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.