Ipecac (Rubiaceae)
- Adapted to cases where the gastric symptoms predominate (Ant. c., Puls.); 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 (Ign., Staph.); 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 (Colch.); bloody; fermented, foamy, slimy, like frothy molasses.
- Autumnal dysentery; cold nights, after hot days (Colch., Merc.).
- Asiatic cholera, first symptoms, where nausea and vomiting predominate (Colch.).
- Haemorrhage: active or passive, bright-red from all the orifices of the body (Erig., Mill.); uterine, profuse, clotted; heavy, oppressed breathing during; stitches from navel to uterus.
- Cutting pains across abdomen from left to right (Lach., - from right to left, Lyc.).
- 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 (Indigo).
- 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.
Relations
- Complementary: Cuprum.
- Is followed well: by, Ars. in influenza, chills, croup, debility, cholera infantum; by Ant. t., in foreign bodies in larynx.
- Similar: to, Puls., Ant. c., in gastric troubles.
Aggravation
- Winter and dry weather; warm, moist, south winds (Euph.); slightest motion.
