- Source: Derived from the whole plant of Sticta pulmonaria (syn.
- Lobaria pulmonaria), commonly known as lungwort, a lichen in the Lobariaceae family, prepared for homeopathic use through triturationGrinding raw substance into powderThe process of grinding an insoluble dry substance with milk sugar (lactose) in a mortar to prepare the base of a remedy. and serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity. to enhance therapeutic action while eliminating material toxicity, in accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards.
- Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for respiratory, neurological, and musculoskeletal disorders , particularly those involving nasal congestion, frontal headaches, and joint pains.
- It is noted for symptoms such as stuffy nose, dull headaches, and aggravationWorsening of symptomsAn increase in severity or intensity of symptoms, often caused by environmental factors or after taking a remedy. from sudden changes, often worsened by lying down, night, or dry air, and ameliorated by open air,.
- Motion, or discharge.
- Modern Context: Indicated for respiratory conditions (e.g., allergic rhinitis, sinusitis),.
- Neurological conditions (e.g., tension headache, migraine🩺 MigraineClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), musculoskeletal conditions (e.g.,.
- Fibromyalgia🩺 FibromyalgiaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., arthritisJoint inflammation causing pain and stiffnessPainful inflammation and stiffness of the joints, often worsening with age.), and psychological conditions (e.g., generalized anxiety disorder,.
- Adjustment disorder).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by nasal congestion, frontal headaches, joint pains, anxiety, or lying-down sensitivity, typically exacerbated by lying down, night, dry air, or sudden changes, and often seen in individuals with sensitive, reactive constitutions.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with respiratory or neurological conditions, often presenting with symptoms like blocked nose or dull headaches,.
- Commonly observed in patients with allergic rhinitis🩺 Allergic RhinitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., sinusitis, or tension headache🩺 Tension HeadacheClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. triggered by dry air, rest, or emotional stress.
- COMMENTS-Hale said, “It was first used for severe harassing cough,” and such good results accrued that provings were made to ascertain its full valu e.
- Dewey conducted a provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. on several persons which further enriched the pathogenesis.
- Severe coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge. with violent sneezing in tense headache and conjunctivitis🩺 ConjunctivitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Attacks preceded or followed by rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. pains and swelling of the small joints.
- Dry cough, worse evening🌿 EveningMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. and night, can neither sleep nor lie down, must sit up.
- Coughs left by measles, whooping cough, or influenza🩺 InfluenzaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Hard, dry barking coughs fol lowing colds.
- Obstructive catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane..
- Discharge dries quickly and forms crusts or scurf.
- Con stant need to blow the nose, but no discharge comes on account of dryness.
- “Dull, heavy pressure or stuffed feeling in root of nose” in catarrh and headaches.
- “A deep-in headache” (Bac.🌿 Bac.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- RheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues., related to catarrh.
- Tuberculosis🩺 TuberculosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and hemop tysis.
- “Oppression at ches t, sensation as if a hard mass on it.
- Sudden pain from sternum to spine, constant, worse on movement.” Sleeplessness, due to nervousness or cough.
- Hysterical chorea coming on after profuse hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse..
- Sensation of levitation, the legs feel as if floating i n the air, head as if floating off, as if the body and limbs did not touch the bed.
- P. C. Majumdar cured two cases of whoop ing cough with Stict.
- 6x.
- The cough began just after sunset and went on until vomiting occurred and all the contents of the stomach were thrown off.
- M. D. Youngman related a number of cases of catarrhalRelating to membrane inflammation and mucusRelating to catarrh, which is inflammation of mucous membranes with increased watery discharge. and pulmonary disorders cured with Stic., with harsh coughing, racking incessant, “unprofitable” cough of spasmodic type.
- Youngman considered it especially suited to neuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves., rheumatic, gouty individuals.
- Youngman noted the case of Mrs. H., 42, who had an attack of bronchitisInflammation of the bronchial tubesInflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes, typically causing bronchospasm and coughing. in January and when seen, on March 20th, she had a harsh, racking cough with pain all through chest on coughing.
- Spongy state of mucus membrane of pharynx, which bled easily.
- She had several attacks of asthma🩺 AsthmaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., hay fever every August, paroxysms of cough often ended in convulsive sneezing, which she dreaded because it was followed by asthmatic symptoms.
- “She takes cold in her head, which in a day or so goes do wn in her throat and thence into her chest.” Every cold she got did this.
- Stict., lx gave relief in five days.
- Hale said Stict is indispensable in February, March and April in the American🌿 AmericanMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. climate.
- O. Rogers prescribed Stict for a patient with the cough of the remedy, at the time she was nursing her seventh child.
- She had always been annoyed because of a lack of milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., it had been occasionally suppressed.
- While taking Stict the flow became ample and remained so as long as an occasional dose was being taken.
- Rogers subsequently verified this effect in a number of cases.
- Elias C. Price related the case of a boy, 8, who had acute rheumatism with inflam mation and redness of one knee, ankle toes, wrist and fingers, valvular heart disease from a previous attack.
- Aeo n, and Sulph failed to relieve.
- Stict lx was given every hour.
- The next day, there was a considerable quantity of fluid in the knee joint, apparently an aggravation by Stict., but otherwise the boy was better.
- Stict was continued.
- The next day, half the fluid was gone, and the third day it was all gone.
- The boy was cured in nine days.
- Price remarked that he had noticed one symptom so frequently present in the cases he cured with Stict that he began to regard it as a characteristic although it was not in the provings: a spot of inflammation and redness on the affected joint like the hectic flush on the cheeks in tuberculosis.
- In housemaid’s knee, Stict comes as near being a specific as a remedy ever can
