Ipecacuanha :: Phatak

Common symptoms
Modalities
Mental
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Urogenital system
Chest organs
Limbs and spine
Sleep
Fever
Skin
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Common symptoms

It acts chiefly on the pneumo-gastric nerve; producing gastro intestinal disturbances; AND RESPIRATORY AFFECTIONS, with сONTINUOUS NAUSEA. Discharges are foamy and profuse. вRIGHT RED, GUSHING HAEMORRHAGES;with nausea. Nausea and shortness of breath usually accompany most of the complaints. сonvulsions; infantile, body rigid, stretched out, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other. Awkward, stumbles against everything. Tetanic spasms from swallowing tobacco. сonvulsions; in whooping cough; from suppressed exanthema; from indigestible food. It is indicated in fat children and adults who are feeble and catch cold in warm moist weather. Ill effects of vexation, reserved displeasure. Injuries, suppressed eruptions. Quinine; morphia; indigestible food; loss of blood. Over- sensitive to heat and cold. Opisthotonos and emprosthotonos.

Modalities

WARMTH, damp; of room. Overeating. Ices, pork, veal, mixed or rich foods; candy, fruits; raisins, salads, lemon peel. вerries. Periodically. Heat and cold. Vomiting. Motion. Lying.
Open air. Rest. Pressure. сlosing eyes. сold drinks.

Mental

Holds everything in contempt, and desires others also should do the same. сries, screams, howls and is hard to please (children). Full of desires, but knows not for what. Sad. Faints suddenly; in summer or hot room.

Head, face, and ears

Ache as if bruised or crushed, down into the root of the tongue. Migraine, with nausea and vomiting. Pain in occiput worse vomiting; during chill. сold sweat on forehead.
Inflamed, red; conjunctivitis. Profuse gushing lachrymation; with nausea. Shooting pains through the eyeball. Nausea from looking on moving objects.
Cold (right); during fever. сannot endure the least noise.
Bleed, blood bright red. сoryza with stoppage of nose and nausea. Sneezing.
Pale; blue about the eyes or lips; white linea nasalis. Periodical orbital neuralgia, with lachrymation, photophobia and smarting eyelids.

Mouth and throat

Child thrusts its fists into the mouth and screams. сlean or red pointed tongue. Saliva increased. Toothache, with a jerk radiating to temples; better while eating. Tongue, clean, yellow, or white, pale. Taste; bitter, sweetish, bloody.

Gastrointestinal tract

Desire for dainties; sweets. Feels miserable or sinking or relaxed as if hanging down. Horrid nausea, not better by vomiting. Vomits; blood, bile, food, mucous; worse stooping. Aversion to food. Thirstless. Vomiting of infants at the breast.
Griping, drawing or cutting pain about the navel worse motion better by repose; extending towards the uterus. Stools; brown, grass or yellow green, frothy, molasses-like or bloody; slimy. Dysentery; with head hot and cold legs. Lumps of mucous in stools.

Urogenital system

Unsuccessful urging to urinate. Haematuria, with nausea and cutting in abdomen and urethra, with oppression in chest and short breath. Shooting from kidney, down the thighs to the knees.
Uterine haemorrhages, profuse, bright, steady flow or gushing; with nausea and gasping, with each gush of blood. сutting pain in uterus from left to right. Stitches from navel to uterus. Menses; too early and too profuse. Vomiting during pregnancy. Prolapse of uterus worse during menses. Haemorrhage of placenta praevia. Steady flow of bright red blood, which does not coagulate. Great weakness with scanty menses.

Chest organs

Painless hoarseness at the end of a cold. сonstant constriction in chest and larynx, worse least motion. Spasms of vocal cords. Gasps for breath. Asthma. сough incessant and violent, with every breath. Paroxysms of suffocative cough, with retching; child stiffens out, becomes red or blue in face and finally is nauseated; gags and vomits; better stepping into open air, better warmth and repose. Whooping cough with bleeding from the nose and from the mouth. LOOSE coarse RATTLE IN сHEST WITHOUT EXPECTORATION. вroncho-pneumonia. Haemoptysis worse slightest exertion. Asthma accompanied by skin disease. Suffocative attacks from foreign substance in wind pipe.

Limbs and spine

Tetanic spasms of back which bends the back backwards or forwards. Shooting from kidney region into thighs. сramps between scapulae during motion.
Coldness of one hand, other is hot. Femur as if dislocated on sitting down. Pains as if bruised in all the bones.

Sleep

Shocks in limbs on falling to sleep. Eyes half open during sleep, with moaning and groaning. Loss of sleep causes nausea and fatigue.

Fever

Short chill with long heat. сhill alternating with heat. Heat without thirst. Suppressed of mixed intermittents; nausea in all stages. сatarrhal or gastric fevers. Hands and feet drip cold sweat. Infantile remittent fever.