IPECACUANHA

Source indications

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Persistent nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Indigestion from rich food
  • Catching cold in warm, moist weather
  • Bright-red and profuse hemorrhages
  • Irritability
  • Contemptuousness
  • Feeling of crushed skull bones
  • Pain extending from head to teeth and root of tongue
  • Inflamed, red eyes
  • Pain through eyeballs
  • Profuse lachrymation
  • Dim cornea
  • Eye strain from near vision
  • Changing vision
  • Nausea from looking at moving objects
  • Blue rings around eyes
  • Periodical orbital neuralgia
  • Photophobia
  • Smarting eyelids
  • Coryza with stoppage of nose
  • Epistaxis
  • Clean tongue
  • Moist mouth with much saliva
  • Pale, twitching face
  • Vomiting food, bile, blood, mucus
  • Relaxed stomach
  • Hiccough
  • Amebic dysentery with tenesmus
  • Pain during straining that causes nausea
  • Cutting, clutching abdominal pain, worse around the navel
  • Rigid body
  • Stools pitch-like, green as grass, like frothy molasses
  • Griping at navel
  • Dysenteric, slimy stools
  • Profuse, bright, gushing uterine hemorrhage with nausea
  • Vomiting during pregnancy
  • Pain from navel to uterus
  • Early and profuse menses
  • Dyspnea
  • Constant constriction in chest
  • Asthma
  • Yearly attacks of difficult shortness of breathing
  • Continued sneezing
  • Coryza
  • Wheezing cough
  • Incessant and violent cough with every breath
  • Chest feels full of phlegm, but does not yield to coughing
  • Bubbling rales
  • Suffocative cough
  • Child becomes stiff and blue in the face
  • Whooping-cough with nosebleed and bleeding from mouth
  • Bleeding from lungs with nausea
  • Feeling of constriction
  • Rattling cough
  • Croup
  • Hemoptysis from slightest exertion
  • Hoarseness, especially at end of a cold
  • Complete aphonia
  • Intermittent fever, irregular cases, after Quinine
  • Slightest chill with much heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnea
  • Relapses from improper diet
  • Sleep with eyes half open
  • Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep
  • Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other
  • Pale, lax skin
  • Blue around eyes
  • Miliary rash