Jalapa

Jalap

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

(EXOGONIUM PURGA)

Causes and cures colic and diarrhœa. The child is good all day, but screams and is restless and troublesome at night.

Gastro-intestinal

Tongue, smooth, glazed, dry, smarting. Pain in right hypochondrium. Flatulence and nausea. Pinching and griping. Watery diarrhœa; thin, muddy stools. Abdomen distended. Face cold and blue. Anus sore.

Extremities

Aching in arms and legs. Pain in large joint of great toe. Smarting at root of nail. Burning of soles.

Relationship

Antidotes: Elater; Cann sat .

Compare: Camph; Colocy .

Dose

Third to twelfth potency.

Jalapa across the other classic books

Jalapa appears in 6 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.
“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…”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Intestines. Stomach. Night. Eructations. Child is good all day, but screams and tosses about all night. Colic. Stools watery, muddy or sour; bloody. Related: Colo.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Ipomœa purga (Hayne). Convolvulus purga (Wunderoth). Exogonium purga (Benth.). Jalap. (Mexico). N. O. Convolvulaceæ. Trituration of root. Anus, soreness of / Coryza / Diarrhœa / Gout / Fainting / Restlessness Jalap. is the well-known purgative of old-school practice. It has had a short proving by Noack and Trinks, and…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Jalap. Convolvulaceæ. Native to Mexico, from whence the first roots were brought by Coxe, in 1827. The flowers are large and lilac purple, the roots tuberous. The tincture is prepared from the dried and finely pulverized root. It has been much used by the Old School as an active cathartic, generally in connection with…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
““Child ‘good’ all day; screaming, restless and very troublesome at night” (frequently verified). I once had a case of entero-colitis that for more than eight weeks baffled my best efforts to cure. The case went from bad to worse, until it was reduced almost to a skeleton. Instead of screaming all night it screamed day…”

Jalapa in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Jalapa in 25 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (7), STOOL (5), GENERALITIES (3), MIND (3), MOUTH (2).

MIND - WEEPING,tearful mood,etc. - sleep,in - good during the day,screaming and restless all night
MIND - RESTLESSNESS,nervousness - children,in
MIND - SHRIEKING - children,in
STOOL - ODOR. - sour
STOOL - WATERY
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - pressing - Upper Arm - sitting amel.
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Leg - calf - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - JERKING - Forearm
MOUTH - PAIN - biting,in - Tongue
MOUTH - PAIN - stitching - Tongue
STOOL - FORCIBLE,sudden,gushing
EXTREMITIES - RESTLESSNESS
RECTUM - DIARRHOEA - night
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - burning - Foot - sole
GENERALITIES - PULSE - soft
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper Arm
GENERALITIES - WEAKNESS,enervation - morning
FACE - DRYNESS - lips
STOOL - COPIOUS

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