GUAIACUM OFFICINALE, 283 
Guaiac exists in the wood, and that the gum-resin is a peculiar 
substance called Guaiacine. 
Quin (op. cit.) orders, for homeopathic preparation, one 
part of the resin to be dissolved in twenty parts of alcohol. 
Jahr orders the three first attenuations to be made by tritura- 
tion. 
PuystotocicaL Exrrecrs.—When Guaiacum is given in 
large doses, or to plethoric or excitable individuals, it produces 
dryness of the mouth, sensation of heat at the stomach, nausea, 
loss of appetite, and a relaxed condition of the bowels; it also 
produces, in some cases, great perspiration, and by continued 
use it has caused a mild salivation (Burdach, Syst. d. Arzneim., 
bd. ii. s. 283). It increases the menstrual and hemorrhoidal 
discharges; and in very large doses, it causes heat and burning 
in the throat and stomach, vomiting, purging, pyrexia, and head- 
ache. 
Kraus (Heilmittel, 612) mentions a measle-like eruption over 
the whole body, as being produced by large doses of the wood. 
Pearson noticed that its continued use occasions heartburn, 
flatulence, and costiveness. 
Meprcau Uses (Homaoratutc).— Hahnemann’s observations : 
‘“* The homeopathic physician will find, in the few symptoms of 
Guaiacum, indications quite sufficient to show with certainty 
the value of this remedy in cases analogous to them, and will 
not be induced, by the indiscriminate praises of the common 
Materia Medica, to use it in nominal gout or rheumatism, = 
sly ascertaining whether its symptoms agree with 
out previou 
Tt has been found serviceable 
those of the disease in question. | 
in the following affections. Attacks of cephalalgia. —- 
of the eyes. Painful straining in the ears. Sensation as if 
mucus were in the throat, causing a feeling of nausea. Repug- 
nance to milk. Constipation. Stitches in the chest. Arthritic 
lancination in the limbs, the pains being excited by the slightest 
motion, and accompanied by heat in the affected parts, espe- 
cially when the patient had been injured by mercury. 
