Habitat Strychnos ignatia? Strychnos multiflora?-The actual tree from which the so-called "beans" are obtained is not known
ClarkePreparation Tincture and trituration of the seeds.
Sources 19 entries across 17 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose
200X
Sixth, to 200th potency.
Reason for useBoericke
Produces a marked hyperaesthesia 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 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 (Oxal ac). The plague. Hiccough and hysterical vomiting.
▲ Worse in the morning, open air, after meals, coffee, smoking, liquids, external warmth
▼ Better while eating, change of position
By regionBoericke
Mind Changeable mood; introspective; silently brooding. Melancholic, sad, tearful. Not communicative. Sighing and sobbing. …
Head Feels hollow, heavy; worse, stooping. Headache as if a nail were driven out through the side. Cramp-like pain over root of nose. …
Eyes Asthenopia, with spasms of lids and neuralgic pain about eyes (Nat m). Flickering zigzags.
Stomach Sour eructation. All-gone feeling in stomach; much flatulence; hiccough. Cramps in stomach; worse slightest contact. …
Respiratory Dry, spasmodic cough in quick successive shocks. Spasm of glottis (Calc). Reflex coughs. Coughing increases the desire to cough. Much sighing. …
Female Menses, black, too early, too profuse, or scanty. During menses great languor, with spasmodic pains in stomach and abdomen. Feminine sexual frigidity. …
Extremities Jerking of limbs. Pain in tendo-Achillis and calf. Ulcerative pain in soles.
Sleep Very light. Jerking of limbs on going to sleep. Insomnia from grief, cares, with itching of arms and violent yawning. …
Fever Chill, with thirst; not relieved by external heat. During fever, itching; nettle-rash all over body.
Skin Itching, nettle-rash. Very sensitive to draught of air. Excoriation, especially around vagina and mouth.
Books*
Antidoted by Pulsatilla Pratensis 5, Arnica Montana 3, Camphora 3+18
* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works. homeopathylibrary.com/remedy/ignatia-amara