Guaiacum

COMMON NAME:

      LIGNUM VITAE.

Symptoms

      Gouty nodosities (Am-M., Causticum, Benz-Ac., Lycopodium, Sarsaparilla) (D).

The affected parts are very sensitive to contract (Arnica, Kali carb., Lachesis).

Rheumatic affections, with contraction of the flexors and stiffness of the joints (Am-M., Causticum, Cimex., Natrum muriaticum) (A.).

JOINTS BECOME DISTORTED BY CONCRETIONS (Apis., Benz-Ac., Calcarea, Calcarea fluorica., Colchicum, Form., Graphites, Ledum, Lithium carb., Lycopodium, Silicea) (D.).

The limbs go to sleep.

Great weakness and debility in the legs with disinclination to move (Cocc., Conium, Kali carb., Nat-S., Nux-M., Nux vomica, Acid phosphoricum., Plb., Rhus toxicodendron, Sepia, Thuja).

Stiffness of the contracted parts (Am-M., Causticum, Lycopodium).

Tearing and stinging pain in the muscles of the upper and lower extremities, with heat of the parts.

Swelling and softening of the bones (Calcarea, Calcarea phos., Silicea).

Caries (Calcarea, Calcarea phos., Mercurius, Acid nitricum, Phosphorus, Sil).

Small pulse (Arsenicum, Camph., Carbo vegetabilis, Cuprum, Digitalis, Laur., Secale, Silicea, Stramonium, Veratrum) (G.).

Sensation of protruding and swelling of the eyes; the lids seem too short to cover them (N.).

THROAT: BURNING DRY, PAINFUL TO THE TOUCH (Arsenicum, Phytolacca, Sulphur) (B.).

One-sided complaints.

Uncomfortable feeling in the body.

Painful deglutition (Belladonna, Mercurius) (BI.).

Follicular tonsillitis (Kali- C.) (BI.).

Sweat profuse, on single parts, face, etc. (B).

Night-sweats (Heat., Kali carb., Mercurius, Acid nitricum, Phosphorus, Silicea, Sulphur, Thuja) (B).

Dry cough, with sharp, pleuritic pains (Bryonia,Conium, Phosphorus) (BI.).

COUGH WITH EXPECTORATION OF FETID PUS ( Arsenicum, Calcarea, Caps., Kali carb., Mercurius, Nit- Ac., Phosphorus, Silicea) (N.)

Recurrent pleurisy (Calcarea, Carb-An., Kali carb., Phosphorus, Silicea, Tuberculinum) (B.).

Constipation (Alumina, Bryonia, Sulphur).

Hard and crumbling stools (Am-M.).

AGGRAVATION:

      From motions; in the evening; in the morning; while sitting; in the open air; in the fore-noon; from pressure; and from heat.

AMELIORATION:

      In the room.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Similar to: Am-M., Bryonia, Causticum, Hepar, Mercurius, Acid nitricum, Phosphorus, Silicea, and Tuberculinum

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)