Grindelia Robusta

Guaco has a local repute as a remedy for the bites of serpents, for

hydrophobia, cholera, and cancer. In the homceopathic 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

leucorrheea, 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 <.

• ▸Feels full, as from quinine.
• ▸Pain in eyeballs, running back to brain; worse, moving eyes.
• ▸Pupils dilated.
• ▸Purulent ophthalmia and iritis.

Severe aching in occiput which sometimes extends over upper half of

back.—Headache and heat of head.

Conjunctiva injected, eyes look as in congestion of brain.—Pain in eyeballs running

• ▸directly back to brain, < from moving eyes.
• ▸—Pain in I.
• ▸eye and r.
• ▸knee like rheumatism; pain in

knee did not last more than half an hour, but that in the eye became more intense, pupil

becoming dilated; two hours later r. eye became affected in the same way (S).—Purulent

ophthalmia.—Iritis: traumatic; from cold; metastasis of rheumatism; the pain is intense, the fever

high.

Awakened 4 a.m. with pain and sudden call to stool of dark brown feecal

matter, thin and watery. Slept till 6, when he had another stool, sudden, forcible, profuse, with

appearance as of rice-water; some pain in back afterwards, with feeling of weakness and

fatigue-—Congestion of hemorrhoidal vessels.

Unusual flow of urine with excess of phosphates; pain over region of

bladder and weight and weariness through hips and loins.

Leucorrhea, copious, corrosive, debilitating; tanning thighs,

staining linen yellow; felt as if fire running out of her; terrible itching < at night.

• ▸An efficacious remedy for wheezing and oppression in bronchitic patients.
• ▸The sibilant rales are disseminated with foamy mucus, very difficult to detach.
• ▸Acts on the pulmonary circulation.
• ▸Asthma, with profuse tenacious expectoration, which relieves.
• ▸Stops breathing when falling asleep; wakes with a star, and gasps for breath.
• ▸Must sit up to breathe.
• ▸Cannot breathe when lying down.
• ▸Pertussis, with profuse mucous secretion (Coccus).
• ▸Bronchorrhoea, with tough, whitish, mucous expectoration.
• ▸Sibilant rales.
• ▸Weak heart and respiration.
• ▸Cannot breathe lying down.
• ▸Cheyne-Stokes respiration.

Burning in nape extending to shoulders.—Tearing stiffness, drawing-

tearing extending to axilla—Drawing-tearing in and between scapulze extending into

forearm.—Frequent fine stitches, tearing and violent drawing pains along spine, <

bending.—Aching and pressure forward in the lumbo-sacral region —Weight and weariness

through hips and loins.—Pain in sacrum and back with feeling of weakness and fatigue (after

diarrhoea).

Aching drawing and simple drawing pains in deltoid with a paralysed

sensation extending to forearm.—Tearing and dislocation pains in shoulders extending to

forearm.—Burning in shoulder-joint.—Tearing in elbows and fingers.

Soreness and pains as if beaten about hip-joint —Drawing in

thigh —Drawing and swollen feeling in calves ——Uneasiness and drawing in legs.—Tearing in

ankle-joints.—Burning and tearing in sales.

• ▸Rash, like roseola, with severe burning and itching.
• ▸Vesicular and papular eruptions.
• ▸Herpes zoster.
• ▸Itching and burning.
• ▸Poison oak (locally as a wash).
• ▸Ulcers, with swollen, purplish skin.

Epidermic rash like roseola, suffusing face, neck, and often the whole body, with

severe burning and itching (R).—Irritable eruptions, papular or vesicular (R).—Ulcers of leg with

fetid secretion, pain, much swollen purplish black skin (R).

Guaco.

• ▸Mikania guaco (a climbing composite of Tropical America).
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Composite.
• ▸Tincture or

decoction of leaves.

• ▸Cholera.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Hydrophobia.
• ▸Leucorrhcea.
• ▸Paralysis.
• ▸Phosphaturia.
• ▸Rheumatism.

Spine, affections of. Tongue, paralysis of.

• ▸Antidoted by: Kre.
• ▸and Sul.
• ▸(leucorrhoea).
• ▸Compare: Alum.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸(menstrual flow

• ▸feels hot); Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸(phosphaturia).
• ▸Leucorrhoea staining yellow, Carb.
• ▸an.
• ▸, Kre.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸ac.

Compare: Tart-emet. Eriodictyon; Lach; Sanguinar.

Tincture in 1 to 15 drop doses, also lower potencies.

Cutting pain in region of spleen, extending to hips. Spleen enlarged (Ceanoth; Carduus).