GUAREA.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Guarea trichilioides, Linn.
Natural order , Meliaceæ.
Common names , Red-wood, Ball-wood.
Preparation , Tincture and triturations of the bark.
Authority.
Dr. Petroz, Journ. de. la Soc. Gall., 1st Ser., vol. v, p. 9 (symptoms, pathogenetic and clinical, not distinguished in the original).
MIND
- Emotional.
- Inclination to talk.
- Mental anxiety.
- Anxiety during the fever.
- Fear of losing his reason.
- Indifference.
- Intellectual.
- Disturbance of ideas.
- Indecision.
- Forgetfulness, during the fever.
HEAD
- Vertigo.
- Vertigo. [10.]
- Vertigo when stooping.
- Whirling dizziness.
- General Head.
- Immobility of the head.
- Sensation as if the brain were falling forward.
- (Sensation as of a blow on the head, leaving a kind of numbness, with diminution of the thinking faculty, during several days; and resembling the effects of an apoplectic seizure).
- Heaviness of the head.
- Constriction of the head.
- Contraction in the head.
- Compression in the head.
- Forehead.
- In the forehead, compression, heaviness, shocks. [20.]
- Headache depressing the eyes.
- Vertex.
- Pain in the vertex.
- Occiput.
- Constriction, hammering, in the occiput.
EYE
- Objective.
- Sickly look around the eyes and within the orbits.
- Swelling beneath the eyes.
- Subjective.
- Pain in the eyes during the fever.
- Brow.
- Twitching of the eyebrows.
- Lids.
- Paralysis of the lids.
- Pressure on the lids.
- Lachrymal Apparatus.
- Swelling of the lachrymal glands. [30.]
- Lachrymation.
- Conjunctiva.
- Inflammation of the conjunctiva, which is swollen.
- (Chemosis).
- Ball.
- Pain in the ball as after weeping.
- Feeling of tension in the eyeballs.
- Feeling as if the eyeballs were forced out.
- Tearing pain in the eyeball.
- Pupil.
- Dilated pupils.
- Vision.
- Objects appear of a gray color.
- During the vertigo, things appear upside down. [40.]
- The eye-symptoms alternate with diminution of hearing.
EAR
- Swelling of the periosteum behind the ears.
- Sensation of a peg in the ear.
- Sensation of a worm in the ear.
- Pushing outward feeling in the ears.
- Roaring in the ears.
NOSE
- Objective.
- Coryza often during the day.
- Coryza with hardness excretion.
- The symptoms of coryza are accompanied by heat.
- Subjective.
- Nose stuffed up. [50.]
- Ineffectual desire to sneeze.
- Constriction at the root of the nose.
- Painfulness of the nose.
FACE
- Suppurating swellings on the face.
- Raw pain in the face.
- Swelling of the upper lip.
MOUTH
- Teeth.
- Compression of the teeth.
- Corrosive pain in the teeth.
- The symptoms of the teeth are accompanied by pain in the zygomatic process, they are excited by a current of air, by the pressure of the tongue on the teeth; aggravated by lying on the painful side, by the act of eating, by hot food, and by walking.
- Tongue.
- Coated tongue, during the fever. [60.]
- Grayish-yellow coating on the tongue.
- Swelling of the tongue.
- Bleeding of the tongue.
- Paralysis of the tongue.
- Swelling of the tongue.
- Dryness of the tongue.
- The tongue feels cold and dry.
- Lancinations in the tongue.
- Tearing pain in the tongue.
- General Mouth.
- (Caries of the palatal bones.) [70.]
- The mouth smells of cheese.
- Spasms of the mouth.
- Roughness of the palate.
- Taste.
- Sweet taste.
- Insipid taste of food.
- Bitter taste of tobacco.
THROAT
- Swelling of the tonsils.
- Raw pain in the œsophagus.
- Feeling of contraction and burning heat in the œsophagus.
- Formication in the œsophagus. [80.]
- Difficult deglutition.
- Agitation, heaviness, lancination in the cervical glands.
STOMACH
- Appetite.
- Canine hunger in the evening.
- Canine hunger, with speedy satiety.
- Feeling of satiety.
- Disgust for milk, fish, and hot, greasy, cooked food.
- Thirst.
- Thirst after eating.
- Absence of thirst with dryness of the mouth.
- Eructation.
- Sour eructations, with tension and pressure at the stomach.
- Foul eructations.
- Nausea and Vomiting. [90.]
- Inclination to vomit, during the fever.
- Sour vomiting.
- Green vomiting.
- Stomach.
- Constriction in the stomach.
- Bruised feeling in the stomach.
ABDOMEN
- Umbilical.
- Hardness at the umbilicus.
- Pressure in the umbilical region and flanks.
- Inflation of the abdomen, with lancination in the groins and inguinal ring.
- Hardness of the abdomen.
- Flatulent complaints. [100.]
- During stool, pain in the abdomen.
- Feeling of inflation.
- Ulcerated pain, with tension, in the abdomen.
- Bruised pain in the external abdomen.
RECTUM AND ANUS
- Before stool, pain in the rectum.
- Constriction of the anus.
- Constriction of the anus and rectum.
- Urging to stool.
STOOL
- (Dysentery.)
- (Constipation during dentition.) [110.]
- (Chronic constipation.)
URINARY ORGANS
- (Inflammation of the bladder.)
- Frequent urging to urinate in the evening.
- Involuntary urination.
- Clay-colored urine.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- (Insufficient labor-pains.)
- (Suppression of labor-pains.)
- (Leucorrhœa after the menses.)
- (Fetid leucorrhœa.)
- (Lochia too scanty.) [120.]
- Flow of blood between the menses.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Cough.
- Dry hacking.
- Violent, deepseated, suffocating cough with expectoration.
- (Hooping-cough with bloody expectoration.)
- The cough is accompanied by sweat, by pain, by soreness and tightness of the chest; it comes on after a crying spell, just as he is falling asleep, or after getting chilled; it is excited by an itching in the throat, by an irritation in the larynx.
- Respiration.
- Noisy breathing.
- Sobbing breathing.
- Difficult respiration during the chill.
- Suffocative paroxysms.
- (Millar's asthma.)
CHEST. [130.]
- Crude tubercles.
- Mucous accumulations in the chest.
- Anxiety in the chest.
- Sensation of hollowness, of dilatation in the chest.
- Chest painful during the fever.
- Heaviness, digging, lancinations in the right side.
- Intermittent tightness of the chest.
- Oppression of the chest during the fever.
HEART
- Sensation of rupture in the præcordial region.
NECK AND BACK
- Weakness of the cervical muscles. [140.]
- Cramp in the nape of the neck.
- Stiffness of the trunk.
- Constriction of the back.
- Burning in the loins.
- Cutting pain in the sacrum.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
- Jactitation (of the limbs).
- Cracking in the joints.
- Nocturnal pain in the bones.
- Pressure in the limbs.
- Cutting pain in the joints. [150.]
- Bruised pain in the bones.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- The arms are abruptly drawn forwards.
- Cramps in the arms.
- Pressure in the shoulder-joint.
- Swelling of the humerus.
- Swelling of the hands.
- Trembling of the hands.
- Paralysis of the metacarpal joint. [160.]
- Deadness of the hands during the chill.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Simple pain in the knees.
- Jerks in the legs.
- Cutting pain in the legs.
- Contraction of the feet and toes.
- Pressure in the toes.
GENERALITIES
- Objective.
- (Consumption.)
- (Caries of the bones.)
- Swelling of affected parts.
- Hot swelling. [170.]
- (Steatoma.)
- (Suppuration of the glands. Drawing.)
- (Convulsions of children.)
- Spasms during the vomiting.
- (Cramps of children.)
- (Cramps when touched.)
- (Hysterical tetanus.)
- Relaxation of the muscles.
- Lassitude during the chill.
- Weakness. [180.]
- (Chronic debility.)
- (Paralysis with loss of movement and sensation.)
- Restlessness in the evening.
- Lancinating and digging, drawing, and tearing pains.
- Abrupt shocks of the whole body.
SKIN
- Objective.
- Yellowish spots on the temples.
- Brow spots on the arms.
- Liver-spots on the arms.
- Red spots on the legs.
- Eruptions, Dry.
- Eruptions. [190.]
- Dry eruptions.
- Eruptions behind the ears.
- Pimples, scabs, and chaps on the lips and commissures.
- Eruptions, Moist.
- Eruption of burning vesicles.
- Eruptions, Pustular.
- (Herpes with tearing pain.)
- (Crusty herpes.)
- (Gutta rosea.)
- Boils on the arms.
- Subjective.
- Pain as from excoriation when touched.
- Formication which prevents sleep. [200.]
- Itching.
- Formication in the temples.
- Formication of the arms and hands.
- Itching of the stomach.
- Itching of the pudenda.
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- Sleepiness.
- Sleepiness in the open air.
- Drowsiness in the morning.
- Drowsiness which intermits from one day to another.
- Drowsiness with broken dreams.
- Snoring during sleep.
- Sleeplessness. [210.]
- Sleeplessness before midnight.
- Frequent waking.
- Dreams.
- Anxious, melancholy dreams, full of strife.
- Dreams of war.
FEVER
- Chilliness.
- Coldness followed by heat.
- Coldness followed by heat with sweat.
- Horripilation in the parts affected.
- Horripilation during sleep.
- Horripilation with heat running over the body.
- Heat.
- Intermittent fever, chiefly in the forenoon. [220.]
- Heat of the upper part (of the body), and coldness of the lower part.
- Burning heat in the joints.
- Burning heat in the arms.
- Sweat.
- Sweat, principally while eating or after eating.
- Perspiration having an aromatic smell.
- Sweat on the hands.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), On waking, eye-symptoms; on getting up, symptoms of teeth.
- ( Evening ), Canine hunger; urging to urinate.
- ( Acids ), The symptoms.
- ( Current of air ), Symptoms of teeth.
- ( Cold water ), The symptoms.
- ( Act of eating ), Symptoms of teeth.
- ( Fresh eggs ), The symptoms.
- ( Bodily exertion ), The symptoms.
- ( Heat ), Symptoms of the extremities.
- ( Hot food ), Symptoms of the teeth.
- ( Deep inspiration ), Chest-symptoms.
- ( Lifting hand to neck ), Respiratory symptoms.
- ( Lotions ), Symptoms of the extremities.
- ( Lying on painful side ), Symptoms of teeth.
- ( Onions ), Eructations.
- ( Reading by daylight ), Eye symptoms.
- ( In room ), The symptoms.
- ( Sulphur fumes ), Chest-symptoms.
- ( After supper ), Gastric symptoms.
- ( Walking ), Symptoms of the teeth.
- ( Yawning ), Symptoms of the extremities.
- Amelioration.
- ( Morning ), On getting up, the symptoms; symptoms of the extremities.
- ( Coughing ), Symptoms of the œsophagus.
- ( Hot drinks ), Symptoms of the œsophagus.
- ( Movement ), Head-symptoms.
- ( Wrapping up warmly ), The symptoms.