Jalapa
by Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
Ipomœa purga, Hayne.
Natural order , Convolvulaceæ.
Synonyms , Convolvulus purga, Wenderoth; Exogonium purga, Benth.
Common name , Jalap.
Preparation , Trituration of the root.
Authority.
Noack and Trinks, Arzneimittellehre.
- Violent headache.
- Humming in the ears.
- Stinging on the tongue and in the fauces.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Increased motion of the stomach, sometimes attended with a slight degree of transitory nausea, succeeded by an increased activity of the small intestines as far as the region of the cæcum, where a sensation of illness becomes seated for a time; after this, the prover experiences a motion in the colon and its flexions, until a desire for stool ensues, which takes place without any great irritation, without being succeeded by any other irritation or desire, even if another looser evacuation should take place.
- Colic; violent seated pains in the small intestines, as if the abdomen would be cut to pieces.
- Inflammation of the intestines.
- Soreness of the anus.
- The first stool is always thick, and has a reddish tinge, with a sour smell, which is strikingly different from the putrid smell of the aloes stools. [10.]
- Violent, excessive evacuations.
- Bloody stools.
- After several watery evacuations, the pulse becomes perceptibly weaker.
- The number of pulsations diminishes.
- Excessive uneasiness and tossing about of the limbs.
- Pain in the thighs.
- Fainting fits.
- Weakness.
- Febrile attacks.
- After several watery evacuations the temperature decreases.