry, spasmodic cough. Larynx constricted, with stinging in fauces. Trachea feels sore when pressed. Hoarseness and chronic laryngeal affections of public speakers.
Urinary
Urine colorless. Deposits white sediment; urine milky and thick.
Extremities
Aching pains in bones of extremities and back.
Skin
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.
Modalities
Worse, in afternoons, damp air, motion. Better, in morning, dry air.
Relationship
Compare: Staphis; Mercur; Syphil; Aur; Corydalis (syphilitic nodes).
Dose
Tincture and first potency.
Stillingia sylvatica. Queen's Delight. (Pine barrens from Virginia to Florida.) N. O. Euphorbiaceæ. Tincture of the root after flowering.
Clinical
Bones, diseases of; nodes on. Clergyman's sore throat. Elephantiasis. Hæmorrhoids. Headaches, syphilitic; mercurial; catarrhal. Hip-joint disease. Influenza. Larynx, affections of. Liver, affections of. Nodes. Periostitis. Psoriasis. Rheumatism. Scrofula. Syphilis.
Characteristics
Still. 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 homœopathy. 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 …
Bones
Chronic periosteal rheumatism, distressing aching pains in long bones, sometimes with nodes (syphilitic). Especially tibial pains.
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