Ipecacuanha: Anhang

[Prabir Kumar]

Accompanied by: Irritability, restlessness, impatience, ill-humour. Cannot endure the least noise. Pale face with blue margins around the eyes. Convulsive twitches in the muscles of the face and lips.

Red skin around the mouth. Constant look of nausea. The corners of the mouth are drawn down. Full of desires, then know not for what. Coldness of one hand, while the other is hot. Sleeps with the eyes

half open, moans and groans. Starts frequently in his sleep. Great weakness and aversion to all food; nausea, with almost all complaints. Twitching in the limbs. Perspiration smelling sour with turbid urine. Skin cool, oppressed breathing. No relief obtained by vomiting, the desire still remaining, cold perspiration.

Causes: Rich mixed food as pastry. pork. fruits. sweets. ice- cream. Cakes. buck-wheat. coffee; warm food; over loading stomach; tobacco; dietetic indiscretion; fast-food; meats; vexation; veal;

indigestible food; ice-cold things; raisins.

Type: Catarrhal

Desires: Delicacies; indistinct, knows not what; sweets.

Aversion: (smell of) food.

Taste: Insipid and clammy, or bitter taste (morning)/sweetish “As from blood in the mouth”/bloody/earthy/fatty, greasy/insipid/nauseous/lost

Appetite: wanting/capricious, hunger but knows not for what or refuses things when offered. Desire only for delicacies and things sweetened with sugar.

Great repugnance and dislike to all food.

Extreme thirst (during heat and perspiration). Thirstless (during heat).

Tongue: Pale; white; yellow; clean. "Pale in all cases". Allen. "Tongue usually clean." Boericke.

Nausea: Constant/persistent/”As if proceeding from the stomach”/with empty eructations and accumulation of much saliva/and retching from smoking tobacco/with violent itching of the

Skin/with copious salivation. Constant nausea and vomiting, with pale, twitching of the face. Deathly nausea. Nausea during cough/after eating (fats)/from smell of food/from rich food. Nausea after fruits/during headache/during labour/from lying on side/before and during menses/with suppressed menses/on motion/during pain/after pork/during pregnancy/after smoking, before stool and during stool/on stooping/from sweets. Constant nausea with clean tongue. Nausea, vomiting, thirst; sweat, bad offensive breath; pale face; < stooping.

Excessive nausea and inclination to vomit. Nausea after meals/from cold food. Severe retching and vomiting, with constant nausea, pale face and blue circles around eyes. Distressing nausea and inclination to vomit with almost all complaints. Nausea with haemorrhages from orifices of the body. Violent and long- continued nausea, with vomiting, of large quantities of tenacious white, glairy mucus. Constant but unavailing desire to vomit. Immediately after vomiting there is instead of relief, a desire to vomit again, no amelioration by vomiting.

Vomit: Vomiting of food/of mucus/followed by sleepiness and exhaustion/of sour matter/with pain in stomach/of liquids/of water, then of food/with offensive breath/a substance like pitch. Vomiting of large quantities of tenacious, white, glairy mucus/acrid/of yellow mucus/of ingesta; bile/bilious; green; jelly-like mucus; blood; black; pitch-like substance/gelatinous matter/and hot hands/green matter. Frequent/violent; Vomits with weakness. After vomiting inclined to sleep. Stooping causes vomiting/immediately after eating; after drinking/large lumps of fetid mucus; of green, jelly-like mucus; of grass-green mucus; of large quantities of mucus.

"In the stomach the constant nausea is the prominent symptom. This nauseated state may be due to a disordered stomach from injudicious eating or from too great a mixture associated with a white-coated or clean tongue, but it is especially the result of nervous irritability or the accompaniment of the various troubles for which the remedy is useful, particularly haemorrhage from various organs of the body. There is aversion to all food and persistent nausea which is not relieved even when they are able to vomit. There is a good deal of salivation and the vomited matter consists largely of mucus and sometimes of blood; (blood is black or tar-like.) Empty vomiting. Vomiting of undigested food. Nausea does not cease after vomiting. Water brash.

Eructations: Periodical; on stooping; empty; tasting of food.

Stomach and Abdomen: The stomach disorder may be occasioned by rich food-pork, pastry, fruits, candy, ice-cream. A feeling as if the stomach were hanging down relaxed. Sick feeling in stomach.

Loathing of food. No thirst. Desires dainties and sweet things. Nausea. Vomiting. Flatulent colic. Griping, pinching about umbilicus, as though the intestines were grasped with hands, aggravated by motion, ameliorated by rest. Sensation of emptiness and relaxation of the stomach. Want of appetite, the stomach feels relaxed. Copious salivation.

Stool: Green mucus, as green as grass, greenish watery, fermented bilious, dark, almost black, looking like frothy molasses. Diarrhoea with nausea and colic, stools green as grass. Stools smelling putrid.

Urine: Turbid urine with brick-dust sediment. Scanty urine, dark red.

<: From vomiting/suppression of cutaneous eruptions/eating veal/abuse of quinine. In winter and dry weather. In warm moist wind. Cold drinks or ice-cream (colic).

From rich food, pork, fat pastry. Ices, lemon-peel, raisins, salads. By eating. From motion. Lying down. Autumn. Unripe fruit or vegetable. Sour, food, anger, vexation;

>: rest/pressure/closing eyes;

Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum