Jacaranda Caroba

Several species of Jacaranda ("especially J. procera," says the Treasury of

Botany) have the reputation of being curative in syphilis. Mure proved J. caroba, and the

symptoms of the proving certainly point to this. Hering gives these symptoms as having been

confirmed: "Contact of urine with chancre = tearing pains, which affect whole organism."

"Prepuce much swollen, could not be drawn over glans; on attempting to do so, copious

discharge of yellowish green pus." "Chordee in gonorrhoea." "Dull pain under sternum on raising

head and drawing breath." Among other symptoms noted are: Lancinations in the heart.

Rheumatic pains in the limbs. Itching at anus. Mahony has confirmed these symptoms: "Food

tastes insipid; nausea during eating." Motion <. Symptoms come on when walking; raising head;

• ▸sitting.
• ▸J.
• ▸S.
• ▸Whittinghill (77.
• ▸R.
• ▸, xii.
• ▸279) has cured several cases of muscular rheumatism

characterised by a peculiar soreness and stiffness of muscles in the morning < by any motion.

Vertigo on rising, with heavy forehead. Eyes pain; are inflamed and watery. Coryza with heavy head.

Dull pain between the forehead and r. temple, shifting to the other side and then

• ▸disappearing.
• ▸—Fulness in the head.
• ▸—Fulness in the r.
• ▸, later in the |.
• ▸temple, going to the nape of

the neck, where it disappears.—Pain, as if a plug were pressing on the r. side of the forehead.

Flapping in the ears, as of wings.—Stoppage and heat in the |. ear, with burning,

digging pain extending to the 1. nostril.

Sneezing and fluent coryza.—Coryza, with heaviness and weariness at the vertex,

forehead, and eyes.

• ▸Food tastes flat or acid.
• ▸—Dry mouth in the morning, in bed.
• ▸—Raw pain at the 1.
• ▸side

of the tongue.—Mouth dry and clammy.

Sore throat, with constriction of the pharynx and difficult deglutition.—Constrictive

sensation at the throat.

Sore, dry, constricted. Vesicles in pharynx.

Nausea when eating.—Fulness at the pit of the stomach, with hurried

breathing.—Pressure at the pit of the stomach.—Painful stitch between the pit of the stomach and

the umbilicus.

• ▸Painful stitch in the r.
• ▸and |.
• ▸side of the navel—Swelling of the r.
• ▸groin painful to

the touch.—Acute pain at the hypogastrium when pressing upon it.

Constipation.—Itching at the anus while sitting —Acute pain, with

lancinations in the anus.—Prickings around the anus.—Excrescence at the anus.

Urethra inflamed; discharge of yellow matter.

• ▸Heat and pain in penis; painful erections; phimosis.
• ▸Prepuce painful and swollen.
• ▸Chancroid.
• ▸Chordee.
• ▸Itching pimples on glans and prepuce.

Heat and pain of the penis.—The orifice of the urethra looks like two

inflamed lips, itching on being touched.—Discharge of yellowish white liquid from the

prepuce.—Prickling in the prepuce.—Pain in the prepuce, as if a small bundle of fibres were

• ▸seized.
• ▸—Phimosis.
• ▸—The prepuce cannot be drawn back.
• ▸—Suppuration between the glans and

prepuce.—Itching and pricking at the margin of the prepuce.—Itching pimple at the glans,

suppurating like a chancre, and leaving a red point when dry.—Acute pain in the left testicle

when walking.—Heat and swelling of the scrotum.—Painful erections caused by the swelling of

the prepuce. —The contact of the urine causes tearing pains, which affect the whole

organism.—Syphilis.

Dull pain under the sternum on raising the head and drawing

breath —Prickings under the sternum.

Sensation as if the heart beat in the pit of the stomach.—Lancinating pain in region of

• ▸heart.
• ▸—Painful stitch at the heart, extending to the r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Stitch at the heart, which seems to

beat slowly.

Pain in nape.—Neck so painful that the head cannot be turned to

r.—Stiffness in loins.

Rheumatic pains in the left arm in the morning.—Pain from the left elbow

through the forearm.—Red spot with a yellowish pellicle on the wrist.

• ▸Rheumatic pain in right knee.
• ▸Weakness of lumbar region.
• ▸Morning soreness and stiffness of muscles.
• ▸Gonorrhoeal rheumatism.
• ▸Itching pimples on hands.
• ▸Gonorrhoeal and syphilitic arthritis.

• ▸Balanorrhoea.
• ▸Chancre.
• ▸Chordee.
• ▸Gonorrhcea.
• ▸Gonorrhceal rheumatism.
• ▸Muscular

rheumatism. Phimosis. Syphilis.

Compare Thuja (gonorrhoea; Gonorrhceal rheumatism); Coral. r. (red and sensitive

chancre and chancroids); jac. g.

Compare: Thuja; Corallium; Jacaranda Gualandai (in syphilitic symptoms, especially of eye and throat. Chancroids; atonic ulcers. Dark, painless diarrhoea).

Tincture, to third potency.