Ipecacuanha



Generalities

Pain, as from a bruise, in all the bones. Tingling in the joints, as when numbed. Fits of uneasiness, with dislike to all food, and excessive and sudden debility. Nausea, with almost all ailments. Bleeding from different organs, haemorrhages from all the orifices of the body (bright red.) Too great sensibility to cold and to hat. Tetanus, spasms and convulsions of different kinds, sometimes with bending backwards of the head, and distortion of the features, or with loss of consciousness, face pale and bloated, eyes half closed, convulsive movements of the muscles of the face, lips, eyelids, and limbs, at times with cries, inclination to vomit, and rattling of mucus in the chest. In morning, on awaking, anxious agitation of the blood, as if he had been subjected to a great heat, or had profuse perspiration, or had awakened out of an anxious dream, though the skin was neither hot nor moist, at same time a heaviness in had as if brain were compressed. Dropsy of internal parts. Chlorosis, menses scanty, skin and mucous surfaces pale, anaemic. Excessive emaciation.

Skin

Miliary eruptions, violent itching in the skin (of the thighs and of the arms). During the nausea the patient is forced to scratch himself, until relieved by vomiting. Rash (in lying-in women), suppressed rash.

Sleep

Sleeplessness Sleep, with the eyes half open. Agitated sleep, with groans During sleep, starting of the limbs. Frightful dreams, with frequent starts and terror during sleep.

Fever

Pulse very frequent, but at times scarcely perceptible. Shuddering, with coldness in the limbs and in the face. Chill of short duration and soon changing to heat. Coldness, especially in the hands and feet, with cold and copious perspiration on those parts. External chilliness with internal heat. Aggravation of the shivering from external heat. Internal chilliness, as if under the skin. Worse from heat. Before the shiverings, uneasiness, stretching, and lassitude, with cold sweat on the forehead, or coldness, or shivering, in the ears. Sudden heat in a room, with sweat and vertigo. Thirst during the shivering or coldness. Fever, manifesting itself by much shivering, with little heat, or by much heat with little shivering, or with nausea, vomiting, and other gastric symptoms, tongue clean or loaded and constrictive oppression of the chest. Fever in the evening, with great nocturnal sweat. After a short chill dry heat, with parchment- like skin. During the heat no thirst. Perspiration smelling sour (with turbid urine). Intermittent fever, nausea and vomiting predominate, slight chills are followed by much heat, with no subsequent perspiration, consequent upon the abuse of quinine, slight chilliness without thirst, afterwards violent heat, with thirst, nausea and vomiting, dyspnoea, stitches in the chest, finally copious perspiration. Damp coldness of the hands and feet.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica