IGNATIA AMARA uses [Ign uses]
Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by), ">" denotes amelioration (better by), "<->" denotes alternation (alternates with) and A/F is an abbreviation of, "Ailments from"
Hysteria
Acute grief, acute disappointments makes patient bitter and hardened
Depth of sorrow and grief stuck deep within, cannot be surfaced
Romantic, idealistic, emotional, over sensitive, easily hurt feelings
Cramping of emotions leads to defensiveness, rude, suspicious, challenging
behaviour
Spasms. Sighing. Choking
COMMON NAME
St.Ignatius Bean
A/F
| - | Silent grief |
| - | Worry, fear |
| - | Disappointment in love |
| - | Shame, mortification |
| - | Tobacco, coffee, alcohol |
| - | Old spinal injuries |
MODALITIES
| < | Emotions |
| < | Touch |
| < | Grief [Ph-ac, Nat-m] |
| < | Coffee |
| < | Worry |
| < | Strong odours |
| < | Consolation |
| < | Tobacco |
| < | Chagrin |
| < | Cold open air |
| < | Vexation |
| < | Fright |
| < | After meals |
| < | Stooping |
| < | Walking |
| < | Standing |
| < | Periodical, at same hour |
| < | Sweets |
| > | Alone |
| > | Hard pressure |
| > | Warmth |
| > | Swallowing |
| > | Walking |
| > | Change of position |
| > | Lying of painful side |
| > | While eating |
| > | When travelling |
MIND
| - | Hysterical remedy |
| - | Alert, oversensitive and nervous individuals |
| - | Incredible change of mood, jesting and laughter changing to sadness and
tears, or weeping alternating with laughing |
| - | Highly emotional. Great defensiveness and touchiness |
| - | Jealousy, suspicious and doubting |
| - | Quarrelsome, rude. At times indifferent to moods (Sep, Lil-t) |
| - | Ailments from silent grief and disappointment in love |
| - | Full of suppressed grief, seems to drown by it |
| - | Brooding over imaginary troubles |
| - | Consolation aggravates (Nat-m) |
| - | Conversation aggravates |
| - | Long sighing and sobbing which is aggravated before menses. Takes deep
breath for relief |
| - | Sympathetic |
| - | Easily frightened persons |
| - | Fear of robbers at midnight, of birds or chickens |
| - | Fears he will never sleep again |
| - | Claustrophobia |
| - | Desires to be alone. Weeps when alone |
| - | Faints easily everytime when girls go to church, or who fall in love with
married men |
| - | Music aggravates |
| - | Fault finding and too sensitive to be reprimanded or scolding aggravates |
| - | Contradiction aggravates (Anac, Ferr) |
| - | Dreams of water, or of waves breaking over her |
GUIDING INDICATIONS
| - | Remedy of great contradictions like:-
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| - | Great hysterical remedy (Asaf, Mosch, Val, Cocc, Nux-m) |
| - | Hypersensitive to all external impressions, touch, pain, noise, odour, etc |
| - | Spasmodic effects, often violent, with rigidity, twitching and tremors
(Croc, Agar, Zinc) |
| - | Epilepsy from fright |
| - | Single parts affected |
| - | Sensation of lump in parts |
| - | Pains in small circumscribed spots (Ox-ac, Kali-bi), associated with nervous
shuddering; change their locality; come gradually, go suddenly, or come and
go suddenly |
| - | Cannot stand smoking or tobacco smoke in any form |
| - | Head |
|
- |
Headache over a small spot that can be covered with the tip of finger |
|
- |
Sensation as if a nail had been driven through skull |
|
- |
Headache > profuse urination (Acon, Gels, Kalm, Sang, Sil, Verat) > stooping > lying on painful side |
| - | Alopecia after grief |
| - | Hirsutism |
| - | Face - Redness and heat of one cheek alternating with paleness [Cham] |
| - | Sweats on face on a small spot while eating |
| - | Perspiration only on the face, perspires first on face or upper lip |
| - | Colour changes in face when at rest |
| - | Mouth - Toothache < in between acts of eating < lying down |
| - | Bites inside of cheeks when chewing |
| - | Throat - Sore throat > when swallowing |
| - | Globus hystericus, lump rising from stomach in throat, choking sensation |
| - | Follicular tonsillitis |
| - | G.I.T. - Empty feeling in stomach not > by eating |
| - | Singing in stomach > taking a deep breath |
| - | Patient vomits simple food, but retains things such as cabbage, onions,
indigestible things |
| - | Hiccough |
| - | Craving for cheese, fruits |
| - | Aversion for fruits |
| - | Constipation with excessive urging, more in upper abdomen, with great pain
and flatulence |
| - | Pain shoots up the rectum |
| - | Rectal spasms, cramps, fissure, haemorrhoids, prolapse |
| - | Haemorrhoids with prolapse, with every loose stool |
| - | Pain in rectum remaining hours after stool (Aesc, Aloe, Mur-ac, Rat, Sulph) |
| - | Pressure as of a sharp instrument in rectum from within outward |
| - | Respiratory system - Choking sensation in throat. Takes deep breath to get
relief |
| - | Laryngeal stridulus that can be heard all over house |
| - | Cough worse the more he coughs < standing still |
| - | Female genitalia - Menses irregular, black, suppressed from grief |
| - | Male genitalia - Sexual desire with impotency |
| - | Back - Spasms after grief |
| - | Fevers - Quotidian, tertian, quartan type of malaria |
| - | Thirst during chill. Red face during chill |
| - | No thirst in fever |
| - | Febrile coldness > by external warmth |
KEYNOTES
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
| - | Produces hyperaesthesia of all senses, and tendency
to produce clonic spasms |
| - | Adapted to individuals with nervous temperament, who are alert, nervous,
rigid and apprehensive |
| - | Patients who have silent grief or disappointment in love |
| - | Great remedy for contradiction |
| - | Spasmodic effects |
| - | Hysteria |
CLINICAL
| - | Alopecia, Asthma, Bulimia, Chorea, Chronic fatigue syndrome, Cough, Depression, Encephalitis, Globus hystericus, Hirsuitism, Hysteria, Lumbago, Migraine, Obesity, Rectal cramp, Rectal fissure, Rectal prolapse, Spasms, Tics |
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
Follows Well: Ars, Bell, Calc, Cinc, Lyc, Nux-v, Puls, Rhus-t,
Sep, Sulph, Zinc
Inimical: Coff, Tab
Compare: Acon, Agar, Anac, Apis, Ars, Asaf, Asar, Bell, Caust, Cham,
Cimic, Cina, Cocc, Coll, Coloc, Croc, Cupr, Gels, Glon, Hyos, Ip, Lach, Lyc,
Mag-c, Mag-m, Mosch, Nat-m, Nux-m, Nux-v, Op, Ph-ac, Phos, Plat, Plb, Podo,
Puls, Sep, Sil, Stann, Stram, Sulph, Tarent, Teucr, Valer, Verat
Antidoted By: Arn, Camph, Cham, Cocc, Coff, Puls
It Antidotes: Selen, Zinc
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