Syzygium jambolanum
Syzygium cumini · Plant · Myrtaceae
Syzygium Jambolanum is indicated for the diabetic patient who presents with uncontrolled glycosuria, intense thirst, profuse urination, and progressive emaciation. It suits those with prickly heat, chronic skin ulcers, and great weakness arising from longstanding diabetes mellitus.
Key symptoms
- Rapid and marked reduction of sugar in the urine
- Diabetes mellitus with great thirst and emaciation
- Very large quantities of urine with high specific gravity
- Prickly heat with small red itching pimples on upper body
- Extreme weakness with profound emaciation
- Old diabetic ulcers of the skin
- Dryness of mouth with constant thirst
Worse (aggravation)
- From unrestricted sugar and starchy diet
Better (amelioration)
- From animal diet and reduced carbohydrate intake
Jambol Seeds - Enlexing, active principle
Has an immediate effect of increasing the blood sugar, glycosuria results.
A most useful remedy in diabetes mellitus. No other remedy causes in so marked degree the diminution and disappearance of sugar in the urine. Prickly heat in upper part of the body; small red pimples itch violently. Great thirsts, weakness, emaciation. Very large amount of urine, specific gravity high. Old ulcers of skin. Diabetic ulceration. The seeds powdered, ten grains three times a day; also the tincture.
Relationship
Compare: Insulin-An aqueous solution of an active principle from pancreas which affects sugar metabolism. If administered at suitable intervals in diabetes mellitus, the blood sugar is maintained at a normal level and the urine remains free of sugar. Overdosage is followed by weakness and fatigue and tremulousness and profuse sweating.
Syzygium jambolanum. Jumbul. N. O. Myrtaceæ. Trituration of the seeds (fruit-stones). Tincture of the powdered fruit-stones.
Clinical
Diabetes. Ulcers.
Characteristics
Syz. j. is a native of India. It has an edible fruit, the powdered stones of which have a popular use in India (B. J. H., xli. 275) as a remedy for diabetes. The dose is five grains of the powdered stones three times a day. Dudgeon used Syz. in the lower homœopathic attenuations with marked success, which has been repeated by many others. Hansen mentions as having been cured with Syz. "old ulcers of skin, probably of a diabetic foundation." Dudgeon (H. W., xxiv. 540) relates this case: A scientific man, 56, complained of "prickly heat" all over upper part of body and arms. The skin was covered with small red papules, which itched so intensely he could get no rest. He felt very weak, which was perhaps due to his having abstained from all animal food, and confined himself to bread, farinaceous food, vegetables, and fruit. There was much …
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