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Jasminum

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Jasminum Officinale · White Jessamine · "The White Jessamine Remedy"

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🎯 A powerful toxic agent that induces a comatose state followed by violent, tetanus-like convulsions.

📖 Clarke writes:

Jasminum officinale. White Jessamine. N. O. Jasminaceae. (Lindley. Some botanists include the jasmines in the Oleaceae.) Tincture of red berries.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Produces a comatose state

•Vomiting

•Convulsions ending in tetanus

•Very powerful drug

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Symptoms go from above downwards

•Symptoms go from left to right

•Convulsive symptoms BETTER by a bath

Clinical Applications & Ethnobotany

•Bitter leaves of J. floribundum used in Abyssinia against tapeworm

•Bitter root of J. angustifolium, powdered and mixed with powdered root of Acorus calamus, used in India as an application in ringworm

Differential Diagnosis & Nomenclature

•Must not be confounded with Gelsemium (Yellow jessamine or Carolina jessamine)

•Gelsemium belongs to a different order of plants

•Gelsemium derived from 'Gelsomino' (Italian for jessamine)

•Jasminum officinale has not been used in medicine

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Violent convulsions ending in tetanus.

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Symptoms progress from above downwards and from left to right.

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Comatose state with perfect insensibility.

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Amelioration from a bath.

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Complete trismus (locked jaws).

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Pupils immoderately dilated.

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Pulse slow and feeble.

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Opisthotonus with surface congestion.

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Muscular movements starting in the face and eyes.

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Surface of the body cool.

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🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Used for comatose states and profound loss of consciousness.

Comatose condition.

Perfect insensibility.

🔑 Modalities

↑Better from

Bath

convulsive symptoms

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Nyctanthes Arbor Tristis →

📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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