Ignatia

600 W. Emma St.Lafayette, CO 80026www.purehomeopathy.com

Remedy of Paradoxicalities

Contrary and Inconsistent Head is better lying on the painful side Hunger that is not helped by eating Red face during chill

Most Common Symptoms

Sad, sighing, changeable, moody disposition

Twitching or spasms, or convulsions from exciting or depressing emotions Fright Grief

Adapted to emotional, hysterical people

Most Common Symptoms

All gone, weak empty sensation in the stomach, not helped by eating

Anal troubles Piles, prolapsus, soreness and pain

after stools Pains shoot up into abdomen

Modalities

Aggravation Slight touch Smoking Coffee

Amelioration Lying on painful side Hard pressure Profuse water urination

Cough

Cough is dry and spasmodic; not relieved by coughing

The longer he coughs the more the irritation to cough increases

Pain

Pain in small circumscribed spots Similar to Kali-Bic

Over-sensitive to pain Similar to coffea and Hepar-sulph

Acuity of senses Similar to Chamomilla and Nux-vomica

Grief Great element of sadness;

disposition to silent grieving Anyone suffering from suppressed,

deep grief, with long drawn sighs, much sobbing and if inclined to smother or hide that grief from others

Grief

Seems so sad and weak Weakness is in the pit of the stomach Feels faint and empty - “all gone”

Changeable Mood

No other remedy has this so strong Treating hysterical affections One moment full of glee and merriment

followed by extreme melancholy , sadness and tears

These states alternate quickly

Changeable Mood

Impatient, quarrelsome, angry Not as strong as chamomile

Very impressionable so easily frightened

One of best remedies for effects of fright Similar to Aconite and Veratrum Album

Ignatia is the remedy of moods

Nervous System

Acts on spine Affects motor and sensory nerves

One of most indicated remedies for spasms or convulsions Especially if caused from fright,

punishment of children or other strong emotions

Case

Woman with a post partum convulsions; when patient came out of convulsions she had a long drawn sighs. It was discovered she had recently lost her mother weeks before

Ignatia cured

Spasms

Most marked degree of twitching all over the body

Great for jerking involuntary motions Caused by fright or grief Teething or worms Only remedy close to the twitching are Zincum

Metallicum Other remedies that twitch to some degree are

Agaricus, Hyoscyamus, Cuprum met

Headaches

Like Aconite, Chamomilla and Coffea, Ignatia is over-sensitive to pain.

Great remedy for headaches of nervous and hysterical patients

Ignatia is for the nervous woman as Nux-vomica is for nervous men

Hysterical, Nervous Headaches

One sided Headache as if a nail were driven

out through the side of my head and is better lying on it.

Headaches are found in nervous and sensitive people who have suffered from over-anxiety, grief or mental work.

Headaches

Ever-changeable and contradictory symptoms are so characteristic of this medicine; as found in the headache

Not only does the pain in the head change locality but at one time it will come on slowly then suddenly be gone like Belladonna or it can come on suddenly and stop as fast as it came like Aconite, Gelsemium, silica or veratrum album

Headache Headache stops during profuse flow

of urine As does Gelsemium

Headaches are aggravated by coffee, smoking, abuse of snuff, inhaling tobacco smoke, alcohol, close attention, pressing at stool

May be relieved by eating is aggravated soon after

Headache

Headache is worse by cold winds, turning head suddenly, stooping, change of position, runing, looking up long, moving the eyes, noise and light

Headache is better by warmth, lying on it, soft pressure, external heat and profuse flow of urine

Throat

Strong throat symptoms Commonly observed in globus

hystericus “as if a lump came up from the stomach into the throat as if she would choke.

Swallows down lump but immediately returns

Occurs during grief as fighting tears

Throat

Throat pain may be subjective or may be a pathological illness like tonsillitis

Throat pain is relieved by swallowing and worse if not swallowing Usually this is the opposite

Throat

Sometimes aggravation when swallowing liquids and relief from swallowing solids Similar to Lachesis Reverse of Baptisia (only swallow

liquids – gags on solids)

The characteristic symptoms

These characteristic symptoms lead you to the right remedy and thus cure

As we say in baseball you will hit it out of the park with the right remedy

Guiding Symptoms

Extreme aversion to tobacco smoke Weak empty, gone feeling at the pit

of the stomach Other remedies with this symptom are

sepia and hydrastis Disposition to sigh or take a long

breath

Stomach Aches

May hear weak feeling in stomach as a feeling of flabbiness, as though the stomach hung down relaxed Ipecacuanha has a similar feeling

Severe cases of gastralgia in women with hysgterical tendencies think of Ignatia

Rectum

Prolapse of rectum is marked Like ruta graveolens

Frequent desire for stool but in place of stool is the prolapsed rectum

Patient is afraid to strain at stool, to stoop down or lift for fear of prolapsus

Rectum

Sore pain after stool last for an hour or two Similar to nitric acid – same symptom

only this happens after a loose stool Sharp pains shooting upwards into

the rectom Sepia has this pain in the uterus

Fever

Unique in fever symptoms 1st thirst during chill and in no other

stage 2nd chill relieved by external heat 3rd heat aggravated by external

covering 4th red face during chill No other remedy has this

combination

Fever

No other remedy has thirst during hill and in no other stage

Nux the chill is not relieved by the heat of the stove or they must be covered