JALAPA.

Ipomœa purga, Hayne.

Natural order , Convolvulaceæ.

Synonyms , Convolvulus purga, Wenderoth; Exogonium purga, Benth.

Common name , Jalap.

Preparation , Trituration of the root.

Authority.

Noack and Trinks, Arzneimittellehre.

• Violent headache.
• Humming in the ears.
• Stinging on the tongue and in the fauces.
• Nausea and vomiting.
• Increased motion of the stomach, sometimes attended with a slight degree of transitory nausea, succeeded by an increased activity of the small intestines as far as the region of the cæcum, where a sensation of illness becomes seated for a time; after this, the prover experiences a motion in the colon and its flexions, until a desire for stool ensues, which takes place without any great irritation, without being succeeded by any other irritation or desire, even if another looser evacuation should take place.
• Colic; violent seated pains in the small intestines, as if the abdomen would be cut to pieces.
• Inflammation of the intestines.
• Soreness of the anus.
• The first stool is always thick, and has a reddish tinge, with a sour smell, which is strikingly different from the putrid smell of the aloes stools. [10.]
• Violent, excessive evacuations.
• Bloody stools.
• After several watery evacuations, the pulse becomes perceptibly weaker.
• The number of pulsations diminishes.
• Excessive uneasiness and tossing about of the limbs.
• Pain in the thighs.
• Fainting fits.
• Weakness.
• Febrile attacks.
• After several watery evacuations the temperature decreases.