Ignatia Amara

▲   GENERAL

General

Ignatia Amara produces a marked hyperaesthenia of all the senses, and a tendency to clonic spasms. Mentally, The emotional element is uppermost, and co-ordination of function is interfered with. Hence, it is one of the chief remedies for hysteria. It is especially adapted to the nervous temperament - women of sensitive, easily excited nature, dark, mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in execution. Rapid change of mental and physical condition, opposite to each other. Great contradictions. Alert, nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling patients who suffer acutely in mind or body, at the same time made worse by drinking Coffea Cruda ^Coffee. The Superficial and erratic character of its symptoms is most characteristic. Effects of grief and worry. Cannot bear tobacco. Pain is small, circumscribed spots ( Oxalicum Acidum ^Oxal-ac.) The plague. Hiccough and hysterical vomiting.

Dose

Sixth to 200th potency.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, in the morning, open air, after meals, Coffea Cruda ^Coffee, smoking, liquids, external warmth.

Better

BETTER, while eating, change of position.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Zincum Metallicum ^Zinc.; Kali Phosphoricum ^Kali-phos.; Sepia ^Sep.; Cimicifuga Racemosa ^Cimicif. Panacea arvensis - Poor man’s Merc Viv ^Mercury - (Sensitiveness over gastric region with hunger but an aversion to food).

Complementary

Complementary: Coffea Tosta ^Coffea; Nux Vomica ^Nux; Tabacum ^{Tab Ac}.

Antidotes

Antidotes: Pulsatilla ^Puls.; Chamomilla ^Cham.; Cocculus Indicus ^Cocc.

▲   MIND

Mind

Changeable mood; introspective; silently brooding

Melancholic, sad, tearful

Not communicative

Sighing and sobbing

After shocks, grief, disappointment.

Aversions, dislikes

open air

company

Conscientious about things of little importance

Consolation

Conversation

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions

illusions of fantasy

Symptoms follow intense emotions

anger

fright

ailments from grief

disappointed love

Mental exertion

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

anger (see irritability and quarrelsome)

anger (see irritability and quarrelsome); with anxiety

anger (see irritability and quarrelsome); with fright

anger (see irritability and quarrelsome); with silent grief

anger (see irritability and quarrelsome); from contradiction

impatience

inconstancy

indecisive

irritability; consolation

laughing

involuntarily

spasmodic

love; silent grief

mood; alternating mood

mood; changeable, variable mood

quarrelsome, argumentative

sentimental

sensitive, oversensitive

unhappy; despair

during chill

unhappy; grief

silent

unhappy; sadness, mental depression

during chill

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting)

involuntary

Hysteria

fainting

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety; with fear

fear

Ailments after death of part of body

Preoccupied

absorbed, buried in thought; introspection

brooding (see anxiety, sadness)

Sighing (see respiration)

Talking, conversation; intolerant of contradiction

Unconsciousness

after emotion

transient

▲   HEAD

Head

Feels hollow, heavy; Worse, stooping

Pain, headache; as if crushed shattered, beaten to pieces

Headache

Headache as if a nail were driven out through the side

Cramp-like pain over root of nose

Congestive headaches following anger or grief; Worse, smoking or smelling tobacco, inclines head forward.

Pain, headache

from emotions; after a fright

from emotions; from grief

from emotions; nervous

in forehead

sides; right

piercing, stabbing (see cutting); as from a nail; sides; as if side driven outward, feels better when lying on it

▲   EYES

Eyes

Asthenopia, with spasms of lids and neuralgic pain about eyes ( Nat Mur ^Nat-m.) Flickering zigzags.

▲   FACE

Face

Twitching of muscles of face and lips

Changes color when at rest.

Distortion

Perspiration

Skin

discoloration; changing colour

discoloration; pale; during period

discoloration; red; evening

Sunken

▲   NOSE

Nose

Smell

acute, over sensitive

acute, over sensitive; sensitive to strong odours

Discharge

Running or blocked nose (coryza); running, wet

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Easily bites inside of cheeks

Biting self; cheek when talking or chewing

Gums and teeth

Toothache; worse after drinking Coffea Cruda ^Coffee and smoking.

Saliva

Constantly full of saliva

Dryness

Tongue

Biting self; tongue

Taste

Sour taste

Saliva; sour (see taste)

Taste; sour

▲   THROAT

Throat

Feeling of a lump in throat that cannot be swallowed

Tendency to choke, globus hystericus

Sore throat; stitches when not swallowing; better, eating something solid

Stitches between acts of swallowing

Stitches extend to ear ( Hep Sulph Calc ^Hep.) Tonsils inflamed, swollen, With small ulcers

follicular tonsillitis.

Larynx (voice box); spasm in vocal cords, stopping breathing

Choking, constricting

evening

gullet

Sensation of something in throat

lump

lump; rising sensation

sulphur vapour

Inflammation; follicular

Irritation

increases the more one coughs

larynx

throat-pit

Pain

when not swallowing

sore

sudden, sharp; when not swallowing

Spasms, convulsions etc.

Thrush

▲   CHEST

Chest

Anxiety; region of heart

Constriction, tension

spasmodic

Oppressed feeling

Respiration

Dry, spasmodic cough in quick successive shocks

Spasm of glottis (Calc Carb ^Calc.) Reflex coughs

Coughing increases the desire to cough

Much sighing

Hollow spasmodic cough, worse in the evening, little expectoration, leaving pain in trachea.

Deep

desire to breathe deeply

Sighing

Shrill grating sound

▲   COUGH

Cough

Evening

in bed

Coughing

Dry cough

evening

From emotions; after stress

Hacking cough

evening

evening; in bed

evening; after lying down

Hollow

morning; on waking

evening

Sensations in throat and air passages (either from coughing, or causing coughing); from irritation in air passages; increases the more one coughs

from irritation in air passages

in larynx

from irritation in air passages; in throat-pit

Racking

Short

evening

Sensation of sulphur fumes or vapour

Violent

▲   SKIN

Skin

Itching, nettle-rash

Very sensitive to draft of air

Excoriation, especially around vagina and mouth.

Out-breaks on skin; like nettle rash; during fever

▲   BACK AND NECK

Neck

Stiffness; neck

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Cramps in stomach; worse slightest contact

Averse to ordinary diet; longs for great variety of indigestible articles

Craving for acid things

Sinking in stomach, relieved by taking a deep breath.

Rumbling in bowels

Weak feeling in upper abdomen

Throbbing in abdomen ( Aloe Socotrina ^Aloe; Sanguinaria Canadensis ^Sang.) Colicky, griping pains in one or both sides of abdomen.

As if intestines were loose; as if intestines were hanging down

Pain; after intense emotions; after excitement

Complaints of spleen

Sense of weakness

Stomach

desires, cravings; indistinct, knows not what

disordered; not relieved by eating

disordered; sighing

burping, belching

flabbiness

sensation of stomach hanging down, relaxed

indigestion; after grief

thirst; during chill

Eating

aversion to certain foods or drinks; tobacco; smoking (his accustomed cigar)

Eructation

Sour eructation

Flatus

All-gone feeling in stomach; Much flatulence; hiccough

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Itching and stitching up the rectum

Prolapse

Stools pass with difficulty; Painful constriction of anus after stool

Stitches in hemorrhoids during cough

Diarrhoea from fright

Stitches from anus deep into rectum

Hemorrhage and pain; worse when stool is loose

Pressure as of a sharp instrument from within outward.

Constriction, contraction, closure, etc.

painful

after stool

Haemorrhoids

internal

walking

Pain

after stool

griping

pressing (pressure)

soreness

after stool

sudden, sharp; extending to other parts; upward

Prolapse

evening

during stool

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Profuse, watery ( Acid Phos ^Phos-ac.)

Clear as water

Male

Male

withered; penis

excoriated (as if grazed, chaffed); penis; foreskin; on the margin

itching; penis; foreskin

pain; sore; penis; foreskin; margin

retraction; penis

Genitals

Feminine sexual frigidity

Suppression from grief.

Male; shrivelled

Menses

Female; Menses, BLACK, too early, too profuse, or scanty

During menses great languor, with spasmodic pains in stomach and abdomen

Female; period; suppressed; from grief

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Jerking of limbs

Pain in tendo-Achilles and calf

Ulcerative pain in soles.

Hands and feet

corns; burning

corns; sore

Movements and positions

jerking; falling asleep

twitching

Paralysis

hysterical

after mental emotion

Perspiration; hand; palm

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Chill, with thirst; not relieved by external heat

During fever, itching; nettle-rash all over body.

In the open air

Beginning in particular area; abdomen and extending from abdomen

Changing type

External

in spots

Shaking, shivering, rigors

evening

Single parts

Warmth

warm room

external warmth

Afternoon

Localised; front of body

Attacks changing

With chill

External heat

afternoon

with redness without internal heat

with chilliness

Stages of chill, heat and sweat; chill followed by heat

Desire to uncover

Warmth; covering

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Very light

Jerking of limbs on going to sleep

Insomnia from grief, cares, with itching of arms and violent yawning

Dreams continuing a long time; troubling him.

Dreams; mental exertion

Yawning

Convulsions

Convulsions

convulsive movements

from fright

hysterical

internal

after punishment

Perspiration

Hot

Sensation as if about to perspire, but no moisture appears

Single parts

Generalities

Aversion to open air

Sensation of ball internally (compare knotted sensation)

Change of position

Blood vessels; excited, rapid blood flow; after emotions

Constriction; internally

Contradictory and alternating states

Eating and food

eating

coffee

sweets

Faintness, fainting

on excitement

hysterical (see hysteria)

Flabby feeling

Pain

constricting; internally

jerking; internally

pinching; internally

sudden, sharp; internally

Sensation of plug; internally

Pressure; on painless side

Sensitive; to pain

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); warm heater

Tobacco

Twitching

twitching, involuntary movements (chorea)

Warm heater

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