Jatropha
Jatropha curcas · Plant · Euphorbiaceae
Jatropha suits the early stage of cholera-like illness with violent sudden profuse rice-water stools accompanied by easy copious vomiting, loud abdominal gurgling, and severe cramping. Coldness and blueness of the surface differentiate it from collapse-stage remedies.
Key symptoms
- Sudden profuse gushing diarrhoea with rice-water stools
- Very loud gurgling in abdomen as if a bottle is being emptied
- Copious easy vomiting of watery albuminous ropy liquid
- Diarrhoea associated with coldness, mottled blue surface, and cold sweat
- Cramps predominant: griping cutting pains, sensation of balls rolling in abdomen
- Patient writhes in bed with pain
- Water almost immediately vomited after drinking
Worse (aggravation)
- Walking in open air (increases rumbling)
Better (amelioration)
- Open air (headache better)
- Eructations of frothy matter and flatulence (pain better)
- Cold water applied to hands (antidotes effects)
Jatropha curcas. Physic nut. (West Indies.) N. O. Euphorbiaceæ. Tincture and trituration of seeds.
Clinical
Blepharospasm. Borborygmi Cholera. Cholerine. Cramps. Diarrhœa. Eyelids, margins of, inflamed. Heels, sensitive. Mouth, ulceration of. Skin, affections of. Vomiting. Worms.
Characteristics
Jatropha is one of the most active of the Euphorbians and strongly resembles Croton in its action, especially in the urgent gushing stools and the irritation and pimples of the skin. One of the most notable characteristics of Jatropha is the very marked and peculiar gurgling it causes: "Much noise in abdomen as if a bottle was being emptied, followed later by a thin stool." "Sudden desire for stool, and constant noises as of liquids in abdomen, especially on left side." The diarrhœa is very often associated with coldness; with mottled blue surface; with cold sweat. At times the purging is accompanied by copious (and easy) vomiting of watery albuminous ropy liquid. Sudden desire for stool is marked. Water is …
Anus and Stool
Watery, profuse stools, gushing out like a torrent, with vomiting of a watery albuminous substance.
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