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Ipecacuanha

Cephaëlis ipecacuanha
IP · 18 entries across 18 books
PreparationTincture and trituration of the dried root. Clarke
200X
Third to 200th potencyDose · Boericke

Reason for use

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 dysentry; 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.

▲ Worse

Winter and dry weather; warm, moist, south winds (Euph.); slightest motion

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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.

Complete text of the Ipecacuanha entry in Allen - Keynotes of Leading Remedies; origin and preparation from Clarke. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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18 entries across 18 books · abbreviations: IP · Family: Rubiaceae

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3 Clarke

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4 Hering

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5 Allen · shown above

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6 Nash

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7 Hering

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9 Farrington

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10 Lippe

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12 Hahnemann

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15 Tyler

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16 Guernsey

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17 Cowperthwaite

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18 Dewey

Ipecacuanha · Willis Alonzo Dewey · 3,690 chars

19 Gross

Ipecacuanha · Gustav Wilhelm Gross · 5,378 chars

20 Hempel

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22 Roberts

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23 T. F. Allen

IPECACUANHA · Timothy Field Allen · 4,726 chars

33 Gladstone Clarke

Ipecacuanha · A. Gladstone Clarke · 1,301 chars

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Research (5)

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  1. [Management of Acute Gastroenteritis in Children: A Systematic Review of Anthroposophic Therapies]Schwermer M, Längler A, Fetz K et al. · Complementary medicine research · 2018 · Systematic Review · doi
  2. Efficacy and tolerability of a complex homeopathic drug in children suffering from dry cough-A double-blind, placebo-controlled, clinical trialVoß HW, Michalsen A, Brünjes R · Drug research · 2018 · Randomized Controlled Trial · doi
  3. [The empacho in Mexico during the nineteenth century]Campos-Navarro R, Coronado ML · Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2009
  4. Comparative efficacy of homeopathic and allopathic systems of medicine in the management of clinical mastitis of Indian dairy cowsVarshney JP, Naresh R · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2005 · doi
  5. Evaluation of a homeopathic complex in the clinical management of udder diseases of riverine buffaloesVarshney JP, Naresh R · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2004 · doi

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