Eugenia Jambos

Rose-apple

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

(JAMBOSA VULGARIS)

Eugenia produces a state of intoxication like alcohol. Everything appears beautiful and larger; excitement soon changing to depression. Acne, simple and indurated. The pimples are painful for some distance around. Acne rosacea. Nausea, better smoking. Comedones .

Head

Headache as if a board were lying on right side. Talkative. Hot lachrymation .

Extremities

Nightly cramp in soles of feet ( Cupr; Zing ). Skin cracks about toes. Fissures between toes. Skin recedes from the nails, forming pus.

Relationship

Compare: Eugenia chekun-Myrtus chekan (chronic Bronchitis); Antim; Berb aquif .

Eugenia Jambos across the other classic books

Eugenia Jambos appears in 4 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Eugenia Jambos, Willd. (E. vulgaris). Natural order , Myrtaceæ. Preparation , Tincture of the seeds. Authority. Dr. C. Hering. Archiv f. Hom. Heilk., 12, 1, 187 (with important corrections and additions from Dr. Hering in MS., Jan. 1876). Slight but long-continued drunkenness, which made him very talkative, but…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Eugenia vulgaris. Malabar Plum-tree. Rose-apple. N. O. Myrtaceæ. A tree native to the tropics, never without flower or fruit. Tincture of fresh seeds. Acne rosacea / Catarrhal fever / Catarrhs / Comedones / Constipation / Coryza / Cough / Diarrhœa / Diplopia / Hernia / Hiccough / Impotence / Influenza / Otitis /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Malabar Plum tree ; Rose apple. Myrtaceæ. A tree native to the tropics, never without flowers or fruit. The tincture is prepared from the fresh seeds, which are considered poisonous. Introduced and proved by C. Hering. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 231 . CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Epidemic catarrhal affections of…”

Eugenia Jambos in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Eugenia Jambos in 201 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in HEAD (28), EXTREMITIES (17), EYE (15), STOMACH (13), COUGH (12).

FACE - ERUPTIONS - acne - rosacea
FACE - ERUPTIONS - pimples
GENERALITIES - URINATION,after,amel.
EYE - PAIN - burning,smarting,biting - headache,during
PERSPIRATION - COITION,after
MALE GENITALIA - SEMINAL discharge - failing during coition
FACE - ERUPTIONS - comedones
FACE - ERUPTIONS - acne
HEAD - PAIN, - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - aching - Knee
HEAD - PAIN, - burning
RECTUM - HAEMORRHAGE from anus
BLADDER - URINATION - frequent - night
STOMACH - NAUSEA - headache,during
RECTUM - HAEMORRHOIDS
COUGH - HAWKING
GENERALITIES - PAIN - sore,bruised - siesta,after
HEAD - PAIN, - pressing - Sides - board,like a heavy
HEAD - ROLLING,in - lead ball rolled about,as if - vomiting agg.
MALE GENITALIA - SEMINAL discharge - late,too - the orgasm subsides several times before it leads to ejaculation

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