Ipecacuanha

The word IPECACUANHA means "road-side sick-making plant"

Small perennial shrub found in moist, shady woods in South and Central America.
The roots of the plant have long been used medicinally.


NAUSEA and VOMITING in PREGNANCY with lots of saliva, clean tongue, pallid face.

COLIC: aching, crampling, griping; worse for movement; nausea.

Nausea NOT ameliorated by vomiting.

Deathly paleness or drawn bluish face with dark-ringed eyes.

Chilly externally, hot inside.

First remedy to think of for VIOLENT and PERSISTENT NAUSEA.

Nausea accompanies virtually all of its complaints (i.e. headache, diarrhoea, labour pains, whooping cough).

GASTRIC FLU with chills, pains in bones, nausea and constant salivation.

NO THIRST.

Worse for eating, movement, and the smell of food.

COUGH: wheezing, choking, rattling, vomiting, whooping; with nausea and a clean tongue. See page on "Coughs".

Breathing is difficult and fast.

BRONCHIOLITIS with vomiting and great accumulation of mucus in chest.
Seek medical help!
Use with Bacillinum and Nat Sulph.

Use in 6c or 30c potency every 2 hours for 6 doses.


© Liz Bevan-Jones, updated March 2009