Contains a large percentage of Caffeine, which may explain its use as a remedy for certain forms os sick headache.
Remedy Origin / Source
Natural
Commentaries
Commentary and literature analysis from various clinical authorities:
- AFFECT SMALL JOINTS IN RHEUMATOID OR OSTEOARTHRITIS
- CONGESTIVE HEADACHE AFTER EXCESSIVE USE OF ALCOHOL
- CONTINUOUS URGING EVEN AFTER URINE
- CONTRACTION OF THE KNEE JOINT
- DEBILITY AFTER PROSTRATING
- DIARRHOEA AND VOMIT FROM IMPROPER FOOD
- DIARRHOEA NEARLY TO MARASMUS
- DIMINUTION OF THE HEART BEAT
- DIMINUTION OF THE HEART BEATS
- DYSURIA IS A FREQUENT PHENOMENA
- EXTRAVAGANT BEHAVIOR
- EXTRAVAGANT BEHAVIOUR
- GRIEF DEPRESSION OF SPIRITS
- HEADACHE EXCITE BY ERROR IN DIET OR DEPRESSION OF MIND
- INFLAMMATION OVARIES AGONIZED PAIN IRRITABLE BLADDER
- MEGRIM FREQUENT SICK HEADACHE
- Dr. Calvin Brobst KnerrVOUS HEADACHE FOLLOWED BY VOMIT DUE ERROR IN DIET DEPRESSION
- PERSISTENT TWITCHING OF EYELID
- REDUCED VITAL POWERS GRIEF DEPRESSION OF SPIRITS LOSS APPETITE
- REDUCED VITAL POWERS GRIEF DEPRESSION
- RHEUMATIC DRY COUGH SHORT BREATH TILL EXPECTORATION
- RHEUMATIC NEURALGIA
- RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
- SICK HEADACHE WHO HAVE USED TEA COFFEE IN EXCESS
- SICK HEADACHE WHO USE TEA COFFEE TO EXCESS
- SPASM OF BLADDER
- SPASM OF THE BLADDER
- STANDING WHILE AGG LOWER LIMBS
- TINNITUS AURIUM VERTIGO
Key Symptoms & Indications
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Contains a large percentage of Caffeine, which may explain its use as a remedy for certain forms os sick headache.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Intellectual excitement. Sick headache in persons who have used tea and coffee in excess. Throbbing headache after use of liquor.
Bowels
Stools profuse, bloody, bright green; flakes inter-mixed; odorless. Cholera infantum.
Skin
Chloasmata on temples and arms. Urticaria ( Dulc; Apis; Chloral ).
Sleep
Uncontrollable sleepiness and heaviness of head, with flushed face after eating.
Mentions in Classic Materia Medicas
Explore detailed descriptions for this remedy across famous historical textbooks:
GUARANA
Head
Intellectual excitement. Sick headache in persons who have used tea and coffee in excess. Throbbing headache after use of liquor.
Bowels
Stools profuse, bloody, bright green; flakes inter-mixed; odorless. Cholera infantum.
Skin
Chloasmata on temples and arms. Urticaria (Dulc; Apis; Chloral).
Sleep
Uncontrollable sleepiness and heaviness of head, with flushed face after eating.
Dose
Must be given in material doses-fifteen to sixty grains of the powder.
Guarana.
Clinical
Alcohol, effects of. Coffee, effects of. Diarrhœa. Eyelids, twitching of. Headache.
Characteristics
Guarana is a climbing shrub of Brazil, the seeds of which contain Coffeine, and are used by the natives for making a beverage. In medicine it has found its principal use in conditions of nervous exhaustion; sick headache in those who have abused tea and coffee, the headache being followed by vomiting and excited by any error in diet or depression of mind. Throbbing, congestive headache after excessive use of liquor. Persistent twitching of eyelids is one of its indications. Diarrhœa.
Relations
Compare: Agar. (twitching of eyelids); Ign., Nux in sick headache; Coff., Coca., Thea.
1. Mind
Gaiety; extravagant behaviour.─Mental hyperæsthesia; intellectual excitement.
2. Head
Sick headache in those who have abused tea and coffee, or in whom nervous headaches followed by vomiting are excited by any error in diet or depression of mind.─Throbbing, congestive headache after excessive use of alcohol.
3. Eyes
Persistent twitching of eyelids.
13. Stool
Profuse, green, odourless mucous stools.─Diarrhœa of phthisis.
14. Urinary Organs
Spasm of bladder.
24. Generalities
Restlessness, nervousness, weariness.─Neuralgia.─Reduced vital powers; grief; depression of spirits; loss of appetite.─Debility after prostrating diseases.─Paralysis.─Chlorosis.
25. Skin
Urticaria.─Prurigo.
Remedy Profile
- Type Remedy
- Common Name HOMOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
- Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency
Must be given in material doses-fifteen to sixty grains of the powder.
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