Ignatia Amara

General

IGNATIA. [Ignat.] St. Ignatius's Bean. Hahnemann. Loganiaceae.

Mind

► Absent-minded. ► Desire to be alone. ► Changeable disposition ; jesting and laughing, changing to sadness, with shedding of tears. ► Taciturn mood. ► Sadness. ► Sensitive mood, delicate conscientiousness. ► Affectionate disposition, with very clear consciousness. ► Great grief after losing persons or objects that were very dear. ► Anger, followed by quiet grief or sorrow. ► Children after having been reprimanded or scolded, are sent to bed and get sick. ► Ailments from grief, mortification, bad news, or suppressed mental suffering. ► Jealousy. ► Effects of disappointed love.

Sensorium

► Heaviness of the head.

Inner Head

► Pressing frontal headache over the glabella, must bend the head forward ; followed by inclination to vomit. ► Headache, like a pressure with something hard, on the upper surface of the brain. ► Throbbing pain in the occiput, worse when pressing at stool. ► Weight at back of head ; tendency of the head to incline backward. ► Pain with every throb of the arteries. ► Pain as if a nail were driven out through the side of the head, better by lying on it. ► Headache, worse mornings ; from moving the eyes ; from noise ; from coffee, tobacco or alcohol ; close attention. ► Congestion to the head, from being spoken to. ► Head feels sore ; bruised.

Outer Head

► Trembling and shaking of the head. ► Head bent backward, during spasms.

Eyes

► Cannot bear the glare of light ; sunlight causes headache. ► Flickering zigzags before the eyes. ► Dimsighted. ► Pain from head into left eye ; latter burns and waters. ► Pain under the upper lid as if it were too dry. ► Sensation as of sand in the eyes. ► Acrid tears in the eyes, during the day. ► Swelling of the upper lid. ► Nightly agglutination of the lids.

Ears

► Roaring in ears relieved by music. ► Intolerance of noise ; headache from noise. ► Sound before the ear, as from a strong wind. ► Hard hearing except for speech. ► Tugging pains in the ears. ► Itching in the ears.

Nose

► Stoppage of one nostril. ► Fluent coryza. ► Soreness and sensitiveness of inner nose, with swelling. ► Nostrils ulcerated.

Face

► Convulsive twitchings of muscles of face. ► Alternate redness and paleness of face. ► Redness and heat of one cheek and ear. ► Face clay-colored and sunken, with blue rings around eyes.

Lower Face

► Twitching of corners of the mouth. ► Spasmodic closing of the jaws. ► Lips dry, cracked, bleeding. ► Ulceration of one of the corners of the mouth. ► Inside of lower lip painful, as if sore. ► Pain in the submaxillary glands, when moving the neck.

Teeth

► Jaws feel as if crushed. ► Boring pain in the front teeth ; soreness in all the teeth. ► Toothache worse after drinking coffee, after smoking tobacco ; after dinner ; in the evening ; after lying down ; or in the morning, on awaking ; worse in intervals between meals. ► Difficult dentition, with convulsions.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : sour, also of saliva ; flat ; like chalk. ► Food has no taste. ► When talking or chewing, bites the cheek of tongue.

Mouth

► Accumulation of much saliva in the mouth. ► Inner mouth inflamed and sore. ► Putrid odor from the mouth.

Throat

► Stitches in the soft palate, extending to the ear. ► Inflamed, hard swollen tonsils, with small ulcers. ► Stitches in the throat, only between the acts of swallowing. ► Sensation as from a lump in throat, when not swallowing. ► Choking sensation from the stomach up to the throat. ► Throat worse when not swallowing, and when swallowing liquids ; better when swallowing food.

Desires And Aversions

► Hunger and nausea at the same time. ► Feeling of hunger in the evening, prevents sleep. ► Desire for various things, but when offered appetite fails. ► Appetite for : sour things ; bread, particularly rye bread. ► Aversion to : tobacco ; warm food ; meat ; spirituous liquors.

Eating And Drinking

► Drinking coffee : 10, 21. When eating : 11, 13, 40. After eating :10, 36. After eating and drinking : 16. Warm drink : 27. Hasty liquids : 36. Smoking : 10, 16.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Hiccough : after eating and drinking ; from smoking. ► Belching, with pressure in the cardia. ► Regurgitation of the ingesta. ► Gulping up of a bitter fluid. ► Nausea without vomiting ; empty, retching, better by eating. ► Vomit : bitter ; of food.

Stomach

► Sensation of weakness (sinking) in the pit of the stomach, with qualmishness and flat taste, or sighing. ► Spasmodic pains in the stomach ; also when better, eating. ► Periodical attacks of cramps worse at night, from touch ; worse from a change of position ; useful during attacks of gastralgia. ► Gnawing, cutting pain in the stomach. ► Heaviness and pressure in the pit of the stomach. ► Bloated stomach. ► Anxious feeling in the praecordia. ► Fulness and pressure in epigastrium ; distention of hypochondria and pit of stomach, so full she can hardly breathe.

Hypochondria

► Swelling and induration of the spleen.

Abdomen

► Periodical abdominal spasms. ► Drawing and pinching in umbilical region. ► Colic pains, first griping, then stitching, in one or the other side of the abdomen. ► Flatulent colic.

Stool, Etc

► Diarrhoea : painless, with rumbling of wind ; worse at night and from fright, with great timidity ; with smarting in the rectum. ► Fruitless efforts and urging to stool. ► Stools large and soft, but passed with difficulty. ► Contractive sore pain in the rectum, like from blind hemorrhoids, one or two hours after stool. ► Constriction of the anus after stool, worse while standing. ► Stitches from the anus up the rectum. ► Itching at the anus from seat-worms. ► Prolapsus of the rectum, from moderate straining at stool.

Urine

► Sudden, irresistible desire to urinate. ► Pressure to urinate, from drinking coffee. ► Frequent profuse passage of watery urine. ► Burning, smarting, or soreness in urethra during urination.

Male Sexual Organs

► Sexual desire weak. ► Erection during stool. ► Contraction of penis, it becomes quite small. ► Soreness and ulcerative pain, combined with itching, at the margin of the prepuce. ► Itching around genitals and on penis in evening after lying down ; passes off after scratching.

Female Sexual Organs

► Menses : too soon ; scanty, or profuse. ► Menstrual blood black, of putrid odor, in clots. ► Metrorrhagia from chamomile tea. ► Cramp pains in uterus, with lancinations, worse from touching the parts. ► Violent labor-like pain, followed by purulent, corrosive leucorrhoea.

Pregnancy

► Milk diminished. ► After-pains with much sighing. ► Puerperal convulsions, commence and terminate with groaning and stretching of limbs ; accompanied with vomiting.

Larynx

► Voice : low ; trembling ; hoarseness from cold. ► Sensation of soreness in the larynx. ► Constrictive sensation in trachea and larynx.

Breathing

► Desire to take a deep breath. ► Frequent sighing. ► Impeded inspiration, like from a weight on the chest. ► Oppressed breathing, alternating with convulsions. ► Oppressed of chest at night, worse at midnight. ► Loses breath when running.

Cough

► Dry, spasmodic cough. ► Hollow, spasmodic cough, caused, in evening, by a sensation as from fumes of sulphur, or from dust in pit of throat ; in morning, from a tickling above the pit of stomach. ► The longer the cough, the more the irritation to cough increases. ► Cough every time he stands still, after walking. ► Cough after warm drink ; sleepy after each coughing spell. ► Expectoration : in evening, rarely in morning ; difficult in evening ; tasting and smelling like old catarrh.

Lungs

► Stitches in the chest, from flatulent colic. ► Spasmodic constriction of the chest.

Heart And Pulse

► Palpitation of the heart at night and in the morning, in bed. ► Pulse : generally hard, full and frequent, with throbbing blood-vessels : less frequent, small and slow ; variable.

Neck And Back

► Stiffness of the nape of the neck. ► Painless glandular swellings on the neck. ► Pain in the sacrum, also when lying on back, mornings. ► Spine disease, with gressus gallinaceus.

Upper Limbs

► Quivering jerks in deltoid muscle. ► Pains in joints of arms, when bending them backwards ; like from overexertion, or as if bruised. ► Numb feeling of arms at night, in bed, with it a sensation as if something living were running in the arm.

Lower Limbs

► Lancinating, cutting pains in hip-joint. ► Ischias : intermitting, chronic ; better in summer, worse in winter ; beating as though it would burst the hip-joint, accompanied by chilliness, with thirst, flushes of heat, particularly in the face, without thirst. ► Knees are involuntarily drawn upwards when walking ; gressus gallinaceus. ► Convulsive jerking of the lower limbs. ► Cracking of the knees. ► Heat of the knees, with coldness of the nose. ► Heaviness of the feet. ► Bruised or stinging sensation in the soles of the feet. ► Burning in the heels at night ; when they come in contact, however, they feel cold.

Limbs In General

► Tingling in the limbs. ► Pain as if sprained or dislocated, in shoulder, hip and knee-joints. ► Single jerks of the limbs when falling asleep.

Position, Etc

► Moving : the eyes : 3 ; the neck : 9. Walking : 33. Running : 26. Standing : 20, 27. Head bent backward : 4. Must bend head forward : 3. Bending arms backwards : 32. Lying down : 10, 22 ; on painful side : 3 ; on back : 31, 36. In bed : 29, 32. Better from change of position.

Nerves

► Trembling of the limbs. ► Languor in the limbs. ► Spasms of children, preceded by hasty drinking. ► Convulsive twitchings, especially after fright or grief. ► Convulsions : during dentition, with frothing at the mouth, kicking with the legs ; during the commencement of exanthematic fevers ; of children after punishment ; after fear or fright, return at same hour daily. ► Chorea after fright with grief, worse after eating ; better lying on back. ► Children convulsed in sleep after having been punished. ► Paralysis after great mental emotion, and night watching in the sick chamber.

Sleep

► Spasmodic yawning : with pain in the lower jaw, as if dislocated ; so that water runs from the eyes. ► Sleep very light, hears everything, even distant sounds, during sleep. ► Restless sleep. ► Snoring inhalations during sleep. ► During sleep of children : chewing motion of mouth and startings (flexors) ; stamping with feet and grinding of the teeth. ► Child awakens from sleep with piercing cries and trembles all over. ► Dreams : of one and the same object, the whole night through. ► When falling asleep : 34. On awaking in morning : 10.

Time

► Morning : 3, 10, 27, 29, 31. Afternoon : 10. Evening : 10, 14, 22, 27. Night : 5, 17, 20, 26, 29, 32, 33, 36. After midnight : 26. Same hour daily : 36. Day : 5.

Temperature And Weather

► From getting heated : 46. External warmth : 40. Draught of air : 46. Open air : 46. Better in the summer, worse in the winter : 33.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chill and chilliness, with increased pains. ► Chill, with thirst, better from external warmth. ► Chill, frequently of only the posterior part of body. ► External coldness, with internal heat. ► Internal chill, with external heat. ► External heat without thirst, with intolerance of external warmth. ► Flushes of heat, external. ► Continuous quick alternations from heat to cold. ► One sided burning heat of the face. ► Fainting during the heat or sweat. ► Sweat slight, or only in the face. ► Sensation as if sweat would break out, which, however, does not follow. ► Sweat when eating ; and then often on a small spot on face. ► Sweat at times cold, but generally warm and some what sour smelling.

Attacks

► Periodical : 17, 36.

Sides

► Left side : 18. One sided : 40. In to out : 3, 43. Below upwards : 13, 20.

Sensations

► Oversensitive to pain. ► Pressing pains from in to out, as from a hard, pointed body. ► Tension in internal parts. ► Pain in small circumscribed spots.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Generally worse from slight touch ; better from hard pressure. ► Touch : 17, 23. Scratching : 22, 46.

Skin

► Great sensitiveness of the skin to a draught of air. ► Itching : better from gentle scratching ; when getting heated in the open air. ► Skin chafed, sore. ► Ulcers : painless ; discharge scanty.

Stages And States

► Especially suitable to nervous and hysterical females of mild, but easily excited nature.

Relationship

► Ignat. antidoted : Zincum. ► Ignat. may be indicated in ailments from Coffea, Chamom., brandy, Pulsat., tobacco. ► Coccul. removes the decreased sexual power produced by Ignat. ► Antidotes to Ignat : Arnic., Camphor., Chamom., Coccul., Coffea, Nux vom., Pulsat. ► Inimicals : Coffea, Tabac.