Guaiacum

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.

Mind

General sadness and fretfulness.

Inclination to blame everybody and scold.

Great forgetfulness, especially of names.

Head

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.

Eyes

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

Ears

Tearing, aching pains.

Face

Painful stitches in the cheek bones or muscles.

Mouth

Tearing, drawing pains in the teeth, ending in stitches.

Toothache when biting.

Stomach

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.

Abdomen

Griping pain in the abdomen as from incarcerated flatus, which goes lower down.

Twitching of the abdominal muscles.

Stool

Hard, crumbly.

Very foul.

Urinary Organs

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 dysmenorrhoea.

Chronic inflammation of the ovaries, with agonizing pains, irritable bladder.

Respiratory organs :

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.

Neck and Back :

Stiffness in the left side from the nape to the sacrum.

Pain on the slightest motion.

Constrictive pain between the shoulders.

Extremities

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.

Sleep

Sleeplessness and restlessness at night.

Used up in the morning.

Fever

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.