Calotropis Gigantea

The inspissated juice, root and bark have been extensively used in the East for

their emetic, sudorific, alterative, and purgative qualities. The fresh juice is considered a valuable

remedy in skin affections. A short proving brought out the following symptoms: Weak, tired

feeling; coldness; dizziness; pain and confusion in head; nausea and vomiting of bile; frequent

micturition; pain, soreness, and redness of thigh pain in both legs, swelling of knees, stiffness

and inability to walk pains in hands and feet; first left then right, pains < movement or putting

• ▸weight on them.
• ▸Dr.
• ▸Gramm, of Philadelphia (Minn.
• ▸H.
• ▸Mag.
• ▸, Aug.
• ▸, 1897), has used the tincture

with great success in cases of syphilis when Mercury can no longer be given; in the an¢émia of

syphilis; secondary syphilis. A sense of warmth in the scrobiculus cordis is a leading indication

for the remedy.—In one case of severe and advanced syphilis, with enormous thickening of the

ends of all the nails, Calo. effected a cure. The remedy was given in one- to five-drop doses of

the tincture, or in pellets saturated with equal parts of the tincture and 95 per cent. alcohol.

• ▸Dizziness.
• ▸—Dull occipital headache from 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸till midnight, very bad at times in

evening.—Head painful, throbbing, and confusion.—Head and face hot.

Constant eructations.—Faint and giddy with inclination to vomit; after strong

coffee vomited a wineglassful of yellow bile.

Frequent urination.—Urine dark red, like homebrewed beer, and with

strong smell but no noticeable deposit.

Cramp-like pain in centre of r. palm when grasping anything, lasting many

days; pain in wrist when moving it.

Slight pain when moving at inside of r. thigh just below groin: two days

later back of thigh very sore and hard, making turning irksome; next morning thigh sore,

swollen, and painful, so that he could not bend leg in walking, which gave him pain at every

step.—Slight pain in 1. foot on movement, or when bearing on it; with deep tenderness as if up

tarsal bone.—Intermitting cramp-like pain, must keep foot moving about in bed.—Pain in foot

when at rest so severe as to bring pain into eyes; > after coffee; later, instep slightly red and

swollen but not tender; unable to put foot to ground except by very slow degrees, could then

stand without pain, but pain returns when taking weight off again —Some days after, r. foot

began to pain and became the worse of the two.

Body cold, frequent chills passing up spine; at same time head and temples hot,

cheeks burn like fire-—Chill returned towards bedtime though he was close to the fire; continued

in bed, running from feet up spine, movement of feet seemed to excite them.—Fits of perspiration

alternating with chills.

• ▸Compare: Asclep.
• ▸syr.
• ▸, Asclep.
• ▸tub.
• ▸(botanical relations).
• ▸Ipec.
• ▸(emetic).
• ▸Berb.

aquifol. (syphilis). Coffee caused vomiting when before there was only nausea, but antidoted

many effects. Camph. also antidoted.

Compare: Merc; Potass iod; Berb aqui; Sarsap; Ipecac.

Tincture, one to five drops; three times a day.