Ignatia amara
igna-amaSt. Ignatius Bean Produces a marked hyperæsthesia 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
Ignatia amara — Materia Medica
Ignatia amara — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
twitchings, tremor, etc.; during pain. Jerks run through whole body. SENSE OF A LUMP, foreign body or sharp pressure. Globus. Clavus. Hysteria. Pain in a spot, < close attention. Symptoms pass off with a profuse flow of urine. Oversensitive to pain. Tonic spasm of single parts, with frothing at mouth. Neurotic inheritance. Spasms from punishment (Agar.). .................... Brooding grief. Silent and sad; inward weeping. Intolerant of contradiction; of reprimands (Colo. Stap.). Angry with himself. Delicately conscientious. Everything irks her. Weak and excitable. ALERT, OVERSENSITIVE AND NERVOUS. Highly emotional. Capricious. Moody. Changeful. Faints easily. SIGHS, weeps or laughs by turns. Unhappy; love. Enjoys being sad. GRIEF; brooding. Alternate headache and backache (Melil.). Headache ends in yawning and vomiting. Eyelids seem dry. Flashes of light, from violent coughing. Nose sensitive to inspired air. Pain over root of nose. Sneezing attacks. One cheek red. Jaws snap shut; bites inside of cheek, tongue, etc. Masseters stiff and hard. Indurated tonsils; with little ulcers. Cramp in gullet. Swallows over a lump, > solids. Hiccough; with eructations, empty or bitter. Nausea or vomiting, > indigestible foods. Hunger, with nausea. Craves raw foods. Empty sinking or spasmodic ache in stomach; not > eating. Stool painful; difficult although soft, then constriction of rectum. Obstipation of neurasthenics. Pain shoots up rectum. Piles, > sitting. Prolapsus recti. Irregular menses. TAKES DEEP BREATHS; for relief. Choking. Spasm of glottis. Hacking cough. Cough violent, it shuts off the breath; dry, as from dust or sulphur fumes; < coughing. Constriction of thorax. Goitre. Tension in nape. Cramp in calf. Heavy feet. Painful skin, > pressure. Violent, spasmodic yawning. Light sleep, every sound wakes. Dreams same horrid dreams, over and over. Chill with a red face. Chill, shaking; nervous; with thirst; < pain. Heat, with aversion to uncover, but no thirst.
Ignatia amara — mind · H.C. Allen
Bad effects of anger, grief, or disappointed love (Calc-p., Hyos.); broods in solitude over imaginary trouble. Mental conditions rapidly, in an almost incredibly short time, change from joy to sorrow, from laughing to weeping (Coff., Croc., Nux-m.); moody. Persons mentally and physically exhausted by long-concentrated grief. Desire to be alone. Finely sensitive mood, delicate consciousness. Inconstant, impatient, irresolute, quarrelsome. Amiable in disposition if feeling well, but easily disturbed by very slight emotion; easily offended. The slightest fault finding or contradiction excites anger, and this makes him angry with himself. Children, when reprimanded, scolded, or sent to bed, get sick or have convulsions in sleep. Ill-effects, from bad news; from vexation with reserved displeasure; from suppressed mental sufferings; of shame and mortification (Staph.). Involuntary sighing (Lach.).
Ignatia amara — general · H.C. Allen
Especially suited to nervous temperament; women of a sensitive, easily excited nature; dark hair and skin but mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in execution (in striking contrast with the fair complexion, yielding, lachrymose, but slow and indecisive, Pulsatilla). The remedy of great contradictions: The roaring in ears > by music; the piles > when walking; sore throat feels > when swallowing; empty feeling in stomach not > by eating; cough < the more he coughs; cough on standing still during a walk (Astac.); spasmodic laughter from grief; sexual desire with impotency; thirst during a chill, no thirst in the fever; the color changes in the face when at rest. Cannot bear tobacco; smoking, or being in tobacco smoke, produces or aggravates headache. Sweat on the face on a small spot only while eating. Oversensitiveness to pain (Coff., Cham.). Pain in small, circumscribed spots. Complaints return at precisely the same hour.
Ignatia amara — modalities · H.C. Allen
Aggravation: From tobacco, coffee, brandy, contact, motion, strong odors, mental emotions, grief. Amelioration: Warmth, hard pressure (Chin.); swallowing, walking.
Ignatia amara — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
EMOTIONS: GRIEFS. Chagrin. WORRY. Fright. Shock. AIR: Open. Cold. Odors. Touch. Coffee. Tobacco.
Ignatia amara — modalities better · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Position: Change of. Lying on part. Urination. If alone. Pressure. ERRATIC, CONTRADICTORY OR SPASMODIC EFFECTS; often violent; with rigidity,
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