Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
665.76.06
665.76.06 Ipomoea dumosa, Jalapa
Names: Exogonium purga; Ipomoea purga, Convolvulus purga; Convolvulus jalapa; Jalappa.
English: Jalapa; Ipomoea jalapa.
French: Jalap tubereux; Scammonee du mexique.
German: Trichterwinde; Jalapenknolle; Faba Pichurim.
Introduction
They are very curious and daring. As a child they want to discover the world so they go into unknown territories. They are very difficult to restrict. This is expressed in the keynote that they are weeping and angry at night. It has nothing to do with the night as such, but it is the fact that they are restricted, limited to their bed. They are bright and full of energy and want to experiment with everything in the world.
Mind
Desire freedom, discover the world, averse being limited, < being held.
Becoming a monk or nun, to be supported and able to study.
Mental and spiritual excitement.
Precocity, intelligent, inquisitive, prematurely adult.
Thoughts rapid, quick; for writing and talking.
Vivacious; smiling, friendly.
Restless, active, hands, playful, making noises, curious, in children, < night; impatient with drinking eating.
Child is good all day, but screams and tosses about all night.
Parents want them to be good students; they do it, but have to endure it.
Anger, easily, creaming, + body contortions, opisthotonus, < pain, < being limited.
Anxiety, < stool.
Carried: desires to be.
Fat, awkward, lazy.
Obstinate.
Startling, < noise, radio.
Disturbs, kicks other children on school.
Drawing: airplane shooting, tree.
Desire company, < alone.
Desire: tight blankets in bed, uncovers, rare things, being carried.
Desire: do great things, being adult, superman, as rich as Dagobert Duck, Batman.
Desire: reading; learning; studying; computer; singing, knowing songs easily.
Aversion: buttons, tight clothes; being hindered, limited, stopped in learning, discovering, < baby box; sitting on lap.
Delusion that sex is a fight, one has to show ones power, in order not to be castrated.
Dreams: anxious; jungle.
General
Sensation: cutting, to pieces; griping; sawing.
Sweat: head, upper part of body.
Time: < night; < 3 am, < 11 pm.
Desire: chocolate; salt; vinegar; oil.
Aversion: mother’s milk.
Sleep: short sleep refreshes; sleepless, restless, in children.
Physical: > belching; > flatus.
Body
Fever: measles, smallpox, parotitis.
Vertigo: fainting fits, weakness; emaciation, < diarrhoea.
Head: violent headache; pain smarting, in head, skin of forehead.
Ears: humming noises.
Face: cold, blue; dry lips.
Nose: constant catarrhs; obstruction; coryza.
Mouth: tongue, smooth, glazed, shining, dry, smarting, stinging.
Throat: adenoids large.
Stomach: nausea; belching; vomiting after milk, frothy belching.
Abdomen: colic, cutting, < before and during stool; pinching, griping, left superior colon, sigmoid flexure, > belching, > contortions of the body, > bending forward, backward, sideways, > bending legs, < dentition, < milk; distended; pain in right hypochondrium; flatulence, putrid, rumbling; enteritis colitis.
Rectum: diarrhoea, < heat, in children babies; stools watery, soft, acrid, thin, muddy, sour, bloody; anus sore; constipation.
Urinary: pain and pressure in region of bladder.
Male: thrilling sensation in urethra while urinating.
Back: pain, superior margin of left scapula.
Limbs: burning of soles; aching in arms and legs; pain in large joint of great toe; smarting at root of nail; rheumatic pain, + restless leg, < night > motion; uneasy, restless, tossing; pain in thighs; smarting on inside edge and at root of left great toenail with heat, tearing and pulsation.