Jatropha

Physic Nut. Euphorhiacese.

A shrub indigenous to the West Indies and South America. The alcoholic tincture is prepared from the powdered seeds.

Provings byHering and provers; Jablanczy; Thorer and Lembke.

Clinical Authorities, — Diarrhoea, Stow, Kaue's Kec, 1870, p. 209 ; Hencke, Eaue's Kec, 1875, p. 146 ; A. H.

Z., vol. 89, p. 63 ; B. J. H., vol. 33, p. 315 ;

Sammer diarrhcea with vomiting, Blake, Horn. Kev., vol. 20, p. 606 ; Times Eetros., vol. 2, p. 14; Cholera, Hencke, A.

H. Z., vol. 83, p. 119, and Kaue's Kec, 1872, p. 148; Hencke, Brutger, Lembke, Kiedel, N. A.

J. H., vol. 1, p. 427 ; Jablanczy, Kummel, 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. Heat and heaviness of head. * Outer Head. Stiffness of muscles on forehead and neck. ^ Sight and Eyes, i Quivering in 1. upper lid.

I I 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 and 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.

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13 Throat. I Dryness in fauces and throat.

Spasmodic constriction in ttiroat, ascending from stomach.

^* Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions, i Inextinguishable

thirst, not satisfied by drinking cold water. ^Cholera.

'^ Eating and Drinking, i Dreads to drink on account of

nausea. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Eructa- tions. 1 Hiccc^igh, followed by copious vomiting of bile. ^Cholera. I Vomiting : of large masses of dark green bile and mucus ; of large quantities of watery, albuminous substances; water is almost immediately vomited. I Very easy vomiting of a great quantity of watery, glairy fluid, accompanied by watery diarrhoea; spasmodically contracting pains in stomach, burning in stomach, cramps in calves and coldness of body. ^Cholera. • Uninterrupted vomiting. ^Cholera. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach.

Sensation of sinking, with nausea in pit of stomach. iCrampy, constrictive pains in epigastrium.

■ Persistent dull pressure in stomach. I Heat and burning in stomach.

■ Spasmodically contracting pains in stomach.

^^ Abdomen. iMuch noise in abdomen, as if a full bottle was emptied, followed later b}^ thin stool. ■Rumbling in abdomen, with colic; > when walking in open air.

■ Abdomen: distended and soft; very much inflated, dis-

tended, tympanitic ; swollen and sore to touch ; con- tracted. ^Cholera.

■ Pain in region of navel, deep.

■ Burning in abdomen ; seeks to cool himself by throwing

off covering and lying on ground. I I Lancinating, stinging pain with colic. ^^ Stool and Rectum. ■Sudden desire for stool, and constant noises as of liquids in abdomen, especially in 1. 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

■ Continued discharge of water by stool.

■ Stools painless, thin, watery, with loud, fluid rumbling,

and gushing out of stool ; < mornings.

■ ■Watery diarrhoea, as if it spurted from him. ■Diarrhoea profuse ; gushing out like a torrent.

■ Severe diarrhoea occurring suddenly in Summer, in con-

nection with a sharp attack of vomiting.

■ After taking cold, sleepless; slight pain in bowels; after

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midnight profuse watery discharge ; a few hours later, again and again, weakening patient greatly; stools pro- fuse, watery, without smell. ^Diarrhoea. I Easy vomiting of large quantities of watery substance like albumen; diarrhoea, contents of rectum gush out like a torrent; anxiety, with burning at stomach ; an- guish, with coldness of body; viscid sweat; violent cramps in lower limbs; calves look like flat splints; ab- domen flattened after many stools. ^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, shriv- elled ; 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; un- quenchable 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. ^Cholera morbus. I 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 dis- charge of water per anum; cramps in calves; general coldness of body. ^Cholera.

I Sudden, violent vomiting of watery fluids, with cramps

in stomach; cool skin; weak, soft, slow pulse; great de- bility; anxiety and fear, as though cramps in calves would set in; stool diarrhoeic yesterday; to-day neither stool nor urine. ^Cholera.

I I 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. I I Stitches in anus and rectum.

^^ Urinary Organs. Frequent desire to urinate; urine pale yellow, frothy.

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■ 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.

Ρίγος στην πλάτη, με θερμότητα στο πρόσωπο και το κεφάλι. Ρίγος με κρύα χέρια και μπλε νύχια.

■ Ψυχρότητα του σώματος.

■ Σώμα κρύο σαν μάρμαρο και μπλε κηλιδωτό. /^Χολέρα.

■ Κρύα χέρια, με θερμότητα στο στόμα και τον λαιμό. Θερμότητα στο κεφάλι, το πρόσωπο και τα αυτιά.

■ Γενικό κρύο, κολλώδες ιδρωμένο.

■ Κρύος, κολλώδης ιδρώτας στο δέρμα. ■Χολέρα.

*^ Κρίσεις, Περιοδικότητα. Καλοκαίρι: σοβαρή διάρροια που εμφανίζεται

απότομα. ^ Τοποθεσία και Κατεύθυνση. Αριστερά: τρέμουλο στο άνω βλέφαρο·

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Κράμπες: στις γαστροκνημίες· στην κοιλιά· στους βρογχικούς μύες.

Βίαιος πιεστικός πόνος: στους κροτάφους.

Συσπαστικοί πόνοι: στο στομάχι.

Στεγνωτικοί πόνοι: στο επιγάστριο, στη γαστρική περιοχή.

Ελαφρά σπασμωδικοί σπασμοί: και στις δύο γαστροκνημίες.

Σπασμωδική συστολή: στον λαιμό.

Επίμονος θαμπός πίεση: στο στομάχι.

Κάψιμο: στα όρια των βλεφάρων.

Καύσος: στο στομάχι· της γλώσσας· στο στόμα και τον λαιμό· στην κοιλιά.

Καυτά αυτιά.

Θερμότητα: του κεφαλιού· στο οπίσθιο μέρος του κεφαλιού· του στόματος· στο πρόσωπο· στα αυτιά.

Ξηρότητα: του στόματος· της γλώσσας· στον φάρυγγα· στον λαιμό.

Μούδιασμα: της γλώσσας.

Δυσκαμψία: των μυών στο μέτωπο και τον αυχένα.

Κενότητα: στο επιγάστριο.

Βαριά αίσθηση: του κεφαλιού.

Μυρμήγκιασμα: στα δάχτυλα των ποδιών.

Τρέμουλο: στο α. άνω βλέφαρο.

Γυναίκα, ηλ. 31· χολέρα.

Άνδρας, ηλ. 40· χολέρα. *^ Σχέσεις. Τα αποτελέσματα παύουν με την τοποθέτηση των χεριών σε κρύο νερό.

Σύγκριση: τα Euphorbiaceae, ήτοι: Crot. tig., Euphorb. coral., Mancinella· επίσης Veratr. στη χολέρα.

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