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Jatropha Curcas

30CJatropha

Physic Nut · Purge Nut · "The Cholera Cramp Remedy"

jatr.PlantUncommonPsoric

🎯 A remedy primarily indicated for severe gastrointestinal distress, particularly cholera-like diarrhea and vomiting.

📖 Boericke writes:

(JATROPHA)

Of value in cholera and diarrhoea. The abdominal symptoms are most important. Suppressed measles (H. Farrington).

👤 Constitution

•Typically indicated for individuals suffering from acute, intense gastrointestinal collapse, often accompanied by coldness and muscle cramps.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Very easy vomiting.

stomach

Diarrhoea; forced discharge; loud noise in abdomen like gurgling of water coming out of a bung-hole, associated with coldness, cramps, nausea, and vomiting.

stool

🩺 Systems & Indications

🍽️STOMACH

Useful for acute stomach upset with easy vomiting, burning pain, and intense thirst.

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.

🔑 Modalities

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💊 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.

3rd to 30th

Centesimal

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Croton Tiglium →Camphora →Gambogia →Veratrum Album →Jatropha Urens →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Jatropha Curcas is listed in 31 rubrics across 9 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 15 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Abdomen17 Stomach5 Locomotor System3 Modalities1 Mouth1 Skin1 Fever1 Generalities1 Urinary System1

See all 31 rubrics for Jatropha Curcas →