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Ignatia question
Hello. Yesterday I took Ignatia 200 and began to fell better. However, today I ate a sandwich containing pickles preserved in vinegar. I know vinegar is listed as an antidote to Ignatia so I would like to ask the following question to a trained homeopath: is it possible that my feeling worse tonight could be due to an aggravation or have I possibly antidoted the remedy.Many thanks
emma79 on 2011-06-01
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
You cannot antidote a remedy that way. It is more likely to be an aggravation from the remedy (although without actually being your prescriber it is difficult to know for sure).
Remedies are antidoted by other remedies which have similar symptoms, by suppressing the symptoms that come up (either with drugs or new remedies) or sometimes by very powerful drugs like general anesthetic.
Remedies are antidoted by other remedies which have similar symptoms, by suppressing the symptoms that come up (either with drugs or new remedies) or sometimes by very powerful drugs like general anesthetic.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
Thank you very much for your reply. The rationale behind taking Ignatia was that apart from the hysterical signs of constant choking, sighing and difficult breathing this whole array of symptoms appeared after leaving home and getting involved in a 7-year relationship in which the person kept leaving me and showing up, cheating, and so on. Eventually, I got very depressed, anxious and claustrophobic and had to start taking an antidepressant and a benzodiazepine.
One day, as I kept choking even on water or nothing (air) I realized that in my mind the relationship is not over, despite breaking it off, as if I was not ready to part with it. With disappointment and overwork came along hopelessness and the desire to isolate myself. Until taking Ignatia I found it almost impossible to cry although there is so much disappointment I have developed. When I feel trapped or disappointed, I lash out at people. Sometimes, I laugh in most inappropriate circumstances such as hearing that one has had an accident.
The reason why I feared I had antidoted Ignatia is that after an afternoon nap (I was very tired today) I woke up feeling worse and remembered the pickles. I cried quite a lot tonight and the sighing is back. Actually, I don't know what to make of my moodiness and this need to cry.
I would very much appreciate your opinion on how appropriate Ignatia was or whether I should have taken another remedy.
One more detail as to my physical appearance - tall, lean and dark.
Thank you very much.
One day, as I kept choking even on water or nothing (air) I realized that in my mind the relationship is not over, despite breaking it off, as if I was not ready to part with it. With disappointment and overwork came along hopelessness and the desire to isolate myself. Until taking Ignatia I found it almost impossible to cry although there is so much disappointment I have developed. When I feel trapped or disappointed, I lash out at people. Sometimes, I laugh in most inappropriate circumstances such as hearing that one has had an accident.
The reason why I feared I had antidoted Ignatia is that after an afternoon nap (I was very tired today) I woke up feeling worse and remembered the pickles. I cried quite a lot tonight and the sighing is back. Actually, I don't know what to make of my moodiness and this need to cry.
I would very much appreciate your opinion on how appropriate Ignatia was or whether I should have taken another remedy.
One more detail as to my physical appearance - tall, lean and dark.
Thank you very much.
emma79 last decade
Yeah its not enough information. I spend 1-2 hours with clients before making a prescription. What you have given might be the first 10 minutes worth - its not specific enough to narrow the choice just down to Ignatia. There are over 5000 remedies - it takes time to work through all the possible choices.
There are words you have used that would lead me away from Ignatia - Trapped, Choking, Isolate, Hopelessness. Trapped comes up a couple of times, and is not an Ignatia word.
Homoeopathy is all about detail. Without that prescriptions are just guesses.
There are words you have used that would lead me away from Ignatia - Trapped, Choking, Isolate, Hopelessness. Trapped comes up a couple of times, and is not an Ignatia word.
Homoeopathy is all about detail. Without that prescriptions are just guesses.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
I understand that. Unfortunately I am too far, perhaps across the globe, for a 1-hour consultation.
I would like, if it's not too much to ask, for your opinion on the antidoting power of coffee. I am addicted to coffee and have felt miserable without it for the last couple of days. Do 2 cups of coffee per day antidote a remedy? If they do, it it just the case with the remedies for which coffea is listed as an antidote?
Best wishes,
E
I would like, if it's not too much to ask, for your opinion on the antidoting power of coffee. I am addicted to coffee and have felt miserable without it for the last couple of days. Do 2 cups of coffee per day antidote a remedy? If they do, it it just the case with the remedies for which coffea is listed as an antidote?
Best wishes,
E
emma79 last decade
Several of us take cases here, quite frequently, simply by having you post your symptoms and answering a number of questions. No need to travel :)
Coffee does not antidote homoeopathy. Coffee might not be good for you generally, but it has no power over a truly curative medicine.
Coffee does not antidote homoeopathy. Coffee might not be good for you generally, but it has no power over a truly curative medicine.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
I am really glad to hear that coffee does not interfere with a homeopathic treatment. Otherwise, since I love coffee and am such a heavy smoker, my chances of a cure would probably be slim. Not that coffee and tobacco increase them :). Anyway, I could not longer bear the lack of coffee this morning and after one cup I started shaking and breathing with difficulty but that subsided an hour later.
Since you mentioned the possibility of taking a case here, I would like to post my symptoms here and if you have the time, I would appreciate it if you could recommend me a remedy.
1. Status: 32 years old, not married, living alone. I have never been pregnant. I am 1.70m, weigh 55 kilos, am dark, with stooping shoulders (ciphoscoliosis, I grew up fast in adolescence). I work as a teacher and I like people although I find it difficult to be around them at times and prefer to be by myself or with someone I know.
2. My birth was induced with an injection (my mother and the doctor thought I was too quiet and a bit late). As a child, my mother says I was happy and playful. At the age of 9 months she left to work and I was left with my grandmother. I spent my childhood separated from my brother, in the company of my grandmother a constant worrier , a hypochondriac and not a very sociable person who kept telling me that my parents did not want a daughter. So i grew up missing my parents dearly and feeling emprisoned with an old woman who would sometimes beat me if I refused to eat or sleep and who would speak ill of my mother. I used to have recurrent respiratory infections, I got pytiriasis versicolor around the age of 6. In my teens it became obvious that I had a problem with hirsutism. I started waxing. I also suffered from periodic bouts of insomnia that got worse on sleeping pills and better if my mother talked to me. I needed diversion to fall asleep.
3. When I moved away from my home city, I suddenly felt free and optimistic. Soon I got involved with a boy of my age who would appear and disappear, just like my mother used to when I was a child left with my overbearing grandmother. After 2-3 years my insomnia came back with a vengeance. I could not sleep, eat, talk to anyone, I realized I was depressed. I could not start a relationship with anyone else because in my heart that relationship never ended. I still dream about him every now and then.
4. After the first sexual intercourse with him, I developed a very scary for of leuchorea which was yellow/brown/probably greenish in colour. I suppressed it with many medicines. Within two years of starting this relationship I developed genital warts which were almost impossible to cure with traditional methods. Eventually I suppressed it with very large doses of antiviral medication and 15 days of vaccination (there is a vaccone in my country made of various germs meant to increase the immunity of the whole body). From then on my depression never lifted, I was left with a heavy feeling of shame and guilt and the delusion that no one would ever accept me or love me. A while after, I noticed small warts had appeared on my neck. A few years later, after an attempt at another relationship at the end of which I felt very angry, mortified, offended, I got spasms all over my body and in my stomach. I realized I had not got over my previous relationship. I developed an anal fissure which never healed. I keep it under control with the help of mineral oil.
5. I tried to resume the old relationship and after a breakup which was imposed by my best friend at the time I devloped this form of hysterical asthma, panic attacks with agoraphobia and claustrophobia. I cannot travel by subway because I start choking and feel I'm going insane and have to run out of there. In narrow places, in hot places I feel like I'm going to choke to death. I get pains in my joints, especially the left knee and ankle which crack when I stand up or stretch, and my shoulders, particularly the left one. After breaking up with my former boyfriend (for good) I had this sensation of drawing pain in my neck, at the juncture between the cervical and dorsal vertebrae.
6. I feel sleepy at night and wake up early in the morning. I feel better after psychotherapy but increasingly worried when I think about my ailments. I choke when I drink water, I have hiccoughs after eating. I feel that my whole body has to much tension (in my muscles) and I sigh a lot. I cannot cry. I work too much to be able to pay the bills.
7. I do not like smoked pork, I like fish, chicken, rice, fruit. I crave coffee and tobacco. I feel very sleepy and depressed without them.
8. I switch moods quickly if I start hoping that I will get better by taking the right remedy that will give me more comfort.
There is probably more, but I do not know what I should write about. If you have the time to look at this and recommend me a remedy, I would be grateful. If you have further questions, I would be glad to answer them.
Best,
E
Since you mentioned the possibility of taking a case here, I would like to post my symptoms here and if you have the time, I would appreciate it if you could recommend me a remedy.
1. Status: 32 years old, not married, living alone. I have never been pregnant. I am 1.70m, weigh 55 kilos, am dark, with stooping shoulders (ciphoscoliosis, I grew up fast in adolescence). I work as a teacher and I like people although I find it difficult to be around them at times and prefer to be by myself or with someone I know.
2. My birth was induced with an injection (my mother and the doctor thought I was too quiet and a bit late). As a child, my mother says I was happy and playful. At the age of 9 months she left to work and I was left with my grandmother. I spent my childhood separated from my brother, in the company of my grandmother a constant worrier , a hypochondriac and not a very sociable person who kept telling me that my parents did not want a daughter. So i grew up missing my parents dearly and feeling emprisoned with an old woman who would sometimes beat me if I refused to eat or sleep and who would speak ill of my mother. I used to have recurrent respiratory infections, I got pytiriasis versicolor around the age of 6. In my teens it became obvious that I had a problem with hirsutism. I started waxing. I also suffered from periodic bouts of insomnia that got worse on sleeping pills and better if my mother talked to me. I needed diversion to fall asleep.
3. When I moved away from my home city, I suddenly felt free and optimistic. Soon I got involved with a boy of my age who would appear and disappear, just like my mother used to when I was a child left with my overbearing grandmother. After 2-3 years my insomnia came back with a vengeance. I could not sleep, eat, talk to anyone, I realized I was depressed. I could not start a relationship with anyone else because in my heart that relationship never ended. I still dream about him every now and then.
4. After the first sexual intercourse with him, I developed a very scary for of leuchorea which was yellow/brown/probably greenish in colour. I suppressed it with many medicines. Within two years of starting this relationship I developed genital warts which were almost impossible to cure with traditional methods. Eventually I suppressed it with very large doses of antiviral medication and 15 days of vaccination (there is a vaccone in my country made of various germs meant to increase the immunity of the whole body). From then on my depression never lifted, I was left with a heavy feeling of shame and guilt and the delusion that no one would ever accept me or love me. A while after, I noticed small warts had appeared on my neck. A few years later, after an attempt at another relationship at the end of which I felt very angry, mortified, offended, I got spasms all over my body and in my stomach. I realized I had not got over my previous relationship. I developed an anal fissure which never healed. I keep it under control with the help of mineral oil.
5. I tried to resume the old relationship and after a breakup which was imposed by my best friend at the time I devloped this form of hysterical asthma, panic attacks with agoraphobia and claustrophobia. I cannot travel by subway because I start choking and feel I'm going insane and have to run out of there. In narrow places, in hot places I feel like I'm going to choke to death. I get pains in my joints, especially the left knee and ankle which crack when I stand up or stretch, and my shoulders, particularly the left one. After breaking up with my former boyfriend (for good) I had this sensation of drawing pain in my neck, at the juncture between the cervical and dorsal vertebrae.
6. I feel sleepy at night and wake up early in the morning. I feel better after psychotherapy but increasingly worried when I think about my ailments. I choke when I drink water, I have hiccoughs after eating. I feel that my whole body has to much tension (in my muscles) and I sigh a lot. I cannot cry. I work too much to be able to pay the bills.
7. I do not like smoked pork, I like fish, chicken, rice, fruit. I crave coffee and tobacco. I feel very sleepy and depressed without them.
8. I switch moods quickly if I start hoping that I will get better by taking the right remedy that will give me more comfort.
There is probably more, but I do not know what I should write about. If you have the time to look at this and recommend me a remedy, I would be grateful. If you have further questions, I would be glad to answer them.
Best,
E
peterpan781979 last decade
I's sorry, I posted from a different account because at one point I had lost my password and ID so I made a new one. But emma79 and peterpan781979 are the same person.
peterpan781979 last decade
I's sorry, I posted from a different account because at one point I had lost my password and ID so I made a new one. But emma79 and peterpan781979 are the same person.
emma79 last decade
I will post my intake form as well, anything you have not answered you can add. I will definitely have more questions for you.
GUIDELINES FOR GIVING HOMOEOPATHIC CASE INFORMATION
It is important to describe all your problems in as much detail as you are able. One word answers and short sentences are not particularly helpful. Discuss each problem one at a time, providing (as a minimum level of detail) the following information.
1. What exactly happens?
2. Describe all sensations and pains. Each pain or sensation should be described in such a way that allows us to imagine having the same pain.
3. What causes the problem to get worse after it has started occurring?
4. What creates some relief for the problem?
5. What triggers the problem into occuring?
6. What time of the day or night does the problem occur?
7. When did the problem start? What was happening in your life at that time? Did some specific event or treatment take place just before the problem started?
Move from one problem to the next, doing the same thing. IT IS VITAL THAT YOU GIVE A COMPLETE PICTURE OF YOUR HEALTH BY PROVIDING ALL PROBLEMS YOU HAVE, EVEN IF NOT CONNECTED TO THE MAIN ONE, AND EVEN IF YOU CONSIDER IT OF LESS IMPORTANCE. You should address each problem separately using the above 7 questions as a guide.
As well as this, please describe any traumatic incidents that have taken place in your life. Discuss anything that has had a lasting impact on you mentally, emotionally or physically.
Discuss the way that you manage or deal with your problems, or any problems that occur in your life.
Discuss any patterns you have noticed in your behavior especially concerning your disease.
Discuss any part of your life where you feel stuck or unable to change and grow, especially where this occurred around the beginning of your disease, or as the disease evolved.
Describe your childhood and the kind of environment you grew up in, with reference to your relationships with your family, your school experiences, and any serious childhood diseases.
If your earlier discussions have not mentioned these already, please describe:
1. The specific foods that you crave (not just like) or hate
2. The specific drinks that you crave or hate
3. What your sleep is like
4. How the weather and the temperature affects you
5. What kinds of things in the environment you are particularly sensitive to
6. What your general level of energy is like
7. What your level of sexual energy or desire is like
8. Describe your menstrual cycle
GUIDELINES FOR GIVING HOMOEOPATHIC CASE INFORMATION
It is important to describe all your problems in as much detail as you are able. One word answers and short sentences are not particularly helpful. Discuss each problem one at a time, providing (as a minimum level of detail) the following information.
1. What exactly happens?
2. Describe all sensations and pains. Each pain or sensation should be described in such a way that allows us to imagine having the same pain.
3. What causes the problem to get worse after it has started occurring?
4. What creates some relief for the problem?
5. What triggers the problem into occuring?
6. What time of the day or night does the problem occur?
7. When did the problem start? What was happening in your life at that time? Did some specific event or treatment take place just before the problem started?
Move from one problem to the next, doing the same thing. IT IS VITAL THAT YOU GIVE A COMPLETE PICTURE OF YOUR HEALTH BY PROVIDING ALL PROBLEMS YOU HAVE, EVEN IF NOT CONNECTED TO THE MAIN ONE, AND EVEN IF YOU CONSIDER IT OF LESS IMPORTANCE. You should address each problem separately using the above 7 questions as a guide.
As well as this, please describe any traumatic incidents that have taken place in your life. Discuss anything that has had a lasting impact on you mentally, emotionally or physically.
Discuss the way that you manage or deal with your problems, or any problems that occur in your life.
Discuss any patterns you have noticed in your behavior especially concerning your disease.
Discuss any part of your life where you feel stuck or unable to change and grow, especially where this occurred around the beginning of your disease, or as the disease evolved.
Describe your childhood and the kind of environment you grew up in, with reference to your relationships with your family, your school experiences, and any serious childhood diseases.
If your earlier discussions have not mentioned these already, please describe:
1. The specific foods that you crave (not just like) or hate
2. The specific drinks that you crave or hate
3. What your sleep is like
4. How the weather and the temperature affects you
5. What kinds of things in the environment you are particularly sensitive to
6. What your general level of energy is like
7. What your level of sexual energy or desire is like
8. Describe your menstrual cycle
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
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