# Jaborandi ## Remedy Classification - **Type:** Herbal Remedy - **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm - **Temperament:** Hot - **Aggravation Time:** Night ## Keynote Indications Source: Derived from the leaves of Pilocarpus jaborandi or related species (e.g., Pilocarpus. microphyllus), shrubs in the Rutaceae family, native to South America, prepared for homeopathic. use through maceration, serial dilution, and succussion to eliminate toxicity and enhance therapeutic. action. Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for autonomic, ocular, respiratory,. psychological, and systemic disorders, particularly those involving excessive perspiration,. salivation, and visual disturbances. It is noted for symptoms such as profuse sweating, blurred. vision, bronchial constriction, and anxiety, often aggravated by heat, exertion, or emotional stress,. and ameliorated by rest, cool air, or lying down. Modern Context : Indicated for autonomic conditions (e.g., hyperhidrosis, sialorrhea), ocular. conditions (e.g., glaucoma, miosis), respiratory conditions (e.g., asthma, bronchitis),. psychological conditions (e.g., anxiety, restlessness), and systemic conditions (e.g., fever, fatigue). It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by excessive secretions , visual. disturbances, respiratory distress, or emotional restlessness, typically exacerbated by heat,. exertion, or emotional stress, and often seen in individuals with autonomic dysfunction, ocular. disorders, or stress-related anxiety. The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a hyperactive,. sensitive constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like profuse sweating or eye strain. alongside psychological symptoms like nervousness or irritability, commonly observed in patients. with primary hyperhidrosis, open-angle glaucoma, or generalized anxiety disorder triggered by. physiological or emotional stressors. ## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations) Worse from: Heat (weather, rooms, drinks), exertion, emotional stress, visual effort, lying. down, humidity, bright light, noise, confinement, eating, night, menstruation. ## Symptoms by System ### Mind - Mental confusion. - Dullness of mind. - Cheerfulness, gaiety. - Very nervous and tremulous. - Disinclination to speak. - Desire to kill loved ones. - Fixed idea that she will murder all her family with a hatchet. - Mental confusion. - Dullness of mind. - Cheerfulness, gaiety. - Very nervous and tremulous. - Disinclination to speak. - Desire to kill loved ones. - Fixed idea that she will murder all her family with a hatchet. ### Vertigo - Headache with vertigo. - Vertigo with nausea after exertion of vision. - Vertigo as if head were too light, on moving or looking at objects. - Vision - White spots before eyes. - Everything at a distance appears hazy. - Vision becomes indistinct every few moments. - Focal dis tance changes while reading. - Dim vision, better looking sideways (Chin -s.). - Retinal images retained long after using eyes. - COMMENTS - Sandesberg noticed that the internal use of Jab. - and pilocarpine in cases of detached retina and choroiditis seemed to occasion o pacity of the crystalline lens. - He treated a horse for iridochoroiditis and large opacities of the vitreous with infusion of Jab. - leaves and injections of Pilo. - The disease was quickly arrested, the vitreous cleared up completely, but during the first week the crystalline lens became opaque. - Jab. - has been used as a remedy for baldness and it forms the principal ingredient in some of the popular hair restorer tonics. - In a number of patients taking it, white hair and blonde hair have been observed to turn bl ack. - Jab. - has a reputation for stimulating breast secretions. - A case is quoted from the Lancet in which a woman whose milk had ceased for a fortnight received ten drops of the fluid extract every four hours. - The secretion of milk was re-established, but the patient began to suffer from extreme nervous excitement accompanied by a fixed idea that she should murder her family with a hatchet. - The drug was stopped and these symptoms disappeared, and with them, the activity of the breast glands. - Bell commended it in diarrhea with gush ing. - painless stools, flushed face, profuse salivation and sweat, and intense thirst with dark urine that is scanty or profuse. - Cooper saw Jab. - cause violent leucorrhea as well as a discharge of threadworms. - He noted its use in relieving “a feeling of cold ness and faintness and neuralgic throbbings in head and pelvis with a backache” when the period begins. - He suggested treating with a drop or two of Jab. - in hot water. - The Hom. - News, February, 1900, quoted an incidental cure of dysm enorrhea in a woman, age 23, who received five-drop does of Jab. - for increased eye-tension which rapidly disappeared. - The patient noticed that she passed the next menstrual period without pain though she usually had to spend two to four days in bed. - The drug was continued in smaller doses and the improvement was maintained. - Hale commended its use in women or young girls who always have dry skin, scanty menses and a tendency of blood to the head. - Duncan aborted erysipelas by painting the tincture on the part four to five times daily. - A sharp smarting is the first effect, followed by a more agreeable, soothing sensation. - For burns, scalds and some forms of eczema and psoriasis. - One patient, after having been injected with pilocarpine, complained of great sensitiveness to cold, constantly taking cold and bronchitis, the skin became irritable. - Dudgeon recorded a case of a man, 45, who rose at an early hour and went to the other side of his bedroom to get a dose of Nux -v. - 3c for some fancied derangement of his st omach. - On coming back to bed he was seized with a sudden, violent, crimson flushing of the face followed almost immediately by profuse perspiration, beginning in the face and head and extending all over the body. - This was followed by extreme coldness of the limbs and sickness terminating in the vomiting of sour mucus. - The attacks recurred every quarter of an hour throughout the day. - Not only was he unable to get out of bed, he could not raise himself up in bed or lie otherwise than on his right side without the most distressing giddiness and a feeling “as if he should die.” Pulse 60, regular and strong, temperature below normal. - Ten drops of Jab. - 1c were mixed in half a tumbler of water and a dessert spoonful given immediately and repeated every half hour. - After the second dose the attacks ceased and he was able to take bread and milk without sickness. - He had a good night's rest and was perfectly well the next day. ### Head - Empty, hollow sensation in head. - Headache every day about noon. - Head ache from straining eyes. - Headache with smarting and pain in eyeballs. - Pulsating in temporal vessels, at vertex. - Throbbing pain in vertex and front of head. - Pain in lower part of occiput. - Light hair turns black. - Baldness. - Empty, hollow sensation in head. - Headache every day about noon. - Head ache from straining eyes. - Headache with smarting and pain in eyeballs. - Pulsating in temporal vessels, at vertex. - Throbbing pain in vertex and front of head. - Pain in lower part of occiput. - Light hair turns black. - Baldness. ### Eyes - Tension in eyes. - Pupils contracted, do not react to light. - Glaucoma. - Atrophic choroiditis. - Vitreous opacities. - Eyestrain from whatever cause (Ruta.). - Eye pain from exertion of vision atfine work. - Eyes easily tire from slightest use. - Sensation of heat and burning in eyes during exertion. - Smarting pain in eyes. - Lachrymation during coryza, headache. - Irritation from electric or other artificial light. - Staring eyes. - Irritability of the ciliary muscle. - Periodic strabismus. - Spasms of the accom modation while reading. - Near-sighted. - Hyperopia. - Exophthalmos, protrusion of eyes. - Squints, convergent after surgery. - Lids twitch. ### Ears - Serous exudation into tympanic cavity. - Tinnitus. - Nervous deafness, better in noise. - Noises and vertigo. ### Face - Redness of face and of ears. - Pallor with heat of face and throbbing of tem poral arteries. - Mumps, especially when metastasis to the testes. - Inflammation of parotid gland. ### Mouth - Tension in salivary glands. - Profuse salivation with profuse sweating, with dry skin. - Saliva viscid like egg white, or stringy but not viscid. - Constant spitting of alkaline saliva. - Saliva contained a notable quantity of urea. - Salivation during pregnancy. - Dryness of mouth. - Nose - Copious nasal discharge. - Coryza and perspiration (Merc.). - Perspiration - Excessive perspiration from all parts of the body. - Sweat on forehead, then over whole body, then chiefly on face, legs and feet. - Sweat breaks out on the face and upper part of the chest. - Sweats with palpitations, general pulsations and tremors. - Copious sweating with chilliness, with salivation, with diarrhea (Verat.). - Nervous sweats. - Semi -lateral or unilateral sweat. - Night-sweats. - Perspiration in bed. - Hot flushes and sweats. - Perspiration during menopause. - Sweat contains urea. - Perspired easily before taking, but did not sweat during the proving. ### Throat - Exophthalmic goiter with increased heart's action, pulsation in arteries, tremors and nervousness. - Swelling of submaxillary glands (Merc., Calc.). - Dryness at back of throat. - Soreness and smarting of throat. ### Chest - Wheezing or dyspnea, with a sensation of tightness or suffocation, resembling. - asthma or allergic bronchitis, worse with heat, lying down, or humidity. - Productive cough or expectoration, with a sensation of mucus or rawness, resembling. - chronic bronchitis, aggravated by warmth, exertion, or night. - Chest tightness or bronchial constriction, with a tendency to aggravation in allergic. - states, resembling reactive airway disease, worse with emotional stress or heat. - Tendency to respiratory hypersensitivity, with aggravation in spasmodic or allergic. - states. - Psychological:. - Anxiety or nervousness, with a sensation of restlessness or impending doom,. - resembling generalized anxiety disorder, worse with physical discomfort, heat, or. - emotional stress. - Irritability or impatience, with a tendency to feel easily provoked, resembling. - adjustment disorder, aggravated by exertion, warmth, or confinement. - Jaborandi (Pilocarpus) 1093. - Restlessness or mood swings, with a tendency to feel overwhelmed, resembling. - stress-related disorders, worse with sensory overload or night. - Tendency to psychological hypersensitivity, with aggravation during autonomic or. - respiratory flare-ups. - Systemic:. - Fever or chills, with a sensation of heat or shivering, resembling systemic. - inflammatory response syndrome, worse with heat, exertion, or emotional stress. - Fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of prostration or heaviness, resembling chronic. - fatigue syndrome or post-viral fatigue, aggravated by warmth, exertion, or stress. - Hypersensitivity to external stimuli (e.g., heat, light, noise), resembling sensory. - processing disorder, worse with fatigue or emotional stress. - Tendency to systemic irritability, with aggravation in febrile or exhausted states. ### Stomach & Abdomen - Thirst in morning on waking. - Hiccough, before vomiting. - Nausea, sudden and retching often with hiccough Vomiting after supper. - Nausea worse motion of eyes. - Nausea on looking at objects moving, vomiting, pressure and pain in stomach. - Stubborn vomiting of pregnancy. - Nausea during menopause. - Temperature - Chilly up and down back at 7 p.m. - Shivering. - Chilliness with sweat. - Cold limbs. - Heat flushes, at menopause, with profuse sweat, nausea and vomiting. - Empty, gone feeling. - Cutting in lower abdomen. - Severe pains over pubes with strong desire to pass water, which relieved. - Ailments of the pancreas. - Breasts - Milk absent or deficient. - Milk increased, too profuse. - Good appetite. - Hunger disappeared and he could not eat. - Urgent thirst. ### Urinary & Genital - Orchitis from metastasis of mumps. - Orchitis with incipient bronchial trouble. - Menses, start with coldness, throbbing in head and pelvis, and backache. - Menses scanty, congested head, dry skin. - Leucorrhea. - Edema of pregnancy. - Puer peral convulsions in a stupor, threatened suffocation from inability to swallow excessive quantity of saliva. - Heat and dryness of vagina during labor. - Labor pains ceasing or sluggish. - Flushing at menopause. ### Skin - Fever or chills, with a sensation of heat or shivering, resembling systemic. - inflammatory response syndrome, worse with heat, exertion, or emotional stress. - Fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of prostration or heaviness, resembling chronic. - fatigue syndrome or post-viral fatigue, aggravated by warmth, exertion, or stress. - Hypersensitivity to external stimuli (e.g., heat, light, noise), resembling sensory. - processing disorder, worse with fatigue or emotional stress. - Tendency to systemic irritability, with aggravation in febrile or exhausted states. ### Sleep - Sleepiness. - Profound sleep in day time. - Fell asleep while sitting reading. - Night-sweats. - Perspiration in bed. - Did not sleep well on account of restlessness, with pressure on chest and hurried breathing. - Distressing dreams towards morning. - Dreams of accidents and fights, waking him twice a night.