Jatropha Curcas jatr.

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

Stomach. Intestines.

Worse

Covering. Morning. Summer.

Better

Hands in cold water.

General

Icy coldness; of lower limbs.

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Particulars

Vomiting; albuminous; easy. Loud gurgle, like water from a bung-hole, in abdomen; then profuse gushing stools. Rice water stools. Violent cramps, that draw the calves flat.

Related

Related: Crot-t.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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General

In diarrhœa, cholera, etc., when a loud noise is heard in the abdomen, like the gurgling of water coming out of the bung hole of a barrel, during the fecal discharge. Albuminous vomiting; copious thirst; glass of water almost immediately vomited.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Purging Nut (JATROPHA)

General

Of value in cholera and diarrhœa. The abdominal symptoms are most important. Suppressed measles (H. Farrington).

Stomach

Hiccough, followed by copious vomiting. Nausea and vomiting, brought on by drinking, with acrid feeling from throat. Great thirst. Very easy vomiting. Heat and burning in stomach, with crampy, constrictive pain in epigastrium.

Abdomen

Distended, with gurgling noises. Pain in hypochondria. Pain in region of liver and under right scapula to shoulder. Violent urging to urinate.

Stool

Sudden, profuse, watery, like rice-water. Diarrhœa; forced discharge; loud noise in abdomen like gurgling of water coming out of a bung-hole, associated with coldness, cramps, nausea, and vomiting.

Extremities

Cramps in muscles, especially calves, legs, and feet. Coldness of whole body. Pain in ankles, feet and toes. Heels sensitive.

Modalities

Better, by placing hands in cold water.

Relationship

Compare: Camph; Verat; Gambog; Croton; Jatropha urens--Sponge-nettle--(œdema and cardiac paresis).

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

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Mind and Disposition

Anxiety, with burning in the stomach and coldness of the body. Quietude of mind ; indifference to pain.

Head

Giddiness, followed by unconsciousness and delirium. Heat and heaviness of the head. Head hot ; stupefaction, with yawning and nausea. Heat in the head, face and ears. Headache, with nausea and vomiturition, beginning in the morning. Violent pressing pain in the temples, ceasing in the open air and reappearing when entering the room. Stiffness of the muscles on the forehead and neck.

Eyes

Itching and smarting of the edges of the eyelids. Twitching of the left upper eyelid.

Ears

Burning in the ears, with heat in the head. Burning hot ears, with heat in the back part of the head.

Nose

Itching of the nose while eating. Ulcers in the nose (and mouth).

Face

Hot face and head ; chilliness in the back. Pale face with blue margin around the eyes. Painful cracked lips.

Mouth and Throat

Metallic-bloody taste, with much spitting of saliva (in the morning). Long-continued pain and burning of the tongue. Numbness of the tongue, with heat and dryness of the mouth. Dryness of the mouth and tongue, without thirst (at night) ; the mouth feels ; as if scalded. Dryness of the throat. Burning in the mouth and throat, followed by dryness. Spasmodic constriction in the throat, ascending from the stomach. Increased accumulation of thin saliva.

Stomach and Abdomen

Violent, irresistible thirst, when drinking cold water. Eructations ; of air. Vomiting of a large mass of dark-green bile. Vomiting of large quantities of watery, albuminous substances ; at the same time watery diarrhœa, with spasmodically contracting pains in the stomach, burning in the stomach, cramps ; in the calves ; and coldness of the body. (Cholera). Vomiting of pregnant women. Heat and burning in the stomach. Sensation of sinking, with nausea in the pit of the stomach. Pain deep in the abdomen, behind the navel. The abdomen is swollen and is sore to the touch. Lancinating, stinging pain with the colic. Tympanitis. Rumbling in the abdomen, with colic ; better when walking in the open air. Noise in the intestines, as ; if a bottle were emptied, or as if a fluid were running in the intestines ; not relieved by a loose stool.

Stool and Anus

Watery diarrhœa ; it gushes from him like a torrent. Cholera-Stool watery and in gushes. Stitches at the anus ; and in the rectum.

Urinary Organs

Frequent desire to urinate ; urine, pale-yellow, frothy.

Extremities

Cramps in the muscles of the (upper) arms. Cramps in the calves of the legs. (Cholera). Tingling in the toes. Itching between the toes at night. The heels are very sensitive when walking on them.

Fever

Chilliness in the back, with heat in the face and head. Chilliness with cold hands and blue nails. Coldness of the whole body ; chilliness and clammy perspiration. Cold hands, with heat in the mouth and throat. Cold, clammy perspiration.

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

Jatropha curcas. Physic nut. (West Indies.) N. O. Euphorbiaceæ. Tincture and trituration of seeds.

Clinical

Blepharospasm. Borborygmi Cholera. Cholerine. Cramps. Diarrhœa. Eyelids, margins of, inflamed. Heels, sensitive. Mouth, ulceration of. Skin, affections of. Vomiting. Worms.

Characteristics

Jatropha is one of the most active of the Euphorbians and strongly resembles Croton in its action, especially in the urgent gushing stools and the irritation and pimples of the skin. One of the most notable characteristics of Jatropha is the very marked and peculiar gurgling it causes: "Much noise in abdomen as if a bottle was being emptied, followed later by a thin stool." " Sudden desire for stool, and constant noises as of liquids in abdomen, especially on left side." The diarrhœa is very often associated with coldness; with mottled blue surface; with cold sweat. At times the purging is accompanied by copious (and easy) vomiting of watery albuminous ropy liquid. Sudden desire for stool is marked. Water is almost immediately vomited. It corresponds more to the earlier than the collapse stage of cholera. Cramps are predominant; griping cutting pains; sensation as if balls were rolling together in abdomen. The patient writhes about in bed with pain. Kent ( H. P ., vi. 355) describes the sphere of Jatr . in cholera thus: "The characteristic is a rice-water discharge; it has vomiting and purging; more or less sweat; more or less cramps; suppression of urine, the great prostration, syncope and rapid onset peculiar to cholera; and it has this to differentiate it from all other remedies ─ the vomit and purging and evacuations are thick, albuminous, lumpy, instead of thin and watery ." Walking in open air < rumbling; = pain in heels; > headache. Open air > headache; = rumbling. In room, headache < . Patient seeks to cool himself by throwing off covers and lying on ground. Touch and pressure < . At night: mouth dry; itching between toes. After midnight: profuse watery diarrhœa. In morning: stools < headache; metallic, bloody taste; much spitting of saliva. Summer diarrhœa, occurring suddenly.

Relations

Antidote to its effects: placing hands in cold water. Compare: Euphorbiaceæ, especially Croton, Euphorb. coroll. In cholera, Verat. (Verat. has more pain and more pronounced collapse; it has not the albuminous vomiting of Jatr. nor so much rumbling). Ars. (vomits water as soon as drunk). Elat. (gushing, noisy stools). Jatropha urens.

Mind

Depression. ─ Great anxiety. ─ Anxiety with burning pain in stomach and coldness of the body. ─ Attacks of anxiety at night constricting chest and preventing sleep till morning. ─ Quietude of mind; indifference to pain. ─ Great general prostration of strength. ─ Ecstasy, feeling of lively warmth, etherial lightness during the painful diarrhœa.

Head

Giddiness, followed by unconsciousness and delirium. ─ Heat and heaviness of the head. ─ Head hot; stupefaction, with yawning and nausea. ─ Heat in head, face, and ears. ─ Headache, with nausea and vomiturition beginning in the morning. ─ Violent pressing pain in the temples, ceasing in open air and reappearing when entering a room. ─ Stiffness of muscles on forehead and neck.

Eyes

Itching and smarting of margins of lids. ─ Twitching of l. upper lid. ─ Bright and dark spots before eyes. ─ Black points before eyes.

Ears

Burning hot ears, with heat in the back part of the head.

Nose

Itching of the nose while eating. ─ Ulcers in the nose (and mouth).

Face

Hot face and head; chilliness in the back. ─ Pate face with blue margins round eyes. ─ Painful cracked lips.

Mouth

Metallic, bloody taste, with much spitting of saliva (in the morning). ─ Increased accumulation of thin saliva. ─ Long-continued pain and burning of the tongue. ─ Numbness of tongue, with heat and dryness of mouth. ─ Dryness of mouth and tongue, without thirst (at night); mouth feels as if scalded.

Throat

Dryness in fauces and throat. ─ Burning in the mouth and throat, followed by dryness. ─ Spasmodic constriction in throat, ascending from stomach.

Stomach

Violent, unquenchable thirst, not satisfied by drinking water. ─ Dreads to drink on account of nausea. ─ Eructations of air. ─ Vomiting of a large mass of dark-green bile. ─ Glass of water almost immediately vomited. ─ Easy vomiting of large quantities of watery, albuminous substances; at same time watery diarrhœa, with spasmodically contracting pains in the stomach, burning in the stomach, cramps in the calves; coldness of body; viscid sweat (cholerine). ─ Vomiting of pregnant women. ─ Heat and burning in the stomach. ─ Inflammation of the stomach and of the intestines. ─ Sensation of sinking, with nausea in the pit of the stomach. ─ Persistent dull pressure in stomach.

Abdomen

Pain deep in abdomen, behind the navel. ─ Abdomen swollen, and sore to the touch. ─ Sensation as if balls were rolling together in abdomen. ─ Lancinating, stinging pain with the colic. ─ Burning in abdomen; seeks to cool himself by throwing off covering and lying on ground. ─ Painful thrusts from umbilicus to lumbar region. ─ Tympanites. ─ Rumbling in the abdomen with colic; > when walking in the open air. ─ Noise like the gurgling of water coming out of the bung-hole of a barrel during the fecal discharge. ─ Noise in the intestines, as if a bottle were emptied, or as if a fluid were running in the intestines; not > by a loose stool.

Stool and Anus

Sudden desire for stool, and constant noises as of liquids in abdomen, esp. l. side. ─ Watery diarrhœa; it gushes from him like a torrent. ─ First stage of cholera, before collapse. ─ Very copious mushy stools with quantities of lumbrici and threadworms. ─ Stool watery and in gushes. ─ Stools like rice-water. ─ Profuse watery diarrhœa, from a cold, weakening patient greatly. ─ Constipation. ─ Stitches in anus and rectum.

Urinary Organs

Frequent desire to urinate; urine, pale yellow, frothy.

Male Sexual Organs

Aching in genitals as after excessive sexual intercourse. ─ Drawing in genitals, extending along inner side r. thigh to navel.

Female Sexual Organs

Vomiting of pregnancy.

Respiratory Organs

Painful pressure r. side of larynx, at night, waking him, not < by touch. ─ Short, hacking, persistent cough. ─ Hollow cough. ─ Respiration quick, panting. ─ Respiration difficult.

Chest

Pain in region of l. 3rd rib inside nipple. ─ Constriction in chest with anxiety, preventing sleep. ─ Violent (aching) pain in l. clavicle. ─ Pressure in l. pectoral muscles; later in r. ─ Frequent, sudden, violent stitches to l. of ensiform cartilage, behind the costal cartilages, which arrest the breathing. ─ Frequent stitches behind the cartilages of the 6th and 7th ribs. ─ Sticking, from above downwards, deep in chest behind sternum.

Heart

Feeling of sinking and nausea in the precordial region, followed by soft stool. ─ Violent palpitation, shaking the chest, when moving slowly about the room. ─ Pulse: irregular; small, thready, intermittent; greatly slowed. ─ Almost pulseless.

Neck and Back

Stiffness of muscles of nape of neck; and forehead. ─ Bruised feeling in muscles of back and chest. ─ Stiffness in lumbar region.

Limbs

Muscles of limbs contracted by violent spasms. ─ Pains in limbs and joints.

Upper Limbs

Cramps in muscles of (upper) arms.

Lower Limbs

Cramps in calves. (Cholera.). ─ Cramp-like pains in the legs, with cramps and knotting of the calves. ─ Violent cramps in legs and feet. ─ Tingling in the toes. ─ Itching between the toes at night. ─ The heels are very sensitive when walking on them.

Generalities

Convulsions. ─ General coldness of the body. ─ Extreme weariness and sleepiness. ─ Prostration, with frequent and weak pulse; < by slightest exertion. ─ More susceptible than usual to wine.

Skin

Pimples: on wrist; back of hand; cheek; back of neck bend of r. thigh. ─ Itching and slight tension round mouth. ─ Itching: between fingers; in palm; between toes in bed at night; first < , then > by rubbing.

Sleep

Excessive drowsiness. ─ Restlessness at night on account of rush of thought and palpitation. ─ Attacks of anxiety at night did not permit sleep.

Fever

Chilliness in the back, with heat in the face and head. ─ Chilliness, with cold hands and blue nails. ─ Coldness of the whole body; mottled blue; chilliness and clammy perspiration. ─ Cold hands, with heat in the mouth and throat. ─ Heat in head, face, and ears. ─ General cold, clammy perspiration.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

General

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

Apathy ; indifference to pain.
Anxiety and anguish.
Anxiety, with burning in stomach and coldness of body.

Sensorium

Giddiness, followed by unconsciousness and delirium.
Head hot, stupefaction, with yawning and nausea.

Inner head

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

Stiffness of muscles on forehead and neck.

Sight and eyes

Quivering in left upper lid.
Itching and smarting of margins of lids.

Hearing and ears

Burning hot ears, with heat in back part of head.

Smell and nose

Itching of nose while eating.
Ulcers in nose and mouth.

Upper face

Pale face with blue margins around eyes.

Lower face

Painful cracked lips.

Taste, speech, tongue

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

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

Dryness in fauces and throat.
Spasmodic constriction in throat, ascending from stomach.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Inextinguishable thirst, not satisfied by drinking cold water. θ Cholera.

Eating and drinking

Dreads to drink on account of nausea.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

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

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

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

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

Frequent desire to urinate ; urine pale yellow, frothy.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Vomiting during pregnancy.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Pulse imperceptible. θ Cholera.

Upper limbs

Cramps in brachial muscles. θ Cholera.

Lower limbs

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

Walking : in open air, rumbling in abdomen ; on heels, sensitive.
Writhed about in bed with pain.

Time

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

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

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

Summer : severe diarrhœa occurring suddenly.

Locality and direction

Left : quivering in upper eyelid ; noise as of liquids in abdomen on side.

Sensations

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

Touch : abdomen sore ; heels sore when walking on them.

Stage of life, constitution

Woman, æt. 22 ; cholera.
Woman, æt. 31 ; cholera.
Man, æt. 40 ; cholera.

Relations

Effects cease by placing hands in cold water.
Compare : the Euphorbiacea, viz. : Crot. tig., Euphorb. coral., Mancinella ; also Veratr . in cholera.