Jatropha curcas

Jatropha curcas
(purging nut)
* Of value in cholera and diarrhoea.
* The abdominal symptoms are most important.
* Suppressed measles (H. Farrington).
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.
- Diarrhoea; 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.
Modalities
- Better, by placing hands in cold water.
Relationship
- Compare : Camph.; Verat.; Gambog.; Croton;.; Jatropha urens- Sponge-nettle-(oedema and
cardiac paresis).
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.