====== JATROPHA CURCAS ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Jatropha. {{anchor:s2}}(Jatropha Curcas.)</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s3}}Physic Nut. Euphorbiaceae.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}A shrub indigenous to the West Indies and South America.

{{anchor:s5}}The alcoholic tincture is prepared from the powdered seeds.

{{anchor:s6}}Provings by Hering and provers; Jablanczy; Thorer and Lembke.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s8}}- <span grade2>Diarrhea</span>, 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; <span grade2>Summer diarrhea with vomiting</span>, Blake, Hom. Rev., vol. 20, p. 606; Times Retros., vol. 2, p. 14; <span grade2>Cholera</span>, 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; <span grade2>Lumbrici and ascarides</span>, Schulz, N. A. J. H., vol. 1, p. 434; <span grade2>Vomiting of pregnancy</span>, Chase, N. A. J. H., vol. 1, p. 427.

====== MIND. [1] ======

{{anchor:s10}}Apathy; indifference to pain.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Anxiety and anguish.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Anxiety, with burning in stomach and coldness of body.

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

{{anchor:s14}}Giddiness, followed by unconsciousness and delirium.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Head hot, stupefaction, with yawning and nausea.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

{{anchor:s17}}Violent pressing pain in temples, amel. in open air, and reappearing when entering room.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Headache, with nausea and vomiturition, beginning in morning.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Head and heaviness of head.

====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======

{{anchor:s21}}Stiffness of muscles on forehead and neck.

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s23}}Quivering in left upper lid.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s24}}Itching and smarting of margins of lids.</span>

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

{{anchor:s26}}Burning hot ears, with heat in back part of head.

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

{{anchor:s28}}Itching of nose while eating.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Ulcers in nose and mouth.

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

{{anchor:s31}}Pale face with blue margins around eyes.

====== LOWER FACE. [9] ======

{{anchor:s33}}Painful cracked lips.

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

{{anchor:s35}}Metallic, bloody taste, with much spitting of saliva (in morning).\\ {{anchor:s36}}Long continued pain and burning of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Numbness of tongue, with heat and dryness of mouth.

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

{{anchor:s39}}Increased accumulation of thin saliva.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Burning in mouth and throat, followed by dryness.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Dryness of mouth and tongue, without thirst (at night); mouth feels as if scalded.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Ulcers in nose and mouth.

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s44}}Dryness in fauces and throat.</span>\\ {{anchor:s45}}Spasmodic constriction in throat, ascending from stomach.

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s48}}Inextinguishable thirst, not satisfied by drinking cold water.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s49}}~</span> <span grade3>Cholera.</span>

====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s51}}Dreads to drink on account of nausea.</span>

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

{{anchor:s53}}Eructations.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s54}}Hiccough, followed by copious vomiting of bile.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s55}}~</span> <span grade3>Cholera.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s56}}Vomiting: of large masses of dark green bile and mucus; of large quantities of watery, albuminous substances; water is almost immediately vomited.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s57}}Very easy vomiting of a great quantity of watery, glairy fluid, accompanied by watery diarrhea; spasmodically contracting pains in stomach, burning in stomach, cramps in calves and coldness of body.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s58}}~</span> <span grade3>Cholera.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s59}}Uninterrupted vomiting.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s60}}~</span> <span grade3>Cholera.</span>

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

{{anchor:s62}}Sensation of sinking, with nausea in pit of stomach.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s63}}Crampy, constrictive pains in epigastrium.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s64}}Persistent dull pressure in stomach.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s65}}Heat and burning in stomach.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s66}}Spasmodically contracting pains in stomach.</span>

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s68}}Much noise in abdomen, as if a full bottle was emptied, followed later by thin stool.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s69}}Rumbling in abdomen, with colic; amel. when walking in open air.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s70}}Abdomen: distended and soft; very much inflated; distended, tympanitic; swollen and sore to touch; contracted.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s71}}~</span> <span grade3>Cholera.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s72}}Pain in region of navel, deep.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s73}}Burning in abdomen; seeks to cool himself by throwing off covering and lying on ground.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s74}}Lancinating, stinging pain with colic.</span>

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s76}}Sudden desire for stool, and constant noises as of liquids in abdomen, especially in left side.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s77}}Thin stool, preceded and followed by much rumbling, and at times a noise as if a bottle was being emptied.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s78}}Colic followed by discharge of large, watery, odorless stool.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s79}}Continued discharge of water by stool.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s80}}Stools painless, thin, watery, with loud, fluid rumbling, and gushing out of stool; agg. mornings.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s81}}Watery diarrhea, as if it spurted from him.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s82}}Diarrhea profuse; gushing out like a torrent.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s83}}Severe diarrhea occurring suddenly in Summer, in connection with a sharp attack of vomiting.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s84}}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.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s85}}~</span> <span grade3>Diarrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s86}}Easy vomiting of large quantities of watery substance like albumen; diarrhea, 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.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s87}}~</span> <span grade3>Cholerine.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s88}}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.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s89}}During menses, 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.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s90}}~</span> <span grade3>Cholera morbus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s91}}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.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s92}}~</span> <span grade3>Cholera.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s93}}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.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s94}}~</span> <span grade3>Cholera.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s95}}First stage of cholera, before period of collapse.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s96}}Constipation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s97}}Very abundant alvine evacuations, mushy, with a large number of lumbrici and ascarides.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s98}}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.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s99}}Stitches in anus and rectum.</span>

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

{{anchor:s101}}Frequent desire to urinate; urine pale yellow, frothy.

====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s105}}Vomiting during pregnancy.</span>

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s107}}Pulse imperceptible.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s108}}~</span> <span grade3>Cholera.</span>

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s110}}Cramps in brachial muscles.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s111}}~</span> <span grade3>Cholera.</span>

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s113}}Slight cramplike jerkings in both calves, with painless diarrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s114}}Cramps in calves.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s115}}~</span> <span grade3>Cholera.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s116}}Violent, cramplike pain in lower legs, and cramps in calves, which become knotted.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s117}}Violent cramps in legs and feet.</span>\\ {{anchor:s118}}Tingling in toes.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Itching between toes at night.\\ {{anchor:s120}}The heels are very sensitive when walking on them.

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s124}}Walking: in open air, rumbling in abdomen; on heels, sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Writhed about in bed with pain.

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s127}}Morning: headache begins; metallic, bloody taste, with much spitting of saliva; stools agg.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Night: dryness of mouth and tongue, without thirst; itching between toes.\\ {{anchor:s129}}After midnight: profuse watery discharge; a few hours later again and again.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s131}}Open air: pressing pain in temples amel.; rumbling in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Entering room: pressing pain in temples returns.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Seeks to cool himself by throwing off covering and lying on ground.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

{{anchor:s135}}Chilliness in back, with heat in face and head.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Chilliness with cold hands and blue nails.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s137}}Coldness of body.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s138}}Body cold as marble and mottled blue.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s139}}~</span> <span grade3>Cholera.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s140}}Cold hands, with heat in mouth and throat.</span>\\ {{anchor:s141}}Heat in head, face and ears.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s142}}General cold, clammy perspiration.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s143}}Cold, clammy sweat on skin.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s144}}~</span> <span grade3>Cholera.</span>

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s146}}Summer: severe diarrhea occurring suddenly.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s148}}Left: quivering in upper eyelid; noise as of liquids in abdomen on side.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s150}}Mouth feels as if scalded; as if balls were rolling together in abdomen; rumbling as if a bottle was being emptied.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Pain: in region of navel.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Severe pain: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Lancinating stinging pain: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Violent cramplike pain: in lower legs.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Stitches: in anus and rectum.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Griping, sticking pains: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Violent cramps: in lower limbs.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Cramps: in calves; in abdomen; in bronchial muscles.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Violent pressing pain: in temples.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Contracting pains: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Constrictive pains: in epigastrium, in gastric region.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Slight cramplike jerkings: in both calves.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Spasmodic constriction: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Persistent dull pressure: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Smarting: of margin of lids.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Burning: in stomach; of tongue; in mouth and throat; in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Burning hot ears.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Heat: of head; in back part of head; of mouth; in face; in ears.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Dryness: of mouth; of tongue; in fauces; in throat.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Numbness: of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Stiffness: of muscles on forehead and neck.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Sinking: in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Heaviness: of head.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Tingling: in toes.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Quivering: in left upper eyelid.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Itching: of margins of lids; of nose; between toes at night.

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s180}}Touch: abdomen sore; heels sore when walking on them.

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s182}}Woman, aet. 22; cholera.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Woman, aet. 31; cholera.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Man, aet. 40; cholera.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s186}}Effects cease by placing hands in cold water.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Compare: the Euphorbiaceae, viz.{{anchor:s188}}: <span grade2>Crot. tig., Euphorb. coral., Mancinella</span>; also <span grade2>Veratr.</span> in cholera.

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 06, 1888 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r391|Jatropha curcas]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r391|Jatropha curcas]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1888 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}