Guaiacum guai.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

Secretions: Glands. TONSILS. Ovaries. Skin. Fibrous tissue: Ligaments. Joints. Chest.

Worse

HEAT. Touch. Motion. Exertion. Rapid growth. Mercury.

Better

Cold (locally). Apples.

General

Rigid, painfully swelled joints. Arthritic symptoms. FREE, FOUL SECRETIONS, expectoration, sweats, etc. Impending suppuration, quinsy, old bronchitis, etc. Burning heat; in affected parts. Gnawing or sticking pains; < chest. Muscles seem too short; eye-lids, back, thigh, etc.; sore. Growing pains. Contraction; between scapulæ; palmar; distorting. Fixed, short tendons. Nodes.

Particulars

Forgetful. Pain from head into neck. Eye-balls seem too big for lids. Ex-ophthalmos. Throat; burning; dry; painful to touch; tonsilitis (r), recurrent (Phyt.), then rheumatism. Averse to milk. Stoppage in epigastrium causes cough, dyspnœa, etc. Dry cough, with hot face and burning fever. Sticking in apex of (l) lung. Phthisis. Recurrent pleurisy. Aching, sore neck; one side stiff. Tense, short thigh muscles. Arthritis deformans. Yawning and stretching. Wakes as if falling. Sweats, profuse; on single parts, face, etc. Night-sweats.

Related

Related: Fer. Kali-bi. Kre. Pho-ac. Phyt.

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General

Affections of the thighs. Heavy, dragging, pains in and about the left ear; dragging, drawing pain in the muscles. Great aversion to motion; small pulse.

Worse

In the open air.

Better

In the room.

Remedies following

Calc. carb., Mercur.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

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Common name

Resin of Lignum Vitæ (GUAIACUM)

General

Chief action on fibrous tissue, and is especially adapted to the arthritic diathesis, rheumatism, and tonsillitis. Secondary syphilis. Very valuable in acute rheumatism. Free foul secretions. Unclean odor from whole body. Promotes suppuration of abscesses. Sensitiveness and aggravation from local heat. Contraction of limbs, stiffness and immobility. Feeling that he must stretch.

Mind

Forgetful; thoughtless; staring. Slow to comprehend.

Head

Gouty and rheumatic pain in head and face, extending to neck. Tearing pain in skull; worse, cold, wet weather. Feels swollen, and blood-vessels distended. Aching in left ear. Pains often end in a stitch, especially in head.

Eyes

Pupils dilated. Eyelids appear too short. Pimples around eyes.

Throat

Rheumatic sore throat with weak throat muscles. Throat dry, burns, swollen, stitches toward ear. Acute tonsillitis. Syphilitic sore throat.

Stomach

Tongue furred. Desire for apples and other fruits. Aversion to milk. Burning in stomach. Constricted epigastric region.

Abdomen

Intestinal fermentation. Much wind in bowels. Diarrhœa, cholera infantum.

Urinary

Sharp stitches after urinating. Constant desire.

Respiratory

Feels suffocated. Dry, tight cough. Fetid breath after coughing. Pleuritic stitches. Chest pains in articulations of ribs, with shortness of breathing till expectoration sets in.

Female

Ovaritis in rheumatic patients, with irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhœa, and irritable bladder.

Back

Pain from head to neck. Aching in nape. Stiff neck and sore shoulders. Stitches between scapulæ to occiput. Contractive pain between scapulæ.

Extremities

Rheumatic pain in shoulders, arms and hands. Growing pains (Phos ac). Pricking in nates. Sciatica and lumbago. Gouty tearing, with contractions. Immovable stiffness. Ankle pain extending up the leg, causing lameness. Joints swollen, painful, and intolerant of pressure; can bear no heat. Stinging pain in limbs. Arthritic lancinations followed by contraction of limbs. A feeling of heat in the affected limbs.

Modalities

Worse, from motion, heat, cold wet weather; pressure, touch, from 6 pm to 4 am. Better, external pressure.

Relationship

Guaiacol (in the treatment of gonorrhœal epididymitis, 2 parts to 30 vaselin, locally).

Antidote: Nux. Follow Sepia.

Compare: Merc; Caust; Rhus; Mezer; Rhodod.

Dose

Tincture, to sixth attenuation.

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Leaders

Cough with expectoration of fœtid pus.

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Mind and Disposition

Forgetfulness, especially of names. Thoughtless staring during the morning.

Head

Violent sharp stitches in the brain. Rheumatic pains in one side of the head, extending to the face. External headache, with the sensation as if the blood-vessels were overfilled. Pulsative throbbing in the outer parts of the head, with stitches in the temples ; removed for a short time by external pressure and by walking, increased by sitting and standing.

Eyes

Swelling of the eyes. Sensation of swelling and protrusion of the eyes ; the eyelids appeared too short to cover the eyes.

Ears

Violent otalgia, with tearing (left ear).

Face

Redness and painful swelling of the face. Lancinations and painful stitches in the right malar bone and cheek, as if knives were plunged in.

Mouth and Throat

Tearing pain in the teeth, ending with a stitch. Violent burning in the throat.

Stomach and Abdomen

Aversion to milk. Violent hunger (afternoon and evening). Much thirst. Frequent empty eructations. In the morning violent vomiting of watery mucus. Nausea occasioned by the sensation of accumulated mucus in the throat. Pinching in the abdomen (as from incarcerated flatulence), receding towards the rectum until flatulence was emitted. Sensation of constriction in the stomach, with oppression of breathing and anguish. Twitches in the abdominal muscles (right side). Inguinal hernia.

Stool and Anus

Constipation ; stools hard and crumbling, very offensive.

Urinary Organs

Continuous desire to urinate (even after urinating), with profuse emission of very fetid urine. Cutting pain in the urethra when urinating. Stitches in the neck of the bladder after ineffectual pressure to urinate.

Sexual Organs

Men. Nocturnal emissions without lascivious ; dreams.

Respiratory Organs

Stitches ; in the left side of the chest, worse from breathing deep. Dry cough with shortness of breathing till expectoration sets in. Cough with copious expectoration of fetid pus.

Back and Neck

Contractive pain between the scapula. Corrosive itching in the back (by day). When moving, excessive stiffness of one side of the back, from the neck extending to the small of the back. Chilliness in the back, in the afternoon.

Extremities

Upper. Sharp stitches in the top of the right shoulder. Rheumatic pains in the left arm, from the shoulder to wrist. Lancinating rheumatic pains from the elbow to the wrist. (left arm). Rheumatic pains in the left wrist-joint. Stitches in the right thumb. Lower. Exhaustion in the lower limbs. Pricking in the nates, as if sitting on needles. Tearing, drawing lancinations in the leg, from the right tarsus to the knee. Tension in the thighs, especially the right, as ; if the muscles were too short, with languor when walking ; worse by contact, better when sitting.

Sleep

Nightly restlessness and sleeplessness. Feels unrefreshed in the morning when waking. Nightmare when lying on the back, waking with screams.

Generalities

Tearing-pricking pains in the muscles of the extremities, with heat of the parts. Immovable stiffness of the contracted limbs. The limbs go to sleep. Great emaciation.

Fever

Pulse small, weak, soft, accelerated. Chilliness internally, even near the warm stove, principally in the afternoon and evening. Heat in the face, especially in the evening. Perspiration, principally on the head and on the forehead (when walking in the open air). Night-sweats, smelling very offensively.

Skin

Swelling and softening of the bones. Caries.

Conditions

Yawning and stretching relieves the general ill-feeling. Most ailments ; begin in the morning and forenoon, and while sitting. The affected parts are very sensitive to contact. Aggravation in the open air.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

Gum guaiacum. Guaiacum officinale. The gum-resin of Lignum sanctum or Lignum vitæ, a large tree growing in W. Indies. N. O. Zygophyllaceæ. Tincture of the gum-resin.

Clinical

Abscess. Amenorrhœa. Aneurism. Bones, affections of. Bronchitis. Caries. Cholera infantum. Constipation. Contraction. Cough. Diarrhœa. Diphtheria. Dysmenorrhœa. Earache. Emaciation. Fever. Gout. Growing-pains. Headache, internal and external. Hernia. Membranous dysmenorrhœa, Mercury, effects of. Neuralgia. Osteomalachia. Otitis. Ovaries, inflammation of. Phthisis. Pleurisy. Pleurodynia. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Stomach, affections of. Syphilis. Throat, affections of. Tonsillitis. Toothache. Torticollis. Vomiting.

Characteristics

Guaiacum , which is one of Hahnemann's antipsorics, is best known as a remedy in gout and rheumatism and as a diuretic, but latterly it has also taken a place in old-school therapeutics as a remedy for consumption. Homœopathic provings have developed and defined the sphere of its utility in all these respects and many more. It acts on mucous membranes, muscles, joints and bones, and causes contraction of tendons with resulting deformity. Gouty nodosities on joints. Verwey ( H. R ., ix., 627) treated a lady who for several years had a frequently recurring gouty inflammation of the knees. Guai . 30 was given (after Chi . 30 had failed to relieve) without obvious benefit. Guai . 1 was now given and after a few hours the swelling broke and the pains quickly subsided. A short time after, the same patient accidentally injured the same knee. Under Guai . 1 the swelling soon broke and the pain was relieved. But an abscess formed at the same time on the upper thigh. The pain became unbearable and the patient's husband "begged for more of the drops that had twice before made the swelling break." It was again given and in six hours the abscess evacuated. On two later occasions Dr. Verwey saw Guai . act in the same way on scrofulous and gouty abscesses. This is probably analogous to its action in quinsy. In cases indicating Guaiac . the affected parts are very sensitive to touch, and there is < from heat. Rheumatism in syphilitic and mercurial patients. Acute tonsillitis, simple or rheumatic. Syphilitic sore throat. "Burning in the throat" is the keynote symptom of most cases of sore throat. It was first recommended by Brinton in the Lancet in 1857 for quinsy; was given in full doses and produced a crisis of sweat and profuse urination. Ozanam gave it in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd centesimal dilutions and found that he got the curative effects without crisis, which was an unnecessary effect of the drug. Guaic ., says Ozanam, seems to combine the properties of Bell., Apis , and Bar. c . It has the erythematous or inflammatory angina with bright redness of Bell .; the œdema of Apis ; and the phlegmon with tendency to suppuration of tonsils of Bar. c. and Apis ( H. R ., ii. 217). Proell records the cure of a case of secondary syphilis in a gentleman who had inflammation of the palate supervening on hard chancre. The isolated, sore, red spots threatened to extend deeper and perforate. Merc. cor . 3x, Nit. ac . 3, Aur. mur . 3, and Mez . 3 were given in succession, each for one or two weeks, without avail. The syphilitic inflammation continued to spread, the brain became affected as shown in confusion of thought, remarkable depression of spirits and weakness of memory. Guaiac . 3x was now given, and even on the next day improvement was noticable. In fourteen days the whole trouble had vanished, the mind was clear, cheerfulness and memory returned and remained ( H. R ., i. 109). The growing pains of children are relieved by it. The secretions of Guaiac . are very offensive. Burning sensations in mouth, throat, and stomach, stitches in chest going from front to back, or from below upward; in region of apex; < from motion and from deep inspiration: Sharp pain about mid-day under right breast to shoulder" was removed in a case of mine by Guaiac .

The mental state is one of weakness: weak memory and disinclination to labour. Sad and depressed. Fretful, obstinate, sharp stitches in brain. Sensation as if the brain were loose. Neuralgia of left side of head and face, extending to neck. External headache, with sensation as if blood-vessels were over-filled; extending to face and neck. Tearing pains in skull. Swellings and sensation of swelling in eyes and nose. Eyes feel protruded. Houghton cured with Guaiac . 3x a case of gouty inflammation of the meatus of the ear and tympanum after failure with Fer. ph . Concomitant rheumatic lameness and soreness led him to Guaiac . Heat, swelling and blotchiness of face. Prosopalgia every day from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m. Toothache when biting jaws together. "Violent hunger, afternoon and evening" shows its relation to the "sinking" sensations of Sulphur and the antipsorics. There is a desire for apples which > gastric symptoms; and aversion to milk and food generally. Flatulence is marked. There is nausea from sensation of phlegm in throat. "Every morning vomits a mass of watery phlegm with great exertion, followed by great exhaustion." There is morning diarrhœa with skin dry and chilliness. In cholera infantum the face is like that of an old person. In constipation the stool is hard, dry, crumbling, and very offensive. Some marked symptoms appear in the urinary organs: Continuous urging even after urination, with profuse fetid urine. Stitches in neck of bladder after ineffectual pressure to urinate. Cutting while urinating. Chilly crawls over mammæ. There are many marked symptoms in the respiratory sphere. Violent, spasmodic, inflammatory affections of windpipe and larynx, with palpitation preventing motion, or calling for help, feels suffocating. Cough dry or with copious bloody or purulent expectoration of very offensive odour. Contractive pain between scapulæ. Chilliness in back. Yawning and stretching > general ill-feeling. The least motion < . After a cold, has violent pains in limbs. Clothes feel damp. On walking in open air has perspiration on head. Cannot bear heat with pains in limbs. Periodicity is marked. Stomach affection returns every summer.

Relations

Antidoted by: Nux. Antidote to: Caust., Rhus. Compatible: After Merc. (rheumatism, gout, and syphilis); after Sulph. (in cholera infantum); after Caust. (in torticollis). Compare Phos. ac. (growing pains); Act. r. (pleurodynia and tuberculosis); Bry. (chronic rheumatism when the joints are distorted; < motion; pleurisy in second stage of phthisis); Coloc. (contractions after rheumatism); Caust. (Guaiac. is better than Caust., which it follows well, when either gout or rheumatism causes distortion of limbs < every attempt at motion; especially if there are gouty nodosities on joints); Araceæ (late tuberculosis; pleuritic pains left apex); Kal. i., Mezer., Phytol., Rhodo., Stilling.

Mind

Obstinacy. ─ Strong desire to criticise, and to despise everything. ─ Indolence and dread of movement. ─ Weakness of memory, and excessive forgetfulness, esp. of names. ─ Fixed look, and absence of ideas, esp. in the morning.

Head

Pressive pain, extending from the base of the brain upwards, or traction and tearing in the sinciput and temples. ─ Violent lancinations in the brain, from the base upwards. ─ Tearing (rheumatic pains) in one side of the head only, as far as the cheek. ─ Pulsations, throbbings (and shootings) in the temples, with sensation as if the head were swollen, and the blood-vessels congested. ─ Sensation as if brain were detached and loose. ─ Pulsative throbbing in the outer parts of the head, with stitches in the temples; removed for a short time by external pressure and by walking, < by sitting and standing. ─ Lacerating in whole l. side of head. ─ Neuralgia l. side of head and face extending to neck. ─ Sweat chiefly on head and forehead (when walking in open air). ─ Tearing pains in skull.

Eyes

Sensation of swelling, or actual swelling of the eyelids, with sensation as if the eyes were protruding, and as if the eyelids were too short. ─ Pupils dilated. ─ Amaurosis. ─ Pimples in the eyebrows; and round eyes.

Ears

Tearing and squeezing in the ears.

Nose

Pains in nasal bones. ─ Nose swollen. ─ Fluent coryza.

Face

Redness and painful swelling of the face. ─ Shootings in the cheek-bones and in the muscles of the cheeks, as if knives were plunged in. ─ Neuralgia l. side of fac,. head and nape 6 p.m. to 4 a.m. daily.

Teeth

Aching in the teeth, on closing them. ─ Pulling and tearing in the teeth, terminating in shootings.

Throat

Burning pain in the throat. ─ Acute tonsillitis, r. tonsil much swollen, dark-red, constant aching pains, sharp stitches towards ear on swallowing. ─ Syphilitic sore throat. ─ Throat dry, cannot swallow without a drink.

Appetite

Insipid taste, with want of appetite, and disgust for everything, accompanied by expectoration of mucus. ─ Empty risings. ─ Immoderate hunger. ─ Nausea, excited by a sensation as if the throat were filled with slimy mucus. ─ Repugnance to milk. ─ After eating without appetite she gets sick.

Stomach

Burning in stomach and abdomen. ─ Cramps and pains in stomach. ─ Every summer a severe stomach affection with vomiting of blood. ─ Anxious sensation of constriction in the region of the stomach, which impedes respiration.

Abdomen

Pinching in the abdomen, as from incarceration of flatus. ─ Sensation of emptiness, with borborygmi, and rumbling in the abdomen. ─ Pain, as from hernia in the groins. ─ Twitchings of the muscles of the abdomen.

Stool

Diarrhœa commencing in morning, skin dry; chilly. ─ Thin mucous stool. ─ Soft stool in pieces. Cholera infantum, emaciation; old-looking face. ─ Constipation. ─ Fæces hard, crumbling, and very offensive.

Urinary Organs

Constant want to make water (even after urinating) with copious discharge of very fetid urine. ─ Incisive pains in the urethra, on making water. ─ Ineffectual want to urinate, with shootings in the neck of the bladder.

Male Sexual Organs

Emissions without lascivious dreams. ─ Gonorrhœa-like discharge.

Female Sexual Organs

Subacute and chronic ovaritis, esp. in rheumatic women. ─ Amenorrhœa. ─ Membranous dysmenorrhœa.

Respiratory Organs

Dry cough with sensation in the epigastrium as if there were not sufficient air in it. ─ Dry cough, > by detaching a little mucus. ─ Cough, with expectoration of fetid pus.

Chest

Shootings in the (l. side of the) chest, < by breathing; by moving head. ─ Stitches from middle of r. chest, ending in one below r. scapula.

Heart

Palpitation.

Neck and Back

Pressure on the vertebræ of the neck. ─ Stiffness in the nape of the neck. ─ Constant frequent stitches on l. side of nape, extending from scapulæ to occiput, on motion, also on holding head still. ─ Stiffness along the back, on one (l.) side only, from the neck extending to the small of the back and sacrum, intolerable on slightest motion, or turning the part, not noticed on touch or during rest. ─ Tearing and shooting in one side of the back only. ─ Contractive pain between the shoulder-blades. ─ Corrosive itching in the back (by day). ─ Shiverings in the back in the afternoon.

Upper Limbs

Weakness in the arms. ─ Tearing and shooting in the shoulder-blades, and in the forearms. ─ Sharp stitches in the top of r. shoulder. ─ Rheumatic pains in l. arm from shoulder to wrist. ─ Lancinating rheumatic pains from elbow to wrist (l.). ─ Rheumatic pains in l. wrist-joint. ─ Stitches in r. thumb.

Lower Limbs

Pains in the bones of the thighs, pressive and tingling pains in the thighs, when seated. ─ Paralytic tension in the thighs, on walking. ─ Weakness in the thighs. ─ Pricking in the nates, as if sitting on needles. ─ Tearing, drawing lancinations in the leg, from r. tarsus to the knee. ─ Tension in thighs, esp. r., as if the muscles were too short, with languor when walking; < by contact, > when sitting.

Generalities

Rheumatic pains in the joints. ─ Arthritic pains in the limbs, with shootings and tearings, and contraction of the parts affected. ─ The pains are provoked by the least movement, and are accompanied by heat in the parts affected. ─ Numbness of the limbs. ─ Painful weariness and weakness in the arms and thighs, with dread of movement. ─ Immovable stiffness of the contracted limbs. ─ Frequent inclination to yawn, and to stretch the limbs, proceeding from a general sensation of uneasiness. ─ The majority of symptoms show themselves, when sitting, as well as in the morning after rising, or in the evening before lying down. ─ Exostosis. ─ Consumption.

Sleep

Great drowsiness in the afternoon. ─ Late sleeping and early waking. ─ Frequent waking with fright, sometimes on going to sleep. ─ Restless tossing during the night. ─ Nightmare, when lying on the back, waking with screams. ─ Feeling in the morning as though the sleep had been insufficient.

Fever

Shivering, chilliness, and shuddering, even near a fire, principally in the afternoon and evening. ─ Shivering, without thirst, morning and evening. ─ Heat in the face, esp. in the evening. ─ Sweat in the morning. ─ Copious perspiration, esp. on the head, when walking in the open air. ─ Pulse accelerated; small, weak, soft.

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Mind

Weakness of memory ; excessive forgetfulness, especially of names.
Thoughtless staring ; during the morning.
Disinclination to labor.
Very sad and depressed. θ Consumption.
Fretful ; obstinate.

Sensorium

Dizziness on rising.

Inner head

Headache across forehead.
Drawing and lacerating in occiput and forehead.
Headache at night, like a pressure in brain, from below upward.
Violent, sharp stitches in brain.
Sensation as if brain were detached and loose.
Megrim.
Rheumatic pains in one side of head, extending to face.
Attacks of gout in head.

Outer head

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

Sight and eyes

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

Hearing and ears

Painful dragging and tearing in left ear. θ Otalgia.
Spasmodic earache.

Smell and nose

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

Upper face

Heat in face, especially in evening.
Face : red and painfully swollen ; gets spotted, eyes, nose, cheeks swell ; looks old.
Lancinating painful stitches in right malar bone and cheek.
Severe neuralgia left side of face, head and nape of neck ; paroxysms appear every day at 6 P. M., and last till 4 A. M.

Lower face

Dull ache in left side of jaw.

Teeth and gums

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

Taste, speech, tongue

Food does not taste right.
Tongue thickly furred ; thick, white fur.
Tongue brown, much furred. θ Consumption.

Inner mouth

Inflammation of mouth.

Palate and throat

Violent burning in throat.
Threatened tonsillitis ; quinsy ; diphtheria.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Violent hunger, afternoon and evening.
No appetite.
Much thirst. θ Consumption.
Desire for apples, which > gastric symptoms.
Aversion to milk.
Aversion to food, could not eat anything. θ Consumption.

Eating and drinking

After eating without appetite, she gets sick.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Frequent empty eructations.
Nausea from sensation of phlegm in throat.
Every morning vomits a mass of watery phlegm with great exertion, followed by great exhaustion. θ Consumption.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Burning in stomach and abdomen.
Cramps and pains in stomach.
Every Summer for many years recurrence of affection of stomach, which at times becomes very severe, vomiting of blood occurring.

Hypochondria

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

Abdomen and loins

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

Stools and rectum

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

Urinary organs

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.

Male sexual organs

Nocturnal emissions without dreams.
Gonorrhœa-like discharge.

Female sexual organs

Subacute and chronic ovaritis, especially in rheumatic women.
Amenorrhœa.
Membranous dysmenorrhœa.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Chilly crawls over mamma.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

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

Respiration

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

Cough

Cough tight and dry, with burning fever ; hot face.
Dry cough with shortness of breathing till expectoration sets in.
Dry cough, > by detaching and raising a little mucus ; rheumatic patients.
Cough with copious spitting of phlegm, and later of stinking pus ; coughing up blood. θ Consumption.
Sputa and all excretions had such a horrible odor that the relatives could hardly come into the sick room. θ Consumption.

Inner chest and lungs

Intense pain in upper part of chest, from motion of head ; expectoration of fetid pus.
Continued stitches, finally terminating in one, close below r. scapula ; they seem to come from middle of right half of chest, and are < by an inspiration.
Pleuritic stitches ; left side, < from breathing deeply.
Severe pleuritic stitches of phthisis, especially when in region of third or fourth rib, left side.
Pseudo-pleuritic pains ; frequently attending tuberculosis pulmonum in stage of softening and suppuration ; intense pain in upper part of chest, from motion of head ; expectoration of fetid pus.
Chronic pulmonary catarrh, even simulating phthisis, beginning as a metastasis, or extension of rheumatism or gout to fibrous portion of bronchial mucous membrane, with expectoration of blood and fetid pus.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Palpitation.
Pulse soft, small and very frequent. θ Consumption.

Outer chest

After riding in open car, rheumatic stiffness of left side of neck and shoulders, and pleuritic stitches in chest and between scapulæ, < by each inspiration ; sharp stitches from scapulæ to occiput.
Sharp, stitching pains from third rib up on either side.

Neck and back

Pain from head to neck.
Frequent stitches on left side of nape, extending from scapula to occiput.
Aching in nape of neck, right and left of vertebræ.
Stiff neck due to cold, muscles of shoulders and spine affected.
Excessive stiffness of one side of neck, from neck extending to small of back, < when moving.
Contractive pain between scapulæ.
Rheumatic stiffness of whole left side of back, from nape down to sacrum, with intolerable pain on slightest motion, not noticed on touch or during rest.
Stitches in left side below true ribs, rather towards the back.
Chilliness in back in afternoon.
Shuddering and feverish chill in back.
Corrosive itching on back (by day).

Upper limbs

Sharp stitches in top of right shoulder.
Rheumatic pains in left arm, from shoulder or elbow to wrist.
Painful drawing and lacerating in arm.
Lancinating rheumatic pains from elbow to wrist, left arm.
Rheumatic pains in left wrist-joint.
Pains first in knuckles, then in whole hand.
Hands hot.
Stitches in right thumb.

Lower limbs

Pricking in nates, as if sitting on needles.
Tension in thighs, especially right, as if muscles were too short, with languor when walking ; < from touch, > when sitting.
Sciatica and lumbago.
Itching, pressing and crawling pains in thighs when seated.
Pains begin in middle of thigh or leg and extend to knee.
Tearing, drawing lancinations in leg, from right tarsus to knee.
Pains in bones of legs, the limbs feeling as if swelled.
Exhaustion in lower limbs.
Gouty inflammation and abscess at knee, repeated after a fall, with violent pain and loss of sleep.
Darting pains, apparently of a rheumatic neuralgic character, extend from feet to knees.
Osteomalacea of tibia and of tarsus, even slightest touch < the pain. θ Consumption.
Spongoid state of tibia.
The whole left leg is cramped.
Right leg swollen and contracted, stiff, immovable, drawn close to thigh. θ Consumption.
Violent stitches from outside of right calf down to ankle. θ Consumption.

Limbs in general

Tearing and stinging in limbs.
Tearing, pricking pains in muscles of extremities, with heat of parts.
Gouty tearing and stitching in limbs, with contractions of affected parts.
Stinging pains in limbs, < from least motion.
Arthritic lancinations, followed by contraction of limbs.
Feeling of heat in painful limbs ; rheumatic cases.
Pain in foot became more violent every day, painful parts got hot, pain extended gradually to thigh, arms down to fingers and to side of head, and raged so that the patient for some weeks lamented and screamed day and night on account of tearing and shooting pains ; entirely
sleepless. θ Consumption.
Pain as from fatigue and weakness in arms and thighs, with dread of motion.
Pains after abuse of mercury.
The limbs go to sleep.
Immovable stiffness of contracted limbs.

Rest. position. motion

Yawning and stretching > general ill feeling.
Has lain for six weeks exactly in same spot, for she cannot bear slightest exertion without increasing her pains.
Lying on back : nightmare.
When seated : itching, pressing, crawling pains in thighs.
Sitting : throbbing in head < ; tension in thighs >.
Standing : < throbbing in head.
Motion : of head, intense pain in upper part of chest ; stiffness of neck < ; intolerable pain from slightest motion ; stinging pains in limbs < ; contractions with pain.
Biting jaws together : causes toothache.
Rising : dizziness.
Walking : > throbbing in head ; perspiration on head ; languor.

Nerves

Exhaustion, as after great exertion, especially in thighs and arms.

Sleep

Yawning and stretching > general ill feeling.
Great desire to sleep in afternoon.
Nightly restlessness and sleeplessness.
Frequent awaking from sleep as if falling.
Nightmare when lying on back ; waking with screams.
On awaking : unrefreshed ; everything seems too tight ; clothes feel damp.

Time

Morning : thoughtless staring ; diarrhœa commences.
By day : corrosive itching on back.
Afternoon : violent hunger ; chilliness in back ; desire to go to sleep.
Evening : heat in face ; violent hunger ; chilliness.
Night : headache ; stuffed feeling in precordia.

Temperature and weather

After a cold, violent pain in limbs.
Cannot bear heat, with pain in joints.
Open air : walking causes perspiration on head.
Clothes feel damp.

Fever

Internal chilliness through whole body, followed by heat, most in face, towards evening, without thirst.
Chilliness internally, even near warm stove, principally in afternoon and evening.
Burning fever, face spotted ; eyes, nose and cheeks swollen ; tight, dry cough.
Heat in painful limbs.
Skin hot, especially on hands. θ Consumption.
Sweat, mostly on head and forehead also when walking in open air.
Night-sweats, smelling very offensive.
The usual general sweat, changes to dryness and chilliness.
The provers that sweated had no urinary disturbances, and vice versa.

Attacks, periodicity

Every morning : vomits a mass of watery phlegm with great exertion.
Every day at 6 P. M. : neuralgia till 4 A. M.
Every day : pain in foot more violent.
Every Summer for many years : recurrence of affection of the stomach.

Locality and direction

Right : lancinating stitches in malar bone ; stitch below scapulæ ; stitches come from middle of half of chest ; sharp stitches in top of shoulder ; stitches in thumb ; tension in thigh ; lancinations in leg from tarsus to knee ; leg
swollen, contracted, stiff, immovable ; drawn close to thigh ; violent stitches from outside of calf to ankle.
Left : neuralgia of side of head ; lacerating in whole side of head ; dragging and tearing in ear ; neuralgia on side of face ; dull ache in side of jaw ; pleuritic stitches ; stiffness of neck ; frequent stitches on side of nape ; rheumatic
stiffness of side of back ; stitches in side, below true ribs ; rheumatic pains in arm ; rheumatic pains in wrist-joint ; leg cramped.
From above downward : stiffness from neck to back ; rheumatic pain in limbs.
From below upward : headache ; pain from tarsus to knee ; pains in knuckles, then in hand.

Sensations

Pressive, drawing, tearing pains ; often ending in a stitch, especially the head-pains.
Like a pressure in brain ; sensation as if brain were detached and loose ; as if blood-vessels were overfilled ; sensation of swelling and protrusion of eyes, eyelids appear too short to cover them ; cutting in urethra as from something biting
passing ; feels as if suffocating ; as if sitting on needles ; as if muscles of thighs were too short ; limbs feel as if swelled.
Pain : in head across forehead ; in bones of nose ; from head to nose ; in stomach ; from head to neck ; in knuckles ; in whole hand ; in legs ; in foot extending to thigh ; arms down to fingers and to side of head ; as from fatigue
and weakness in arms and thighs ; after abuse of mercury ; in all joints even chest.
Anguish : in epigastric region.
Violent pain : in knee.
Intolerable pain : in back.
Intense pain : in upper part of chest.
Violent sharp stitches : in brain ; from scapulæ to occiput ; from outside of right calf to ankle.
Stitches : in temples ; in right malar bone and cheek ; in teeth ; in neck of bladder ; on left side of nape ; in left side below true ribs ; in right thumb.
Pleuritic stitches in left side of chest ; in region of third and fourth rib, left side ; in chest between scapulæ.
Continued stitches : in middle of right half of chest terminating in one close below right scapulæ.
Sharp stitches : in top of right shoulder.
Sharp, stitching pains : from third rib up on either side ; in limbs.
Tearing pains : in skull ; in left ear ; in teeth ; in limbs.
Gouty, tearing pains : in limbs.
Lancinating : in right malar bone and cheek, from elbow to wrist.
Arthritic lancinations : of limbs.
Cutting : in urethra while urinating.
Shooting pains : through limbs and head.
Lacerating : in occiput ; in forehead ; in whole side of head ; in arm.
Stinging pains : in limbs.
Darting pains : from feet to knees.
Twitches : in abdominal muscles.
Pseudo-pleuritic pains.
Violent burning : in throat ; in stomach ; in abdomen.
Painful dragging : in left ear.
Drawing : in occiput ; in forehead ; in left arm.
Cramps : in stomach.
Pinching : in abdomen.
Contractive pain : between scapulæ.
Crawling pains : in thighs.
Pressing pains : in thighs ; in bones.
Pricking : in nates ; in muscles of extremities.
Rheumatic pains : in one side of head extending to face ; in left arm ; in left wrist ; in extremities.
Neuralgia : of left side of head and face extending to neck.
Gout : in head.
Aching : in nape of neck.
Dull ache : in left side of jaw.
Pulsative throbbing : in outer parts of head.
Heat : in face ; in painful limbs.
Rheumatic stiffness : of left side of neck and shoulders ; of whole left side of back from nape down to sacrum.
Tension : in thighs.
Constrictive sensation in epigastric region.
Sudden stuffed feeling in precordia.
Stiffness : of one side of neck extending to small of back.
Itching : in thighs when sitting.
Corrosive itching : on back.
Chilly crawls : over mamma.

Tissues

Excretions are all intolerably offensive.
Great emaciation.
Acts especially upon muscular tissues, producing rheumatic and arthritic pains.
Acts on fibrous tissues.
Contraction of limbs ; stiffness and immobility.
Contractions, with pain from slightest motion.
Joints swollen, painful and intolerant of pressure ; can bear no heat.
Rheumatic swelling of joints.
Pain in all the joints, even on chest.
Softness of joints (after Caustic. in rheumatism).
Aching in bones, with swelling. θ Syphilis.
Pressing pain in bones.
Swelling and softening of bones.
Suppuration of bone, with hectic, in men of dry habit.
Caries and spongious affection of bones ; tibia and tarsal bones spongious, cannot bear slightest touch.
Promotes the spontaneous breaking of gouty abscesses, greatly relieving sufferings of patient.
Gout.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

The affected parts are very sensitive to touch.
Touch : tension in thighs < ; osteomalacea of tibia and tarsus < ; cannot bear slightest touch in carious affections of bones.
Pressure : > throbbing in head ; intolerant on swollen joints.
Everything seems too tight.
After riding in open air : rheumatic stiffness of side of neck ; shoulders.
After a fall : gouty inflammation and abscess at knee.

Skin

Itching, tetter-like eruptions.
Scratching improves.

Stage of life, constitution

Rheumatic affection, especially in syphilitic and mercurial patients.
Syphilides.
Old women.
Dark hair and eyes.
Children ; growing pains.
Girl, æt. 23, sanguine, choleric ; after being overheated got a violent cold, followed by consumption.
Woman, æt. 40, every Summer for many years ; affection of stomach.

Relations

Antidoted by Nux vom .
It antidotes : Caustic . and Rhus tox .
Compatible : after Mercur . in rheumatism, gout and syphilis ; after Sulphur in cholera infantum ; after Caustic . in torticollis.
Compare : Kali hydr., Mezer., Phytol., Rhodod., Stilling .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Lecture

This is a very deep acting remedy, even deep enough to cure the symptoms of and turn into order a constitution that is rheumatic, gouty, and has inherited phthisis.

Rheumatism

These patients are subject to diarrhoea; the tendons are too short, or they have abscesses, catarrhal troubles, bronchitis. Drawing, tension and contractions of muscular fibre. Sore swollen joints.

The rheumatic joints are more painful from warmth ( Lac c., Led., Puls) and more comfortable when cool. Gouty abscesses of joints. The bones become spongy, or suppurate. The leg and ankle bones are especially affected. Sensitive periosteum.

Stitching pains are characteristic, and burning is as marked as in Arsenicum. Limbs contracted and stiff. The excretions are all offensive. Drawing, tearing pains. His cold settles in the limbs, and the joints become sore and the muscles draw. His suffering is increased by the slightest motion or exertion.

Gradually increasing exhaustion. Progressive emaciation. In the first stage of phthisis it is a wonderful remedy, when the symptoms agree. The progressive character of the sickness, the weakness of mind and body, and such symptoms as belong to deep constitutional troubles. In psoric cases complicated with syphilis and mercury and other violent drugs we find use for this most neglected remedy. It is closely related to Causticum, Sulphur, and Tuberculinum.

Absent minded in the morning. Indolent, and low spirited. Obstinate; fretful, and forgetful.

Vertigo on rising.

Rheumatic pain in one side of the head, extending to the face. Gouty headaches. Sensation of looseness of the brain. Stitching in the head. Pain in forehead, occiput, and deep in the brain. Tearing pain in the head. Sensation as if blood vessels were distended. Neuralgia on left side of face and head.

Pulsating pain, ameliorated by pressure and walking; aggravated by sitting and standing. This is an exception to the general rule, as most symptoms are aggravated by motion. Perspiration on head and face, when walking in the open air.

Sensation of protrusion of the eyes. Swelling of the eyes. Dilated pupils.

Tearing in left ear. Paroxysmal pain in ear.

Pain in the bones of the nose. Nose swollen. Fluent coryza.

Pain in the bones of the face, nose and teeth. Face red and swollen, spotted. Heat in the face in the evening. Sharp pain in right malar bone. Paroxysmal pain in face, head and neck, every day at 6 P.M., lasting until 4 A. w. Dull ache in left side of jaw. Tearing, stitching in teeth. Pain in teeth when biting jaws together. Inflammation of the tonsils, worse from drinks, and there is much burning. Perverted taste. Tongue coated thick white, or brown.

Burning in throat. Tonsillitis; it prevents suppuration.

Aversion to food, to milk. Much thirst.

Vomits a mass of watery mucus, followed by exhaustion. Nausea from sensation of mucus in throat.

Burning in stomach and abdomen.

Constrictive sensation in stomach, with anguish and dyspnea.

Much flatulence in abdomen.

Morning diarrhoea ( Sulph.). Stools watery. Constipation, with hard, crumbling, offensive stool.

Urging to urinate, even after micturition. The urine is profuse, and foetid. Cutting in urethra while urine flows.

Stitching in neck of bladder after ineffectual urging to urinate. Emissions without dreams. Discharge from urethra.

Chronic inflammation of ovaries. Menses absent. Membranous dysmenorrhoea. Shuddering in mammae, with gooseflesh.

Spasms of larynx. Difficult breathing. Palpitation.

Dry, hard cough with fever, finally relieved by expectoration. Copious, putrid expectoration, like pus. Expectoration of blood.

Rheumatism of the muscles of the chest, with great pain on motion. Stitching pains in chest from motion and breathing. Stitching pains seem to be in the pleura. Chronic bronchial catarrh with putrid expectoration, when rheumatism extends to chest. Phthisis pituitosa in rheumatic and gouty patients. Chest pains after riding in open air.

Palpitation of the heart. Rheumatism of the heart; frequent weak puke.

Rheumatic stiffness of back of neck and back. Stitching in neck and back. Drawing pains in back between scapulae. All pains aggravated from motion and ameliorated during rest; aggravated from heat.

Drawing, tearing, stitching pains in upper limbs. Rheumatic pains in upper arm and shoulder. Pains in finger joints, and then in whole band. Hot bands. Stitching in right thumb. Pains all aggravated from motion; aggravated from heat.

Shortening of the hamstrings. Pain in thighs extending to knees. Tearing, drawing pains in legs. Pains in the tibia. Gouty abscess of knee. Shooting pains in legs from feet to knees. Softening of tibia and ankle bones. The knee is flexed from the contraction of hamstrings. The right leg swollen and drawn close to the thigh. Pains in all the limbs, aggravated from motion and heat. Weakness of arms and legs. Numbness of lower limbs.

Stiffness of limbs. Weakness of limbs after exertion. Rheumatism of joints, aggravated from heat and motion. Pain in limbs after taking cold.

Restless sleep. Sleeplessness. Wakens from sleep as if falling. Nightmare while lying on the back. Unrefreshing sleep.

Chilliness followed by fever in the evening. Burning fever. Hot hands. Night sweats. Copious perspiration.

The provers that perspired had no urinary symptoms.