Ipecacuanha

Chest

Suffocative attacks of breathing. Respiration oppressed; anxious; deep; quick; sighing; with concomitant complaints. Cough without expectoration; with bloody expectoration; without waking the patient.

Sexual.-- Threatened abortion; often with a sharp, or pinching pain around the umbilicus, which runs downward to the uterus, with constant nausea and discharge of bright, red blood; discharge of blood before the proper period; metrorrhagia, often after confinement, which is heralded by low pulse, nausea, etc.; there is a steady flow of bright, red blood, which may soak through the bed to the floor, or may run over the foot of the bed. (Where there is this steady flow of bright, red blood, give Ipec ., and don't resort to applications, manipulations, etc.) Menstruation too early and too profuse; deficient labor pains, and with the pains there is a great deal of suffering, but no good is accomplished, the suffering is caused by the above pain about the umbilicus, running to the uterus.

Generalities

Blue color around the eyes. Stools bloody; fermented (like yeast); bleeding from inner parts, flowing all over the body; epilepsy with convulsive motion; external coldness of the skin; also of single parts; cold perspiration.

Worse.-- Periodically; from vomiting; from coughing; from the suppression of cutaneous eruptions; from taking veal; from abuse of Peruvian bark; from derangements of the stomach.

Remedies following:-- Bellad., Bryon., Chamom., Ignat., Nux vom., Pulsat., Veratr .

Antidotes

Arsen., China .