SECTION 78.
IPECACUANHA.
General Indications
Persistent nausea - aversion to all food - discharges of blood - rattling respiration - pipes clogged with phlegm - worse by lying down.
Minute Dose
Section 56, A - B - C.
Officinal Dose
Adult, 1/20 to 1/10 grain of the powder - Wine 1 to 30 minims - Syrup 5 to 60 minims. Emetic 20 to 30 grains. Child, see Section 56, A.
Ipecacuanha in Minute doses, stands in the front rank of remedies for Catarrh of the chest, with pipes choked with phlegm. Asthma with smothering tightness of the Chest. Cerebro - spinal meningitis, success in every case. Choroiditis (Bryonia and Gelsemium). Bloody dysentery - Bloody, slimy diarrhoea. Diarrhea with or without vomiting - Bloody vomit - Bilious vomit - black vomit - Vomiting or nausea from any cause.
One drop of the wine of Ipecac., taken after each spell of vomiting, even in pregnancy, stops it directly.
Hemorrhage - Flooding - Vomiting or Purging blood. - Spitting blood. Ipecac., Adult, 2 grains every 20 minutes; as soon as it produces nausea the bleeding will stop, if not before. One drop of the wine of Ipecac. taken every 5 minutes arrests Bleeding from the nose, or Hemorrhage from the lungs or other parts, as if by magic.
Weak, Lingering Labor. Ipecac., 2 grains will spur up labor at once, much better than Ergot, for it relaxes and dilates the os, which Ergot does not; at the same time it invigorates and strengthens the expulsive efforts.
Miscarriage imminent. Cannot be obviated - Take Ipecac., 2 grains, to expedite expulsion, and stand guard against hemorrhage.