# Ipecacuanha

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Hot
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Source:  Derived  from  the  dried  root  of  Carapichea  ipecacuanha  (formerly  Cephaelis. ipecacuanha), a plant in the Rubiaceae family, native to South America, prepared for homeopathic. use through maceration, serial dilution, and succussion to eliminate toxicity and enhance therapeutic. action. Traditional  Context:  Historically  employed  in  homeopathy  for  respiratory,  digestive,. gynecological,  psychological,  and  systemic  disorders,  particularly  those  involving  nausea,. vomiting,  and  spasmodic  cough.  It  is  noted  for  symptoms  such  as  persistent  nausea,  violent. coughing, hemorrhagic tendencies, and irritability, often aggravated by warmth, motion, or eating,. and ameliorated by rest, open air, or cold drinks. Modern Context: Indicated for respiratory conditions (e.g., asthma, whooping cough), digestive. conditions (e.g., nausea, vomiting, gastritis), gynecological conditions (e.g., menorrhagia, morning. sickness), psychological conditions (e.g., irritability, anxiety), and systemic conditions (e.g., fever,. hemorrhagic diathesis). It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by persistent. nausea,  spasmodic cough ,  heavy bleeding , or  emotional irritability , typically exacerbated by. warmth,  motion,  or  eating,  and  often  seen  in  individuals  with  acute  respiratory  infections,. gastrointestinal disorders, or stress-related irritability. The remedy is particularly relevant for those. with a sensitive, chilly constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like retching or. bloody  discharge  alongside  psychological  symptoms  like  impatience  or  anxiety,  commonly. observed  in  patients  with  pertussis,  hyperemesis  gravidarum,  or  generalized  anxiety  disorder. triggered by physical or emotional stressors.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Warmth (weather, rooms, drinks), motion, eating, emotional stress, lying. down, night, humidity, food smells, exertion, confinement, noise, menstruation.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Mental depression.
- Sad, morose.
- Dejected mood.
- Peevish, irritable, scornful mood.
- Impatient, fretful.
- Full of desires, but do not know what they want.
- Hard to please.
- Holds everything in contempt.
- Disgust with 
everything.
- Haughty.
- Censorious, critical.
- Intolerance of noise.
- Wrapped in thought, taciturn.
- Moaning and sighing with the fever.
- Anxiety during fever.
- Restlessness during 
the fever.
- Awkward and stumbles against everything.
- Shrieking before convulsions.
- Child cries and screams 
violently and incessantly.
- Delusion he is unfortunate.
- Hypochondria sis.
- Disposition to slander.
- Ailments from anger, mortific ation, 
vexation and reserved displeasure.
- Irascible, restless, angry in suddenly appearing spells.
- Mental depression.
- Sad, morose.
- Dejected mood.
- Peevish, irritable, scornful mood.
- Impatient, fretful.
- Full of desires, but do not know what they want.
- Hard to please.
- Holds everything in contempt.
- Disgust with 
everything.
- Haughty.
- Censorious, critical.
- Intolerance of noise.
- Wrapped in thought, taciturn.
- Moaning and sighing with the fever.
- Anxiety during fever.
- Restlessness during 
the fever.
- Awkward and stumbles against everything.
- Shrieking before convulsions.
- Child cries and screams 
violently and incessantly.
- Delusion he is unfortunate.
- Hypochondria sis.
- Disposition to slander.
- Ailments from anger, mortific ation, 
vexation and reserved displeasure.
- Irascible, restless, angry in suddenly appearing spells.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo with tottering and staggering.
- Vertigo when walking, when turning around, during pregnancy.
- Vision - Obscuration of vision.
- State of vision constantly changing.
- Blue and red halo around light.
- Optical 
illusions in bright colors.
- Spasm of accommodation from weakness of ciliary muscle.
- COMMENTS - The stomach disgust of the remedy is depicted on the countenance, which expresses nausea.
- Sickly, disgusted appearance.
- The corners of the mouth are drawn down.
- Blue rings around the eyes.
- Deathly nausea (Tab.).
- Constant nausea, not ameliorated by vomiting.
- Can vomit blood.
- Salivation and 
vomiting of white, stringy mucus.
- Vomiting can lead to shudders with a chill, severe spasms, convulsions.
- Can 
be sleepy after vomiting.
- Desire for fresh a ir, thirstless while nau seas (Puls.).Any condition with concomi tant nausea and vomiting.
- Vomiting after pregnancy.
- Sensation as if the stomach is hanging down (Sep.).
- Corresponding mental state, “moroseness and contempt for everything,” “disdainful humor.” Irritability in adults, 
crying and screaminginchildren.
- Restless and exhausted (Ars.).
- Disgust.
- Sensitiveness (Chin.), over sensitive 
to heat and cold.
- Better by touch.
- Exhaustion and an achy, bruised feeling.
- Sore pain in the shoulder blades.
- Bone p ains in the head and 
elsewhere.
- Pains as if bones were all tom to pieces.
- Keynote cutting pains in the left side of the abdomen over 
to the right.
- Peripheral neuritis.
- Generally a left sided remedy.
- Intermittent headaches.
- Migraine headaches.
- Bruised feeling, severe prostration.
- Headache “as if bruised, all 
through the bones of the head and down into the root of the tongue.” Pain extending to roots of  
teeth.
- Headache with nausea.
- Gastric headache, originating in the stomach, nausea precedes the headache an d 
persists throughout.
- Desire to lie perfectly still.
- Meningitis with vomiting and a high fever.
- Tetanus, lockjaw with 
severe spasms and retching.
- Marked periodic action.
- Intermittent fevers (Eup -per.).
- Characteristic nausea through all the stages.
- Stages  
can be completely mixed up, short chill, followed by long fever.
- Can have a pain in the upper back between 
the shoulder blades with fever (Gel.
- has a chill).
- Violent dyspnea with wheezing and great weight and anxiety about the précordia.
- Threatened suffocation from 
accumulation of mucus.
- Loss of breath, pale, stiff and blue.
- Strangling with gagging and vomiting of mucus, 
bleeding from nose or mouth.
- Coughing up mucus, gagging.
- Must stand by the window to get oxygen.
- Worse 
damp weather and changes in weather.
- Pneumonia and bronchitis with severe shortness of breath with rattling mucus (Ant-t.).
- For bronchitis in infants 
with coarse rattling in the chest.
- Concomitant respiratory and gastric symptoms.
- For emphysema in theelderly.
- Suffocative respiration (Spong.), but wet.
- Asthma with a breathless feeling, nausea and vomiting, with thick, yellow mucus (Lob., Ars., Ant -t., Ant-c.).
- Dry, spasmodic, constricted, asthmatic cough.
- Whooping cough.
- Characteristic spasmodic rigidity in whooping 
cough.
- Sub-acute inflamm ation of the cornea with intense pain.
- Pustular conjunctivitis, espe cially in children.
- Inflammation with tearing pain and gushing of tears.
- Photophobia.
- Violent neuralgia of eyeballs, shooting in 
the head with gushes of tears, nausea, etc.
- Hemorrhage with bright, red blood (Phos.).
- Gushing blood, with sinking feeling and nausea (Ferr.
- is weak and 
flushed with gushing).
- Nosebleeds with a sensation of nausea and sinking, or nosebleeds from coughing and 
sneezing attacks.
- Uterine hemorrhage.
- Threatened mi scarriage, with a sharp pain around the umbilicus, running downward to 
the uterus.
- Miscarriage due to spasmodic vomiting.
- Spotting blood before contractions.
- Hemorrhage after 
childbirth with bright red blood, nausea, disgust and weakness.
- Metrorrhagia after confinement with a low pulse, nausea.
- Steady flow of bright red blood, which may soak 
through the bed to the floor or may run over the foot of the bed.
- Constant nausea and discharge of blood before 
 
 
the proper period.
- Menstrual cramps with nausea and vomiting, must lie still in bed.
- Copious menses.
- Bloody diarrhea associated with nausea and vomiting.
- Constant urge to stool, tenesmus.
- Stools can be bloody, 
burning, offensive, watery.
- Severe colic that is as sociated with dysentery.
- Suppressed skin eruptio ns that go 
to the stomach and bowels and cause severe colic.
- Stomach symptoms worse from ice cream, pork, and rich, fatty foods (Puls.).
- Bad taste in the mouth.
- The 
thought, smell or idea of food causes patient to gag and choke.
- Anorexia.
- Heroin withdrawal symptoms.
- J.
- R.
- Haynes used Ip.
- as an antidote to the opium and morphine addiction.
- He 
gave five drops of Ip.
- tincture for every grain of morphine, or its equivalent in heroin or opium, which the patient 
has been accustomed to take.
- Jahr recommended that in all cases of intermittents in which no other remedy is particularly indicated Ip.
- should 
be given.
- It will either cure the case or bring out more indications for another remedy.
- Clarke frequently found this advice useful.
- As most intermittents have been treated with quinine, it is thought 
the antidotal properties of Ip.
- may have good effects.
- Allen noted that Ip.
- dilutions have helped granulations of the eyelids.
- Cooper cured an immense uterine fibroid with persistent painful irritation of the skin.
- Ther e was constant 
retching and vomiting, made worse by eating.
- Vaginal irritation with thick leucorrhea and a feeling of 
desperation.
- Dr.
- Nancy T.
- Williams cured several cases of gallstone colic on the symptom “external chilliness with internal 
heat,” with Ip.
- 6c.
- The relief was prompt and lasting.
- Dr.
- Edwin Muskett noted its specific use for malignant pustule and anthrax, used locally and internally.
- Hahnemann considered it a short-acting medicine.

### Head
- Cold sweat on forehead.
- Heat and throbbing in head, with red cheeks.
- Aching pain, pressure in 
forehead.
- Throbbing in forehead.
- Migraine or gastric headaches with nausea and vomiting.
- Headaches 
with nosebleed.
- Headache as if brain compressed.
- Bones of skull feel crushed or bruised.
- Pain, bruised 
feeling in brain.
- Pain in occiput, worse vomiting during chill.
- Shooting pain in vertex.
- Pain in the occiput and 
the neck.
- Headache over left eye.
- Pain extends to teeth  and root of tongue.
- Stinging pain with heaviness of 
head.
- Hydrocephaloid, fontanels open.
- Cold sweat on forehead.
- Heat and throbbing in head, with red cheeks.
- Aching pain, pressure in 
forehead.
- Throbbing in forehead.
- Migraine or gastric headaches with nausea and vomiting.
- Headaches 
with nosebleed.
- Headache as if brain compressed.
- Bones of skull feel crushed or bruised.
- Pain, bruised 
feeling in brain.
- Pain in occiput, worse vomiting during chill.
- Shooting pain in vertex.
- Pain in the occiput and 
the neck.
- Headache over left eye.
- Pain extends to teeth  and root of tongue.
- Stinging pain with heaviness of 
head.
- Hydrocephaloid, fontanels open.

### Eyes
- Inflamed, red eyes.
- Red circle around cornea.
- Yellow sclera.
- Dilated pupils.
- Eyes fixed and turned to 
right.
- Conjunctivitis.
- Ulcers of cornea or conjunctiva.
- Pustular inflammation of cornea and conjunctiva.
- Cornea 
dim.
- Profuse, gushing lachrymation with nausea.
- Shooting pains through the eyeball.
- Twitching of eyelids.
- Lids 
red and swollen after catching cold.
- Eyes tire from near vision.
- Cannot move eyes without nausea.
- Nausea 
from looking at moving objects.
- Photophobia without redness of eyes.
- Light, candlelight ag gravates.

### Ears
- Cannot endure the least noise.
- Coldness and chilliness of the ears, during the fever.

### Face
- Puffed or sunken.
- One side of face hot, the other cold.
- Pale, blue about the eyes or lips, white linea 
nasalis.
- Redness of the skin around the mouth.
- Lips blue during chill.
- Lips covered with small aphthae and 
eruptions.
- Rash in the face.
- Pityriasis.
- Periodical orbital neuralgias with some lachrymation, photophobia and 
smarting eyelids.
- Convulsive startings of the muscles of the face.

### Mouth
- Mouth moist with much saliva.
- Saliva increased.
- Earthy, bitter, sweetish, bloody taste.
- Smarting pain 
in mouth and on tongue.
- Child thrusts its fists into the mouth and screams during dentition.
- Nose - Nosebleed, bright red blood.
- Nosebleed during cough, headache, every time the patient takes cold.
- Coryza with stoppage of nose and nausea.
- Discharge of thin mucus with cough and expectoration.
- Sneezing.
- Itching of nose.
- Loss 
Ipecacuanha of smell.
- Perspiration - Cold, clammy.
- Hands and feet drip cold sweat.
- Very profuse sweats, mostly during night.
- Sweats with redness of one cheek and paleness of the other.
- Hot sweats, sudden attacks in room.
- Sour sweat 
with turbid urine.
- Sweat stains yellow.
- Profuse perspiration after quinine.

### Throat
- Sore throat, as from swelling of the pharynx.
- Difficult swallowing, as from paralysis of the tongue and 
of the gullet.
- Fauces, stinging, rough, sore, and dry.
- Pressure in throat with pains in diaphragm.
- Deep red color 
of tonsils and pharynx.
- Tickling in upper part of larynx.
- Croup.
- Gagging and choking.
- Spasms of vocal cords.
- Spasm of glottis, with 
Ipecacuanha blueness of face and coldness of limbs.
- Spasmodic contractive sensation in the throat.
- Hoarseness, especially at end of a cold.
- Complete aphonia.
- Voice hollow.
- Tongue-Tongue clean, not coated.Tongue.
- dry, yellow, white, pale.
- Red, pointed tongue.
- Tongue coated in 
middle, edges red.
- Flat taste, with white, thickly coated tongue.
- Smarting pain on tongue.

### Chest
- Violent, spasmodic cough, with choking or gagging, resembling whooping cough or.
- spasmodic bronchitis, worse with warmth, motion, or lying down.
- Wheezing  or  dyspnea,  with  a  sensation  of  tightness  or  suffocation,  resembling.
- asthma, aggravated by warm air, humidity, or night.
- Expectoration  of  frothy  or  bloody  mucus,  with  a  tendency  to  aggravation  in.
- infectious states, resembling bronchiectasis, worse with warmth or exertion.
- Tendency to respiratory hypersensitivity, with aggravation in spasmodic or allergic.
- states.
- Digestive:.
- Persistent nausea or vomiting, with a sensation of unrelieved retching, resembling.
- hyperemesis gravidarum or gastritis, worse with eating, warmth, or motion.
- Abdominal  pain  or  cramps,  with  a  sensation  of  fullness  or  burning,  resembling.
- functional  dyspepsia  or  gastroenteritis,  aggravated  by  food,  emotional  stress,  or.
- night.
- Loss of appetite or aversion to food, with a tendency to aggravation in nauseous.
- states, resembling chemotherapy-induced nausea, worse with warmth or smells.
- Tendency  to  digestive  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  in  inflammatory  or.
- psychosomatic states.
- Gynecological:.
- Heavy  menstrual  bleeding  or  menorrhagia,  with  bright  red  or  clotted  blood,.
- resembling dysfunctional uterine bleeding, worse with motion, warmth, or emotional.
- stress.
- Uterine hemorrhage or postpartum bleeding, with a sensation of flooding, resembling.
- postpartum hemorrhage, aggravated by exertion or night.
- Morning sickness or nausea in pregnancy, with a tendency to aggravation in early.
- gestation, resembling hyperemesis gravidarum, worse with warmth or food smells.
- Tendency  to  gynecological  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  in  hemorrhagic  or.
- hormonal states.
- Psychological:.
- Irritability or impatience, with a tendency to feel easily provoked or dissatisfied,.
- resembling  adjustment  disorder,  worse  with  physical  discomfort,  warmth,  or.
- confinement.
- Ipecacuanha (Ipecac) 1071.
- Anxiety or restlessness, with a sensation of inner tension or unease, resembling.
- generalized anxiety disorder, aggravated by nausea, pain, or night.
- Mood  swings  or  emotional  sensitivity,  with  a  tendency  to  feel  overwhelmed,.
- resembling premenstrual syndrome, worse with emotional stress or warmth.
- Tendency to psychological hypersensitivity, with aggravation during respiratory or.
- digestive flare-ups.
- Systemic:.
- Fever  or  chills,  with  a  sensation  of  heat  or  shivering,  resembling  systemic.
- inflammatory response syndrome, worse with warmth, exertion, or emotional stress.
- Hemorrhagic tendencies, with epistaxis, hematemesis, or easy bruising, resembling.
- bleeding disorders, aggravated by warmth, motion, or infection.
- Fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of prostration or heaviness, resembling post-.
- infectious fatigue, worse with warmth or exertion.
- Tendency to systemic irritability, with aggravation in febrile or hemorrhagic states.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Stomach feels relaxed, as if hanging down.
- Sinking sensation in stomach.
- Pressing pain in 
stomach.
- Indescribable pain and sick feeling in stomach.
- Violent clutching and cramp ing pains.
- Attacks of 
cramps.
- Dyspepsia.
- Gastritis, inveterate cases, not even a drop of water will stay down, continuous gag ging.
- Gastroenteritis.
- Eructations with rumbling in abdomen.
- Hiccoughs.
- Food poisoning.
- Loss of appetite and 
frequent nausea.
- Horrid nausea, not better vomiting.
- Nausea, copious salivation, violent itching in the skin 
and empty risings.
- Constant nausea and vomiting with pale, twitching of face.
- Incessant retching with 
vomiting of watery fluids andcutting pain in belly.
- Vomits blood, bile, food, mucus.
- grass-green mucus, black 
matter like pitch.
- Hematemesis of children.
- Bilious vomiting.
- Vomiting with thirst, sweat, and bad breath.
- Nausea and vomiting with menses, cramps, during pregnancy.
- Nausea from smell of food, from looking 
at moving objects, from slightest m otion or cough.
- Retching, especially after drinking anything cold or after 
smoking.
- Constant nausea and retching of hysterical women.
- Vomiting of infants at the breast.
- Morn ing 
vomiting in weakly persons who are affected by worms.
- Stools - Mucus fetid dia rrhea, worse at night.
- Stools, brown, grass or yellow green, lemon colored.
- Stools, 
painless, fermented frothy or bloody, slimy, pitch -like.
- Stools covered with red, bloody mucus, or lumps of 
mucus.
- Stools like frothy molasses with griping at navel.
- Stools  spurting out with much flatus.
- Stools very 
offensive, putrid smelling.
- Teeth - Teeth chatter, with chill.
- Toothache, with a jerk radiating to temples, better while eating.
- Toothache in 
a hollow tooth as if it would be torn out.
- Temperature - Chill alternating with heat.
- Short chill with long heat.
- Internal chill, with external heat.
- Chill and 
much heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnea.
- Chill with nausea, vomiting,  great lassitude, weari ness, 
oppression of the chest.
- Chills, up and down back.
- Coldness of upper part of body.
- Anxious dry heat in evening.
- Heat with or without thirst.
- Fever with nausea and vomiting.
- Catarrhal or gastric fevers.
- Intermittent fever, 
irregularcases after quinine.
- Infantile remittent fever.
- Suppressed of mixed intermittents, nausea in all stages.
- Relapses with improper diet.
- Cramps with nausea and vomiting.
- Flatulent colic with frequent loose stools.
- Colic of children 
with diarrhea, restlessness, screaming and tossing  about.
- Cold drinks or ice cream causes colic.
- Abdominal 
 
 
colic after sour or unripe fruit, beer, etc.
- Clawing pains as from a hand clawing intestines.
- Cutting pain worse 
around the navel.
- Inguinal hernia.
- Griping, drawing or cutting pain about the navel.
- Pinching pain.
- Sharp pain 
from navel to uterus.
- Diaphragm, as if pressed between two stones.
- General loss of appetite as from weakness of stomach.
- Great disgust and loathing of any sort 
offood.
- No appetite, earthy taste, stomach feels relaxed, nausea.
- Nausea from smell of food.
- Violent hunger 
when nausea is over.
- Thirstlessness.
- No thirst during chill, but much thirst all through fever.
- Stomach 
disordered by rich food, pork, pastry, fruits, candy, ice cream.
- Food poisoning.
- Desires or adverse to sweets 
and dainty things.
- Worse cold drinks, black coffee, sour beer, smoking tobacco.
- Worse from fats, ice cream, 
pastry, pork, unripe fruit, salads.
- Cold drinks or ice-cream causes colic.
- Cold water worsens spasmodic cough.

### Urinary & Genital
- Menses too early and too pro fuse.
- Menses with cramps and constant nausea.
- Scanty menses 
with great weakness.
- Menses return every two weeks.
- Prolapsed uterus worse during menses.
- Great debility  
and leucorrhea during intervals of menses.
- Uterine hemor rhages, profuse, bright red,  steady flow or 
gushing with nausea and gasping with each gush of blood.
- Pain from navel to uterus.
- Cutting pain in uterus 
from left to right.
- Dragging sensation towards uterus 
and anus.
- Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.
- Threatened miscarriage, often with sharp or pinching 
pain around umbilicus.
- Hemorrhage following labor or after miscarriage.
- Hemorrhage from placenta previa.
- Arterial bleeding from partial separation o f placenta.
- Laborpains spasmodic, cutting across from left to right 
with nausea and clutching about navel.
- Labor pains running downward.

### Extremities
- Pains in limbs during chill.
- Numbness, as if joints had gone to sleep.
- Shocks in limbs on falling 
 
 
asleep.
- Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other.
- Pains as if bruised in 
all the bones and joints.
- Femur as if dislocated on sitting down.
- Cold hands and feet.
- Coldness of one hand, 
other is hot.

### Neck & Back
- Tetanic spasms of back which bends the back backwards or forwards.
- Pain in back, during urination.
- Shooting from kidney region into thighs.
- Cramps between scapulae during motion.
- Causations - Ill effects of vexation, reserved displeasure.
- Injuries, loss of blood, sup pressed eruptions.
- Morphine, opium and heroin addictions.
- Quinine.
- Foodpoison- ing.
- Indigestible food, rich food, pork, pastry, 
fruits, candy, ice cream.

### Skin
- Fever  or  chills,  with  a  sensation  of  heat  or  shivering,  resembling  systemic.
- inflammatory response syndrome, worse with warmth, exertion, or emotional stress.
- Hemorrhagic tendencies, with epistaxis, hematemesis, or easy bruising, resembling.
- bleeding disorders, aggravated by warmth, motion, or infection.
- Fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of prostration or heaviness, resembling post-.
- infectious fatigue, worse with warmth or exertion.
- Tendency to systemic irritability, with aggravation in febrile or hemorrhagic states.

### Sleep
- Sleeplessness.
- Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep (Ign.).
- Restless, unrefresh ing sleep.
- Eyes half 
open during sleep with moaning and groaning.
- Starting during sleep.
- Loss of sleep that causes nausea and 
fatigue.
- Frightful dreams, with frequent starts and terror during sleep.
- Yawning and stretching.