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Guarana

Guarana (PAULLINIA SORBILIS)

Source: Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica

Contains a large percentage of Caffeine, which may explain its use as a remedy for certain forms os sick headache.

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.