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Ipecacuanha

30C / 200CIpecac
Ipecac Root · Cephaelis Ipecacuanha · "The Persistent Nausea Remedy"
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Source
🎯 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 itspersistent 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
Third to 200th
Centesimal
🕒As directed
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 →Convolvulus Arvensis →Euphorbia Hypericifolia →Emetinum →Blatta Orientalis →Chamomilla →Squilla Maritima →Antimonium Tartaricum →
📚 Sources & References

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