IPECACUANHA
Ipecac-root
(IPECA)
The chief motion is on the ramifications of the pneumogastric nerve, producing spasmodic infection in chest and stomach. Morphia habit. The primary function of Ipecacuanha is its power nausea and vomiting, which structure the chief guiding symptoms. Indicated after indigestible food, raisins, cakes, etc. Especially indicated in fats teenagers and adults, who are feeble and capture bloodless in enjoyable atmosphere; warm, moist weather. Spasmodic affections. Haemorrhages bright-red and profuse.
Mind.–Irritable; holds the whole thing in contempt. Full of desires, for what they comprehend not.
Head.–Bones of skull experience beaten or bruised. Pain extends to tooth and root of tongue.
Eyes.–Inflamed, red. Pain thru eyeballs. Profuse lachrymation. Cornea dim. Eyes tire from close to vision. State of imaginative and prescient continuously changing. Spasm of lodging from irritable weak spot of the ciliary muscle. Nausea from searching on shifting objects.
Face.–Blue rings round eyes. Periodical orbital neuralgia, with lachrymation, photophobia, and smarting eyelids.
Nose.–Coryza, with stoppage of nostril and nausea. Epistaxis.
Stomach.–Tongue generally clean. Mouth, moist; plenty saliva. Constant nausea and vomiting, with pale, twitching of face. Vomits food, bile, blood, mucus. Stomach feels relaxed, as if placing down. Hiccough.
Abdomen.–Amebic dysentery with tenesmus; whilst straining ache so gorgeous that it nauseates; little thirst. Cutting, clutching; worse, round the navel. Body rigid; stretched out stiff.
Stools.–Pitch-like inexperienced as grass, like frothy molasses, with griping at navel. Dysenteric, slimy.
Female.–Uterine haemorrhage, profuse, bright, gushing, with nausea. Vomiting throughout pregnancy. Pain from navel to uterus. Menses too early and too profuse.
Respiratory.–Dyspnoea; consistent constriction in chest. Asthma. Yearly assaults of hard shortness of breathing. Continued sneezing; coryza; wheezing cough. Cough incessant and violent, with each and every breath. Chest looks full of phlegm, however does now not yield to coughing. Bubbling rales. Suffocative cough; baby will become stiff, and blue in the face. Whooping-cough, with nosebleed, and from mouth. Bleeding from lungs, with nausea; feeling of constriction; rattling cough. Croup. Haemoptysis from slightest exertion (Millef). Hoarseness, in particular at give up of a cold. Complete aphonia.
Fever.–Intermittent fever, irregular cases, after Quinine. Slightest kick back with lots heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnoea. Relapses from wrong diet.
Sleep.–With eyes 1/2 open. Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep (Ign).
Extremities.–Body stretched stiff, observed through spasmodic jerking of fingers toward every other.
Skin.–Pale, lax. Blue round eyes. Miliary rash.
Modalities.–Worse, periodically; from veal, moist heat wind, mendacity down.
Relationship.–Compare: Emetine-principal alkaloid of Ipecac (A effective amebicide, however is now not a bactericide. Specific for amaebiasis; of incredible cost in remedy of amaebic dysentery; additionally as a treatment in pyorrhea, half of gr day by day for three days, then less. Emetin, half gr hypodermically, in Psoriasis. Emetin hydroch. 2x, diarrhoea with colicky, belly pains and nausea. Emetin for endamoebic dysentery. In physiological doses should be cautiously watched. May produce hepatization of lungs, speedy coronary heart action, tendency for the head to fall ahead and lobar pneumonia. In haematemesis and different haemorrhages, compare: Gelatin which has a marked impact on the coagulability of the blood. Hypodermically; or if via mouth, a 10 per cent jelly, about 4 oz, three instances a day) Arsenic; Cham; Puls; Tart em; Squill. Convolvulus (colic and diarrhoea). Typha latifolia-Cat-tail flag (dysentery, diarrhoea) and summer time complaint. Euphorbia hypericifolia–Garden Spurge–(Very comparable to Ipecac. Irritation of the respiratory and gastro-intestinal tracts and girl organs). Lippia mexicana–(Persistent dry, hard, bronchial cough–asthma and persistent bronchitis).
In Asthma, compare: Blatta orientalis.
Antidotes: Arsenic; China; Tabac.
Complementary: Cuprum; Arn.
Dose.–Third to two hundredth potency.
