GUAIACUM OFFICINALE
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Arthritic diathesis
- Rheumatism
- Tonsillitis
- Secondary syphilis
- Acute rheumatism
- Free foul secretions
- Unclean odor from whole body
- Promotes suppuration of abscesses
- Sensitiveness and aggravation from local heat
- Contraction of limbs
- Stiffness and immobility
- Feeling that he must stretch
- Forgetful
- Thoughtless
- Staring
- Slow to comprehend
- Gouty and rheumatic pain in head and face, extending to neck
- Tearing pain in skull; worse, cold, wet weather
- Feels swollen, and blood-vessels distended
- Aching in left ear
- Pains often end in a stitch, especially in head
- Pupils dilated
- Eyelids appear too short
- Pimples around eyes
- Rheumatic sore throat with weak throat muscles
- Throat dry, burns, swollen, stitches toward ear
- Acute tonsillitis
- Syphilitic sore throat
- Tongue furred
- Desire for apples and other fruits
- Aversion to milk
- Burning in stomach
- Constricted epigastric region
- Intestinal fermentation
- Much wind in bowels
- Diarrha
- Cholera infantum
- Sharp stitches after urinating
- Constant desire to urinate
- 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
- Ovaritis in rheumatic patients, with irregular menstruation and dysmenorrha, and irritable bladder
- Pain from head to neck
- Aching in nape
- Stiff neck and sore shoulders
- Stitches between scapul to occiput
- Contractive pain between scapul
- Rheumatic pain in shoulders, arms and hands
- Growing pains
- 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
- Stinging pain in limbs
- Arthritic lancinations followed by contraction of limbs
- A feeling of heat in the affected limbs