Jalapa

Jalap. ▌ Convolvulacese. Native to Mexico, from whence the first roots were brought by Coxe, in 1 827. 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 Encyclopedia 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 and 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 r. hypochondrium.

Abdomen

││ Severe griping, cutting pain in bowels, < at night.

Pain in middle of abdomen and in region of 1. superior flexure of colon.

Pain in caecum.

Flatulent rumbling in bowels.

Colic; violent pains in small intestines, as if abdomen would be cut to pieces.

Inflammation of intestines.

Stool 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.

▌ Diarrhoea in infants : child is quiet all day, but screams and tosses about all night.

││ Infantile diarrhoea, general coldness, blueness of face.

Urinary Organs p. 290

Pain and pressure in region of bladder.

Male Sexual Organs p. 290

Thrilling sensation in urethra whilst urinating.

Neck and Back p. 290

Severe pain about superior margin of 1. scapula.

Upper Limbs p. 290

Pain in thighs.

Lower Limbs p. 290

Smarting on inside edge and at root of 1. great toenail, with heat, tearing and pulsation.

Pain in large joint of great toe.

Burning of soles of feet.

Limbs in General p. 290

Aching in arms and legs, most r. side.

Nerves p. 290

Fainting fits; weakness.

Excessive uneasiness and tossing about of limbs.

Time p. 290

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

Fever p. 290

Febrile attacks.

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

Locality and Direction p. 290

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 p. 290

As if abdomen would be cut to pieces.

Pain: in head: in r. hypochondrium; in middle of abdomen : in region of 1. 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 1. 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 1. 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 p. 291

Compare: Cam^/iora (diarrhoea with coldness), Coloc. (colic).