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Ipecacuanha
Cephaëlis ipecacuanha · IP
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Origin Plant · Rubiaceae · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture and trituration of the dried root.
Sources 18 entries across 17 books: Boericke, Clarke, Hering, Allen, Nash …

Dose Boericke
200X
Third to 200th potency

Reason for useGladstone Clarke

1 . The gastric symptoms predominate in nearly all complaints ; violent and persistent nausea not > vomiting. 2 . Morose irritability with pale, drawn face and hollow eyes encircled with dark rings. Children readily cry and scream and have vague, indefinite longings. 3 . Alimentary disorders ; aversion from all food with vomiting of tenacious, white glairy mucus ; tongue usually clean ; stomach feels as if "hanging relaxed" ; after indulgence in rich, fat foods ( Puls .) or sweets, ices, etc. ( Ars .) ; salivation ( Merc., lod .). 4 . Diarrhoeas and dysentery ; char. Stools : (a) fermented, foamy like yeast, (b) grass green, mucous or watery, (c) slimy with more or less blood. 5 . Respiratory complaints ; violent dyspnoea with wheezing, anxious respiration, or dry, spasmodic cough ; great accumulation of mucus (fine rales) yet nothing comes up. 6 . Active or passive haemorrhages of bright arterial blood ; in gushes from all orifices. 7 . Obstinate Malarias with no regularly defined stages ; after abuse of quinine ; will often bring out the true drug picture. 8 . Pains as if bones all torn to pieces. 9 . Intense irritation of the skin with uncontrollable desire to scratch. 10 . Patient sensitive to every change of weather- - heat and cold ; moist, winds. Keynote : Nausea.


Books*
Antidoted by Cinchona Officinalis 5, Arsenicum Album 4, Arnica Montana 3 +12
Complementary Cuprum, Antimonium Crudum, Antimonium Tartaricum +4
Follows well Arsenicum Album, Belladonna, Bryonia Alba +16
Compare Pulsatilla Pratensis, Calcarea Carbonica, Chamomilla +35

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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