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Ipecacuanha. – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

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[1] Mind.

[2]
Sensorium.

[3]
Inner head.

[4]
Outer head.

[5]
Sight and eyes.

[6]
Hearing and ears.

[7]
Smell and nose.

[8]
Upper face.

[9]
Lower face.

[10]
Teeth and gums.

[11]
Taste, speech, tongue.

[12]
Inner mouth.

[13]
Palate and throat.

[14]
Appetite, thirst. Desires..

[15]
Eating and drinking.

[16]
Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.

[18]
Hypochondria.

[19]
Abdomen and loins.

[20]
Stools and rectum.

[21]
Urinary organs.

[22] Male sexual organs.

[23]
Female sexual organs.

[24]
Pregnancy. Parturition..

[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..

[26]
Respiration.

[27]
Cough.

[28]
Inner chest and lungs.

[29]
Heart, pulse and circulation.

[30] Outer chest.

[31]
Neck and back.

[32]
Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.

[34]
Limbs in general.

[35]
Rest. Position. Motion.

[36]
Nerves.

[37]
Sleep.

[38]
Time.

[39]
Temperature and weather.

[40]
Fever.

[41]
Attacks, periodicity.

[42]
Locality and direction.

[43]
Sensations.

[44]
Tissues.

[45]
Touch. Injuries..

[46]
Skin.

[47]
Stage of life, constitution.

[48]
Relations.

Ip. * Full text (105 Ko) * Red
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(75 Ko) * Red only

TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] [Ip.]

Loss of taste.

Taste : bitter ; sweetish, bloody ; like rancid oil, when swallowing ; earthy ; flat, with white, thickly coated tongue.

Tongue : clean ; yellow or white ; pale.

Disinclined to talk ; tongue dry.

   

INNER MOUTH. [12] [Ip.]

Profuse accumulation of saliva ; is constantly obliged to swallow it.

Smarting in mouth and on tongue.

   

PALATE AND THROAT. [13] [Ip.]

Fauces dry, sore, rough, stinging.

Spasmodic contractive sensation in throat and chest ; difficult deglutition.

Pressure in throat, with pains in diaphragm.

Deep red color of tonsils and pharynx.

Rapid congestion of mucous membrane of pharynx ; secretion of a thick, plastic, whitish, nauseous humor, appearing at first under form of small white or grayish points, either on tonsils or velum palati or pharynx.

   

APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] [Ip.]

Thirst or thirstlessness.

Desire for dainties and sweets.

Averse to all food, no appetite ; earthy taste ; stomach feels relaxed ; nausea.

Great disgust and loathing of any sort of food.

   

EATING AND DRINKING. [15] [Ip.]

Indisposition from indigestible substances, lemon peel, berries, raisins, sweets, cake, pastry and unripe fruit, salads, pork, fats, sour beer, etc.

After eating : nausea ; vomiting ; stool.

Colic, with nausea and vomiting, after cold drinks or ice cream.

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