Jatropha. (Jatropha Curcas.)
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Physic Nut. Euphorbiaceæ.
A shrub indigenous to the West Indies and South America.
The alcoholic tincture is prepared from the powdered seeds.
Provings by Hering and provers ; Jablanczy ; Thorer and Lembke.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Diarrhœa , Stow, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 209 ; Hencke, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 146 ; A. H. Z., vol. 89, p. 63 ; B. J. H., vol. 33, p. 315 ; Summer diarrhœa with vomiting , Blake, Hom. Rev., vol. 20, p. 606 ; Times Retros., vol. 2, p. 14 ; Cholera , Hencke, A. H. Z., vol. 83, p. 119, and Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 148 ; Hencke, Brutger, Lembke, Riedel, N. A. J. H., vol. 1, p. 427 ; Jablanczy, Rummel, N. A. J. H., vol. 1, p. 433 ; Lumbrici and ascarides , Schulz, N. A. J. H., vol. 1, p. 434 ; Vomiting of pregnancy , Chase, N. A. J. H., vol. 1, p. 427.
MIND [1]
Apathy ; indifference to pain.
Anxiety and anguish.
Anxiety, with burning in stomach and coldness of body.
SENSORIUM [2]
Giddiness, followed by unconsciousness and delirium.
Head hot, stupefaction, with yawning and nausea.
INNER HEAD [3]
Violent pressing pain in temples, > in open air, and reappearing when entering room.
Headache, with nausea and vomiturition, beginning in morning.
Head and heaviness of head.
OUTER HEAD [4]
Stiffness of muscles on forehead and neck.
SIGHT AND EYES [5]
Quivering in left upper lid.
Itching and smarting of margins of lids.
HEARING AND EARS [6]
Burning hot ears, with heat in back part of head.
SMELL AND NOSE [7]
Itching of nose while eating.
Ulcers in nose and mouth.
UPPER FACE [8]
Pale face with blue margins around eyes.
LOWER FACE [9]
Painful cracked lips.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]
Metallic, bloody taste, with much spitting of saliva (in morning).
Long continued pain and burning of tongue.
Numbness of tongue, with heat and dryness of mouth.
INNER MOUTH [12]
Increased accumulation of thin saliva.
Burning in mouth and throat, followed by dryness.
Dryness of mouth and tongue, without thirst (at night) ; mouth feels as if scalded.
Ulcers in nose and mouth.
PALATE AND THROAT [13]
Dryness in fauces and throat.
Spasmodic constriction in throat, ascending from stomach.
APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS [14]
Inextinguishable thirst, not satisfied by drinking cold water. θ Cholera.
EATING AND DRINKING [15]
Dreads to drink on account of nausea.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]
Eructations.
Hiccough, followed by copious vomiting of bile. θ Cholera.
Vomiting : of large masses of dark green bile and mucus ; of large quantities of watery, albuminous substances ; water is almost immediately vomited.
Very easy vomiting of a great quantity of watery, glairy fluid, accompanied by watery diarrhœa ; spasmodically contracting pains in stomach, burning in stomach, cramps in calves and coldness of body. θ Cholera.
Uninterrupted vomiting. θ Cholera.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]
Sensation of sinking, with nausea in pit of stomach.
Crampy, constrictive pains in epigastrium.
Persistent dull pressure in stomach.
Heat and burning in stomach.
Spasmodically contracting pains in stomach.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]
Much noise in abdomen, as if a full bottle was emptied, followed later by thin stool.
Rumbling in abdomen, with colic ; > when walking in open air.
Abdomen : distended and soft ; very much inflated ; distended, tympanitic ; swollen and sore to touch ; contracted. θ Cholera.
Pain in region of navel, deep.
Burning in abdomen ; seeks to cool himself by throwing off covering and lying on ground.
Lancinating, stinging pain with colic.
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Sudden desire for stool, and constant noises as of liquids in abdomen, especially in left side.
Thin stool, preceded and followed by much rumbling, and at times a noise as if a bottle was being emptied.
Colic followed by discharge of large, watery, odorless stool.
Continued discharge of water by stool.
Stools painless, thin, watery, with loud, fluid rumbling, and gushing out of stool ; < mornings.
Watery diarrhœa, as if it spurted from him.
Diarrhœa profuse ; gushing out like a torrent.
Severe diarrhœa occurring suddenly in Summer, in connection with a sharp attack of vomiting.
After taking cold, sleepless ; slight pain in bowels ; after midnight profuse watery discharge ; a few hours later, again and again, weakening patient greatly ; stools profuse, watery, without smell. θ Diarrhœa.
Easy vomiting of large quantities of watery substance like albumen ; diarrhœa, contents of rectum gush out like a torrent ; anxiety, with burning at stomach ; anguish, with coldness of body ; viscid sweat ; violent cramps in lower limbs ; calves look like flat splints ; abdomen flattened after many stools. θ Cholerine.
Vomiting, with cramp in abdomen ; frequent, profuse, pale, watery, urgent stools ; loud rumbling, as of water pouring from a bottle ; abdomen flat ; face pale, shrivelled ; great thirst for water or lemonade.
During menstruation, which had ceased for thirty hours, uninterrupted vomiting of scentless, white, gelatinous fluid ; cramps in calves and brachial muscles ; body blue, cold as marble, and covered with cold, clammy sweat ; pulse imperceptible ; abdomen contracted ; unquenchable thirst ; drinks much cold water ; burning in abdomen, which she seeks to relieve by lying on ground ; mind placid, rather ecstatic, taking little notice of her cramps and other affections. θ Cholera morbus.
Fearful vomiting, coming up at once in quantity, of watery or glairy fluid, with crampy, constrictive pains in gastric region, or burning in stomach ; continued discharge of water from anus ; cramps in calves ; general coldness of body. θ Cholera.
Sudden, violent vomiting of watery fluids, with cramps in stomach ; cool skin ; weak, soft, slow pulse ; great debility ; anxiety and fear, as though cramps in calves would set in ; stool diarrheic yesterday ; to-day neither stool nor urine. θ Cholera.
First stage of cholera, before period of collapse.
Constipation.
Very abundant alvine evacuations, mushy, with a large number of lumbrici and ascarides.
Griping, sticking pains in abdomen, continuing a long time, accompanied by sensation as if balls were rolling together in abdomen ; constipation ; pains occasionally so severe that he shrieked and writhed about in bed ; after five drops a copious evacuation with a quantity of lumbrici and ascarides ; the same with the following evacuations.
Stitches in anus and rectum.
URINARY ORGANS [21]
Frequent desire to urinate ; urine pale yellow, frothy.
PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION [24]
Vomiting during pregnancy.
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION [29]
Pulse imperceptible. θ Cholera.
UPPER LIMBS [32]
Cramps in brachial muscles. θ Cholera.
LOWER LIMBS [33]
Slight cramplike jerkings in both calves, with painless diarrhœa.
Cramps in calves. θ Cholera.
Violent, cramplike pain in lower legs, and cramps in calves, which become knotted.
Violent cramps in legs and feet.
Tingling in toes.
Itching between toes at night.
The heels are very sensitive when walking on them.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
Walking : in open air, rumbling in abdomen ; on heels, sensitive.
Writhed about in bed with pain.
TIME [38]
Morning : headache begins ; metallic, bloody taste, with much spitting of saliva ; stools <.
Night : dryness of mouth and tongue, without thirst ; itching between toes.
After midnight : profuse watery discharge ; a few hours later again and again.
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER [39]
Open air : pressing pain in temples > ; rumbling in abdomen.
Entering room : pressing pain in temples returns.
Seeks to cool himself by throwing off covering and lying on ground.
FEVER [40]
Chilliness in back, with heat in face and head.
Chilliness with cold hands and blue nails.
Coldness of body.
Body cold as marble and mottled blue. θ Cholera.
Cold hands, with heat in mouth and throat.
Heat in head, face and ears.
General cold, clammy perspiration.
Cold, clammy sweat on skin. θ Cholera.
ATTACKS, PERIODICITY [41]
Summer : severe diarrhœa occurring suddenly.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Left : quivering in upper eyelid ; noise as of liquids in abdomen on side.
SENSATIONS [43]
Mouth feels as if scalded ; as if balls were rolling together in abdomen ; rumbling as if a bottle was being emptied.
Pain : in region of navel.
Severe pain : in abdomen.
Lancinating stinging pain : in abdomen.
Violent cramplike pain : in lower legs.
Stitches : in anus and rectum.
Griping, sticking pains : in abdomen.
Violent cramps : in lower limbs.
Cramps : in calves ; in abdomen ; in bronchial muscles.
Violent pressing pain : in temples.
Contracting pains : in stomach.
Constrictive pains : in epigastrium, in gastric region.
Slight cramplike jerkings : in both calves.
Spasmodic constriction : in throat.
Persistent dull pressure : in stomach.
Smarting : of margin of lids.
Burning : in stomach ; of tongue ; in mouth and throat ; in abdomen.
Burning hot ears.
Heat : of head ; in back part of head ; of mouth ; in face ; in ears.
Dryness : of mouth ; of tongue ; in fauces ; in throat.
Numbness : of tongue.
Stiffness : of muscles on forehead and neck.
Sinking : in pit of stomach.
Heaviness : of head.
Tingling : in toes.
Quivering : in left upper eyelid.
Itching : of margins of lids ; of nose ; between toes at night.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES [45]
Touch : abdomen sore ; heels sore when walking on them.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]
Woman, æt. 22 ; cholera.
Woman, æt. 31 ; cholera.
Man, æt. 40 ; cholera.
RELATIONS [48]
Effects cease by placing hands in cold water.
Compare : the Euphorbiacea, viz. : Crot. tig., Euphorb. coral., Mancinella ; also Veratr . in cholera.