Materia medica pura (Volume 3).

  • Hahnemann, Samuel, 1755-1843.
Date:
1846
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    Certain kinds of intermittent fever are likewise cured by- Ipecac. If the drug should not have been entirely homoeopa- thic, it generally changes the character of the fever in such a manner as will make it correspond to Arnica, and in some cases to Cinchona, Ignatia or Cocculus. Ipecac, removes certain prejudicial effects of Arsenic and Cinchona. Small doses of Ipecac, are sufficient in all these cases. I have likewise given the millionth part of a grain of Ipecacuan- ha at a dose; but in many cases the dose ought to be much smaller. In a case of violent poisoning by opium, 30, 40, 60 drops of the strong tincture of Ipecac, are required to counteract the poison ; unless coffee or camphor should answer better. Ipecac, has a very short duration ; large doses act a couple of days; small doses a few hours. FROM NOACK AND TRINKS. Ipecacuanha acts specifically upon the abdominal nerves and especially the solar plexus ; it is suitable to individuals predis- posed to spasms, nausea, vomiting, irritation of the stomach, to pregnant women,children, and hysteric and hypochondriac per- sons. Hysteric spasms, when the trunk is bent backward, with distorted muscles of the face and moaning breathing.—Chronic spasms of children, especially when accompanied with inclina- tion to vomit.—Convulsions in anasarca consequent upon pur- pura miliaria.—Nervous and serous apoplexy.—Internal hae- morrhage (haemoptoe, hsematemesis, metrorrhagia).—Cincho- na-cachenia—bruised feeling of the limbs, disagreeable creeping in all the joints, weariness, stiffness of the lower limbs, dispo- sition to become angry at every little noise, impatience, dispo- sition to scorn every thing, starting, anxious moaning.—Scar- latina miliaris.—Variola, when there is a considerable irritation of the mucous membrane of the stomach, with vomiting, (also Ars.) Ipec. is useful in fevers, characterized by sighing breath- ing, which almost always indicates the approach of a rash eruption.—Synochus, Ipecac, being related to Synochus as Aconite to Synocha.—Intermittent fever, (see Boenninghau- sen's essay on the treatment of intermittent fever, translated by Dr. Hempel.)—Relapse of intermittent fever after suppressing it by Quinine.—Rheumatic-gastric fever after a cold, delirium, painful stiffness of all the limbs, fixed pain in the abdomen burning abdomen, full pulse, palpitation of the heart, and constant desire to vomit.—Mucoso-gastric fevers.—Nervous