Guaco
Mikania guaco · Plant · Asteraceae
Suited to patients with spinal irritation, nervous system involvement, and paralytic tendencies particularly in the lower extremities. The remedy picture includes debilitating mucous discharges, heaviness and weakness of limbs, and characteristic tongue heaviness with difficult articulation. Beer drinkers threatened with apoplexy are a noted constitutional indication.
Key symptoms
- Tongue heavy and difficult to move; deafness
- Spinal irritation with pain along spine worse bending
- Diarrhoea and dysentery with aching in sacrum and loins
- Larynx and trachea constricted with difficult swallowing
- Copious, corroding, putrid, debilitating leucorrhoea
- Pain between scapulae extending to forearm; burning in nape
- Paralysis of lower extremities; legs heavy
- Pain in ankle joints, soles, deltoid, and fingers
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse from motion
- Worse bending (spine pain)
- Itching and smarting of leucorrhoea worse at night
Better (amelioration)
- Rest provides some relief from pain
Mikania, Climbing Hemp Weed
Acts on nervous system and female organs. Antidote to bites of scorpions and serpents (Golondrina). Cholera. Bulbar paralysis. Syphilis. Cancer. Deafness-tongue heavy and difficult to move. Spinal irritation. Spinal symptoms most marked and verified. Beer drinkers threatened with apoplexy. Diarrhœa and dysentery with aching in sacrum and loins.
Headache, red face. Heaviness and difficulty in moving tongue.
Throat
Larynx and trachea constricted; difficult deglutition. Tongue feels heavy, difficult to move.
Female
Leucorrhœa copious, corroding, putrid, debilitating. Itching and smarting at night, as if fire were running out of parts.
Urine
Increased, cloudy, phosphatic. Pain over region of bladder.
Back
Pain between scapulæ, extending to forearm. Burning in nape of shoulders. Pain along spine; worse, bending. Weariness through hips and lumbar region.
Extremities
Pain in deltoid, shoulders, elbows, arms, and fingers. Pain about hip-joint. Legs heavy. Pain in ankle-joints and soles. Paralysis of lower extremities.
Modalities
Worse, from motion.
Relationship
Compare: Oxal ac; Lathyr; Caust.
Dose
Third to sixth potency.
Mikania guaco (a climbing composite of Tropical America). N. O. Compositæ. Tincture or decoction of leaves.
Clinical
Cholera. Diarrhœa. Hydrophobia. Leucorrhœa. Paralysis. Phosphaturia. Rheumatism. Spine, affections of. Tongue, paralysis of.
Characteristics
Guaco has a local repute as a remedy for the bites of serpents, for hydrophobia, cholera, and cancer. In the homœopathic provings rice-water stools occurred; and difficulty of swallowing as in hydrophobia. One proving also showed an action on the bladder and urinary organs, producing excess of phosphates. A lady who took a decoction for four months steadily, was obliged to discontinue because it produced: Copious, corrosive, putrid leucorrhœa, 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 occipital pains; paresis of tongue and difficult deglutition. Burning and tearing in soles. Pains as if beaten. Pains extend to other parts, mostly from above downwards. < At night. Motion <.
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