Guarea

di Timothy F. AllenThe Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

Guarea trichilioides, Linn.

Natural order , Meliaceæ.

Common names , Red-wood, Ball-wood.

Preparation , Tincture and triturations of the bark.

Authority.

Dr. Petroz, Journ. de. la Soc. Gall., 1st Ser., vol. v, p. 9 (symptoms, pathogenetic and clinical, not distinguished in the original).

MIND

  • Emotional.
  • Inclination to talk.
  • Mental anxiety.
  • Anxiety during the fever.
  • Fear of losing his reason.
  • Indifference.
  • Intellectual.
  • Disturbance of ideas.
  • Indecision.
  • Forgetfulness, during the fever.

HEAD

  • Vertigo.
  • Vertigo. [10.]
  • Vertigo when stooping.
  • Whirling dizziness.
  • General Head.
  • Immobility of the head.
  • Sensation as if the brain were falling forward.
  • (Sensation as of a blow on the head, leaving a kind of numbness, with diminution of the thinking faculty, during several days; and resembling the effects of an apoplectic seizure).
  • Heaviness of the head.
  • Constriction of the head.
  • Contraction in the head.
  • Compression in the head.
  • Forehead.
  • In the forehead, compression, heaviness, shocks. [20.]
  • Headache depressing the eyes.
  • Vertex.
  • Pain in the vertex.
  • Occiput.
  • Constriction, hammering, in the occiput.

EYE

  • Objective.
  • Sickly look around the eyes and within the orbits.
  • Swelling beneath the eyes.
  • Subjective.
  • Pain in the eyes during the fever.
  • Brow.
  • Twitching of the eyebrows.
  • Lids.
  • Paralysis of the lids.
  • Pressure on the lids.
  • Lachrymal Apparatus.
  • Swelling of the lachrymal glands. [30.]
  • Lachrymation.
  • Conjunctiva.
  • Inflammation of the conjunctiva, which is swollen.
  • (Chemosis).
  • Ball.
  • Pain in the ball as after weeping.
  • Feeling of tension in the eyeballs.
  • Feeling as if the eyeballs were forced out.
  • Tearing pain in the eyeball.
  • Pupil.
  • Dilated pupils.
  • Vision.
  • Objects appear of a gray color.
  • During the vertigo, things appear upside down. [40.]
  • The eye-symptoms alternate with diminution of hearing.

EAR

  • Swelling of the periosteum behind the ears.
  • Sensation of a peg in the ear.
  • Sensation of a worm in the ear.
  • Pushing outward feeling in the ears.
  • Roaring in the ears.

NOSE

  • Objective.
  • Coryza often during the day.
  • Coryza with hardness excretion.
  • The symptoms of coryza are accompanied by heat.
  • Subjective.
  • Nose stuffed up. [50.]
  • Ineffectual desire to sneeze.
  • Constriction at the root of the nose.
  • Painfulness of the nose.

FACE

  • Suppurating swellings on the face.
  • Raw pain in the face.
  • Swelling of the upper lip.

MOUTH

  • Teeth.
  • Compression of the teeth.
  • Corrosive pain in the teeth.
  • The symptoms of the teeth are accompanied by pain in the zygomatic process, they are excited by a current of air, by the pressure of the tongue on the teeth; aggravated by lying on the painful side, by the act of eating, by hot food, and by walking.
  • Tongue.
  • Coated tongue, during the fever. [60.]
  • Grayish-yellow coating on the tongue.
  • Swelling of the tongue.
  • Bleeding of the tongue.
  • Paralysis of the tongue.
  • Swelling of the tongue.
  • Dryness of the tongue.
  • The tongue feels cold and dry.
  • Lancinations in the tongue.
  • Tearing pain in the tongue.
  • General Mouth.
  • (Caries of the palatal bones.) [70.]
  • The mouth smells of cheese.
  • Spasms of the mouth.
  • Roughness of the palate.
  • Taste.
  • Sweet taste.
  • Insipid taste of food.
  • Bitter taste of tobacco.

THROAT

  • Swelling of the tonsils.
  • Raw pain in the œsophagus.
  • Feeling of contraction and burning heat in the œsophagus.
  • Formication in the œsophagus. [80.]
  • Difficult deglutition.
  • Agitation, heaviness, lancination in the cervical glands.

STOMACH

  • Appetite.
  • Canine hunger in the evening.
  • Canine hunger, with speedy satiety.
  • Feeling of satiety.
  • Disgust for milk, fish, and hot, greasy, cooked food.
  • Thirst.
  • Thirst after eating.
  • Absence of thirst with dryness of the mouth.
  • Eructation.
  • Sour eructations, with tension and pressure at the stomach.
  • Foul eructations.
  • Nausea and Vomiting. [90.]
  • Inclination to vomit, during the fever.
  • Sour vomiting.
  • Green vomiting.
  • Stomach.
  • Constriction in the stomach.
  • Bruised feeling in the stomach.

ABDOMEN

  • Umbilical.
  • Hardness at the umbilicus.
  • Pressure in the umbilical region and flanks.
  • Inflation of the abdomen, with lancination in the groins and inguinal ring.
  • Hardness of the abdomen.
  • Flatulent complaints. [100.]
  • During stool, pain in the abdomen.
  • Feeling of inflation.
  • Ulcerated pain, with tension, in the abdomen.
  • Bruised pain in the external abdomen.

RECTUM AND ANUS

  • Before stool, pain in the rectum.
  • Constriction of the anus.
  • Constriction of the anus and rectum.
  • Urging to stool.

STOOL

  • (Dysentery.)
  • (Constipation during dentition.) [110.]
  • (Chronic constipation.)

URINARY ORGANS

  • (Inflammation of the bladder.)
  • Frequent urging to urinate in the evening.
  • Involuntary urination.
  • Clay-colored urine.

SEXUAL ORGANS

  • (Insufficient labor-pains.)
  • (Suppression of labor-pains.)
  • (Leucorrhœa after the menses.)
  • (Fetid leucorrhœa.)
  • (Lochia too scanty.) [120.]
  • Flow of blood between the menses.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

  • Cough.
  • Dry hacking.
  • Violent, deepseated, suffocating cough with expectoration.
  • (Hooping-cough with bloody expectoration.)
  • The cough is accompanied by sweat, by pain, by soreness and tightness of the chest; it comes on after a crying spell, just as he is falling asleep, or after getting chilled; it is excited by an itching in the throat, by an irritation in the larynx.
  • Respiration.
  • Noisy breathing.
  • Sobbing breathing.
  • Difficult respiration during the chill.
  • Suffocative paroxysms.
  • (Millar's asthma.)

CHEST. [130.]

  • Crude tubercles.
  • Mucous accumulations in the chest.
  • Anxiety in the chest.
  • Sensation of hollowness, of dilatation in the chest.
  • Chest painful during the fever.
  • Heaviness, digging, lancinations in the right side.
  • Intermittent tightness of the chest.
  • Oppression of the chest during the fever.

HEART

  • Sensation of rupture in the præcordial region.

NECK AND BACK

  • Weakness of the cervical muscles. [140.]
  • Cramp in the nape of the neck.
  • Stiffness of the trunk.
  • Constriction of the back.
  • Burning in the loins.
  • Cutting pain in the sacrum.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

  • Jactitation (of the limbs).
  • Cracking in the joints.
  • Nocturnal pain in the bones.
  • Pressure in the limbs.
  • Cutting pain in the joints. [150.]
  • Bruised pain in the bones.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

  • The arms are abruptly drawn forwards.
  • Cramps in the arms.
  • Pressure in the shoulder-joint.
  • Swelling of the humerus.
  • Swelling of the hands.
  • Trembling of the hands.
  • Paralysis of the metacarpal joint. [160.]
  • Deadness of the hands during the chill.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

  • Simple pain in the knees.
  • Jerks in the legs.
  • Cutting pain in the legs.
  • Contraction of the feet and toes.
  • Pressure in the toes.

GENERALITIES

  • Objective.
  • (Consumption.)
  • (Caries of the bones.)
  • Swelling of affected parts.
  • Hot swelling. [170.]
  • (Steatoma.)
  • (Suppuration of the glands. Drawing.)
  • (Convulsions of children.)
  • Spasms during the vomiting.
  • (Cramps of children.)
  • (Cramps when touched.)
  • (Hysterical tetanus.)
  • Relaxation of the muscles.
  • Lassitude during the chill.
  • Weakness. [180.]
  • (Chronic debility.)
  • (Paralysis with loss of movement and sensation.)
  • Restlessness in the evening.
  • Lancinating and digging, drawing, and tearing pains.
  • Abrupt shocks of the whole body.

SKIN

  • Objective.
  • Yellowish spots on the temples.
  • Brow spots on the arms.
  • Liver-spots on the arms.
  • Red spots on the legs.
  • Eruptions, Dry.
  • Eruptions. [190.]
  • Dry eruptions.
  • Eruptions behind the ears.
  • Pimples, scabs, and chaps on the lips and commissures.
  • Eruptions, Moist.
  • Eruption of burning vesicles.
  • Eruptions, Pustular.
  • (Herpes with tearing pain.)
  • (Crusty herpes.)
  • (Gutta rosea.)
  • Boils on the arms.
  • Subjective.
  • Pain as from excoriation when touched.
  • Formication which prevents sleep. [200.]
  • Itching.
  • Formication in the temples.
  • Formication of the arms and hands.
  • Itching of the stomach.
  • Itching of the pudenda.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

  • Sleepiness.
  • Sleepiness in the open air.
  • Drowsiness in the morning.
  • Drowsiness which intermits from one day to another.
  • Drowsiness with broken dreams.
  • Snoring during sleep.
  • Sleeplessness. [210.]
  • Sleeplessness before midnight.
  • Frequent waking.
  • Dreams.
  • Anxious, melancholy dreams, full of strife.
  • Dreams of war.

FEVER

  • Chilliness.
  • Coldness followed by heat.
  • Coldness followed by heat with sweat.
  • Horripilation in the parts affected.
  • Horripilation during sleep.
  • Horripilation with heat running over the body.
  • Heat.
  • Intermittent fever, chiefly in the forenoon. [220.]
  • Heat of the upper part (of the body), and coldness of the lower part.
  • Burning heat in the joints.
  • Burning heat in the arms.
  • Sweat.
  • Sweat, principally while eating or after eating.
  • Perspiration having an aromatic smell.
  • Sweat on the hands.

CONDITIONS

  • Aggravation.
  • ( Morning ), On waking, eye-symptoms; on getting up, symptoms of teeth.
  • ( Evening ), Canine hunger; urging to urinate.
  • ( Acids ), The symptoms.
  • ( Current of air ), Symptoms of teeth.
  • ( Cold water ), The symptoms.
  • ( Act of eating ), Symptoms of teeth.
  • ( Fresh eggs ), The symptoms.
  • ( Bodily exertion ), The symptoms.
  • ( Heat ), Symptoms of the extremities.
  • ( Hot food ), Symptoms of the teeth.
  • ( Deep inspiration ), Chest-symptoms.
  • ( Lifting hand to neck ), Respiratory symptoms.
  • ( Lotions ), Symptoms of the extremities.
  • ( Lying on painful side ), Symptoms of teeth.
  • ( Onions ), Eructations.
  • ( Reading by daylight ), Eye symptoms.
  • ( In room ), The symptoms.
  • ( Sulphur fumes ), Chest-symptoms.
  • ( After supper ), Gastric symptoms.
  • ( Walking ), Symptoms of the teeth.
  • ( Yawning ), Symptoms of the extremities.
  • Amelioration.
  • ( Morning ), On getting up, the symptoms; symptoms of the extremities.
  • ( Coughing ), Symptoms of the œsophagus.
  • ( Hot drinks ), Symptoms of the œsophagus.
  • ( Movement ), Head-symptoms.
  • ( Wrapping up warmly ), The symptoms.

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