Jaborandi’s essence is the vegetative tide at full flood. Heat and closeness prime the system; at a touch—entering a warm room, taking a hot drink—the exocrine gates swing open and a warm torrent pours outward: sweat from scalp to soles, with the forehead first to run; saliva in ropes, soaking the pillow at night; thin mucus bathing nose, fauces and bronchi; sometimes even a moist, easy stool. The organism seeks relief by outlet—the heat and oppression subside as the skin shines and the ducts run—yet the price is weakness, tremor, a soft, slow pulse and a light, empty head. This “flood then flag” polarity runs through Mind (oppressed, anxious in warm, close air; placid once at the window), Head (brow band with cranial sweat; better cold sponging and darkness), Eyes (ciliary spasm with miosis and brow ache in warmth; easing in dimness), Chest (bronchorrhœa and dyspnœa in close rooms; relief by open air), Gut (nausea/diarrhœa after hot soups and tea; better cold sips), and Skin (drenching sweat, suppression harmful) [Allen], [Hering], [Clarke], [Boericke]. The signature is not destructive but regulatory; hence its palliative power in night-sweats of phthisis, hyperidrosis of anxious heat-loving climates, ptyalism of pregnancy, and asthmatic moisture states. The remedy belongs to the warm, wet patient who loathes wraps and stove heat, who clamours for an open window, whose symptoms ease “when it all runs,” and who then lies prostrate and satisfied.
Kingdomly, as a Rutaceous leaf with powerful alkaloid action, it addresses peripheral glands and smooth muscle rather than deep parenchyma; it is a surface governor of secretion and tone (Hughes’ pharmacodynamics) [Hughes]. Miasmatically it is sycotic at the front—overproduction, recurrence, thickened glands (parotids), palmar hyperidrosis; psoric in the functional lability and heat-intolerance; and bears a syphilitic edge in the collapse after excess drain. Its principal polarities are heat vs. cool air; closeness vs. ventilation; hot drinks vs. cold sips; suppression vs. free outlet; vigour vs. emptiness. Clinically, one must marry prescription and regimen: ventilate rooms, lighten covering, forbid hot soups and drinks in the evening, use cool ablutions, and change damp linen promptly. Where this regimen aligns with the remedy, the “Jaborandi storm” shortens: the patient sleeps longer between sweats, breathes easier, salivation abates to normal, and the day-after prostration lifts. Differentiate from Mercurius when fetor and chilliness dominate; from China when collapse outlasts the heat; from Sambucus when sweats are suppressed; from Physostigma when eye-symptoms lead without the gland-flood; from Pilocarpinum where the ocular indication is isolated. Jaborandi is thus both vivid and practical—the medicine of the window, the basin, and the towel—restoring comfort by honoring the body’s chosen outlet.

Essence. Jab. typifies the wet cholinergic reaction: floods of sweat and saliva, pin-point pupils with ciliary strain, thin bronchial secretions with oppression, vagal faintness, and atony of bladder/rectum. The organism seeks cool fresh air, rest, loosened clothing, and small cool sips, and is overwhelmed by heat, warm close rooms, and exertion. This kingdom signature (plant; alkaloidal muscarinic action) produces rapid functional shifts—hence equally rapid relief when environment and effort are adjusted to the remedy: ventilate, cool, stop forcing, allow brief steam if spasm predominates, and avoid checking sweat abruptly [Hughes], [Clarke], [Boericke]. Differentiation hinges on quality of secretions and environmental polarity: pick Jab. over Mercurius when excretions are not offensive and gums are sound; over Physostigma when gush rather than pure strain rules; over Ipecac. when nausea is secondary to a wet chest; and over Ant-t. when the patient can raise thin mucus and is not profoundly somnolent/cyanotic [Allen], [Kent], [Clarke]. Expect improvement to show as drier skin, calmer mouth, easier air in cool rooms, fewer urgent trips, and longer intervals without oppressive waves when the modalities are enforced. [Clinical]

Jalapa is, in essence, the remedy of the “noisy night-gut.” With sunset, the bowel becomes a resonant tube; gas and fluid rush and splash; cramping grips in waves about the umbilicus; the anus is driven to repeated, watery, often frothy evacuations, each noisy with flatus; and an infant who was sunny and playful all day now screams, draws up the legs, tosses and cannot be pacified unless pressed and warmed. Then, with morning, as if a switch were turned, quiet returns; the belly softens, the child smiles, and the household doubts the night’s reality—until the next evening recapitulates the cycle. This clear diurnal polarity (worse night, better day) is the centre of gravity of Jalapa’s portrait [Clarke], [Boericke]. Around it gather modest but reliable satellites: the relief from steady hand-pressure and warm flannel upon the abdomen; the short lull after a passage of flatus or a stool; the aggravation from the least motion (which starts the gurgling) or from cold—cold air, cold food, cold drink, uncovered belly; the propensity of milk and fruit to provoke the night-storm; the occasional association of calf or hand cramps with a bad rush, and the brief faintness and chill after stool [Allen], [Hering].

This is not a deep, destructive remedy; it is a functional regulator of over-driven peristalsis and serous outpour. Kingdom-wise (Convolvulaceæ resin), its action is on small intestine motor–secretory mechanisms; pharmacology perfectly mirrors symptomatology—hydragogue purgation with griping followed by emptiness, and flatulent turbulence within narrow bowel. Miasmatically the action is largely psoric–functional, with a syphilitic dip in collapse-prone infants if losses are unchecked; sycotic recurrency is seen in households where every summer evening brings a similar story. Prescribing hinges on two checks: first, that the child is “well by day, bad by night”; second, that the bowels are noisy (borborygmi, gurgling), with repeated watery stools and much flatus, the pains eased by pressure and warmth. Differentiate carefully from Chamomilla (anger and caprice persist by day) and Colocynthis (pressure-better colic at any hour, less watery stool); from Podophyllum (morning driving stools) and Aethusa (milk vomit primary). When in doubt, a bedside test—gentle, sustained pressure of a warm hand upon the abdomen—often yields the transient quiet that belongs to Jalapa. Posologically, low to medium potencies act rapidly in acutes; when the night shortens, spacing doses and correcting evening diet (avoid cold milk and fruits) consolidates the cure. In infants, pairing Jalapa with nursing hygiene, warmth and stillness often transforms a household’s nights; in adults with “night-gut,” the same rules apply—light evening meal, minimal fruit/milk late, warmth to abdomen, and Jalapa when the bowel’s nocturnal noise writes the diagnosis.

The Jatropha organism is a vessel suddenly uncorked. Fluids rush through with noise and velocity—stools like rice-water explode from below while the stomach throws up the least sip from above. In the same moment the body seizes with cramps: calves knot, toes and fingers claw, and the patient begs for hot rubbing and covers. Over all lies a chill: the tongue is icy, the lips blue, the skin dewy-cold and clammy; the pulse is a thread. This polarity—violent emptying paired with paralytic cold—is the signature, and it governs selection and management alike [Allen], [Hering], [Clarke], [Boericke]. The modalities are not embellishment; they are the key: worse the least food or drink (emphatically cold water), worse motion, worse cold and night; better by heat, hot applications to belly and limbs, firm rubbing during cramps, rest, and in some, by tiny warm sips. Note especially the “bunghole” gurgling from epigastrium to anus preceding the explosive stool; the cold tongue with insatiable—but useless—thirst; the simultaneous or alternating vomit and stool; and the immediate relapse on movement or renewed sipping.
Placed against its near neighbours, Jatropha sits between the suppression-collapses of Camphora and the sweating-collapse of Veratrum: where Camphor is dry, suppressed and icy, Jatropha is wet, gushing and icy; where Veratrum drinks cold and sweats on the forehead, Jatropha vomits the least drink and craves heat and friction. Cuprum intrudes when cramps are tyrants; Elaterium when the “hydrant-stool” is unmixed with cramp; Croton when anus burns and the stream is yellow. In infants, the picture is painfully clear: milk is vomited in gushes, watery stools drench the diaper, the fontanelle sinks, eyes are ringed dark; the smallest motion or sip renews the storm, yet the child quiets under warmth and gentle rubbing—an exquisite bedside confirmation.
Prescribing strategy mirrors the physiology: re-establish warmth (externally to abdomen and limbs), allow rest and minimal movement, offer only tiny warm sips, and use the remedy to moderate the violent peristaltic surge. As reaction appears—urine returns, intervals widen, warmth returns—one often shifts to China to restore tone. Failure of urine to return, unmitigated cramps despite heat and rubbing, or persistent desire for cold drinks retained for a while suggest re-selection to Cuprum or Veratrum as indicated. Jatropha is thus a small but keen instrument for a narrow band of violent gastro-enteric storms—precisely when the system is a brittle tube: emptied, chilled, and cramping.

Justicia adhatoda is the “window-and-warm-sips” remedy of catarrhal nights. The essence is a sycotic flood of mucus from above with an irritable, tickling larynx and a suffocative, spasmodic cough from below. The patient sneezes explosively and incessantly; the nose streams and burns; the throat feels as if a feather or dust sat just where the windpipe begins; hoarseness mounts to loss of voice if he persists in talking. Cough attacks come fiercest soon after falling asleep and after midnight; lying down precipitates a fit; turning in bed or a slight draught on the neck provokes another; sitting up, leaning forward, and breathing the cool night air give immediate relief. The chest rattles but little comes; a few sticky morsels raised, or a short retch and vomit, end the paroxysm with “ease” and a sigh. Warm drinks are craved and help; cold drinks jar the chest and renew the spasm. The room that is warm and close is hated; the window is loved; dust, smoke, and perfumes act like whipcord to the tickle. This polarity—worse warm, close rooms, dust and first sleep; better cool, open air, upright posture, warm drinks, and gentle expectoration—threads Mind (air-hunger, fear to sleep), Nose (torrent sneezing), Throat (raw tickle), Chest (spasm with rattling), Sleep (first-sleep seizure), and Generalities [Clarke], [Allen], [Boericke], [Boger], [Farrington].
Kingdom signature (Acanthaceae leaf with alkaloids) mirrors the functional plane: not deep destructive change, but tone and secretion in the mucous membranes and bronchial muscle; vasicine’s expectorant/broncho-relaxant profile undergirds the homœopathic direction of cure—“outlet and air” [Hughes], [Clarke]. Miasmatically the stool is sycotic: over-secretion, recurrent catarrh, mucus retained in bronchi; psora supplies hypersensitivity (dust, draught) and spasm; syphilitic shadows flicker at the edges as rawness bleeds (epistaxis, streaked sputa). In clinic, choose Justicia when the nose and larynx lead the march into the chest; when the patient says, “I can’t lie down; as soon as I do, I choke,” and when warm sips and open windows are his own inventions. Distinguish from Ipecacuanha (great nausea, pallor, less nose), Antimonium tart. (much prostration and coarse rales), Drosera (midnight-to-morning, whoop, less fluent coryza), Rumex (cough on cold-air inspiration at the sternal notch), and Spongia (dry bark, better eating/drinking warm, little coryza). Prescribing succeeds when regimen partners with remedy: ventilate, prop, wrap the chest warmly while the face takes the cool air, forbid dusting and perfumes, offer warm sips, and let outlets flow. Then, commonly, the first-sleep seizure vanishes, the voice returns, and the rattling chest clears without the drowning weakness of the “rales remedies.” Justicia is thus a practical polycrest for modern winter rooms and summer dust alike—the herb of fresh air, warm cups, and eased breath.