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Other Names : Pokok Jarak, Physic nut, Ma Feng Shu, Pahari Erand, Jangli Arandi, Danti Badi, Leprous Tree

Special Precautions

Acute poisoning were due to accidental ingestion of the seeds. All cases were children. They presented with nausea, vomiting and abdominal cramps and 10 needed intravenous fluid replacement.

Health Benefits and usesof Jatropha Curcas

The Jatropha curcas plant or locally known as “Pokok Jarak” has been widely used in traditional medical applications. This plant is used to treat various conditions such as arthritis, gout, jaundice, wound and inflammation.

• Homeopathy :
  • cholera and diarrhoea. The abdominal symptoms are most important. Suppressed measles (H. Farrington).
  • Stomach ailments: Hiccough, followed by copious vomiting. Nausea and vomiting, brought on by drinking, with acrid feeling from throat. Great thirst. Very easy vomiting. Heat and burning in stomach, with crampy, constrictive pain in epigastrium.
  • Abdomen ailments: Distended, with gurgling noises. Pain in hypochondria. Pain in region of liver and under right scapula to shoulder. Violent urging to urinate.
  • Stool ailments: Sudden, profuse, watery, like rice-water. Diarrhoea; forced discharge; loud noise in abdomen like gurgling of water coming out of a bung-hole, associated with coldness, cramps, nausea, and vomiting.
  • Extremities: Cramps in muscles, especially calves, legs, and feet. Coldness of whole body. Pain in ankles, feet and toes. Heels sensitive.
  • Modalities ailments: Better, by placing hands in cold water.
  • Relationship ailments: Jatropha Curcas treatment for Compare ailments: Camph; Verat; Gambog; Croton; Jatropha urens--Sponge-nettle--(oedema and cardiac paresis).
  • Dose ailments: Third to thirtieth potency.