Ipecacuanha is an emetic, diaphoretic, and expectorant.
It is _used internally_ to excite vomiting, in doses of from ten to
twenty grains of the powder, or one to one and a half ounce of the
infusion, every half hour until vomiting takes place. To make it act
well and easily, the patient should drink half pints of warm water
after each dose of the infusion. As a diaphoretic, it should be given
in doses of three grains, mixed with some soft substance, such as
crumbs of bread, and repeated every four hours.
_Dose_ of the _wine,_ from twenty minims to one drachm as a
diaphoretic, and from one drachm to one and a half ounces as an
emetic.
_Caution._--Do not give more than the doses named above, because,
although a safe emetic, yet it is an acrid narcotic poison.