Jacaranda caroba
Plant · Bignoniaceae
Jacaranda caroba suits patients with venereal disease — gonorrhoea, syphilis, chancroids — who also present with rheumatic symptoms. Morning stiffness and soreness of muscles combined with urogenital symptoms are characteristic. The remedy has an affinity for the prepuce, glans, and urethra.
Key symptoms
- Heat and pain in penis; painful erections; phimosis with swollen prepuce
- Urethra inflamed with discharge of yellow matter; chancroid and chordee
- Itching pimples on glans, prepuce, and hands
- Gonorrhoeal and syphilitic arthritis; rheumatic pain in right knee
- Morning soreness and stiffness of muscles
- Sore, dry, constricted throat with vesicles in pharynx
- Vertigo on rising with heavy forehead
Worse (aggravation)
- Motion (muscular rheumatism in morning)
- Walking, raising head, sitting
- Morning (stiffness and soreness of muscles)
Better (amelioration)
- Motion (right knee rheumatic pain disappears)
Brazilian Caroba-tree (JACARANDA)
Has reputation as a remedy in venereal diseases and rheumatism. Morning sickness. The urinary and sexual symptoms are important. Rheumatic symptoms.
Head
Vertigo on rising, with heavy forehead. Eyes pain; are inflamed and watery. Coryza with heavy head.
Throat
Sore, dry, constricted. Vesicles in pharynx.
Urinary
Urethra inflamed; discharge of yellow matter.
Male
Heat and pain in penis; painful erections; phimosis. Prepuce painful and swollen. Chancroid. Chordee. Itching pimples on glans and prepuce.
Extremities
Rheumatic pain in right knee. Weakness of lumbar region. Morning soreness and stiffness of muscles. Gonorrhœal rheumatism. Itching pimples on hands. Gonorrhœal and syphilitic arthritis.
Relationship
Compare: Thuja; Corallium; Jacaranda Gualandai (in syphilitic symptoms, especially of eye and throat. Chancroids; atonic ulcers. Dark, painless diarrhœa).
Dose
Tincture, to third potency.
Caroba. Bignonia caroba. Jacaranda Braziliensis. N. O. Bignoniaceæ. Tincture of fresh flowers.
Clinical
Balanorrhœa. Chancre. Chordee. Gonorrhœa. Gonorrhœal rheumatism. Muscular rheumatism. Phimosis. Syphilis.
Characteristics
Several species of Jacaranda ("especially J. procera," says the Treasury of Botany) have the reputation of being curative in syphilis. Mure proved J. caroba, and the symptoms of the proving certainly point to this. Hering gives these symptoms as having been confirmed: "Contact of urine with chancre = tearing pains, which affect whole organism." "Prepuce much swollen, could not be drawn over glans; on attempting to do so, copious discharge of yellowish green pus." "Chordee in gonorrhœa." "Dull pain under sternum on raising head and drawing breath." Among other symptoms noted are: Lancinations in the heart. Rheumatic pains in the limbs. Itching at anus. Mahony has confirmed these symptoms: "Food tastes insipid; nausea during eating." Motion <. Symptoms come on when walking; raising …
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