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Jalapa

30CJalapa

Jalap Root · Ipomoea Purga · "The Night Crying Infant Remedy"

jal.PlantUncommonPsoric

🎯 It acts primarily on the gastrointestinal tract to treat colic and diarrhea, particularly in children who are calm during the day but restless and screaming at night.

📖 Boericke writes:

(EXOGONIUM PURGA)

Causes and cures colic and diarrhoea. The child is good all day, but screams and is restless and troublesome at night.

👤 Constitution

•Typically indicated for children who are calm and pleasant during the day but become extremely restless, troublesome, and prone to screaming at night.

🩺 Systems & Indications

🔵GASTRO-INTESTINAL

Useful for digestive issues involving watery, muddy diarrhea, abdominal bloating, and associated nausea or soreness.

Tongue, smooth, glazed, dry, smarting.--Pain in right hypochondrium.

Flatulence and nausea.

Pinching and griping.

Watery diarrhoea; thin, muddy stools.

Abdomen distended.

Face cold and blue.

Anus sore.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

3X to 12X

Decimal

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Cannabis Sativa →Elaterium Officinarum →

🔄 Compare With

Colocynthis →Camphora →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Jalapa is listed in 12 rubrics across 4 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 3 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Abdomen8 Locomotor System2 Tongue1 Nervous System1