Source : Vegetable Kingdom
Common Name : Ipecac root
Family : Rubiaceae
Prover : Dr. Hahnemann
Miasm : Psora
Temperament : Irritable
Diathesis : Haemorrhagic diathesis
Thermal : Chilly patient
ACCORDING TO HAHNEMANN IPECAC IS A SHORT ACTING MEDICINE
CONSTITUTION
● Best suited to stout person of lax fibre
● Fair people(women and children)
● Person who have history of epitaxis & other form of blood loss
Guiding Symptoms + keynotes
● All complaints are accompanied with constant nausea and persistent vomiting, nausea is not better by vomiting
● Discharges are adhesive , sticky , stringy , yellow , tough , lumpy or thick
● Pain can be covered with a point of finger spotty pain
● Tendency for active or passive haemorrhages - bright red from all orifices with nausea
● Migraine or gastric headache with intense nausea and vomiting
● Tongue clean , moist . Saliva increased
● Nausea from looking at moving objects or at food
● Craving for sweets , dainties . Aversion and disgust to all food
● Indulgence in beer and malt liquors
● Vomiting during pregnancy . Gastroenteritis ; food posioning
● Stomach feels relaxed , as if hanging down . Pain- clutching , squeezing , griping as from a hand , each finger sharply pressing into the abdomen , around the naval
● Stool green , grass - like , frothy molasses
● Amoebic dysentery with tenesmus . While straining , there is so much pain that it nauseates . Little thirst
● Autumnal dysentery and first stages of Asiatic cholera where nausea and vomiting predominate
● Whooping cough with epistaxis and bleeding from the mouth
● Dyspnoea with constant constriction of the chest
● Violent cough , chest feels full of phlegm which does not yield to coughing . Rattling of mucous in bronchi during inspiration
● Menses too early , too profuse , haemorrhagic - active or passive , bright red
● Rheumatism alternates with gastric symptoms or dysentery
● Ulcers deep , perforating , round , punched with overhanging edges or thick crusts
ALIMENTS FROM : Undigestible food, Cakes, anger, injuries, suppressed eruption
MIND
● Delusion, he is unfortunate
● Haughty irritable
● Anxiety during fever
● Aliments from anger, mortification, ● vaxation and indigestion
● Holds everything in contempt and desires that others should also do the same
● Intolerance to noise
MODALITIES:-
Aggravation: Winter and dry weather, warm, moist, south wind, slightest motion
Amelioration : Open air, rest, pressure, cold drinks, closing eyes.
METHOD OF MEMORIZING
I - Intermittents, with gastric complaints in each stage
P - Post-quinial, with chill coming of the nest at night
E - "Endless Nausea," which nothing will serve to assuage
C - Cholera Infantum with tongue coated white
A - After food that is crude and hard to digest
C - Comes Diarrhea frothy, with Colie, as if
U - Umbilical region strong claws did invest
H - Has Pertusses, is pale, but with cough, blue and stiff
A - And Headaches and Spasms 't will aid it is said
N - Next Hemorrhage with panting, and color bright red
A - And when phlegm fills the Lungs, often exhibited
BY :- AKSHAY KEWAT
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