# Stellaria Media

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
The first mention of Stel. by F. H. Brett recounted an experience in the case of his wife in 
which the tincture 
was applied externally to enlarged, inflamed gouty fingers -joints, and in his own case to painful, aching great 
toes. 
In each case a few applications removed the trouble. Brett was led to this use by having heard a ru mor that 
“chickweed poultices” were good for gouty joints. 
F. Kopp published a proving of the tincture on himself. Kopp took frequently repeated doses of the tincture 
and also chewed some of the weed. The pains induced were of a rheumatic character and were so severe that 
 
 
they had to be antidoted with Nux-v. and Bry. 
Kopp confirmed Brett’s observations in the value of external applications of Stel. Internally, he gave Stel. 2x.  
Stasis, congestion and sluggishness of all functions. Pain, swelling and soreness of the liver, better by motion 
and accompanied by soreness. Rheumatism, darting pains in almost every part, stiffness of joints, parts sore 
to touch, worse motion. Chronic rheumatism. Shiftingpains (Puls., Kali-s.). Psoriasis. Enlarged and inflamed 
gouty finger joints. Morning aggravation.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better evenings, cold air. Better motion. Worse mornings, warmth, tobacco.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- General irritability.
- Lassitude, indisposition to work.
- General irritability.
- Lassitude, indisposition to work.

### Head
- Dull, frontal headache, worse in morning and left side with sleepiness.
- Neck muscles stiff and sore.
- Eyes feel protruded.
- Kidneys - Kidney region sore to touch.
- Dull, frontal headache, worse in morning and left side with sleepiness.
- Neck muscles stiff and sore.
- Eyes feel protruded.
- Kidneys - Kidney region sore to touch.

### Eyes
- Right eyeball sore to touch.
- Darting pain in right eye.
- Smarting and burning in eyes, feel protruded.
- Flushes of heat below right lid.
- Vision dim.

### Face
- Neuralgic pains in right side of face.
- Burning on lower lips.

### Mouth
- Persistent taste of the drug with slight acrid feeling.
- Heat and dryness of mouth, numbness of lower 
gums and tip of tongue.
- Sensation as if incisors set on edge.
- Nose - Dryness of nostrils.

### Throat
- Numbness and dryness in throat, followed by sharp stitches in left tonsil.
- COMMENTS - Bellairs published the case of E.
- B., 18, who had rheumatic fever which had left him  in a 
hopeless state of chronic “shifting” rheumatism, pains now in ankle, now in knee, now in arm, wrist or fingers.
- Stel.
- 2x, was taken three times a day, com pletely cured in a month.
- Bellairs suggested that “shifting -pains” 
may be a keynote and Kopp confirmed this.
- Brett cured himself with Stel.
- 1c of a violent attack of sickness with sharp pains in stomach increasing in 
violence and cul minating in an explosive vomit.
- The liver was much enlarged, hard to the touch.
- The pain 
began in the region of the g allbladder.
- Vomiting ceased after the first dose and the liver enlargement quickly 
subsided.
- Cooper gave much relief with a single dose of in the case of a woman, 55, who had psoriasis, dating from 
twenty-one years back with irritation in the spots, chiefly on flexures of joints with much irritation of 
Stellaria media scalp and soreness of eyeballs.

### Chest
- Constriction, oppression, heat.
- Tickling in upper part.
- Short cough from tickling on upper chest, worse deep inspiration.
- Hawking o f viscid, salty mucus.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Slight nausea with frequent belchings, tasting of the drug.
- Sharp pains in stomach.
- Bowels sore, worse by touch.
- Burning pressure in region of liver.
- Bilious feeling.
- Pains in right groin.

### Extremities
- Rheumatoid pains in different parts of the body.
- Bruised feeling.
- Joints stiff.
- Synovitis.
- Sharp pain in 
small of back, over kidneys in gluteal region, extending down thigh.
- Rheumatic pains in calves of legs.
- Pain in 
shoulders and arms.
- Liver - Hepatic torpor.
- Burning pains all over liver.
- Liver engorged, swollen with stitching pain and 
sensitive to pressure.
- Sensation as if liver too large for body.

### Neck & Back
- Dull pain under right scapula.
- Rheu matic pains across small of back, worse bending.
- Loins stiff and 
sore.

### Sleep
- Sleeps well but unrefreshed on waking.