IPECACUANHA

HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Remedy Origin / Source
Natural

Clinical Applications

Compare: Emetine -principal alkaloid of Ipecac (A powerful amebicide, but is not a bactericide. Specific for amæbiasis; of remarkable value in treatment of amæbic dysentery; also as a remedy in pyorrhea, 1/2 gr daily for three days, then less. Emetin, 1/2 gr hypodermically, in Psoriasis. Emetin hydroch. 2x, diarrhœa with colicky, abdominal pains and nausea. Emetin for endamoebic dysentery. In physiological doses must be carefully watched. May produce hepatization of lungs, rapid heart action, tendency for the head to fall forward and lobar pneumonia. In hæmatemesis and other hæmorrhages,

Related Remedies
Gelatin which has a marked effect on the coagulability of the blood. Hypodermically or if by mouth, a 10 per cent jelly, about 4 oz, three times a day) Arsenic Cham Puls Tart em Squill. Convolvulus (colic and diarrhœa). Typha latifolia -Cat-tail flag (dysentery, diarrhœa) and summer complaint. Euphorbia hypericifolia --Garden Spurge--(Very similar to Ipecac. Irritation of the respiratory and gastro-intestinal tracts and female organs). Lippia mexicana --(Persistent dry, hard, bronchial cough--asthma and chronic bronchitis). In Asthma, compare: Blatta orientalis. Antidotes: Arsenic China Tabac. Complementary: Cuprum Arn.

Key Symptoms & Indications

  • The chief action is on the ramifications of the pneumogastric nerve, producing spasmodic irritation in chest and stomach. Morphia habit. The principal feature of Ipecacuanha is its persistent nausea and vomiting, which form the chief guiding symptoms. Indicated after indigestible food, raisins, cakes, etc. Especially indicated in fat children and adults, who are feeble and catch cold in relaxing atmosphere; warm, moist weather. Spasmodic affections. Hæmorrhages bright-red and profuse.

Mental & Emotional Symptoms

Irritable; holds everything in contempt. Full of desires, for what they know not.

Physical Symptoms

Head

Bones of skull feel crushed or bruised. Pain extends to teeth and root of tongue.

Eyes

Inflamed, red. Pain through eyeballs. Profuse lachrymation. Cornea dim. Eyes tire from near vision. State of vision constantly changing. Spasm of accommodation from irritable weakness of the ciliary muscle. Nausea from looking on moving objects.

Face

Blue rings around eyes. Periodical orbital neuralgia, with lachrymation, photophobia, and smarting eyelids.

Nose

Coryza, with stoppage of nose and nausea. Epistaxis.

Stomach

Tongue usually clean . Mouth, moist; much saliva. Constant nausea and vomiting, with pale, twitching of face. Vomits food, bile, blood, mucus. Stomach feels relaxed, as if hanging down. Hiccough.

Abdomen

Amebic dysentery with tenesmus; while straining pain so great that it nauseates; little thirst. Cutting, clutching; worse, around the navel . Body rigid; stretched out stiff.

Stools

Pitch-like green as grass, like frothy molasses , with griping at navel. Dysenteric, slimy.

Female

Uterine hæmorrhage, profuse, bright, gushing, with nausea . Vomiting during pregnancy. Pain from navel to uterus . Menses too early and too profuse.

Respiratory

Dyspnœa; constant constriction in chest . Asthma. Yearly attacks of difficult shortness of breathing. Continued sneezing; coryza; wheezing cough. Cough incessant and violent, with every breath . Chest seems full of phlegm, but does not yield to coughing. Bubbling rales. Suffocative cough; child becomes stiff, and blue in the face. Whooping-cough, with nosebleed, and from mouth. Bleeding from lungs, with nausea ; feeling of constriction; rattling cough. Croup. Hæmoptysis from slightest exertion ( Millef ). Hoarseness , especially at end of a cold. Complete aphonia.

Fever

Intermittent fever, irregular cases, after Quinine. Slightest chill with much heat, nausea , vomiting, and dyspnœa. Relapses from improper diet.

Sleep

With eyes half open. Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep ( Ign ).

Extremities

Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other.

Skin

Pale, lax. Blue around eyes. Miliary rash.

Modalities (Better / Worse)

Worse (Aggravation)

, periodically; from veal, moist warm wind, lying down

Better (Amelioration)

No specific amelioration factors listed.

Remedy Relationships

Complementary

Ant-t., Arn., Cupr.

Follows Well

Ant-c., Ant-t., Apis, Aran., Arn., Ars., Bell., Bry., Cact., Cadm., Ca1c., Cham., Chin., Cupr., Ign., Nux-v., Phos., Podo., Puls., Rheum, Sep., Sulph., Tab., Verat.

Antidotes

Arn., Ars., Chin., Nux-v., Tab.

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IPECACUANHA

Ipecac-root (IPECA)

The chief action is on the ramifications of the pneumogastric nerve, producing spasmodic irritation in chest and stomach. Morphia habit. The principal feature of Ipecacuanha is its persistent nausea and vomiting, which form the chief guiding symptoms. Indicated after indigestible food, raisins, cakes, etc. Especially indicated in fat children and adults, who are feeble and catch cold in relaxing atmosphere; warm, moist weather. Spasmodic affections. Hæmorrhages bright-red and profuse.

Mind

Irritable; holds everything in contempt. Full of desires, for what they know not.

Head

Bones of skull feel crushed or bruised. Pain extends to teeth and root of tongue.

Eyes

Inflamed, red. Pain through eyeballs. Profuse lachrymation. Cornea dim. Eyes tire from near vision. State of vision constantly changing. Spasm of accommodation from irritable weakness of the ciliary muscle. Nausea from looking on moving objects.

Face

Blue rings around eyes. Periodical orbital neuralgia, with lachrymation, photophobia, and smarting eyelids.

Nose

Coryza, with stoppage of nose and nausea. Epistaxis.

Stomach

Tongue usually clean. Mouth, moist; much saliva. Constant nausea and vomiting, with pale, twitching of face. Vomits food, bile, blood, mucus. Stomach feels relaxed, as if hanging down. Hiccough.

Abdomen

Amebic dysentery with tenesmus; while straining pain so great that it nauseates; little thirst. Cutting, clutching; worse, around the navel. Body rigid; stretched out stiff.

Stools

Pitch-like green as grass, like frothy molasses, with griping at navel. Dysenteric, slimy.

Female

Uterine hæmorrhage, profuse, bright, gushing, with nausea. Vomiting during pregnancy. Pain from navel to uterus. Menses too early and too profuse.

Respiratory

Dyspnœa; constant constriction in chest. Asthma. Yearly attacks of difficult shortness of breathing. Continued sneezing; coryza; wheezing cough. Cough incessant and violent, with every breath. Chest seems full of phlegm, but does not yield to coughing. Bubbling rales. Suffocative cough; child becomes stiff, and blue in the face. Whooping-cough, with nosebleed, and from mouth. Bleeding from lungs, with nausea; feeling of constriction; rattling cough. Croup. Hæmoptysis from slightest exertion (Millef). Hoarseness, especially at end of a cold. Complete aphonia.

Fever

Intermittent fever, irregular cases, after Quinine. Slightest chill with much heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnœa. Relapses from improper diet.

Sleep

With eyes half open. Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep (Ign).

Extremities

Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other.

Skin

Pale, lax. Blue around eyes. Miliary rash.

Modalities

Worse, periodically; from veal, moist warm wind, lying down.

Relationship

Compare: Emetine-principal alkaloid of Ipecac (A powerful amebicide, but is not a bactericide. Specific for amæbiasis; of remarkable value in treatment of amæbic dysentery; also as a remedy in pyorrhea, 1/2 gr daily for three days, then less. Emetin, 1/2 gr hypodermically, in Psoriasis. Emetin hydroch. 2x, diarrhœa with colicky, abdominal pains and nausea. Emetin for endamoebic dysentery. In physiological doses must be carefully watched. May produce hepatization of lungs, rapid heart action, tendency for the head to fall forward and lobar pneumonia. In hæmatemesis and other hæmorrhages, compare: Gelatin which has a marked effect on the coagulability of the blood. Hypodermically; or if by mouth, a 10 per cent jelly, about 4 oz, three times a day) Arsenic; Cham; Puls; Tart em; Squill. Convolvulus (colic and diarrhœa). Typha latifolia-Cat-tail flag (dysentery, diarrhœa) and summer complaint. Euphorbia hypericifolia--Garden Spurge--(Very similar to Ipecac. Irritation of the respiratory and gastro-intestinal tracts and female organs). Lippia mexicana--(Persistent dry, hard, bronchial cough--asthma and chronic bronchitis).

In Asthma, compare: Blatta orientalis.

Antidotes: Arsenic; China; Tabac.

Complementary: Cuprum; Arn.

Dose

Third to 200th potency.

Ipecacuanha.

Cephaëlis ipecacuanha. N. O. Rubiaceæ. Tincture and trituration of the dried root.
Clinical

Anæmia. Asthma. Bronchitis. Catarrh. Cholera. Consumption. Convulsions. Cough. Deafness. Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Enteric fever. Eyes, affections of. Gall-stone colic. Gastric Ulcer. Hæmatemesis. Hæmorrhage. Hæmorrhoids. Hysteria. Intermittent fever. Menstruation, disorders of. Opium habit. Pregnancy, disorders of. Remittent fever. Salivation. Tetanus. Toothache. Vomiting. Whooping-cough. Worm-fever. Yellow-fever.

Characteristics

The well-known emetic effect of Ipecacuanha Wine gives a rough keynote for the use of Ipec. in homœopathy. Wherever ailments are associated with the presence of constant nausea Ipec. is very likely to be of use. The special form of nausea is a constant but unavailing desire to vomit; or immediately after vomiting there is, instead of relief, a desire to vomit again. With this there is a clean or not very dirty tongue. There is profuse salivation with the nausea. The nausea of Ipec. is oftenest met with in affections of the stomach and bowels, of the respiratory organs, and in fevers. In the stomach itself there is a symptom which is very characteristic of the remedy, a feeling "as if the stomach were hanging down relaxed." There is disgust at the stomach for food; empty vomiting; vomiting of bile; of blood. No > by vomiting. The stomach disorder may be occasioned by rich food-pork, pastry, fruits, candy, ice-cream. The stomachic disgust of the remedy is depicted on the countenance, which expresses nausea. The corners of the mouth are drawn down. Blue rings round the eyes. Sometimes the mental state corresponds: "Moroseness and contempt for everything"; "Disdainful humour." The irritability of the elders becomes in children crying and screaming. Another mental symptom is "full of desires they know not for what." Ipec. is a botanic relative of China, and it is also an antidote to the latter; (it is also closely allied to Viola odorata). Perhaps the relationship of Ipec. to China may have something to do with its large sphere of usefulness in intermittent fever. Jahr recommended that in all cases of intermittents in which no other remedy is particularly indicated Ipec. should be given to begin with. It will either cure the case or bring out more definitely indications for another remedy. I have frequently found this advice useful; and it occurs to me that as most intermittents have been treated with quinine it is through its antidotal properties that Ipec. exerts some of its good effects. It has a strongly marked periodic action. A special indication for it is: Nausea through all the stages. Other indications are: "Stages completely mixed up short chill, followed by long fever." Ipec. has many bone pains, in the head and elsewhere. Pains as if bones were all torn to pieces. Ipec. is given as an expectorant in old-school practice, and is supposed to act by its nauseating properties. But homœopaths have proved that nauseating doses are neither necessary nor desirable. The cough of Ipec. is dry, spasmodic, constricted, asthmatic. "Violent degree of dyspnœa, with wheezing and great weight, and anxiety about the precordia." "Threatened suffocation from accumulation of mucus." In whooping-cough a characteristic is the spasmodic rigidity of the patient. "Child loses breath, turns pale, stiff, and blue; strangling with gagging and vomiting of mucus; bleeding from nose or mouth." The great keynote, subject to slight variations, ismental depression with tissue irritability. The tissue irritability of Ipec. is severe and urgent, but superficial; that of Ars., deep-seated, diffuse, and burning; that of Ferrum involves tissue, as with Ars., but is mostly painless (Cooper). Ipec. is a medicine of great importance in hæmorrhages. The blood is bright red and the flow steady. A grand keynote for Ipec. in hæmorrhages (whether of lungs, bowels, uterus, or other parts) is nausea with the hæmorrhage. Guernsey thus describes the effect of Ipec. in the female sexual sphere, in which the hæmorrhagic power of the remedy is of the highest importance: "Threatened abortion; often with a sharp pain around the umbilicus, which runs downward to the uterus, with constant nausea and discharge of bright red blood; discharge of blood before the proper period; metrorrhagia, often after confinement, which is heralded by a low pulse, nausea, &c.; there is a steady flow of bright red blood, which may soak through the bed to the floor, or may run over the foot of the bed. (Where there is this steady flow of bright red blood give Ipec., and do not resort to applications, manipulations, &c.) Menstruation too early and too profuse; deficient labour pains, and with the pains there is a great deal of suffering, but no good is accomplished, the suffering is caused by the above-named pain about the umbilicus, moving to the uterus." Some of the pains of Ipec. run from above down; some from left to right (cutting pain in abdomen). There is a remarkable headache "as if bruised, all through the bones of the head and down into the root of the tongue." Nausea is generally an accompaniment. Brain feels bruised, pain piercing to roots of teeth. There is also a sick headache originating in the stomach, the nausea preceding the headache and persisting all through. Teste has used the remedy with good effect in "constrictive and contusive headaches seated in left parietal region, coming on every day at 11 a.m., increasing gradually until the pain became intolerable, then decreasing in the same manner" and ceasing completely at 2 p.m. Another sphere in which Ipec. has shown great curative power is the eye. According to Allen granulations of the lids have been cured by the instillation of the dilutions. Also subacute inflammation of the cornea, with intense pain and great photophobia. Pustular conjunctivitis, especially in children. Inflammation with tearing pain and gushing of tears. Violent neuralgia of eyeballs, shooting in the head, with gushes of tears, nausea, &c. Dr. Nancy T. Williams (H. R., xi. 65) has cured several cases of gall-stone colic with Ipec. 6. The relief was prompt and lasting. On the strength of this symptom of Hahnemann's, "external chilliness with internal heat," Mahony gave Ipec. 200 to an army sergeant, 49, invalided for aneurism, who had this symptom while recovering from a catarrhal attack: coldness of hands and feet not perceptible to himself. Ipec. soon removed this. (Med. Adv., xxvi. 110). J. R. Haynes (quoted B. J. H., xxxvii. 203) uses Ipec. as an antidote to the Opium and Morphia habit. He gives five drops of Ipec. Ø for every grain of Morphia (or its equivalent in Opium) which the patient has been accustomed to take. When a definite sequence is observed in the order of occurrence of symptoms this is of great practical importance. Woodward (Hahn. Adv., May, 1900, p. 278) has noted in twenty-three provers the symptoms of Ipec. develop in this order: (1) Gastric; (2) Respiratory; (3) Spinal; (4) Genito-urinary; (5) Cutaneous. In several instances, however, the cutaneous symptoms appeared before the genito-urinary. Owing to its immediate expulsive effect, given internally, upon the mucous membrane, its influence upon the skin has not been sufficiently considered. Mixed with oil, powdered Ipec. has been used to vesicate the skin; and, diluted, the tincture is used for the bites of insects, bee- and wasp-stings, &c. It produces violent irritation of the skin, and between the acts of vomiting an uncontrollable desire to scratch is often felt in those under the influence of material doses. Cooper cured an immense uterine fibroid where persistent painful irritation of the skin with constant retching and vomiting, made worse by eating, constituted the prominent symptom. Frightful irritation inside and out, especially vaginal, with thick leucorrhœa, and a feeling of desperation, yields to Ipec. Ipec. has been used locally and internally for malignant pustule and anthrax, in which disease Dr. Edwin Muskett considers it specific (Alleg. Hom. Zeitung., No. 23, Dec., 1888). In certain forms of peripheral neuritis it deserves more consideration than has hitherto been allotted to it (Cooper). In consequence of its proved cholagogue action, it constitutes nowadays a very frequent constituent of allopathic pills. Ipec. has much of the sensitiveness of Chi.There is < by touch. Over-sensitiveness to heat and cold. < In winter and dry weather. < In warm, moist wind (catarrh, asthma, &c.). Chill is < in warm room; by external heat. Summer heat or hot room = fainting. Drinking > chill. Cold water > spasmodic cough. Cold drinks or ice-creams = colic. < Periodically; by vomiting; by coughing; by suppression of eruptions. < From veal from rich food (pork, fat, pastry); from ices.; lemon-peel; raisins salads, < By eating. < From abuse of quinine. < By motion. > By rest; by pressure; by closing eyes. Ipec., according to Hahnemann, is a short-acting medicine. It is specially suited to stout persons of lax fibre; to fair people; to women and children to emphysematous persons; to persons who have a history of epistaxis or other blood-loss.

Relations

Antidoted by: Arn., Ars., Chi., Nux, Tab. It antidotes: Alum., Apis, Arn., Ars., Chi., Copper fumes, Dulc., Fer., Lauro., Op., Sul. ac., Tab., Ant. t. Followed well by: Ars. (cholera infantum; debility; colds; croup; chills); Bell.; Bry.; Cadm. s. (yellow fever); Calc., Cham., Chi., Cupr., Ign., Nux, Pho., Puls., Sep., Sul., Ant. t., Tab., Ver. Complementary: Cupr. Compare: Cough after eating, Nux; (whilst eating and in open air, Calc.). One hand cold, the other hot, Chi., Dig., Pul., Mosch. Constant nausea, Cocc., Kali c., Sul., Ign., Acet. ac. Salivation lying downIpec.; (on lying down at night, Cham., Nux, Pho., Rhus). Grass-green stools, Arg. n. Expression of nausea, Æthus., Ant. t. Bruised headache, Ptel., Ver. (bruised feeling here and there in brain). Gastric disturbance from rich food, Pul. (but Pul. has foul tongue, Ipec. clean; with Pul. symptoms last only whilst food is in stomach, Ipec. when stomach is empty). Stomach relaxed, Staph., Lobel., Tab. Asthma, Cupr. (spasmodic element predominates), Lob. (with a weak sensation in epigastrium spreading up into chest. Whooping-cough with rigidity, Cina (clucking sound down œsophagus as child comes out of paroxysm; grinds teeth), Cupr. (spasms of flexors predominate). Vomiting, Ant. t. (Ipec. has more nausea, Ant. t. more vomiting and retching; Ipec. has clean or slightly-coated tongue, Ant. t. thickly-coated white; both have vomiting after a meal, after acids and after coughing). Pains fly from left to right. Lach. (side to side, Act. r.; right to left, Lyc.; with nausea, Ipec.). Chest affections from retrocession of measles rash, Bry. Asthma, œdema, Linum n. Sweetish, bloody taste, Berb. (also bitter taste; Berb. mouth is pasty or sticky, Ipec. more generally clean; Berb. has dry mouth, Ipec. increase of saliva and smarting in mouth and tongue).

Causation

Vexation and reserved displeasure. Injuries. Suppressed eruptions. Quinine. Morphia. Indigestible foods.

1. Mind

Cannot endure the least noise.Cries and howling (of children).Anxiety and fear of death.Moroseness, with contempt for everything.Disdainful humour.Desire for a number of things, without knowing exactly which.Irritability, and disposition to be angry.Ailments from mortification or vexation, with indignation.Impatience.Slowness of conception.

2. Head

Vertigo when walking, and when turning round, with tottering and staggering.Pain, as of a bruise, in all the bones of the head, as far as the root of the tongue (with nausea and vomiting).Headache as of a bruise of the brain and skull, which pierces through all the cranial bones into roots of teeth, with nausea.As if brain compressed.Attacks of headache, with nausea and vomiting.Tearing in the forehead, excited or aggravated by being touched.Lancinating headache, with heaviness of the head.Stitches in the vertex (or forehead).Painful pressure on the forehead.Pain in the occiput and nape of the neck.Hydrocephaloid.

3. Eyes

Eyes red and inflamed.Neuralgia of eyes, esp. r., extended to nose and mouth; in evening biting and pressure in eyes; he was awakened between 2 and 3 a.m. by tearing pains in eyes, esp. r., radiating to forehead and driving him out of bed, < from strong light, accompanied by chilliness, heat, sweat.Eyelids closed, painful expression of face; the pillow was soaked with tears which flowed freely on opening r. eye.Twitching of l. upper lid with three black spots before sight on lifting lid.Scrofulous ophthalmia, pain in forehead and temples, photophobia and corneal ulceration.Conjunctiva rose-coloured; cornea opaque; sight gone from r. eye, could not read, evening, from being dazzled by candle-light, which appeared multiplied five or six times; next morning fiery iridescent rings before l. eye, which had been less affected.Humour in the corners of the eyes.Trembling of the eyelids.Twitching of the eyelids.Hardened mucus in the external canthi.Pupils dilated.Confused sight.

4. Ears

Coldness and chilliness of the ears (during the febrile heat).

5. Nose

Epistaxis.Loss of smell.Coryza, with stoppage of the nose.

6. Face

Pale, earthy, or yellowish colour of the face, which is bloated, with livid circles round the eyes.Convulsive startings of the muscles of the face.Lips covered with small aphthæ and eruptions.Rash in the face.Fine branny eruption on face, with or without irritation.Pityriasis.Pain, as from excoriation, in the lips.Convulsive startings of the lips.Redness of the skin round the mouth.

7. Teeth

Odontalgia by fits, as if a tooth were being extracted.Toothache > while eating; < afternoon and night.Toothache < by day; pain every few minutes with a jerk radiating into r. temple and nose, as if tooth being extracted.The neuralgic pains of Ipec. and of Viol. od. often make for r. temple (Cooper).Dentition.

8. Mouth

Painful sensibility of all parts of the mouth.Smarting in mouth and on (margins of) tongue.Copious secretion of saliva.Constantly obliged to swallow saliva.Saliva runs from mouth on lying down.Tongue: clean; white or yellow; pale.

9. Throat

Sore throat, during deglutition, as from swelling of the pharynx.Difficult deglutition, as from paralysis of the tongue and of the gullet.Spasmodic contractive sensation in the throat.Fauces, stinging, rough, sore, and dry.

10. Appetite

Insipid and clammy, or bitter taste, esp. in the morning.Sweetish taste, as of blood in the mouth.Desire only for delicacies and things sweetened with sugar.Want of appetite; the stomach feels relaxed.Bad effects from eating pork, veal, &c.Gastric catarrh from indigestible food, or from ice-cold things.Adipsia.Beer has an insipid taste.Tobacco smoke is nauseous, and causes vomiting.Great repugnance and dislike to all food.Water-brash.

11. Stomach

Nausea, as if proceeding from the stomach, with copious salivation, violent itching in the skin, and empty risings.Retching, esp. after drinking anything cold, or after smoking.Vomiting of drink, and of undigested food; or else of bilious, greenish, or acid, or mucous, gelatinous matter, sometimes immediately after a meal.Vomiting of blood.Vomiting, with sweat, heat, fetid breath, and thirst.Vomiting with diarrhœa.Vomiting on stooping.Vomiting of black matter, like pitch.Sensation of excessive uneasiness in the stomach and epigastrium.Horrid, indescribable pain and sick feeling in the stomach.Sensation, as if the stomach were empty and flaccid.Swelling in the region of the stomach.Pinching round the epigastrium and in the region of the hypochondria.Pressure on the stomach with vomiting.

12. Abdomen

Cutting and pinching in the abdomen (as from a hand, each finger sharply pressing into intestines), < in the highest degree by movement, > by repose.Pinching pain in both hypochondria, and in region of pit of stomach.Pain, as from excoriation in the abdomen.Colic, with agitation, tossing, and cries (in children).Colic, with cramp-like pains.Incisive pains, in the umbilical region, with shuddering.Flatulent colic, with frequent diarrhœic stools.Colic of strangulated hernia.

13. Stool and Anus

Loose evacuations, like matter in a state of fermentation (like yeast).Obstinate diarrhœa.Loose evacuations, greenish, or yellow- (lemon-) coloured, of a putrid smell, or sanguineous, bilious, and mucous.Stools: grassy-green; of white mucus.Loose serous evacuations.Diarrhœa, with nausea, colic (and vomiting).Autumnal diarrhœa; much griping about the navel.Diarrhœa of children inclining to dysentery.Dysenteric evacuations, with white flocks, and followed by tenesmus.Evacuation of black matter like pitch.Hæmorrhoids bleed profusely.Itching of anus.

14. Urinary Organs

Turbid urine, with sediment like brick-dust.Red and scanty urine.Unsuccessful urging to urinate.Sanguineous urine, with pains in the region of the bladder, and of the navel, burning sensation in the urethra, inclination to vomit, and pain in the loins and in the pit of the stomach.Discharge of pus from the urethra, with biting pain.

16. Female Sexual Organs

Troublesome sensation, as of bearing down towards the genital parts, and towards the anus.Menstruation too early and too profuse.Metrorrhagia, with discharge of bright red and coagulated blood, with oppressed breathing.Metrorrhagia, much depression and pain in r. half of head; soreness about womb and pain in l. hip and back; weight across forehead, and phlegm in back of throat, causing sickness; skin yellowish and very irritable, dark round eyes (cured).Steady flow of bright red blood after confinement.In labour and threatened miscarriage pains fly from l. to r., with nausea.Catamenia premature, and too thick.Stitches from navel to uterus.

17. Respiratory Organs

Cough, esp. at night, with painful shocks in the head and stomach, and with loathing, retching, and vomiting.Cough catching the breath, even to suffocation; during the attacks the child gets quite stiff, its face blue. It is excited by a contractive tickling sensation extending from upper part of larynx to lowest part of bronchial tubes; < on walking in cold air; on retiring; in morning and evening; on taking a deep breath. Accompanied by cold, as if the navel would be torn out; pains in abdomen like strangury; heat in head and face. The cough causes vomiting without nausea.Rattling noise in the bronchial tubes when drawing breath.Dry cough, excited by a contractive tickling in the larynx (particularly in the upper part), extending to the extremity of the bronchia, esp. when lying on l. side.Cough, which resembles whooping-cough, with bleeding from the nose and mouth, and vomiting of food.Cough, with spitting of blood, provoked by the least effort.Spasmodic cough, dry, shaking, with fits of suffocation, stiffness of the body, and bluish face.Cough as from vapour of sulphur, with expectoration of blood with mucus in the morning.Suffocative cough in the evening; continuous cough with perspiration on the forehead, shocks in the head, retching and vomiting.Anxious and short respiration.Quick, anxious breathing.The breath smells fetid.Suffocative attacks in the room; > in the open air.Whooping-cough; every fresh attack sets in with a long-drawn, difficult, howling, sighing inspiration.Spasmodic asthma, with contraction of the larynx, and panting respiration.Sighing respiration.

18. Chest

Oppression of the chest, and shortness of breath, as if dust had been inhaled.Loss of breath on the least movement.Spasms in the chest.Pain, as of excoriation in the chest.Palpitation of the heart.Red itching spots on the chest, with burning after scratching.

20. Neck and Back

Swelling and suppuration in the throat-pit.Cramp pain between the scapulæ during motion.Tetanic stiffness and bending of the back, backwards or forwards.

22. Upper Limbs

Coldness of one hand while the other is hot.

23. Lower Limbs

Convulsive startings of the legs and of the feet (not in the upper limbs).Pain, as from dislocation, in the hip-joint, when sitting.Nocturnal cramps in the muscles of the thigh, with lumps in the thighs.Violent itching in the calves of the legs.Ulcers, with black bases on the legs, and on the foot.

24. Generalities

Pain, as from a bruise, in all the bones.Tingling in the joints, as when numbed.Fits of uneasiness, with dislike to all food, and excessive and sudden debility.Nausea, with almost all ailments.Bleeding from different organs; hæmorrhages from all the orifices of the body (bright red).Too great sensibility to cold and to heat.Tetanus; spasms and convulsions of different kinds; sometimes with bending backwards of the head, and distortion of the features; or with loss of consciousness; face pale and bloated, eyes half closed, convulsive movements of the muscles of the face, lips, eyelids, and limbs, at times with cries, inclination to vomit, and rattling of mucus in the chest.In morning, on awaking, anxious agitation of the blood, as if he had been subjected to a great heat, or had had profuse perspiration, or had awakened out of an anxious dream, though the skin was neither hot nor moist; at same time a heaviness in head as if brain were compressed.Dropsy of internal parts.Chlorosis, menses scanty; skin and mucous surfaces pale, anæmic.Excessive emaciation.

25. Skin

Miliary eruptions, violent itching in the skin (of the thighs and of the arms).During the nausea the patient is forced to scratch himself, until relieved by vomiting.Rash (in lying-in women); suppressed rash.

26. Sleep

Sleeplessness.Sleep, with the eyes half open.Agitated sleep, with groans.During sleep, starting of the limbs.Frightful dreams, with frequent starts and terror during sleep.

27. Fever

Pulse very frequent, but at times scarcely perceptible.Shuddering, with coldness in the limbs and in the face.Chill of short duration and soon changing to heat.Coldness, esp. in the hands and feet, with cold and copious perspiration on those parts.External chilliness with internal heat.Aggravation of the shivering from external heat.Internal chilliness, as if under the skin, < from heat.Before the shiverings, uneasiness, stretching, and lassitude, with cold sweat on the forehead, or coldness, or shivering, in the ears.Sudden heat in a room, with sweat and vertigo.Thirst during the shivering or coldness.Fever, manifesting itself by much shivering, with little heat, or by much heat with little shivering; or with nausea, vomiting, and other gastric symptoms, tongue clean or loaded, and constrictive oppression of the chest.Fever in the evening, with great inquietude, dry and troublesome heat, burning in the palms of the hands, and nocturnal sweat.After a short chill dry heat, with parchment-like skin.During the heat no thirst.Perspiration smelling sour (with turbid urine).Intermittent fever; nausea and vomiting predominate; slight chills are followed by much heat, with thirst and no subsequent perspiration, consequent upon the abuse of quinine; slight chilliness without thirst, afterwards violent heat, with thirst, nausea and vomiting, dyspnœa, stitches in the chest, finally copious perspiration.Damp coldness of the hands and feet.

Ipecacuanha

Ipecacuanha

Generalities

• It acts chiefly on the pneumo-gastric nerve; producing gastro intestinal disturbances; and RESPIRATORY AFFECTIONS, with CONTINUOUS NAUSEA.

• Discharges are foamy and profuse.

• BRIGHT RED, GUSHING HAEMORRHAGES: with nausea.

• Nausea and shortness of breath usually accompany most of the complaints.

• Convulsions; infantile; body rigid, stretched out, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other.

• Awkward, stumbles against everything.

• Tetanic spasms from swallowing tobacco.

• Convulsions; in whooping cough; from suppressed exanthema; from indigestible food.

• It is indicated in fat children and adults who are feeble and catch cold in warm moist weather.

• Ill effects of vexation, reserved displeasure.

• Injuries, suppressed eruptions.

• Quinine; morphia; indigestible food; loss of blood.

• Over-sensitive to heat and cold.

• Opisthotonos and emprosthotonos.

Worse

• WARMTH, damp; of room.

- Overeating.

• Ices, pork, veal, mixed or rich foods; candy, fruits; raisins, salads, lemon peel.

• Berries.

• Periodically.

• Heat and cold.

• Vomiting.

• Motion.

• Lying.

Better

• Open air.

• Rest.

• Pressure.

• Closing eyes.

• Cold drinks.

Mind

• Holds everything in contempt, and desires others also should do the same.

• Cries, screams, howls and is hard to please (children).

• Full of desires, but knows not for what.

• Sad.

• Faints suddenly; in summer or hot room.

Head

• Ache as if bruised or crushed, down into the root of the tongue.

• Migraine, with nausea and vomiting.

• Pain in occiput agg. vomiting; during chill.

• Cold sweat on forehead.

Eyes

• Inflamed, red; conjunctivitis.

• Profuse gushing lachrymation; with nausea.

• Shooting pains through the eyeball.

• Nausea from looking on moving objects.

Ears

• Cold (right); during fever.

• Can not endure the least noise.

Nose

• Bleed, blood bright red.

• Coryza with stoppage of nose and nausea.

- Sneezing.

Face

• Pale; blue about the eyes or lips; white linea nasalis.

• Periodical orbital neuralgia, with lachrymation, photophobia and smarting eyelids.

Mouth

• Child thrusts its fist into the mouth and screams.

- Clean or red pointed tongue.

• Saliva increased.

• Toothache, with a jerk radiating to temples; amel. while eating.

• Tongue, clean, yellow, or white, pale.

• Taste; bitter, sweetish, bloody.

Stomach

• Desire for dainties; sweets.

- Feels miserable or sinking or relaxed as if hanging down.

- Horrid nausea, not amel. by vomiting.

• Vomits; blood, bile, food, mucus; agg. stooping.

• Aversion to food.

- Thirstless.

• Vomiting of infants at the breast.

Abdomen

• Griping, drawing or cutting pain about the navel agg. motion amel. by repose; extending towards the uterus.

• Stools; brown, grass or yellow green, frothy, molasses like or bloody; slimy.

• Dysentery; with head hot and cold legs.

• Lumps of mucus in stools.

Urinary

• Unsuccessful urging to urinate.

• Haematuria, with nausea and cutting in abdomen and urethra, with oppression in chest and short breath.

• Shooting from kidney, down the thighs to the knees.

Female

• Uterine haemorrhages, profuse, bright, steady flow or gushing; with nausea and gasping; with each gush of blood.

• Cutting pain in uterus from left to right.

• Stitches from navel to uterus.

• Menses; too early and too profuse.

• Vomiting during pregnancy.

• Prolapse of uterus agg. during menses.

• Haemorrhage of placenta praevia.

• Steady flow of bright red blood, which does not coagulate.

• Great weakness with scanty menses.

Respiratory

• Painless hoarseness at the end of a cold.

• Constant constriction in chest and larynx, agg. least motion.

• Spasms of vocal cords.

- Gasps for breath.

• Asthma.

• Cough incessant and violent, with every breath.

• Paroxysms of suffocative cough, with retching; child stiffness out, becomes red or blue in face and finally is nauseated; gag; and vomits; amel. stepping into open air, amel. warmth and repose.

• Whooping cough with bleeding from the nose and from the mouth.

• LOOSE coarse RATTLE IN CHEST WITHOUT EXPECTORATION.

• Bronchopneumonia.

• Haemoptysis agg. slightest exertion.

• Asthma accompanied with skin disease.

• Suffocative attacks from foreign substance in wind pipe.

Neck and back

• Tetanic spasms of back which bends the back backwards or forwards.

• Shooting from kidney region into thighs.

• Cramps between scapulae during motion.

Extremities

• Coldness of one hand, other is hot.

• Femur as if dislocated on sitting down.

• Pains as if bruised in all the bones.

Sleep

• Shocks in limbs on falling to sleep.

• Eyes half open during sleep, with moaning and groaning.

• Loss of sleep causes nausea and fatigue.

Skin

• Itching, with nausea, scratches until he vomits.

Fever

• Short chill with long heat.

• Chill alternating with heat.

• Heat without thirst.

• Suppressed of mixed intermittents; nausea in all stages.

• Catarrhal or gastric fevers.

• Hands and feet drips cold sweat.

• Infantile remittent fever.

Complementary

• Ars; Cupr.

Related

• Ant-t; Lob.

IPECACUANHA

  1. Headache, as if the brain were bruised, all through the bones of the head, and down into the root of the tongue, with nausea.
  2. Distressing nausea, and inclination to vomit, with almost all complaints.
  3. Stooping causes him to vomit.
  4. Distressing feeling, as though the stomach were hanging down relaxed.
  5. With every movement a cutting pain in abdomen, almost constantly running from left to right
  6. Stools as if fermented, green as grass, with nausea and colic.
  7. Hemorrhage from the uterus, blood bright red, profuse, clotted with heavy oppressed breathing.
  8. Suffocation threatens from constriction in the throat and chest, worse from the least motion.
  9. Loses breath with the cough, turns pale and becomes rigid.
  10. One hand cold, the other hot.
  11. Backache, short chill, long fever, mostly heat with thirst, headache, nausea, cough and sweat last.

Ipecacuanha

Head:

Headache as if the head was bruised; through all the bones of the head and down into the root of the tongue.

Stomach:

Nausea intense, persistent, nothing > during convalescence.

Stomach:

Sensation as if stomach hung down relaxed.

Stomach:

Nausea constant, with many different complaints; nothing > the nausea.

Stomach:

Vomiting, thirst, sweat, and bad breath.

Abdomen:

With every movement a cutting pain in the abdomen, constantly running from left to right.

Anus and Stool:

Stools yeast-like, foamy, or as if fermented; as green as grass, with nausea and vomiting.

Female Sexual Organs:

During haemorrhage from the womb they commence to breathe heavily.

Female Sexual Organs:

Post-partum haemorrhage, profuse flow, bright red and constant nausea.

Respiratory Organs:

Looses breath with the cough, turns pale or blue in the face and stiffens.

Respiratory Organs:

Phlegm rattling in the chest, sometimes vomited up; young children.

Respiratory Organs:

Suffocation threatens from constriction in throat and chest; much mucus.

Extremities:

One hand cold, the other hot.

Chill, Fever, and Sweat:

Backache, short chill, long fever, mostly heat with thirst; headache, nausea, cough, sweat last; chill worse in warm room or warm covering.

Generalities:

Hemorrhages (active) from all orificies, profuse, bright red.

Ipeca

Ipecac. has a wide sphere of action among acute sickness. Most of its acute complaints commence with nausea, vomiting.

The febrile conditions commence with pain in the back between the shoulders, extending down the back, as if it would break, with or without rigors, much fever, vomiting of bile and seldom any thirst. This is the general aspect of the beginning of an Ipecac. fever or gastric. trouble or chill in intermittents or bilious attacks.

The stomach is disordered. There is a sense of fullness in the stomach, cutting pains in the stomach and below the stomach, going from left to right. The cutting pain in colic goes from left to right. The patient is unable to stir or breathe until that pain passes off. It holds him transfixed in one position, coming like the stabbing of a knife in the region of the stomach, or above the navel, going from left to right, and is attended with prostration and nausea.

Nausea

: All the complaints in Ipecac. are attended more or less with nausea; every little pain and distress is attended with nausea. The sufferings seem to centre about the stomach, bringing on nausea.

There is continuous nausea, and gagging. The cough causes nausea and vomiting. It is a dry, hacking, teasing, suffocative cough, accompanied by nausea and vomiting. He coughs until his face grows red, and then there is choking and gagging. With every little gush of blood from any part of the body there is nausea, fainting and sinking.

Hence its value in uterine hemorrhages; bright, red blood with nausea; a little blood is attended with fainting or syncope, but the great overwhelming nausea runs through the complaints of this remedy. Though there is sometimes thirst, it is usually absent. When Ipecac. does its best work, there is thirstlessness.

With the Ipecac. fever, or with the chill, there is likely to be pain in the back of the head, a bruised pain through the head and back of the neck and sometimes down the back, and drawing in the muscles of the back of the neck. A congestive fullness in the head, a crushed feeling in the head and back of the head; the whole head aches and is full of pain.

Ipecac. is sometimes as restless as Arsenic., but the Ipecac. prostration comes by spells, whereas the Arsenicprostration is continuous. You will see Ipecac. patients tossing over the bed as much as they do when they need Rhus, turning and tossing, and moving the hands and feet, with restlessness.

This is especially the case when the spine is somewhat involved. Ipecac. has symptoms that look like tetanus it has opisthotonos, and it has been a useful remedy in cerebro-spinal meningitis with vomiting of bile, with pain in the back of the head and neck, and drawing of the muscles of the back, retracting the head.

Stomach

: When cerebro-spinal meningitis has gone on until the patient is emaciated, when remedies have seemed but to palliate momentarily, and the whole body is inclined backwards, and there is vomiting of everything, even the simplest article taken into the stomach, the tongue is red and raw, and there is constant nausea and vomiting of bile, Ipecac. will cure.

Ipecac. cures inveterate cases of gastritis when even a drop of water will not stay down; everything put in the stomach is vomited, continuous gagging, sharp pain in the stomach, pain in the back, below the shoulder blades, as if it would break, vomiting of bile, continuous nausea and great prostration. Irritable stomach. It also cures when the abdomen is distended, and sensitive, a tympanitic state, when there is vomiting of bile.

Ipecac. has proved a useful remedy in epidemic dysentery, when the patient is compelled to sit almost constantly upon the stool and passes a little slime, or a little bright red blood; inflammation of the lower portion of the bowel, the rectum and the colon. The tenesmus is awful, burning, and continuous urging with the passage of only a little mucus, and blood. With this there is constant nausea; while straining at stool, the pain is so great that nausea comes on, and he vomits bile. At times, whole families are down with it. It runs through a whole valley and may be epidemic, but it commonly relates to endemics.

In infants, it is indicated when a cholera-like diarrhoea has been present and it ends in a dysenteric state, with continued tenesmus, and the expulsion of a little bloody mucus, the child vomiting everything it takes into the stomach; nausea, vomiting, prostration and great pallor. It is also useful in such conditions when the stool is more or less copious, and is green, and the child passes, frequently, copious quantities of green slime. Much crying when at stool, much straining, with passages of green slime, vomiting of green slime, and vomiting of green curds; milk turns green and is vomited.

Chest

: The chest complaints of Ipecac. are interesting. Ipecac. is especially the infant's friend and is commonly indicated in the bronchitis of infancy. The usual bad cold that ends in chest trouble in infants is a bronchitis.

It is very seldom that an infant gets a true pneumonia, it is generally a bronchitis with coarse rattling. The child coughs, gags and suffocates, and there is coarse rattling which can be heard throughout the room, and the trouble has come on pretty rapidly. The child is pale, looks dreadfully sick, and sometimes looks very anxious. The nose is drawn in as if dangerously ill, and the breathing is such as appears in a dangerous case. Ipecac. will sometimes modify this into a very simple case, break up the cold, and cure the child.

In the old books, the pneumonia of infancy had a distinct and separate description, and the typical symptoms were those of Ipecac. You will see a great similarity of symptoms when you study Ipecac. and Ant. tart. together in chest troubles. If you have been studying them together, you will say,

"How do you distinguish them; they both have rattling cough and breathing, and both have the vomiting?"

Well, the Ipecac. symptoms correspond to the stage of irritation, while the Tartar emetic symptoms appear in the stage of relaxation. That is, the Ipecac. symptoms come on hurriedly, come on as the acute symptoms, whereas the Tartar emeticcomplaints come on slowly. The latter is seldom suited to symptoms that arise within twenty-four hours, or at least the symptoms of Tartar emeticthat arise in twenty-four hours are not of this class.

This group comes on many days later, comes on at the close of a bronchitis when there is threatened paralysis of the lungs; not in the state of irritation, not the dyspnoea from irritation, not the suffocation of that sort, but the suffocation from exudation, and from threatened paralysis of the lungs.

When the lungs are too weak to expel the mucus the coarse rattling comes on. Then there is the great exhaustion, deathly pallor of the face and sooty nostrils.

We see now that these two remedies do not look alike. If we observe the pace of the two remedies, we see that the complaints differ. It is not so much. that they belong to stages, although they do, but rather that Ipecac. brings on its symptoms rapidly and effects a crisis speedily, and that Ant. tart. brings on its symptoms slowly and effects a crisis after many days.

You can readily see the value of Ipecac. in whooping cough, for it has the paroxysmal character, the red face, and vomiting and gagging with the cough. The red face, thirstlessness, violent whooping, with convulsions, with gagging and vomiting of all that he eats are the symptoms that you will generally find.

Haemorrhages

: I have hinted at the haemorrhages, and these open out a great field for Ipecac. I could not practice medicine without ipecac., because of its importance in hemorrhages. When I say haemorrhages, I do not mean those from cut arteries, I do not mean haemorrhages where surgery must come in; I mean such as uterine haemorrhages, haemorrhages from the kidneys, from the bowels, from the stomach, from the lungs.

You must know your remedies in haemorrhages; if you do not, you will be forced to use mechanical means; but the homeopathist who is well instructed is able to do without them. In the severest form of uterine hemorrhages, the homeopathic physician is able to do without mechanical means, except when mechanical means are causing the haemorrhage.

This does not relate to hourglass contractions, it does not relate to conditions when the after birth is retained, or when the uterus has a foreign substance in it, because under such circumstances manipulation is necessary.

A distinction must be made. But when we have simply the pure dynamic element to consider, simply and purely a relaxed surface that is bleeding, the remedy is the only thing that will do the work properly. When the uterus is continuously oozing, but every little while the flow increases to a gush, and with every little gush of bright red blood the woman thinks she is going to faint, or there is gasping, and the quantity of the flow is not sufficient to account for such prostration, nausea, syncope, pallor, Ipecac. is the remedy.

When with the gushing of bright red blood there is an overwhelming fear of death, Aconite. If your patient while going through the confinement has had a hot head, an uncontrollable thirst for ice cold water, and after the confinement, everything has gone on in an orderly way, and the placenta has been delivered, and although you have no reason to expect such haemorrhage it comes on, Phosphorus will nearly always be the remedy.

In those withered women, lean and slender, who are always suffering from the heat, who want the covers off and want to be cool, who have had a tendency to ooze blood from the uterus, and now have a haemorrhage that is alarming either with clots, or only an oozing of dark liquid blood, you can hardly do without Secale. A single dose of any one of these medicines on the tongue will check a haemorrhage more quickly than large doses of strong medicine.

The haemorrhage will be checked so speedily that in your earlier experiences you will be surprised. You will wonder if it is not possible that it stopped itself. In copious menstruation Ipecac. is often indicated When the woman has taken cold, or has a shock. In cases where she is not especially subject to copious uterine flow at the menstrual period, she is naturally alarmed, for it is something she has never bad before, and the flow is likely to continue for many days, attended with this weakness. All her power seems to go with a little gush of blood. Ipecac. will cure and end the menstrual flow normally. A fortunate thing in nature is the tendency to check haemorrhage, which is always good.

There are a large number of medicines that control haemorrhage, and these you must keep at your finger's ends. They belong to emergencies. You must know the remedies that correspond to violent symptoms and violent attacks. Ipecac. is full of hemorrhage. Vomiting of great clots of blood, continuous vomiting of blood in connection with ulceration. In persons who are subject to violent attacks of bleeding, who bleed easily, who have a haemorrhagic tendency, Ipecac. will control temporarily the haemorrhage when the symptoms agree.

Urines

: Severe pain in the back in the region of the kidneys, shooting pains, frequent urging to urinate, and the urine contains blood and little clots of blood. The urine is extremely red with blood, which settles to the bottom of the vessel, and lines the whole commode with a layer of blood the thickness of a knife blade. Every pint of urine that it contains will have that coating of blood in the vessel; every attack of pain in the kidney is attended with that condition of the urine. Ipecacuanha will stop that bleeding. It is true that when patients have bled until they have become anaemic, and are subject to dropsy, Ipecac. ceases to be the remedy; its natural follower then is China, which will bring the patient in a position to need an antipsoric remedy.

Colds

: Then there are the "colds."

Simple, common coryzas among the children. When a cold settles in the nose, and the nose is stuffed up at night or when the adult has a coryza, with much stuffing up of the nose, blowing of mucus and blood from the nose, much sneezing, and the cold goes further down and is followed by hoarseness, extending into the trachea with rawness, and finally into the bronchial tubes with suffocation and settling in the chest, think of ipecac.

The Ipecac. colds often begin in the nose and spread very rapidly into the chest. With these colds in the nose there is copious bleeding of bright red blood. Every time he takes cold in the nose he has copious bleeding; a tendency to nosebleed with the colds. The inflammation that comes upon the mucous membrane in Ipecac. is violent.

The irritation comes on suddenly, and the mucous membrane inflames so rapidly that the parts become purple, turgescent, and bleeding seems to be the only natural relief. Stoppage of the nose and loss of smell; the nose becomes so stuffed up that he cannot breathe through it.

With the head symptoms, with the colds, with the whooping cough, with the chill, and with many of the inflammatory complaints, the face becomes flushed, bright red, or bluish red, and the lips blue; with the chill the lips and the finger nails are blue. The chill is violent, sometimes congestive in character and often a rigor. The whole frame shakes, and the teeth chatter.

There are old incurable cases of asthma that are palliated by Ipecac. and carry around a bottle of it from which they say they get much relief. It is useful in cases of humid asthma, in cases of asthmatic bronchitis, when they suffer from the damp weather and from sudden weather changes; every little cold rouses up this bronchial attack, and he suffocates and gags when he coughs, or spits up a little blood.

He has to sit up nights to breathe, and the attacks are common and frequent. These patients say they get relief front Ipecac., and it is not surprising that Ipecac. relieves that state of asthmatic breathing, because it has such symptoms. Some of these cases are incurable, they are people advanced in life.

This remedy, more wisely administered, will give more relief. A powder of Ipecac. will break up the attack, so that the patient is comfortable, and then will go on in an ordinary sort of asthmatic way, until catching another cold. The cough is rattling and asthmatic.

Convulsions

: As a convulsive medicine Ipecac. is not well enough known.

Convulsions in pregnancy. Convulsions in whooping cough; frightful spasms, affecting the whole of the left side, followed by paralysis; clonic and tonic spasms of children and hysterical women. Tetanus, rigidity of the body, with flushed redness of the face.

These are strong features of Ipecac., and they have not been sufficiently dwelt upon, and the remedy is not sufficiently known as having these states so prominently. Medicines like Belladonnaare more frequently spoken of in the books and in treatises of spasms, yet Ipecac. is just as important a remedy to be studied in relation to spasms, and its action upon the spine.

Skin

: In suppressed eruptions, the symptoms will very commonly point to Ipecac.

When the eruption does not come out, or an eruption has been driven back by cold, sometimes acute manifestations of stomach and bowels follow and colds settle in the chest from suppressed eruptions, Ipecac. will also cure erysipelas, when there is the vomiting, the chill, the pain in the back, the thirstlessness and the overwhelming nausea.

Ipecac. is often sufficient for the nausea and vomiting when the scarlet fever rash is slow to come out. Instead of the rash coming out as it should, Ipecac. symptoms come on in the stomach with nausea and vomiting. Ipecac. will check the nausea and vomiting, will bring out the eruption, and the disease will run a milder course.

Ipecacuanha.

Ipecac. (Rubiaceae.)

Adapted to cases where the gastric symptoms predominate (Ant. c., Puls.); tongue clean or slightly coated. In all diseases with constant and continual nausea. Nausea: with profuse saliva; vomiting of white, glairy mucus in large quantities, without relief; sleepy afterwards; worse from stooping; the primary effects of tobacco; of pregnancy. Stomach: feels relaxed, as if hanging down (Ign., Staph.); clutching, squeezing, griping, as from a hand, each finger sharply pressing into intestines; worse from motion. Flatulent, cutting colic about umbilicus. Stool: grassy-green; of white mucus (Colch.); bloody; fermented, foamy, slimy, like frothy molasses. Autumnal dysentry; cold nights, after hot days (Colch., Merc.). Asiatic cholera, first symptoms, where nausea and vomiting predominate (Colch.). Haemorrhage: active or passive, bright-red from all the orifices of the body (Erig., Mill.); uterine, profuse, clotted; heavy, oppressed breathing during; stitches from navel to uterus. Cutting pains across abdomen from left to right (Lach., - from right to left, Lyc.). Cough: dry spasmodic, constricted, asthmatic. Difficult breathing from least exercise; violent dyspnoea, with wheezing and anxiety about the stomach. Whooping-cough: child loses breath, turns pale, stiff and blue; strangling, with gagging and vomiting of mucus; bleeding from nose or mouth (Indigo). Cough, with rattling of mucus in bronchi when inspiring (Ant. t.); threatened suffocation from mucus. Pains as if bones were all torn to pieces (as if broken, Eup.). Intermittent fever: in beginning of irregular cases; with nausea, or from gastric disturbance; after abuse of, or suppression from quinine. Intermittent dyspepsia, every other day at same hour; fever, with persistent nausea. Oversensitive to heat and cold.

Relations

. - Complementary: Cuprum. Is followed well: by, Ars. in influenza, chills, croup, debility, cholera infantum; by Ant. t., in foreign bodies in larynx. Similar: to, Puls., Ant. c., in gastric troubles.

Aggravation

. - Winter and dry weather; warm, moist, south winds (Euph.); slightest motion.

Ipecacuanha.

Mind and Disposition.

Irritability ; restlessness, impatience.

Ill-humor and despising every thing.

Cannot endure the least noise.

Head.

Vertigo, when walking and when turning round.

[5] Stitches, in the vertex (or forehead).

Headache, as if the skull and brain were bruised, with nausea and vomiting.

Pain in the occiput and nape of the neck.

Eyes.

Twitching of the eyelids.

Pupils dilated.

[10] Obscuration of sight ; red, inflamed eyes.

Ears.

Coldness and chilliness of the ears (during the febrile heat).

Nose.

Bleeding of the nose.

Loss of smell.

Coryza, with stoppage of the nose.

Face.

[15] Pale face with blue margins around the eyes.

Convulsive twitches in the muscles of the face and lips.

Red skin around the mouth.

Smarting eruption and aphthae on the margin of the lips.

Rash in the face.

Mouth and Throat.

[20] Pain in a hollow tooth, when biting on it, as if it were extracted.

Smarting in the mouth and on the tongue.

The tongue is coated yellowish or white.

Spasmodic contractive sensation in the throat.

Fauces, stinging, rough, sore and dry.

[25] Copious secretion of saliva.

Stomach and Abdomen.

Want of appetite ; the stomach feels relaxed.

Aversion to all food.

Desire for dainties and sweet things.

Thirstlessness.

[30] Bad effects from eating pork.

Sweetish, bloody taste in the mouth.

Nausea, as if proceeding from the stomach, with empty eructations and accumulation of much saliva.

Nausea and retching from drinking any thing cold and from smoking tobacco.

Vomiting of all the ingesta.

[35] Vomiting of bile ; green, jelly-like mucus.

Vomiting of blood ; black, pitch-like substances.

Sensation of emptiness and relaxation of the stomach.

Horrid, indescribable pain and sick feeling in the stomach.

Cutting and pinching (as if grasping with the hands) around the umbilicus ; aggravated by motion, ameliorated by rest.

[40] Flatulent colic, with frequent diarrhoeic stools.

Stool and Anus.

Diarrhoea stools as if fermented with nausea and colic ; stools green as grass.

Dysenteric stools, with tenesmus.

Feces covered with bloody mucus.

Bloody stools.

[45] Stools smelling putrid.

Urinary Organs.

Scanty urine, dark-red.

Unsuccessful urging to urinate.

Haematuria, with cutting in the abdomen and in the urethra.

Turbid urine, with brick-dust sediment.

Sexual Organs.

[50] Women. Menstruation too early and too profuse.

Metrorrhagia ; blood bright-red, clotted, with oppressed breathing.

Respiratory Organs.

Quick, anxious breathing.

Sighing breathing.

The breath smells fetid.

[55] Suffocative attacks in the room ; better in the open air.

Suffocative feeling from the least motion.

Spasmodic asthma, as from constriction in the chest and throat.

Contraction of the chest, with short and panting breathing.

Dry cough, caused by a tickling, especially in the upper part of the larynx.

[60] Frequent attacks of spasmodic cough, shaking, racking, hollow, quickly following coughs from tickling in the upper part of the larynx, as from vapor of sulphur ; with expectoration of blood with mucus in the morning.

Suffocative cough ; the child becomes quite stiff, and blue in the face.

Suffocative cough in the evening ; continuous cough, with perspiration on the forehead, shocks in the head, retching and vomiting.

Haemoptysis from the slightest exertion.

Rattling noise in the bronchial tubes when drawing breath.

Back and Neck.

[65] Swelling and suppuration in the throat-pit.

Opisthotonos and emprosthotonos.

Cramp pain between the scapula during motion.

Extremities.

Upper. Coldness of one hand while the other is hot.

Lower. Convulsive twitching in the lower limbs and (not in the upper).

[70] Cramps in the thighs, at night, with lump in the thighs.

Itching of the calves.

Ulcers on the foot with a black base.

Sensation in the femur, as if dislocated on sitting down.

Sleep.

Sleeplessness.

[75] Sleeps ; with the eyes ; half open ; moans and groans.

Starts frequently in his sleep.

Generalities.

Great weakness and aversion to all food ; nausea ; with almost all ailments.

Haemorrhages from all the orifices of the body.

Sensation as if the joints had gone to sleep.

[80] Over-sensitiveness to heat and cold.

Twitching in the limbs.

Spasm, bending the body forward or backward.

The body is stretched out stiff.

Skin.

Rash (in lying-in women) ; suppressed rash.

[85] Itching of the skin, with nausea ; has ; to scratch till he vomits.

Fever.

Pulse very frequent, but at times scarcely perceptible.

Chill of short duration and soon changing to heat.

Internal chilliness, as if under the skin, aggravated from heat.

Chill with thirst.

[90] Damp coldness of the hands and feet.

After a short chill dry heat, with parchment-like skin.

Sudden attacks of general heat, with cold hands and feet.

During the heat no thirst.

Violent perspiration, principally during the night.

[95] Perspiration smelling sour (with turbid urine).

Sudden attacks of hot perspiration (in the room).

Intermittent fever ; nausea and vomiting predominate ; slight chills are followed by much heat, with thirst and no subsequent perspiration, -consequent upon the abuse of Quinine ; slight chilliness without thirst ; afterwards violent heat, with thirst, nausea and vomiting, dyspnoea, stitches in the chest, finally copious perspiration.

IPECACUANHA

REGION:
MUCOUS MEMBRANES: DIGESTIVE. Stomach. RESPIRATORY. Lungs.
Nerves: Pneumo-gastric. Spinal. Cutaneous.
Umbilicus.

WORSE:
WARMTH; damp.
Room.
Overeating: Ices. Pork. Veal. Mixed or rich foods.
Periodically.
Quinine.
Heat and cold.
Recessions.

BETTER:
Open air.

Profuse secretions. Foamy discharges, stool, etc. CONTINUOUS NAUSEA, gastric disturbances, BRIGHT RED, GUSHING HÆMORRHAGE (rapidly clotting), or shortness of breath accompany most complaints. Infantile convulsions. .................... Cries, screams and is hard to please. Downward crushing in head, to root of tongue. Migraine. Occipital pain, < vomiting, during chill, etc. Gushes of tears. Conjunctivitis. Cold (r), ear. Nosebleed. Sneezing. Face pale; blue about eyes or lips; white linea nasalis. Clean or red, pointed tongue. NO THIRST. Sudden faintness. HORRID NAUSEA; not > vomiting. Vomiting; bilious; < stooping. Repugnance to food. Miserable sinking or hanging loose feeling at stomach. Griping, clawing or cutting at navel; toward uterus. Brown, grass or yellow-green, molasses-like or bloody stools. Balls of mucus in stools. Dysentery. Urging to urinate; bloody urine. Cutting in uterus (l to r). Uterine hæmorrhage; gasps with each gush of blood. Painless hoarseness. Larynx and chest tight, < least motion. Spasm of vocal cords. Gasps for breath. Asthma. Paroxysms of retching, incessant or SUFFOCATIVE cough; with every breath; stiffens out, turns red or blue and finally is nauseated, gags or vomits; < stepping into open air; > warmth and repose. Pertussis. LOOSE (coarse) RATTLE IN CHEST, WITHOUT EXPECTORATION. Broncho-pneumonia. Hæmoptysis. Pains from kidneys into thighs. Short chill; alternates with heat or with external heat (Ap.). One hand cold, other hot. Long heat; without thirst. Hands and feet drip cold sweat. Suppressed or mixed intermittents; nausea in all stages. Catarrhal or gastric fevers.

 

REMEDY RELATION

Complementary: Ars. Cup.
Related: Ant-t. Lob.

Nausea accompanies most complaints.
Relieves the exhaustion following bleeding from the orifices of the body.
Tetanic spasms.
Intermittent fever with slight chills and much heat, which is accompanied with much heat, gastric symptoms, and oppression of the chest in all cases.
In the joints a sensation as if they had gone to sleep, with tingling of the same.
Bad effects from intemperance and cold.
Also, from effects of pork eating.
Miliary eruptions, when they come out with difficulty, or when they appear on females during the period of utero-gestation.

Tearing in the limbs when going to sleep.
Diarrhoea of a dysenteric nature.
Metorrhagia.
Spasmodic oppression of the chest after taking cold.
Often used in the secondary stages of cholera, when marked nausea and persistent vomiting is present.
Whooping cough.
Bad effects from the abuse of opium, arsenic and quinine.

Motion aggravates.
Amelioration in the open air.

Clinical Tips & Practitioner Insights

"Jahr recommends to prescribe Ipecac in the beginning of intermittent fever"

By Dr. Sunirmal Sarkar Intermittent Fever

Remedy Profile

  • Type Remedy
  • Common Name HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
  • Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency

Third to 200th potency.

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