Stillingia sylvatica - Stillingia
"CONSTITUENTS: An acrid resin, volatile oil, stillingine, tannin, starch, gum.
PREPARATIONS: Extractum Stillingiae Fluidum. Fluid Extract of Stillingia. Dose: from ten to sixty minims. Specific Stillingia. Dose: from one to sixty minims. Linimentum Stillingiae Compositum, A. D. Syrupus Stillingiae Compositus, A. D. Oleum Stillingiae, A. D.
Therapy: The application of this substance to the chest with the internal use of small doses of the tincture will be found of great benefit in bronchial cough where there is a sensation of tightness in the chest, where the cough is hoarse and croupal without secretion. It has long been used in conjunction with lobelia in the treatment of croup.
As an alterative it has taken front rank with Eclectics for fifty years. it is in general use in syphilis, in scrofula, in blood taint of any character, in tubercular disease, and in the cancerous diathesis."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)