Homeopathic Materia Medica

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

Guarea trichilioides. Red-wood. Ball-wood. N. O. Meliaceae. 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).

SYMPTOMS.

1. Mind.─Anxiety.─Fear of losing reason.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Ears.─Swelling of periosteum behind ears.─Sensation in ears as of a peg; of a worm; pushing-out feeling.─Roaring in ears.

5. Nose.─Coryza; with hardened secretion; with heat.─Nose stuffed; ineffectual desire to sneeze; constriction at root of nose.

6. 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.

9. Throat.─Tonsils swollen.─Oesophagus: raw pain; sensation of contraction and burning heat.─Swallowing difficult.

10. Appetite.─Canine hunger in evening; speedy satiety.─Aversion to milk, fish, and hot, greasy, cooked food.

11. Stomach.─Sour eructations with tension and pressure at stomach.─Inclination to vomit during fever.─Vomiting, sour; green.─Stomach: constriction in; bruised feeling in.

12. Abdomen.─Hardness at umbilicus.─Abdomen distended with lancination in groins and inguinal ring.─Bruised pain externally.

13. Stool and Anus.─Constriction of anus and rectum.─Urging to stool.─Constipation.

16. Female Sexual Organs.─Labour pains suppressed.─Lochia scanty.─Leucorrhoea after menses; fetid.─Flow of blood between menstrual periods.─Itching of pudenda.

17. 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.

21. Limbs.─Jactitation of limbs.─Cracking in joints.─Nightly pains in bones.─Bruised pain in bones.─Caries.

24. Generalities.─Steatoma; hot swelling; swelling of affected parts.─Suppuration of glands.

25. Skin.─Yellow spots on temples.─Liver-spots on arms.─Eruptions behind ears.─Herpes.─Itching.─Lupus of ochre-red colour.

26. Sleep.─Sleepy in open air.─Dreams, anxious, melancholy, full of strife.

27. Fever.─Coldness followed by heat with sweat.─Heat of upper part of body, coldness of bones.─Sweat chiefly during and after eating.─Sweat aromatic.