GUAIACUM

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Abscess
  • Amenorrhea
  • Aneurism
  • Bones affections of
  • Bronchitis
  • Caries
  • Cholera infantum
  • Constipation
  • Contraction
  • Cough
  • Diarrhea
  • Diphtheria
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Earache
  • Emaciation
  • Fever
  • Gout
  • Growing-pains
  • Headache, internal and external
  • Hernia
  • Membranous dysmenorrhea
  • Mercury effects of
  • Neuralgia
  • Osteomalachia
  • Otitis
  • Ovaries, inflammation of
  • Phthisis
  • Pleurisy
  • Pleurodynia
  • Rheumatism
  • Sciatica
  • Stomach affections of
  • Syphilis
  • Throat affections of
  • Tonsillitis
  • Toothache
  • Torticollis
  • Vomiting
  • gouty inflammation of the knees
  • sensitive to touch
  • Burning in the throat
  • quinsy
  • syphilitic inflammation
  • confusion of thought
  • depression of spirits
  • weakness of memory
  • offensive secretions
  • stitches in chest going from front to back or from below upward
  • sharp pain about mid-day under right breast to shoulder
  • weak memory
  • disinclination to labour
  • sad and depressed
  • fretful
  • obstinate
  • sharp stitches in brain
  • sensation as if the brain were loose
  • neuralgia of left side of head and face extending to neck
  • external headache with sensation as if blood-vessels were over-filled extending to face and neck
  • tearing pains in skull
  • swellings and sensation of swelling in eyes and nose
  • eyes feel protruded
  • gouty inflammation of the meatus of the ear and tympanum
  • heat swelling and blotchiness of face
  • prosopalgia every day from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m.
  • toothache when biting jaws together
  • violent hunger afternoon and evening
  • desire for apples
  • aversion to milk and food generally
  • flatulence
  • nausea from sensation of phlegm in throat
  • vomits a mass of watery phlegm with great exertion followed by great exhaustion
  • morning diarrhea with skin dry and chilliness
  • face like that of an old person
  • stool is hard dry crumbling and very offensive
  • continuous urging even after urination with profuse fetid urine
  • stitches in neck of bladder after ineffectual pressure to urinate
  • cutting while urinating
  • chilly crawls over mammae
  • violent spasmodic inflammatory affections of windpipe and larynx
  • palpitation preventing motion or calling for help feels suffocating
  • cough dry or with copious bloody or purulent expectoration of very offensive odour
  • contractive pain between scapulae
  • chilliness in back
  • yawning and stretching
  • violent pains in limbs
  • clothes feel damp
  • perspiration on head when walking in open air
  • cannot bear heat with pains in limbs
  • stomach affection returns every summer
  • obstinacy
  • strong desire to criticise and to despise everything
  • indolence and dread of movement
  • weakness of memory and excessive forgetfulness especially of names
  • fixed look and absence of ideas especially in the morning
  • pressive pain extending from the base of the brain upwards or traction and tearing in the sinciput and temples
  • violent lancinations in the brain from the base upwards
  • tearing rheumatic pains in one side of the head only as far as the cheek
  • pulsations throbbings and shootings in the temples with sensation as if the head were swollen and the blood-vessels congested
  • pulsative throbbing in the outer parts of the head with stitches in the temples removed for a short time by external pressure and by walking < by sitting and standing
  • lacerating in whole l side of head
  • sweat chiefly on head and forehead when walking in open air
  • sensation of swelling or actual swelling of the eyelids with sensation as if the eyes were protruding and as if the eyelids were too short
  • pupils dilated
  • amaurosis
  • pimples in the eyebrows and round eyes
  • tearing and squeezing in the ears
  • pains in nasal bones
  • nose swollen
  • fluent coryza
  • redness and painful swelling of the face
  • shootings in the cheek-bones and in the muscles of the cheeks as if knives were plunged in
  • aching in the teeth on closing them
  • pulling and tearing in the teeth terminating in shootings
  • acute tonsillitis r tonsil much swollen dark-red constant aching pains sharp stitches towards ear on swallowing
  • throat dry cannot swallow without a drink
  • insipid taste with want of appetite and disgust for everything accompanied by expectoration of mucus
  • empty risings
  • nausea excited by a sensation as if the throat were filled with slimy mucus
  • after eating without appetite she gets sick
  • cramps and pains in stomach
  • every summer a severe stomach affection with vomiting of blood
  • anxious sensation of constriction in the region of the stomach which impedes respiration
  • pinching in the abdomen as from incarceration of flatus
  • sensation of emptiness with borborygmi and rumbling in the abdomen
  • pain as from hernia in the groins
  • twitchings of the muscles of the abdomen
  • thin mucous stool
  • soft stool in pieces
  • emissions without lascivious dreams
  • gonorrhea-like discharge
  • subacute and chronic ovaritis especially in rheumatic women
  • dry cough with sensation in the epigastrium as if there were not sufficient air in it
  • dry cough > by detaching a little mucus
  • cough with expectoration of fetid pus
  • shootings in the l side of the chest < by breathing by moving head
  • stitches from middle of r chest ending in one below r scapula
  • pressure on the vertebrae of the neck
  • stiffness in the nape of the neck
  • constant frequent stitches on l side of nape extending from scapulae to occiput on motion also on holding head still
  • stiffness along the back on one l side only from the neck extending to the small of the back and sacrum intolerable on slightest motion or turning the part not noticed on touch or during rest
  • tearing and shooting in one side of the back only
  • corrosive itching in the back by day
  • shiverings in the back in the afternoon
  • weakness in the arms
  • tearing and shooting in the shoulder-blades and in the forearms
  • sharp stitches in the top of r shoulder
  • rheumatic pains in l arm from shoulder to wrist
  • lancinating rheumatic pains from elbow to wrist l
  • rheumatic pains in l wrist-joint
  • stitches in r thumb
  • pains in the bones of the thighs pressive and tingling pains in the thighs when seated
  • paralytic tension in the thighs on walking
  • weakness in the thighs
  • pricking in the nates as if sitting on needles
  • tearing drawing lancinations in the leg from r tarsus to the knee
  • tension in thighs esp r as if the muscles were too short with languor when walking < by contact > when sitting
  • arthritic pains in the limbs with shootings and tearings and contraction of the parts affected
  • the pains are provoked by the least movement and are accompanied by heat in the parts affected
  • numbness of the limbs
  • painful weariness and weakness in the arms and thighs with dread of movement
  • immovable stiffness of the contracted limbs
  • frequent inclination to yawn and to stretch the limbs proceeding from a general sensation of uneasiness
  • the majority of symptoms show themselves when sitting as well as in the morning after rising or in the evening before lying down
  • exostosis
  • great drowsiness in the afternoon
  • late sleeping and early waking
  • frequent waking with fright sometimes on going to sleep
  • restless tossing during the night
  • nightmare when lying on the back waking with screams
  • feeling in the morning as though the sleep had been insufficient
  • shivering chilliness and shuddering even near a fire principally in the afternoon and evening
  • shivering without thirst morning and evening
  • heat in the face esp in the evening
  • sweat in the morning
  • copious perspiration esp on the head when walking in the open air
  • pulse accelerated small weak soft

Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

  • Rheumatic constitution
  • Gouty constitution
  • Inherited phthisis
  • Diarrhoea
  • Short tendons
  • Abscesses
  • Catarrhal troubles
  • Bronchitis
  • Drawing, tension and contractions of muscular fiber
  • Sore swollen joints
  • Rheumatic joints more painful from warmth
  • Rheumatic joints more comfortable when cool
  • Gouty abscesses of joints
  • Spongy bones
  • Suppurating bones
  • Leg and ankle bones especially affected
  • Sensitive periosteum
  • Stitching pains
  • Burning pains
  • Limbs contracted and stiff
  • Offensive excretions
  • Drawing, tearing pains
  • Cold settles in the limbs
  • Sore joints
  • Muscles draw
  • Suffering increased by the slightest motion or exertion
  • Gradually increasing exhaustion
  • Progressive emaciation
  • Weakness of mind and body
  • Psoric cases complicated with syphilis and mercury
  • Absent minded in the morning
  • Indolent and low spirited
  • Obstinate
  • Fretful
  • Forgetful
  • Vertigo on rising
  • Rheumatic pain in one side of the head extending to the face
  • Gouty headaches
  • Sensation of looseness of the brain
  • Stitching in the head
  • Pain in forehead, occiput, and deep in the brain
  • Tearing pain in the head
  • Sensation as if blood vessels were distended
  • Neuralgia on left side of face and head
  • Pulsating pain ameliorated by pressure and walking
  • Pulsating pain aggravated by sitting and standing
  • Perspiration on head and face when walking in the open air
  • Sensation of protrusion of the eyes
  • Swelling of the eyes
  • Dilated pupils
  • Tearing in left ear
  • Paroxysmal pain in ear
  • Pain in the bones of the nose
  • Swollen nose
  • Fluent coryza
  • Pain in the bones of the face, nose and teeth
  • Face red and swollen, spotted
  • Heat in the face in the evening
  • Sharp pain in right malar bone
  • Paroxysmal pain in face, head and neck every day at 6 P. M., lasting until 4 A. M.
  • Dull ache in left side of jaw
  • Tearing, stitching in teeth
  • Pain in teeth when biting jaws together
  • Inflammation of the tonsils worse from warm drinks
  • Burning in throat
  • Perverted taste
  • Tongue coated thick white, or brown
  • Tonsilitis
  • Aversion to food, to milk
  • Much thirst
  • Vomits a mass of watery mucus, followed by exhaustion
  • Nausea from sensation of mucus in throat
  • Burning in stomach and abdomen
  • Constrictive sensation in stomach, with anguish and dyspnoea
  • Much flatulence in abdomen
  • Morning diarrhoea
  • Stools watery
  • Constipation, with hard, crumbling, offensive stool
  • Urging to urinate, even after micturition
  • Profuse and foetid urine
  • Cutting in urethra while urine flows
  • Stitching in neck of bladder after ineffectual urging to urinate
  • Emissions without dreams
  • Discharge from urethra
  • Chronic inflammation of ovaries
  • Absent menses
  • Membranous dysmenorrhoea
  • Shuddering in mammae, with gooseflesh
  • Spasms of larynx
  • Difficult breathing
  • Palpitation
  • Dry, hard cough with fever, finally relieved by expectoration
  • Copious, putrid expectoration, like pus
  • Expectoration of blood
  • Rheumatism of the muscles of the chest, with great pain on motion
  • Stitching pains in chest from motion and breathing
  • Stitching pains in the pleura
  • Chronic bronchial catarrh with putrid expectoration, when rheumatism extends to chest
  • Phthisis pituitosa in rheumatic and gouty patients
  • Chest pains after riding in open air
  • Palpitation of the heart
  • Rheumatism of the heart
  • Frequent weak pulse
  • Rheumatic stiffness of back of neck and back
  • Stitching in neck and back
  • Drawing pains in back between scapulae
  • All pains aggravated from motion and ameliorated during rest
  • All pains aggravated from heat
  • Drawing, tearing, stitching pains in upper limbs
  • Rheumatic pains in upper arm and shoulder
  • Pains in finger joints, and then in whole hand
  • Hot hands
  • Stitching in right thumb
  • Shortening of the hamstrings
  • Pain in thighs extending to knees
  • Tearing, drawing pains in legs
  • Pains in the tibia
  • Gouty abscess of knee
  • Shooting pains in legs from feet to knees
  • Softening of tibia and ankle bones
  • Knee is flexed from the contraction of hamstrings
  • Right leg swollen and drawn close to the thigh
  • Pains in all the limbs, aggravated from motion and heat
  • Weakness of arms and legs
  • Numbness of lower limbs
  • Stiffness of limbs
  • Weakness of limbs after exertion
  • Rheumatism of joints, aggravated from heat and motion
  • Pain in limbs after taking cold
  • Restless sleep
  • Sleeplessness
  • Wakens from sleep as if falling
  • Nightmare while lying on the back
  • Unrefreshing sleep
  • Chilliness followed by fever in the evening
  • Burning fever
  • Night sweats
  • Copious perspiration

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