Ipecac

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 dysentery; 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.