IPECACUANHA.
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► *Pinching pain
in both hypochondria and in the region of the pit of the stomach
(after three hours), [1]. ► Violent stitches in the left
hypochondrium (after half an hour), [1].
► Umbilical and Sides. ► Cutting pain about the umbilicus, with shivering,
[1]. ►
Cutting pain about the umbilicus, as if menstruation would appear, with
chilliness and coldness of the body, while internally heat mounts into
the head (after two hours), [1]. ► Cutting pain in the side of the abdomen,
in the umbilical region, aggravated by touch and external pressure,
accompanied by white frothy saliva in the mouth and dilated pupils
(after one-eighth of an hour), [1].
► (Sticking pains in the abdomen, and
burning and sticking in the rectum with urging to stool), [1]. ► General
Abdomen. [160.] ► Abdomen distended, with constant pain, [17]. ►
Distension of the abdomen (4 grains; quarter of an hour after 2 grains),
[16]. ►
Feeling of extreme distension and enlargement of the abdomen, [1]. ►
Uneasiness in the abdomen (after half an hour), [1]. ► Griping
in the abdomen (after quarter of an hour), [16]. ► *Clawing
griping in the abdomen, as if grasped by a hand so that each
outstretched finger pressed sharply upon the intestines, relieved by
rest, extremely aggravated by the slightest motion, [1]. ►
Pinching pain and distension in the abdomen (after 1 grain), [16]. ►
Pinching colic (after half an hour), [17].
► Colic (quarter of an hour after 2
grains), [16]. ► Colic with rumbling in the intestines
(after 8 grains), [16]. [170.] ►
Flatulent colic, [1]. ► Hypogastrium. ►
On coughing, pain in the abdomen as if obliged to urinate and the urine
could not pass, as in retention of urine, [1].
ANUS.
►
Sticking, cutting, burning pain on the margin of the anus, as in
obstinate hæmorrhoids (after three-quarters of an hour), [1]. ► Violent
stitches in the anus, [1]. ► Crawling in the anus, as if threadworms
could extrude, [3].
STOOL.
►
*Stools like diarrhœa, as if fermented (after one hour), [1]. ►
Purging, [13]. ► Frequent thin stools, with a weak
sensation in the abdomen, [3]. ►► *Stools frequent, of greenish mucus,
[28]. ►
Soft stool (after two hours), [17].
[The second the same morning, contrary to his habit.] [180.] ►
(Thin stool, with burning-sticking pain in the rectum and anus), [1]. ►
(Stools lemon-yellow), [1]. ► (Porraceous stools), [1]. ►
(Grass-green stools), [11]. ► Offensive stools, [1]. ► *Bloody
stools, [15]. [This and
S. 192, 213, represent the following: She coughed up at times some small
quantities of blood, and had also some mixed with her stools and urine.
-Hughes.] ► Fecal discharge covered
with red bloody mucus, [1].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urethra. ► (A purulent
fluid flowed from the urethra of a child for several days, with biting
pain), [1]. ► Micturition. ►
Inclination to urinate, although urine had been passed an hour and a
half before, and nothing had been eaten or drunk since, [17]. ►
Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty discharge (after two hours, and
two hours and a quarter), [2]. [190.] ►
(Frequent micturition of straw-yellow urine, with great burning and
urging before the discharge, without subsequent tenesmus), (after two
hours), [4]. ► Urine. ►
*Urine red, scanty, [1]. [Compare
S. 171. -Hahnemann.] ► Bloody urine, [15]. [See note to S. 185. -Hughes.] ► Urine became bloody (after seven or eight
days), [18]. ►
[Urine turbid with a brickdust sediment], [11].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Voluptuous itching
on the glans penis, while standing, which obliges scratching (after
three hours and a half), [2]. ► Twisting-drawing pain in the testicles
(after eight or ten hours), [1]. ► Sticking in the testicles, when resting
one thigh over the other (after two hours), [2]. ► Female.
► Pressing and dragging towards the
uterus and anus, [1]. ► A show of the menses fourteen days before
their time, [15]. [Original
revised by Hughes.] [200.] ► The bloody discharge at the close of
menstruation was suppressed, [1].
[From the secondary or antagonistic reaction of the system: *For the primary action of Ipecac causes bloody
discharges from all the orifices of the body, and especially brings on
menstruation; hence it homœopathically cures such conditions
as these when the other symptoms of the patient correspond to those of
Ipecac. Compare S. 154, 198, etc. -Hahnemann.]
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx. ►►
*Rattling noises in the air-passages during respiration, [1]. ►
Dryness, burning, and scraping in the larynx (after 8 grains), [16]. ►
Cough and Expectoration. ►
*Cough caused by a constrictive tickling sensation extending from the
upper portion of the larynx to the lowest extremity of the bronchi
(after four, six, and seven hours), [1].
►► *Cough causing inclination to
vomit without nausea (after one hour), [1]. ► Cough
incessant after walking in the cold air and after lying down in the
morning and evening, caused by deep inspiration; accompanied by pain in
the abdomen as if the umbilicus would be torn out, heat in the face
(head) and sweat on the forehead, [1].
► Violent and convulsive cough, [29]. ►
Extremely violent convulsive cough between 6 and 7 P.M., [9]. ►►
Suffocating cough, whereby the child becomes quite stiff and blue in the
face (after ten hours), [1].
► *Suffocative racking, very exhausting
cough, lasting an hour, towards evening, [9]. [210.] ► Suffocative, extremely exhausting cough,
lasting half an hour, with coldness of the extremities, about 7 P.M., [9]. ►
*Dry cough caused by tickling in the upper part of the larynx
(after two, three, and five hours), [1].
► Cough with expectoration of thick
disagreeable, metallic-tasting mucus, [15].
[As the asthmatic paroxysms of S. 236 passed off. -Hughes.] ► *Cough, with expectoration of blood, [8], [13],
[15]. [See note to S. 185.
-Hughes.] ► Throbbing pain in the
head and pit of the stomach, after coughing, [1]. ► When
expectoration became free, and mucus was formed in great quantities by
the mucous membrane of the bronchia, in the morning, after resting
through the night from the cough, expectoration would commence freely on
stirring about a little, and mouthfuls would be thrown up, which any
person at first sight would have pronounced to be a mass of small,
nearly transparent worms; on close examination I discovered it to be
thickened mucus which had collected in the small ramifications of the
bronchial tubes during sleep, and was actually discharged so as to be real casts of those tubes; this would
sometimes be thrown up in such quantities, in the morning, that it
really surprised me that sufficient air could have passed through the
lungs for the purposes of life while sleeping, [25d]. ►
Respiration. ► Instead of
the ordinary wheezing, the muscles of respiration seemed tetanically
convulsed, producing a condition not unlike what is denominated
“holding the breath,” with slight sighs or catches at
intervals barely sufficient to keep the wheels of life from ceasing
altogether (in two instances); on the first occasion relief was obtained
by swallowing two drachms of Eth. sulph.;
on the other, where the interrupted breathing had continued fearfully
long, and where swallowing was impossible, inhaling the fumes of burning
paper previously saturated with Nitras. potass.
alleviated the symptoms almost instantaneously, [22c]. ► In
about the usual time for an emetic to operate, there seemed to be a
simultaneous effort to breathe, cough, and vomit, while neither of these
functions was performed in any degree of perfection, producing a state
of suffering indescribable by words; the whole muscles of the chest and
abdomen seemed in a state of violent irregular spasm, every effort to
vomit being interrupted by an attempt to cough; and notwithstanding a
cold March wind was blowing, it became necessary to open the windows and
support me in an erect position for nearly an hour to prevent immediate
suffocation; at the end of about an hour, without any previous
mitigation of symptoms, I was almost instantaneously and completely
relieved; on the appearance of the eruption, [22a]. ►
Sudden attack of troublesome shortness of breath with a wheezing noise, [15]. [Original revised by Hughes.] ► Attack of suffocation, lasting two to
three days, [15]. [220.] ►
Most violent attack of suffocative constriction in the air-passages and
pharynx, face deathly pale, with most frightful anxiety for want of air,
[19]. ►
*Cough impedes respiration, even to suffocation, [1]. ►►
*Dyspnœa, [1], [13]. ►
Dyspnœa, or suffocating sensation of stricture of the chest, and a most
distressing oppression at the præcordia, [21].
► Dyspnœa for several hours, [1]. ►
Dyspnœa in the evening, [1]. ► Dyspnœa renewed after twenty-four hours,
from 10 P.M. till 10 A.M., for eight days, [15]. ►
*Immediately seized with most urgent dyspnœa, with a sense of
constriction across the chest, accompanied with violent and convulsive
cough, which, together with the sneezing, continued for some
time, until at length his countenance became anxious and livid, [20]. ►
*Dyspnœa comes on in a violent degree, attended with wheezing and great weight and anxiety
about the præcordia (in a few seconds); the attack generally
remains about an hour, but I obtain no relief until a copious
expectoration takes place, which is invariably the case, [26]. ► A severe
paroxysm of asthma, continuing several days (after eight or
ten hours), [22b]. [230.] ►
*Severe and convulsive paroxysm of asthma; the danger of
suffocation seemed imminent in the extreme (after ten or fifteen
minutes), [21]. ► The paroxysms usually came on suddenly,
preceded by tickling in the nostrils and sneezing and continued from
three days to three weeks, during which I was unable to remain in a
recumbent position, [22]. ► Suddenly seized with a violent attack of
asthma, attended with the most distressing dyspnœa and oppression at
the præcordia; bleeding and active cathartics relieved the attack in
five or six days, [25]. ► *Spasmodic asthma, with great constriction in
the throat and chest, with which a
peculiar kind of wheezing noise is heard, [15]. [In two women, caused by the dust of the
powder in a distant room, the distress continued fourteen days.
-Hahnemann.]
CHEST.
►
Peculiar uneasiness in the chest, which caused me to withdraw; this
becoming somewhat less, I returned to the operation, but before I had
emptied all of the article out of the paper, the sensation in the lungs
grew so distressing that I was alarmed; great difficulty of breathing
with a sense of suffocation; a dry, hacking cough, [24]. ►
Contractive sensation beneath the short ribs, [1]. ►
*Constriction of the chest, with shortness of breath and wheezing
respiration; she was obliged to open the window and gasp for air, with
paleness of the face, scarcely perceptible pulse, and apparent danger of
suffocation, from evening till 9 A.M., [15]. [Original revised by Hughes.] ► (Griping (jerking-tearing?) pains in the
right chest, beneath the shoulder, of short duration), [1]. ►
Pressure in the chest (a quarter of an hour after two grains), [16]. ►
Oppression of the chest, [19].
[240.] ►
*Oppression of the chest in the forenoon, with shortness of breath, as
if he were in a great dust, and could not breathe on account of it,
[1]. ►
Oppression of the chest after eating, [1].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
[Indescribable aching about the heart (pit of the stomach?)], [11]. ►
Palpitation, [1]. ► Palpitation, almost without anxiety, [1]. ►
Quick pulse, [24]. ► Pulse rapid, [20].
BACK.
►
(Pinching pain between the scapulæ on motion), [1].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Creaking and cracking in the joints, [1]. ►
Sleepiness and heaviness in all the limbs (after two hours), [3]. [250.]
► Pains in the joints, as if usual when
the limb goes to sleep (after three hours), [1]. ► Drawing
pain in the bones of the upper arm and thigh in the evening after lying
down (after five hours), [1]. ► Pressive and spasmodic pain in the hollow
of the right knee and in the left arm, aggravated by touch (after four
grains), [16]. ► Pain, as if bruised in all the bones
(after three hours), [1]. ► When she wishes to sleep, she feels
shocks through all the limbs, [1].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Sudden spasmodic contractions of the
arms, [1]. ►
Pinching pains in the right arm (after three hours), [1].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Twitching of the lower limbs, [28]. ►
Weariness of the lower extremities (after four grains), [16]. ►
Pinching pain in the left hip, extending from the crest of the ilium to
the great trochanter (after four grains), [16].
[260.] ►
Weariness of the thighs and lower limbs (after eight and nine hours), [1]. ►
Pains shooting, as it were, from the right kidney down the thigh of the
same side to the knee-joint, like cramp (after seven or eight days), [18]. ►
Pain in the knee, as if the tendons and ligaments were wearied by a long
walk, [1]. ►
Pain in the left knee, as if sprained, especially when walking; seldom
and unnoticed while sitting (after one hour), [4]. ► Some
stitches in the right tibia (after four grains), [16]. ►
Twitching and crawling in the muscles of the calf, as if a limb were
asleep, [1]. ►
The feet feel weary, [17]. ► Pinching pain in the right foot (after
four hours), [1].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. ► A swaying to
and fro of the body to either side, as in drunkenness, with stupefaction
of the head, while walking in the open air in the evening (after ten
hours), [2]. ►
Stiffness of the body, [28]. [270.] ►►
*The body of the child is stretched out stiff, [1]. ► *The whole
body is outstretched, stiff, whereupon a spasmodic contraction of the
arm follows (after a quarter of an hour), [1]. ►
Opisthotonos, [28]. ► Symptoms of emprosthotonos and
opisthotonos (after ten hours), [1].
► He is awkward, clumsy, and knocks
against everything, [1]. ► Very weak, indolent, depressed, and
chilly (after half an hour), [17].
► *Extreme weakness (after one
hour), [22a]. ► Exhaustion, [15]. ►
Extreme restlessness; it continued three days, [23]. ►
Subjective. ► Excessive
sensitiveness to cold and warmth, [1].
[280.] ►
Anxiety in the blood in the morning on waking, as if he had been in
great heat, or had perspired profusely, or were awakened by anxious
dreams, though he was neither hot nor sweaty, together with heaviness in
the head, as if the brain were compressed, [1]. ► On
waking, a peculiar sensation of lightness, with good appetite (after one
hour and a quarter), [17]. ► (Sticking pains here and there in the
body, caused by motion, ending in burning), [1].
SKIN.
►
Objective. ► Very numerous
small papulæ and vesicles, seated on a deep-red base of irregular
extent (after about thirty-six hours, or sooner); they become flattened
in a short period, and assume the pustular character; many of them run
together, are confluent, the part feels hot to the hand of another, and
a tingling sensation, never amounting to pain, is experienced by the
patient; the eruption endures pretty vividly for a few (three) days,
during which the pustules become covered with a scablike scale and fall
off, leaving no mark; they never ulcerate, [23]. ►
Burning heat over the whole surface of the body, which was found to
proceed from a kind of erysipelatous eruption, covering every portion,
similar to what is seen after exposing the naked skin to the burning
sun; the patches were circular, and varied from the size of a six pence
to that of the palm of the hand, considerably elevated, with thick
rounded edges, and of a fiery color (after one hour), [22a]. ► [Lips
covered with eruption externally], [1].
► [Lips covered with aphthæ and
scabs], [11]. ► (Nettlerash on the forehead, extending
into the hair and down on the cheeks), [1].
► (Tetterlike eruption on the wrist
and about the arms, which itches most in the evening and after lying
down, after scratching, red pimples appear on the skin, though the
itching does not cease), [1]. ► Subjective. ►
Feeling of formication on the calf (after four grains), [16].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness. [290.] ► Yawning and stretching after eating, [1]. ►
Frequent yawning (after a quarter of an hour), [16]. ►
Sleepiness, [1]. ► Sleepiness (after one grain), [16]. ►
Sleepiness, weariness (after two hours), [4].
► Sleep, immediately, [1]. ► Sleep,
with half-opened eyes (after six hours), [1].
► Sleeplessness. ► Uneasy sleep, [15]. ► Sleep
full of restlessness and sobbing, [1].
► Sleep interrupted by frequent
waking and frightful dreams (after ten hours), [1]. [300.] ► He starts up in sleep, [1]. ► Sobbing
fearfulness during sleep, [1]. ► Dreams. ►
Vivid unremembered dreams, with frequent waking, as from wakefulness, at
night, [2].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► He became
cold over the body, [1]. ► He has no warmth at all in his body, [1]. ►
Chilliness, [17]. ► Chilliness; he is unable to endure the
slightest cold, [1]. ► *Chilliness, followed by heat, and afterwards
perspiration, coming on after the pain in the eye had lasted
for some time, [27]. ► Frequent chilliness, [17]. ►
Constant chilliness beneath the skin, and more when sitting in a warm
place, [1]. [310.] ►
Chilly, feverish, and thirsty (after seven or eight days), [18]. ►
Chilly the whole night in bed; was unable to sleep on account of
chilliness, [1]. ► *External coldness with internal heat,
[1]. ►
Shivering, with yawning (after half an hour), [1]. ►
Shivering, with eructations, [1]. ► *Febrile paroxysm, first shivering, then
chilliness, with coldness, without thirst, about 4 P.M.
(after five hours), [1]. ► Shivering coldness in the limbs,
immediately, as if one were startled by something, [3]. ► Hands
cold and moist, [17]. ► One hand is cold, [1]. ► The
hands and feet are icy cold, and wet with cold sweat, with redness of
one cheek and paleness of the other; he feels extremely sick and weak in
mind and body, with dilated pupils (after ten hours), [1]. [320.] ► Heat. ►
Heat of the whole body in the evening, [1].
► Sudden general heat about 4 P.M.,
with perspiration on the arms and back (after sixteen hours), [1]. ►
A violently increasing, almost burning heat (sensation of heat) in the
head and over the whole body, though with cold hands and feet; as the
heat increases to its greatest severity, some perspiration breaks out on
the trunk and head, with biting-itching, especially on the neck (after
one hour), [3]. ► External without internal heat (after
several hours), [1]. ► Feeling of warmth, extending from the
abdomen up into the chest, and at times accompanied by sticking (after
eight grains), [16]. ► (Heat and redness of the face, without
thirst), [1]. ► Feeling of heat in the cheeks, even
perceptible externally, though without redness (after three hours), [4]. ►
Sensation of heat in the afternoon and evening, almost burning, in the
head, on the forehead and cheeks, without thirst (after six hours), [4]. ►
Would not be covered or bear much warmth, [28].
► Sweat. ►
[Sweat], [7]. [330.] ►
Sweat on the night after beginning to take the drug, [6]. [Original revised by Hughes.] ► |Profuse, sour sweat, with turbid urine],
[11]. ►
[Perspiration, lasting several hours], [10].
► Perspiration about midnight (after
twelve hours), [1]. ► [Sour-smelling perspiration], [11].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), After rising from bed, tearing
headache; on waking, anxiety in blood. ►
(Afternoon), Between 6 and 7
o’clock, convulsive cough; towards evening, suffocative cough; about 7
o’clock, suffocative cough; about 4 o’clock, general heat. ► (Evening),
Dyspnœa; heat of body. ► (Night), From 10 P.M. till 10 A.M., dyspnœa;
from evening till 9 A.M., constriction of chest, etc., in bed, chilly. ► (Walking in cold
air), Cough. ► (Coughing), Pain in abdomen. ► (After eating),
Oppression of chest. ► (After lying down), In morning and evening,
cough, etc. ► (Motion), Griping in
abdomen; pain between scapulæ. ►
(Pressure), Colic in umbilical
region. ► (Stooping),
Headache in forehead; stitches above eye; vomiting, eye. ► (Touch),
Pain in forehead; pain in umbilical region; pain in hollow of knee, etc.
► (Walking),
Vertigo; especially on turning around, reeling vertigo; pain in knee. ► (Sitting in warm
place), Chilliness. ►
Amelioration. ► (Closing eyes), Pain in temples, etc. ► (Pressure),
Pain in temples, etc. ► (Rest), Griping in abdomen. ► (Sitting),
Pain in knee.
SUPPLEMENT: IPECACUANHA.
Authorities.
29,
T. W. Sheriff, M.D., Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. xlii, 1852, p.
391, feeling unwell, I took a scruple in a wineglass of water; 30, E. W. Berridge, U. S. Med. Invest. vol.
iv, 1876, p. 574, S. Morrison triturated 30th dec.►
After working nearly two hours,
uneasiness in right eye (which was nearest the drug), and found on
inspection, that the palpebral and ocular conjunctiva were congested.
There was also considerable sneezing. Went on with the work for another
hour, then ceased for two hours, from 6 to 10 P.M.; but just before
doing so noticed the left eye becoming affected. On resuming the work,
the eyes got worse, and within an hour more were as follows: Conjunctiva
highly inflamed, causing a painless feeling of obstruction, with nasal
catarrh, but no lachrymation or impaired sight. Next morning the
congestion had increased, still without pain; the catarrhal symptoms had
disappeared. This congestion lasted three days. In thirty days the
palpebræ commenced to swell, scalding lachrymation came on, and the
appearance of the eyes became worse. Aconite lotion removed this, [30]. ►
In five minutes the mucous membrane of my nose, mouth, and throat became
violently irritated. Urgent dyspnœa came on, my nostrils were
impervious to air, and I had to sit erect and actually gasp for breath.
Yellow-colored water began to run from my nostrils, which soon changed
to bloody serum; my mouth and throat appeared much inflamed, and
discharged much thick slime and mucus. In an hour I vomited freely with
some relief, but for three weeks I had severe cough and great tenderness
in my chest, [29].® 2000
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