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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

By regionHering
Mind ► Full of desires, but knows not for what. ► Screams, howls violently. ► Taciturnity, wrapt in thought. ► Ill-humor, despises everything. ► Irascible, restless, angry in suddenly appearing spells. ► Ailments from anger, mortification, or vexation, with indignation.
Inner Head ► Headache, as if bruised, all through bones of head and down into root of tongue : nausea, vomiting ; better out-doors. ► Heat and throbbing in the head, with red cheeks. ► Aching in the forehead ; fine stinging pains in forehead. ► Throbbing in the forehead. ► Pains into eyes, with lachrymation. ► Semi-lateral headache, with nausea and vomiting. ► Lancinating in the head. ► Pain in occiput and nape of neck.
Eyes ► Worse from light, especially of candle. ► Blue and red halo around the light. ► Obscuration of sight ; eyes inflamed, red. ► Dilated pupils. ► Red circle around the cornea. ► Scleroticae yellow. ► Violent inflammation of the sclerotic conjunctiva ; chemosis ; profuse lachrymation ; gushing of tears ; nausea. ► Cornea dim, with a number of depressions on it ; pustules. ► Severe shooting pains through the eyeballs. ► Twitching of the eyelids.
Stomach ► Violent distress in pit of stomach. ► Indescribable sick feeling in the stomach. ► Gastric catarrh, from indigestible food or ice-cold things. ► Stomach feels relaxed, as if hanging down. ► Attacks of clutching pains. ► Beating in the stomach. ► Dyspepsia every day, or every other day, at the same hour.
Female Sexual Organs ► Prolapsus and hemorrhage at the menstrual period. ► Menses too early and profuse.
Lungs ► Infantile pneumonia ; respiration rapid, difficult ; surface blue ; face pale. ► Rattling of large bubbles ; fever, but face rather pale ; cough and gagging. ► Hemorrhage from the lungs ; worse from least exertion ; frequent hacking with expectoration of blood-streaked mucus. ► Fine rattling noises in chest, spasmodic cough ; nausea. θ Oedema pulmonum.
Neck And Back ► Swelling and suppuration in the throat-pit. ► Cramp between the scapulae during motion. ► Shooting pains, from right kidney down thigh to knee.
Limbs In General ► Pain in back and limbs. ► Cold hands and feet.
Sleep ► Yawning and stretching. ► On falling off to sleep, shocks in the limbs. ► Sleep, with half-open eyes ; moaning, groaning. ► Sleepless. ► When deprived of sleep ; nausea, languor.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill every other day at 11 A.M. ► Coldness of upper part of body. ► Chill worse in a warm room or from external heat ; lessened by drinking, and in the open air. …
Skin ► Miliaria rubra, with dyspnoea, colic nausea. ► Miliary rash on forehead, temples, cheek. ► Skin itches ; he scratches until he vomits. ► Rash (of the lying-in). ► Eruptions suppressed, or tardily appearing, with oppression of the chest ; vomiting and tickling cough. ► Erysipelas, the redness leaves too soon, with renewed vomiting.

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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