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Materia Medica

Guaco

Mikania, Climbing Hemp Weed

Mikania, Climbing Hemp Weed Acts on nervous system and female organs. Antidote to bites of scorpions and serpents (Golondrina). Cholera. Bulbar paralysis. Syphilis. Cancer. Deafness-tongue heavy and difficult to move. Spinal irritation. Spinal symptoms most marked and verified. Beer drinkers threatened with apoplexy. Diarrhoea and dysentery with aching in sacrum and loins. Headache, red face. Heaviness and difficulty in moving tongue.

Throat

Larynx and trachea constricted; difficult deglutition. Tongue feels heavy, difficult to move.

Female

Leucorrhoea copious, corroding, putrid, debilitating. Itching and smarting at night, as if fire were running out of parts.

Urinary

Increased, cloudy, phosphatic. Pain over region of bladder.

Back

Pain between scapulae, extending to forearm. Burning in nape of shoulders. Pain along spine; worse, bending. Weariness through hips and lumbar region.

Extremities

Pain in deltoid, shoulders, elbows, arms, and fingers. Pain about hip-joint. Legs heavy. Pain in ankle-joints and soles. Paralysis of lower extremities.

Modalities

Worse, from motion.

Relationships

Compare: Oxal ac; Lathyr; Caust.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

Source: Pocket manual of homoeopathic materia medica by William Boericke (1906). Public domain, transcribed by OOREP. Also in Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed., p. 358.

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