Homeopathy Remedy Jaborandi


Jaborandi homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Jaborandi…


      A tincture is prepared from the dried leaves and stems of Pilocarpus pinnatifolius, Lem., which contain the alkaloid Pilocarpine.

General Action

      The most remarkable property of this drug is diaphoresis; in a few minutes a flush of the face is followed by profuse perspiration and salivation (frequently if one of these is profuse the other is greatly lessened), which last for hours. It contracts the pupil and causes spasm of the accommodation. It stimulates the hair, making it coarse and often turning it dark.

Allies.- Agaricus, Physostigma.

Generalities

      Redness of face, throbbing of temporal arteries, then heat in mouth and on face, salivation, then sweat on forehead, cheeks and temples, incessant expectoration, sweat covering face and neck, then whole body red and moist, pleasant warmth, then general sweat, when soon runs down on all sides, then lachrymation and copious discharge from nose, increased activity of mucous glands of back of throat, trachea and salivation so great that he can scarcely speak, salivary glands enlarged, sometimes accumulation in bronchi, cleared away by cough, thirst, contracted pupils, after the sweat and salivation; have ceased, prostration, drowsiness and dryness of the parts that have secreted so copiously, (<) mouth and back of throat, with much thirst.

Restlessness; in evening, with anxiety. Weariness; in morning, with dryness of mouth and thirst; on rising; from a short walk, with hurried breathing and palpitation; so that legs give way when walking. Faintness. Collapse.

Mind

      Confusion. Disinclination to speak.

Head

      Aching; every day about noon; about noon; about noon, with hurried breathing, pressure on chest, anxiety, palpitation and pain in region of heart; towards dinner time (noon), no affecting appetite; (<) l. side, during sore throat; with suffocative feeling. Uneasiness; increasing in forenoon to pain in occiput, then extending to forehead, (>) late in afternoon. Empty feeling. Vertigo. Throbbing pain in vertex and front of head at 7.30 P.M.; sudden T. pain in vertex and forehead. Pain in lower part of occiput; extending over l. side of head to forehead; heavy, (<) l. side; pain in l. side of O. in evening.

Eyes

      Red spot near r. iris in morning, vascular appearance in both eyes as from cold or overwork. Cornea red after waking at 5.30 P.M. Lachrymation. Pupils contracted; and tension of accommodative apparatus with approximation of nearest and farthest points of distinct vision, amblyopic impairment of vision from diminished sensibility of retina; P. dilated; P. sluggish. Balls sore on rolling them at 7.30 P.M. Lids stiff and heavy. Vision disturbed. V. changing constantly, becoming suddenly more, then less dim; dim, with pricking in eyes; dim, restored suddenly. Blurred V. for distant objects. Swimming of distant objects. Clouds before vision. V. of snowflakes during the sweat and salivation. V. lost for distant objects.

Clinical Asthenopia of hypermetropia. Spasms of ciliary muscle in hypermetropia. It has relieved the asthenopia of cataracts. Convergent strabismus. Especially useful after operations for strabismus.

Nose and Face

      Nasal discharge. Redness of face; and of ears and neck; and of body; involving cheeks and ears, (<) when the sweat was greatest, then pallor; with heat of it and with throbbing of temporal arteries.

Mouth

      Tongue furred. Articulation difficult and indistinct. Heat. Dryness. Salivation; with profuse sweat; with dry skin; stringy, but not very viscid; constant spitting of alkaline saliva; alkaline saliva flows upon pillow during sleep, causing collapsed feeling in glands in cheeks. Saliva contained a notable quantity of urea.

Clinical Profuse salivation during pregnancy.

Throat

      Swelling of submaxillary glands (Mercurius, Calcarea). Pain in submaxillary glands. Dryness at back; dry and inflamed feeling in forenoon, with scraping on swallowing anything, the inflammation (<) afternoon, with swelling of tonsils and stiffness of jaws. Soreness and smarting, with headache, (<) l. side, and hurried breathing.

Clinical Mumps, especially when there is metastasis to the testicles.

Stomach

      Appetite. Hunger disappeared and he could not eat. Urgent thirst. Eructations and vomiting. Hiccough. Nausea; sudden, and retching, often with hiccough. Vomiting; after supper; sudden, in the lad who failed to perspire; of the saliva that he had swallowed; severe, of the contents of stomach, then of bile, then continued retching. Distress, and in lower half of oesophagus, especially the latter feels constricted; heavy D. at pyloric part at dinner-time, as from an indigestible substance, (>) a full meal. Constrictive feeling as if rugae were puckered (probably owing to alcohol in tincture).

Abdomen

      Empty, gone feeling. Cutting in lower.

Stool

      Watery, yellow, frequent and painless; and undigested, gushing, weakening. Yellow, gushing. Papescent and large. First part five- eighths of an inch in diameter and about five inches long, the last part papescent and dark brown. Hard. Constipation, two stools a day instead of three. At 7 A.M. and again at 7 P.M. difficult, of long, large, dark faeces.

Urinary Organs

      Sudden shooting from bladder to urethra. Burning in urethra, with urging to urinate. Urine dark. Urine increased; during the sweat; and sp. gr. diminished, urea increased. Urine decreased; and sp. gr. and urea increased. Urea diminished, next day increased. Chlorine, chlorides and uric acid diminished, next day increased.

Respiratory Organs and Chest

      Bronchial secretions increased. Loose cough. Breathing difficult. Breathing hurried. Sticking in chest. Pain in chest and around heart. Pressure on chest, with anxiety, palpitation and pain in region of heart. Anxiety in chest, with oppression, preventing sleep.

Heart

      Pain in region. Palpitation. Irregularity, weakness and rapidity of action, with nervous, restless condition and constant yawning.

Pulse

      Rapid; then slow; at beginning of sweat, the tracing becomes a little crooked, the rising line larger and more upright, the descending line more oblique, more dicrotic, at the height of the sweat the general outline very irregular, some beats shorter than others. P. rose (the reverse of temperature), returned to normal rate, with return of normal temperature, but was soft and compressible. P. and temperature increased during sweat, then lowered. Tracings showed almost complete asystolia, with diminished vascular tension during sweat.

Sleep

      Sleepiness. Fell asleep while sitting reading. Profound sleep; in daytime. Most wretched night that he ever remembers, fever, headache, malaise, no thirst, restlessness, moving and delirium. Did not sleep well on account of restlessness, with pressure on chest and hurried breathing. Distressing dreams towards morning. Dreams of accidents and frights, waking him twice at night.

Fever

      Temperature sank. Chilly up and down back at 7 P.M. Shivering. Temperature 98.5 degree, in taking which he uncovered himself, this caused coldness, with horripilation and griping, but as soon as he covered himself again profuse sweat. Heat; temperature rose, then fell; internal, in face and over body; in face; in face, then extending over body. Profuse sweat; and finger-ends shrivelled like a washerwoman’s; in drops on forehead; S. on forehead, then over whole body, then chiefly on face, legs and feet; S. on forehead and over whole body, (<) trunk, simultaneously with the salivation; on face; on face and upper part of chest; on face, then on whole body; on chest, then on other parts, (<) upper extremities. S. of neutral reaction running down all over body. S. contains urea. Perspired easily before taking, but did not sweat during the proving.

Clinical Flushings at the climacteric period, with profuse perspiration, cold extremities, nausea and vomiting.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.