JATROPHA CURCAS
Purging Nut
(JATROPHA)
Of cost in cholera and diarrhoea. The stomach signs are most important. Suppressed measles (H. Farrington).
Stomach.– Hiccough, accompanied by way of copious vomiting. Nausea and vomiting, delivered on by using drinking, with acrid feeling from throat. Great thirst. Very convenient vomiting. Heat and burning in stomach, with crampy, constrictive ache in epigastrium.
Abdomen.–Distended, with gurgling noises. Pain in hypochondria. Pain in location of liver and beneath proper scapula to shoulder. Violent urging to urinate.
Stool.–Sudden, profuse, watery, like rice-water. Diarrhoea; compelled discharge; loud noise in stomach like gurgling of water coming out of a bung-hole, related with coldness, cramps, nausea, and vomiting.
Extremities.–Cramps in muscles, in particular calves, legs, and feet. Coldness of total body. Pain in ankles, toes and toes. Heels sensitive.
Modalities.–Better, by way of putting arms in bloodless water.
Relationship.–Compare: Camph; Verat; Gambog; Croton; Jatropha urens–Sponge-nettle–(oedema and cardiac paresis).
Dose.–Third to thirtieth potency.
