JATROPHA CURCAS

Purging Nut


  • Of value in cholera and diarrhea. 
  • 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. 
  • Diarrhea; 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--(edema and cardiac paresis).

Dose

  • Third to thirtieth potency.