# Guaco

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Gua. acts on the nervous system and female organs. Bulbar paralysis. Spinal irritation. 
Syphilis. Cancer. Cholera. Diarrhea and dysentery with aching in sacrum and loins.  Deafness. Tongue 
heavy and difficult to move. Beer drinkers threatened with strokes.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from motion. Worse bending. Worse at night.

## Symptoms by System

### Head
- Headache, red face.
- Heaviness and difficulty in moving tongue.
- Kidneys - Unusual flow of urine with excess phosphates.
- Pain over region of bladder and weight and 
weariness through hips and loins.
- Headache, red face.
- Heaviness and difficulty in moving tongue.
- Kidneys - Unusual flow of urine with excess phosphates.
- Pain over region of bladder and weight and 
weariness through hips and loins.

### Ears
- Deafness.

### Mouth
- Tongue heavy, difficult to move.

### Throat
- Larynx and trachea constricted, difficult deglutition.
- COMMENTS - In the homeopathic prov ings, rice-water stools occurred along with difficult swallowing, as in 
hydrophobia.
- One proving also showed an action on the bladder and urinary organs, producing excess 
phosphates.
- A woman who took a decoction for four moths steadily was obliged to discontinue because it produced copious, 
corrosive, putrid leucorrhea, causing great debility, tanning the inside of the thighs and staining linen yellow.
- She felt as if fire was running out of her.
- Terrible itching and smarting.
- Another prover had severe spinal and oc cipital pains, paresis of tongue and difficult deglutition.
- Burning and 
tearing in soles.
- Pain as if beaten.
- Pains extend to other parts, mostly from above downwards.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Pain and rumbling in bowels, followed by watery stools.

### Urinary & Genital
- Copious, corroding, putrid, debilitating leucorrhea.
- Itching and smarting at night, as if fire were 
running out of parts.

### Extremities
- Pain in deltoid, shoulders, elbows, arms and fingers.
- Paralysis of lower limbs.
- Legs heavy.
- Pain 
about hip joint.
- Pain in ankle-joints and soles.

### Neck & Back
- Pain between scapulae, extending to forearm.
- Burning in nape of shoulders.
- Pain along spine, worse 
from bending.
- Guaco 
Weariness through hips and lumbar region.
- Causations - Antidote to bites of scorpions and snakes (Golondrina).