Plant
Ipecacuanha
Ipecac-root
Repertory abbreviation: Ip.
The chief action is on the ramifications of the pneu- mogastric nerve. producing spasinodic irritation in chest and stomach. Morphia habit. The principal feature of Ipecacuanha is its persistent nausea and vomiting, which forrm the chief guiding symptoms. Indicated after in- digestible 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. Hamorrhages 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. Pro- fuse 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.
Nose
Coryza, with stoppage of nose and nausea. Epistaxis.
Face
Blue rings around eyes. Periodical orbital neuralgia, with lachrymation, photophobia, and smart- ing eyelids.
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 wtih 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 mo- lasses, with griping at navel. Dystenteric, slimy.
Female
Uterine hamorrhage, profuse, bright, gush- ing, with nausea. Vomiting during pregnancy. [Ant. t.; Arg. n.; Nux v.; Tabac.; Scp.; Sulph.] Pain from navel to uterus. Menses too early and too profuse.
Respiratory
Dyspncea; constant constriction
Chest
Asthma, Early 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 cough- ing. Bubbling rales. Suffocative cough; child becomes stiff, and blue in the face. Whooping-cough, with nose- bleed, and from mouth. Bleeding from lungs, ith nausea; feeling of constriction; rattling cough. Croup. Hemoptysis from slightest exertion. [Mfillef.] Hoarse- ness, especially at end of a cold. Complete aphonia.
Extremities
Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other.
Skin
Pale, lax. Blue around eyes. Miliary rash.
Sleep
With eyes half open. Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep. [Ign.]
Fever
Intermittent fever, irregular C cases, after Quinine. Slightest chill with much heat, nausea, vomit- ing, and dyspncea. Relapses from improper diet.
Modalities
Worse, periodically; from veal, moist warm wind, lying down.
Relationships
Compare: Emctine -— principal alka- loid of Ipecac. A powerful amebicide, but is not a bactericide. Specific for amabiasis; of remarkable value in treatment of amabic dysentery: also as a rem- edy in pyorrhea, % gr. daily for three days, then less. Einctin, % gr. hypodermically, in Psoriasis. Emetin hydroc, 2x, diarrhoea with colicky, abdominal pains and nausea. Emetin for endamcebic dysentery. In physiological doses must be carefully watched. May produce hepatization of lungs, rapid heart action, tend- ency for the head to fall forward and lohar pneumonia. In hametemcsis s and other hamorrhages, 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 diarrhcea). Typha latifolia -- Cat-tail Hag (dysen- ery, diarrhoea) and summer complaint). In Asthma, compare: Blutta oricntalis. Antidotes: Arsenic; China; Tabac. Complementary: Cuprum ; Arn.
Dose
Third to 200th potency.