Ignatia

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Modalities Aggravation Slight touch Smoking Coffee Amelioration Lying on painful side Hard pressure Profuse water urination

7. Cough Cough is dry and spasmodic; not relieved by coughing The longer he coughs the more the irritation to cough increases

8. 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

9. 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

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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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.

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. Throat Sometimes aggravation when swallowing liquids and relief from swallowing solids Similar to Lachesis Reverse of Baptisia (only swallow liquids – gags on solids)

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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