Sulky humour, that despises everything, and he desires that others also should not esteem or care for anything.
Extreme impatience.
Ailments from vexation and reserved displeasure.
Headache as if brain and skull were bruised, which penetrates through all the bones of the head down to the root of the tongue, with nausea. Nausea: vomiting: better out of doors.
Headache as of a bruise of brain and skull, which pierces through all the cranial bones into roots of teeth; with nausea.
Gastric headaches, occurring in nervous, sensitive persons, commencing with nausea and vomiting.
Pupils more readily dilatable; dilatation of pupils.
Eye-gum in the outer canthi of the eyes.
Nose-bleed, blood bright red; face pale.
Profuse accumulation of saliva.
Nausea as from the stomach, with empty eructations, and a great flow of saliva.
Nausea and vomiting. Distressing nausea.
Averse to all food, no appetite; earthy taste; stomach feels relaxed; nausea.
Nausea; distressing; constant, with almost all complaints; with empty eructations, accumulation of much saliva; qualmishness, and efforts to vomit.
Nausea, with distension of abdomen and dryness in throat; after vomiting inclines to sleep.
Indescribably sick feeling in stomach.
Sensation as if stomach hung down relaxed. Pain most severe in front of abdomen, extending to left hypochondrium, to sides, to back, and base of chest, with swelling of stomach; great agitation; constant nausea proceeding from stomach, with empty eructations and accumulation of much saliva; easy vomiting; diarrhoea.
Pinching pain in both hypochondria, and in the region of pit of stomach.
Cutting pain about the navel with shivering.
Distressed feeling in abdomen, as though stomach were hanging down relaxed.
Griping, as from a hand, each finger sharply pressing into intestines; better during rest; much worse by motion.
Flatulent colic about navel, as though bowels were grasped by hand.
Cutting colic near umbilicus; sometimes shivering.
Tenderness and pain about umbilicus, towards uterus.
Stools frequent: of greenish mucus.
Diarrhoeic and as it were fermented stools.
Urine cloudy, with sediment like brick dust.
Dry cough from a tickle in upper part of larynx.
Cough which arises from a contractive tickling from upper part of larynx to the lowest extremities of the bronchial tubes.
Rattling in bronchi when drawing a long breath; large accumulation of mucus in bronchi, difficult to raise.
Rattling noises in air passages during respiration.
Cough causing inclination to vomit without nausea.
Suffocating cough, whereby child becomes quite stiff and blue in the face.
Dyspnoea.
Difficulty of breathing from least exertion.
Violent degree of dyspnoea, with wheezing and a great weight and anxiety about precordia.
Spasmodic asthma with great constriction in throat and chest, with which a peculiar kind of wheezing noise is heard.
Loses breath with cough, turns pale and stiffens.
The body of the child is stretched out stiffly.
Whooping cough with nose-bleed; bleeding from mouth; vomiting; loses breath, turns pale or blue, and becomes rigid.
Phlegm rattling on chest, sometimes vomited, in young children.
Haemorrhage from lungs; bright red; coming up with slight effort; (<) from least exertion; frequent hacking with expectoration of blood-stained mucus; with or without cough; after disturbed catamenia; after mechanical injuries; after former bleedings have weakened lungs; with dry cough in phthisis.
Pain in all the bones, as if bruised.
Pain in all the joints, as when limbs go to sleep.
Starts up in sleep.
Tetanic spasms from swallowing tobacco.
Fever: backache, short chill, long fever; heat usually with thirst, headache, nausea and cough.
Paroxysms suppressed by quinine.
Haemorrhages; bright red, from all the orifices of the body; after mechanical injuries.
The effects of Ipecacuanha in uterine haemorrhages, with typical Ipecac. symptoms, are so striking and so important that we will add the following cases by Dr. J. R. Haynes, U.S.A., accidentally come across in an old number of the Homoeopathic Physician.
Mrs. T., (22), light complexion, brown hair, blue eyes, rather small in stature; married; the mother of a child about two and a half years old. Had had a miscarriage about a year before, and had made a poor recovery from it. Had been treated by a regular, and thoroughly dosed.
She had been feeling well; was sitting with some light sewing in her hand, when she was taken suddenly with a severe uterine haemorrhage. She was placed on the bed, and I was sent for–to come as soon as possible.
When I arrived, she had fainted two or three times. I found her pulseless, face pale, and so much exsanguinated that she could not speak. All the information I could get was from some member of the family, and that was very little.
The haemorrhage had run through her clothing, through the bed, and a large pool had collected on the floor.
She was flowing very rapidly; a large stream was gushing from the uterus, so that there was no time to wait. Whatever was done must be done at once, or death would take place in a few minutes.
The flow was of a bright red (purely arterial), the lower limbs were bathed in a cold perspiration; hands cold and damp; abdomen felt hot yet damp with perspiration; the flow would come in large gushes, and life was ebbing out very rapidly.
The colour of the discharge was of a bright red, and it did not coagulate easily, but lay upon the floor in a liquid pool.
I considered that all the symptoms I could get pointed to Ipecac. A small dose of Ipecac. 10m was placed in a half-glass of water, and one teaspoonful was given as soon as possible.
It acted like magic, for in less than one minute there was a change for the better. It was repeated in fifteen minutes, when the active haemorrhage ceased. I waited for an hour to see if there would be any return (which there was not) so I left placebo, and they promised that if any alarming symptoms should appear, I should be notified at once. I would not even allow her wet bloody clothing to be changed but to slip some dry clothes under her, next to her skin to make her as comfortable as possible. There was a slight oozing for two days, then it entirely ceased.
She was very weak and prostrated after the tremendous flow; and was given at intervals three doses of China 10m: and she made a good getting up.
Mrs. K., (28), active, tall, slim, blue eyes. Married: one child 7 years old: no pregnancy since. Was suddenly taken with active uterine haemorrhage, bright red; it would coagulate when cold: smelt of fresh blood. Had a heavy ache in lower abdomen: abdominal skin felt hot; slight perspiration. Frequent urination, in small quantities. The flow came in gushes. She felt faint and nauseated; had throbbing headache; face pale and bloodless (? from loss of blood) a sallow look. Tongue coated white: mouth clammy: cough with sticky mucous in larynx. The flow was worse on motion, yet she was restless, and could not bear to keep quiet: thought she would never be well again, and what would become of her little girl.
Ipecac. 200 in water, one teaspoonful every hour, and as soon as flow began to cease, to throw it away, and take placebo. After the third dose the haemorrhage was so much less that she did not continue the Ipecac. By morning, there was merely a slight discharge which continued for a couple of days, then ceased entirely. No further trouble for many months:–I see her often.
Mrs. B., (24) dark: black hair and eyes: rather chubby. Married, one child two years old. Rather gloomy: goes half-way to meet trouble.
Taken suddenly ill with uterine haemorrhage, bright-red, which came away in gushes; began with a fainty nausea and some retching. Face bloodless; pulse small and quick, 120; feet cold and clammy, abdomen hot; clammy sweat on face; sickening headache –whole head; heavy ache in small of back, worse motion. Sore aching through front of chest; spasmodic spells of coughing which aggravated the haemorrhage, and brought it away in gushes. Heavy pressure lower abdomen, and, before the gush, considerable griping in uterine region. Gloomy and despondent “knew that she would bleed to death”. Best when perfectly quiet, but could not keep so. Flow worse when she moved, which would cause a gush, and make her more gloomy and restless.
Ipecac. 200 in water, a teaspoonful every hour for four doses, or as soon as the haemorrhage “seemed to get low” to throw it away, and take placebo.
At the fourth dose, active haemorrhage ceased; next day a slight discharge, which grew gradually less but did not entirely cease till the third day. No further trouble.
The doctor adds, “A large number of remedies have a bright red discharge from the uterus; but so far as I know, none of them have the peculiar characteristics of Ipecac. It seems to stand out very prominently in all its characteristics, and cannot be easily mistaken for any other remedy. One very peculiar characteristic is that the flow in active haemorrhage is the peculiar gushing, which could be compared to that of a pump when the handle is vigorously worked; the stream does not cease, but at every pulsation of the heart there is a peculiar gush, which is not credited to any other remedy, so far as I am aware. And then the blood does not easily coagulate, but remains fluid for some time, especially when active uterine haemorrhage takes place.”.
