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Guaco

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Mikania Guaco · Climbing Hemp Weed · "The Snake Bite Cholera Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system and female reproductive organs, with a specific historical use as an antidote to venomous bites.

📖 Boericke writes:

Mikania, Climbing Hemp Weed

Acts on nervous system and female organs. Antidote to bites of scorpions and serpents (Golondrina). Cholera. Bulbar paralysis. Syphilis. Cancer. Deafness-tongue heavy and difficult to move. Spinal irritation. Spinal symptoms most marked and verified. Beer drinkers threatened with apoplexy. Diarrhoea and dysentery with aching in sacrum and loins.

Headache, red face. Heaviness and difficulty in moving tongue.

👤 Constitution

•Often indicated for individuals with spinal sensitivity, those prone to heavy tongue sensations, or beer drinkers who are at risk of apoplexy.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Bulbar paralysis.

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Syphilis.

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Spinal irritation.

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Diarrhoea and dysentery with aching in sacrum and loins.

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Pain along spine; worse, bending.

back

Paralysis of lower extremities.

extremities

🩺 Systems & Indications

🫁THROAT

Indicated for throat constriction and difficulty swallowing or moving the tongue.

Larynx and trachea constricted; difficult deglutition.

Tongue feels heavy, difficult to move.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Third to sixth

Decimal

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Oxalicum Acidum →Lathyrus Sativus →Causticum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Guaco is listed in 37 rubrics across 11 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 10 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Locomotor System15 Female Sexual System5 Nervous System4 Tongue3 Respiratory System2 Urinary System2 Generalities2 Circulatory System1 Fever1 Abdomen1 Male Sexual System1

See all 37 rubrics for Guaco →