Ipecacuanha

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

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Keynotes

breath accompany most complaints. Infantile convulsions. .................... Cries, screams and is hard to please. Downward crushing in head, to root of tongue. Migraine. Occipital pain, < vomiting, during chill, etc. Gushes of tears. Conjunctivitis. Cold (r), ear. Nosebleed. Sneezing. Face pale; blue about eyes or lips; white linea nasalis. Clean or red, pointed tongue. NO THIRST. Sudden faintness. HORRID NAUSEA; not > vomiting. Vomiting; bilious; < stooping. Repugnance to food. Miserable sinking or hanging loose feeling at stomach. Griping, clawing or cutting at navel; toward uterus. Brown, grass or yellow-green, molasses-like or bloody stools. Balls of mucus in stools. Dysentery. Urging to urinate; bloody urine. Cutting in uterus (l to r). Uterine hæmorrhage; gasps with each gush of blood. Painless hoarseness. Larynx and chest tight, < least motion. Spasm of vocal cords. Gasps for breath. Asthma. Paroxysms of retching, incessant or SUFFOCATIVE cough; with every breath; stiffens out, turns red or blue and finally is nauseated, gags or vomits; < stepping into open air; > warmth and repose. Pertussis. LOOSE (coarse) RATTLE IN CHEST, WITHOUT EXPECTORATION. Broncho-pneumonia. Hæmoptysis. Pains from kidneys into thighs. Short chill; alternates with heat or with external heat (Ap.). One hand cold, other hot. Long heat; without thirst. Hands and feet drip cold sweat. Suppressed or mixed intermittents; nausea in all stages. Catarrhal or gastric fevers.

Worse

WARMTH; damp. Room. Overeating: Ices. Pork. Veal. Mixed or rich foods. Periodically. Quinine. Heat and cold. Recessions.

Better

Open air. Profuse secretions. Foamy discharges, stool, etc. CONTINUOUS NAUSEA, gastric disturbances, BRIGHT RED, GUSHING HÆMORRHAGE (rapidly clotting), or shortness of

Region

MUCOUS MEMBRANES: DIGESTIVE. Stomach. RESPIRATORY. Lungs. Nerves: Pneumo-gastric. Spinal. Cutaneous. Umbilicus.

Relationships

Complementary: Ars. Cup. Related: Ant-t. Lob.

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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
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.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Ipecacuanha — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/ipecacuanha. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.