- Guai., which is one of Hahnemann's anti -psorics, is best known as a remedy in govt and rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues. and as a di uretic, but it has also taken a place in old -school therapeutics as a remedy for tuberculosis.
- Guai was first recommended by Brinton in the Lancet in 1857 for quinsy, was given in full doses and produced a crisis of sweat and profuse urination.
- Homeopathic provings developed and defined the sphere of its utility in these respects and many more.
- It acts on mucus membranes, muscles, fibrous tissue, joints and bones.
- Arthritic diathesis.
- Acute rheumatism.
- Gouty nodosities on joints.
- Nodes.
- Exostosis.
- Growing pains.
- TonsillitisInflammation of the tonsilsInflammation of the tonsils, typically of sudden onset, causing sore throat and fever. with rheumatism.
- Secondary syphilis.
- Contraction of limbs, stiffness and immo bility.
- Muscles and tendons are contracted, resulting in pain, rigidity and swelling o f the joints, and deformity.
- Muscles and tendons seem too short or feel sore.
- Contractions between scapulae, palms etc., causing distortions and immobility.
- Unclean odor from whole body.
- Promotes suppuration of abscesses.
- Free foul, secretions, expectoration, sweat, etc.
- Bones become spongy or suppurate.
- Burning heat in affected part.
- Sensitiveness and aggravationWorsening of symptomsAn increase in severity or intensity of symptoms, often caused by environmental factors or after taking a remedy. from local heat.
- Gnawing or sticking pains in chest.
- Pains often end in stitch, especially head.
- Contractive pain between scapula.
- Violent pains in limbs after a cold.
- Feeling that he must yawn, stretch with uneasy feeling in the whole body.
- Violent, spasmodic inflammatory disorders of windpipe and larynx with palpitation, preventing motion or calling for help, feels suffocating.
- Cough dry or with copious bloody or purulent expectoration of very offensive odor.
- Heat, swelling and blotchiness of face.
- Prosopalgia every day from 6 p.m to 4 a.m.
- Toothache when biting jaws together.
- Progressive emaciation.
- Desire for apples, which helps the gastric symptoms, and a general aversion to milk and food.
- “Violent hunger afternoon and evening,” similar to the “sinking” sensations of Sulph and the anti - psorics.
- Nausea from sensation of phlegm in throat.
- Marked flatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind..
- “Every morning vomits a mass of watery phlegm with great exertion, followed by great exhaustion.” Morning diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. with dry skin and chilli ness.
- Cholera infantum, the face is like that of an old person.
- ConstipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass., dry, hard, crumbling and very offensive stool.
- Continuous urging even after urination with profuse fetid urine.
- Stitches in neck of bladder after ineffectual pressure to urinate.
- Cutting while urinating.
- General ill feeling, better yawning and stretching, worse from the least motion.
- Clothes feel damp.
- Perspiration on head on walking in open air.
- ChillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets. crawls over breasts.
- Chilliness in back.
- Cannot bear heat with pains in limbs.
- Marked periodicity.
- Stomach illness returns every summer.
- MIND - Indolent, obstinate, fretful.
- Disinclina- tion to labor.
- Sadanddepressed.
- Weakmemo ry.
- Forgetful, thoughtless, staring.
- Forgetful of names.
- Slow to comprehend.
- Delusion everything seems narrow.
- Strong desire to criticize and despise every thing.
- Inclination to blame everybody and scold.
- Defiant.
- Disobedience.
- Shrieking during sleep.
- Weeping after nightmare