Guaiacum guai.

Secretions: Glands. TONSILS. Ovaries. Skin. Fibrous tissue: Ligaments. Joints. Chest.

HEAT. Touch. Motion. Exertion. Rapid growth. Mercury.

Cold (locally). Apples.

Rigid, painfully swelled joints. Arthritic symptoms. FREE, FOUL SECRETIONS, expectoration, sweats, etc. Impending suppuration, quinsy, old bronchitis, etc. Burning heat; in affected parts. Gnawing or sticking pains; < chest. Muscles seem too short; eye-lids, back, thigh, etc.; sore. Growing pains. Contraction; between scapulæ; palmar; distorting. Fixed, short tendons. Nodes.

Forgetful. Pain from head into neck. Eye-balls seem too big for lids. Ex-ophthalmos. Throat; burning; dry; painful to touch; tonsilitis (r), recurrent (Phyt.), then rheumatism. Averse to milk. Stoppage in epigastrium causes cough, dyspnœa, etc. Dry cough, with hot face and burning fever. Sticking in apex of (l) lung. Phthisis. Recurrent pleurisy. Aching, sore neck; one side stiff. Tense, short thigh muscles. Arthritis deformans. Yawning and stretching. Wakes as if falling. Sweats, profuse; on single parts, face, etc. Night-sweats.

Related: Fer. Kali-bi. Kre. Pho-ac. Phyt.

Affections of the thighs. Heavy, dragging, pains in and about the left ear; dragging, drawing pain in the muscles. Great aversion to motion; small pulse.

In the open air.

In the room.

Calc. carb., Mercur.

Resin of Lignum Vitæ (GUAIACUM)

Chief action on fibrous tissue, and is especially adapted to the arthritic diathesis, rheumatism, and tonsillitis. Secondary syphilis. Very valuable in acute rheumatism. Free foul secretions. Unclean odor from whole body. Promotes suppuration of abscesses. Sensitiveness and aggravation from local heat. Contraction of limbs, stiffness and immobility. Feeling that he must stretch.

Forgetful; thoughtless; staring. Slow to comprehend.

Gouty and rheumatic pain in head and face, extending to neck. Tearing pain in skull; worse, cold, wet weather. Feels swollen, and blood-vessels distended. Aching in left ear. Pains often end in a stitch, especially in head.

Pupils dilated. Eyelids appear too short. Pimples around eyes.

Rheumatic sore throat with weak throat muscles. Throat dry, burns, swollen, stitches toward ear. Acute tonsillitis. Syphilitic sore throat.

Tongue furred. Desire for apples and other fruits. Aversion to milk. Burning in stomach. Constricted epigastric region.

Intestinal fermentation. Much wind in bowels. Diarrhœa, cholera infantum.

Sharp stitches after urinating. Constant desire.

Feels suffocated. Dry, tight cough. Fetid breath after coughing. Pleuritic stitches. Chest pains in articulations of ribs, with shortness of breathing till expectoration sets in.

Ovaritis in rheumatic patients, with irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhœa, and irritable bladder.

Pain from head to neck. Aching in nape. Stiff neck and sore shoulders. Stitches between scapulæ to occiput. Contractive pain between scapulæ.

Rheumatic pain in shoulders, arms and hands. Growing pains (Phos ac). Pricking in nates. Sciatica and lumbago. Gouty tearing, with contractions. Immovable stiffness. Ankle pain extending up the leg, causing lameness. Joints swollen, painful, and intolerant of pressure; can bear no heat. Stinging pain in limbs. Arthritic lancinations followed by contraction of limbs. A feeling of heat in the affected limbs.

Worse, from motion, heat, cold wet weather; pressure, touch, from 6 pm to 4 am. Better, external pressure.

Guaiacol (in the treatment of gonorrhœal epididymitis, 2 parts to 30 vaselin, locally).

Antidote: Nux. Follow Sepia.

Compare: Merc; Caust; Rhus; Mezer; Rhodod.

Tincture, to sixth attenuation.

Cough with expectoration of fœtid pus.

Forgetfulness, especially of names. Thoughtless staring during the morning.

Violent sharp stitches in the brain. Rheumatic pains in one side of the head, extending to the face. External headache, with the sensation as if the blood-vessels were overfilled. Pulsative throbbing in the outer parts of the head, with stitches in the temples ; removed for a short time by external pressure and by walking, increased by sitting and standing.

Swelling of the eyes. Sensation of swelling and protrusion of the eyes ; the eyelids appeared too short to cover the eyes.

Violent otalgia, with tearing (left ear).

Redness and painful swelling of the face. Lancinations and painful stitches in the right malar bone and cheek, as if knives were plunged in.

Tearing pain in the teeth, ending with a stitch. Violent burning in the throat.

Aversion to milk. Violent hunger (afternoon and evening). Much thirst. Frequent empty eructations. In the morning violent vomiting of watery mucus. Nausea occasioned by the sensation of accumulated mucus in the throat. Pinching in the abdomen (as from incarcerated flatulence), receding towards the rectum until flatulence was emitted. Sensation of constriction in the stomach, with oppression of breathing and anguish. Twitches in the abdominal muscles (right side). Inguinal hernia.

Constipation ; stools hard and crumbling, very offensive.

Continuous desire to urinate (even after urinating), with profuse emission of very fetid urine. Cutting pain in the urethra when urinating. Stitches in the neck of the bladder after ineffectual pressure to urinate.

Men. Nocturnal emissions without lascivious ; dreams.

Stitches ; in the left side of the chest, worse from breathing deep. Dry cough with shortness of breathing till expectoration sets in. Cough with copious expectoration of fetid pus.

Contractive pain between the scapula. Corrosive itching in the back (by day). When moving, excessive stiffness of one side of the back, from the neck extending to the small of the back. Chilliness in the back, in the afternoon.

Upper. Sharp stitches in the top of the right shoulder. Rheumatic pains in the left arm, from the shoulder to wrist. Lancinating rheumatic pains from the elbow to the wrist. (left arm). Rheumatic pains in the left wrist-joint. Stitches in the right thumb. Lower. Exhaustion in the lower limbs. Pricking in the nates, as if sitting on needles. Tearing, drawing lancinations in the leg, from the right tarsus to the knee. Tension in the thighs, especially the right, as ; if the muscles were too short, with languor when walking ; worse by contact, better when sitting.

Nightly restlessness and sleeplessness. Feels unrefreshed in the morning when waking. Nightmare when lying on the back, waking with screams.

Tearing-pricking pains in the muscles of the extremities, with heat of the parts. Immovable stiffness of the contracted limbs. The limbs go to sleep. Great emaciation.

Pulse small, weak, soft, accelerated. Chilliness internally, even near the warm stove, principally in the afternoon and evening. Heat in the face, especially in the evening. Perspiration, principally on the head and on the forehead (when walking in the open air). Night-sweats, smelling very offensively.

Swelling and softening of the bones. Caries.

Yawning and stretching relieves the general ill-feeling. Most ailments ; begin in the morning and forenoon, and while sitting. The affected parts are very sensitive to contact. Aggravation in the open air.

Gum guaiacum. Guaiacum officinale. The gum-resin of Lignum sanctum or Lignum vitæ, a large tree growing in W. Indies. N. O. Zygophyllaceæ. Tincture of the gum-resin.

Abscess. Amenorrhœa. Aneurism. Bones, affections of. Bronchitis. Caries. Cholera infantum. Constipation. Contraction. Cough. Diarrhœa. Diphtheria. Dysmenorrhœa. Earache. Emaciation. Fever. Gout. Growing-pains. Headache, internal and external. Hernia. Membranous dysmenorrhœa, Mercury, effects of. Neuralgia. Osteomalachia. Otitis. Ovaries, inflammation of. Phthisis. Pleurisy. Pleurodynia. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Stomach, affections of. Syphilis. Throat, affections of. Tonsillitis. Toothache. Torticollis. Vomiting.

Guaiacum , which is one of Hahnemann's antipsorics, is best known as a remedy in gout and rheumatism and as a diuretic, but latterly it has also taken a place in old-school therapeutics as a remedy for consumption. Homœopathic provings have developed and defined the sphere of its utility in all these respects and many more. It acts on mucous membranes, muscles, joints and bones, and causes contraction of tendons with resulting deformity. Gouty nodosities on joints. Verwey ( H. R ., ix., 627) treated a lady who for several years had a frequently recurring gouty inflammation of the knees. Guai . 30 was given (after Chi . 30 had failed to relieve) without obvious benefit. Guai . 1 was now given and after a few hours the swelling broke and the pains quickly subsided. A short time after, the same patient accidentally injured the same knee. Under Guai . 1 the swelling soon broke and the pain was relieved. But an abscess formed at the same time on the upper thigh. The pain became unbearable and the patient's husband "begged for more of the drops that had twice before made the swelling break." It was again given and in six hours the abscess evacuated. On two later occasions Dr. Verwey saw Guai . act in the same way on scrofulous and gouty abscesses. This is probably analogous to its action in quinsy. In cases indicating Guaiac . the affected parts are very sensitive to touch, and there is < from heat. Rheumatism in syphilitic and mercurial patients. Acute tonsillitis, simple or rheumatic. Syphilitic sore throat. "Burning in the throat" is the keynote symptom of most cases of sore throat. It was first recommended by Brinton in the Lancet in 1857 for quinsy; was given in full doses and produced a crisis of sweat and profuse urination. Ozanam gave it in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd centesimal dilutions and found that he got the curative effects without crisis, which was an unnecessary effect of the drug. Guaic ., says Ozanam, seems to combine the properties of Bell., Apis , and Bar. c . It has the erythematous or inflammatory angina with bright redness of Bell .; the œdema of Apis ; and the phlegmon with tendency to suppuration of tonsils of Bar. c. and Apis ( H. R ., ii. 217). Proell records the cure of a case of secondary syphilis in a gentleman who had inflammation of the palate supervening on hard chancre. The isolated, sore, red spots threatened to extend deeper and perforate. Merc. cor . 3x, Nit. ac . 3, Aur. mur . 3, and Mez . 3 were given in succession, each for one or two weeks, without avail. The syphilitic inflammation continued to spread, the brain became affected as shown in confusion of thought, remarkable depression of spirits and weakness of memory. Guaiac . 3x was now given, and even on the next day improvement was noticable. In fourteen days the whole trouble had vanished, the mind was clear, cheerfulness and memory returned and remained ( H. R ., i. 109). The growing pains of children are relieved by it. The secretions of Guaiac . are very offensive. Burning sensations in mouth, throat, and stomach, stitches in chest going from front to back, or from below upward; in region of apex; < from motion and from deep inspiration: Sharp pain about mid-day under right breast to shoulder" was removed in a case of mine by Guaiac .

The mental state is one of weakness: weak memory and disinclination to labour. Sad and depressed. Fretful, obstinate, sharp stitches in brain. Sensation as if the brain were loose. Neuralgia of left side of head and face, extending to neck. External headache, with sensation as if blood-vessels were over-filled; extending to face and neck. Tearing pains in skull. Swellings and sensation of swelling in eyes and nose. Eyes feel protruded. Houghton cured with Guaiac . 3x a case of gouty inflammation of the meatus of the ear and tympanum after failure with Fer. ph . Concomitant rheumatic lameness and soreness led him to Guaiac . Heat, swelling and blotchiness of face. Prosopalgia every day from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m. Toothache when biting jaws together. "Violent hunger, afternoon and evening" shows its relation to the "sinking" sensations of Sulphur and the antipsorics. There is a desire for apples which > gastric symptoms; and aversion to milk and food generally. Flatulence is marked. There is nausea from sensation of phlegm in throat. "Every morning vomits a mass of watery phlegm with great exertion, followed by great exhaustion." There is morning diarrhœa with skin dry and chilliness. In cholera infantum the face is like that of an old person. In constipation the stool is hard, dry, crumbling, and very offensive. Some marked symptoms appear in the urinary organs: Continuous urging even after urination, with profuse fetid urine. Stitches in neck of bladder after ineffectual pressure to urinate. Cutting while urinating. Chilly crawls over mammæ. There are many marked symptoms in the respiratory sphere. Violent, spasmodic, inflammatory affections of windpipe and larynx, with palpitation preventing motion, or calling for help, feels suffocating. Cough dry or with copious bloody or purulent expectoration of very offensive odour. Contractive pain between scapulæ. Chilliness in back. Yawning and stretching > general ill-feeling. The least motion < . After a cold, has violent pains in limbs. Clothes feel damp. On walking in open air has perspiration on head. Cannot bear heat with pains in limbs. Periodicity is marked. Stomach affection returns every summer.

Antidoted by: Nux. Antidote to: Caust., Rhus. Compatible: After Merc. (rheumatism, gout, and syphilis); after Sulph. (in cholera infantum); after Caust. (in torticollis). Compare Phos. ac. (growing pains); Act. r. (pleurodynia and tuberculosis); Bry. (chronic rheumatism when the joints are distorted; < motion; pleurisy in second stage of phthisis); Coloc. (contractions after rheumatism); Caust. (Guaiac. is better than Caust., which it follows well, when either gout or rheumatism causes distortion of limbs < every attempt at motion; especially if there are gouty nodosities on joints); Araceæ (late tuberculosis; pleuritic pains left apex); Kal. i., Mezer., Phytol., Rhodo., Stilling.

Obstinacy. — Strong desire to criticise, and to despise everything. — Indolence and dread of movement. — Weakness of memory, and excessive forgetfulness, esp. of names. — Fixed look, and absence of ideas, esp. in the morning.

Pressive pain, extending from the base of the brain upwards, or traction and tearing in the sinciput and temples. — Violent lancinations in the brain, from the base upwards. — Tearing (rheumatic pains) in one side of the head only, as far as the cheek. — Pulsations, throbbings (and shootings) in the temples, with sensation as if the head were swollen, and the blood-vessels congested. — Sensation as if brain were detached and loose. — Pulsative throbbing in the outer parts of the head, with stitches in the temples; removed for a short time by external pressure and by walking, < by sitting and standing. — Lacerating in whole l. side of head. — Neuralgia l. side of head and face extending to neck. — Sweat chiefly on head and forehead (when walking in open air). — Tearing pains in skull.

Sensation of swelling, or actual swelling of the eyelids, with sensation as if the eyes were protruding, and as if the eyelids were too short. — Pupils dilated. — Amaurosis. — Pimples in the eyebrows; and round eyes.

Tearing and squeezing in the ears.

Pains in nasal bones. — Nose swollen. — Fluent coryza.

Redness and painful swelling of the face. — Shootings in the cheek-bones and in the muscles of the cheeks, as if knives were plunged in. — Neuralgia l. side of fac,. head and nape 6 p.m. to 4 a.m. daily.

Aching in the teeth, on closing them. — Pulling and tearing in the teeth, terminating in shootings.

Burning pain in the throat. — Acute tonsillitis, r. tonsil much swollen, dark-red, constant aching pains, sharp stitches towards ear on swallowing. — Syphilitic sore throat. — Throat dry, cannot swallow without a drink.

Insipid taste, with want of appetite, and disgust for everything, accompanied by expectoration of mucus. — Empty risings. — Immoderate hunger. — Nausea, excited by a sensation as if the throat were filled with slimy mucus. — Repugnance to milk. — After eating without appetite she gets sick.

Burning in stomach and abdomen. — Cramps and pains in stomach. — Every summer a severe stomach affection with vomiting of blood. — Anxious sensation of constriction in the region of the stomach, which impedes respiration.

Pinching in the abdomen, as from incarceration of flatus. — Sensation of emptiness, with borborygmi, and rumbling in the abdomen. — Pain, as from hernia in the groins. — Twitchings of the muscles of the abdomen.

Diarrhœa commencing in morning, skin dry; chilly. — Thin mucous stool. — Soft stool in pieces. Cholera infantum, emaciation; old-looking face. — Constipation. — Fæces hard, crumbling, and very offensive.

Constant want to make water (even after urinating) with copious discharge of very fetid urine. — Incisive pains in the urethra, on making water. — Ineffectual want to urinate, with shootings in the neck of the bladder.

Emissions without lascivious dreams. — Gonorrhœa-like discharge.

Subacute and chronic ovaritis, esp. in rheumatic women. — Amenorrhœa. — Membranous dysmenorrhœa.

Dry cough with sensation in the epigastrium as if there were not sufficient air in it. — Dry cough, > by detaching a little mucus. — Cough, with expectoration of fetid pus.

Shootings in the (l. side of the) chest, < by breathing; by moving head. — Stitches from middle of r. chest, ending in one below r. scapula.

Palpitation.

Pressure on the vertebræ of the neck. — Stiffness in the nape of the neck. — Constant frequent stitches on l. side of nape, extending from scapulæ to occiput, on motion, also on holding head still. — Stiffness along the back, on one (l.) side only, from the neck extending to the small of the back and sacrum, intolerable on slightest motion, or turning the part, not noticed on touch or during rest. — Tearing and shooting in one side of the back only. — Contractive pain between the shoulder-blades. — Corrosive itching in the back (by day). — Shiverings in the back in the afternoon.

Weakness in the arms. — Tearing and shooting in the shoulder-blades, and in the forearms. — Sharp stitches in the top of r. shoulder. — Rheumatic pains in l. arm from shoulder to wrist. — Lancinating rheumatic pains from elbow to wrist (l.). — Rheumatic pains in l. wrist-joint. — Stitches in r. thumb.

Pains in the bones of the thighs, pressive and tingling pains in the thighs, when seated. — Paralytic tension in the thighs, on walking. — Weakness in the thighs. — Pricking in the nates, as if sitting on needles. — Tearing, drawing lancinations in the leg, from r. tarsus to the knee. — Tension in thighs, esp. r., as if the muscles were too short, with languor when walking; < by contact, > when sitting.

Rheumatic pains in the joints. — Arthritic pains in the limbs, with shootings and tearings, and contraction of the parts affected. — The pains are provoked by the least movement, and are accompanied by heat in the parts affected. — Numbness of the limbs. — Painful weariness and weakness in the arms and thighs, with dread of movement. — Immovable stiffness of the contracted limbs. — Frequent inclination to yawn, and to stretch the limbs, proceeding from a general sensation of uneasiness. — The majority of symptoms show themselves, when sitting, as well as in the morning after rising, or in the evening before lying down. — Exostosis. — Consumption.

Great drowsiness in the afternoon. — Late sleeping and early waking. — Frequent waking with fright, sometimes on going to sleep. — Restless tossing during the night. — Nightmare, when lying on the back, waking with screams. — Feeling in the morning as though the sleep had been insufficient.

Shivering, chilliness, and shuddering, even near a fire, principally in the afternoon and evening. — Shivering, without thirst, morning and evening. — Heat in the face, esp. in the evening. — Sweat in the morning. — Copious perspiration, esp. on the head, when walking in the open air. — Pulse accelerated; small, weak, soft.

Weakness of memory ; excessive forgetfulness, especially of names.
Thoughtless staring ; during the morning.
Disinclination to labor.
Very sad and depressed. θ Consumption.
Fretful ; obstinate.

Dizziness on rising.

Headache across forehead.
Drawing and lacerating in occiput and forehead.
Headache at night, like a pressure in brain, from below upward.
Violent, sharp stitches in brain.
Sensation as if brain were detached and loose.
Megrim.
Rheumatic pains in one side of head, extending to face.
Attacks of gout in head.

Neuralgia of left side of head and face, extending to neck.
Lacerating in whole left side of head.
External headache, with sensation as if blood-vessels were overfilled ; extends to face and neck. θ Neuralgia.
Pulsative throbbing in outer parts of head, with stitches in temples ; removed for a short time by external pressure and by walking, < by sitting and standing.
Perspiration, principally on head and forehead (when walking in open air).
Tearing pains in skull.

Dilated pupils.
Swelling of eyes.
Sensation of swelling and protrusion of eyes ; eyelids appear too short to cover them.
Hard pimples around eyes.

Painful dragging and tearing in left ear. θ Otalgia.
Spasmodic earache.

Pains in bones of nose.
Pains from head to nose.
Nose swollen.
Fluent coryza.

Heat in face, especially in evening.
Face : red and painfully swollen ; gets spotted, eyes, nose, cheeks swell ; looks old.
Lancinating painful stitches in right malar bone and cheek.
Severe neuralgia left side of face, head and nape of neck ; paroxysms appear every day at 6 P. M., and last till 4 A. M.

Dull ache in left side of jaw.

Toothache when biting jaws together.
Tearing in teeth, ending with stitches.

Food does not taste right.
Tongue thickly furred ; thick, white fur.
Tongue brown, much furred. θ Consumption.

Inflammation of mouth.

Violent burning in throat.
Threatened tonsillitis ; quinsy ; diphtheria.

Violent hunger, afternoon and evening.
No appetite.
Much thirst. θ Consumption.
Desire for apples, which > gastric symptoms.
Aversion to milk.
Aversion to food, could not eat anything. θ Consumption.

After eating without appetite, she gets sick.

Frequent empty eructations.
Nausea from sensation of phlegm in throat.
Every morning vomits a mass of watery phlegm with great exertion, followed by great exhaustion. θ Consumption.

Burning in stomach and abdomen.
Cramps and pains in stomach.
Every Summer for many years recurrence of affection of stomach, which at times becomes very severe, vomiting of blood occurring.

Constrictive sensation in epigastric region, with anguish and difficult breathing.

Great accumulation of wind in whole abdomen ; pinching in abdomen from incarcerated flatulence, receding towards rectum until emitted.
Twitches in abdominal muscles.
Inguinal hernia.

Diarrhœa commencing in morning, skin dry ; chilly.
Thin mucous stool.
Soft stool, in pieces.
Cholera infantum, emaciation ; face like that of an old person.
Costive ; stool hard, crumbling ; very offensive.

Continuous urging even after urination, with profuse, fetid urine.
Stitches in neck of bladder after ineffectual pressure to urinate.
Cutting in urethra while urinating, as from something biting passing.

Nocturnal emissions without dreams.
Gonorrhœa-like discharge.

Subacute and chronic ovaritis, especially in rheumatic women.
Amenorrhœa.
Membranous dysmenorrhœa.

Chilly crawls over mamma.

Violent, spasmodic, inflammatory affection in windpipe, most in larynx, with such palpitation of heart could not get out of bed, nor call for help ; feels as if suffocating.

Sudden stuffed feeling in precordia, like arrest of breathing ; often attacks her suddenly even at night in sleep, causing dry cough, frequently repeated until expectoration appears.

Cough tight and dry, with burning fever ; hot face.
Dry cough with shortness of breathing till expectoration sets in.
Dry cough, > by detaching and raising a little mucus ; rheumatic patients.
Cough with copious spitting of phlegm, and later of stinking pus ; coughing up blood. θ Consumption.
Sputa and all excretions had such a horrible odor that the relatives could hardly come into the sick room. θ Consumption.

Intense pain in upper part of chest, from motion of head ; expectoration of fetid pus.
Continued stitches, finally terminating in one, close below r. scapula ; they seem to come from middle of right half of chest, and are < by an inspiration.
Pleuritic stitches ; left side, < from breathing deeply.
Severe pleuritic stitches of phthisis, especially when in region of third or fourth rib, left side.
Pseudo-pleuritic pains ; frequently attending tuberculosis pulmonum in stage of softening and suppuration ; intense pain in upper part of chest, from motion of head ; expectoration of fetid pus.
Chronic pulmonary catarrh, even simulating phthisis, beginning as a metastasis, or extension of rheumatism or gout to fibrous portion of bronchial mucous membrane, with expectoration of blood and fetid pus.

Palpitation.
Pulse soft, small and very frequent. θ Consumption.

After riding in open car, rheumatic stiffness of left side of neck and shoulders, and pleuritic stitches in chest and between scapulæ, < by each inspiration ; sharp stitches from scapulæ to occiput.
Sharp, stitching pains from third rib up on either side.

Pain from head to neck.
Frequent stitches on left side of nape, extending from scapula to occiput.
Aching in nape of neck, right and left of vertebræ.
Stiff neck due to cold, muscles of shoulders and spine affected.
Excessive stiffness of one side of neck, from neck extending to small of back, < when moving.
Contractive pain between scapulæ.
Rheumatic stiffness of whole left side of back, from nape down to sacrum, with intolerable pain on slightest motion, not noticed on touch or during rest.
Stitches in left side below true ribs, rather towards the back.
Chilliness in back in afternoon.
Shuddering and feverish chill in back.
Corrosive itching on back (by day).

Sharp stitches in top of right shoulder.
Rheumatic pains in left arm, from shoulder or elbow to wrist.
Painful drawing and lacerating in arm.
Lancinating rheumatic pains from elbow to wrist, left arm.
Rheumatic pains in left wrist-joint.
Pains first in knuckles, then in whole hand.
Hands hot.
Stitches in right thumb.

Pricking in nates, as if sitting on needles.
Tension in thighs, especially right, as if muscles were too short, with languor when walking ; < from touch, > when sitting.
Sciatica and lumbago.
Itching, pressing and crawling pains in thighs when seated.
Pains begin in middle of thigh or leg and extend to knee.
Tearing, drawing lancinations in leg, from right tarsus to knee.
Pains in bones of legs, the limbs feeling as if swelled.
Exhaustion in lower limbs.
Gouty inflammation and abscess at knee, repeated after a fall, with violent pain and loss of sleep.
Darting pains, apparently of a rheumatic neuralgic character, extend from feet to knees.
Osteomalacea of tibia and of tarsus, even slightest touch < the pain. θ Consumption.
Spongoid state of tibia.
The whole left leg is cramped.
Right leg swollen and contracted, stiff, immovable, drawn close to thigh. θ Consumption.
Violent stitches from outside of right calf down to ankle. θ Consumption.

Tearing and stinging in limbs.
Tearing, pricking pains in muscles of extremities, with heat of parts.
Gouty tearing and stitching in limbs, with contractions of affected parts.
Stinging pains in limbs, < from least motion.
Arthritic lancinations, followed by contraction of limbs.
Feeling of heat in painful limbs ; rheumatic cases.
Pain in foot became more violent every day, painful parts got hot, pain extended gradually to thigh, arms down to fingers and to side of head, and raged so that the patient for some weeks lamented and screamed day and night on account of tearing and shooting pains ; entirely
sleepless. θ Consumption.
Pain as from fatigue and weakness in arms and thighs, with dread of motion.
Pains after abuse of mercury.
The limbs go to sleep.
Immovable stiffness of contracted limbs.

Yawning and stretching > general ill feeling.
Has lain for six weeks exactly in same spot, for she cannot bear slightest exertion without increasing her pains.
Lying on back : nightmare.
When seated : itching, pressing, crawling pains in thighs.
Sitting : throbbing in head < ; tension in thighs >.
Standing : < throbbing in head.
Motion : of head, intense pain in upper part of chest ; stiffness of neck < ; intolerable pain from slightest motion ; stinging pains in limbs < ; contractions with pain.
Biting jaws together : causes toothache.
Rising : dizziness.
Walking : > throbbing in head ; perspiration on head ; languor.

Exhaustion, as after great exertion, especially in thighs and arms.

Yawning and stretching > general ill feeling.
Great desire to sleep in afternoon.
Nightly restlessness and sleeplessness.
Frequent awaking from sleep as if falling.
Nightmare when lying on back ; waking with screams.
On awaking : unrefreshed ; everything seems too tight ; clothes feel damp.

Morning : thoughtless staring ; diarrhœa commences.
By day : corrosive itching on back.
Afternoon : violent hunger ; chilliness in back ; desire to go to sleep.
Evening : heat in face ; violent hunger ; chilliness.
Night : headache ; stuffed feeling in precordia.

After a cold, violent pain in limbs.
Cannot bear heat, with pain in joints.
Open air : walking causes perspiration on head.
Clothes feel damp.

Internal chilliness through whole body, followed by heat, most in face, towards evening, without thirst.
Chilliness internally, even near warm stove, principally in afternoon and evening.
Burning fever, face spotted ; eyes, nose and cheeks swollen ; tight, dry cough.
Heat in painful limbs.
Skin hot, especially on hands. θ Consumption.
Sweat, mostly on head and forehead also when walking in open air.
Night-sweats, smelling very offensive.
The usual general sweat, changes to dryness and chilliness.
The provers that sweated had no urinary disturbances, and vice versa.

Every morning : vomits a mass of watery phlegm with great exertion.
Every day at 6 P. M. : neuralgia till 4 A. M.
Every day : pain in foot more violent.
Every Summer for many years : recurrence of affection of the stomach.

Right : lancinating stitches in malar bone ; stitch below scapulæ ; stitches come from middle of half of chest ; sharp stitches in top of shoulder ; stitches in thumb ; tension in thigh ; lancinations in leg from tarsus to knee ; leg
swollen, contracted, stiff, immovable ; drawn close to thigh ; violent stitches from outside of calf to ankle.
Left : neuralgia of side of head ; lacerating in whole side of head ; dragging and tearing in ear ; neuralgia on side of face ; dull ache in side of jaw ; pleuritic stitches ; stiffness of neck ; frequent stitches on side of nape ; rheumatic
stiffness of side of back ; stitches in side, below true ribs ; rheumatic pains in arm ; rheumatic pains in wrist-joint ; leg cramped.
From above downward : stiffness from neck to back ; rheumatic pain in limbs.
From below upward : headache ; pain from tarsus to knee ; pains in knuckles, then in hand.

Pressive, drawing, tearing pains ; often ending in a stitch, especially the head-pains.
Like a pressure in brain ; sensation as if brain were detached and loose ; as if blood-vessels were overfilled ; sensation of swelling and protrusion of eyes, eyelids appear too short to cover them ; cutting in urethra as from something biting
passing ; feels as if suffocating ; as if sitting on needles ; as if muscles of thighs were too short ; limbs feel as if swelled.
Pain : in head across forehead ; in bones of nose ; from head to nose ; in stomach ; from head to neck ; in knuckles ; in whole hand ; in legs ; in foot extending to thigh ; arms down to fingers and to side of head ; as from fatigue
and weakness in arms and thighs ; after abuse of mercury ; in all joints even chest.
Anguish : in epigastric region.
Violent pain : in knee.
Intolerable pain : in back.
Intense pain : in upper part of chest.
Violent sharp stitches : in brain ; from scapulæ to occiput ; from outside of right calf to ankle.
Stitches : in temples ; in right malar bone and cheek ; in teeth ; in neck of bladder ; on left side of nape ; in left side below true ribs ; in right thumb.
Pleuritic stitches in left side of chest ; in region of third and fourth rib, left side ; in chest between scapulæ.
Continued stitches : in middle of right half of chest terminating in one close below right scapulæ.
Sharp stitches : in top of right shoulder.
Sharp, stitching pains : from third rib up on either side ; in limbs.
Tearing pains : in skull ; in left ear ; in teeth ; in limbs.
Gouty, tearing pains : in limbs.
Lancinating : in right malar bone and cheek, from elbow to wrist.
Arthritic lancinations : of limbs.
Cutting : in urethra while urinating.
Shooting pains : through limbs and head.
Lacerating : in occiput ; in forehead ; in whole side of head ; in arm.
Stinging pains : in limbs.
Darting pains : from feet to knees.
Twitches : in abdominal muscles.
Pseudo-pleuritic pains.
Violent burning : in throat ; in stomach ; in abdomen.
Painful dragging : in left ear.
Drawing : in occiput ; in forehead ; in left arm.
Cramps : in stomach.
Pinching : in abdomen.
Contractive pain : between scapulæ.
Crawling pains : in thighs.
Pressing pains : in thighs ; in bones.
Pricking : in nates ; in muscles of extremities.
Rheumatic pains : in one side of head extending to face ; in left arm ; in left wrist ; in extremities.
Neuralgia : of left side of head and face extending to neck.
Gout : in head.
Aching : in nape of neck.
Dull ache : in left side of jaw.
Pulsative throbbing : in outer parts of head.
Heat : in face ; in painful limbs.
Rheumatic stiffness : of left side of neck and shoulders ; of whole left side of back from nape down to sacrum.
Tension : in thighs.
Constrictive sensation in epigastric region.
Sudden stuffed feeling in precordia.
Stiffness : of one side of neck extending to small of back.
Itching : in thighs when sitting.
Corrosive itching : on back.
Chilly crawls : over mamma.

Excretions are all intolerably offensive.
Great emaciation.
Acts especially upon muscular tissues, producing rheumatic and arthritic pains.
Acts on fibrous tissues.
Contraction of limbs ; stiffness and immobility.
Contractions, with pain from slightest motion.
Joints swollen, painful and intolerant of pressure ; can bear no heat.
Rheumatic swelling of joints.
Pain in all the joints, even on chest.
Softness of joints (after Caustic. in rheumatism).
Aching in bones, with swelling. θ Syphilis.
Pressing pain in bones.
Swelling and softening of bones.
Suppuration of bone, with hectic, in men of dry habit.
Caries and spongious affection of bones ; tibia and tarsal bones spongious, cannot bear slightest touch.
Promotes the spontaneous breaking of gouty abscesses, greatly relieving sufferings of patient.
Gout.

The affected parts are very sensitive to touch.
Touch : tension in thighs < ; osteomalacea of tibia and tarsus < ; cannot bear slightest touch in carious affections of bones.
Pressure : > throbbing in head ; intolerant on swollen joints.
Everything seems too tight.
After riding in open air : rheumatic stiffness of side of neck ; shoulders.
After a fall : gouty inflammation and abscess at knee.

Itching, tetter-like eruptions.
Scratching improves.

Rheumatic affection, especially in syphilitic and mercurial patients.
Syphilides.
Old women.
Dark hair and eyes.
Children ; growing pains.
Girl, æt. 23, sanguine, choleric ; after being overheated got a violent cold, followed by consumption.
Woman, æt. 40, every Summer for many years ; affection of stomach.

Antidoted by Nux vom .
It antidotes : Caustic . and Rhus tox .
Compatible : after Mercur . in rheumatism, gout and syphilis ; after Sulphur in cholera infantum ; after Caustic . in torticollis.
Compare : Kali hydr., Mezer., Phytol., Rhodod., Stilling .

This is a very deep acting remedy, even deep enough to cure the symptoms of and turn into order a constitution that is rheumatic, gouty, and has inherited phthisis.

These patients are subject to diarrhoea; the tendons are too short, or they have abscesses, catarrhal troubles, bronchitis. Drawing, tension and contractions of muscular fibre. Sore swollen joints.

The rheumatic joints are more painful from warmth ( Lac c., Led., Puls) and more comfortable when cool. Gouty abscesses of joints. The bones become spongy, or suppurate. The leg and ankle bones are especially affected. Sensitive periosteum.

Stitching pains are characteristic, and burning is as marked as in Arsenicum. Limbs contracted and stiff. The excretions are all offensive. Drawing, tearing pains. His cold settles in the limbs, and the joints become sore and the muscles draw. His suffering is increased by the slightest motion or exertion.

Gradually increasing exhaustion. Progressive emaciation. In the first stage of phthisis it is a wonderful remedy, when the symptoms agree. The progressive character of the sickness, the weakness of mind and body, and such symptoms as belong to deep constitutional troubles. In psoric cases complicated with syphilis and mercury and other violent drugs we find use for this most neglected remedy. It is closely related to Causticum, Sulphur, and Tuberculinum.

Absent minded in the morning. Indolent, and low spirited. Obstinate; fretful, and forgetful.

Vertigo on rising.

Rheumatic pain in one side of the head, extending to the face. Gouty headaches. Sensation of looseness of the brain. Stitching in the head. Pain in forehead, occiput, and deep in the brain. Tearing pain in the head. Sensation as if blood vessels were distended. Neuralgia on left side of face and head.

Pulsating pain, ameliorated by pressure and walking; aggravated by sitting and standing. This is an exception to the general rule, as most symptoms are aggravated by motion. Perspiration on head and face, when walking in the open air.

Sensation of protrusion of the eyes. Swelling of the eyes. Dilated pupils.

Tearing in left ear. Paroxysmal pain in ear.

Pain in the bones of the nose. Nose swollen. Fluent coryza.

Pain in the bones of the face, nose and teeth. Face red and swollen, spotted. Heat in the face in the evening. Sharp pain in right malar bone. Paroxysmal pain in face, head and neck, every day at 6 P.M., lasting until 4 A. w. Dull ache in left side of jaw. Tearing, stitching in teeth. Pain in teeth when biting jaws together. Inflammation of the tonsils, worse from drinks, and there is much burning. Perverted taste. Tongue coated thick white, or brown.

Burning in throat. Tonsillitis; it prevents suppuration.

Aversion to food, to milk. Much thirst.

Vomits a mass of watery mucus, followed by exhaustion. Nausea from sensation of mucus in throat.

Burning in stomach and abdomen.

Constrictive sensation in stomach, with anguish and dyspnea.

Much flatulence in abdomen.

Morning diarrhoea ( Sulph.). Stools watery. Constipation, with hard, crumbling, offensive stool.

Urging to urinate, even after micturition. The urine is profuse, and foetid. Cutting in urethra while urine flows.

Stitching in neck of bladder after ineffectual urging to urinate. Emissions without dreams. Discharge from urethra.

Chronic inflammation of ovaries. Menses absent. Membranous dysmenorrhoea. Shuddering in mammae, with gooseflesh.

Spasms of larynx. Difficult breathing. Palpitation.

Dry, hard cough with fever, finally relieved by expectoration. Copious, putrid expectoration, like pus. Expectoration of blood.

Rheumatism of the muscles of the chest, with great pain on motion. Stitching pains in chest from motion and breathing. Stitching pains seem to be in the pleura. Chronic bronchial catarrh with putrid expectoration, when rheumatism extends to chest. Phthisis pituitosa in rheumatic and gouty patients. Chest pains after riding in open air.

Palpitation of the heart. Rheumatism of the heart; frequent weak puke.

Rheumatic stiffness of back of neck and back. Stitching in neck and back. Drawing pains in back between scapulae. All pains aggravated from motion and ameliorated during rest; aggravated from heat.

Drawing, tearing, stitching pains in upper limbs. Rheumatic pains in upper arm and shoulder. Pains in finger joints, and then in whole band. Hot bands. Stitching in right thumb. Pains all aggravated from motion; aggravated from heat.

Shortening of the hamstrings. Pain in thighs extending to knees. Tearing, drawing pains in legs. Pains in the tibia. Gouty abscess of knee. Shooting pains in legs from feet to knees. Softening of tibia and ankle bones. The knee is flexed from the contraction of hamstrings. The right leg swollen and drawn close to the thigh. Pains in all the limbs, aggravated from motion and heat. Weakness of arms and legs. Numbness of lower limbs.

Stiffness of limbs. Weakness of limbs after exertion. Rheumatism of joints, aggravated from heat and motion. Pain in limbs after taking cold.

Restless sleep. Sleeplessness. Wakens from sleep as if falling. Nightmare while lying on the back. Unrefreshing sleep.

Chilliness followed by fever in the evening. Burning fever. Hot hands. Night sweats. Copious perspiration.

The provers that perspired had no urinary symptoms.

Forgetfulness, especially of names.
Thoughtless staring: during the morning.
Disinclination to labor.
Sad and depressed.

Dizziness on rising.

Headache across the forehead.
Violent, sharp stitches in the brain.
Rheumatic pains in one side of head, extending to face.
Megrim.
Attacks of gout in the head.

Neuralgia on left side of head and face, extending to neck.
External headache, with the sensation as if the blood-vessels were overfilled; extends to face and neck. θ Neuralgia.
Pulsative throbbing in outer parts of head, with stitches in temples; remove for a short time by external pressure and by walking, increased by sitting and standing.
Perspiration, principally on head and forehead (when walking in the open air).
Tearing pain in the skull.

Dilated pupils.
Swelling of the eyes.
Sensation of swelling and protrusion of eyes; eyelids appear too short to cover them.
Hard pimples around the eyes.

Painful dragging and tearing in left ear.
Violent otalgia, with tearing in the left ear.
Spasmodic earache.

Pains in bones of the nose.
Pains from head to nose.
Nose swollen.
Fluent coryza.

Heat in the face, especially in the evening.
Face: red and painfully swollen; gets spotted; eyes, nose, cheeks swell; looks old.
Lancinating and painful stitches in right malar bone and cheek.

Dull ache in the left side of jaw.

Toothache when biting the jaw together.
Tearing in the teeth, ending with stitches.

Food does not taste right.
Thick white fur on tongue.

Inflammation of the mouth.

Violent burning in the throat.
Threatened tonsillitis.

Violent hunger, in the afternoon and evening.
Much thirst.
Aversion to milk.
No appetite.
Aversion to all food, could not eat anything.
Desire for apples, which relieves gastric symptoms.

After eating without appetite, she gets sick.

Frequent empty eructations.
Nausea from sensation of phlegm in the throat.
Every morning vomits a mass of watery phlegm with great exertion.

Burning in stomach and abdomen.

Constrictive sensation in the epigastric region, with anguish and difficult breathing.

Great accumulation of wind in the whole abdomen; pinching in abdomen from incarcerated flatulence, receding towards rectum until emitted.
Twitches in abdominal muscles.
Inguinal hernia.

Diarrhœa commencing in the morning; skin dry, chilly.
Cholera infantum, emaciation; face like that of an old person.
Costive; hard stool, crumbling; very offensive.

Continuous urging even after urination, with profuse fetid urine.
Stitches in neck of bladder after ineffectual pressure to urinate.
Cutting in urethra while urinating, as from something biting passing.

Nocturnal emissions without dreams.
Gonorrhœa-like discharge.

Subacute and chronic ovaritis, especially in rheumatic women.

Chilly crawls over the mammæ.

Violent, spasmodic, inflammatory affection in the windpipe, most in larynx, with such palpitation of heart that they could not get out of bed, nor call for help; feel as if suffocating.

Sudden stuffed feeling in præcordia, like an arrest of breathing; often attacks her suddenly even at night in sleep, causing dry cough, frequently repeated until expectoration appears.

Tight, dry, with burning fever; hot face.
Coughing with copious spitting of phlegm, and later of stinking pus; coughing up blood.
Dry cough, relieved by detaching and raising a little mucus; rheumatic patients. See Heart.

Pleuritic stitches; left side, worse from breathing deeply; especially in phthisis pulmonalis.
Intense pain in upper part of chest, from motion of the head; expectoration of fetid pus.

Palpitation.
Sudden stuffed sensation in precordial region like an arrest of breathing; comes suddenly even when asleep, causing dry cough.
Pulse small, soft accelerated.

Pain from head to neck.
Excessive stiffness of one of side of back, from the neck extending to the small of back, when moving.
Contractive pain between the scapulæ.
Chilliness in the back, in the afternoon.
Shuddering after feverish chill in the back.
Aching in the nape of neck, right and left of vertebræ.
Corrosive itching in the back (by day).

Sharp stitches in the top of right shoulder.
Rheumatic pains in left arm, from shoulder or from elbow to wrist.
Stitches in the right thumb.
Pain first in knuckles, then in whole hand.
Hands hot.

Gouty inflammation and abscess at knee, repeated after a fall, with violent and pain and loss of sleep.
Pricking in the nates, as if sitting on needles.
Tension in thighs, especially the right, as if muscles were too short, with languor when walking; worse from touch, better when walking worse from touch better when sitting.
Pains begin in middle of thigh or leg and extend to knee.
Tearing, drawing lancinations in leg, from right tarsus to knee.
Exhaustion in the lower limbs.
Spongoid state of the tibia.
The whole left leg is cramped.
Right leg swollen and contracted, stiff immovable, drawn close up to the thigh.
Violent stitches from outside of right of calf down to ankle.

Tearing and stinging in limbs.
Pains after abuse of mercury.
Arthritic lancinations, followed by contractions of limbs.
Tearing, pricking pains in the muscles of the extremities, with heat of the parts.
The limbs go to sleep.
Stinging pains in the limbs, worse from the least motion.

Yawning and stretching relieves the generally ill-feeling.
Walking: 4, 33; in open air: 4. Motion: 28, 31, 34. Standing: 4. Sitting: 4, 33. Lying on back: 37.

Exhaustion as after great exertion, especially in thighs and arms.
Immovable stiffness of the contracted limbs.

Nightly restlessness and sleeplessness.
Nightmare when lying on the back; waking with screams.
On awaking: unrefreshed; everything seems too tight; clothes feel damp.
Frequent awaking from sleep as if falling.

Morning: 1, 16, 20. Afternoon: 14, 31, 40. Evening: 8, 14, 40. Night: 22, 26, 37, 40.

After a cold, violent pain in limbs.
Can bear no heat, with pain in joints.
Walking in open air: 4.

Internal chilliness through the whole body, followed by heat, most in face, towards evening; without thirst.
Chilliness internally, even near the warm stove, principally in the afternoon and evening.
Burning fever, face spotted; eyes, nose and cheeks swollen; tight, dry cough.
Feeling of heat in the painful limbs; rheumatic cases.
Skin hot, especially on the hands.
Night-sweats, smelling very offensive.
The provers that sweated had no urinary disturbances and vice versa.
The usual general sweat, changes to dryness and chilliness.

Sudden attacks: 26.

Right: 8, 32, 33, 44. Left: 6, 9, 28, 32, 33. Right and left: 31.
Pains first in left limbs, next day in right.
Above downward: 31, 32, 33. Below upward: 33.

Pressive drawing, tearing pains; often ending in a stitch, especially the head pains.

All excretions are of an unbearable stench.
Rheumatic swelling of joints.
Acts on fibrous tissues.
Aching in the bones, with swelling. θ Syphilis.
Great emaciation.
Contraction of limbs.
Pain in all joints, even on chest.
Caries and spongious affection of bones; right tibia and tarsal bones spongious, cannot bear the slightest touch.
Excretions are all intolerably offensive.
Contractions, with pain from the slightest motions.
Joints swollen, painful and intolerant of pressure; can bear no heat.
Pressing pain in bones.

The affected parts are very sensitive to touch.
Cannot bear any pressure, with pain in joints.
Touch: 33. Pressure: 4; of teeth together: 10. Effects of a fall: 33.

Scratching improves.
Itching, tetter-like eruptions.
Appears to promote breaking of abscesses.

Syphilides.
Children; growing pains.
Old women.
Dark hair and eyes.

Guaiacum; has proved useful after abuse of mercury in rheumatism, gout, contraction; antidoted Caustic., which had much increased the contraction of limbs in a rheumatic patient; also antidoted Rhus tox.
Nux vom., antidotes Guaiacum.
Followed sulphur well in cholera infantum.
Compare: Rhus, Mezereum, Rhodod., Phytol., Stillingia, Kali hydr., Mercur.

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.

General indolence and weakness, especially in the thighs, with dread of motion.
Emaciation.
A general feeling of discomfort, so that he wants to yawn and stretch.
Most of the symptoms appear while sitting, in the morning and in the forenoon.
General sensitiveness to touch, particularly of the affected parts; everything seems too tight.

Clinical:
Chronic rheumatism.
Arthritic diathesis.
Stiffness and contraction of muscles and tendons, sometimes with rheumatic swellings of joints.
Chronic inflammation and degeneration of bones, which are sore and cannot bear the slightest touch.
Syphilitic pains.

General sadness and fretfulness.
Inclination to blame everybody and scold.
Great forgetfulness, especially of names.

Sticking pains, apparently in the brain.
Tearing pains in one side of the head, extending down into the cheek.
A feeling in the head externally as if it were swollen, and the blood vessels were distended.

The eyes feel swollen and protruded; lids seem too small to cover them.

Tearing, aching pains.

Painful stitches in the cheek bones or muscles.

Tearing, drawing pains in the teeth, ending in stitches.
Toothache when biting.

Great hunger.
Great thirst.
Disgust for food in the morning and forenoon.
Empty eructations.
Vomiting in the morning of watery mucus, with great effort.
A feeling of constriction in the region of the stomach, with oppressed breathing.

Griping pain in the abdomen as from incarcerated flatus, which goes lower down.
Twitching of the abdominal muscles.

Hard, crumbly.
Very foul.

Constant urging to urinate, with free discharge of offensive urine.
Cutting when urinating.
Stitches in the neck of the bladder after ineffectual straining to urinate.

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

Dry cough, with loss of breath, caused by tickling in the pit of the stomach.
Cough, with copious, offensive, purulent expectoration.
Stitches in the left chest, < inspiration.

Stiffness in the left side from the nape to the sacrum.
Pain on the slightest motion.
Constrictive pain between the shoulders.

Tearing shooting pains in the muscles of the upper and lower extremities; the parts become hot.
Immovable stiffness of the limbs, which are bent double.
Extremities fall asleep; they seem very heavy and weak, and one dreads to move them.
The limbs become extremely emaciated.
Pains in the bones, particularly of the thighs.

Sleeplessness and restlessness at night.
Used up in the morning.

Predominating chilliness, even by a warm stove.
Pulse soft and small, even when warm.
Much sweat, especially on the head, on walking in the open air.
Sweat usually offensive.

GUAJACUM. JUIAC.

The sap which flows from the West Indian tree Guajacum officinale, which when inspissated is called Gummi Guajaci, consists in great part of a peculiar kind of resin. For homœopathic use this is triturated dry with sugar of milk for three hours to the one millionth attenuation, and then dissolved and raised to the thirtieth potency. The homœopathic physician will not allow himself to be led astray by the indefinite and delusive recommendation of the old Materia Medica to use Guajacum for gout and rheumatism. He will not look to fictitious names of diseases, but he will look to the similarity of the symptoms existing on the one side in the disease to be healed, and on the other in the symptoms excited by the remedy. In diseases for which it is homœopathically appropriate it has shown itself serviceable especially where the following ailments were present : Attacks of cephalagra ; swelling of the eyes ; painful straining in the ears ; sensation of mucus in the throat, causing nausea ; repugnance to milk ; stitches in the chest ; arthritic lancinating pains in the limbs, where the pains are produced by the slightest motion and are combined with heat in the painful parts, especially after previous misuse of mercury ; pulmonary consumption, with fetid pus, etc. The abbreviations of the names of my fellow provers are : Htn., Dr. Hartman ; Lgh., Dr. Langhammer ; Tth., Teuthorn. [*].

[] The whole of this pathogenesis, save for fifteen symptoms of Hahnemann's appeared in Vol. IV. of the Materia Medica Pura ; it belongs accordingly to his earlier manner. -Hughes*.

Morose mood ; he speaks but little.

Great peevishness.

Contemptuous humor.

Obstinacy.

[5] Indisposed to work. [Htn.].

Weakness of memory.

Weak memory ; he forgets what he has just now read, and old names he does not remember at all.

Without thinking, he stands in one place, and looks right in front of him without thought ; in the morning (at breakfast) when standing. [Tth.].

Headache, at night, like a pressure from below upward in the brain.

[10] Pressive pain in the right temple, as with something broad. [Htn.].

Painless pressure in the left temple.

Pressive headache across the forehead. [Lgh.].

Pressive and squeezing in the anterior part of the forehead. [Htn.].

Dull, pressive pain in the head, terminating with a sharp stitch in the right frontal protuberance. [Htn.].

[15] Dull, pressive pain, going up obliquely from the left side of the nape to a point over the vertex, and terminating at the top with a stitch. [Htn.].

Dull, stitch-like pain in the right frontal eminence. [Htn.].

Drawing pain from the middle of the frontal bone down into the nasal bones. [Htn.].

Tearing in the whole of the left side of the head. [Htn.].

Tearing in the right side of the occiput. [Htn.].

[20] Drawing tearing in the anterior part of the forehead. [Htn.].

Drawing tearing in the occiput and the forehead. [Htn.].

Violent, coarse stitches in the brain, upward.

Dull, drawing stitches from the left parietal bone into the frontal eminence, where they all terminate in a single stitch. [Htn.].

Pressive, drawing, tearing stitch in the right side of the head, toward the frontal bone. [Htn.].

[25] Sensation as if the brain was detached and loose, and moved at every step, in the morning.

A tearing, externally, on the left temple. [Htn.].

A tearing, externally, front the left side of the frontal bone downward into the muscles of the cheeks. [Htn.].

Lively stitches on the left side of the head, at the junction of the parietal and the frontal bones. [Htn.].

Dull, painful stitches on the left side of the occiput. [Htn.].

[30] An external headache, as if there were too much blood in the integuments of the head, and as if the head were swollen, when sitting. [Tth.].

External pulse-like throbbing headache, with stitches in the temples, only transiently removed by external pressure, relieved by walking, but aggravated by sitting and standing (aft. 3 h.). [Tth.].

In the right eyebrow, a hard pimple, with a white apex and severe pain, as if wounded, when touched.

Sensation of swelling of the eyes and as if they protruded ; the eyelids seemed too short to cover the eyes : at the same time, he felt all day as if he had not slept enough, with yawning and stretching. [Tth.].

Eyegum in both the canthi of the right eye (aft. 1 h.). [Lgh.].

[35] Dilatation of the pupils (aft. 3 h.). [Tth.].

Amaurosis for some days. [WHITE, in Edinb. Med. Comment. IV., p. 327.] [*].

[] In a hysterical subject. The writer states that any sudden surprise will make her speechless for an hour or so, and that G. always makes her lose her sight for some hours. -Hughes*.

Straining earache in the left ear. [Htn.].

Tearing in the left ear. [Htn.].

Tearing in the outer border of the cartilage of the left ear. [Htn.].

[40] In the nose, a pimple, with pain as from excoriation.

The face is red and painfully swollen for some days. [BANG. Tageb. d. Krank. Haus., 1784.] [*].

[] Not accessible. -Hughes*.

Dull, spasmodic drawing in the muscles of the right cheek, in the morning on rising.

Single stitches in the right zygoma. [Htn.].

Stitches, as from a knife in the right cheek (aft. 1 h.). [Lgh.].

[45] In the lower jaw, on the left side, a dull, pressive pain. [Htn.].

On the left side of the lower jaw, a drawing pain, terminating in a stitch. [Htn.].

Toothache, a pressive pain in the left upper molars, on biting. [Htn.].

Tearing in the upper molars of the left side.

Flat taste in the mouth. [Tth.].

[50] Lack of appetite, and loathing of everything. [Tth.].

Great hunger, in the afternoon and evening (aft. 7, 9 h.). [Lgh.].

Much thirst.

Eructation (immediately). [Htn.].

Empty eructation.

[55] Empty eructation of mere air. [Tth.].

In the scrobiculus cordis, a frequently recurring pressure, with impeded breathing, and with oppression and anguish (aft. 1 h.). [Htn.].

Constrictive sensation in the gastric region, with anguish and impeded breathing (aft. 19 h.). [Htn.].

Pain in the abdomen, pinching on the left side of the navel, on a small spot (aft. 3 ½ h.). [Htn.].

Pinching in the abdomen, as from incarcerated flatulence, which continually extended further backwards, whereupon flatus was discharged. [Htn.].

[60] Dull pinching in the hypogastrium, that always sinks deeper backward. [Htn.].

Pinching cutting, transversely through the abdomen, during inspiring. [Htn.].

Stitches in the left subcostal region. [Htn.].

Dull stitches in the left epigastrial region. [Htn.].

A constant quivering in the inner abdominal muscles on the right side, close to the os ilii. [Htn.].

[65] Pain in the groin, as from an inguinal hernia.

Rumbling in the abdomen (aft. 10 h.).

Rumbling in the abdomen, with dull pinching, which extends ever further backward, whereupon flatus is discharged (aft. 1 h.). [Htn.].

Growling in the abdomen, as from emptiness (aft. 5 h.). [Lgh.].

Constipation (1st d.). [Tth.].

[70] Costiveness (2d, 3d d.). [Tth.].

Soft, broken up stool. [Htn.].

Thin, slimy stool, after previous pinching in the abdomen. [Htn.].

Frequent urging to urinate, even immediately after doing so. [Tth.].

Frequent urgent desire to urinate, with scanty discharge (aft. 5 h.). [Lgh.].

[75] He has to pass water every half hour, and much at a time ; when he has passed it, he has again urging to urinate for about a minute, whereby only a few drops come away. [Tth.].

Constant urging to urinate, and every time he passes much urine. [Htn.].

Cutting during micturition, as if something acrid was discharged.

After micturition, stitches in the neck of the bladder. [Tth.].

Emission of semen, at night, without lascivious dreams. [Lgh.].

[80] Increased flow from the vagina.

Frequent discharge of a watery fluid from the nose, for one month. [BANG.].

Expectoration of mucus by hawking, and by hacking cough. [Tth.].

Sudden sensation of stoppage or stagnation on the chest, in the region of the scrobiculus cordis, like obstruction of breath ; this often seizes upon her suddenly even at night in sleep, and compels her to an almost dry cough, which recurs until there is some expectoration.

Pain in the chest, stitches in the left side under the true ribs, more toward the back. [Htn.].

[85] A crawling in the chest.

Shudder in the breast.

Pain in the back, with contractive sensation, between the scapulæ. [Htn.].

Rheumatic stiffness in the whole left side of the back, from the nape down into the sacrum, with unbearable pain at the least motion and turning of the parts ; this was not felt when at rest or when the parts were touched.

Drawing and tearing, down along the right side of the spine, from the axilla to the last rib. [Htn.].

[90] Tearing stitches on the posterior border of the right scapula (aft. 10 h.). [Htn.].

Tearing stitches on the border of both scapulæ, followed by a constriction in the dorsal muscles (aft. 3 h.). [Htn.].

Constant stitches, which seemed at last to change into a single continuous stitch, close under the right scapula, seemingly coming from the middle of the right side of the thoracic cavity, aggravated by inspiration. [Htn.].

Eroding itching in the back by day.

Pressive pain in the neck, on the right and left sides of the cervical vertebræ (aft. 4 h.). [Htn.].

[95] Constant frequent stitches, on the left side of the neck, from the scapulæ even to the occiput, when moving ; also when the head is held still. [Htn.].

Violent, continued stitches in the neck, from the larynx to the left clavicle (aft. 9 h.). [Htn.].

Sharp stitches on the top of the right shoulder, frequently recurring. [Htn.].

Painful drawing tearing in the left arm, from the upper arm even into the fingers, but particularly continued in the wrist. [Htn.].

Severe painful stitches in the right upper arm, chiefly in its middle. [Htn.].

[100] Lassitude of the upper arms, as after hard work. [Tth.].

In the right fore-arm, tearing, down into the wrist-joint. [Htn.].

Frequent drawing tearing stitches, from the left elbow into the wrist-joint. [Htn.].

Pressive-like tearing in the left wrist-joint. [Htn.].

Continuous drawing tearing in the wrist-joint (aft. 2 h.). [Htn.].

[105] Single, violent stitches in the right thumb (aft. 1 h.). [Htn.].

In the nates, needle pricks when walking, but more yet when sitting down ; she feels as if she sat on needles.

The lower limbs, especially the thighs, are fatigued, as if after a long walk on the previous day. [Tth.].

Formication in the thighs and legs, extending to the toes, as if the limbs would go to sleep while sitting.

In the right thigh, from the middle to the knee, a formicating pressive pain in the bones, while sitting still (aft. ¼ h.). [Htn.].

[110] Pain, like growing pains, in the right thigh. [Htn.].

Tension in the thighs, especially in the right thigh, when walking, as if the muscles were too short, attended with weariness ; aggravated by touching it, allayed when sitting. [Tth.].

An aching drawing pain from the middle of the right thigh to the knee, when extending the right leg ; on drawing up and flexing it, the pain goes off. [Htn.].

Drawing tearing from the middle of the left thigh to the knee. [Htn.].

Twitching tearing, from the middle of the right thigh to the knee (aft. ½ h.). [Htn.].

[115] Dull stitches in the thigh, above the right knee. [Htn.].

Single stitches on the left thigh, above the knee, from both sides, meeting in the middle (aft. 3 h.).

Bruised pain in the left thigh, when walking in the open air. [Lgh.].

Single itching stitches, like flea-bites, in the skin of the thighs, particularly on both sides of the hough ; removed by scratching. [Tth.].

Drawing pain in the knee, ending in a stitch. [Htn.].

[120] On the leg, a painless contraction in the right calf (aft. ½ h.). [Htn.].

Violent twitching stitches on the outer side of the calf.

Drawing stitches in the leg, from the right ankle-joint to the middle of the tibia (aft. 3 h.). [Htn.].

Tearing obtuse stitches, from the middle of the left tibia to the toes. [Htn.].

Tearing stitches between the tibia and fibula, up into the patella, so violent that it made him jump up high.

[125] Tearing drawing stitches, from the middle of the right tibia to the knee (aft. 14 h.). [Htn.].

Long drawing, tearing stitches in the leg, from the right ankle into the knee. [Htn.].

After walking, the legs feel bruised, as if they were brittle.

Tingling in the skin of the whole leg, with sensation of heat in it.

In the ankle-joint, on the right side, single sharp stitches, when sitting. [Htn.].

[130] Pain terminating in a sharp stitch, on a small spot on the dorsum of the right foot, going off by motion. [Htn.].

The symptoms almost all occur when sitting, most of them in the morning immediately after rising, or in the evening shortly before going to sleep : some from 9 A.M. till 12. [Htn.].

Burning itching of the skin, increased by scratching.

General discomfort in the whole body (aft ; 7 h.). [Htn.].

Weariness, especially in the thighs and upper arms, as after great exertions. [Tth.].

[135] Marasmus and hectic fever, with persons of a dry habit of body. [MATTHIOLI, d. morb. Gall., p. 63, 1537.] [*].

[] Observation. -Hughes*.

Indolence and indisposition to move.

Yawning and stretching of the limbs, with comfortable feeling (aft. ½ h.). [Htn.].

Stretching of the upper extremities, with yawning. [Htn.].

Yawning and stretching of the limbs, with a sensation during the whole day of not having slept enough. [Tth.].

[140] Great drowsiness in the afternoon. [Lgh.].

Later in falling asleep in the evening, and earlier than usual in waking up. [Tth.].

In the evening in bed, he cannot fall asleep for two hours, and tosses about in his bed. [Tth.].

He wakes up in the morning unrefreshed, as if he had not slept at all. [Tth.].

On awaking too early, everything feels too tight, and he tosses about in bed. [Tth.].

[145] Sleep full of dreams. [Tth.].

Vivid dream about scientific subjects. [Lgh.].

Dreams of fighting.

Dreams, as if she should be killed by being stabbed with knives.

Nightmare, while lying on his back, awaking with a scream. [Tth.].

[150] Frequent waking out of sleep, as from fright ; or as if he were falling. [Lgh.].

When going to sleep in the evening, he felt as if some one threw a cloth in his face, at which he was much frightened. [Tth.].

Shivering in the back, in the afternoon. [Lgh.].

Febrile chill in the back, in the afternoon (aft. 8 h.). [Lgh.].

Chilliness, even behind the warm stove. [Htn.].

[155] In the forenoon, a chill for two hours, and in the evening a chill before going to sleep ; this continued also in bed ; in the morning some perspiration.

Internal chill in the whole body, immediately followed by heat, especially in the face, without thirst, toward evening. [Tth.].

Heat in the whole face, with thirst, without redness and without perspiration. [Htn.].

When walking in the open air, much perspiration, particularly on the head ; on the forehead, beads of sweat.

Profuse perspiration at night, in the back.

[160] Every morning some perspiration.

Great forgetfulness, especially for names. Early in morning he frequently stares absently before him. Sadness and depression. Peevishness and perverseness. Inclination to find fault with and disparage everything.

Intensely violent stitches in brain. Tearing in side of, extending into cheek. Sensation as though' external head were swollen and blood vessels were overfilled.

Sensation in, as though' balls were swelled and the lids were too short to cover them. Pimples with white tips in eyebrows. Dilated pupils. Paralysis in optic nerve

Intense earache with tearing pains.

Profuse, watery discharge from.

Face ache, painful stitches in zygoma and in cheek muscles.

Drawing, tearing pain in, terminating in a single stitch. Pressure pain when biting them together.

Violent burning in. Rheumatic tonsillitis.

Appetite: Intense hunger, early in morning and in forenoon loathing of all food. Intense thirst.

Eructations: Much, empty e.

Vomiting: Pinching pain, as from incarcerated flatus which constantly settles backwards and downwards. Quivering in muscles of. Inguinal hernia.

Constipation. Hard, crumbling. very offensive.

Continuous urging to urinate, with profuse discharge of foul smelling urine. Cutting when urinating. stitches in neck of bladder after ineffectual urging to urinate.

Dry. excited by irritation in epigastrium, with shortness of breath until relieved by expectoration. Cough, with copious, offensive - smelling purulent expectoration.

Stitches in left, worse inspiration. Pleurodynia of tuberculosis.

Intolerable stiffness thro' one side of, extending from nape to lumbar region, during motion. Tearing from axilla down along side of. Contractive pain between scapulae.

Crawling, pressive bone pains in thighs.

Tearing and sticking pains in muscles of upper and lower limbs, with heat of parts. Immobile stiffness of the distorted limbs. Asleep sensation in limbs. Great sluggishness and weariness, especially in thighs, with aversion to motion. Extraordinary emaciation. Discomfort in body, better yawning and stretching limbs. Most complaints appear when sitting early in morning and during forenoon. Affected parts are very sensitive to touch. Suppurations and fetid discharge.

Swelling and softening of. Caries

- Nightly restlessness and sleeplessness. Insufficient, weak and soft, but accelerated. Chill: Internal, over whose body, even near a warm stove, most in afternoon and evening. On back. Heat: Evening especially on face. Sweat: Likewise, mostly on head and face. Also when walking in open air. Very offensive night sweats.

Allied Remedies: Bry., Graph. Kre., Mer., Phyt.

Tearing and stinging pain in the muscles of the upper and lower extremities, with heat of the parts.

Stiffness of the contracted parts.

The limbs go to sleep.

Great weakness and debility in the legs with disinclination to move.

Uncomfortable feeling in the body.

The affected parts are very sensitive to contact.

Swelling and softening of the bones.

Caries.

One-sided complaints.

Constipation.

There is an aggravation in the evening.

Most symptoms appear in the morning, while sitting, and in the afternoon.