Ipecacuanha Adapted to cases where the gastric symptoms predominate ( Antim crud., Pulsatilla ); tongue clean or slightly coated.
In all diseases with constant and continual nausea.
Nausea: with profuse saliva; vomiting of white, glairy mucus in large quantities, without relief; sleepy afterwards; worse from stooping; the primary effects of tobacco; of pregnancy.
Stomach: feels relaxed, as if hanging down ( Ignatia, Staphysagria ); clutching, squeezing, griping, as from a hand, each finger sharply pressing into intestines; worse from motion.
Flatulent, cutting colic about umbilicus.
Stool: grassy-green; of white mucus ( Colchicum ); bloody; fermented, foamy, slimy, like frothy molasses.
Autumnal dysentery; cold nights, after hot days ( Colchicum, Mercurius ).
Asiatic cholera, first symptoms, where nausea and vomiting predominate ( Colchicum ).
Haemorrhage: active or passive, bright-red from all the orifices of the body ([Erig.], Millefolium ); uterine, profuse, clotted; heavy, oppressed breathing during; stitches from navel to uterus.
Cutting pains across abdomen from left to right ( Lachesis, – from right to left, Lycopodium ).
Cough: dry spasmodic, constricted, asthmatic.
Difficult breathing from least exercise; violent dyspnoea, with wheezing and anxiety about the stomach.
Whooping-cough: child loses breath, turns pale, stiff and blue; strangling, with gagging and vomiting of mucus; bleeding from nose or mouth ([Ind.]).
Cough, with rattling of mucus in bronchi when inspiring ( Ant. t. ); threatened suffocation from mucus.
Pains as if bones were all torn to pieces (as if broken, [Eup.]).
Intermittent fever: in beginning of irregular cases; with nausea, or from gastric disturbance; after abuse of, or suppression from quinine.
Intermittent dyspepsia, every other day at same hour; fever, with persistent nausea.
Oversensitive to heat and cold.
Ipecacuanha Relations. – Complementary: Cuprum.
Is followed well: by, [Arsenicum in] influenza, chills, croup, debility, cholera infantum; by Antim tart., in foreign bodies in larynx.
Similar: to, Pulsatilla, Antim crud., in gastric troubles.
Aggravation. – Winter and dry weather; warm, moist, south winds ( Euphrasia ); slightest motion.
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