(Ipecac Root)
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. Hemorrhages 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.
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| 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. | ||
| Stool.
Pitch-like, green as grass, like frothy molasses, with griping at
navel. Dysenteric, slimy. | ||
| Female. Uterine
hemorrhage, profuse, bright, gushing, with nausea. Vomiting during
pregnancy. Pain from navel to uterus. Menses too early and too
profuse. | ||
| Respiratory.
Dyspnea; 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. Hemoptysis from slightest exertion.
Hoarseness, especially at end of a cold. Complete
aphonia. | ||
| Fever.
Intermittent fever, irregular cases, after Quinine. Slightest chill
with much heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnea. 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: Ars.; Cham.; Puls. Antidote: Ars.; Chin.; Tab. Complementary: Cupr.; Arn. | ||
| Dose. Third to
two hundredth potency. |