Ipecacuanha

Characteristic symptoms

Bruised pain or drawing in the bones; cricking in the joints; great sensitiveness to heat. and cold ; amelioration in the open air ; debility, with pale face and blue margins around the eyes; paroxysms of sudden debility, with nausea and loathing ; opisthotonic spasms, with distortion of the features, red and bloated face, twitching of the facial muscles, lips and eyelids ; rigid stretching of the whole body ; great emaciation ; haemorrhage of bright red blood; rash ; sleep with eyes half open and full of restlessness and moaning ; want of vitality ; chilliness and coldness; sudden attacks of heat, with sweat; peevish humor; extreme impatience ; bruised pain of the brain and skull, with nausea ; red, inflamed eyes ; ears cold and chilly ; yellowish hue of the face, or bloated pale face with blue borders around the eyes ; red skin around the mouth ; sweet taste in the mouth, as of blood; aversion to food; vomiting of mucus, bile and food ; spasmodic nausea, with malaise ; nausea, with distension of the abdomen and dryness of the throat ; after vomiting, inclination to sleep ; haematemesis ; excessive pain in the stomach and pit of the stomach ; sensation of emptiness and relaxation of the stomach ; flatulent colic ; griping pinching in the abdomen, as if one were grasping with the hands, alleviated by rest, but excited by motion ; yellow, slimy or green diarrhœa, as if fermented ; watery and painless diarrhœa ; stool covered with red, bloody mucus ; pitch-like stools; spasmodic suffocative cough, with blueness of the face and rigidity of the body; asthma and spasmodic suffocative fits ; panting breathing ; mucous rattling in the chest ; convulsive evening cough ; croup, with deep red color of tonsils and pharynx and slow development of croup.