Jalapa jal.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

Intestines. Stomach.

Worse

Night. Eructations. Child is good all day, but screams and tosses about all night. Colic. Stools watery, muddy or sour; bloody.

Related

Related: Colo.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Guernsey d. 1885; public domain)

General

Think of this remedy particularly when the child is "good" all day, but screams and is restless all night.

Mental

Violent restlessness, anxiety, crying.

Stool

Infants: watery; sour-smelling. In grown people: watery, decrease of pulse and heat.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Jalap (EXOGONIUM PURGA)

General

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.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Nash d. 1917; public domain)

Leaders

"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 and night, all the time (so the mother said), and certain it was, it was always screaming when I saw it. With the screaming there were constant contortions of the body, bending forward, backward and sidewise alternately. I cannot tell how many different remedies I tried, but finally, in the course of human events, l gave it some Jalapa, 12th, run up from some of the crude drug which I procured from an ordinary drug store. The child went to sleep, and from that nap, which was a good, long one, recovery was rapid and perfect. The only indication I had was that it caused colic and diarrhœa.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Ipomœa purga (Hayne). Convolvulus purga (Wunderoth). Exogonium purga (Benth.). Jalap. (Mexico). N. O. Convolvulaceæ. Trituration of root.

Clinical

Anus, soreness of. Coryza. Diarrhœa. Gout. Fainting. Restlessness.

Characteristics

Jalap . is the well-known purgative of old-school practice. It has had a short proving by Noack and Trinks, and a later one by Jeanes. The characteristic stools of Jalap . are: Watery, sour-smelling, and bloody. There is cutting colic before and during the stool. The most marked < is at night. A child may be quite quiet all day, but screams and tosses about all night . In such a case Jalap . is very likely to be the remedy whether the child is suffering from diarrhœa or other complaint. Allen gives this as cured: Coryza in an infant, violent attacks of crying and intense pain; quiet during the day, but screaming all night. Nash cured with Jalap . 12 a desperate case of entero-colitis in which there was screaming all day as well as all night. With the screaming there were constant contortions of the body, bending forward, backward, and sideways alternately. There is great restlessness and anxiety with Jalap . General coldness and blueness of the face. The abdominal pain is very severe: "as if the abdomen would be Cut to Pieces"; severe griping, cutting pains. Pain in sigmoid flexure. There is great weakness; fainting fits; excessive uneasiness and tossing about of limbs. There is > of pain by eructations of frothy matter and flatulence.

Relations

Compare: Camph. (diarrhœa with coldness); Coloc. (colic). Ir. t. (pain in cæcum).

Mind

Great restlessness with anxiety.

Head

Violent headache. ─ Pain in head; smarting in skin of forehead.

Ears

Humming in ears.

Face

Dryness of lips.

Mouth

Biting and smarting of tongue. ─ Stinging on tongue and in fauces.

Stomach

Flatulent and frothy eructations with abatement of pain. ─ Nausea.

Abdomen

Pain in r. hypochondrium. ─ Severe griping, cutting pain in bowels, < at night. ─ Pain in middle of abdomen and in region of l. superior flexure of colon. ─ Pain in cæcum. ─ Flatulent rumbling in bowels. ─ Colic: violent pain in small intestines, as if abdomen would be cut to pieces. ─ Inflammation of intestines.

Stool and Anus

Stools: violent, excessive; bloody; watery, with weak pulse; sour-smelling; with great restlessness and anxiety. ─ Before and during stool: cutting colic. ─ Pain in sigmoid flexure of colon. ─ Soreness of anus. ─ Diarrhœa in infants: child is quiet all day, but screams and tosses about all night (severe cutting, griping pain in bowels). ─ Infantile diarrhœa, general coldness, blueness of face.

Urinary Organs

Pain and pressure in region of bladder.

Male Sexual Organs

Thrilling sensation in urethra whilst urinating.

Back

Severe pain about superior margin of l. scapula.

Limbs

Aching in arms and legs, most r. side.

Lower Limbs

Pain in thighs. ─ Smarting on inside edge and at root of l. great toenail, with beat, tearing and pulsation. ─ Pain in large joint of great toe. ─ Burning of soles of feet.

Generalities

Fainting fits; weakness. ─ Excessive uneasiness and tossing about of limbs.

Fever

General coldness and blueness of face. ─ Febrile attacks. ─ Great disposition to perspiration of head and superior parts of body.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

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 other drugs. Its action was found to be violent, and in overdoses dangerous.
The symptoms contained in Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 181 , are from Noack and Trinks' Materia Medica, to which we add a small proving by Jeanes, made with the fourth dilution, in 1844.

Mind

Great restlessness with anxiety.

Inner head

Violent headache.
Pain in head ; smarting in skin of forehead.

Hearing and ears

Humming in ears.

Lower face

Dryness of lips.

Taste, speech, tongue

Biting and smarting of tongue.

Inner mouth

Stinging on tongue and in fauces.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Flatulent and frothy eructation with abatement of pain.
Nausea and vomiting.

Hypochondria

Pain in right hypochondrium.

Abdomen and loins

Severe griping, cutting pain in bowels, < at night.
Pain in middle of abdomen and in region of left superior flexure of colon.
Pain in cecum.
Flatulent rumbling in bowels.
Colic ; violent pains in small intestines, as if abdomen would be cut to pieces.
Inflammation of intestines.

Stools and rectum

Stools : violent, excessive ; bloody ; watery, with weak pulse ; sour smelling ; with great restlessness and anxiety.
Before and during stool : cutting colic.
Pain in sigmoid flexure of colon.
Soreness of anus.
Diarrhœa in infants : child is quiet all day, but screams and tosses about all night.
Infantile diarrhœa, general coldness, blueness of face.

Urinary organs

Pain and pressure in region of bladder.

Male sexual organs

Thrilling sensation in urethra whilst urinating.

Neck and back

Severe pain about superior margin of left scapula.

Upper limbs

Pain in thighs.

Lower limbs

Smarting on inside edge and at root of left great toenail, with heat, tearing and pulsation.
Pain in large joint of great toe.
Burning of soles of feet.

Limbs in general

Aching in arms and legs, most right side.

Nerves

Fainting fits ; weakness.
Excessive uneasiness and tossing about of limbs.

Time

Night : severe cutting, griping pain in bowels < ; child screams and tosses.

Fever

Febrile attacks.
Great disposition to perspiration of head and superior parts of body.

Locality and direction

Right : pain in hypochondrium ; aching in arm and leg.
Left : pain in superior flexure of colon ; severe pain about superior margin of scapula ; smarting on inside edge and at root of great toenail.

Sensations

As if abdomen would be cut to pieces.
Pain : in head ; in right hypochondrium ; in middle of abdomen ; in region of left superior flexure of colon ; in region of bladder ; in thigh ; in large joint of great toe.
Violent pains : in head ; in small intestines.
Severe pain : about superior margin of left scapula.
Tearing : at root of great toenail.
Severe griping, cutting pain : in bowels.
Cutting colic.
Aching in arms and legs.
Stinging : on tongue and in fauces.
Biting : of tongue.
Smarting : in skin of forehead ; of tongue ; on inside edge and at root of left great toenail.
Burning : of soles of feet.
Soreness : of anus.
Pressure : in region of bladder.
Pulsation : in great toe.
Thrilling sensation : in urethra.
Dryness : of lips.

Relations

Compare : Camphora (diarrhœa with coldness), Coloc . (colic).