IPECACUANHA


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Ipecacuanha from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Adapted to cases where the gastric symptoms predominate.

In all disease the constant and continual nausea is guiding.

nausea; profuse saliva; vomiting of white, glairy mucus; with distended abdomen; sleepy afterwards; worse from stooping.

Stomach feels relaxed, as if hanging down.

Stool: grassy green; white mucus; bloody; fermented; preceded by griping, pinching pain about the umbilicus, as from a hand, each finger seemingly pressing sharply into the intestines, aggravated by the slightest motion.

Haemorrhage: bright red, from all the orifices of the body; uterine, profuse, clotted; heavy oppressed breathing during; stitches from navel to uterus; cutting across from left to right; large accumulation of mucus in the bronchi, difficult to raise.

Intermittent dyspepsia, every day or every other day at the same hour.

Oversensitive to heat and cold.

Menses: premature, profuse, like flooding; blood bright red and readily coagulated.

Suffocating cough, whereby the child becomes quite stiff and blue in the face.

Rattling noises in the air-passages during respiration.

Dyspnoea, attended with wheezing and great anxiety about the praecordia.

Great weakness, and constant desire to lie down.

External coldness with external heat.

Chill worse in a warm room, or from external heat.

Shivering; then chilliness, with coldness without thirst.

Redness of one check and paleness of the other.

Sweat becomes profuse only after abuse of Quinine.

If intermittents have been suppressed by Quinine Ipecacuanha is all the more indicated.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.