What is ipecac?

Question

What is ipecac?
And where would you find it in a regular house?Ex, Bathroom, Kitchen

Answer 1

You got a lot of good answers above, who have given the general information about IPECAC.
Well, being a Homeopathic Practitioner myself, I can tell you what us Homeopathic Practitioners use IPECAC for, here you go :-

IPECACUANHA
Ipecac-root
(IPECA)

The chief action is on the ramifications of the pneumogastric nerve, producing spasmodic irritation in chest and stomach. Morphia habit. The principal feature of Ipecacuanha is its persistent nausea and vomiting, which form the chief guiding symptoms. Indicated after indigestible food, raisins, cakes, etc. Especially indicated in fat children and adults, who are feeble and catch cold in relaxing atmosphere; warm, moist weather. Spasmodic affections. Hæmorrhages bright-red and profuse.

Mind.--Irritable; holds everything in contempt. Full of desires, for what they know not.

Head.--Bones of skull feel crushed or bruised. Pain extends to teeth and root of tongue.

Eyes.--Inflamed, red. Pain through eyeballs. Profuse lachrymation. Cornea dim. Eyes tire from near vision. State of vision constantly changing. Spasm of accommodation from irritable weakness of the ciliary muscle. Nausea from looking on moving objects.

Face.--Blue rings around eyes. Periodical orbital neuralgia, with lachrymation, photophobia, and smarting eyelids.

Nose.--Coryza, with stoppage of nose and nausea. Epistaxis.

Stomach.--Tongue usually clean. Mouth, moist; much saliva. Constant nausea and vomiting, with pale, twitching of face. Vomits food, bile, blood, mucus. Stomach feels relaxed, as if hanging down. Hiccough.

Abdomen.--Amebic dysentery with tenesmus; while straining pain so great that it nauseates; little thirst. Cutting, clutching; worse, around the navel. Body rigid; stretched out stiff.

Stools.--Pitch-like green as grass, like frothy molasses, with griping at navel. Dysenteric, slimy.

Female.--Uterine hæmorrhage, profuse, bright, gushing, with nausea. Vomiting during pregnancy. Pain from navel to uterus. Menses too early and too profuse.

Respiratory.--Dyspnœa; constant constriction in chest. Asthma. Yearly attacks of difficult shortness of breathing. Continued sneezing; coryza; wheezing cough. Cough incessant and violent, with every breath. Chest seems full of phlegm, but does not yield to coughing. Bubbling rales. Suffocative cough; child becomes stiff, and blue in the face. Whooping-cough, with nosebleed, and from mouth. Bleeding from lungs, with nausea; feeling of constriction; rattling cough. Croup. Hæmoptysis from slightest exertion (Millef). Hoarseness, especially at end of a cold. Complete aphonia.

Fever.--Intermittent fever, irregular cases, after Quinine. Slightest chill with much heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnœa. Relapses from improper diet.

Sleep.--With eyes half open. Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep (Ign).

Extremities.--Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other.

Skin.--Pale, lax. Blue around eyes. Miliary rash.

Modalities.--Worse, periodically; from veal, moist warm wind, lying down.

Relationship.--Compare: Emetine-principal alkaloid of Ipecac (A powerful amebicide, but is not a bactericide. Specific for amæbiasis; of remarkable value in treatment of amæbic dysentery; also as a remedy in pyorrhea, 1/2 gr daily for three days, then less. Emetin, 1/2 gr hypodermically, in Psoriasis. Emetin hydroch. 2x, diarrhœa with colicky, abdominal pains and nausea. Emetin for endamoebic dysentery. In physiological doses must be carefully watched. May produce hepatization of lungs, rapid heart action, tendency for the head to fall forward and lobar pneumonia. In hæmatemesis and other hæmorrhages, compare: Gelatin which has a marked effect on the coagulability of the blood. Hypodermically; or if by mouth, a 10 per cent jelly, about 4 oz, three times a day) Arsenic; Cham; Puls; Tart em; Squill. Convolvulus (colic and diarrhœa). Typha latifolia-Cat-tail flag (dysentery, diarrhœa) and summer complaint. Euphorbia hypericifolia--Garden Spurge--(Very similar to Ipecac. Irritation of the respiratory and gastro-intestinal tracts and female organs). Lippia mexicana--(Persistent dry, hard, bronchial cough--asthma and chronic bronchitis).

In Asthma, compare: Blatta orientalis.

Antidotes: Arsenic; China; Tabac.

Complementary: Cuprum; Arn.

Dose.--Third to 200th potency.

http://homeoint.org/books/boericmm/i/ip.htm


Take Care and God Bless !

Answer 2

Ipecac is an older over-the-counter product that is used to induce vomiting after the ingestion of poisonous items. WARNING: Never use this product if the poisonous substance swallowed is bleach, ammonia, or any other cleaning product. Sometimes these items are even more hazardous on the way back up...so call a poison control center / 911 right away instead.

This product is available behind the pharmacy counter without a prescription. As far as storage goes, this product belongs in the medicine cabinet.

Answer 3

Ipecac syrup is used to force vomiting in people who have swallowed poison. People keep it with other drugs. That location could be anywhere in the house but I've seen it primarily in the kitchen.

Answer 4

What Is Ipecac

Answer 5

It makes you yack. That is why it is called Ipecac!
It is nasty, as it makes you throw up over and over again.
Having been a victim to this nasty medicine as a child, I would never give this to my worst enemy. If someone swallows poison, take them to the ER or call poison control first. I do not keep this anywhere in my home, but if I did, it would be locked away from anyone who could not understand what it is for.

Answer 6

a medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning) While it is helpful in SOME cases of accidental poisoning, it can actually make some cases MORE dangerous. Therefore, it should not be used without first consulting with a physician or an expert on poison control.

It is derived from the Ipecacuanha plant.

Normally located in the kitchen or bathroom medicine cabinet.

Answer 7

It is a liquid used to induce vomiting but should not be used any more as a lot of times you can do more damage by making someone vomit up what they swallowed. You would find it in the kitchen most likely as you shouldn't keep drugs in the bathroom as it gets to hot and moist in there to keep drugs there.

Answer 8

Syrup of Ipecac is a consumable liquid that is used to induce vomiting.
I'm not sure where it comes from or what its made of but it WILL make you puke!

Answer 9

Its a syrup that most mothers keep in the medicine cabinet. It is to make someone throw up in case they ate or drank something poison.

Answer 10

It is "Syrup of Epicac" & it's known as a purgative.
In other words, it makes you vomit. It's used if someone eats or drinks something they shouldn't.
This will make them puke it up.
It tastes like thick apple cider.

Answer 11

A syrup that causes vomiting.