GUARANA


Homeopathy medicine Guarana from William Boericke’s Pocket manual of homoeopathic materia medica, comprising the characteristic and guiding symptoms of all remedies, published in 1906…


Guarana
(PAULLINIA SORBILIS)

Contains a large percentage of Caffeine, which may explain its use as a remedy for certain forms os sick headache.

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.

William Boericke
William Boericke, M.D., was born in Austria, in 1849. He graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in 1880 and was later co-owner of the renowned homeopathic pharmaceutical firm of Boericke & Tafel, in Philadelphia. Dr. Boericke was one of the incorporators of the Hahnemann College of San Francisco, and served as professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. He was a member of the California State Homeopathic Society, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He was also the founder of the California Homeopath, which he established in 1882. Dr. Boericke was one of the board of trustees of Hahnemann Hospital College. He authored the well known Pocket Manual of Materia Medica.