A tincture is made of the dried root of Caphaelis Ipecacuanha, A. Richard.
General Action
Its most marked effects are observed on the gastro-intestinal and respiratory tracts; it produces nausea and vomiting (one of its most constant effects), considerable increase of the secretions, especially in the upper portion of the intestinal canal, and also dysenteric symptoms. It greatly increases bronchial secretion, causes pulmonary engorgement, and even hepatization; it also produces emphysema. Its cough is frequently spasmodic. It produces, in some cases, violent neuralgia of the eyes and head. with intense congestion of the conjunctiva, lachrymation, etc.
Allies.- Pulsatilla, Ferrum, Eupat-perf., Mag-c., Cact., Nux-v., Phosphorus
Generalities
Awkward and knocking against everything. Swaying to and fro of body to either side as in drunkenness, in evening when walking in open air, with stupefaction of head. Opisthotonos; symptoms of O. and emprosthotonos. Body of the child stretched out stiff; then spasmodic contraction of arm. (Sticking here and there, caused by motion, ending in burning). Throbbing pain in head and pit of stomach after coughing. Anxiety in blood in morning on waking, as if he had been in great heat or had perspired profusely or were awakened by anxious dreams, with heaviness of head as if brain were compressed. Sensitiveness to cold and warmth. Restlessness. Weakness; and indolence, depression of spirits and shivering. Stiffness.
Mind
Cries and screams constantly (a child), sticks its fists into its mouth, face pale, body rather cool. Whining, must be carried. Impatient. Ill humor; scorning everything and desirous that others shall not value anything; because his business does not proceed fast enough; and no desire to talk, inclined to weep; and quiet, retired in himself, scorning everything; and sinking of courage. Exasperated at slightest noise. Angry; often at trifles and again just as easily can be quieted. Scrupulous, fearful, thinks trifles are very important. Longing, but he knows not for what. Pleased with nothing. Averse to everything. Disinclination to work; to literary work, ideas fail him. Slow flow of ideas.
Head
Sticking, with heaviness; paroxysmal S., then pressure. Tearing in morning after rising, (>) afternoon. Aching; tensive. Bruised feeling in brain and skull, piercing through skull into root of tongue, with nausea. Drawing here and there. Feeling as if H. and forehead were compressed. Heaviness; with sleepiness. Confusion. Fulness, (<) cerebrum. Vertigo; on walking; only on walking, (<) turning around, with disappearance of thought.
Forehead.- Sticking on touch; S. above eye on stooping, with swollen sensation. Tearing, (<) stooping; (<) touch. Boring. Pain, with heaviness of eyes; P. extending to vertex; pressing outward P. in l. side, (<) moving head; burning P., (<) touch.
Pressing-out, almost boring pain alternately in temples and in a spot over orbits, (>) pressure and closing eyes. Pain under l. temple as if it would burst. (Constriction in l. temple and above orbit). Pain externally on parietal bone as from a thrust with a dull point. Sticking in vertex. Feeling as of a band across the top of H. from ear to ear, with headache, (<) moving, and throbbing pain behind l., then r. ear. Pain in occiput and nape from moving head; tensive P. in O. and nape, extending to shoulders.
Clinical Neuralgic headache. Bursting headaches or bruised feeling in the head, with symptoms of indigestion. The most characteristic indication in the head is the bruised or crushed feeling extending into the root of the tongue, with nausea and vomiting.
Eyes
Inflammation. Tearing, (<) r., extending towards temple, on opening r. lids, which were swollen, copious gush of tears, conjunctiva of bulb infiltrated, tunica vaginalis swollen, cornea dim as if infiltrated, small depression, iris congested and dull- looking, pupils contracted, reacting but little in the light, vision lost, after pounding Ip. again these symptoms appeared in l. eye, with nausea. Raging pain, (<) r., waking at 3 A.M., with much lachrymation and loss of vision. Biting and pressing pain, (<) r., (<) light, which blinded him, conjunctiva red and chemosed, lachrymation, vision lost, with l. eye he saw fiery rings with rainbow colors. Tensive pain waking at night, with lachrymation and loss of vision. Uneasiness, with congestion of palpebral and ocular conjunctiva. Scalding lachrymation. Pupils dilated. Pain in balls as if forced out of their orbits, with foggy vision. Conjunctivae injected. Hardened mucus in external canthi. Lids, (<) r., swollen. Dryness of lids, with sleepiness.
Clinical Granulations of the lids are reported cured by the instillation of the dilutions. Subacute inflammation of the cornea, with intense pain and great photophobia. Extremely valuable in pustular conjunctivitis, especially in children. Inflammation of the eyes, with tearing pain and gushes of tears. Violent neuralgia of the eyeballs, shooting into the head, with gushes of tears, nausea, etc.
Ears
Pain extending from concha into drum, then to occipital protuberance. Dull hearing with r., and pressure in it.
Nose
Mucous membrane of N., mouth and throat irritated, dyspnoea, nostrils impervious to air, I had to sit erect and gasp for breath, yellow water ran from nostrils, soon changing to bloody serum, mouth and throat inflamed and discharging thick mucus, then free vomiting, with some relief, but for three weeks cough and tenderness of chest. Titillation in nostrils. Dryness, and in frontal sinuses. Catarrh; with drawing pain in all limbs; feeling of dry C., as if nostrils were too dry. Sneezing; with thin mucus; violent; violent, paroxysmal, with cough and expectoration. Bleeding.
Clinical Catarrh or acute coryza, with frequent haemorrhages from the nose, associated with bronchial catarrh, loss of smell, etc.
Face
Pale, sunken; P. and puffed: P., with blue rings around eyes and weakness. Red. Yellow. Anxious and livid. Biting on lips; on margins of lips and on tip and sides of tongue, with watery salivation and colic. Excoriated sensation in corners of lips when touched and on moving lips.
Mouth
Paroxysmal pain as if teeth would be torn out; P. as if hollow tooth would be torn out on biting anything, then constant tearing. Biting on margin of tongue. Burning of tongue and upper lip. Sensation on back of tongue and on palate as from chewing liver-wort or Artemisia dracunculus, which increases saliva. Burning extending down throat and bronchia, with dyspnoea. Dryness, (<) at top of oesophagus, with rawness. Sensitiveness. Salivation; and obliged to swallow constantly; with nausea; thin; saliva runs from mouth on lying down. Taste flat; to beer; nauseous T. to customary tobacco-smoke, causing vomiting; T. in throat as from rancid oil, on swallowing.
Throat
Sensation as if he had drunk melted lead, and in stomach, causing rolling about the floor, (>) vomiting induced by drinking warm water, then asthma. Stitches transversely through T. into inner ear; S. in oesophagus. Soreness; of pharynx, mucous membrane of velum and pharynx injected, with many haemorrhagic points. Spasmodic contractive sensation, and in chest. Dryness; causing inclination to cough; of fauces, with constriction of glottis; pain in oesophagus as if dry, raw and sore, transiently (>) swallowing saliva or drink; dry, burning sensation, almost suffocation. Swallowing painful, as from swelling at top of oesophagus; S. difficult, as from paralysis of tongue and oesophagus.
Stomach
Loss of thirst. Eructations; with rumbling in abdomen; empty. Nausea; with empty eructations and salivation (Cuprum, Pulsatilla); distressing; with convulsive but ineffectual retching; (with hiccough) after customary tobacco-smoking, (>) several stools, the last of which was pasty; (with heaviness in abdomen); intermittent. Empty retching. Vomiting; on stooping, with feeling as if he would fall; frequent; of everything swallowed (Eupt. perf.); of food (Ferrum, Nux-v.); of food on stooping; of yellow, green and black mucus. Rumbling. Sticking in pit. Griping. Feeling as if it hang down relaxed (Sepia), and appetite lost. Sensation of emptiness and laxity (Sepia). Warmth; agreeable, with rumbling in intestines.
Clinical The gastric symptoms generally are indicated by persistent nausea and aversion to all food; this nausea accompanies the various haemorrhages which call for Ipecac. The vomiting is generally free, consisting largely of mucus, sometimes of blood. The nausea and vomiting are more frequently the result of nervous irritability than of inflammation of the stomach, so that the drug has often relieved the distressing symptoms of pregnancy; the nausea is a marked indication for the drug in malarial fevers, etc. Gastric catarrh from injudicious eating or drinking, with white-coated tongue, or sometimes with perfectly clean tongue. Obstinate vomiting of blood (Ferrum, Phosphorus), extremities cold, countenance hippocratic, pulse feeble, the ejecta sometimes black, tar-like.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.