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Jalapa

30CJalapa
Jalap Root · Ipomoea Purga · "The Night Crying Infant Remedy"
jal.PlantUncommonPsoric
Source
🎯 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.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Child is good all day, but screams and is restless and troublesome at night.
Boericke
Watery, thin, muddy stools.
Boericke
Abdominal distension with pinching and griping pain.
Boericke
Tongue is smooth, glazed, dry, and smarting.
Boericke
Face appears cold and blue during digestive distress.
Boericke
🩺 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
3X to 12X
Decimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Cannabis Sativa →Elaterium Officinarum →
🔄 Compare With
Colocynthis →Camphora →
📚 Sources & References

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