🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile
This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Jalapa. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
▲GENERAL
Jalapa, the well -known purgative of old school practice, had a short provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. by Jeanes.
Allen cured a case of “coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge. in an infant, violent attacks of crying and intense p ain, quiet during the day, but
screaming all night.”
ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. and diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day..
Severe abdominal pain, “as if the abdomen would be cut to pieces,” severe griping,
cutting pains.
Pain is better by belchings of frothy matter and flatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind..
Cutting colic before and during the stool.
Stools are watery, sour smelling and bloody.
Stools, watery, muddy
or sour, bloody.
Infantile diarrhea with general coldness, blueness of face.
Pain in sigmoid flexure.
General coldness and blueness of the face.
Restlessness and anxiety.
Great weakness with fainting fits,
excessive uneasiness and tossing about of limbs.
Symptoms are worse at night.
A child may be quite quiet
all day, but screams and tossed about all night
▲HERBAL PROPERTIES & MODALITIES
Worse night, belchings
▲HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:
Antidotes: Elat., Cann-s. Compare: (1) Camph. - diarrhea with coldness. (2) Coloc. - colic. (3)
Iris-t. - pain in cecum.
▲MIND
Great restlessness with anxiety.
Fainting fits, weakness.
Quiet all day, but screams and tossed about
all night.
Weeping in sleep, good during day.
Screams and restless all night.
Shrieking in children.
▲HEAD
Violent headache.
Pain in head, smarting in skin of forehead.
Kidneys - Pain and pressure in region of bladder.
▲EARS
Humming in ears
▲MOUTH
Dryness of lips.
Tongue, smooth, glazed, dry, smarting and biting.
Stinging on tongue and in fauces.
Perspiration - Great disposition to perspiration of head and superior parts of body
▲ABDOMEN
Flatulent and frothy belchings with abatement of pain.
Nausea.
Temperature - General coldness and blueness of face.
FebrileFeverish or marked by feverRelating to or characterized by an elevated body temperature or fever symptoms. attacks.
COMMENTS - Nash cured with Jal.
12c a desperate case of enterocolitis in which there was screaming all
day as well as all night.
With the screaming there was constant body contortions, bending forward, backward
and sideways alternately.
Abdomen distended.
Pain in middle of abdomen and in region of left superior flexure of colon.
Pain in right hypochondrium.
Pain in cecum.
Colic, violent pain in small intestines, as if abdomen would be cut
to pieces.
Inflammation of intestines.
Severe griping, cutting pain in bowels, worse at night.
Flatulent rumbling
in bowels.
Flatulence and nausea
▲GENITALS ETC
Thrilling sensation in urethra while urinating
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Excessive uneasiness and tossing about of limbs.
Aching in arms and legs, mostly right side.
Pain in
thighs.
Pain in large joint of great toe.
Smarting on inside edge and at root of left great toenail with heat, tearing
and pulsation.
Burning of soles of feet
▲BACK AND NECK
Severe pain about superior margin of left scapula
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This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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