Ignatia Amara Homeopathic Medicine

 Generalities

 – The seeds of Ignatia contain a large proportion of strychnine than those of Nux-vomica, yet there is a great difference between the characteristic features of the two drugs.

 – Though it affects the MIND, EMOTIONAL element is profoundly influenced and co-ordination of functions is interfered with; causing ERRATIC; contradictory; parodoxical mental and physical EFFECTS; which change rapidly, and are opposite to each other.

 – NERVOUS SYSTEM is affected causing SPASMODIC EFFECTS; often violent with rigidity, twitching and tremors.

 – It is adapted to the persons of nervous temperament esp. women of sensitive, easily excited nature,mild disposition, quick to perceive and rapid in execution.

 – SENSE OF LUMP, foreign body or sharp pressure.

 – Jerks run through the whole body.

 – Tendency to start.

 – Globus.

 – Clavus.

 – Hysteria.

 – Chorea; after fright, from grief agg. after eating, amel. lying on back.

 – Convulsions of children; during dentition; after punishment; after fear or fright; return at the same hour daily.

 – Spasms, with cries or involuntary laughter.

 – Tonic spasms of single parts, with frothing at the mouth.

 – Spasms alternating with oppressed breathing.

 – Pain in spot agg. close attention amel.

 – Oversensitive to pain.

 – Pains change their locality, come gradually, abate suddenly, or come and go suddenly.

 – Symptoms pass after profuse urination.

 – Plague; preventive and curative.

 – Nervous shuddering; with pain.

 – Paralysis; after great mental emotions and night watching, in sick chamber.

 – Suitable to persons who had been starving either from want or other causes.

 – Ill effects of grief, fright, worry, disappointed love; jealousy; old spinal injuries.

 – Catalepsy with opisthotonous. (Nat-mur. should follow in chronic conditions.)

 Worse

 – EMOTIONS.

 – GRIEF.

 – Chagrin.

 – WORRY.

 – Fright; shock, after losing persons or objects that were very dear.

 – Air; open, cold.

 – Odours.

 – Touch.

 – Coffee.

 – Tobacco.

 – Yawning.

 – Stooping,walking; standing.

 – At the same hour and day.

 Better

 – Change of position.

 – Lying on affected part.

 – Urination.

 – If alone.

 – Pressure.

 – Deep breathing.

 – Swallowing.

 – Eating

 – Near a warm stove.

 – Sour things.

 Mind

 – ALERT; OVERSENSITIVE AND NERVOUS.

 – Highly emotional.

 – Moody.

 – Brooding GRIEF.

 – Silent and sad.

 – SIGHS.

 – Weeps or laughs by turns, laughs when she ought to be serious.

 – Changeable moods.

 – Unhappy love.

 – Inward weeping; enjoys being sad.

 – Angry with himself.

 – Desire to be alone.

 – Everything irks her.

 – Intolerant of contradiction; of reprimands.

 – Anguish; shrieks for help.

 – Capricious.

 – Delicately conscientious.

 – Fear; of thieves; of trifles, of things coming near him Introspective.

 – Faint easily, girls who faint every time they go to church; or who fall in love with married men.

 – Sensation as if she had been fasting for a long time.

 – Hurried during menses; no one can do things fast enough for her.

 – Looks about the bed as if to find something.

 – Delights to bring on her fits and produce a scare or a scene.

 – Thinks she had neglected her duty.

 – Sighing and sobbing.

 – Not communicative.

 – Fear or robbers at night.

 Head

 – Ache as if a nail were driven out through the sides; end in yawning and vomiting; alternate with backache.

 – Headache agg. or amel. by stooping.

 – Throws head backwards; from weight at occiput; or during spasms.

 – Vertigo, with sparks before the eyes.

 – Loud talking agg. headache.

 – Headache; from abuse of snuff, tobacco smoke, coffee, from close attention.

 Eyes

 – Asthenopia; with spasms of the lids, and neuralgic pains around the eyes.

 – Flashes of light, from violent coughing.

 – Eyelids seem dry.

 – Flickering, zigzags before the eyes.

 Ears

 – Roaring amel. by music.

 – One ear red and hot.

 – Deafness, except for human voice.

 Nose

 – Sensitive to inspired air.

 – Pain over the root of the nose.

 – Sneezing attacks.

 – Cold, with hot knees.

 Face

 – Twitching of the muscles of face and lips.

 – Redness and heat of one cheek; red and pale alternately.

 – Masseters stiff and hard.

 – Emotional trismus.

 – Change colour often when at rest.

 – Facial muscles distort on attempting to speak.

 Mouth

 – Spasmodic closing of the jaws; bites inside cheek or tongue when talking or chewing.

 – Corners twitch.

 – Taste sour.

 – Toothache agg. after drinking coffee and smoking.

 – Sudden attacks of salivation.

 Throat

 – Inflammed, hard swollen tonsils, with small ulcers on them.

 – Follicular tonsillitis.

 – Feeling as of a lump, when not swallowing or that can not be swallowed;amel. eating solids.

 – Tendency to choke – Globus hystericus.

 – Stitches extend to ear; between acts of swallowing.

 – Submaxillary glands painful when moving the neck.

 – Cramps in gullet.

 – Goitre.

 Stomach

 – Hunger, with nausea.

 – Craves raw or indigestible things; sour things, bread esp. rye bread.

 – Appetite for various things, but when offered appetite fails.

 – Aversion to warm food, meat, alcohol, tobacco.

 – Empty sinking or spasmodic ache in stomach not amel. by eating; amel. by taking and deep breath.

 – Hiccough; with eructations empty or bitter; after eating, drinking, smoking.

 – Nausea or vomiting amel. indigestible things.

 Abdomen

 – Colicky griping pain in one or both sides of the abdomen.

 – Stools – painful, difficult although soft.

 – Constrictive sore pain in the rectum, like from blind haemorrhoids, remains one or two hours after stools.

 – Obstipation of neurasthenics.

 – Pain shoots up in rectum.

 – Piles amel. sitting; agg. coughing.

 – Prolapsus of rectum; from moderate straining at stools.

 – Pressure as of a sharp instrument from within outwards.

 – Painless contractions of anus.

 – Haemorrhage and pain agg. when stool is loose.

 – Constipation; from taking cold; from riding in a carriage; urging to stool with erection.

 Urinary

 – Frequent, profuse, watery urine.

 – Urging to urinate, with inability to pass urine.

 Male

 – Erection during stool.

 – Sweat on scrotum.

 – Penis; contracted, becomes small.

 Female

 – Menses; irregular; black, too early, too profuse, or scanty; suppressed from grief.

 – Chronic leucorrhoea, with sexual desire.

 – Sexual frigidity.

 Heart

 – Palpitation, during menses.

 – Anxious feeling in the region.

 Respiratory

 – TAKES DEEP BREATH; for relief.

 – Choking; spasms of glottis.

 – Dry, hacking spasmodic cough in quick successive shocks; shutting of the breath; cough; as from dust or sulphur fumes.

 – Coughing increases the desire to cough.

 – Cough, everytime he stands still during a walk.

 – Constriction of the chest, feels as if too small.

 – Whispering voice, can not speak loudly.

 – Sleepy after coughing.

 – Stitches in nipples on deep inspiration.

 Neck and back

 – Stiffness of the nape of the neck.

 – Convulsive bending backwards of the back.

 Extremities

 – Jerking in limbs.

 – Warm sweat on the palms.

 – Cramps in calves.

 – Heavy feet.

 – Dislocative pain in joints.

 – Knees are involuntarily drawn upwards, when walking.

 – Trembling of hands when writing in anyone’s presence.

 – Burning in heels on placing them near one another, when they come in contact they are cold to touch; agg. at night.

 – Sciatica agg. in winter; amel. in summer.

 – Corns painful as if sore.

 – Knees hot with cold nose.

 – As if flesh was loose on bones from a blow.

 Skin

 – Painful amel. pressure.

 – Nettle rash over the whole body with violent itching (during fever).

 Sleep

 – Violent spasmodic yawning, with running from eyes.

 – Sleep light; every sound wakes.

 – Jerking of limbs on going to sleep.

 – Somnambulism from wounded honour.

 – Dreams; same horrid dreams over the over again.

 – Child awakes from sleep with piercing cries and trembles all over.

 – Hiccough, chewing motions of mouth in sleep. (children).

 Fever

 – Chill with red face.

 – Shaking chill with thirst.

 – Sweat agg. on eating; often on a small spot on the face.

 – Heat, with aversion to uncover but no thirst.

 – Chill, during pains.

 – Feeling as if sweat would break out, but does not.

 Complementary

 – Aur; Nat-m; Pho-ac; Sep.

 Related

 – Cimi; Nux-v; Sep.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica