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A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Guarea guare.

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1902 · 758 words · Guarea in every book →

General

Guarea trichilioides. Red-wood. Ball-wood. N. O. Meliaceæ. Tincture and trituration of bark.

Clinical

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. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics

Petroz is the authority for this drug, which produces a number of symptoms in the eyes, and cases of chemosis and pterygium have been reported cured with it. R. K. Ghosh ( H. R ., viii. 459) cured a number of cases of both. He found a lotion of Guarea Ø (gtt i. to one drachm) of great assistance. In the head there is a sensation as if the brain were falling forward; and a sensation as of a blow on the head leaving numbness and diminished thinking power. The eye symptoms alternate with diminished hearing. A number of symptoms were experienced in the umbilicus and inguinal rings. Flow of blood between menses. Pains in periosteum. On the skin there were liver-spots, and an eruption with burning vesicles. Sleepy in open air. Aromatic-smelling sweat. Sensations of constriction are common. Sudden shocks of whole body. Bruised pains. Acids and cold water < ; hot drinks, and wrapping warmly > . Sweat when eating or after. Bone pains < at night.

Relations

Bov. (flow of blood between menses); Crotal. (as if had a blow on the head); Anac. (peg in ear); Gels. (vertigo, ptosis); Azadiracta indica (botan.) Apis (chemosis, asthma millari); Arn. (injuries); Phos. (steatoma) Ign. (nerves); Merc. and Silic. (bone-pains, suppuration).

Mind

Anxiety. ─ Fear of losing reason.

Head

Vertigo; when stooping; objects appear upside down. ─ Whirling dizziness. ─ Sensation as if the brain were falling forward. ─ Sensation as if from blow on the head, leaving a kind of numbness and diminished thinking power; as after apoplectic seizure. ─ Constriction, heaviness, shocks; in forehead. ─ Constriction, hammering in occiput.

Eyes

Sickly look round eyes and within orbits. ─ Swelling beneath eyes. ─ Swelling of lachrymal gland. ─ Pain in eyes during fever. ─ Twitching of eyebrows. ─ Paralysis of lids. ─ Pressure on lids. ─ Lachrymation. ─ Inflammation of conjunctiva, which is swollen. ─ Pain in ball as after weeping. ─ Tearing pain in eyeballs; tension; forced-out feeling. ─ Pupils dilated. ─ Objects appear grey; during vertigo they appear upside down. ─ Eye symptoms alternate with diminution of hearing.

Ears

Swelling of periosteum behind ears. ─ Sensation in ears as of a peg; of a worm; pushing-out feeling. ─ Roaring in ears.

Nose

Coryza; with hardened secretion; with heat. ─ Nose stuffed; ineffectual desire to sneeze; constriction at root of nose.

Face

Suppurating swellings on face. ─ Swelling of upper lip.

7, 8. Teeth and Mouth. ─ Pains in teeth accompanied by pain in zygoma, excited by draught of air, by pressure of tongue; < lying on painful side; by hot food; by walking. ─ Tongue coated during the fever. ─ Tongue coated greyish yellow; swollen; paralysed; bleeding. ─ Tongue feels cold and dry. ─ Lancinations in tongue. ─ Mouth smells of cheese. ─ Taste, sweet. ─ Food tastes insipid.

Throat

Tonsils swollen. ─ Œsophagus: raw pain; sensation of contraction and burning heat. ─ Swallowing difficult.

Appetite

Canine hunger in evening; speedy satiety. ─ Aversion to milk, fish, and hot, greasy, cooked food.

Stomach

Sour eructations with tension and pressure at stomach. ─ Inclination to vomit during fever. ─ Vomiting, sour; green. ─ Stomach: constriction in; bruised feeling in.

Abdomen

Hardness at umbilicus. ─ Abdomen distended with lancination in groins and inguinal ring. ─ Bruised pain externally.

Stool and Anus

Constriction of anus and rectum. ─ Urging to stool. ─ Constipation.

Female Sexual Organs

Labour pains suppressed. ─ Lochia scanty. ─ Leucorrhœa after menses; fetid. ─ Flow of blood between menstrual periods. ─ Itching of pudenda.

Respiratory Organs

Cough: dry barking; violent deep-seated; with expectoration. ─ The cough is accompanied by sweat, pain, soreness, tightness of chest; comes after a crying spell; on falling asleep; after getting chilled; is excited by itching in throat, by irritation in larynx. ─ Breathing, sobbing; difficult during chill. ─ Sensation of hollowness and dilatation of chest. ─ Respiratory symptoms < from putting hand to throat.

Limbs

Jactitation of limbs. ─ Cracking in joints. ─ Nightly pains in bones. ─ Bruised pain in bones. ─ Caries.

Generalities

Steatoma; hot swelling; swelling of affected parts. ─ Suppuration of glands.

Skin

Yellow spots on temples. ─ Liver-spots on arms. ─ Eruptions behind ears. ─ Herpes. ─ Itching. ─ Lupus of ochre-red colour.

Sleep

Sleepy in open air. ─ Dreams, anxious, melancholy, full of strife.

Fever

Coldness followed by heat with sweat. ─ Heat of upper part of body, coldness of bones. ─ Sweat chiefly during and after eating. ─ Sweat aromatic.