- Ourknowledgeof Ampe- qu is due to observations on two children poisoned by chewing the leaves.
- They were quickly seized with violent vomiting and purging with considerable tenesmusPainful urge to empty bladder or bowelsA distressing, constant, and ineffectual urge to evacuate the bowels or bladder, accompanied by pain., then collapse, sweating and faint pulse, then deep sleep for two hours from which they were aroused by the return of the vomiting and purging.
- Pupils were dilated for hours after commencement of attack.
- Hansen gave as an indication: “Chronic hoarseness in patients who were scrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes. in their youth.” Kidney dropsies, hydrocele and chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients have been benefited by this drug.
- Cholera symptoms.
- Generally worse about 6 p.m.
- Dilated pupils.
- Left coastal region sore and sensitive.
- Elbow joint pains, back sore.
- Soreness of all limbs.
- Vomiting, purging with tenesmus.
- Rumbling in abdomen