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Ipecacuanha (Ip)

Ipecacuanha (Ip) appears in the repertory in 436 rubrics. Of these, 13 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 13 are small rubrics with no more than two other remedies. The data are thin; most rubrics are broadly populated: Children, Weeping, Anxiety, Ailments from, Fear, Irritability, and Restlessness. The specific rubrics sketch the picture of a restless, anxious, and easily excitable person, especially in childhood, whose anxiety is linked with hemorrhage and vomiting and whose anger quickly turns into calm.

Children

The rubrics on Children are the most frequent. Specific are incessant screaming with a cold or diarrhea and screaming with the fist in the mouth. Added are constant weeping in children and the difficulty of quieting them when screaming.

Anxiety with hemorrhage and vomiting

The anxiety is close to the body. Specific are anxiety between attacks of bloody vomiting, with hemorrhage from the lungs, with hematemesis, and in scarlet fever when the exanthema is slow to appear. Sighing accompanies anxiety and fear. The data suggest that the anxiety is a companion of severe physical conditions.

Anger and calm

An unusual sequence appears with anger: it is followed by calm. Only this remedy has the rubrics in which anger is followed by tranquility and in which serenity prevails after anger; the small rubric names equanimity after anger. Alongside stand impatience at work and a morose manner when business does not move along quickly.

Restlessness, jealousy, and speech

The restlessness occurs with complaints of the spinal cord and with spinal affections, and also with colic. The jealousy is of a special kind: the person wants others not to value or acknowledge anything. There is the desire to talk with someone about the events of the day. A thought cannot be grasped when no heat is present. The voice is nasal with a cold. Also listed is the desire for indescribable things, without being able to describe them.

Summary

Because of the few specific rubrics, the picture of Ipecacuanha remains brief and rests on the Children, the anxiety close to the body with hemorrhage and vomiting, and the sequence of anger and calm. A king-pin symptom is not indicated in the available data; individual statements should be weighted with restraint given this data base.

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