A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
Guarea guare.
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.