Jaborandi (Pilocarpus)

▲   GENERAL

General

Jaborandi (Pilocarpus) is a powerful glandular stimulant and the most efficient diaphoretic. Jaborandi (Pilocarpus)'s most important effects are diaphoresis, salivation and myosis. Hot flushes, nausea, salivation and profuse perspiration. The face, ears and neck become in a few minutes after a dose of Jaborandi (Pilocarpus) deeply flushed, and drops of perspiration break out all over the body while at the same time the mouth waters and saliva pours out in an almost continuous stream. Other secretions, lachrymal, nasal, bronchial and intestinal also but in less degree. The sweat and saliva produced by a single dose is often enormous in quantity, not infrequently half a pint.

Is homeopathic to Abnormal sweats, and has achieved great success in Night-sweats of consumptives. Acts upon the thyroid and its sudorific action may possibly be due to it. Exophthalmic goitre, with increased heart’s action and pulsation of arteries; tremors and nervousness; heat and sweating; bronchial irritation. A valuable remedy in limiting the duration of mumps.

Non-Homeopathic Uses.

Chiefly as a powerful and rapid diaphoretic. It is of most service in renal disease, especially with uraemia, eliminating both water, and urea. Scarlatinal dropsy. Contraindicated in HEART FAILURE, AND IN POST-PUERPERAL URAEMIA, and in senile cases.

Dose

Third potency.

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Compare: Amyl Nitrosum ^{Amyl. Nit}.; Atrop.; physos.; Lycopodium ^Lycop; Ruta Graveolens ^Ruta. Pilocarpin mur., (Meniere’s disease, rapidly progressive phthisis, with free hemorrhages, profuse sweating, 2x trit.) Atropine is the antagonist to Pilocarpin, in dose of one one-hundredth grain for one-sixth of Pilocarpin.

▲   MIND

Mind

Delirium; night

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions; murder; will murder family with a hatchet

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; confusion

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish; alternating with hilarity

Restlessness, nervousness

evening

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

From looking at.; looking at a moving object

▲   HEAD

Head

Empty, hollow sensation

Restlessness

Headache

Pain, headache

late morning

noon

eyes and vision (affecting or affected by); from straining eyes

increasing gradually; and decreasing gradually

in forehead; afternoon

back of head (occiput); evening

Scalp

Skin and scalp; perspiration; forehead

▲   EYES

Eyes

Eye strain from whatever cause

Irritability of the ciliary muscle

Eyes easily tire from slightest use

Heat and burning in eyes on use

Headache; smarting and pain in globe on use

Everything at a distance appears hazy; vision becomes indistinct every few moments

Retinal images retained long after using eyes

Irritation from electric or other artificial light

Pupils contracted; do not react to light

Staring eyes

Near-sighted

Vertigo and nausea after using eyes

White spots before eyes

smarting pain in eyes

Lids twitch

Atrophic choroiditis

Spasm of the accommodation while reading.

Cataract

Discoloration; redness

Eye feels hot

during exertion

when using eyes

Inflammation; wounds; back of eye (behind retina - choroid)

Pain

from exertion of vision

in detailed work

when using eyes; when reading

aching; while reading

Paralysis; of muscles of eyeball; internal recti (to move eye towards other eye)

Pupils; contracted

Spasms; muscles which focus eye

Strabismus (eyes incorrectly aligned)

convergent

divergent

periodic

Tears; with running nose

Tired sensation

Weak; after emission

Vision

Accommodation, movement of eyeball; tension

Blurred

distant objects

letters

Colours and shapes in front of eyes

snow; flakes

spots

when reading

Dim

distant objects

when reading

Exertion of vision

Focal distance; changes while reading

Foggy

Images retained too long

Short-sightedness

Weak (see eyes, weak); using eyes

▲   EARS

Ear

Serous exudation into the tympanitic cavities

Tinnitus ( Pilocarpin 2x.)

Skin; discoloration; redness

▲   FACE

Face

Heat

Inflammation; parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe); spread of malignant tumour to testes

Perspiration

Skin

discoloration; pale

discoloration; red

out-breaks on skin; rash

Swelling; glands in general

▲   NOSE

Nose

Pain

sore, bruised; in bones

sore, bruised; inside

Discharge

Running or blocked nose (coryza)

with fever

with perspiration

▲   MOUTH

Saliva

Saliva viscid, like white of egg

Dryness

Free salivation, With profuse sweating.

Saliva

alkaline

scanty

Salivation

Taste

Taste; bitter

▲   THROAT

Throat

Inflammation; late morning

Pain; sore

Scraping; after swallowing

▲   CHEST

Chest

Heart; Pulse irregular, dicrotic

Oppression of chest

Cyanosis; collapse

Nervous cardiac affections.

Anxiety

Oppressed feeling

Pain

heart

region of heart

stitching, sudden, sharp

Respiration

Bronchial mucous membrane inflamed

Much inclination to cough and difficult breathing

Oedema of lungs

Foamy sputa

Profuse, thin, serous expectoration

Slow, sighing respiration.

Difficult (dyspnea)

▲   COUGH

Cough

Loose

▲   SKIN

Skin

Excessive perspiration from all parts of the body

Persistent dryness of skin

Dry eczema

Semi-lateral sweats

Chilliness with sweat.

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Diarrhoea, painless; during day with flushed face and profuse sweat.

Urinary Organs.

Scanty; pain over pubes with much urging.

Emptiness

after stool

Stomach

thirst; morning

thirst; morning; on waking

Nausea

nausea; from looking; at moving object (see vertigo, dizziness)

nausea; movement of eyes

nausea; while reading

nausea; when using the eyes

Vomiting

Nausea on looking at objects moving; vomiting; pressure and pain in stomach.

vomiting; after supper

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Diarrhoea

daytime only

noon

eating

painless

Stool

Food appears to be passed undigested (lientery)

Shooting out

Watery; yellow

Yellow

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Colour; dark

Urethra

Urethra (urinary part of genitals); pain; burning

pain; stitching, sudden, sharp; extending forward

Male

Male; swelling; testes; from mumps

Womb

Female; rigidity of neck of womb during labour

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Perspiration

upper limbs

foot

Weakness; leg

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

With chill; heat and perspiration

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Deep

Dreams

accidents

fights

Heavy

Sleepiness, tiredness

afternoon; 5 p.m.

Sleeplessness, insomnia

Yawning

Perspiration

Generalities

Collapse

Faintness, fainting

Pain; appear gradually; and disappear gradually

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

morning

on waking

on rising

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