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Materia Medica

Jalapa

Jalap

Jalap (EXOGONIUM PURGA) Causes and cures colic and diarrhoea. The child is good all day, but screams and is restless and troublesome at night.

Generalities

Tongue, smooth, glazed, dry, smarting.--Pain in right hypochondrium. Flatulence and nausea. Pinching and griping. Watery diarrhoea; thin, muddy stools. Abdomen distended. Face cold and blue. Anus sore.

Extremities

Aching in arms and legs. Pain in large joint of great toe. Smarting at root of nail. Burning of soles.

Relationships

Antidotes: Elater; Cann sat. Compare: Camph; Colocy.

Dose

Third to twelfth potency.

Source: Pocket manual of homoeopathic materia medica by William Boericke (1906). Public domain, transcribed by OOREP. Also in Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed., p. 404.

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