Materia Medica

Jatropha

Purging Nut

Of value in cholera and diarrhoea. The abdominal symptoms are most important.

Stomach

Hiccough, followed by copious vomiting. Nausea and vomiting, brought on by drinking, with acrid feeling from throat. Great thirst. I'ery easy 7omiting. Heat and burning in stomach, with crampy, constrictive pain in epigastrium.

Abdomen

Distended, with gurgling noises. Pain in hypochondria. Pain in region of liver and der right scapula to shoulder. Violent urging to urinate.

Stool

Sudden, profuse, watery, like rice-water. Diarrhaa: forcrd discharge; loud noise in abdomen like gurgling cf reater coming out of a bung-hol, asso- ciated with coldness, cramps, nausea, and vomiting.

Extremities

Cramps in muscles, especially calves, legs, and feet. Coldness cf whole body.

Modalities

Better, by placing hands in cold water.

Relationships

Compare: Camp.; Vcrat.; Gambog.; Croton.; Jatroplia urens — Sponge-nettle — (edema and cardiac paresis).

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.