Materia Medica
Guaiacum
Resin of Lignum Vita
Chief action on fibrous tissue, and is especially adapted to the arthritic diathesis, rheumatism, and tonsillitis. Secondary syphilis. Very valuable in acute rheuma-: tism. Free foul secretions. Promotes suppuration of. abscesses. Sensitiveness and aggravation from local heat. Contraction of limbs, stiffness and immobility.
Mind
Forgetful; thoughtless; staring. Slow to comprehend.
Head
Gouty and rheumatic pain in head and face, c.tending to neck. Tearing pain in skull; worse, cold, wet weather. Feels swollen, and blood-vessels dis- tended. Aching in left ear. Cins often end in a stitch, especially in head.
Eyes
Fupils dilated. Eyelids appear too short. Pimples around eyes.
Stomach
Tongue furred.1 Desire for apples. Aversion to milk. Burning in stomach. Constricted epigastric region.
Abdomen
Much wind in bowels. Diarrhoea, cholera infantum.
Urinary
Sharp stitches after urinating. Constant 'desire.
Female
Ovaritis in rheumatic patients, with irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhcea, and irritable bladder.
Respiratory
Feels suffocated. Dry, tight cough. Pleuritic stitches. Chest pains in articulations of ribs, with shortness of breathing till expectoration sets in.
Back
Pain from head to neck. Aching in nape. 'Stiff neck and sore shoulaers. Stitches between' scapule to occiput. Contractive pain between scapula.
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 into- erant of pressure; can bear no heat. Stinging pain in limbs. Arthritic lancinations followed by contraction of limbs. A feeling of hieat in the affected limbs.
Modalities
Worse, from motion, heat, cold wet weather; pressure, touch, from 6 p. M. to 4 A. M. Bet- trr, external pressure.
Relationships
Guaiacol (in the treatment of gonor- rhcea epididymitis, 2 parts to 30 vaselin.locally). Antidote: Nux. Compare: Merc.: Caust.: Rhus; Mezer.: Rhodod.
Dose
Tincture, to sixth attenuation.