Ipecacuanha

General

IPECACUANHA. [Ipec.] Root of Ipecac. Hahnemann. Rubiaceae.

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.

Sensorium

► Vertigo when walking and when turning.

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.

Outer Head

► Open fontanelles ; occiput and neck sore.

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.

Ears

► Cannot endure the least noise. ► Ears cold, during the febrile heat.

Nose

► Loss of smell ; catarrh, with nausea, epistaxis ; stoppage of nose. ► Nosebleed ; blood bright.

Face

► Face : pale, bloated ; livid ; yellow ; deathly pale, eyes sunken, and with blue margins. ► Periodical infra and supra-orbital neuralgia, with photophobia, lachrymation and smarting eyelids ; malarial. ► Convulsive muscular twitchings. ► Rash.

Lower Face

► Red skin around the mouth. ► Lips blue ; during chill.

Teeth

► Child thrusts its fist into its mouth ; screams ; face pale ; dentition. ► Pain in a hollow tooth when biting on it.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : bitter ; sweetish, bloody ; like rancid oil, when swallowing. ► Tongue : clean ; yellow or white ; grows pale. ► Disinclined to talk ; tongue dry.

Mouth

► Saliva increased. ► Smarting in the mouth and on the tongue.

Throat

► Fauces dry, sore, rough, stinging. ► Difficult deglutition. ► Pressure in the throat, with pains in the diaphragm.

Desires And Aversions

► Desire for dainties, sweets. ► Averse to all food, no appetite ; earthy taste ; stomach feels relaxed ; nausea. ► Thirstlessness.

Eating And Drinking

► Aggravation : from indigestible substances, lemon peel, raisins, cake, etc., even spasms therefrom ; from fruit, salads, pastry, pork, fats, etc. ► After any cold drink (also from ice-cream) colic, nausea, vomiting. ► Drinking : 40.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Empty belching ; copious saliva. ► Hiccough with nausea. ► Nausea, constant, with almost all complaints ; nausea, as if from the stomach. ► Nausea and retching from smoking ; primary effects of tobacco. ► Vomiting : of ingesta ; bile ; copiously of jelly-like mucus ; of blood or of a pitch like substance ; of a dark-colored liquid, with or without blood ; of sour fluid ; always with nausea. ► Vomiting : with thirst, sweat, bad breath ; with diarrhoea, colic, distended abdomen ; after vomit, sleepy. ► Vomiting worse from stooping.

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.

Hypochondria

► Pain in the left hypochondrium. ► Diaphragm, as if pressed between two millstones.

Abdomen

► Gripping, as from a hand, each finger seemingly pressing sharply into the intestines ; better during rest, much worse by motion. ► With every movement cutting, almost constantly running from left to right. ► Flatulent colic, with frequent loose stools. ► Cutting about the umbilicus. ► Inguinal hernia readily reducible.

Stool, Etc

► Diarrhoea, with pain, causing unceasing screaming and tossing about. ► Stools : yellow, painless, fermented ; as if fermented, green as grass, with nausea and colic ; green mucus ; covered with red, bloody mucus ; bloody ; pitch-like or like frothy molasses ; slimy, bloody, offensive, followed by tenesmus. ► Autumnal diarrhoea ; much griping about navel. ► Beginning of cholera infantum, nausea, vomiting, colic, diarrhoea ; especially in fat, pale children. ► Itching at the anus. ► Shooting from right kidney to knee.

Urine

► Urine : scanty, dark red ; turbid, with red sediment. ► Unsuccessful urging to urinate. ► Haematuria : with cutting in abdomen and urethra ; from suppressed itch.

Female Sexual Organs

► Prolapsus and hemorrhage at the menstrual period. ► Menses too early and profuse.

Pregnancy

► Hemorrhage from the uterus, blood bright red, profuse, clotted ; nausea ; breathing heavy, oppressed ; stitches from navel to uterus. ► Labor-pains spasmodic ; cutting across from left to right ; nausea ; clutching about the navel. ► Lying-in : 46.

Larynx

► Voice hollow. ► Laryngismus stridulus. ► Rattling in bronchia, when drawing a long breath. ► Foreign substances in the windpipe ; suffocative attacks.

Breathing

► Breathing : sighing ; quick, anxious. ► Breath : fetid, with vomit and sweat ; short, as from inhaling dust. ► Difficult expiration. ► Violent constriction of throat and chest, peculiar panting sound ; gasps for air at open window ; face pale ; worse from least motion ; threatened suffocation. ► Asthma. ► Loses breath with the cough. ► During a catarrh, threatened suffocation, especially if it is suddenly suppressed.

Cough

► Cough : rough, shaking ; dry, from titillation in upper part of larynx ; with every breath ; with inclination to vomit ; with spitting of blood from the least effort ; constant, no phlegm yields, though the chest seems full ; strangling, so much mucus seems accumulated in the bronchia ; croupy, at night ; fat children. ► Whooping-cough, with nosebleed, bleeding from mouth, vomiting ; loses breath, turns pale or blue, and becomes rigid. ► Suffocative evening cough ; continuous cough, with sweat on forehead, shocks in the head, retching and vomiting. ► Expectoration, mornings, of a light red blood, mixed with mucus ; or of ropy mucus, often vomited up.

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.

Heart And Pulse

► Pulse : large and soft ; accelerated, but weak.

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.

Upper Limbs

► Coldness of one hand, while the other is hot.

Lower Limbs

► Sensation in the femur, as if dislocated, on sitting down. ► Cramps in the thighs at night. ► Convulsive twitchings of legs and feet. ► Itching of the calves. ► Ulcer, with black base, on the foot.

Limbs In General

► Pain in back and limbs. ► Cold hands and feet.

Position, Etc

► Walking : 2. Turning : 2. Stooping : 16. Motion : 19, 26, 31, 40. Rest : 19. Tossing about : 20. Least effort : 27, 28. Sitting : 33.

Nerves

► Body rigid, stretched out, followed by spasmodic jerking of the arms. ► Tetanic spasms from swallowing tobacco. ► Awkward, stumbles against everything. ► Convulsions : in whooping-cough ; from suppressed exanthema ; from indigestible food, etc. ► Epileptiform spasms, with shrieks ; opisthotonos ; face pale, puffed ; gastric derangements. ► Very weak, averse to all food ; nausea ; sudden prostration.

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.

Time

► Morning : 27. 11 A.M. : 40. Evening : 27. Night : 17, 33.

Temperature And Weather

► Oversensitive to heat and cold. ► Worse in winter and in dry weather. ► Worse in warm moist wind, south winds : catarrhs ; asthma. ► Out of doors : 3, 40. Air at open window : 26. Warmth : 40. Open air : 40. Room : 40.

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. Vomiting during. ► Internal chill, external heat. ► Backache, short chill, long fever ; heat usually with thirst ; headache, nausea and cough ; sweat last. ► Heat all over, with alternate coldness and paleness of face ; cold sweat on the forehead. ► Sweat : hot, sudden attacks in the room ; partial, cold ; on upper part of body ; worse by motion ; smells sour ; stains yellow ; increased out of doors ; cold, clammy ; profuse after quinine. ► Intermittent fevers after abuse of quinine ; also in beginning of irregular cases, especially if there is much nausea ; also like Natr. mur. chill, fever and sweat with frontal headache. ► Worse during heat sweat ; better after it.

Attacks

► Attacks of illness, with loathing of food. ► Every day or every other day at same hour : 17, 40. Autumn : 20.

Sides

► Right : 21, 31. Left : 18. Left to right : 19, 24. Above downward : 31.

Tissues

► Hemorrhages, bright red. ► Plethora, fat children. ► Pains as if all the bones were being torn to pieces ; with vomiting and pains in the bowels. ► Dropsy in internal parts. ► Skin and muscles lax. ► Chlorosis : menses scanty ; skin and mucous surfaces pale, anaemic.

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.

Relationship

► Ipec. is followed well : by Arsen. in cholera infantum, debility, croup, chills, etc. ; by Ant. tart. in foreign substances in larynx ; by Nux vom., Arsen. in checked cold ; by Apis in keratitis. ► Antidotes to Ipec. : Arnic., Arsen., Cinchon., Nux vom., Tabac. ► Ipec antidotes : Alum., Arnic., Arsen., Cinchon., vapors of copper, Dulcam., Ferrum, Lauroc., Opium, Tabac., Tart. em. ► Complementary : Cuprum.