Jacaranda Caroba

Brazilian Caroba-tree

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

(JACARANDA)

Has reputation as a remedy in venereal diseases and rheumatism. Morning sickness. The urinary and sexual symptoms are important. Rheumatic symptoms.

Head

Vertigo on rising, with heavy forehead. Eyes pain; are inflamed and watery. Coryza with heavy head.

Throat

Sore, dry, constricted. Vesicles in pharynx.

Urinary

Urethra inflamed; discharge of yellow matter.

Male

Heat and pain in penis; painful erections; phimosis. Prepuce painful and swollen. Chancroid. Chordee. Itching pimples on glans and prepuce.

Extremities

Rheumatic pain in right knee. Weakness of lumbar region. Morning soreness and stiffness of muscles. Gonorrhœal rheumatism. Itching pimples on hands. Gonorrhœal and syphilitic arthritis.

Relationship

Compare: Thuja; Corallium; Jacaranda Gualandai (in syphilitic symptoms, especially of eye and throat. Chancroids; atonic ulcers . Dark, painless diarrhœa).

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.

Jacaranda Caroba across the other classic books

Jacaranda Caroba appears in 5 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.
“Jacaranda caroba, De C. Natural order , Bignoniaceæ. Preparation , Trituration of the flowers. Authority. Mure, provings 1 and 2 , Pathogénésie Brésil., p. 279. General Head. Heaviness of the head, which is painful all day (fifth day), 2. Dull pains in the head, all day (third day), 2. Sense of fulness in the head, in…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Caroba. Bignonia caroba. Jacaranda Braziliensis. N. O. Bignoniaceæ. Tincture of fresh flowers. Balanorrhœa / Chancre / Chordee / Gonorrhœa / Gonorrhœal rheumatism / Muscular rheumatism / Phimosis / Syphilis Several species of Jacaranda ("especially J. procera," says the Treasury of Botany) have the reputation of being…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Caroba. Bignoniaceæ. A tree common to Brazil. The tincture is prepared from the flowers. Provings by Mure. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 17 . CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Schüssler, Gilchrist's Surg., p. 572. Fulness : in head ; first in right, later in left temple, going to nape of neck, where it disappears. Pain, as…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Dull pain between the forehead and right temple, shifting to the other side and then disappearing. Fulness in the head. Fulness first in the right, later in the left temple, going to the nape of the neck where it disappears. Pain, as; if a plug were pressing on the right side of the forehead. Flapping in the ears, as…”

Jacaranda Caroba in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Jacaranda Caroba in 85 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in MALE GENITALIA (17), EXTREMITIES (15), MOUTH (10), SLEEP (9), RECTUM (7).

MALE GENITALIA - BLENNORRHOEA of glans
MALE GENITALIA - INFLAMMATION - Penis - prepuce
STOMACH - NAUSEA - eating - while
MALE GENITALIA - INFLAMMATION - Penis - glans
ABDOMEN - PAIN - stitching (Sticking,etc.) - Umbilicus - left side of
MALE GENITALIA - ERECTIONS, - painful - swelling of prepuce,from
MALE GENITALIA - ERUPTIONS - Penis - pimples - itching
MALE GENITALIA - INFLAMMATION - Penis - warmth of bed agg.
MALE GENITALIA - PAIN - pinching, - penis - prepuce
MOUTH - PAIN - burning,raw and smarting - Tongue - left side
RECTUM - ITCHING - siting,while
EAR - HEAT - left
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - aching - Upper Limbs - forenoon
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Wrist - spots
SLEEP - DREAMS - storms
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Elbow - evening
RECTUM - ITCHING - morning
HEARING - IMPAIRED - left
MALE GENITALIA - PAIN - Testes - walking,while
MALE GENITALIA - INFLAMMATION - Scrotum

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