– Pulford
IDENTIFICATION
Persistent constant anxious nausea with clean or nearly clean tongue, pale face, cold sweat on forehead and thirstless; if vomiting occurs it does not relieve the nausea.
ESSENTIAL
Irritable; morose. Desires knows not what, like Bry. Depressed mentally, tissues irritable. Oversensitive to warm atmosphere, heat, cold, and to touch. Profuse salivation. Pulse weak. Chilly externally, heat internally. children cry and scream. Nausea especially, and vomiting usher in the acute attacks. COMMENT.
Mind
Holds everything in contempt. children cry and scream continually. Mental depression, tissues irritable in combination. Ipec. is sometimes as restless as Ars., but unlike Ars., its prostration comes in spells, that of Ars. is continuous.
Head
Pain in head, to tongue. Bruised or crushed sense in head, with nausea and vomiting is the most characteristic of Ipec. As if bruised, pain piercing, to root of teeth. Constrictive and contusive head aches in left side parietal region, begin daily at 11 a.m, increase gradually until intolerable, and decrease in the same manner, like Stann., ceasing completely at 2 p.m.
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| Heache and Nausea |
Eyes
Staring, a.m., on waking. Pain in eyeballs shoots into head, tears gush. Extremely valuable in pustular conjunctivitis of children.
Face
Muscles of face stiff, during cough.
Mouth
Child puts its fingers in its mouth. Salivation compels constant swallowing. In the sweetish, bloody taste it differs from Berb. in that Berb. has also a bitter taste and the mouth is pasty or sticky, while with Ipec. the mouth is clean; again, Berb. has dry mouth, Ipec. moist.
Stomach
Nausea, with itching, must scratch until one vomits. Nausea, during labor; vomits, after stooping. Vomits green mucus, jellylike, grass green, or, black, tarlike blood. Persistent nausea accompanies all the haemorrhages of Ipec. In vomiting Ipec. differs from Ant-t. in having more nausea and a clean or only slightly coated tongue, while Ant-t. has more retching and vomiting and a thickly coated tongue.
Abdomen
Cutting pain, left side to right, reverse of Lyc.; paroxysmal stitches in sides, left side to right, or, in region of navel to uterus. (L): Pain in region of navel, to uterus; sore, bruised, tender pain in region of navel; stitching pain, downward. distressed, relaxed sense.
Rectum
Diarrhoea, during cholera epidemics.
Stool
Green as grass, or greenish mucus and frequent. Dark pitchlike blood in some cases of dysentery.
Urinary
Urine very bloody, especially from kidneys, with nausea and cutting pains.
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| Bloody urine |
Genitalia
Labor pains cutting, in navel region. (L): Copious menses, with faintness. Thick leucorrhoea, feeling of desperation, frightful irritation in vagina.
Larynx
Laryngismus stridulus, before cough.