Hussain Kaisrani            HOMEOPATHIC Consultancy

IPECACUANHA (Ip.)  – اپی کاک اپیکاک

VOMITING AND NAUSEA

MENTAL

Capricious, contemptuous, critical.

Restless in bed.

Ailments after anger, from suppressed anger.

PHYSICAL

COMPLAINTS ASSOCIATED WITH NAUSEA AND VOMITING.

Nausea with profuse saliva. Nausea during fever, gastric disturbances, abdominal pain.

Suffocative, choking cough <19:00. Vomiting while coughing. Bluish discoloration of face during cough. Sneezing before cough.

Child becomes stiff and blue in face. Stiffness of facial muscles during cough.

HAEMORRHAGE FROM ALL ORIFICES OF THE BODY THAT IS COMING IN GUSHES AND IS ACCOMPANIED BY NAUSEA.

Sensation that the stomach is relaxed, is hanging down.

Pain in umbilicus extending to uterus.

MODALITIES

AGG.: veal, vomiting, fruit, pork, rich foods, cold dry weather, becoming cold.

AMEL.: wet weather, open air.

DES.: delicacies, sweets.

AVERS.: smell of food.

IPECACUANHA (Ip.) – Acute (Hussain Kaisrani)

Nausea and vomiting accompany all complaints.

Gastrointestinal problems, headaches, cough, haemorrhages, asthma.

GASTROINTESTINAL: special affinity to gastrointestinal system.  Severe nausea and vomiting. Deathly nausea which is not ameliorated by vomiting. 

Vomiting on coughing, during headaches, during colics, after stooping.  

Nausea during fever, during labor, during haemorrhage aggravated by motion Clean tongue despite the nausea. Convulsions from indigestion.

CHEST: pressing pain in diaphragm. Congestion, cyanosis of chest. Anxiety in heart improved by expectoration.

RESPIRATORY: pneumonia, bronchitis with rattling respiration (esp. infants). Oppression of chest in pneumonia. Asthmatic, accelerated respiration. Asthmatic cough. Wheezing and rattling. Difficult expectoration. Haemoptysis.  Paroxysmal, suffocative, choking cough.

FACE: one side red and hot, the other pale and cold. Cyanotic, blue face with asthma or cough. Stiffness of face during cough.

ABDOMEN: pain in umbilicus extending to uterus. Pain in umbilical region during labor.

APPEARANCE: pale face. The tongue is very clean considering the constant nausea.

HAEMORRHAGES: haemorrhage with nausea. Haemorrhage where the blood comes in gushes. Metrorrhagia with bright red gushing haemorrhage and nausea.

MODALITIES:

Aggravation: warm room, evening esp.19:00, motion, smell of food.

Amelioration: cold drinks, expectoration, open air.