# Pilocarpinum Microphyllum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Sycotic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Piloc. is one of the most characteristic of  several alkaloids which have been isolated from 
jaborandi (Pilocarpus pin - natus). It has been used like Jab. to produce and cure profuse sweating, and by 
oculists to produce contraction of the pupil, which it does whether it is injected subcutaneously or  applied 
directly to the eye. It has also an action on the ear. 
The hair as well as the skin is affected by Piloc., which is an ingredient in many “hair restorers." Schmitz of 
Cologne treated two bald men with injections of Piloc. mur. to produce absorptio n of inflammatory residue 
within the eye. 
In both a secondary effect occurred, the growth of young downy hairs on the bald parts of the scalp. One, age 
60 in four months and his head covered “partly with gray and partly with black hairs” of considerable gr owth, 
so as to entirely obliterate his previous baldness. Piloc. has also been known to turn white hair black. 
In a case of lead paralysis, it produced profuse salivation and sweat with sensation of great coldness and 
excessive tremors of limbs. Salivation and sweating speedily occur. 
Dilatation of blood vessels, temporal artery becomes a thick, pulsating cord, veins of forehead stand out blue. 
Exhaustion (after the perspiration) during which most of the patients fell asleep. Faintness.

## Symptoms by System

### Head
- Throbbing in temples with acceleration of pulse.
- Turns white hair black.
- Throbbing in temples with acceleration of pulse.
- Turns white hair black.

### Eyes
- Profuse lachrymation.
- Pupils contracted to pin-head.
- Sight for distance improved.

### Ears
- Aural verti go.
- Tinnitus of left ear.
- Deafness with tinnitus.
- Labyrinthine deafness, worse when tired.
- Increased secretion of wax.

### Face
- Forehead and face red, veins stand out.
- Perspiration begins on face.

### Mouth
- Saliva thick, stringy, exceedingly tenacious.
- Sudden salivation, maximum reached in fifteen minutes, 
continues two hours, one and a half pints of thin saliva being secreted in that time.
- Nose - Nasal secretion increased.

### Chest
- Weakness of the heart.
- Pulse accelerated, blood pressure diminished.
- After the perspiration the pulse 
sinks to normal.
- Increased bronchial mucus, much cough and expectoration.
- Constantly tak ing cold and in fear of 
bronchitis.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Nausea, only occurring when salivation is complete (does not go on to vomiting as that of Jab.
- does).
- Nausea and retching.
- Temperature - Sensation of coldness and shaking chill without fall of temperature.
- Increase of temperature 
with feeling of intens e cold.
- Sweat profuse, may lose Vom tow to tow powvts tu fet sw catwg.
- After sweat, 
thirst, feeling of relief and sense of increased vigor.
- COMMENTS - G.
- P.
- Field gave it with good effect in labyrinthine deafness, tinnitus and auditory nerve vertigo.
- The cases least amenable to its influence were those in which the hearing was better in a noise as of a train, 
etc.
- and those in which the hearing is worse after a cold.
- Subjects of syphilis, hereditary or acquired and 
patients who are more deaf when tired, are the most suitable.
- Wood went to see a woman three months pregnant.
- She was a picture of distress and despair.
- For eight weeks 
she had saturated from six to ten handkerchiefs daily with tenacious saliva.
- Nausea and vomiting were 
constant, emaciation extreme.
- Nausea worse by slightest movement.
- Alternate redness and paleness of face, flushes of heat and perspiration.
- Urine scanty, high colored, depositing 
much uric acid.
- Very chilly, obstinate constipation.
- Piloc.
- was given, a teaspoonful every two hours.
- The next day Wood found his patient sit ting up, cheerful and free from nausea and salivation.
- The 
improvemen,t with some fluctuations, continued.
- Merc., Ip., Nit -ac., Kali-bi., Hydr., Cimic.
- had all previously 
failed.
- A woman who had Piloc.
- injections com plained to Cooper that thereafter she had been constantly catching 
colds and had fears of getting bronchitis.
- Her skin too, became irritable.
- Piloc.
- 3x is Burnett's chief remedy in 
mumps.
- He regarded it (and Jab.) as an organ remedy of the sweat glands, parotid and pancreas.
- Frohling related a case showing the power of Piloc.
- over debilitating sweats left after acute diseases.
- With 
Merc.
- 12c he cured a case of rheumatic fever so far as the joint affection was concerned, but the sweats 
persisted and strength  declined in spite of remedies until Piloc.
- was given, when the sweating stopped after 
the first dose.
- Intense thirst following the sweating.

### Urinary & Genital
- Menses two days early.

### Skin
- Irritable skin.

### Sleep
- Patients fall asleep under its influence.