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.

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. /^Cholera.

■ Cold hands, with heat in mouth and throat. Heat in head, face and ears.

■ General cold, clammy perspiration.

■ Cold, clam^my sweat on skin. ■Cholera.

*^ Attacks, Periodicity. Summer: severe diarrhoea occurring

suddenly. ^ Locality and Direction. Left: quivering in upper eyelid;

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Cramps : in calves ; in abdomen ; in bronchial muscles.

Violent pressing pain : in temples.

Contracting pains : in stomach.

Constrictive pains: in epigastrum, 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 aiid neck.

Sinking: in pit of stomach.

Heaviness: of head.

Tingling: in toes.

Quivering: in 1. upper eyelid.

sore; heels sore when walking on them. ^'' Stages of Life, Constitution. Woman, set. 22 ; cholera.

Woman, set. 31 ; cholera.

Man, set. 40 ; cholera. *^ Relations. Effects cease by placing hands in cold water.

Compare: the Euphorbiaceae, viz.: Crot. tig., Euphorb. coral., Mancinella; also Veratr. in cholera.

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