Due to the multiple joint pains, the patients of Guaiacum stoop forward while walking. Their
knee joints become weak, and the hands and feet become stiff. The person may become
completely disabled physically. Besides Guaiacum, these symptoms can be treated
with Colchicum. The significant feature of Colchicum is that the pain starts at
the big toe. The salient sign of Guaiacum is that the affected area is
hypersensitive to any kind of touch. The symptoms become worse with the
application of heat. The swelling of the joints may lead to the formation of
ulcers and abscesses. Guaiacum is deeply related to the bones as well. The bones become soft, bend and become porous
like a sponge (osteoporosis). This condition often reminds one of Calcarea
Carb. However, if there is the tendency towards joint pains, Guaiacum will be
found more effective. Another sign of Guaiacum is the feeling of extreme
tiredness. On the slightest movement, the patient feels weak. The weakness then
involves the nerves leading to further physical weakness. The body then starts wasting.
Guaiacum is very useful in the treatment of tuberculosis in its early stages.
If the tuberculosis bacteria are present in the blood and the patient suffers
from rheumatism along with the tendency to development of boils, and there are
generalised body aches, then Guaiacum will be found very effective.
Guaiacum is also an antisporic remedy i.e. it is very
effective against skin
diseases related to psoriasis and leprosy. Sulphur and Psorinum are
also top class antisporic medicines. The nature of Sulphur is hot whereas that
of Psorinum is cold. However, Sulphur and Psorinum alone cannot cure all types
of psoriatic diseases. When such diseases have afflicted the mucous membranes
also, several other medicines need to be used. If the developing condition is
of eczema, the appropriate analogous remedy will need to be given according to
the type of the eczema. If a condition develops out of psoriasis and the appropriate
remedy administered, but the recovery stops after a little beneficial effect,
then it will become necessary to use other antisporic drugs in high potencies.
If the associated symptoms can be directly linked to a particular remedy, then
certainly that alone will be the most effective. Sometimes the picture is not
clear. In this condition, they will serve as a general cure for psora
facilitating the beneficial effect of similar homoeopathic remedies.
There is many a kind of skin conditions, which require to
be treated with their constitutional remedy. If the drugs selected after
careful thinking, do not benefit the patient, then it becomes necessary to use antisporic
drugs. They will reduce the aggressiveness of the sickness so that it becomes
responsive to the overall treatment. Besides Sulphur and Psorinum, these
medicines include Merc Sol, Tuberculinum and Syphilinum. Similarly, Guaiacum is
also antisporic.
Guaiacum is also related to facial neuralgia. In Guaiacum, there is a pinching
type of pain on one side of the face. It is very annoying. Spigelia is more effective in the treatment
of facial neuralgia on the left side while Silicea and Mag Phos are more useful
on the right side.In Guaiacum, the eyes
become swollen, the pupils are dilated and the eyelids are contracted. Small boils appear around the eyes.
Once in a while, the ear also hurts. This, however, is not due to any
infection or epidemic disease. Apparently, there is no swelling or
external redness. When the pain in the ears is about to disappear,
the patient feels pinpricks over the head. If a patient is suffering from severe cold along with a
runny nose and feels pain over the nasal bones, he can get relief with
Guaiacum. With this kind of cold, the patient feels pain in the jawbones. Eupatorium
Perfol is famous for the treatment of bone
pains. However, its effectiveness is limited. It has commonly been
found useful in the treatment of influenza like fever. There is a small insect
called “kutri”, found in the dry areas. Its bite produces severe burning
sensation and inflammation. It causes Dengue fever, associated with severe bone
pains. Eupatorium Perfol is very useful for the treatment of this fever. The
aches and pains associated with Guaiacum are precisely timed. The bone pain,
especially the pain in the roots of the teeth, often gets worse at night. Pains
starting at six o’clock in the evening and continuing up to four o’clock in the
morning, should be treated with Guaiacum. In the presence of its other
symptoms, Guaiacum will be found effective and fast. Along with the joint pains
and gout, there is a tendency of contracting sore throat. With the sore throat
the entire body starts hurting. Sometimes, toothache can also cause severe body
aches. In allopathy, the doctors usually advise the extraction of the tooth or
the surgical removal of the tonsils, but the aches and pains may still persist.
Timely treatment with Guaiacum will obviate the need for such surgery. In Guaiacum, the patient has a constant urge to pass urine,
but cannot ease himself. The repeated fruitless effort makes him restless. There is a kind of piercing sensation at the
end of urination. Women suffering from
rheumatism develop permanent
inflammation inside the uterus. They may develop complete cessation
of the periods or other conditions due to uterine dysfunction. There is a feeling of hissing over the
mammary glands. The overlying skin shrinks and small pimples develop over it. Rapid
heartbeat is also a symptom of Guaiacum. Furthermore, a dry cough and fever develop. Sometimes, rheumatic types of painsdevelop in the muscles of the chest wall, which become worse in winter. There is a feeling of pain over the heart. If the
rheumatic fever and the associated joint pains are suppressed with
some strong medication, the toxic material of the infection will afflict
the valves of the heart (rheumatic carditis). The patient feels discomfort
over the heart, like joint pain. When the heart gets afflicted
secondary to the suppression of flu, this will be best treated with Spigelia.
Spigelia is also of use to treat the aftereffects of the forcefully suppressed
gout. However, Guaiacum is more useful
for treating the gout as well as its deleterious effect on the heart. These
pains may be on the back of the neck and when associated with tightness and
stiffness of the neck;
Guaiacum should be remembered. Guaiacum is also useful in
the treatment of the pain over the upper arms, thighs, as well as the finger joints. In Guaiacum, the patient may also suffer from kidney problems.Usually, the patients sweat a lot, which in fact is
beneficial to them. As long as the
patient perspires, the symptoms of kidney dysfunction do not appear. As soon as
the patient stops perspiring, kidney symptoms will ensue. If such a patient
develops renal pain in the winter, he will benefit from sweating induced by
heat treatment. It simply means that the sweat, as well as the kidneys, helps
eliminate similar kinds of toxic materials from the body. Guaiacum helps in elimination
of these toxic materials and the salts from the body to keep their balance in
the blood. The symptoms of Guaiacum aggravate with movement, heat,
pressureand on touch. The symptoms ameliorate on the application of
external pressure