Guaiacum guai.

A tincture is made of the gum from Guaiacum officinale.

It seems to promote perspiration and the secretion of urine and to augment the menstrual flow. ▶ It has been much vaunted as a remedy for secondary syphilis, chronic rheumatism, etc.

Iod., Comocladia, etc.

Emaciation in men of dry constitution with hectic fever. ▶ Everything seems too tight in morning on waking, and he tosses about the bed. ▶ General discomfort. ▶ Indolence. ▶ Weakness, agg. thighs and upper arms. ▶ Most symptoms appear when sitting, agg. morning, immediately after rising, or in evening shortly before sleep, a few from 9 to 12 A.M.

Arthritic diathesis. ▶ Chronic rheumatism. ▶ Secondary syphilis. ▶ General tendency to emaciation. ▶ Stiffness and contraction of muscles, tendons and extremities, with rheumatic swellings of the joints. ▶ Aching in the bones and chronic inflammation and degeneration of the bones, which are very sore and cannot bear the slightest touch. ▶ Growing pains in children.

Violent rheumatic or gouty (or syphilitic) pains in bones of the head, agg. top and left side, extending into the face, agg. night.

Persistent deafness, with recurring earaches.

Facial neuralgia.

Neuralgic toothache. ▶ Tonsillitis.

Ovaritis in rheumatic patients, with irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhœa. ▶ Chronic inflammation of the ovaries, with agonizing pains, irritable bladder.

Pleuritic pains in apex of lungs, especially in consumption. ▶ In consumption it relieves the extremely offensive expectoration (Compare Cap.).

Muscular pain and stiffness in the back.

Fretful. ▶ Morose, he speaks little. ▶ Contemptuous. ▶ Obstinate. ▶ Loss of ideas at breakfast time, he stands in one place and looks in front of him without thought. ▶ Memory weak.

Sticking upward in brain. ▶ Aching at night like a pressure upward in brain; A. ending in a stitch in right frontal eminence. ▶ Brain feels loose in morning, and as if it moved at every step. ▶ Forehead, sticking in right eminence; tearing externally from left bone into muscles of cheeks; drawing T. in forepart; pain transversely across; pressing in forepart; drawing pain from middle of bone into nasal bones. ▶ Temples, tearing externally in left ; pressive pain in right as from something broad; pressure in left, without pain. ▶ Side, sticking in left at junction of parietal and temporal bones; drawing S. from right parietal bone into frontal eminences, where they end in a single stitch; drawing-tearing S. in right, extending towards frontal bone; tearing in whole left. ▶ Occiput sticking in left ; tearing in right; drawing-tearing in O. and forehead. ▶ Headache externally as if too much blood were in scalp and it were swollen, when sitting. ▶ Pulsation externally, amel. walking, transiently amel. pressure, agg. sitting and standing, with sticking in temples.

▶ Feeling as if swelling and protruding, the lids seem too short to cover them (See Comocl.), with sensation of insufficient sleep, yawning and stretching all day. ▶ Pupils dilated. ▶ Hardened mucus in right canthi.

Tearing in left ear; in outer margin of left concha. ▶ Aching in left ear. ▶ Frequent watery discharge from nose.

Swollen, red and painful. ▶ Spasmodic drawing in muscles of right cheek in morning on rising. ▶ Sticking in right cheek; in right malar-bone. ▶ Sensation as if struck with a cloth in evening on falling asleep, so that he woke in fright. ▶ Pain in left lower jaw; drawing, ending in a stitch.

Tearing in left upper molars. ▶ Pain in left upper molars on biting them together. ▶ Taste flat.

Violent hunger in afternoon and evening. ▶ Appetite lost and nausea for everything. ▶ Thirst. ▶ Eructations; empty. ▶ Constriction in region, with anxiety and difficulty in breathing. ▶ Frequent pressure in pit, with difficulty in breathing, oppression and anxiety.

Rumbling. ▶ Gurgling as from emptiness. ▶ Pinching cutting transversely through A. on inspiration. ▶ Sticking in left hypochondrium. ▶ Griping, which extends more and more downward, then emission of flatus; G. in left side of umbilicus; in hypogastrium, which constantly sinks downward and backward. ▶ Trembling of inner muscles close to right ilium. ▶ Pain in groin as from a hernia.

Thin, mucous, preceded by griping. ▶ Soft, crumbly. ▶ Constipation. ▶ Omitted.

Sticking in neck of bladder after urinating. ▶ Cutting when urinating as if something biting passed. ▶ Frequent urging to urinate; with small discharges; constant desire, with profuse urine each time; obliged to urinate every half hour and much each time, urging immediately after micturition, when only a few drops passed. ▶ Emission at night, without lascivious dreams.

Spasmodic inflammatory affections of trachea, agg. larynx, with palpitation that threatened suffocation. ▶ Mucous expectoration on hacking and hawking. ▶ Sticking from larynx to left clavicle; S. beneath left true ribs, agg. towards back; from centre of right chest to beneath right scapula, agg. inspiration. ▶ Sudden stuffed sensation in chest, in præcordial region, even at night in sleep, like arrest of breath, causing frequent dry cough until there is sore expectoration.

Pain on sides of cervical vertebræ; P. extending from left side of neck to vertex and ending in a stitch. ▶ Rheumatic stiffness in left side of back from nape to sacrum, with pain in slightest motion. ▶ Drawing down right side of spine from axilla to lowest ribs, with tearing. ▶ Scapulæ, sticking extending along left side of nape to occiput; sticking tearing on posterior margin of right; sticking tearing on margins, then constriction in dorsal muscles; constriction between S.

Stretching, with yawning. ▶ Frequent sticking on top of right shoulder; S. in right upper arm, agg. middle. ▶ Drawing tearing in left upper arm, extending to finger, agg. wrist. ▶ Upper arm weak as after hard labor. ▶ Frequent drawing-tearing sticking from left elbow to wrist. ▶ Tearing in right forearm, extending into wrist; T. in left wrist; drawing T. in left wrist. ▶ Sticking in right thumb.

Sticking in nates when walking, agg. sitting, as if she sat on needles. ▶ Thigh, stickings above right knee; S. above left knee, which meet on both sides; jerking tearing from middle of right to knee; drawing tearing from middle of left to knee; growing pain in right; bruised pain in left on walking in open air; crawling pain from middle of right femur to knee when sitting still; drawing it up and bending it; tension, agg. right, as if muscles were too short, when walking, agg. touch, amel. sitting, with weakness. ▶ Drawing pain in knee, which ends in a stitch. ▶ Tearing sticking from middle of left tibia to toes; between tibia and fibula, extending to patella; tearing-drawing S. from middle of right tibia to knee. ▶ Jerking stitches in outer side of calf. ▶ Painless constriction in right calf. ▶ Leg seems bruised after walking, feeling as if brittle. ▶ Weariness of legs, agg. thighs. ▶ Sticking in right ankle when sitting; drawing S. from right ankle to middle of tibia. ▶ Tearing long-drawn stitches from right tarsus to knee. ▶ Pain in a spot on back of right foot, ending in sticking, amel. motion.

Sore, painful pimple on nose; hard P., with white tip, sore on touch, on right eyebrow. ▶ Grumbling on white leg, with heat in it. ▶ Crawling in chest; in thighs and legs, extending to toes, when sitting, as if they would go to sleep. ▶ Itching stitches like flea-bites on thigh, agg. sides of knee-cap, amel. scratching. ▶ Burning itching, agg. scratching; corrosive I. on back during day.

Yawning all day, with stretching and sensation of insufficient sleep; Y., with stretching and comfort. ▶ Sleepiness in afternoon. ▶ Sleepless two hours in evening, and tossing about the bed. ▶ Late falling asleep in evening and early waking in morning. ▶ Frequent waking as from fright or as if falling. ▶ Unrefreshed in morning on waking. ▶ Sleep full of dreams. ▶ Dream of that she was pierced by knives. ▶ D. of fights. ▶ Vivid D. of scientific subjects. ▶ Nightmare when lying on back, and waking with cries.

Chilliness; in forenoon and in evening before sleep, sweat in morning; internal general, in evening, then heat, agg. face, without thirst; in back in afternoon. ▶ Shivering in back; in breasts. ▶ Heat of face, with thirst, without redness or sweat. ▶ Sweat every morning; S. on walking in open air, agg. head, pearly S. on forehead; profuse S. on back at night.