A tincture of the ripe seeds of Jatropha curcas, L., is used.
General Action
A violent hydragogue cathartic.
Allies. Crot-tig., Jalap., Gambogia, Elat., Verat-alb.
Generalities
Cramps; in evening; and twitchings, “calves were twisted around to shins” (Cuprum); of extremities, afterwards extending to muscles of abdomen and back, and occasional twitchings of those of back, as in tetanus. Pains in lumbar muscles, chest and shoulder-joints; in l. ankle, l. upper arm, l. hypochondrium and l. inguinal region; in muscles of shoulders and back, in knees and calves, with weakness; indefinite P. in hypochondria and various parts of extremities. Pressure in muscles of back and l. upper arm; painful P. in lumbar, dorsal and pectoral muscles. Bruised feeling in muscles of back and chest. More susceptible to wine than usual. Restlessness; at night on account of rush of thought and palpitation. Weakness; in evening, with rapid and weak pulse; of vital powers; of vascular system; painful, of muscles on slightest exertion. Stiffness of muscles of nape and forehead. Aggravation of symptoms in muscles when sitting. Amelioration in open air. It is said that placing the hands in cold water will stop the effects (see Jalap.).
Mind
Delirium and insensibility. During painful diarrhoeas an ecstasy as if an ideal had appeared to a poetic painter, or like that which sometimes comes to a dying person, with bright eyes directed upward, a feeling of pleasant warmth and ethereal lightness. Anxiety, with burning in stomach and coldness of body; A. at night, constricting chest and preventing sleep till towards morning. Easily disturbed by anxious events. Little inclination for anything, laconic. Forgot the events of his illness, except the earliest symptoms.
Head
Aching. Heaviness. Confusion; and almost loss of ideas; and stupefaction. Vertigo; on raising head, with pain; with restlessness. Sticking now in r., now in l. half of forehead. Frontal pain; with heaviness; externally, and pain on r. zygoma; in muscles; pain in l. frontal and temporal muscles. Pressure in temples. Pressure inward in temples; all day when in the house; extending to crown, (>) open air, returning on entering house; with throbbing pain, afterwards extending now and then to crown. Pressure in occiput.
Eyes and Ears
Pupils contracted; dilated. Trembling of l. lid; upper. Itching of lids; on margins, (>) rubbing, with smarting. Vision of black points; of bright and dark spots. Sticking in l. ear; deep. Aching in r. ear. Roaring in ears. Difficult hearing. Deafness.
Nose
Ulcers, and in mouth. Itching in nostrils when eating. Sensitiveness on drawing in air, which seems cold through it is warm. Sneezing; with catarrh and discharge from nose. Catarrh at noon, with heat of head; sudden C., with sneezing, running from nose, frequent copious discharge of mucus, which soon became alternately yellow and white, with paroxysms of cough, with difficult expectoration, but in the intervals frequent easy hawking of large lumps of mucus, with intermittent headache here and there.
Face
Pale and anxious; P. in afternoon, with dark rings below eyes. Aching in r. zygoma; in l. zygoma, gradually extending to r. and ending with aching in r. ear; A. in masseter muscles; contractive A. in l. masseter muscles. Lips cracked and painful. Ulceration of r. corner of mouth, with smarting and tension. Soreness of l. corner of mouth. Itching of lips in morning, with tension.
Mouth
Sticking in a hollow tooth. Drawing in l. incisors. Rheumatic drawing in a hollow tooth. Burning pain in tongue. Numbness of tongue. Dryness at night; D. without thirst, then all night and in morning feeling as if mouth had been burnt; dry sensation, then real dryness of M. and tongue all night without thirst, then feeling as if mouth had been burnt, (<) night. Burning, and in throat. Salivation; thin; much spitting of saliva with the stools; frequent spitting all the morning, with metallic, bloody taste. Insipid taste, (<) back of throat.
Throat
Pain along l. jugular vein. Sticking, (<) swallowing. Scraping; (<) chewing. Pain; burning. Soreness; of soft palate. Acrid feeling gradually extending to stomach, at last causing vomiting. Dryness; of fauces; of upper part of T. and fauces, with thirst, but dread of drinking on account of nausea, after several hours vomiting of food, with short hacking cough. Burning. Swollen feeling.
Stomach
Appetite diminished; lost. Thirst; in evening. Less longing for wine. Eructations; of air. Nausea; after eating; (>) eating (Verat- v.); with with salivation; with burning in stomach; intermittent; peculiar, in pit of stomach. Dreads to drink on account of nausea (Verat-alb.). Vomiting; easy, of much watery albuminous substance, with watery diarrhoea; frequent; copious; violent, also with violent diarrhoea (Verat-alb.); of all food (a few hours after Materia wine).
Rumbling. Cramplike stitches. Cramp on stooping. Cutting in S. and abdomen, (<) pressure. Pain; with pyrosis; (<) pressure; rising into oesophagus; extending paroxysmally towards umbilicus and into oesophagus; in epigastric region; intermittent; drawing; jerking, in epigastric region; burning. Sensitiveness of epigastric region, (<) pressure. Anxiety in pit. Heat; with cramp rising into oesophagus; with copious easy vomiting; in S. and bowels, with nausea; extending to spine, repeated in rapid succession. Sinking in pit, with nausea; after soft stool.
Abdomen
Distended; and soft; and tympanitic; and tympanitic, tense; and soft, with pain deep in umbilical region on slight pressure. Noises as of a liquid (Crot-tig.); (<) l. side. Noise as if a full bottle were emptied in evening, continuing after a thin stool at 10 P.M. Rumbling; all day, (>) going into open air, returned in warm room and lasted all the evening and night; all night; after stool; with desire for stool; with emission of flatus; with pain in transverse colon; with pain shooting through deep in abdomen. Movements. Emissions of flatus. Griping. Pain; in morning, with sensation of impending diarrhoea, in forenoon, with uneasiness in it and sinking feeling in stomach, as during violent diarrhoea; with heat it; with desire for stool; (<) along spine, (<) pressure, with distention of abdomen and desire to urinate. Sensation as before stool, which, however, occurs may next morning.
Piercing pain in l. hypochondrium extending to lumbar muscles. Tearing deep in umbilical region, (<) pressure. Painful thrusts from umbilicus to lumbar region. Pain in umbilical region; in morning, with rumbling, emission of flatus and desire for stool; after soft stool; deep; extending into l. hypochondrium and l. chest. Crawling about U. in forenoon. Noises low down. Gurgling low down, with rumbling. Sharp pain in transverse colon. Aching, in lower part, with inclination to stool. Pressure outward in l. inguinal ring on blowing nose. Peculiar tension in inguinal region. Feeling of tension and protrusion in l. inguinal ring on coughing or blowing nose, whereby l. leg is involuntarily flexed and drawn towards abdomen.
Rectum
Soft haemorrhoidal swellings. Stitches; in anus. Burning after stool. Violent crawling of worms in evening. Itching in anus at night in bed. Urging; to diarrhoea-like stool in morning; sudden, with noises as of liquids in abdomen (Crot-tig.), (<) l. side.
Stool
At night. Watery, spurting from him (Crot-t., Elat., Gambogia); W., copious, then great relief; W., copious, mucous, frequent; copious, mucous, not unlike rice-water. Thin, preceded and followed by rumbling and at times noise as if a bottle were emptied. (Crot-tig.). Diarrhoea; violent (Verat-alb.); violent, with tenesmus; painless, with cramplike jerkings in calves. Soft; and frequent, with nausea and much spitting of saliva; without relief of colic, which was (>) emission of flatus; for several days, then constipation, with pressure inward in temples. Hard; after the proving, and scanty, delayed. Delayed. Small, and in half an hour another. Frequent.
Clinical An extremely valuable and too little used remedy for profuse, gushing, watery diarrhoea, sometimes associated with coldness of the body and unquenchable thirst, frequently with rumbling and gurgling in abdomen, at times with vomiting of large amounts of albuminous looking substances; it may be compared with Veratrum, but, as a rule, it lacks the violent pain of that drug. Cholera Asiatica.
Urinary Organs
Spasm of neck of bladder (with every attack of nausea), with drawing pain and desire to urinate; spasm of bladder beginning with twisting pain in umbilicus, which extends to neck of B., these attacks, like the nausea, gradually (>) between 6 and 7 P.M., they are preceded and followed by noises of liquids in abdomen and by sour eructations. Slow oozing of clear mucus from urethra when walking and sitting. Stitches in urethra. Tickling in navicular fossa, with frequent micturition. Urging; after micturition; Urine bright yellow; and frothy. Urine copious; in evening after exertion; and watery. Urine scanty, dark brown, clear. (Urine white). (Blood with urine).
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.