Guarana guar.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Guarana (PAULLINIA SORBILIS)

General

Contains a large percentage of Caffeine, which may explain its use as a remedy for certain forms os sick headache.

Head

Intellectual excitement. Sick headache in persons who have used tea and coffee in excess. Throbbing headache after use of liquor.

Bowels

Stools profuse, bloody, bright green; flakes inter-mixed; odorless. Cholera infantum.

Skin

Chloasmata on temples and arms. Urticaria (Dulc; Apis; Chloral).

Sleep

Uncontrollable sleepiness and heaviness of head, with flushed face after eating.

Dose

Must be given in material doses-fifteen to sixty grains of the powder.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Paullinia sorbilis. Brazilian Cocoa. N. O. Sapindaceæ. Alcoholic solution of dried paste made from seeds.

Clinical

Alcohol, effects of. Coffee, effects of. Diarrhœa. Eyelids, twitching of. Headache.

Characteristics

Guarana is a climbing shrub of Brazil, the seeds of which contain Coffeine , and are used by the natives for making a beverage. In medicine it has found its principal use in conditions of nervous exhaustion; sick headache in those who have abused tea and coffee, the headache being followed by vomiting and excited by any error in diet or depression of mind. Throbbing, congestive headache after excessive use of liquor. Persistent twitching of eyelids is one of its indications. Diarrhœa.

Relations

Compare: Agar. (twitching of eyelids); Ign., Nux in sick headache; Coff., Coca., Thea.

Mind

Gaiety; extravagant behaviour. ─ Mental hyperæsthesia; intellectual excitement.

Head

Sick headache in those who have abused tea and coffee, or in whom nervous headaches followed by vomiting are excited by any error in diet or depression of mind. ─ Throbbing, congestive headache after excessive use of alcohol.

Eyes

Persistent twitching of eyelids.

Stool

Profuse, green, odourless mucous stools. ─ Diarrhœa of phthisis.

Urinary Organs

Spasm of bladder.

Generalities

Restlessness, nervousness, weariness. ─ Neuralgia. ─ Reduced vital powers; grief; depression of spirits; loss of appetite. ─ Debility after prostrating diseases. ─ Paralysis. ─ Chlorosis.

Skin

Urticaria. ─ Prurigo.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

Paullinia Sorbilis ; Brazilian Cocoa. Sapindaceæ.
A climbing shrub, native to Brazil, the seeds of which contain Caffeine , and are used by the aborigines as a beverage.
Alcoholic solution of the dried paste made from the seeds.
Introduced by Gavrelle, who found it useful "in diarrhœa of phthisis, sick headache, paralysis, tedious convalescence, and as a general tonic". --U. S. D.
Proving by Macdowell, see Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 4, p. 511 .
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Headache , Bradley, Hom. Rev., vol. 16, p. 504 ; Megrim , Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 34 ; Palliative use in megrim , Müller, Trinks, B. J. H., vol. 21, p. 20, 284 ; Diarrhœa , dysentery, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 34.

Mind

Gayety ; extravagant behavior.
Mental hyperesthesia ; intellectual excitement.

Inner head

Sick headache in persons who have used tea and coffee to excess, or in whom nervous headaches, followed by vomiting, are excited by any error in diet or depression of mind.
Frequent attacks of sick headache.
Megrim.

Outer head

Throbbing, congestive headache after excessive use of liquor.

Sight and eyes

Persistent twitching of eyelids.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Loss of appetite.

Stools and rectum

Profuse, green, odorless, mucous stools. θ Infantile diarrhœa.
Summer complaints of children ; diarrhœa from teething ; diarrhœa and vomiting from improper food.
Cholera infantum.
Chronic diarrhœa, nearly to marasmus, in a child.
Diarrhœa of phthisis.

Urinary organs

Spasm of the bladder.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Diminution of the heart-beats.

Nerves

Restlessness.
Nervousness and weariness.
Neuralgia.
Rheumatic neuralgia.
Reduced vital powers ; grief ; depression of spirits ; anorexia ; nervous hemicrania.
Convalescence from prostrating diseases.
Paralysis.

Sleep

Unpleasant and uncontrollable sleepiness, drowsiness and heaviness of head, with flushed face, in persons of sedentary habits, after eating.
Sleeplessness.

Attacks, periodicity

Frequent attacks of sick headache.

Sensations

Rheumatic neuralgia.
Throbbing, congestive headache.
Twitching : of eyelids.
Spasm of bladder.

Tissues

Chlorosis.

Skin

Urticaria ; prurigo.

Relations

Compare : Agar . (in twitching of eyelids) ; Ignat., Nux vom ., especially latter, in sick headache, etc.