Plant · Rubiaceae · simple

Ipecacuanha

Cephaëlis ipecacuanha

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PreparationTincture and trituration of the dried root. Clarke

200X

Third to 200th potencyDose · Boericke

Reason for use

Acts especially upon the ramifications of the pneumogastric nerve, producing spasmodic irritation, mostly in the chest and stomach, giving rise in the former to asthma, and in the latter to nausea and vomiting.

It also irritates the mucous membranes of the respiratory and digestive tracts, causing catarrhal conditions of these parts, and through the same sources of irritation has the power of producing haemorrhage from mucous surfaces.

The principal feature of Ipecac is its persistent nausea and vomiting, which is its chief indication in all diseases.

Characteristic symptoms.

▲ Worse

After lying down; morning and evening; from warm moist wind; south wind

The full Cowperthwaite text, by section

Mind

(Ipeca)

Peevish ; irritable (Bry., Cham.) ; impatient.

Morose, scornful mood.

Ailments from anger, mortification, or vexation, with indignation.

Head

(Ipeca)

Headache, as if bruised, all through bones of head and down into root of tongue, with nausea.

Semi-lateral headache, with nausea and vomiting.

Nose

(Ipeca)

Coryza, with stoppage of the nose and nausea.

Epistaxis of bright blood. (Dulc.)

Eyes

(Ipeca)

Dilated pupils.

Hardened mucus in the external canthi.

Face

(Ipeca)

Pale and puffed, or sunken ; with blue rings around the eyes. (Cinch., Sec ., Sulph.)

Periodical infra and supra-orbital neuralgia, with photophobia, lachrymation, and smarting eyelids ; malarial.

Mouth

(Ipeca)

Profuse accumulation of saliva. (Cinch., Merc .)

Constantly obliged to swallow saliva.

Stomach

(Ipeca)

Aversion to all food. (Ant. crud., Coccul .)

Empty eructations. (Phos., Merc.)

Distressing nausea and inclination to vomit, with almost all complaints.

Nausea, as from the stomach.

Vomiting, thirst, sweat, and bad breath.

Vomiting, with distended abdomen ; after vomiting inclined to sleep.

Vomiting worse from stooping.

Gastric catarrh from indigestible food or from ice-cold things.

Distressing feeling, as though the stomach were hanging down relaxed. (Tabac.)

Abdomen

(Ipeca)

Pinching pain in both hypochondria, and in region of pit of stomach. (Bell.)

Griping as from a hand, each finger seemingly sharply pressing into the intestines ; better during rest, much worse by motion. (Bell.)

With every movement a cutting pain almost constantly running from left to right.

Stool

(Ipeca)

Diarrhoea ; stools as if fermented, green as grass (Agar.), with nausea and colic.

Frequent stools of greenish mucus . (Apis, Arg. nit ., Ars., Bell., Puls .)

Bloody stools. (Euc.)

Autumnal diarrhoea ; much griping about the navel.

Female Organs.- (Ipeca)

Haemorrhage from the uterus (Acon., Erig., Ham ., Mille., Sec .) ; blood bright-red, profuse, clotted ; nausea ; breathing heavy, oppressed ; stitches from navel to uterus.

Respiratory Organs.- (Ipeca)

Rattling noises in the air passages during respiration. (Ant. tart., Phos., Stan.)

Dyspnoea ; attended with wheezing and great weight and anxiety about the precordia.

Violent constriction of the throat and chest, with shortness of breath and wheezing respiration ; gasps for air at the open window ; face pale ; worse from least motion ; threatened suffocation ; asthma. (Ars.)

Severe and convulsive paroxysms of asthma.

Oppression of the chest in the forenoon, with shortness of breath, as from inhaling dust.

Cough caused by tickling from upper portion of larynx to lowest extremity of bronchi.

Cough causing inclination to vomit, without nausea.

Suffocating cough, whereby the child becomes quite stif f and blue in the face. (Coral. rub.)

Whooping cough, with nosebleed, bleeding from the mouth, vomiting, loses breath, turns pale or blue, and becomes rigid.

Cough, with expectoration of blood.

Haemoptysis ; from the slightest exertion.

Upper Limbs.- (Ipeca)

Coldness of one hand while the other is hot.

Pain as if bruised in all the bones.

Generalities

(Ipeca)

Great weakness. (Ars., Camph., Phos.)

Body rigid, stretched out stiff (Hyos.) ; followed by spasmodic jerking of the arms.

Haemorrhages, bright-red.

Miliary rash on skin.

Epileptiform spasms ; opisthotonos.

Tearing pains in all the bones.

Dropsy of internal parts.

Chlorosis, menses scanty ; skin and mucous surfaces pale, anaemic.

Fever

(Ipeca)

Backache, short chill, long fever ; heat usually with thirst, headache, nausea, and cough ; sweat last.

External coldness ; internal heat.

Intermittent fever when gastric symptoms predominate ; also after abuse of Quinine ; in beginning of irregular cases, especially if there is much nausea ; also like Natr. mur ., chill, fever, and sweat, with frontal headache.

Aggravation

Therapeutic Range.- (Ipeca)

Nausea and vomiting in all complaints ; asthma ; croup ; pertussis ; bronchial asthma ; haemorrhages from all parts ; diarrhoea ; intermittent fever.

Compare

(Ipeca)

Ant. tart., Ars ., Bell., Bry., Calc. c., Cham., Cinch., Cupr., Nux v., Puls., Phos., Sep., Sulph., Tabac., Verat. alb.

Antidotes

(Ipeca)

Arn., Ars., Cinch ., Nux v., Tabac.

Ipecac Antidotes.- (Ipeca)

Alum, Ant. crud., Arn., Ars., Cinch., Cupr. (vapors), Dulc., Ferr., Op., Tabac.

Index

Complete text of the Ipecacuanha entry in Cowperthwaite - A Text-Book of Materia Medica; 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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