Guarana
Paullinia cupana · Plant · Sapindaceae
Suited to individuals who have abused stimulants such as tea, coffee, or alcohol, presenting with sick headaches that are throbbing and congestive. The nervous system shows signs of exhaustion alternating with intellectual excitement. Headaches are triggered by dietary errors or mental depression and are often followed by vomiting.
Key symptoms
- Sick headache in persons who have used tea and coffee in excess
- Throbbing, congestive headache after excessive use of liquor
- Intellectual excitement; uncontrollable sleepiness and heaviness of head after eating
- Flushed face with sleepiness after eating
- Persistent twitching of eyelids
- Profuse, bright green, bloody stools with flakes intermixed; odorless (cholera infantum)
- Chloasmata on temples and arms; urticaria
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse from errors in diet
- Worse from depression of mind
- Headache worse after excessive use of tea, coffee, or liquor
Better (amelioration)
- Vomiting relieves headache
Guarana (PAULLINIA SORBILIS)
Contains a large percentage of Caffeine, which may explain its use as a remedy for certain forms os sick headache.
Head
Intellectual excitement. Sick headache in persons who have used tea and coffee in excess. Throbbing headache after use of liquor.
Bowels
Stools profuse, bloody, bright green; flakes inter-mixed; odorless. Cholera infantum.
Skin
Chloasmata on temples and arms. Urticaria (Dulc; Apis; Chloral).
Sleep
Uncontrollable sleepiness and heaviness of head, with flushed face after eating.
Dose
Must be given in material doses-fifteen to sixty grains of the powder.
Paullinia sorbilis. Brazilian Cocoa. N. O. Sapindaceæ. Alcoholic solution of dried paste made from seeds.
Clinical
Alcohol, effects of. Coffee, effects of. Diarrhœa. Eyelids, twitching of. Headache.
Characteristics
Guarana is a climbing shrub of Brazil, the seeds of which contain Coffeine, and are used by the natives for making a beverage. In medicine it has found its principal use in conditions of nervous exhaustion; sick headache in those who have abused tea and coffee, the headache being followed by vomiting and excited by any error in diet or depression of mind. Throbbing, congestive headache after excessive use of liquor. Persistent twitching of eyelids is one of its indications. Diarrhœa.
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