The Most Recent Accounts about Ipecacuanha

Ipecacuanha asthma: an old lesson.

In 1984 Luczynska and her colleagues' described occupational asthma in workers packing ipecacuanha tablets, and stated that this association had not previously been described. As ipecacuanha has been used as a remedy in Britain since about 1680, having been used as a traditional cure in Brazil long before that,2 this suggested a singular failure of the powers of observation of doctors over seve...

Cases of Dysentery Treated with Ipecacuanha Sine Emetinâ (Merck)

Doing/Allowing Harm Distinction:A Description, Analysis and Critique of Accounts of Donagan, Foot, Quinn and Bennet

The subject of "harm" and its binary distinction is one of the most recent topics in moral philosophy which has been dealt with by some moral philosophers in the last three decades. In recent years, there have also been some Iranian publications under this topic. The do/allow distinction is one of the distinctions. Moderate and minimalist philosophers who are advocates of this distinction offer...

Clonal diversity and conservation genetics of the medicinal plant Carapichea ipecacuanha (Rubiaceae)

The roots of the understorey shrub Carapichea ipecacuanha (ipecac) have medicinal properties, and the uprooting of wild plants has supplied most of the world demand for this species. Although under severe population decline, C. ipecacuanha lacks legal protection. In the wild, the aerial stems of ipecac clump together to form clusters with well-defined borders. Cluster size may range from severa...

Hepatitis and Ipecacuanha

The following ease of aeute hepatitis is of interest inasmuch as it entirely subsided under ipecacuanha treatment in spite of hectic fever, rigors, and profuse sweats, indicating the formation of pus. II. G., Eurasian, male, age 4,5, admitted into hospital 011 the morning of June 16th, 1911. Complains of not having felt well for about a week previously. On the 11th instant (5 days previous to a...