Guajacum Officinale

► Forgetfulness, especially of names. ► Thoughtless staring : during the morning. ► Disinclination to labor. ► Sad and depressed.

► Dizziness on rising.

► Headache across the forehead. ► Violent, sharp stitches in the brain. ► Rheumatic pains in one side of head, extending to face. ► Megrim. ► Attacks of gout in the head.

► Neuralgia on left side of head and face, extending to neck. ► External headache, with the sensation as if the blood-vessels were overfilled ; extends to face and neck. θ Neuralgia. ► Pulsative throbbing in outer parts of head, with stitches in temples ; remove for a short time by external pressure and by walking, increased by sitting and standing. ► Perspiration, principally on head and forehead (when walking in the open air). ► Tearing pain in the skull.

► Dilated pupils. ► Swelling of the eyes. ► Sensation of swelling and protrusion of eyes ; eyelids appear too short to cover them. ► Hard pimples around the eyes.

► Painful dragging and tearing in left ear. ► Violent otalgia, with tearing in the left ear. ► Spasmodic earache.

► Pains in bones of the nose. ► Pains from head to nose. ► Nose swollen. ► Fluent coryza.

► Heat in the face, especially in the evening. ► Face : red and painfully swollen ; gets spotted ; eyes, nose, cheeks swell ; looks old. ► Lancinating and painful stitches in right malar bone and cheek.

► Dull ache in the left side of jaw.

► Toothache when biting the jaw together. ► Tearing in the teeth, ending with stitches.

► Food does not taste right. ► Thick white fur on tongue.

► Inflammation of the mouth.

► Violent burning in the throat. ► Threatened tonsillitis.

► Violent hunger, in the afternoon and evening. ► Much thirst. ► Aversion to milk. ► No appetite. ► Aversion to all food, could not eat anything. ► Desire for apples, which relieves gastric symptoms.

► After eating without appetite, she gets sick.

► Frequent empty eructations. ► Nausea from sensation of phlegm in the throat. ► Every morning vomits a mass of watery phlegm with great exertion.

► Burning in stomach and abdomen.

► Constrictive sensation in the epigastric region, with anguish and difficult breathing.

► Great accumulation of wind in the whole abdomen ; pinching in abdomen from incarcerated flatulence, receding towards rectum until emitted. ► Twitches in abdominal muscles. ► Inguinal hernia.

► Diarrhoea commencing in the morning ; skin dry, chilly. ► Cholera infantum, emaciation ; face like that of an old person. ► Costive ; hard stool, crumbling ; very offensive.

► Continuous urging even after urination, with profuse fetid urine. ► Stitches in neck of bladder after ineffectual pressure to urinate. ► Cutting in urethra while urinating, as from something biting passing.

► Nocturnal emissions without dreams. ► Gonorrhoea-like discharge.

► Subacute and chronic ovaritis, especially in rheumatic women.

► Chilly crawls over the mammae.

► Violent, spasmodic, inflammatory affection in the windpipe, most in larynx, with such palpitation of heart that they could not get out of bed, nor call for help ; feel as if suffocating.

► Sudden stuffed feeling in praecordia, like an arrest of breathing ; often attacks her suddenly even at night in sleep, causing dry cough, frequently repeated until expectoration appears.

► Tight, dry, with burning fever ; hot face. ► Coughing with copious spitting of phlegm, and later of stinking pus ; coughing up blood. ► Dry cough, relieved by detaching and raising a little mucus ; rheumatic patients. See Heart.

► Pleuritic stitches ; left side, worse from breathing deeply ; especially in phthisis pulmonalis. ► Intense pain in upper part of chest, from motion of the head ; expectoration of fetid pus.

► Palpitation. ► Sudden stuffed sensation in precordial region like an arrest of breathing ; comes suddenly even when asleep, causing dry cough. ► Pulse small, soft accelerated.

► Pain from head to neck. ► Excessive stiffness of one of side of back, from the neck extending to the small of back, when moving. ► Contractive pain between the scapulae. ► Chilliness in the back, in the afternoon. ► Shuddering after feverish chill in the back. ► Aching in the nape of neck, right and left of vertebrae. ► Corrosive itching in the back (by day).

► Sharp stitches in the top of right shoulder. ► Rheumatic pains in left arm, from shoulder or from elbow to wrist. ► Stitches in the right thumb. ► Pain first in knuckles, then in whole hand. ► Hands hot.

► Gouty inflammation and abscess at knee, repeated after a fall, with violent and pain and loss of sleep. ► Pricking in the nates, as if sitting on needles. ► Tension in thighs, especially the right, as if muscles were too short, with languor when walking ; worse from touch, better when walking worse from touch better when sitting. ► Pains begin in middle of thigh or leg and extend to knee. ► Tearing, drawing lancinations in leg, from right tarsus to knee. ► Exhaustion in the lower limbs. ► Spongoid state of the tibia. ► The whole left leg is cramped. ► Right leg swollen and contracted, stiff immovable, drawn close up to the thigh. ► Violent stitches from outside of right of calf down to ankle.

► Tearing and stinging in limbs. ► Pains after abuse of mercury. ► Arthritic lancinations, followed by contractions of limbs. ► Tearing, pricking pains in the muscles of the extremities, with heat of the parts. ► The limbs go to sleep. ► Stinging pains in the limbs, worse from the least motion.

► Exhaustion as after great exertion, especially in thighs and arms. ► Immovable stiffness of the contracted limbs.

► Nightly restlessness and sleeplessness. ► Nightmare when lying on the back ; waking with screams. ► On awaking : unrefreshed ; everything seems too tight ; clothes feel damp. ► Frequent awaking from sleep as if falling.

► After a cold, violent pain in limbs. ► Can bear no heat, with pain in joints. ► Walking in open air : 4.

► Internal chilliness through the whole body, followed by heat, most in face, towards evening ; without thirst. ► Chilliness internally, even near the warm stove, principally in the afternoon and evening. ► Burning fever, face spotted ; eyes, nose and cheeks swollen ; tight, dry cough. ► Feeling of heat in the painful limbs ; rheumatic cases. ► Skin hot, especially on the hands. ► Night-sweats, smelling very offensive. ► The provers that sweated had no urinary disturbances and vice versa. ► The usual general sweat, changes to dryness and chilliness.

► Sudden attacks : 26.

► Pressive drawing, tearing pains ; often ending in a stitch, especially the head pains.

► All excretions are of an unbearable stench. ► Rheumatic swelling of joints. ► Acts on fibrous tissues. ► Aching in the bones, with swelling. θ Syphilis. ► Great emaciation. ► Contraction of limbs. ► Pain in all joints, even on chest. ► Caries and spongious affection of bones ; right tibia and tarsal bones spongious, cannot bear the slightest touch. ► Excretions are all intolerably offensive. ► Contractions, with pain from the slightest motions. ► Joints swollen, painful and intolerant of pressure ; can bear no heat. ► Pressing pain in bones.

► Scratching improves. ► Itching, tetter-like eruptions. ► Appears to promote breaking of abscesses.

► Syphilides. ► Children ; growing pains. ► Old women. ► Dark hair and eyes.

► Guaiacum ; has proved useful after abuse of mercury in rheumatism, gout, contraction ; antidoted Caustic., which had much increased the contraction of limbs in a rheumatic patient ; also antidoted Rhus tox. ► Nux vom., antidotes Guaiacum. ► Followed sulphur well in cholera infantum. ► Compare : Rhus, Mezereum, Rhodod., Phytol., Stillingia, Kali hydr., Mercur.