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Ipecacuanha

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Ipecac Root · Cephaelis Ipecacuanha · "The Persistent Nausea Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily on the pneumogastric nerve to produce spasmodic irritation in the chest and stomach, characterized by persistent nausea and vomiting.

📖 Boericke writes:

(IPECA)

The chief action is on the ramifications of the pneumogastric nerve, producing spasmodic irritation in chest and stomach. Morphia habit. The principal feature of Ipecacuanha is its persistent nausea and vomiting, which form the chief guiding symptoms. Indicated after indigestible food, raisins, cakes, etc. Especially indicated in fat children and adults, who are feeble and catch cold in relaxing atmosphere; warm, moist weather. Spasmodic affections. Haemorrhages bright-red and profuse.

👤 Constitution

•Often indicated for fat children and adults who are physically feeble and prone to catching colds in relaxing, warm, or moist atmospheres.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Tongue usually clean.

stomach

Cutting, clutching; worse, around the navel.

abdomen

Pitch-like green as grass, like frothy molasses, with griping at navel.

stools

Uterine haemorrhage, profuse, bright, gushing, with nausea.

female

Pain from navel to uterus.

female

Dyspnoea; constant constriction in chest.

respiratory

Cough incessant and violent, with every breath.

respiratory

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Used for irritability and vague, unsatisfied desires.

Irritable; holds everything in contempt.

Full of desires, for what they know not.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Third to 200th

Centesimal

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🤝 Complementary

Cuprum Metallicum →Arnica Montana →

🚫 Antidotes

China Officinalis →Arsenicum Album →Tabacum →

⏭️ Similar

Lippia Mexicana

🔄 Compare With

Tartaricum Acidum →Pulsatilla Pratensis →Arsenicum Album →Blatta Orientalis →Euphorbia Hypericifolia →Chamomilla →Squilla Maritima →Antimonium Tartaricum →Convolvulus ArvensisEmetinum

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Ipecacuanha is listed in 333 rubrics across 22 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 141 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Respiratory System70 Abdomen50 Stomach50 Fever49 Female Sexual System24 Generalities11 Modalities10 Nose10 Eyes9 Head9 Nervous System8 Face7 Mind6 Skin5 Locomotor System4 Urinary System3 Tongue2 Circulatory System2 Male Sexual System1 Teeth1 Taste1 Mouth1

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