Guarea Trichilioides
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Red-wood ; Ball-wood. Meliaceæ.
Tincture and triturations of the bark.
Symptoms, pathogenetic and clinical, by Petroz. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 4, p. 512 .
MIND [1]
Weak memory.
Indifference.
Mental anxiety.
Fear of losing her reason.
SENSORIUM [2]
Vertigo, on stooping ; reeling on seeing objects in confusion.
Buzzing and sensation as if brain were falling forward.
Sensation as of blow on head, leaving a sort of stupefaction, with diminution of power of thought for several days.
INNER HEAD [3]
Immobility of head ; heaviness.
Yellowish spots on temple ; acne rosacea.
SIGHT AND EYES [5]
Objects appear greyish.
Dilatation of pupils.
Sensation as if eyeballs were being pushed out.
Chemosis where the pad was so extended and so thick that nothing of eye could be seen but pupil, at the bottom of a veritable tunnel. θ After cataract extraction.
Paralysis of eyelids.
HEARING AND EARS [6]
Sensation as if ears were stopped up, with pressure outwards.
Eruption behind ears.
SMELL AND NOSE [7]
Coryza with indurated excretion ; heat, and ineffectual effort to sneeze.
UPPER FACE [8]
Pain as if burnt ; puffiness below eyes ; swellings which suppurate.
LOWER FACE [9]
Twitchings of mouth.
Swelling of upper lip ; pimples, scabs, chaps on lips and at commissures.
TEETH AND GUMS [10]
Compressive, corrosive pain of teeth.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]
Tearing pain in tongue ; lancinations ; paralysis of tongue.
Tongue heavy, swelled, bleeding ; greenish-yellow fur.
Tongue feels cold and dry.
INNER MOUTH [12]
Roughness, with caries of palate-bone.
Dryness of mouth, with absence of thirst.
PALATE AND THROAT [13]
Swelling of tonsils, rendering swallowing difficult.
Sensation of constriction and burning heat in throat.
Throat > from warm drinks.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]
Bitter risings, with distension and pressure at stomach.
Vomiting of bitter, greenish matter.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]
Sensation of rupture at precordial region ; < after supper.
Sensation as if bruised ; itching ; constriction.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]
Pressure in region of umbilicus.
Pain, tensive as if contused, in abdominal walls.
Lancination in groins and inguinal rings.
Ailments from flatulence.
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Dysentery.
Constipation during dentition.
Chronic constipation.
During stool, pain in rectum.
URINARY ORGANS [21]
Inflammation of bladder.
Involuntary urination.
Frequent desire to urinate in evening.
Urine clay-colored.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS [23]
Menorrhagia.
Fetid leucorrhœa after menses.
PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION [24]
Labor pains too feeble ; suppression of labor pains.
Lochia scanty.
RESPIRATION [26]
Asthma of Miller ; attacks of suffocation, burning ; sobbing respiration ; intermittent constriction of chest ; respiratory symptoms < from putting hand to throat.
COUGH [27]
Whooping cough, with bloody sputa ; dry, hacking-cough ; cough deep, suffocating, violent, with expectoration.
Inner Chest and Lungs
Sense of anxiety ; emptiness ; distension of chest ; heaviness.
Lancinations in right side of chest < by deep inspirations.
NECK AND BACK [31]
Weak back.
Cutting pain in back.
Constricted feeling in back ; burning in loins.
Cutting pain in sacrum.
UPPER LIMBS [32]
Violent shocks in arms ; cramps in arms ; burning heat in arms ; brown spots under arms ; boils.
Trembling of hands.
Paralysis of metacarpus.
Swelling of hands.
LOWER LIMBS [33]
Cutting pains in legs ; jerking motions.
Red spots on legs.
Contraction of feet and toes.
LIMBS IN GENERAL [34]
Cutting pain in joints ; burning heat.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
Stooping ; vertigo.
Putting hand to throat : respiratory symptoms <.
NERVES [36]
Weakness ; sensation of distension.
Weakness of the muscles.
Cramps and convulsions of children.
Cramps when touched.
Convulsions during vomiting.
Hysterical tetanus.
Paralysis subsultus.
SLEEP [37]
Somnolence, with dreams.
Frequent waking ; sad dreams full of graves.
TIME [38]
Evening : frequent desire to urinate.
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER [39]
Temperature and Weather
Warm drinks : throat >.
FEVER [40]
Heat of upper part and coolness of lower part of body.
During fever, anxiety, forgetfulness, pain in eyes, coated tongue, desire to vomit, oppression of chest, chest painful.
Intermittent fever, principally before noon ; cold followed by heat with sweat ; shivering, with flushes of heat ; horripilation in affected parts.
Sweat, principally when eating or after eating.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Right : lancinations in side of chest.
SENSATIONS [43]
As if brain were falling forward ; sensation as of blow on head ; as if eyeballs were being pushed out ; as if ears were stopped up ; pain in face as if burnt ; sensation of rupture at precordial region ; as if bruised at scrobiculum and stomach ; as if contused in abdominal walls.
Pain : in rectum ; in eyes ; in chest ; in bones.
Lancinations : of tongue ; in groins and inguinal rings ; in r. side of chest.
Tearing pain : in tongue.
Cutting pain : in back ; in sacrum ; in legs ; in joints.
Cramps : in arms ; of children.
Compressive, corrosive pain : of teeth.
Tensive pain : in abdominal walls.
Burning heat : in throat ; in loins ; in arms ; in limbs.
Heat : of upper part of body.
Constriction : in throat ; of stomach ; of chest ; in back.
Pressure : at stomach ; in region of umbilicus.
Emptiness : of chest.
Heaviness : of chest.
Dryness : of mouth.
Roughness : of palate-bone.
Tongue feels cold and dry.
Twitchings of mouth.
Itching : at stomach.
TISSUES [44]
Steatoma ; hot swelling ; swelling of affected parts.
Suppuration of glands.
Caries of bones ; nocturnal pain in bones.
SKIN [46]
Itching.
Itching eruptions ; dry eruptions ; eruptions of burning vesicles.
Lupus of an ochre-red color.
RELATIONS [48]
Compare : Apis (chemosis, asthma Millari, etc.) ; Arnic . (injuries) ; Phosphor . (steatoma) ; Ignat . (nerves) ; Mercur . and Silica (bone pains, suppuration, etc.).