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Guaiacum officinale
Year 2025, Issue 8, Article 4CaseAuthor: Pavol Tibensky
Case of Guajacum
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Milka, 47 years old woman, married, visited me for pain in left hand, forearm and wrist in 2004. Their problems restricted her in her job.
- I have terrible pain in the evening and during whole night. It prevents from sleep. I do not know find place for my hands. I have no pain in the summer. I am stiff in the morning, one hour, I cannot turn tap. I use both hands, I help by left hand. Pain is severe, drawing inside, like pain of bones.
- I am work woman, I work manually. I had pain during work, drawing, stretching. I feel ant in my palm after pressing with other hand. Muscle as if.. I do not know. I do not admit pain during day: I must and no compromises. I cannot be unemployed, I must do something. I want to be totally healthy. I do not want drugs, I have time for them. I was like reborn after spa procedures, but effect lasted two weeks only. I am waiting for next stay in health resort Dudince. I must hold on, but I cannot.
- My nights are the most cruel from autumn to spring. Pain wake up me, during day and night too. I put my hand somewhere; I cannot put it back. I must change its position hundred times during one night. I have in view my pain only. I feel prickling in palm during change of weather, I feel it inside.
- I am not superstitious. You are like psychologist! So strange questions?
- I sweat a lot on face, like when man is at work. I do not tolerate air condition. I do not like roundabout from childhood.
- I like mostly apples. I eat them whole; I throw nothing away from it. I consume more apples in our family. I do not like milk. But if somebody will tell me my pains in hands will gone after milk drinking, I will drink it.
- I had terrible pain before menses, I have one child, and she is 18.
- I want to be bird. Bird is light, floating fascinates me. I have fear from heights. I am afraid from injections, but I suffer it, because
I must.
- I have ear inflammations repeatedly in childhood. I have bleeding from nose after night shift. It must be so and I must survive it./night shifts/
- I think I am lazy, mostly during winter. I like dancing, gardening. I have no time for thinking in my garden. I like dancing too much. I am a fidget, I must let off steam.
- I do everything for get rid of pain.
- I had a dream: terrorists chased me.
- I have one wish only: get rid of pain. I am too exhausted from it.
I cannot think.AnalysisRemedy was clear for her from those rubrics:
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing: Guajacum
EXTREMITIES - CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME: Guajacum
EXTREMITIES - CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME - left: Guajacum
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - apples - desire: Guajacum
GENERALS - LYING - agg.
GENERALS - NIGHT
GENERALS - REST - agg.
EXTREMITIES - PAIN – drawing
FACE - PERSPIRATION
EXTREMITIES - STIFFNESS - morning - bed, inCarpal tunnel on the left side is only symptom of Guajacum. But I do not use only symptoms very often; it could leads to many mistakes. Sankaran system is here very helpful.
Issue in the family Geraniales is need for sustained, prolonged exertion, activity, strength, effort, exertion. So active reaction is to be courageous, stimulated, euphoric, tough and bold. (Oxalis, Banisteria caapi. Guajacum). Failure side or the passive reaction there for is exhausted, weakness, immobility, aggravtes from exertion, prostration, enervation.Sensation:- Endurance
- There is need for sustained, prolonged exertion, activity.
strength, effort, exertion.
Passive Reaction:
- Exhaustion
- Immobility
- Agg. from Exertion
- Weakness
- Prostration
- Enervations
Active Reaction:
- Movement agg.
- Bold
- Courageous
- Euphoric
- Stimulated
- The main sensation in the Geraniales is the need for sustained, prolonged exertion, activity, strength and effort. So active reaction is to be courageous, stimulated, euphoric, tough and bold. The failure side therefore is aversion to work, exhaustion and weakness. It is clear in my patient.
- In Tubercular miasm the main feeling is a sense of oppression. It is a feeling that one's weakness is being exploited. The reaction is violent, almost tending towards syphilis. This remedy was great antipsoric remedy according to Hahnemann, yet known for tuberculosis too.
Murphy: Lotus MM Guajacum officinale
(resin of lignum vite)
Guaiacum, which is one of Hahnemann's anti-psorics is best known as a remedy in gout and rheumatism and as a diuretic, but latterly it has also taken a place in old-school therapeutics as a remedy for tuberculosis.
Guaiacum was first recommended by Brinton in the Lancet in 1857 for quinsy.
Growing pains.
Modalities
Better external pressure, apples, yawning and stretching from cold, locally. Worse from heat, touch, motion, exertion, rapid growth, mercury, puberty. Worse from cold, wet weather from 6 pm to 4 am.SymptomsMind
The mental state is one of weakness: weak memory and disinclination to labor. Sad and depressed. Forgetful, thoughtless, staring. Forgetful especially for names. Slow to comprehend. Strong desire to criticize and despise everything. Indolent, obstinate, fretful.
Food
Aversion to milk to all food, could not eat anything.
Desire from apples and other fruits. Desire for apples, which relieves the gastric symptoms.
Frequent waking from sleep, as if from falling.
Compare
(1) Merc., Caust., Rhus-t., Mez., Rhod.
(2) Ph-ac. - growing pains.
(3) Cimic. - pleurodynia and tuberculosis.
(4) Bry. - chronic rheumatism when the joints are distorted, worse
motion, pleurisy in second stage of tuberculosis.
(5) Coloc. - contractions after rheumatism.
(6) Caust. - Guai. is better than Caust., which it follows well, when
either gout or rheumatism causes distortion of limbs. (7) Araceae - late tuberculosis, pleuritic pains left apex. (8) Kali-i., Phyt., Still.
Exertion of patient is not psoric. Psora is according to Sankaran like football – every boy is able to play it. Psoric activity is very easily reachable. Amelioration follows after some not very difficult exertion. It is not here. She is not able to find place for her hands during night. She must change his position with extraordinary effort. She thinks about her pain only. Psoric people changes position of hand and everything is O. K. Activity of tubercular miasm fits with this case. Tubercular miasm in family Geraniales covers remedy Guajacum.
I prescribed remedy Guajacum C 200. Follow up- I could sleep whole night! I have no pains.
I repeated remedy 10 times, last three years in 1M potency. She is doing very well.
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Milka, 47 years old woman, married, visited me for pain in left hand, forearm and wrist in 2004. Their problems restricted her in her job.
- I have terrible pain in the evening and during whole night. It prevents from sleep. I do not know find place for my hands. I have no pain in the summer. I am stiff in the morning, one hour, I cannot turn tap. I use both hands, I help by left hand. Pain is severe, drawing inside, like pain of bones.
- I am work woman, I work manually. I had pain during work, drawing, stretching. I feel ant in my palm after pressing with other hand. Muscle as if.. I do not know. I do not admit pain during day: I must and no compromises. I cannot be unemployed, I must do something. I want to be totally healthy. I do not want drugs, I have time for them. I was like reborn after spa procedures, but effect lasted two weeks only. I am waiting for next stay in health resort Dudince. I must hold on, but I cannot.
- My nights are the most cruel from autumn to spring. Pain wake up me, during day and night too. I put my hand somewhere; I cannot put it back. I must change its position hundred times during one night. I have in view my pain only. I feel prickling in palm during change of weather, I feel it inside.
- I am not superstitious. You are like psychologist! So strange questions?
- I sweat a lot on face, like when man is at work. I do not tolerate air condition. I do not like roundabout from childhood.
- I like mostly apples. I eat them whole; I throw nothing away from it. I consume more apples in our family. I do not like milk. But if somebody will tell me my pains in hands will gone after milk drinking, I will drink it.
- I had terrible pain before menses, I have one child, and she is 18.
- I want to be bird. Bird is light, floating fascinates me. I have fear from heights. I am afraid from injections, but I suffer it, because
I must.
- I have ear inflammations repeatedly in childhood. I have bleeding from nose after night shift. It must be so and I must survive it./night shifts/
- I think I am lazy, mostly during winter. I like dancing, gardening. I have no time for thinking in my garden. I like dancing too much. I am a fidget, I must let off steam.
- I do everything for get rid of pain.
- I had a dream: terrorists chased me.
- I have one wish only: get rid of pain. I am too exhausted from it.
I cannot think.AnalysisRemedy was clear for her from those rubrics:
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing: Guajacum
EXTREMITIES - CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME: Guajacum
EXTREMITIES - CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME - left: Guajacum
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - apples - desire: Guajacum
GENERALS - LYING - agg.
GENERALS - NIGHT
GENERALS - REST - agg.
EXTREMITIES - PAIN – drawing
FACE - PERSPIRATION
EXTREMITIES - STIFFNESS - morning - bed, inCarpal tunnel on the left side is only symptom of Guajacum. But I do not use only symptoms very often; it could leads to many mistakes. Sankaran system is here very helpful.
Issue in the family Geraniales is need for sustained, prolonged exertion, activity, strength, effort, exertion. So active reaction is to be courageous, stimulated, euphoric, tough and bold. (Oxalis, Banisteria caapi. Guajacum). Failure side or the passive reaction there for is exhausted, weakness, immobility, aggravtes from exertion, prostration, enervation.Sensation:- Endurance
- There is need for sustained, prolonged exertion, activity.
strength, effort, exertion.
Passive Reaction:
- Exhaustion
- Immobility
- Agg. from Exertion
- Weakness
- Prostration
- Enervations
Active Reaction:
- Movement agg.
- Bold
- Courageous
- Euphoric
- Stimulated
- The main sensation in the Geraniales is the need for sustained, prolonged exertion, activity, strength and effort. So active reaction is to be courageous, stimulated, euphoric, tough and bold. The failure side therefore is aversion to work, exhaustion and weakness. It is clear in my patient.
- In Tubercular miasm the main feeling is a sense of oppression. It is a feeling that one's weakness is being exploited. The reaction is violent, almost tending towards syphilis. This remedy was great antipsoric remedy according to Hahnemann, yet known for tuberculosis too.
Murphy: Lotus MM Guajacum officinale
(resin of lignum vite)
Guaiacum, which is one of Hahnemann's anti-psorics is best known as a remedy in gout and rheumatism and as a diuretic, but latterly it has also taken a place in old-school therapeutics as a remedy for tuberculosis.
Guaiacum was first recommended by Brinton in the Lancet in 1857 for quinsy.
Growing pains.
Modalities
Better external pressure, apples, yawning and stretching from cold, locally. Worse from heat, touch, motion, exertion, rapid growth, mercury, puberty. Worse from cold, wet weather from 6 pm to 4 am.SymptomsMind
The mental state is one of weakness: weak memory and disinclination to labor. Sad and depressed. Forgetful, thoughtless, staring. Forgetful especially for names. Slow to comprehend. Strong desire to criticize and despise everything. Indolent, obstinate, fretful.
Food
Aversion to milk to all food, could not eat anything.
Desire from apples and other fruits. Desire for apples, which relieves the gastric symptoms.
Frequent waking from sleep, as if from falling.
Compare
(1) Merc., Caust., Rhus-t., Mez., Rhod.
(2) Ph-ac. - growing pains.
(3) Cimic. - pleurodynia and tuberculosis.
(4) Bry. - chronic rheumatism when the joints are distorted, worse
motion, pleurisy in second stage of tuberculosis.
(5) Coloc. - contractions after rheumatism.
(6) Caust. - Guai. is better than Caust., which it follows well, when
either gout or rheumatism causes distortion of limbs. (7) Araceae - late tuberculosis, pleuritic pains left apex. (8) Kali-i., Phyt., Still.
Exertion of patient is not psoric. Psora is according to Sankaran like football – every boy is able to play it. Psoric activity is very easily reachable. Amelioration follows after some not very difficult exertion. It is not here. She is not able to find place for her hands during night. She must change his position with extraordinary effort. She thinks about her pain only. Psoric people changes position of hand and everything is O. K. Activity of tubercular miasm fits with this case. Tubercular miasm in family Geraniales covers remedy Guajacum.
I prescribed remedy Guajacum C 200. Follow up- I could sleep whole night! I have no pains.
I repeated remedy 10 times, last three years in 1M potency. She is doing very well.