- 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.
- COMMENTS - Affected parts are very sensitive to touch, worse from heat.
- Offensive secretions.
- Rheumatism in syphilitic and mercurial patients.
- Growing pains in children.
- Acute tonsillitis, simple or rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues..
- Syphilitic sore throat.
- “Burning in the throat.” Erythematous or inflammatory anginaChest pain from reduced heart blood flowA condition marked by severe pain in the chest, often also spreading to the shoulders, arms, and neck, caused by an inadequate blood supply to the heart. with bright redness (Bell.).
- EdemaSwelling caused by excess fluid in tissuesA condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body. (Apis.).
- Phlegmon with tendency to suppuration of tonsils (Bar-c., Apis.).
- Burning sensations in mouth, throat and stomach.
- Stitches in chest going from front to back or from below upward in region of apex, worse from motion and deep inspira tion.
- “Sharp pain abo ut mid-day under right breast to shoulder.” NeuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves. of left side of head and face, extending to neck.
- Sharp stitches in brain.
- Sensation as if the brain were loose.
- External headache with sensation as if blood vessels were over-filled, extending to face and neck.
- Tearing pains in skull.
- Swelling and sensation of swelling in eyes and nose.
- Eyes feel protruded.
- Ozanam gave it in the 1c, 2c and 3c dilutions and found that he got the cura tive effects without crisis, which was an unnecessary effect of the dr ug.
- Guai., said Ozanam, seems to combine the properties of Bell., Apis and Bar-c.
- Houghton cured with Guai.
- 3x a case of gouty inflammation of the meatus of the ear and tympanum after failure with Ferr-p.
- Concomitant rheumatic lameness and soreness led him to Guai.
- Verwey treated a woman, who for sev eral years had a frequently recurring gouty inflammation of the knees.
- After Chin.
- 30c had failed to relieve, Guai.
- 30c was given without obvious benefit.
- Guai.
- 1c was then given, and after a few hours the swelling broke and the pains quickly subsided.
- A short time after, the same patient ac cidentally injured the same knee.
- Under Guai.
- 1c the swelling soon broke and the pain was relieved, but an abscessCollection of pus inside body tissuesA swollen area within body tissue, containing an accumulation of pus, typically caused by bacterial infection. formed at the same time on the upper thigh.
- The pain became unbearable and the patient's husband “begged for more of the drops that had twice before made the swelling break.” It was again given and in six hours the abscess evacuated.
- On two later occasions Dr.
- Verwey saw Guai act in the same way on scrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes. and gouty abscesses.
- This is probably analogous to its action in quinsy.
- Temperature - Sweat profuse on single parts, face etc.
- Night sweats.
- Burning of body.
- Hot palms.
- Burning fever with hot face and dry cough.
- Fever with chill in the evening.
- Distention, flatulent.
- Intestinal fermentation.
- Sensation of constriction or stoppage in epigastrium, causing cough, dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions..
- Aversion to milk, to all food, could not eat anything.
- Desire for apples and other fruits, which relieve gastric symptoms
