Guarea guare.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Ballwood (GUAREA)

General

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.

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

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.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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General

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 .

Mind

Weak memory.
Indifference.
Mental anxiety.
Fear of losing her reason.

Sensorium

Vertigo, on stooping ; reeling on seeing objects in confusion.
Buzzing and sensation as if brain were falling forward.
Sensation as of blow on head, leaving a sort of stupefaction, with diminution of power of thought for several days.

Inner head

Immobility of head ; heaviness.
Yellowish spots on temple ; acne rosacea.

Sight and eyes

Objects appear greyish.
Dilatation of pupils.
Sensation as if eyeballs were being pushed out.
Chemosis where the pad was so extended and so thick that nothing of eye could be seen but pupil, at the bottom of a veritable tunnel. θ After cataract extraction.
Paralysis of eyelids.

Hearing and ears

Sensation as if ears were stopped up, with pressure outwards.
Eruption behind ears.

Smell and nose

Coryza with indurated excretion ; heat, and ineffectual effort to sneeze.

Upper face

Pain as if burnt ; puffiness below eyes ; swellings which suppurate.

Lower face

Twitchings of mouth.
Swelling of upper lip ; pimples, scabs, chaps on lips and at commissures.

Teeth and gums

Compressive, corrosive pain of teeth.

Taste, speech, tongue

Tearing pain in tongue ; lancinations ; paralysis of tongue.
Tongue heavy, swelled, bleeding ; greenish-yellow fur.
Tongue feels cold and dry.

Inner mouth

Roughness, with caries of palate-bone.
Dryness of mouth, with absence of thirst.

Palate and throat

Swelling of tonsils, rendering swallowing difficult.
Sensation of constriction and burning heat in throat.
Throat > from warm drinks.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Bitter risings, with distension and pressure at stomach.
Vomiting of bitter, greenish matter.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Sensation of rupture at precordial region ; < after supper.
Sensation as if bruised ; itching ; constriction.

Abdomen and loins

Pressure in region of umbilicus.
Pain, tensive as if contused, in abdominal walls.
Lancination in groins and inguinal rings.
Ailments from flatulence.

Stools and rectum

Dysentery.
Constipation during dentition.
Chronic constipation.
During stool, pain in rectum.

Urinary organs

Inflammation of bladder.
Involuntary urination.
Frequent desire to urinate in evening.
Urine clay-colored.

Female sexual organs

Menorrhagia.
Fetid leucorrhœa after menses.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Labor pains too feeble ; suppression of labor pains.
Lochia scanty.

Respiration

Asthma of Miller ; attacks of suffocation, burning ; sobbing respiration ; intermittent constriction of chest ; respiratory symptoms < from putting hand to throat.

Cough

Whooping cough, with bloody sputa ; dry, hacking-cough ; cough deep, suffocating, violent, with expectoration.
Inner Chest and Lungs
Sense of anxiety ; emptiness ; distension of chest ; heaviness.
Lancinations in right side of chest < by deep inspirations.

Neck and back

Weak back.
Cutting pain in back.
Constricted feeling in back ; burning in loins.
Cutting pain in sacrum.

Upper limbs

Violent shocks in arms ; cramps in arms ; burning heat in arms ; brown spots under arms ; boils.
Trembling of hands.
Paralysis of metacarpus.
Swelling of hands.

Lower limbs

Cutting pains in legs ; jerking motions.
Red spots on legs.
Contraction of feet and toes.

Limbs in general

Cutting pain in joints ; burning heat.

Rest. position. motion

Stooping ; vertigo.
Putting hand to throat : respiratory symptoms <.

Nerves

Weakness ; sensation of distension.
Weakness of the muscles.
Cramps and convulsions of children.
Cramps when touched.
Convulsions during vomiting.
Hysterical tetanus.
Paralysis subsultus.

Sleep

Somnolence, with dreams.
Frequent waking ; sad dreams full of graves.

Time

Evening : frequent desire to urinate.

Temperature and weather

Temperature and Weather
Warm drinks : throat >.

Fever

Heat of upper part and coolness of lower part of body.
During fever, anxiety, forgetfulness, pain in eyes, coated tongue, desire to vomit, oppression of chest, chest painful.
Intermittent fever, principally before noon ; cold followed by heat with sweat ; shivering, with flushes of heat ; horripilation in affected parts.
Sweat, principally when eating or after eating.

Locality and direction

Right : lancinations in side of chest.

Sensations

As if brain were falling forward ; sensation as of blow on head ; as if eyeballs were being pushed out ; as if ears were stopped up ; pain in face as if burnt ; sensation of rupture at precordial region ; as if bruised at scrobiculum and stomach ; as if contused in abdominal walls.
Pain : in rectum ; in eyes ; in chest ; in bones.
Lancinations : of tongue ; in groins and inguinal rings ; in r. side of chest.
Tearing pain : in tongue.
Cutting pain : in back ; in sacrum ; in legs ; in joints.
Cramps : in arms ; of children.
Compressive, corrosive pain : of teeth.
Tensive pain : in abdominal walls.
Burning heat : in throat ; in loins ; in arms ; in limbs.
Heat : of upper part of body.
Constriction : in throat ; of stomach ; of chest ; in back.
Pressure : at stomach ; in region of umbilicus.
Emptiness : of chest.
Heaviness : of chest.
Dryness : of mouth.
Roughness : of palate-bone.
Tongue feels cold and dry.
Twitchings of mouth.
Itching : at stomach.

Tissues

Steatoma ; hot swelling ; swelling of affected parts.
Suppuration of glands.
Caries of bones ; nocturnal pain in bones.

Skin

Itching.
Itching eruptions ; dry eruptions ; eruptions of burning vesicles.
Lupus of an ochre-red color.

Relations

Compare : Apis (chemosis, asthma Millari, etc.) ; Arnic . (injuries) ; Phosphor . (steatoma) ; Ignat . (nerves) ; Mercur . and Silica (bone pains, suppuration, etc.).