- Source: Derived from the dried root of Carapichea ipecacuanha (formerly Cephaelis ipecacuanha), a plant in the Rubiaceae family, native to South America, prepared for homeopathic use through maceration, serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity., and succussionVigorous shaking of homeopathic dilutionThe process of vigorously shaking a liquid homeopathic solution against a firm surface during dilution to potentize it. to eliminate toxicity and enhance therapeutic action.
- Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for respiratory, digestive,.
- Gynecological, psychological, and systemic disorders, particularly those involving nausea,.
- Vomiting, and spasmodic cough.
- It is noted for symptoms such as persistent nausea, violent coughing, hemorrhagic tendencies, and irritability, often aggravated by warmth, motion, or eating,.
- And ameliorated by rest, open air, or cold drinks.
- Modern Context: Indicated for respiratory conditions (e.g., asthma🩺 AsthmaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., whooping cough), digestive conditions (e.g., nausea, vomiting, gastritis🩺 GastritisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), gynecological conditions (e.g., menorrhagia🩺 MenorrhagiaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., morning sickness), psychological conditions (e.g., irritability, anxiety), and systemic conditions (e.g., fever,.
- Hemorrhagic diathesis).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by persistent nausea, spasmodic cough , heavy bleeding , or emotional irritability , typically exacerbated by warmth, motion, or eating, and often seen in individuals with acute respiratory infections,.
- Gastrointestinal disorders, or stress-related irritability.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a sensitive, chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets. constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like retching or bloody discharge alongside psychological symptoms like impatience or anxiety, commonly observed in patients with pertussis, hyperemesis gravidarum, or generalized anxiety disorder triggered by physical or emotional stressors.
- COMMENTS-The stomach disgust of the remedy is depicted on the countenance, which expresses nausea.
- Sickly, disgusted appearance.
- The corners of the mouth are drawn down.
- Blue🌿 BlueMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. rings around the eyes.
- Deathly nausea (Tab.🌿 Tab.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Constant nausea, not ameliorated by vomiting.
- Can vomit blood.
- Salivation and vomiting of white🌿 WhiteMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., stringy mucus.
- Vomiting can lead to shudders with a chill, severe spasms, convulsions.
- Can be sleepy after vomiting.
- Desire for fresh a ir, thirstless while nau seas (Puls.🌿 Puls.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).Any condition with concomi tant nausea and vomiting after pregnancy.
- Sensation as if the stomach is hanging down (Sep.🌿 Sep.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Corresponding mental state, “moroseness and contempt for everything,” “disdainful humor.” Irritability in adults, crying and screaminginchildren.
- Restless and exhausted (Ars.🌿 Ars.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Disgust.
- Sensitiveness (Chin.🌿 Chin.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.), over sensitive to heat and cold.
- Better by touch.
- Exhaustion and an achy, bruised feeling.
- Sore pain in the shoulder blades.
- Bone p ains in the head and elsewhere.
- Pains as if bones were all tom to pieces.
- Keynote cutting pains in the left side of the abdomen over to the right.
- Peripheral neuritisInflammation of a nerveInflammation of one or more nerves, causing pain, tenderness, numbness, or tingling in the affected area..
- Generally a left sided remedy.
- Intermittent headaches.
- Migraine🩺 MigraineClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. headaches.
- Bruised feeling, severe prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness..
- Headache “as if bruised, all through the bones of the head and down into the root of the tongue.” Pain extending to roots of teeth.
- Headache with nausea.
- Gastric headache, originating in the stomach, nausea precedes the headache an d persists throughout.
- Desire to lie perfectly still.
- Meningitis🩺 MeningitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. with vomiting and a high fever.
- Tetanus🩺 TetanusClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., lockjaw with severe spasms and retching.
- Marked periodic action.
- Intermittent fevers (Eup-per.🌿 Per.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Characteristic nausea through all the stages can be completely mixed up, short chill, followed by long fever.
- Can have a pain in the upper back between the shoulder blades with fever (Gel has a chill).
- Violent dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions. with wheezing and great weight and anxiety about the précordia.
- Threatened suffocation from accumulation of mucus.
- Loss of breath, pale, stiff and blue.🌿 Blue.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Strangling with gagging and vomiting of mucus, bleeding from nose or mouth.
- Coughing up mucus, gagging.
- Must stand by the window to get oxygen.
- Worse damp weather and changes in weather.
- Pneumonia🩺 PneumoniaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and bronchitisInflammation of the bronchial tubesInflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes, typically causing bronchospasm and coughing. with severe shortness of breath with rattling mucus (Ant-t.).
- For bronchitis in infants with coarse rattling in the chest.
- Concomitant respiratory and gastric symptoms.
- For emphysema🩺 EmphysemaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. in theelderly.
- Suffocative respiration (Spong.), but wet.
- AsthmaChronic respiratory disease causing difficulty breathingA condition characterized by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing, typically from an allergic reaction or hypersensitivity. with a breathless feeling, nausea and vomiting, with thick, yellow🌿 YellowMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. mucus (Lob.🌿 Lob.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Ars., Ant-t., Ant-c.).
- Dry, spasmodic, constricted, asthmatic cough.
- Whooping cough.
- Characteristic spasmodic rigidity in whooping cough.
- Sub-acute inflammation of the cornea with intense pain.
- Pustular conjunctivitis🩺 ConjunctivitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., espe cially in children.
- Inflammation with tearing pain and gushing of tears.
- PhotophobiaExtreme sensitivity to lightAn abnormal intolerance to light, causing eye discomfort, squinting, or pain in bright environments..
- Violent neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves. of eyeballs, shooting in the head with gushes of tears, nausea, etc.
- HemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse. with bright, red blood (Phos.🌿 Phos.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Gushing blood, with sinking feeling and nausea (Ferr is weak and flushed with gushing).
- Nosebleeds with a sensation of nausea and sinking, or nosebleeds from coughing and sneezing attacks.
- Uterine hemorrhage.
- Threatened mi scarriage, with a sharp pain around the umbilicus, running downward to the uterus.
- Miscarriage due to spasmodic vomiting.
- Spotting blood before contractions.
- Hemorrhage after childbirth with bright red blood, nausea, disgust and weakness.
- Metrorrhagia after confinement with a low pulse, nausea.
- Steady flow of bright red blood, which may soak through the bed to the floor or may run over the foot of the bed.
- Constant nausea and discharge of blood before the proper period.
- Menstrual cramps with nausea and vomiting, must lie still in bed.
- Copious menses.
- Bloody diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. associated with nausea and vomiting.
- Constant urge to stool, tenesmusPainful urge to empty bladder or bowelsA distressing, constant, and ineffectual urge to evacuate the bowels or bladder, accompanied by pain..
- Stools can be bloody, burning, offensive, watery.
- Severe colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. that is as sociated with dysenteryIntestinal infection with severe bloody diarrheaInfection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrhea with the presence of blood and mucus in the feces..
- Suppressed skin eruptio ns that go to the stomach and bowels and cause severe colic.
- Stomach symptoms worse from ice cream, pork, and rich, fatty foods (Puls.).
- Bad taste in the mouth.
- The thought, smell or idea of food causes patient to gag and choke.
- AnorexiaLoss of appetiteA medical term for lack or loss of appetite for food..
- Heroin withdrawal symptoms.
- J. R. Haynes used Ip as an antidoteNeutralizing substance or remedyA remedy or substance that stops, counteracts, or neutralizes the action of a previously taken remedy. to the opium🌿 OpiumMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. and morphine addiction.
- He gave five drops of Ip tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. for every grain of morphine, or its equivalent in heroin or opium, which the patient has been accustomed to take.
- Jahr recommended that in all cases of intermittents in which no other remedy is particularly indicated Ip should be given.
- It will either cure the case or bring out more indications for another remedy.
- Clarke frequently found this advice useful.
- As most intermittents have been treated with quinine, it is thought the antidotal properties of Ip may have good effects.
- Allen noted that Ip dilutions have helped granulations of the eyelids.
- Cooper cured an immense uterine fibroid with persistent painful irritation of the skin.
- Ther e was constant retching and vomiting, made worse by eating.
- Vaginal irritation with thick leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection. and a feeling of desperation.
- Dr. Nancy T. Williams cured several cases of gallstone colic on the symptom “external chilliness with internal heat,” with Ip. 6c.
- The relief was prompt and lasting.
- Dr. Edwin Muskett noted its specific use for malignant pustule and anthrax, used locally and internally.
- Hahnemann considered it a short-acting medicine.
- Temperature-Chill alternating with heat.🌿 Heat.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Short chill with long heat.
- Internal chill, with external heat.
- Chill and much heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnea.
- Chill with nausea, vomiting, great lassitude, weari ness, oppression of the chest.
- Chills, up and down back.
- Coldness of upper part of body.
- Anxious dry heat in evening🌿 EveningMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Heat with or without thirst.
- Fever with nausea and vomiting.
- CatarrhalRelating to membrane inflammation and mucusRelating to catarrh, which is inflammation of mucous membranes with increased watery discharge. or gastric fevers.
- Intermittent fever, irregularcases after quinine.
- Infantile remittent fever.
- Suppressed of mixed intermittents, nausea in all stages.
- Relapses with improper diet.
- Cramps with nausea and vomiting.
- Flatulent colic with frequent loose stools.
- Colic of children with diarrhea, restlessness, screaming and tossing about Cold drinks or ice cream causes colic.
- Abdominal colic after sour or unripe fruit, beer, etc.
- Clawing pains as from a hand clawing intestines.
- Cutting pain worse around the navel.
- Inguinal hernia🩺 Inguinal HerniaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Griping, drawing or cutting pain about the navel.
- Pinching pain.
- Sharp pain from navel to uterus.
- Diaphragm, as if pressed between two stones.
- General loss of appetite as from weakness of stomach.
- Great disgust and loathing of any sort offood.
- No appetite, earthy taste, stomach feels relaxed, nausea from smell of food.
- Violent hunger when nausea is over.
- Thirstlessness.
- No thirst during chill, but much thirst all through fever.
- Stomach disordered by rich food, pork, pastry, fruits, candy, ice cream.
- Food poisoning.
- Desires or adverse to sweets and dainty things.
- Worse cold drinks, black🌿 BlackMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. coffee, sour beer, smoking tobacco.
- Worse from fats, ice cream, pastry, pork, unripe fruit, salads.
- Cold drinks or ice-cream causes colic.
- Cold water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. worsens spasmodic cough
