Guarea trichiloides

Ballwood

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

(GUAREA)

Eye symptoms have been verified. Chemosis and pterygium have been cured with it. Lupus of an ochre-red color.

Eyes

Conjunctiva inflamed, swollen. Tearing pain in eyeballs; tension, forced-out feeling. Objects appear gray, upside down. Eye symptoms alternate with diminished hearing. Epiphora.

Head

Sensation as if brain were falling forwards; as from a blow on head.

Respiratory

Cough with sweat, pain and tightness of chest; larynx irritated.

Dose

Tincture.

Guarea trichiloides across the other classic books

Guarea trichiloides appears in 5 of the 21 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“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). Emotional. Inclination to talk.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“trichilioides. Red-wood. Ball-wood. N. O. Meliaceæ. Tincture and trituration of bark. Apoplexy / Asthma millari / Bones, affections of / Chemosis / Dysphagia / Eyes, affections of / Hernia / Intermittent fever / Liver-spots / Lupus / Pterygium / Ptosis / Tongue, affections of / Tonsils, swollen / Vertigo /…”
Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“(Ball Wood.) Description. — This is a large tree growing in the Antilles. The following pathogenesis is from provings made by Dr. Petroz, of Spain. Officinal Preparations. — Tincture of the bark Analogues.— (?) Mental Sphere. Moral anxiety, indifference, indecision, confusion of thought, fearful of losing the reason…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“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 . Weak memory. Indifference. Mental anxiety. Fear of losing her reason. Vertigo, on stooping ; reeling on seeing objects in confusion. Buzzing and sensation as…”

Guarea trichiloides in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Guarea trichiloides in 166 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (35), STOMACH (17), MOUTH (13), COUGH (12), SLEEP (8).

STOMACH - CONSTRICTION
FEMALE GENITALIA - LEUCORRHOEA - offensive - menses - after
CHEST - PAIN - cutting (sudden sharp pain) - inspiration
CHEST - PAIN - heat,during
EYE - PARALYSIS - of lids
RESPIRATION - SOBBING
CHEST - EMPTINESS,sensation of
STOMACH - NAUSEA - fever - during
EYE - CHEMOSIS
FEMALE GENITALIA - LEUCORRHOEA - offensive
GENERALITIES - CARIES of bone
EXTREMITIES - PARALYSIS
VERTIGO - STOOPING,on
CHEST - ANXIETY in
BLADDER - URINATION - involuntary
STOMACH - PAIN - sore,bruised,beaten (tenderness)
STOMACH - APPETITE - increased (hunger in general)
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - frequent
VERTIGO - VERTIGO
HEARING - IMPAIRED - alternating with - eye symptoms

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