Guaiacum



Stomach

Burning in stomach and abdomen. Cramps and pains in stomach. Every summer a severe stomach affection with vomiting of blood. Anxious sensation of constriction in the region of the stomach, which impedes respiration.

Abdomen

Pinching in the abdomen, as from incarceration of flatus. Sensation of emptiness, with borborygmi, and rumbling in the abdomen. Pain, as from hernia in the groins. Twitchings of the muscles of the abdomen.

Stool

Diarrhoea commencing in morning, skin dry, chilly. Thin mucous stool. Soft stool in pieces. Cholera infantum, emaciation, old- looking face. Constipation. Feces hard, crumbling, and very offensive.

Urinary Organs

Constant want to make water (even after urinating) with copious discharge of very fetid urine. Incisive pains in the urethra, on making water. Ineffectual want to urinate, with shootings in the neck of the bladder.

Male Sexual Organs

Emissions without lascivious dreams. Gonorrhea-like discharge.

Female Sexual Organs

Subacute and chronic ovaritis, especially in rheumatic women. Amenorrhea. Membranous dysmenorrhea.

Respiratory Organs

Dry cough with sensation in the epigastrium as if there were not sufficient air in it. Dry cough, by detaching a little mucus. Cough, with expectoration of fetid pus.

Chest

Shootings in the (left side of the) chest, worse by breathing, by moving head. Stitches from middle of right chest, ending in one below right scapula.

Heart

Palpitation.

Back and neck

Pressure on the vertebrae on the neck. Stiffness in the nape of the neck. Constant frequent stitches on left side of nape, extending from scapula to occiput, on motion, also on holding head still. Stiffness along the back, on one (left) side only, from the neck extending to the small of the back and sacrum, intolerable on slightest motion, or turning the part, not noticed on touch or during rest. Tearing and shooting in one side of the back only. Contractive pain between the shoulder-blades. Corrosive itching in the back (by day). Shiverings in the back in the afternoon.

Upper Limbs

Weakness in the arms. Tearing and shooting in the shoulder- blades, and in the forearms. Sharp stitches in the top of right shoulder. Rheumatic pains in left arm from shoulder to wrist. Lancinating rheumatic pains from elbow to wrist (left ) Rheumatic pains in left wrist-joint. Stitches in right thumb.

Lower Limbs

Pains in the bones of the thighs, pressive and tingling pains in the thighs, when seated. Paralytic tension in the thighs, on walking. Weakness in the thighs. Pricking in the nates, as if sitting on needles. Tearing, drawing lancinations in the leg, from right tarsus to the knee. Tension in thighs, especially right, as if the muscles were too short, with languor when walking, worse by contact, better when sitting.

Generalities

Rheumatic pains in the joints. Arthritic pains in the limbs, with shootings and tearings, and contraction of the parts affected. The pains are provoked by the least movement, and are accompanied by heat in the parts affected. Numbness of the limbs. Painful weariness and weakness in the arms and thighs, with dread of movement. Immovable stiffness of the contracted limbs. Frequent inclination to yawn, and to stretch the limbs, proceeding from a general sensation of uneasiness. The majority of symptoms show themselves, when sitting, as well as in the morning after rising, in the evening before lying down. Exostosis. Consumption.

Sleep

Great drowsiness in the afternoon. Late sleeping and early waking. Frequent waking with fright, sometimes on going to sleep. Restless tossing during the night. Nightmare, when lying on the back waking with screams. Feeling in the morning as though the sleep had been insufficient.

Fever

Shivering, chilliness, and shuddering, even near a fire, principally in the afternoon and evening. Shivering, without thirst, morning and evening. Heat in the face, especially in the evening. Sweat in the morning. Copious perspiration, especially on the head, when walking in the open air. Pulse accelerated, small, weak, soft.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica