Ipecacuanha
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Ipecacuanha
Ipecac. Rubiacccc.
Adapted to cases where the gastric symptoms predominate (Ant. c.. Puls.) ; tongue clean or slightly coated.
In all diseases with constant and continual nausea.
Nausea: with profuse saliva; vomiting of white, glairy mucus in large quantities, without relief; sleepy afterwards; worse from stooping; the primary effects of tobacco; of pregnancy.
Stomach: feels relaxed, as if hanging down (Ign., Staph.) ; clutching, squeezing, griping, as from a hand, each finger sharply pressing into intestines; worse from motion.
Flatulent, cutting colic about umbilicus.
Stool: grassy-green ; of white mucus (Colch.) ;
bloody; fermented, foamy, slimy; like frothy molasses.
Autumnal dysentery; cold nights, after hot days (Colch., Merc.).
Asiatic cholera, first symptoms, where nausea and vomiting predominate (Colch.).
Haemorrhage : active or passive, bright-red from all the orifices of the body (Erig., Mill.) ; uterine, profuse, clotted; heavy, oppressed breathing during; stitches from navel to uterus.
Cutting pains across abdomen from left to right (Each. — from right to left, Lyc. ).
Cough; dry, spasmodic, constricted, asthmatic.
Difficult breathing from least exercise; violent dyspnoea, with wheezing and anxiety about the stomach.
Whooping-cough ; child loses breath, turns pale, stiff and blue; strangling, with gagging and vomiting of mucus; bleeding from nose or mouth (Indigo).
Cough, with rattling of mucus in bronchi when inspiring (Ant.t.) ; threatened suffocation from mucus.
Pains as if bones were all torn to pieces (as if broken, Eup. ).
Intermittent fever: in beginning of irregular cases;
with nausea, or from gastric disturbance ; after abuse of, or suppression from quinine.
Intermittent dyspepsia, every other day at same hour; fever, with persistent nausea.
Oversensitive to heat and cold.
Is followed well : by, Ars. in influenza, chills, croup, debility, cholera infantum; by Ant. t. in foreign bodies in larynx.
Similar: to. Puls., Ant. c., in gastric troubles.
Aggravation. — Winter and dry weather; warm, moist, south winds (Euph.) ; slightest motion.
What the other books say about Ipecacuanha
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Ipecacuanha in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Ipecacuanha in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Ipecacuanha in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Ipecacuanha in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Ipecacuanha — Keynotes, pp. 146–148. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/ipecacuanha. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.