Master’s Materia Medica

“JALAPA”

“Child good” all day; screaming, restless and very troublesome at night” (frequently verified). I once had a case of entero-colities that for more than 8 weeks baffled my best efforts to cure. The case went from bad to worse, until it was reduced almost to a skeleton. Instead of screaming all night it screamed day and night, all the time (so the mother said), and certain it was screaming when I saw it, with the screaming there were constant contortions of the body, bending forward, backward and sideways alternately. I can not tell how many different remedies I tried, but finally in the course of human events, I gave it some Jalpa 12 th, run up from some of the crude drug which I procured from an ordinary drug store, the child went to sleep, and that nap, which was a good long one, recovery was rapid and perfect, the only indication I had that it caused and diarrhoea.

 

- E.B.Nash