Guaiacum

▲   GENERAL

Dose

Tincture, to sixth attenuation.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Modalities etc

, from motion, heat, cold wet weather; pressure, touch, from 6 pm to 4 am.

Better external pressure. Relationship.

Guaiacol (in the treatment of gonorrh?ìal epididymitis, 2 parts to 30 vaselin, locally). Antidote: Nux Vomica ^Nux. Follow Sepia ^Sepia. Compare: Merc Viv ^Merc; Causticum ^Caust; Rhus Tox ^Rhus; Mezereum ^Mezer; Rhodod.

▲   MIND

Mind

Forgetful; thoughtless; staring

Slow to comprehend.

Behaviour; inclination to sit

Intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; dull, sluggish

▲   HEAD

Head

Feels swollen, and blood-vessels distended

Aching in left ear

Headache

Gouty and rheumatic pain in head and face, extending to neck

Tearing pain in skull; worse, cold, wet weather

Pains often end in a stitch, especially in head.

Scalp

Skin and scalp; perspiration; scalp

▲   EYES

Eyes

Pupils dilated

Eyelids appear too short

Pimples around eyes.

Lids; eyes open; eyes permanently open

Protrusion

Swellings

sensation of swelling

▲   FACE

Face

Expression; old looking

▲   MOUTH

Gums and teeth

Teeth; pain; pulling

▲   THROAT

Throat

Rheumatic sore throat with weak throat muscles

Throat dry, burns, swollen, stitches toward ear

Acute tonsillitis

Syphilitic sore throat. Stomach.

Tongue furred

Desire for apples and other fruits

Aversion to milk

Burning in stomach

Constricted epigastric region.

Inflammation; tonsils

▲   CHEST

Respiration

Feels suffocated

Dry, tight cough

Fetid breath after coughing

Pleuritic stitches

Chest pains in articulations of ribs, with shortness of breathing till expectoration sets in.

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Noticeable smell; offensive smell

▲   BACK AND NECK

Neck

Pain from head to neck

Stiff neck and sore shoulders

Back

Aching in nape

Stitches between scapulae to occiput

Contractive pain between scapulae.

Pain

contracting

between shoulder blades

pulling

dorsal (shoulder level)

shoulder blades; between

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Intestinal fermentation

Much wind in bowels

Diarrhoea, cholera infantum.

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Cholera

in babies

with vomiting or diarrhoea

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Sharp stitches after urinating

Constant desire.

Bladder

Female; Ovaritis in rheumatic patients, with irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhoea, and irritable bladder.

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Rheumatic pain in shoulders, arms and hands

Growing pains (Acid Phos ^{Phos Ac})

Pricking in nates

Sciatica and lumbago

Gouty tearing, with contractions

Immovable stiffness

Ankle pain extending up the leg, causing lameness

Joints swollen, painful, and intolerant of pressure; can bear no heat

Stinging pain in limbs

Arthritic lancinations followed by contraction of limbs

A feeling of heat in the affected limbs.

Contraction of muscles and tendons

thigh; hamstrings

hollow of knee

Numbness (see tingling)

Pain

rheumatic; poisoning by mercury

lower leg

growing pains

tearing; joints

Tension, tightness; thigh; hamstrings

▲   GENERALITIES

Generalities

Open air

Movement

Aversion to movement

Pain; sudden, sharp; muscles; tearing in muscles

Pulse; small

Swelling; swollen sensation

Touch

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