HomeoRemedyIpecacuanha
Ipecac-root
Main symptoms
- 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.
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- Especially indicated in fat children and adults, who are feeble and catch cold in relaxing atmosphere; warm, moist weather.
- Spasmodic affections.
- Haemorrhages bright-red and profuse.
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Worse
Symptoms by body part
Head
Bones of skull feel crushed or bruised. Pain extends to teeth and root of tongue.
Eyes
Inflamed, red. Pain through eyeballs. Profuse watering eyes. 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 watering eyes, sensitive to light, and smarting eyelids.
Nose
Runny nose (cold), with stoppage of nose and nausea. Nosebleed.
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
Amoeboid dysentery with constant urge to pass stool; 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 haemorrhage, profuse, bright, gushing, with nausea. Vomiting during pregnancy. Pain from navel to uterus. Menses too early and too profuse.
Respiratory
Dyspnoea; constant constriction in chest. Yearly attacks of difficult shortness of breathing. Continued sneezing; runny nose (cold); 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. Coughing up blood from slightest exertion. Hoarseness, especially at end of a cold. Complete aphonia.
Fever
Fever that comes and goes, irregular cases, after Quinine. Slightest chill with much heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnoea. Relapses from improper diet.
Sleep
With eyes half open. Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep.
Extremities
Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other.
Skin
Pale, lax. Blue around eyes. Miliary rash.
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