JATROPHA.
Jatropha curcas, Linn.
Natural order
, Euphorbiaceæ.
Common names
, Physic Nut; (Cuban), Piñon
Botija.
Preparation
, Triturations of the seeds.
Authorities.
1,
C. Hering, M.D., Amer. Arzneipruf., proving of 2d trituration of seeds; 2, Jablanczy, from Hering, proving with 24th
dilution; 3, Thorer, Beiträge,
provings with the 30th, and after with the 3d trituration; 4, Lembke, Allg. Hom. Zeit., 34, proving
with, first day, 1 drop of 1/10th dilution; third day, 5 drops; fifth
day, 10 drops; sixth day, 20 drops; 4a, same, provings with 1st trituration,
first day, 3 grains; second day, 8 grains; fourth day, 26 grains; sixth
day, whole outer rind of nut, weighing 6 grains, seventh day, the seed
remaining from nut; tenth day, one seed weighing 7 grains, then two
seeds weighing 8 or 10 grains; 5,
Humphreys’s provings with 1st, 2d, and again 2d dilution, from Hering; 6, Davis, proving with 2d dilution; 7, Zumbrock, took 1/2 drop of tincture; 8, G. de V., case of poisoning, from Hering; 9, poisonous effects, additional, from
Hering; 10, Farquharson, Am. Jour.
Med. Sci., 1850, vol. 46, p. 102, two sailors ate ripe seeds, one only
three or four; 10a, same, the other ate a handful; 11, Honigberger, general effects, from
Hering; 12, Soubeiran, from Hering; 13, Buchner, from Hering; 14, George Bennett, London Med. Gaz., 1831,
p. 8. “I took four of the seeds;” 15,
case of poisoning, reported by Letheby, London Med. Gaz., 1848, N. S.,
vol. 7, p. 116, James Cole ate kernels of five seeds; (16 to 31,
report of thirty-three persons poisoned by eating nuts, some three or
four, others forty or fifty, Dr. Russell, Med. Times and Gaz., 1864, p.
703); 16, T. M., aged 14, ate forty
or fifty; 17, T. W., aged 14, ate
thirty or forty; 18, G. R., aged 12,
ate two handfuls; 19, H. C., aged
16, ate twenty-four; 20, C. W., aged
15, ate twenty; 21, C. W., aged 15,
ate more than two handfuls; 22, T.
F., aged 14, ate a handful; 23, T.
H., aged 12, ate a dozen (symptoms as last, and others in addition); 24, T. O., aged 15, ate a dozen; 25, T. M., aged 18, ate a dozen; 26, W. F., aged 12, ate eighteen; 27, T. H., aged 14, ate a dozen; 28, W. H., aged 16, ate a dozen; 29, G. R., aged 13, ate five; 30, J. M., aged 13, ate ten; 31, general symptoms in remaining cases not
detailed; 32, A. Vautherin, Des
Graines de Croton Tiglium, Monograph, Paris, 1864, experiment on self
with the oil.
MIND.
►
Delirium, with insensibility, [11].
► Delirious, and ultimately quite
insensible, lasting about twenty minutes (after two hours), [15]. ►
An ecstasy, as if an ideal had appeared to a poetic painter, or like
that which sometimes comes to a dying person, with bright eyes directed
upward, a feeling of lovely warmth and ethereal lightness, during the
painful diarrhœas, [2]. ► Anxiety, with burning in the stomach and
coldness of the body, [8]. ► Attacks of anxiety at night, which
constrict the chest and do not permit sleep till towards morning, [1]. ►
Anxious events very easily disturb his equanimity, quite unusual with
him, [1]. ►
Ill-humored, laconic, [3]. ► Ill-humor returns to his mind in sleep;
he wakes on account of it, and after falling asleep again, dreams of it,
[3].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Confusion of the head for two days, [5].
[10.] ►
Confusion and stupefaction of the head (second day), [5]. ►
Confusion and heaviness of the head (after half an hour, [7]. ►
Constant confusion of the head (tenth day), [4a]. ► Head
confused, dizzy, as if he were turned around (fourth day), [4a]. ►
Head feels confused and almost without ideas (tenth day), [4a]. ►
Dizziness and vertigo, accompanied by great restlessness, [10a]. ►
Giddiness (after half an hour), [16],
[17], [19]; (after one hour), [20]. ►
Giddiness and pain on raising his head (second day), [19]. ►
Giddiness, pain in the throat and stomach, and inclination to drowsiness
(after ten minutes), [30]. ► Very giddy (after one hour), [28]. [20.]
► Extremely giddy (after two hours), [15]. ►
General Head. ► Heaviness
of the head (fourth day), [4a]. ► Head heavy, confused (sixth and seventh
days), [4a]. ►
Heat in the head, especially in the forehead (sixth day), [4a]. ► Heat
in the head and face (sixth day), [4a].
► Heat in the head and some catarrh
at noon, [3]. ► Constant heat and confusion of the head
(tenth day), [4a]. ► Great heat in the head, with heaviness
(tenth day), [4a]. ► Headache, [1],
[8], [9]. ►
Headache; after some minutes a pressing inward in the temples, lasting
half an hour, [5]. ► Forehead. [30.]
► Heaviness and pressure in the
forehead (tenth day), [4a]. ► Headache in the forehead externally, and
on the right zygoma, lasting several hours, [1]. ►
Pressure in the forehead (fourth and tenth days), [4a]. ►
Pressure in the left frontal and temporal muscles (tenth day), [4a]. ►
Pressive pain in the frontal muscles (tenth day), [4a]. ►
Transient stitches, now in the right now in the left half of the
forehead (after several days), [3].
► Temples. ► Pressure in the temples (tenth day), [4a]. ►
Pain pressing inward in the temples the whole day while he is in the
house (second day), [5]. ► Pain in the temples pressing inward and
somewhat throbbing (after one hour), now and then extending as far as
the crown (after two and three hours), [5].
► Violent pain pressing into the
temples, extending to the crown, disappearing in the open air, and returning on entering the house (second and
third days, [5]. ► Occiput. [40.]
► Heat in the occiput (seventh day), [4a]. ►
Heat and confusion in the occiput (tenth day), [4a]. ► Heat
in the occiput, with burning heat of the ears (tenth day), [4a]. ►
Pressure in the occiput (sixth day), [4a].
EYE.
►
Lids. ► Trembling of the
left eyelid (first day), [4a]. ► Repeated trembling of the left lid, [4]. ►
Repeated trembling of the left upper lid, [4].
► Itching of the lids, lasting
several days, [5]. ► Itching and smarting of the margins of the lids,
better after rubbing (first and second hours), [5]. ► Pupil.
► Pupil either normal or, in the
opinion of many who observed the cases, markedly dilated, in those who
had taken a large quantity of the poison, [31].
[50.] ►
Pupils smaller than usual (sixth day), [4a].
► Vision. ► Bright and dark spots before the eyes
(fourth day), [4a]. ► Black points before the eyes (tenth day),
[4a].
EAR.
►
Burning in the ears (sixth day), [4a].
► Aching in the right ear, lasting a
quarter of an hour, [5]. ► Stitches in the left ear, several times, [3]. ►
Constant stitches deep in the left ear (sixth day), [4a]. ► Hearing.
► Difficult hearing, [11]. ►
Roaring in the ears, [4].
NOSE.
►
Objective. ► Ulcers in the
nose and mouth, [11]. [60.] ►
Catarrh and heat of the head, at noon, [3].
► Sudden attack of coryza, with
sneezing, running from the nose, frequent copious discharge of mucus,
which very soon became alternately yellow and white, lasting a long
time, with infrequent paroxysms of cough, with expectoration only with
difficulty; in the intervals, however, frequent easy hawking of large
lumps of mucus, together with transient headache at times here and there
(after triturating), [1]. ► Sneezing, [1].
► Sneezing, catarrh, and discharge
from the nose, [11]. ► Subjective. ►
Constant sensitive feeling in the nose, always on drawing in the air,
which seems cold, although it is warm, [4].
► Increased itching in the nose while
eating, [1].
FACE.
►
Countenance pale and somewhat anxious (after four hours), [15]. ► Pale
face with dark rings below the eyes, in the afternoon (second day), [5]. ►
Feeling of warmth in the face, as with catarrh, [3]. ► Cheeks.
► Pain in the left zygoma, gradually
extending to the right, and ending with aching in the right ear (second
day), [5]. [70.] ►
Aching in the right zygoma, [1]. ► Contractive pain in the left muscles of
mastication, [4]. ► Pressure in the left masseter muscles
(fourth day), [4a]. ► Pressive pain in the right muscles of
mastication, [4]. ► Lips. ►
Lips cracked and painful during the whole proving, [4a]. ►
Soreness of the left corner of the mouth, [5].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Slight rheumatic
drawing in a hollow tooth, [3]. ► Stitches in a hollow tooth, [3]. ►
Drawing feeling in the front teeth of the left side (first day), [3]. ►
Tongue. ► Numbness of the
tongue (after four hours), [15]. [80.] ►
Burning, long-lasting pains in the tongue, [13]. ► General
Mouth. ► Dryness of the
mouth the whole night, [5]. ► Dryness of the mouth, without thirst
(first and second hours), followed by a sensation as if the mouth had
been burnt, the whole night and morning (third day), [5]. ►
Distressing sensation of dryness in the mouth, followed by a real
dryness of the mouth and tongue without thirst, lasting the whole night,
from the second to the third day, then a feeling as if the mouth had
been burnt, lasting till the sixth day, always worse at night, [5]. ►
Sensation of heat and dryness in the mouth and throat (after four
hours), [15]. ► Burning in the mouth and throat, [11]. ►
Burning sensation in the mouth and throat, continuing over an hour
(after ten or fifteen minutes), [15].
► Saliva. ► Much saliva (fourth day), [4a]. ►
Increased accumulation of saliva (tenth day), [4a]. ► Much
accumulation of saliva (tenth day), [4a].
[90.] ►
Frequent accumulation of thin saliva (first day), [4a]. ►
Frequent spitting of saliva the whole morning, with a metallic, bloody
taste, [3]. ►
Much spitting of saliva with the stools, [1].
► Taste. ►
Taste metallic, bloody, with frequent spitting of saliva, the whole
morning, [3]. ► Insipid taste of the drug, very slightly
nauseating, without acridity or heat; after swallowing, this taste
became more decided at the back of the throat (three drops), [32].
THROAT.
►
Throat symptoms (after one hour), [24].
► Throat affected (after three hours
and a half), [25]. ► Complained of his throat (after one
hour), [21]. ►
Pain in the throat (after one hour and a half), [27]. ►
Dryness of the throat (after one hour and a half), [22]; (after two hours), [18]. [100.] ► Dryness and pain in the throat (after
half an hour), [16]. ► Dryness and burning of the throat (after
one hour), [20]; (after two hours
and a half), [26]. ► Dryness and scraping in the throat
(seventh day), [4a]. ► Throat hot and dry (after one hour), [28]. ►
Burning in the throat (after one hour), [5];
(after one hour and a half), [19].
► Burning pains in the throat, [13]. ►
Acrid feeling in the throat, which gradually, and with greater violence,
extended to the stomach, and at last caused vomiting, [12]. ►
Feeling as if the throat were swollen, [1].
► Sticking feeling in the throat,
especially on swallowing (sixth day), [4a].
► Sore throat (after half an hour), [17]. [110.]
► Scraping in the throat, during the
whole proving, [4a]. ► Feeling of soreness in the soft palate, [6]. ►
Fauces and Œsophagus. ►
Dryness of the fauces, [4]. ► Dryness of the upper part of the fauces
and throat, with some thirst; yet he dreaded to drink on account of
constant nausea; after several hours vomiting of food, with short,
hacking, persistent cough, [1]. ► Constant dryness in the fauces, [4]. ►
Dull pain, as though rising from the stomach into the œsophagus, [4]. ►
External Throat. ► Pain
along the external jugular vein of the left side, [6].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Little
appetite for a whole week, [1]. ► Loss of appetite, [11]. ► No
appetite (tenth day), [4a]. ► Thirst. [120.]
► Thirst (after one hour), [21]; (after three hours and a half), [25]; (after one-quarter of an hour), [29]. ►
Decided thirst in the evening (fourth day), [5]. ►
Thirsty, [17]. ► Less longing for wine, [1]. ► Eructation
and Hiccough. ►
Eructations the whole first day, [5].
► Eructations of air (second, fourth,
and sixth days), [4a]. ► Frequent eructations of air (seventh
day), [4a]. ►
Constant eructations of air for twenty-eight hours, [5]. ► Empty
eructations (first and seventh days), [4a].
► Empty eructations (seventh day), [4a]. [130.]
► (Hiccough and vomiting of a
quantity of dark green bile, during convalescence from cholera, in two
cases), [2a]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Nausea (sixth and tenth days), [4a]. ►
Nausea that comes and goes (tenth day), [4a].
► Nausea after eating (tenth day), [4a]. ►
Nausea during the stool, [1]. ► Nausea, with a feeling of warmth in the
stomach (after half an hour), [7].
► Nausea and burning in the stomach
for some hours (after half an hour), [5].
► Some nausea, [4]. ►
Constant nausea, worse the second day than the first, [9]. ►
Constant nausea and accumulation of saliva (tenth day), [4a]. [140.] ► Great nausea, with almost efforts to
vomit (tenth day), [4a]. ► *Dreads to drink on account of nausea,
[1]. ►
Peculiar qualmish sensation in the pit of the stomach (tenth day), [4a]. ►
Sensation of loathing, without acridity or heat; something like that
following a dose of castor oil, or of croton oil, when diluted with
fifty parts of almond oil (10 drops), [32].
► Loathing at the stomach, continuing
until he took food (3 drops after twenty minutes), [32]. ► *Vomiting
(after two hours), [18]; (after
one hour and a half), [22]; (after
one hour), [24], etc. ► Vomiting of all food (a few hours after
Madeira wine), [1]. ► *Very easy vomiting of a large amount of a
watery albuminous substance, together with watery diarrhœa, [8]. ►
Vomiting of a violent character (in the course of an hour), [10], [10a].
► Violent vomiting and diarrhœa, [13]. [150.]
► Vomited; portions of the nuts in
the vomited matter (after half an hour), [17].
► Vomited several times (after half
an hour), [30]. ► Vomited several times within an hour and
a quarter, [16]. ► Vomited copiously (after one hour), [20]. ►
Sickness (after half an hour), [17];
(after two hours), [18]; (after
one hour), [20]. ► Sickness, which ended in his vomiting
freely (after one hour), [21]. ► Violent sickness, (soon after ten or
fifteen minutes), and during the subsequent hour vomited five times, and
was very actively purged, [15]. ► Very sick; vomiting freely (after one
hour), [28]. ► Stomach. ►
Rumbling in the stomach (first day), [4a].
► Anxious feeling in the pit of the
stomach (fourth and seventh days), [4a].
[160.] ►
Sinking feeling in the pit of the stomach, and slight nausea,
immediately; also the second day, after a soft stool, [5]. ► Pain in
the stomach (after quarter of an hour), [29];
(after two hours), [18]. ► Pain in the stomach aggravated by
pressure, [4]. ► Pain in the stomach, with pyrosis (second
day), [19]. ►
Pain in the stomach, extending paroxysmally towards the umbilicus and
into the œsophagus (second day), [4a].
► Constant pain in the stomach (after
half an hour), [4]. ► Very severe pain in the stomach (after
one hour and a half), [19]. ► Warmth in the stomach (first and second
days), [4a]. ►
Feeling of warmth in the stomach (sixth and seventh days), [4a]. ►
Constant feeling of warmth in the stomach (seventh day), [4a]. [170.] ► Heat in the stomach (immediately), [4]; (sixth and tenth days), [4a]. ►
Feeling of heat in the stomach, with cramp rising into the œsophagus
(tenth day), [4a]. ► Severe feeling of heat in the stomach
(seventh day), [4a]. ► Burning in the stomach, and very easy
vomiting of large quantities, [9],
[10]. ►
Burning pain in the stomach, [13].
► Very unpleasant burning sensation
in the stomach and bowels, with nausea, which after an interval of
nearly two hours terminated in vomiting; then purgative effects followed
soon afterwards, and operated mildly; the sickness had then nearly
passed away, but the burning sensation continued for some time longer, [14]. ►
Feeling of cramp in the stomach, on stooping (second day), [4a]. ►
Violent drawing pain in the stomach, [4].
► Painful pressure in the epigastric
region (fourth day), [4a]. ► Pressure in the stomach, at times (first
day), [4a]. [180.] ►
Dull pressure in the stomach (fourth day), [4a]. ►
Constant dull pressure in the stomach, extending up into the œsophagus
(first day), [4a]. ► Slight pressive pain in the stomach
(first day), [4a]. ► Constant cutting pain in the stomach and
whole of the abdomen, aggravated by pressure (first day), [4a]. ►
Cramplike stitches in the stomach (after half an hour), [7]. ►
Sensitiveness of the epigastric region, aggravated by pressure, [4]. ►
Jerking pains in the epigastric region, [4].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Indefinite
pain in both hypochondria and in various parts of the extremities, [4]. ►
Piercing pain in the left hypochondrium extending to the lumbar muscles
(second day), [4a]. ► Umbilical. ►
Pain in the umbilical region, [4].
[190.] ►
Pain about the umbilicus, with rumbling, emission of flatulence and
desire for stool, in the morning (second day), [5]. ► Violent
pain in the umbilical region, extending into the left hypochondrium and
left side of the chest (seventh day), [4a].
► Pain deep in the umbilical region, [4]. ►
Constant pain deep in the umbilical region, [4]. ►
Constant dull pain deep in the umbilical region (fourth day), [4a]. ►
Violent tearing pain deep in the umbilical region, aggravated by
pressure (after one hour), [4]. ► Every attack of spasm in the bladder
comes on with a twisting pain in the umbilicus, and extends downward to
the neck of the bladder; these attacks, like the nausea, gradually
disappear between 6 and 7 P.M.; they are preceded and followed by many
noises of liquids in the abdomen and by sour eructations (tenth day), [4a]. ►
Crawling about the umbilicus the whole forenoon, [5]. ► General
Abdomen. ► Distension of
the abdomen, [11]; (fourth day), [4a]. ►
*Abdomen distended and soft, [4]. [200.] ►
Abdomen moderately distended, soft and painful deep in the umbilical
region to slight pressure (seventh day), [4a].
► Abdomen distended, tympanitic
(second and fourth day), [4a]. ► Abdomen much distended, tense, tympanitic
(first day), [4a]. ► Abdomen tympanitic (seventh day), [4a]. ►
With much rumbling the abdomen soft (first day), [4a]. ► The
distended abdomen becomes soft and sunken, without emission of
flatulence (second day), [4a]. ► Some intestinal movements, but without
pain or purgation (25 drops), [32].
► *Noise as of liquids in the
intestines (sixth day), [4a]. ► Noises as of a liquid moving about in the
abdomen, frequently (fourth day), [4a].
► Constant noise as of a liquid
gurgling in the intestines (fourth day), [4a].
[210.] ►
Many noises as of a liquid in the abdomen (sixth day), [4a]. ► *Much
noise in the abdomen, as if a full bottle were emptied, in the evening,
followed about 10 P.M. by a thin stool without other symptoms; the noise
remained unchanged after the evacuation, without another stool until the
next morning, when the abdomen was soft and sunken (second day), [4a]. ►
Much gurgling of liquids in the abdomen (tenth day), [4a]. ►
Rumbling in the abdomen (fourth day), [4a].
► Rumbling in the abdomen the whole
night, [5]. ►
Rumbling in the abdomen, the pain shooting through deep in the abdomen, [4]. ►
Rumbling and empty eructations, [4].
► Rumbling and emission of flatulence
(second day), [4a]. ► Rumbling in the abdomen and pain in the
transverse colon (five and six hours), [5].
► Rumbling in the abdomen, with sharp
colicky pains in the transverse colon; the rumbling lasted the whole
day, ceased on going into the open air, returned in the warm room and
continued the whole evening and night (second day), [5]. [220.] ► Much rumbling in the abdomen (seventh
day), [4a]. ►
Much rumbling in the abdomen and at times pressure in the stomach (after
five hours, first day), [4a]. ► Much rumbling in the abdomen and pain in
the umbilical region (tenth day), [4a].
► Much rumbling in the abdomen and
desire for stool (sixth day), [4a].
► Frequent rumbling in the abdomen, [4]; (sixth day), [4a]. ►
Constant rumbling in all parts of the abdomen, with distension,
immediately, [4]. ► Emission of flatulence, [4]. ►
Sensation like that preceding a stool, which, however, only occurs the
next morning, [7]. ► Pain in the abdominal region (after four
hours), [15]. ► Pain and distension of the abdomen (after
two hours and a half), [26]. [230.] ►
Pain in belly (after one hour and a half), [27]. ► Pain
in the bowels (after half an hour), [17].
► Pain, with a sensation of heat in
the bowels (after half an hour), [16].
► Slight pain in the bowels, [23]; (second day), [16]. ►
Violent pain in the whole abdomen especially along the course of the
spine, aggravated by slight pressure, with distension of the abdomen,
and desire to urinate (seventh day), [4a].
► Slight griping in the abdomen, [3]. ►
Aching and uneasiness in the abdomen; a sinking feeling in the stomach
as during a violent diarrhœa, the whole forenoon (third day), [5]. ►
Colic, [11]; (51 drops; after half
an hour), [32]. ► Colic, with desire for stool (fourth
day), [4a]. ►
Colic and a sensation of impending diarrhœa, in the morning (second
day), [5]. [240.] ►
Sharp colic in the transverse colon, and rumbling in the abdomen, [5]. ►
Abdomen sore and distended, continuing over an hour (after ten or
fifteen minutes), [15]. ► Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. ► Noises low down in the abdomen (tenth
day), [4a]. ►
Constant gurgling as of liquids low down in the abdomen, with rumbling
of air (seventh day), [4a]. ► Aching in the lower portion of the
abdomen and inclination to stool, for some hours, [5]. ►
Peculiar tension in the inguinal regions, [4].
► Feeling of tension and protrusion
in the left inguinal ring, at times, on rising or blowing the nose,
whereby the left leg is involuntarily flexed and drawn up towards the
abdomen (sixth day), [4a]. ► Pressing outward in the left inguinal
ring on blowing the nose (tenth day), [4a].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Violent burning in the rectum after a stool, lasting an hour (first
day), [3]. ►
Stitches in the rectum, [4];
(second, sixth, and tenth days), [4a].
[250.] ►
Violent crawling of worms in the rectum, in the evening (first day), [3]. ►
Soft hæmorrhoidal swellings, [1].
► Stitches in the orifice of the
anus, [4]. ►
Violent itching in the anus, at night in bed (fourth day), [3]. ►
Inclination to stool (after half an hour), [5]. ► Much
desire for stool, [4]. ► Great desire for a diarrhœa-like stool,
in the morning (first and third days), [3].
► Sudden desire for stool, and
constant noises as of liquids in the abdomen, especially in the left
side (sixth day), [4a].® 2000
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