Jacaranda gualandai
Plant · Bignoniaceae
Jacaranda gualandai suits patients with syphilitic or gonorrhoeal conditions presenting with ophthalmia, sore throat with pharyngeal vesicles, and dark painless diarrhoea. Dr. Convers preferred it for ophthalmia with agglutination of the lids and blenorrhagia, and for catarrhal leucorrhoea. Symptoms worsen at night and from laughing or talking.
Key symptoms
- Painless blackish, mulberry-coloured diarrhoea persisting a long time
- Syphilitic-like ophthalmia chiefly affecting the left eye
- Sore throat with redness, heat, and vesicles on pharynx without tonsil swelling
- Blenorrhagia and chancroids
- Catarrhal leucorrhoea
- Agglutination of eyelids
Worse (aggravation)
- At night
- Laughing or talking
Jacaranda gualandai. N. O. Bignoniaceæ. Tincture of dried leaves.
Clinical
Blenorrhagia. Chancroids. Diarrhœa. Eye, inflammation of. Gonorrhœa. Leucorrhœa. Syphilis. Throat, sore.
Characteristics
J. gualan. was first brought to the notice of homœopathy by Dr. Julio F. Convers, of Bojota, Columbia, S. America (H. R., iv. 36; v. 149; ix. 343). Mr. José M. Reyes made a proving for Dr. Convers (see also Med. Adv., xxii. 244), taking considerable doses of the Ø tincture in the first instance; and later of the 3x. The chief symptom of the heavy dosing was a painless, blackish, and mulberry-coloured diarrhœa which persisted a long time and was finally cured with Merc. 12 after Ars. had failed. This cure by Merc. is important in regard to the popular use of the plant in syphilis. Convers says the natives use it much in syphilitic affections and atonic ulcers, and he adds that "the prostitutes are very, fond of it." The proving developed an action on the glans penis. When the 3x was taken there was very …
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