Jasminum


Jasminum signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Jasminum is used…


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

Clinical

Convulsions. Tetanus.

Relations

*Compare: Nyctanthes (bot.).

Characteristics

The only observation on this plant is one made by W.H. Hull on a boy who ate the red berries. They produced a comatose state, vomiting and convulsions ending in tetanus. (*Jasminum must not be confounded with Gelsemium, the “Yellow Jessamine,” or “Carolina Jessamine,” which belongs to a different order of plants. “Gelsomino” is the Italian for Jessamine, and it is probably from this that the word *Gelsemium is derived, and this will also account for the spelling *Gelseminum, which has sometimes been used.) The *Treasury of Botany states that the bitter leaves of *J. florbundum are used in Abyssinia against tapeworm, and the bitter root of *J. angustifolium, powdered and mixed with the powdered root of *Acorus calamus is considered in India an excellent application in ringworm. *Jasmin. offic. has not been used in medicine, but the poisoning case shows that it is a very powerful drug. The convulsive symptoms were better by a bath. Symptoms go from above downwards and from left to right.

SYMPTOMS.

Mind

Comatose condition. Perfect insensibility.

Eyes

Pupils immoderately dilated.

Face

Face pallid. Muscular movement first above eyes and face, especially left side, towards which eyes and facial muscles were directed.

Stomach

Slight emesis. Slight emesis after first sleep.

Respiratory Organs

Respiration somewhat rhonchial but of unusual frequency.

Heart and Pulse

Pulse slow and feeble.

Generalities

Muscular movements observed first about eyes and face, especially on left side, towards which eyes and facial muscles were directed, becoming generally more severe, going from head to left arm, then to left lower extremities, till finally the whole body was thrown into most violent convulsions. At one time the spasms were chiefly opisthotonos, when the whole surface was congested almost to a blackened hue, most marked about the muscles of the head and throat, jaws locked, trismus complete, better by a bath. Weak and almost helpless for a few days. Lying on the floor in a fainting fit. Perfect insensibility. Surface cool.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica