The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica
Guarana guar.
General
Paullinia Sorbilis ; Brazilian Cocoa. Sapindaceæ.
A climbing shrub, native to Brazil, the seeds of which contain Caffeine , and are used by the aborigines as a beverage.
Alcoholic solution of the dried paste made from the seeds.
Introduced by Gavrelle, who found it useful "in diarrhœa of phthisis, sick headache, paralysis, tedious convalescence, and as a general tonic". --U. S. D.
Proving by Macdowell, see Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 4, p. 511 .
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Headache , Bradley, Hom. Rev., vol. 16, p. 504 ; Megrim , Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 34 ; Palliative use in megrim , Müller, Trinks, B. J. H., vol. 21, p. 20, 284 ; Diarrhœa , dysentery, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 34.
Mind
Gayety ; extravagant behavior.
Mental hyperesthesia ; intellectual excitement.
Inner head
Sick headache in persons who have used tea and coffee to excess, or in whom nervous headaches, followed by vomiting, are excited by any error in diet or depression of mind.
Frequent attacks of sick headache.
Megrim.
Outer head
Throbbing, congestive headache after excessive use of liquor.
Sight and eyes
Persistent twitching of eyelids.
Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions
Loss of appetite.
Stools and rectum
Profuse, green, odorless, mucous stools. θ Infantile diarrhœa.
Summer complaints of children ; diarrhœa from teething ; diarrhœa and vomiting from improper food.
Cholera infantum.
Chronic diarrhœa, nearly to marasmus, in a child.
Diarrhœa of phthisis.
Urinary organs
Spasm of the bladder.
Heart, pulse and circulation
Diminution of the heart-beats.
Nerves
Restlessness.
Nervousness and weariness.
Neuralgia.
Rheumatic neuralgia.
Reduced vital powers ; grief ; depression of spirits ; anorexia ; nervous hemicrania.
Convalescence from prostrating diseases.
Paralysis.
Sleep
Unpleasant and uncontrollable sleepiness, drowsiness and heaviness of head, with flushed face, in persons of sedentary habits, after eating.
Sleeplessness.
Attacks, periodicity
Frequent attacks of sick headache.
Sensations
Rheumatic neuralgia.
Throbbing, congestive headache.
Twitching : of eyelids.
Spasm of bladder.
Tissues
Chlorosis.
Skin
Urticaria ; prurigo.
Relations
Compare : Agar . (in twitching of eyelids) ; Ignat., Nux vom ., especially latter, in sick headache, etc.