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.
GUAJACUM OFFICINALE
HOMOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
Remedy Origin / Source
Natural
Clinical Applications
Guaiacol (in the treatment of gonorrhal epididymitis, 2 parts to 30 vaselin, locally). Antidote: Nux. Follow Sepia.
Related Remedies
Key Symptoms & Indications
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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.
Mental & Emotional Symptoms
Forgetful; thoughtless; staring. Slow to comprehend.
Physical Symptoms
Head
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.
Eyes
Pupils dilated. Eyelids appear too short. Pimples around eyes.
Throat
Rheumatic sore throat with weak throat muscles. Throat dry, burns, swollen, stitches toward ear. Acute tonsillitis . Syphilitic sore throat.
Stomach
Tongue furred. Desire for apples and other fruits. Aversion to milk. Burning in stomach. Constricted epigastric region.
Abdomen
Intestinal fermentation. Much wind in bowels. Diarrha, cholera infantum.
Urinary
Sharp stitches after urinating. Constant desire.
Respiratory
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.
Female
Ovaritis in rheumatic patients, with irregular menstruation and dysmenorrha, and irritable bladder.
Back
Pain from head to neck. Aching in nape. Stiff neck and sore shoulders . Stitches between scapulæ to occiput. Contractive pain between scapulæ.
Extremities
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.
Modalities (Better / Worse)
Worse (Aggravation)
, from motion, heat, cold wet weather; pressure, touch, from 6 pm to 4 am
Better (Amelioration)
, external pressure
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GUAJACUM OFFICINALE
Mind
Forgetful; thoughtless; staring. Slow to comprehend.
Head
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.
Eyes
Pupils dilated. Eyelids appear too short. Pimples around eyes.
Throat
Rheumatic sore throat with weak throat muscles. Throat dry, burns, swollen, stitches toward ear. Acute tonsillitis. Syphilitic sore throat.
Stomach
Tongue furred. Desire for apples and other fruits. Aversion to milk. Burning in stomach. Constricted epigastric region.
Abdomen
Intestinal fermentation. Much wind in bowels. Diarrhœa, cholera infantum.
Urinary
Sharp stitches after urinating. Constant desire.
Respiratory
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.
Female
Ovaritis in rheumatic patients, with irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhœa, and irritable bladder.
Back
Pain from head to neck. Aching in nape. Stiff neck and sore shoulders. Stitches between scapulæ to occiput. Contractive pain between scapulæ.
Extremities
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.
Modalities
Worse, from motion, heat, cold wet weather; pressure, touch, from 6 pm to 4 am. Better, external pressure.
Relationship
Guaiacol (in the treatment of gonorrhœal epididymitis, 2 parts to 30 vaselin, locally).
Antidote: Nux. Follow Sepia.
Compare: Merc; Caust; Rhus; Mezer; Rhodod.
Dose
Tincture, to sixth attenuation.
Guajacum officinale
Guajacum officinale
Generalities
• It chiefly acts on fibrous tissue of joints, a useful remedy for arthritic diathesis.
• Muscles and tendons are contracted resulting in painful, rigidity and swelling of the joints.
• FREE FOOL, SECRETIONS; expectoration, sweat etc.
• Hastens suppuration in abscesses.
• Tonsillitis with rheumatism.
- Burning heat; in affected part.
• Gnawing or sticking pains; in chest.
• Muscles seem too short - eyelids, back, thigh etc, or feel sore.
• Contractions between scapulae; palms etc; causing distortions; and immobility.
• Growing pains.
• Short tendons.
• Nodes.
• Unclean odour of the body.
• Clothes feel damp.
• Pains often end in stitch esp. head.
• Bones become spongy or suppurate.
• Progressive emaciation.
• Feeling that he must yawn, stretch, with uneasy feeling in the whole body.
• Exostosis.
Worse
• HEAT.
• Touch.
• Motion.
• Exertion.
• Rapid growth.
- Mercury.
• 6 p.m. to 4 a.m.
• Puberty.
• Cold damp weather.
Better
• Cold (locally).
• Apples.
• Yawning and stretching.
Mind
- Forgetful esp. for names.
• Strong desire to criticise and despise everything.
• Thoughtless starting.
• Indolent, obstinate,fretful.
Head
• Pains extend to neck; often ending in stitch.
• Brain feels loose.
• Headache amel. walking, pressure; agg. sitting, standing.
Eyes
• Eye balls seem too big to be covered by the eyelids.
• Hard pimples around the eyes.
• Exophthalmos.
Face
• Neuralgia of the left side of the face daily from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m.
• Face like an old person.
Throat
- Dry, burning; painful to touch; acute tonsillitis.
• Sharp stitches towards the ear on swallowing; can not swallow without a drink; recurrent tonsillitis; then rheumatism.
Stomach
• Thick white fur on tongue.
• Aversion to milk; to all food; could not eat anything.
• Desire for apples, which relieves the gastric symptoms.
• Burning in stomach.
• Vomits a mass of watery mucus, then exhaustion.
• Stomach affections return every summer.
Abdomen
• Sensation of constriction or stoppage in epigastrium; causing cough, dyspnoea etc.
• Cholera infantum, face like an old person, emaciation.
• Distension, flatulent.
Urinary
• Continuous urging even after urination.
• Sharp stitches while or after urination.
Male
• Seminal emissions without dreams.
• Discharge from urethra.
Female
• Ovaritis in rheumatic persons, with irregular menses, and dysmenorrhoea with irritable bladder.
• Cold crawling over mammae.
• Shuddering in the mammae with gooseflesh.
Respiratory
• Feels suffocated from stoppage at epigastrium, cause dry cough, frequently repeated, until expectoration appears.
• Foetid breath after coughing.
• Pleuritic stitches agg. deep breathing.
• Recurrent pleurisy.
• Stitching in apex of (left) lung.
• Phthisis.
• Pain in the chest while riding in the open air, amel. pressure and walking, agg. sitting and standing.
Neck and back
• Stiff neck and sore shoulders.
• One sided stiffness of back from neck to sacrum.
• Constrictive pain between the scapulae.
Extremities
• Tense, short thigh muscles amel. sitting.
• Pricking in buttocks, as is sitting on needles.
• Pain from ankles upwards.
• Arthritis deformans.
• Burning in affected limb.
• Hamstrings short.
Sleep
• Yawns and stretches for relief of general ill feeling.
• Frequent waking from sleep, as if from falling.
Fever
• Sweat profuse on single parts, face etc.
• Night sweats.
• Fever with chill in the evening.
• Burning of body.
• Hot palms.
• Burning fever with hot face and dry cough.
Related
• Ferr; Kali-bi; Kreos; Ph-ac; Phyt.
Guajacum Officinale.
Mind and Disposition.
Forgetfulness, especially of names.
Thoughtless staring during the morning.
Head.
Violent sharp stitches in the brain.
Rheumatic pains in one side of the head, extending to the face.
[5] 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.
Eyes.
Swelling of the eyes.
Sensation of swelling and protrusion of the eyes ; the eyelids appeared too short to cover the eyes.
Ears.
Violent otalgia, with tearing (left ear).
Face.
[10] Redness and painful swelling of the face.
Lancinations and painful stitches in the right malar bone and cheek, as if knives were plunged in.
Mouth and Throat.
Tearing pain in the teeth, ending with a stitch.
Violent burning in the throat.
Stomach and Abdomen.
Aversion to milk.
[15] 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.
[20] 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.
Stool and Anus.
Constipation ; stools hard and crumbling, very offensive.
Urinary Organs.
[25] 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.
Sexual Organs.
Men. Nocturnal emissions without lascivious ; dreams.
Respiratory Organs.
Stitches ; in the left side of the chest, worse from breathing deep.
[30] Dry cough with shortness of breathing till expectoration sets in.
Cough with copious expectoration of fetid pus.
Back and Neck.
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.
[35] Chilliness in the back, in the afternoon.
Extremities.
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.
[40] 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.
Sleep.
[45] Nightly restlessness and sleeplessness.
Feels unrefreshed in the morning when waking.
Nightmare when lying on the back, waking with screams.
Generalities.
Tearing-pricking pains in the muscles of the extremities, with heat of the parts.
Immovable stiffness of the contracted limbs.
[50] The limbs go to sleep.
Great emaciation.
Fever.
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.
[55] Perspiration, principally on the head and on the forehead (when walking in the open air).
Night-sweats, smelling very offensively.
Skin.
Swelling and softening of the bones.
Caries.
Conditions.
Yawning and stretching relieves the general ill-feeling.
Most ailments ; begin in the morning and forenoon, and while sitting.
[60] The affected parts are very sensitive to contact.
Aggravation in the open air.
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.
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.
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Remedy Profile
- Type Remedy
- Common Name HOMOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
- Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency
Tincture, to sixth attenuation.
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