Invertentia in small doses, nitre, emetic tartar, ipecacuanha given so as to induce nausea.
The variety imported from Colombia and known as Cartagena ipecacuanha differs only in its larger size and in being less conspicuously annulated.
Like other dimorphic plants, ipecacuanha ripens seeds best when cross-fertilized, and presents various forms.
Ipecacuanha owes its properties to the presence of rather more than 1% of the alkaloid emetine, which, with the exception of traces, occurs only in the cortical portion of the root.
Ipecacuanha is very frequently used as an expectorant in cases in which the bronchial secretion is deficient.
The botanical source of ipecacuanha was not accurately known until 1800.
Small doses of ipecacuanha act as a stimulant to the secretions of the mouth, stomach, intestine and liver.
Ipecacuanha root occurs in pieces about 2 or 3 lines in thickness, of a greyish-brown or reddish-brown tint externally, having a ringed or annulated surface (see r in fig.
Its diaphoretic properties are employed in the pulvis ipecacuanhae compositus or Dover's powder, which contains one part of ipecacuanha powder and one part of opium in ten.
When applied to the skin, ipecacuanha powder acts as a powerful irritant, even to the extent of causing pustulation.
They are the hot bath, and a full dose of ipecacuanha wine.
The back and chest may be rubbed from time to time with a stimulating liniment, and an emetic of ipecacuanha wine may be given twice a day.
I calmly gave him another spoonful of the ipecacuanha wine, for I knew what I knew--that in ten minutes all this grief would subside with the sufferings of the poor child--and almost immediately the expected results occurred.
Strange to say, with all the children she had had, she could not remember a case of croup amongst them, and she did not know the sovereign virtue of fresh ipecacuanha wine.
Ipecacuanha in emetic doses was also tried by me; but although, thus administered, it did not occasion the bad effects resulting from the exhibition of the preceding article, yet it was often productive of harm, and never of benefit.
Of the various diaphoretics employed, we had reason to be least dissatisfied with the combination of opium and ipecacuanha in small doses.
When signs indicative of approaching fits are remarked, small doses of mercury and ipecacuanha should be administered.
If no improvement visible, continue these pills, unless diarrhoea comes on, in which case you must use the ipecacuanha day about with the pills.
Trivial doses of antimonial wine or ipecacuanha wine, with an occasional emetic, will sometimes give temporary ease; but the last-named medicines are to be resorted to only after due consideration, as they greatly lower the strength.
A quarter of a grain of tartar emetic in solution is sufficient for a middling sized dog; and four grains of ipecacuanha is equally effective.
Half an ounce of salts in warm water, when the dog is first taken ill; thirty-six hours afterwards, ten grains compound Powder of Ipecacuanha in warm water.
You must now address yourself to the cold and other symptoms; and you may give large doses of Ipecacuanha and Nitre.
Sulphate of copper and ipecacuanhaequal parts; syrup or conserve of roses, q.
The dried root of Cephaelis Ipecacuanha, or the true ipecacuanha plant, one of the Cinchonaceae.
The last are intended to take the place of ipecacuanha lozenges, but are rather stronger.
The treatment consists of a gentle emetic of ipecacuanha wine, followed by an occasional dose of rhubarb and magnesia, to keep the bowels clear, and to arrest diarrh[oe]a.
In scarlatina, tartar-emetic powder or ipecacuanha may be administered in the mean time.
Waring he remarks that it is a good emetic and diaphoretic whenever ipecacuanha is not at hand but that it should be regarded not so much as a substitute for that article as a resource in case of need.
Like ipecacuanha it seems to have little tendency to act on the bowels or depress the vital powers, and it decidedly increases the secretion of the pulmonary organs.
To guard against these evils, an emetic of ipecacuanha should be administered, and a blister applied to the neck.
For this purpose, one scruple of ipecacuanha may be given in an ounce of water.
Ipecacuanha wine, four drachms; flowers of sulphur, two drachms; tincture of cardamoms, one ounce.
The Ipecacuanha is easily cultivated, for I have made the experiment, but it requires shade, or at any rate it must not be completely exposed to the heat of the sun.
Although the root of this plant was formerly mistaken for that of the ipecacuanha preta, it is well known now to be of another description.
Internally, powderedipecacuanha is the best remedy, and it should be given.
For the husky cough give from one teaspoonful to a tablespoonful of ipecacuanha wine, just as it is.
If no improvement, give 10 grains of powdered ipecacuanha every 10 hours.
The process is rendered easier by first digesting the powdered ipecacuanha in ether.
The inhalation of the powder of ipecacuanhasets up similar symptoms with some persons.
Wine ofipecacuanha can be titrated by the same process.
When ipecacuanha is dissolved in water, and a concentrated solution of potassium nitrate added, a thick mass is produced, consisting of emetine nitrate.
It generally yields to small and repeated doses of ipecacuanha and antimonial diaphoretics; a light diet and mild purgatives being at the same time adopted, but in every case it is safer to have recourse to medical aid.
Powdered ipecacuanhaand balsam of tolu, of each 4 dr.
The principal emetics are ipecacuanha and tartarised antimony, and their preparations; and the sulphates of zinc and copper.
In such cases, wine or powder of ipecacuanha should alone be employed.
Ipecacuanha is said by Bartholow to be extremely serviceable in the diarrhoea of teething children with greenish stools containing mucus or blood.
Justly indignant at the loss of his suit, he revealed the secret, and ipecacuanhabecame common property at once.
Sometimes the dose of ipecacuanha may require to be repeated.
Ipecacuanha has had quite a reputation in combination with purgatives in intestinal catarrh.
Belladonna was advised by Trousseau as a stimulant to unstriped muscular fibre, and it can well be given with strychnia; ipecacuanha and atropia are approved of in conjunction.
In cases of feeble digestion from deficiency of gastric juice pepsin is a valuable adjuvant to the digestive power, and may be given with advantage in connection with the mineral acids or with ipecacuanha or capsicum before meals.
In atony of the mucous membrane, with morbid sensibility and slow {456} digestion, ipecacuanha is a remedy of much value.
Ringer says one grain ofipecacuanha taken while fasting each morning will relieve constipation from torpor (Therapeutics, New York, 1882, p.
Mr. Docker says that the mortality of dysentery in the British army during the ten years that followed the adoption of the ipecacuanha treatment fell from 11 to 5 per cent.
Ewart[9] recommends ipecacuanha in every form and type of acute dysentery, as well as in the acute attacks supervening upon chronic cases.
Then from one to one and a half drachms of ipecacuanha are administered in powder.
Ipecacuanha is also a valuable agent in correcting morbid gastro-intestinal secretions.
One or two grains of calomel may be added to each dose of ipecacuanha with benefit.
Ipecacuanha may be administered at the same time we are giving the mineral acids, or mineral acids with pepsin.
Ipecacuanha may be given in warm water or chamomile infusion until this result {650} has been accomplished.
The mere inhalation of the dust of Ipecacuanha has been found to act upon the lungs so as to cause Bronchitis.
Ipecacuanha and Opium are combined in Dover's powder.
Ipecacuanha is in the first place a Neurotic, of less power than Antimony; in the second place an Eliminative, increasing expectoration, as well as Diaphoresis.
The action of Antimony and Ipecacuanha upon the secretion of bronchial mucus is of so specific a character as to render it highly probable that these medicines add to their neurotic influence a true eliminative agency.
Now, Tartar Emetic and Ipecacuanha do not act in this way.
The system may sometimes be prepared for it by antiphlogistic treatment; or Tartar Emetic or Ipecacuanha may be conjoined with the dose of Opium.
Tartar Emetic and Ipecacuanha are appropriate in acute and inflammatory cases, because they exert a nauseating and depressing action.
Opium: to relieve cough, and, with ipecacuanha and Dover's powder, to check sweating.
Ipecacuanha: when expectoration is scanty, dryness in chest, ipecacuanha in large doses; also when expectoration has become more abundant but difficult to expel.
Aconitum napellus in the very commencement of the disorder, followed by Ipecacuanha and Nux vomica when the second stage is just approaching and during its continuance.
Mix three drachms of ipecacuanha wine with half an ounce of oxymel of squills, the same quantity of spirits of tolu, one ounce of mucilage, and two ounces of water.
Mix one drachm of compound powder of ipecacuanha with one scruple of gum ammoniacum and one of dried squill bulb in powder.
Ipecacuanha Ipecacuanhais an emetic, diaphoretic, and expectorant.
Bryonia, with ipecacuanhaat commencement of attack.
Antimony and ipecacuanha wines, of each an ounce; a teaspoonful every ten minutes for a child till vomiting is produced; but for an adult a large tablespoonful should be taken.
The result of the same trial with ipecacuanha was, that number 1 was of a light brown colour, tasting highly of the ipecacuanha.
Number 2 was of a deep yellow, having the same disagreeable taste of the lime complained of in the other tinctures, but that of the ipecacuanha scarcely perceptible.
He forms great hopes of success from the effects of his ipecacuanha contrivance.
The ipecacuanha contrivance convinces me that she loves me.
The Ipecacuanha Powder will keep better than the Wine--an important consideration to those living in country places, nevertheless, if the Wine can be procured fresh and good, I far prefer the Wine to the Powder.
When out of the bath give him small doses of Ipecacuanha Wine every two or three hours.
As long as the Ipecacuanha Wine remains clear, it is good; but as soon as it becomes turbid, it is bad, and ought to be replaced by a fresh supply.
Be careful that you go to a respectable chemist, in order that the totality of the Ipecacuanha Wine may be good, as the child's life may depend upon it.
At the earliest dawn of the disease give a few spoonful of Ipecacuanha Wine every five minutes, until free vomiting be exerted.
Since leaving it off, the recoveries of patients by the Ipecacuanha treatment, combined with the external application of Smith's Tela Vesicatoria, have been in many cases marvellous.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ipecacuanha" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
