A syrup made from the dried rhizomes of two different species, CEPHAELIS ipecacuanha and C. acuminata. They contain EMETINE, cephaeline, psychotrine and other ISOQUINOLINES. Ipecac syrup is used widely as an emetic acting both locally on the gastric mucosa and centrally on the chemoreceptor trigger zone.
    

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Discomfort is often quickly relieved, mucous secretion checked and cough reduced by use of Derfule.

Evans' Purgoids : a gentle and effective laxative, cathartic and cholagogue.

A small child attempts to ask a pharmacist for some ipecacuanha, but only succeeds in babbling excrementally. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.

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Evans' Purgoids : a gentle and effective laxative, cathartic and cholagogue.

Studies, chiefly clinical, in the non-emetic use of ipecacuanha : with a contribution to the therapeusis of cholera / by Alfred A. Woodhull.

Studies, chiefly clinical, in the non-emetic use of ipecacuanha : with a contribution to the therapeusis of cholera / by Alfred A. Woodhull.

A small child attempts to ask a pharmacist for some ipecacuanha, but only succeeds in babbling excrementally. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.

Recherches chimiques et physiologiques sur l'ipécacuanha / par MM. Magendie et Pelletier.