Dear Guillermo,
Hope this helps. On the other hand if the case is of IBS then Robinia 3x
over long periods (months) is required. Also the exact remedy(s) will have
to be decided after individualisation.
Regards.
Sarvadaman Oberoi
New Delhi, India
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EXTRACT from: BOERICKE W., Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica (br1)
IPECACUANHA
Ipecac-root
(IPECA)
The chief action is on the ramifications of the pneumogastric nerve,
producing spasmodic irritation in chest and stomach. Morphia habit. The
principal feature of Ipecacuanha is its persistent nausea and vomiting,
which form the chief guiding symptoms. Indicated after indigestible food,
raisins, cakes, etc. Especially indicated in fat children and adults, who
are feeble and catch cold in relaxing atmosphere; warm, moist weather.
Spasmodic affections. H?orrhages bright-red and profuse.
Mind.--Irritable; holds everything in contempt. Full of desires, for what
they know not.
Head.--Bones of skull feel crushed or bruised. Pain extends to teeth and
root of tongue.
Eyes.--Inflamed, red. Pain through eyeballs. Profuse lachrymation. Cornea
dim. Eyes tire from near vision. State of vision constantly changing. Spasm
of accommodation from irritable weakness of the ciliary muscle. Nausea from
looking on moving objects.
Face.--Blue rings around eyes. Periodical orbital neuralgia, with
lachrymation, photophobia, and smarting eyelids.
Nose.--Coryza, with stoppage of nose and nausea. Epistaxis.
Stomach.--Tongue usually clean. Mouth, moist; much saliva. Constant nausea
and vomiting, with pale, twitching of face. Vomits food, bile, blood, mucus.
Stomach feels relaxed, as if hanging down. Hiccough.
Abdomen.--*Amoebic dysentery* with tenesmus; while straining pain so great
that it nauseates; little thirst. Cutting, clutching; worse, around the
navel. Body rigid; stretched out stiff.
Stools.--Pitch-like green as grass, like frothy molasses, with griping at
navel. Dysenteric, slimy.
Female.--Uterine h?orrhage, profuse, bright, gushing, with nausea. Vomiting
during pregnancy. Pain from navel to uterus. Menses too early and too
profuse.
Respiratory.--Dyspnaea; constant constriction in chest. Asthma. Yearly
attacks of difficult shortness of breathing. Continued sneezing; coryza;
wheezing cough. Cough incessant and violent, with every breath. Chest seems
full of phlegm, but does not yield to coughing. Bubbling rales. Suffocative
cough; child becomes stiff, and blue in the face. Whooping-cough, with
nosebleed, and from mouth. Bleeding from lungs, with nausea; feeling of
constriction; rattling cough. Croup. H?optysis from slightest exertion
(Millef). Hoarseness, especially at end of a cold. Complete aphonia.
Fever.--Intermittent fever, irregular cases, after Quinine. Slightest chill
with much heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspn?. Relapses from improper diet.
Sleep.--With eyes half open. Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep (Ign).
Extremities.--Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms
towards each other.
Skin.--Pale, lax. Blue around eyes. Miliary rash.
Modalities.--Worse, periodically; from veal, moist warm wind, lying down.
Relationship.--Compare: *Emetine*-principal alkaloid of Ipecac (A powerful *
amoebicide*, but is not a bactericide. Specific for *amoebiasis*; of
remarkable value in treatment of *amoebic dysentery*; also as a remedy in
pyorrhea, 1/2 gr daily for three days, then less. Emetin, 1/2 gr
hypodermically, in Psoriasis. Emetin hydroch. 2x, diarrhoeand nausea. *Emetin
for endamoebic dysentery*. In physiological doses must be carefully watched.
May produce hepatization of lungs, rapid heart action, tendency for the head
to fall forward and lobar pneumonia. In haematemesis and other haemorrhages,
compare: Gelatin which has a marked effect on the coagulability of the
blood. Hypodermically; or if by mouth, a 10 per cent jelly, about 4 oz,
three times a day) *Arsenic; Cham; Puls; Tart em; Squill. Convolvulus *(colic
and diarrhoeat-tail flag (dysentery, diarrhoea--Garden Spurge--(Very similar
to Ipecac. Irritation of the respiratory and gastro-intestinal tracts and
female organs). Lippia mexicana--(Persistent dry, hard, bronchial
cough--asthma and chronic bronchitis).
In Asthma, compare: Blatta orientalis.
Antidotes: Arsenic; China; Tabac.
Complementary: Cuprum; Arn.
Dose.--Third to 200th potency.
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