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GUARANA – HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA – By William BOERICKE

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GUARANA
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.

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