IGNATIA AMARA
St. Ignatius Bean
(IGNATIA)
Produces a marked hyperaesthesia of all the senses, and a tendency to clonic spasms. Mentally, the emotional factor is uppermost, and co-ordination of characteristic is interfered with. Hence, it is one of the chief treatments for hysteria. It is specially tailored to the worried temperament-women of sensitive, without difficulty excited nature, dark, moderate disposition, rapid to perceive, fast in execution. Rapid alternate of intellectual and bodily condition, contrary to every other. Great contradictions. Alert, nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling sufferers who go through acutely in idea or body, at the equal time made worse by using consuming coffee. The superficial and erratic personality of its signs and symptoms is most characteristic. Effects of grief and worry. Cannot endure tobacco. Pain is small, circumscribed spots (Oxal ac). The plague. Hiccough and hysterical vomiting.
Mind.–Changeable mood; introspective; silently brooding. Melancholic, sad, tearful. Not communicative. Sighing and sobbing. After shocks, grief, disappointment.
Head.–Feels hollow, heavy; worse, stooping. Headache as if a nail have been pushed out via the side. Cramp-like ache over root of nose. Congestive complications following anger or grief; worse, smoking or smelling tobacco, inclines head forward.
Eyes.–Asthenopia, with spasms of lids and neuralgic ache about eyes (Nat m). Flickering zigzags.
Face.–Twitching of muscle tissue of face and lips. Changes shade when at rest.
Mouth.–Sour taste. Easily bites inner of cheeks. Constantly full of saliva. Toothache; worse after consuming espresso and smoking.
Throat.–Feeling of a lump in throat that can’t be swallowed. Tendency to choke, globus hystericus. Sore throat; stitches when no longer swallowing; better, ingesting some thing solid. Stitches between acts of swallowing. Stitches lengthen to ear (Hep). Tonsils inflamed, swollen, with small ulcers. Follicular tonsillitus.
Stomach.–Sour eructation. All-gone feeling in stomach; a whole lot flatulence; hiccough. Cramps in stomach; worse slightest contact. Averse to regular diet; longs for amazing range of indigestible articles. Craving for acid things. Sinking in stomach, relieved by using taking a deep breath.
Abdomen.–Rumbling in bowels. Weak feeling in higher abdomen. Throbbing in stomach (Aloe; Sang). Colicky, griping pains in one or each facets of abdomen.
Rectum.–Itching and stitching up the rectum. Prolapse. Stools bypass with difficulty; painful constriction of anus after stool. Stitches in haemorrhoids all through cough. Diarrhoea from fright. Stitches from anus deep into rectum. Haemorrhage and pain; worse when stool is loose. Pressure as of a sharp instrument from inside outward.
Urine.–Profuse, watery (Phos ac).
Respiratory.–Dry, spasmodic cough in speedy successive shocks. Spasm of glottis (Calc). Reflex coughs. Coughing will increase the want to cough. Much sighing. Hollow spasmodic cough, worse in the evening, little expectoration, leaving ache in trachea.
Female.–Menses, black, too early, too profuse, or scanty. During menses top notch languor, with spasmodic pains in belly and abdomen. Feminine sexual frigidity. Suppression from grief.
Extremities.–Jerking of limbs. Pain in tendo-Achillis and calf. Ulcerative ache in soles.
Sleep.–Very light. Jerking of limbs on going to sleep. Insomnia from grief, cares, with itching of fingers and violent yawning. Dreams persevering with a lengthy time; troubling him.
Fever.–Chill, with thirst; no longer relieved by means of exterior heat. During fever, itching; nettle-rash all over body.
Skin.–Itching, nettle-rash. Very touchy to draught of air. Excoriation, in particular round vagina and mouth.
Modalities.–Worse, in the morning, open air, after meals, coffee, smoking, liquids, exterior warmth. Better, whilst eating, trade of position.
Relationship.–Compare: Zinc; Kali phos; Sep; Cimicif. Panacea arvensis–Poor man’s Mercury–(Sensitiveness over gastric area with starvation however an aversion to food).
Complementary: Nat mur.
Incompatible: Coffea; Nux; Tabac.
Antidotes: Puls; Cham; Cocc.
Dose.–Sixth, to 2 hundredth potency.
