Materia Medica
Pilocarpus Microphyllus
Jaborandi
Pilocar pus is a powerful glandular stimulant and the most efficient diaphoretic. Its most important effects are diaphoresis, salivation and myosis. Hot flushes, nausea, salivation and profuse perspiration. Is homceopathic to abormal sweats, and has achieved great success in miyht-szwcuts of consumptives. Acts 595 upon the thyroid and its sudorifc action may possibly be due to it. Exophthalmic goitre, with increased heart's action and pulsation of arteries; tremors and nervousness; heat and sweating; bronchial irritation. A valuable remedy in limiting the duration of mumps.
Eyes
Eyestruin from whatever cause. Irritability of the ciliary muscle. Eyes easily tire from slightest use. Heat and burning in eyes on use. Headache; sinarting and pain in globe on use. Everything at a distance appears hazy; vision becomes indistinct every few moments. Retinal images retained long after using Irritation from electric or other artificial light. Pupils contracted; do not react to light. Staring eyes. Near-sighted. Vertigo and nausea after using eyes. White spots before eyes. Smarting pain in eyes. Lids twitch. Atrophic choroiditis. Spasm of the accom- modation while reading.
Ears
Serous exudation into the tympanitic cavities. Tinnitus. [Pilocarpin 2x.]
Mouth
Saliva viscid, like white of egg. Dryness. Free salivation, with profuse secating.
Stomach
Nausea oi looking at objects moving; vomiting; pressure and pain in stomach.
Abdomen
Diarrhcea, painless; during day with flushed face and profuse sweat.
Urinary
Scanty ; pain over pubes with much urging.
Respiratory
Bronchial mucous membrane inflamed. Much inclination to cough and difficult breathing. CEdema of lungs. Foamy sputa. Profuse, thin, serous expectoration. Slow, sighing respiration.
Chest
Cyanosis; collapse. Nervous cardiac affections,
Heart
Pulse irregular, dicrotic. Oppression of
Skin
Excessize perspiration from all parts. of the body. Persistent dryness of skin. Dry eczema. Semi- lateral sweats. [Nux.]
Relationships
Compare: Amyl. nit.; Atrop.; Phy- sos.; Lycops: Ruta. Pilocarpin mur. (rapidly progres- sive phthisis, with free haemorrhages, profuse sweating, 2x trit.).
Dose
Third potency. Non-Homeopathic Uses.-- Chiefly as a powerful and rapid diaphoretic. It is of most service in renal dis- ease, especially with uremia, eliminating both water, and urea. Scarlatinal dropsy. Contra-indicated in heart failure, and in post-puerperal uremia, and in senile cases. One-eight to one-fourth grain hypodermic- ally. Atropin is the antagonist to Pilocarpin, in dose of one one-hundredth grain for one-sixth of Pilocarpin.