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Guaiacum

Gum guaiacum
10 entries across 10 books
PreparationTincture of the gum-resin. Clarke
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No dose stated in the library’s booksDose · Roberts

Reason for use

Guaiacum is useful in rheumatic affections, especially after the abuse of mercury ; in rheumatism with contractions of tendons or fibrous tissues ; in the growing pains of children ; in women suffering from rheumatic conditions when associated with ovarian and menstrual irregularities ; when there is a tendency for alteration of affections of the tonsils and rheumatic troubles ; or rheumatic symptoms associated with osteomalacea, caries or other bone conditions, often tubercular.

Guaiacum antidotes Causticum, Rhus tox.

It is compatible after Causticum, Mercury.

The full Roberts text, by section

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Kali hydr., Mezereum, Phytolacca, Rhododendron, Stillingia.

Head

(Guaiacum)

Rheumatic pains in one side of head extending to face.

Attack of gouty pains in head.

NECK AND BACK . — (Guaiacum)

AFTER RIDING IN OPEN AIR, RHEUMATIC STIFFNESS OF LEFT SIDE OF NECK AND SHOULDERS.

Frequent stitches on left side of nape extending from scapula to occiput.

DULL ACHING PAIN IN SIDES OF NECK EACH SIDE OF VERTEBRAE.

STIFF NECK FROM COLD ; MUSCLES OF SHOULDERS AND SPINE AFFECTED. EXCESSIVE STIFFNESS OF LEFT SIDE OF NECK EXTENDING TO BACK, < from motion.

CONTRACTIVE PAIN BETWEEN THE SCAPULAE.

Rheumatic stiffness along the whole of left side of back with intolerable pain on slightest motion.

Stitches on left side of back below true ribs near spine.

LEFT SIDE OF NECK AND RIGHT SIDE OF BACK MOST AFFECTED.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Guaiacum)

Sharp stitches on top of right shoulder.

Rheumatic pains from shoulder to elbow or wrist in left arm.

Painful drawing and cutting in arm.

Rheumatic pains in left wrist joint.

Pain in knuckles, then the whole hand.

Stitches in right thumb.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Guaiacum)

Pricking in nates as if sitting on needles.

TENSION IN THIGHS, ESPECIALLY THE RIGHT, AS IF MUSCLES WERE TOO SHORT, WITH LANGUOR WHEN WALKING, < WHEN TOUCHED, > from sitting.

SCIATIC PAINS.

PRESSING and crawling PAINS IN THIGHS WHEN SEATED.

PAINS BEGIN IN MIDDLE OF THIGH AND EXTEND TO THE KNEE.

Tearing drawing in muscles of leg from tarsus to the knee.

SWOLLEN SENSATION IN LIMBS WITH PAINS IN BONES OF LIMBS.

Violent pain in knee with gouty inflammation.

Darting pains extend from feet to knee.

Whole left leg is cramped.

RIGHT LEG SWOLLEN AND CONTRACTED STIFF, IMMOVABLE AND DRAWN UP TO THIGH.

Violent stitches from outside the right calf down to ankle.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL . — (Guaiacum)

TEARING AND STINGING IN LIMBS.

TEARING prickling PAINS IN MUSCLES OF LIMBS WITH HEAT OF PARTS.

GOUTY TEARING AND STITCHING IN LIMBS WITH CONTRACTIONS OF AFFECTED PARTS.

Stinging pains in limbs < from the least motion.

RHEUMATIC CUTTING PAIN FOLLOWED BY CONTRACTION OF LIMB.

SENSATION OF HEAT IN AFFECTED LIMB.

MARKED STIFFNESS OF AFFECTED LIMB.

LIMBS GO TO SLEEP.

JOINTS . — (Guaiacum)

Swelling, puffy and hot.

INTOLERANT OF PRESSURE OR HEAT.

CONCOMITANTS . — (Guaiacum)

SENSATION OF SWELLING AND PROTRUSION OF EYES ; EYELIDS APPEAR TOO SHORT TO COVER THEM.

FLATULENCY.

OVARY INFLAMED AND TENDER.

HEAT IN PAINFUL PARTS.

VERY OFFENSIVE SWEATS.

Everything seems too tight ; clothes feel damp.

AGGRAVATIONS . — (Guaiacum)

WALKING IN OPEN AIR.

Touch.

Sitting.

AFTER RISING FROM BED.

PRESSURE.

OPEN AIR.

Motion

FORENOONS AND EVENINGS.

AMELIORATIONS . — (Guaiacum)

RUBBING THE PART.

WHEN IN THE HOUSE.

Complete text of the Guaiacum entry in Roberts - The Rheumatic Remedies; origin and preparation from Clarke. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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