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Pilocarpinum

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Pilocarpinum · Alkaloid of Jaborandi (Pilocarpus) · "The Sweating-Salivation Alkaloid"

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🎯 It acts as a powerful stimulant to the secretory glands, particularly those producing sweat and saliva, while influencing the eyes and auditory nerves.

📖 Clarke writes:

PILOCARPINUM. Pilocarpia. Pilocarpine. C11H16N2O2. Solution in distilled water.

P. MURIATICUM. Hydrochlorate of Pilocarpine. C11H16N2O2HCl. Solution in distilled water.

P. NITRICUM. Nitrate of Pilocarpine. C11H16N2O2HNO3. Solution. Trituration.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Organ remedy of the sweat glands, parotid, and pancreas

•Produces and cures profuse sweating

•Produces contraction of the pupil

•Action on the ear, labyrinthine deafness, tinnitus, and auditory nerve vertigo

•Promotes free elimination by the skin and other secretive organs

•Reduces blood pressure

•Stimulates laryngeal and nasal secretions

•Promotes absorption of inflammatory residue within the eye

•Affects hair growth and pigmentation

Temperament & Physical Profile

•Subjects of syphilis, hereditary or acquired

•Patients who are more deaf when tired

•Patients with a tendency to take cold after injections

•Bald men

•Patients with debilitating sweats left after acute diseases

Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators

•Distress and despair (in pregnancy)

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Saliva is thick, stringy, exceedingly tenacious

•Nausea and vomiting constant

•Nausea WORSE by slightest movement

•Alternate redness and paleness of face

•Flushes of heat and perspiration

•Urine scanty, high coloured, depositing much uric acid

•Very chilly

•Obstinate constipation

•Hearing BETTER in a noise as of a train (least amenable to treatment)

•Hearing WORSE after a cold (least amenable to treatment)

•Profuse night perspiration of the right half of the body

•Skin becomes irritable

•Fear of bronchitis

•Growth of young downy hairs on bald parts of the scalp

•Turns white hair black

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Profuse, sudden salivation with thick, stringy, and tenacious secretions.

Clarke

Copious, general perspiration beginning on the face and forehead.

Clarke

Labyrinthine deafness and tinnitus, especially in those with a syphilitic history.

Clarke

Pupils contracted to pin-head size.

Clarke

Intense thirst following the period of profuse sweating.

Clarke

Nausea occurring only when salivation is complete.

Clarke

Flushing of the face and body with visible, pulsating temporal arteries.

Clarke

Sensation of intense cold and shaking chills during the onset of sweat.

Clarke

Increased bronchial mucus with frequent cough.

Clarke

Exhaustion and sleepiness following the sweating phase.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤Head

Throbbing in temples and potential for darkening of hair.

Throbbing in temples with acceleration of pulse.

Turns white hair black.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Tiredness

deafness

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Ammonium Carbonicum →Atropinum →

⏩ Follows Well After

Mercurius Solubilis →

🔄 Compare With

Physostigma Venenosum →Jaborandi →

📚 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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