Jatropha curcas
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Purging Nut Of value in cholera and diarrhœa. The abdominal symptoms are most important. Suppressed measles (H. Farrington).
Modalities
Better, by placing hands in cold water.
Stomach
Hiccough, followed by copious vomiting. Nausea and vomiting, brought on by drinking, with acrid feeling from throat. Great thirst. Very easy vomiting. Heat and burning in stomach, with crampy, constrictive pain in epigastrium.
Abdomen
Distended, with gurgling noises. Pain in hypochondria. Pain in region of liver and under right scapula to shoulder. Violent urging to urinate.
Stool
Sudden, profuse, watery, like rice-water. Diarrhœa; forced discharge; loud noise in abdomen like gurgling of water coming out of a bung-hole, associated with coldness, cramps, nausea, and vomiting.
Extremities
Cramps in muscles, especially calves, legs, and feet. Coldness of whole body. Pain in ankles, feet and toes. Heels sensitive.
Relationships
Compare: Camph; Verat; Gambog; Croton; Jatropha urens–– Sponge-nettle––(œdema and cardiac paresis).
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.
What the other books say about Jatropha curcas
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Jatropha curcas in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Jatropha curcas — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/jatropha-curcas. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.