Guaiacum guai.

Forgetfulness, especially of names.
Thoughtless staring: during the morning.
Disinclination to labor.
Sad and depressed.

Dizziness on rising.

Headache across the forehead.
Violent, sharp stitches in the brain.
Rheumatic pains in one side of head, extending to face.
Megrim.
Attacks of gout in the head.

Neuralgia on left side of head and face, extending to neck.
External headache, with the sensation as if the blood-vessels were overfilled; extends to face and neck. θ Neuralgia.
Pulsative throbbing in outer parts of head, with stitches in temples; remove for a short time by external pressure and by walking, increased by sitting and standing.
Perspiration, principally on head and forehead (when walking in the open air).
Tearing pain in the skull.

Dilated pupils.
Swelling of the eyes.
Sensation of swelling and protrusion of eyes; eyelids appear too short to cover them.
Hard pimples around the eyes.

Painful dragging and tearing in left ear.
Violent otalgia, with tearing in the left ear.
Spasmodic earache.

Pains in bones of the nose.
Pains from head to nose.
Nose swollen.
Fluent coryza.

Heat in the face, especially in the evening.
Face: red and painfully swollen; gets spotted; eyes, nose, cheeks swell; looks old.
Lancinating and painful stitches in right malar bone and cheek.

Dull ache in the left side of jaw.

Toothache when biting the jaw together.
Tearing in the teeth, ending with stitches.

Food does not taste right.
Thick white fur on tongue.

Inflammation of the mouth.

Violent burning in the throat.
Threatened tonsillitis.

Violent hunger, in the afternoon and evening.
Much thirst.
Aversion to milk.
No appetite.
Aversion to all food, could not eat anything.
Desire for apples, which relieves gastric symptoms.

After eating without appetite, she gets sick.

Frequent empty eructations.
Nausea from sensation of phlegm in the throat.
Every morning vomits a mass of watery phlegm with great exertion.

Burning in stomach and abdomen.

Constrictive sensation in the epigastric region, with anguish and difficult breathing.

Great accumulation of wind in the whole abdomen; pinching in abdomen from incarcerated flatulence, receding towards rectum until emitted.
Twitches in abdominal muscles.
Inguinal hernia.

Diarrhœa commencing in the morning; skin dry, chilly.
Cholera infantum, emaciation; face like that of an old person.
Costive; hard stool, crumbling; very offensive.

Continuous urging even after urination, with profuse fetid urine.
Stitches in neck of bladder after ineffectual pressure to urinate.
Cutting in urethra while urinating, as from something biting passing.

Nocturnal emissions without dreams.
Gonorrhœa-like discharge.

Subacute and chronic ovaritis, especially in rheumatic women.

Chilly crawls over the mammæ.

Violent, spasmodic, inflammatory affection in the windpipe, most in larynx, with such palpitation of heart that they could not get out of bed, nor call for help; feel as if suffocating.

Sudden stuffed feeling in præcordia, like an arrest of breathing; often attacks her suddenly even at night in sleep, causing dry cough, frequently repeated until expectoration appears.

Tight, dry, with burning fever; hot face.
Coughing with copious spitting of phlegm, and later of stinking pus; coughing up blood.
Dry cough, relieved by detaching and raising a little mucus; rheumatic patients. See Heart.

Pleuritic stitches; left side, worse from breathing deeply; especially in phthisis pulmonalis.
Intense pain in upper part of chest, from motion of the head; expectoration of fetid pus.

Palpitation.
Sudden stuffed sensation in precordial region like an arrest of breathing; comes suddenly even when asleep, causing dry cough.
Pulse small, soft accelerated.

Pain from head to neck.
Excessive stiffness of one of side of back, from the neck extending to the small of back, when moving.
Contractive pain between the scapulæ.
Chilliness in the back, in the afternoon.
Shuddering after feverish chill in the back.
Aching in the nape of neck, right and left of vertebræ.
Corrosive itching in the back (by day).

Sharp stitches in the top of right shoulder.
Rheumatic pains in left arm, from shoulder or from elbow to wrist.
Stitches in the right thumb.
Pain first in knuckles, then in whole hand.
Hands hot.

Gouty inflammation and abscess at knee, repeated after a fall, with violent and pain and loss of sleep.
Pricking in the nates, as if sitting on needles.
Tension in thighs, especially the right, as if muscles were too short, with languor when walking; worse from touch, better when walking worse from touch better when sitting.
Pains begin in middle of thigh or leg and extend to knee.
Tearing, drawing lancinations in leg, from right tarsus to knee.
Exhaustion in the lower limbs.
Spongoid state of the tibia.
The whole left leg is cramped.
Right leg swollen and contracted, stiff immovable, drawn close up to the thigh.
Violent stitches from outside of right of calf down to ankle.

Tearing and stinging in limbs.
Pains after abuse of mercury.
Arthritic lancinations, followed by contractions of limbs.
Tearing, pricking pains in the muscles of the extremities, with heat of the parts.
The limbs go to sleep.
Stinging pains in the limbs, worse from the least motion.

Yawning and stretching relieves the generally ill-feeling.
Walking: 4, 33; in open air: 4. Motion: 28, 31, 34. Standing: 4. Sitting: 4, 33. Lying on back: 37.

Exhaustion as after great exertion, especially in thighs and arms.
Immovable stiffness of the contracted limbs.

Nightly restlessness and sleeplessness.
Nightmare when lying on the back; waking with screams.
On awaking: unrefreshed; everything seems too tight; clothes feel damp.
Frequent awaking from sleep as if falling.

Morning: 1, 16, 20. Afternoon: 14, 31, 40. Evening: 8, 14, 40. Night: 22, 26, 37, 40.

After a cold, violent pain in limbs.
Can bear no heat, with pain in joints.
Walking in open air: 4.

Internal chilliness through the whole body, followed by heat, most in face, towards evening; without thirst.
Chilliness internally, even near the warm stove, principally in the afternoon and evening.
Burning fever, face spotted; eyes, nose and cheeks swollen; tight, dry cough.
Feeling of heat in the painful limbs; rheumatic cases.
Skin hot, especially on the hands.
Night-sweats, smelling very offensive.
The provers that sweated had no urinary disturbances and vice versa.
The usual general sweat, changes to dryness and chilliness.

Sudden attacks: 26.

Right: 8, 32, 33, 44. Left: 6, 9, 28, 32, 33. Right and left: 31.
Pains first in left limbs, next day in right.
Above downward: 31, 32, 33. Below upward: 33.

Pressive drawing, tearing pains; often ending in a stitch, especially the head pains.

All excretions are of an unbearable stench.
Rheumatic swelling of joints.
Acts on fibrous tissues.
Aching in the bones, with swelling. θ Syphilis.
Great emaciation.
Contraction of limbs.
Pain in all joints, even on chest.
Caries and spongious affection of bones; right tibia and tarsal bones spongious, cannot bear the slightest touch.
Excretions are all intolerably offensive.
Contractions, with pain from the slightest motions.
Joints swollen, painful and intolerant of pressure; can bear no heat.
Pressing pain in bones.

The affected parts are very sensitive to touch.
Cannot bear any pressure, with pain in joints.
Touch: 33. Pressure: 4; of teeth together: 10. Effects of a fall: 33.

Scratching improves.
Itching, tetter-like eruptions.
Appears to promote breaking of abscesses.

Syphilides.
Children; growing pains.
Old women.
Dark hair and eyes.

Guaiacum; has proved useful after abuse of mercury in rheumatism, gout, contraction; antidoted Caustic., which had much increased the contraction of limbs in a rheumatic patient; also antidoted Rhus tox.
Nux vom., antidotes Guaiacum.
Followed sulphur well in cholera infantum.
Compare: Rhus, Mezereum, Rhodod., Phytol., Stillingia, Kali hydr., Mercur.