Exercise 9 Ipecachuana (Ip.)

Constant nausea not ameliorated by vomiting is the main feature of this remedy. One of the accompanying signs is clean or slightly coated tongue. It is also indicated in spasmodic suffocating cough with vomiting and dyspnoea; the patient is pale, gasps for air, and is aggravated by least motion.

Exercise 9 - EH Analysis
In the following graph, taken from the Encyclopedia Homeopathica (EH) software analysis, each symptom included in the search is represented by a different color. The length of the bar for a particular symptom (represented by a color), indicates how many times this symptom was mentioned in the materia medica for that remedy.
You will notice that, for the most part, only characteristic symptoms were chosen. This allows for easy differentiation of the correct remedy. The first remedy on the left is the correct remedy and the answer to the exercise. Usually, it has the longest bar of the graph, and comprehensively covers all the symptoms.
The EH screenshot is followed by a list of the RADAR Keynotes of that remedy, and a link to a query file that users may download and install into their own EH program in order to duplicate the analysis.

 

RADAR Keynotes for Ipecachuana

* Complaints associated with NAUSEA, VOMITING.
MIND:
- Full of desires, but doesn't know for what. Feels unfortunate.
- Impatience. Restless.
- Morose with contempt for everything. Jealous.
- Disposition to be angry. Irritability from noise.
- Ailments from mortification, with indignation; suppressed anger.
Silent grief.
- Fear of death, with sighing.
- Indifference to pleasure. Joyless.
- Children cry and howl. Hard to please.
GENERALITIES:
- Sensitive to warm and cold.
- < Vomiting.
- Periodicity.
- HEMORRHAGES, bright red.
- Obesity.
- Ailments from suppressed eruptions, anger, vexation.
- Convulsions from indigestion.
FOOD AND DRINKS:
- Desire: Indistinct, delicacies.
- Aversion: Food in general.
- < Veal, rich food, raisins.
HEAD:
- Headaches:
With strong nausea, vomiting (Iris, Meli, Puls, Sang).
Ext. to all bones of head, teeth, root of tongue.
NOSE:
- Epistaxis, bright red, clotted, < coughing (Dros).
FACE:
- Cyanosis with respiratory complaints.
- Blue circles around eyes.
- Flushed. One sided congestion (Acon, Cham, Ign, Puls).
- Stiffness of muscles during cough.
MOUTH:
- Clean tongue, or only thin white coating.
- Child puts fingers in mouth.
STOMACH:
- Uneasiness. Horrid sick feeling.
- NAUSEA, VOMITING.
Vomiting does not relieve.
Nausea but not able to vomit.
< From smell or thought of food, rich food, ice-cream, sweets.
< Looking at moving objects (Cocc, Jab).
< Coughing. With headache. With hemorrhage.
- Stomach feels relaxed, as if hanging down like a bag.
ABDOMEN:
- Stitching pain in umbilical region.
RECTUM:
- Diarrhea with nausea and vomiting, griping at navel.
- Hemorrhoids bleeding profusely.
URINE:
- Red urine (brick-dust sediment) with pain about navel and nausea.
FEMALE GENITALIA:
- Menses too early and profuse.
METRORRHAGIA WITH BRIGHT RED, GUSHING BLOOD,
NAUSEA AND FAINTNESS.
< During and after labor; motion.
- Pain from navel to uterus with menses, labour.
LARYNX/TRACHEA:
- Croup.
RESPIRATION:
- Respiratory complaints with nausea.
- SUFFOCATIVE FROM ACCUMULATION OF MUCUS (Ant-t); in children; < 7 p.m.
- Asthmatic. RATTLING < warm moist weather.
COUGH:
- SUFFOCATIVE cough with retching, vomiting.
- Loose cough without expectoration.
- Whooping cough with epistaxis and vomiting (Dros).
EXPECTORATION:
- Hemoptysis, < exertion (Erig, Mill).
CHEST:
- Bronchitis in children. Asthmatic bronchitis.
BACK:
- Stiffness and contraction of muscles of neck with cough.
- Opisthotonos.
EXTREMITIES:
- One hand cold, one hot (Chin, Lyc, Puls).
SKIN:
- Itching with nausea, > after vomiting.
Compl: Ant-t, Arn, Ars, Calc, Cupr, Sulph.
DD: Ant-t, Cocc, Dros, Kali-s, Mill, Puls, Sang, Tab.

EH Query File

Here is the EH Query file for you to install in your own program.

1. To download the file, right click on this link and choose "Save File As", "Save Link As", or "Save Target As", depending on your browser.
2. Many browsers will change the file extension to .htm when you download. Be sure that the file name ends with .qry. If your browser has changed the extension, change it back to .qry
3. Open EH, go to the Find Window (F4) and chose the Search pull down menu. Select Recall the Query.
4. Double click on the query file you would like to open. You will then find the same query that was used to create the analysis screenshot for that remedy.
5. To view the analysis in EH, hit the function key (F8) and you will see the analysis for that query.
Note: EH owners who download these queries may get different results, based on the database of books they own. In particular, the Vermeulen books seem to be of great help in answering these exercises.