Ignatia Amara ign.

MIND. NERVOUS SYSTEM. Cerebro - spinal axis.

EMOTIONS: GRIEFS. Chagrin. WORRY. Fright. Shock. AIR: Open. Cold. Odors. Touch. Coffee. Tobacco.

Position: Change of. Lying on part. Urination. If alone. Pressure.

ERRATIC, CONTRADICTORY OR SPASMODIC EFFECTS; often violent; with rigidity, twitchings, tremor, etc.; during pain. Jerks run through whole body. SENSE OF A LUMP, foreign body or sharp pressure. Globus. Clavus. Hysteria. Pain in a spot, < close attention. Symptoms pass off with a profuse flow of urine. Oversensitive to pain. Tonic spasm of single parts, with frothing at mouth. Neurotic inheritance. Spasms from punishment (Agar.).

Brooding grief. Silent and sad; inward weeping. Intolerant of contradiction; of reprimands (Colo. Stap.). Angry with himself. Delicately conscientious. Everything irks her. Weak and excitable. ALERT, OVERSENSITIVE AND NERVOUS. Highly emotional. Capricious. Moody. Changeful. Faints easily. SIGHS, weeps or laughs by turns. Unhappy; love. Enjoys being sad. GRIEF; brooding. Alternate headache and backache (Melil.). Headache ends in yawning and vomiting. Eyelids seem dry. Flashes of light, from violent coughing. Nose sensitive to inspired air. Pain over root of nose. Sneezing attacks. One cheek red. Jaws snap shut; bites inside of cheek, tongue, etc. Masseters stiff and hard. Indurated tonsils; with little ulcers. Cramp in gullet. Swallows over a lump, > solids. Hiccough; with eructations, empty or bitter. Nausea or vomiting, > indigestible foods. Hunger, with nausea. Craves raw foods. Empty sinking or spasmodic ache in stomach; not > eating. Stool painful; difficult although soft, then constriction of rectum. Obstipation of neurasthenics. Pain shoots up rectum. Piles, > sitting. Prolapsus recti. Irregular menses. TAKES DEEP BREATHS; for relief. Choking. Spasm of glottis. Hacking cough. Cough violent, it shuts off the breath; dry, as from dust or sulphur fumes; < coughing. Constriction of thorax. Goitre. Tension in nape. Cramp in calf. Heavy feet. Painful skin, > pressure. Violent, spasmodic yawning. Light sleep, every sound wakes. Dreams same horrid dreams, over and over. Chill with a red face. Chill, shaking; nervous; with thirst; < pain. Heat, with aversion to uncover, but no thirst.

Complementary: Aur. Nat-m. Pho-ac. Sep. Related: Cimi. Nux-v. Sep.

Especially suited to nervous temperament; women of a sensitive, easily excited nature; dark hair and skin but mild disposition, quick to percieve, rapid in execution. In striking contrast with the fair complexion, yielding, lachrymose, but slow and indecisive, Pulsatilla. The remedy of great contradictions: the roaring in ears > by music; the piles > when walking; sore throat feels > when swallowing; empty feeling in stomach not > by eating; cough < the more he coughs; cough on standing still during a walk (Ast. fl.); spasmodic laughter from grief; sexual desire with impotency; thirst during a chill, no thirst during the fever; the color changes in the face when at rest. Mental conditions rapidly, in an almost incredibly short time, change from joy to sorrow, from laughing to weeping (Coff., Croc., Nux m.); moody. Persons mentally and physically exhausted by long-concentrated grief. Involuntary sighing (Lach.); with a weak, empty feeling at pit of stomach; not > by eating (Hydr., Sep.). Bad effects of anger, grief, or disappointed love (Cal. p., Hyos.); broods in solitude over imaginary trouble. Desire to be alone. Finely sensitive mood, delicate consciousness. Inconstant, impatient, irresolute, quarrelsome. Amiable in disposition if feeling well, but easily disturbed by very slight emotion; easily offended. The slightest fault finding or contradiction excites anger, and this makes him angry with himself. Children, when reprimanded, scolded, or sent ot bed, get sick or have convulsions in sleep. Ill effects, from bad news; from vexation with reserved displeasure; from suppressed mental sufferings; of shame and mortification (Staph.). Headache, as if a nail was driven out through the side, relieved by lying on it. (Coff., Nux, Thuja). Cannot bear tabacco; smoking, or being in tabacco smoke, produces or aggravates headache. In talking or chewing, bites inside of cheek. Sweat on the face on a small spot only while eating. Oversensitiveness to pain (Coff., Cham.). Constipation; from carriage riding; of a paralytic origin; with excessive urging, felt more in upper abdomen (Ver.); with great pain, dreads to go to the closet; in women who are habitual coffee drinkers. Prolapsus ani from moderate straining at stool, stooping or lifting (Nit. ac., Pod., Ruta); < when the stool is loose. Haemorrhoids: prolapse with every stool, have to be replaced; sharp stitches shoot up the rectum (Nit. a.); < for hours after stool (Rat., Sulph.). Twitchings, jerkings, even spasms of single limbs or whole body, when falling asleep. Pain in small, circumscribed spots. Fever: red face during chill (Fer.); chill, with thirst during chill only; > by external heat; heat without thirst, < by covering ( > by covering, Nux). Complaints return at precisely the same hour. Ignatia bears the same relation to the diseases of women that Nux does to sanguine, bilious men. There are many more Ignatia persons in North America than Nux vomica persons - Hering.

Incompatible: Coff., Nux, Tab. The bad effects of Ign. are antidoted by Puls.

From tabacco, coffee, brandy contact, motion, strong odors, mental emotions, grief.

Warmth, hard pressure (Cinch.); swallowing; walking.

Any one suffering from suppressed or deep grief, with long-drawn sighs, much sobbing, etc.; also, much unhappiness, can't sleep, entirely absorbed in grief; for recent grief, as at the loss of a friend; affections of the mind in general; particularly if actuated by grief; sadness; hopelessness; hysterical variableness; fantastic illusions.

As of a ball in the inner parts; pain as if parts would burst, were pushed or pressed as under; sensation as if inner parts were distended; of hollowness. "Faint, all gone" feeling, especially in the pit of the stomach; griping with feeling of tearing away; of a nail or of darting in the inner parts; burning, darting in the epigastrium.

Affecting particularly the left ear; right side; internal head; left hypochondriac region; joints of the jaws--as lame, cracking when chewing etc.; inner region of the stomach; region of the spleen; rectum; heel. Catalepsy with bending backward; opisthotonos; hysterical spasms, especially if accompanied with sighing; corns painful, as if sore; dreams continuing a long time, are exciting, and cause patient to feel a good deal troubled; chilliness of single parts.

Patient's face changes color very often when at rest; flat taste; obstructed flatus in general; stools acrid.

From mental affections; from anger; anger with fright; anger with silent grief; from anxiety; anxiety with sorrow; unhappy love; mortification caused by offence; from exertion of the mind; sweets; coffee; tobacco; from pressure on painless side, can lie better on painful side; from strong smells; between swallowing; from ascarides; when yawning.

From changing the position; while eating; from eructation; when taking an inspiration; from swallowing (as in some sore throats); near a warm stove.

Arsen., Bellad., Cal. carb., China., Lycop., Nux vom., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia., Sulphur.

Coffea, Nux vom., Pulsat.

Full of suppressed grief, seems weighed down by it, broods over imaginary troubles. Ailments from grief, or suppressed mental sufferings. Slight blame or contradiction irritates and excites him to anger. Headache as if a nail were driven out through the side of the head, relieved by lying on the painful side. Headache increased by smoking tobacco, or being where another is smoking. Sensation of weakness and sinking in pit of stomach. Frequent sighing; constant desire to take deep breath. Every time he stands still during a walk he coughs. Sleepy after each coughing spell. Spasmodic affections of children consequent on being put to sleep soon after punishment. Change of position relieves the pain During the chill, thirsty, external warmth pleasant, during the fever heat, no thirst; external warmth intolerable.

St. Ignatius Bean (IGNATIA)

Produces a marked hyperæsthesia of all the senses, and a tendency to clonic spasms. Mentally, the emotional element is uppermost, and co-ordination of function is interfered with. Hence, it is one of the chief remedies for hysteria. It is especially adapted to the nervous temperament-women of sensitive, easily excited nature, dark, mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in execution. Rapid change of mental and physical condition, opposite to each other. Great contradictions. Alert, nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling patients who suffer acutely in mind or body, at the same time made worse by drinking coffee. The superficial and erratic character of its symptoms is most characteristic. Effects of grief and worry. Cannot bear tobacco. Pain is small, circumscribed spots (Oxal ac). The plague. Hiccough and hysterical vomiting.

Changeable mood; introspective; silently brooding. Melancholic, sad, tearful. Not communicative. Sighing and sobbing. After shocks, grief, disappointment.

Feels hollow, heavy; worse, stooping. Headache as if a nail were driven out through the side. Cramp-like pain over root of nose. Congestive headaches following anger or grief; worse, smoking or smelling tobacco, inclines head forward.

Asthenopia, with spasms of lids and neuralgic pain about eyes (Nat m). Flickering zigzags.

Twitching of muscles of face and lips. Changes color when at rest.

Sour taste. Easily bites inside of cheeks. Constantly full of saliva. Toothache; worse after drinking coffee and smoking.

Feeling of a lump in throat that cannot be swallowed. Tendency to choke, globus hystericus. Sore throat; stitches when not swallowing; better, eating something solid. Stitches between acts of swallowing. Stitches extend to ear (Hep). Tonsils inflamed, swollen, with small ulcers. Follicular tonsillitus.

Sour eructation. All-gone feeling in stomach; much flatulence; hiccough. Cramps in stomach; worse slightest contact. Averse to ordinary diet; longs for great variety of indigestible articles. Craving for acid things. Sinking in stomach, relieved by taking a deep breath.

Rumbling in bowels. Weak feeling in upper abdomen. Throbbing in abdomen (Aloe; Sang). Colicky, griping pains in one or both sides of abdomen.

Itching and stitching up the rectum. Prolapse. Stools pass with difficulty; painful constriction of anus after stool. Stitches in hæmorrhoids during cough. Diarrhœa from fright. Stitches from anus deep into rectum. Hæmorrhage and pain; worse when stool is loose. Pressure as of a sharp instrument from within outward.

Profuse, watery (Phos ac).

Dry, spasmodic cough in quick successive shocks. Spasm of glottis (Calc). Reflex coughs. Coughing increases the desire to cough. Much sighing. Hollow spasmodic cough, worse in the evening, little expectoration, leaving pain in trachea.

Menses, black, too early, too profuse, or scanty. During menses great languor, with spasmodic pains in stomach and abdomen. Feminine sexual frigidity. Suppression from grief.

Jerking of limbs. Pain in tendo-Achillis and calf. Ulcerative pain in soles.

Very light. Jerking of limbs on going to sleep. Insomnia from grief, cares, with itching of arms and violent yawning. Dreams continuing a long time; troubling him.

Chill, with thirst; not relieved by external heat. During fever, itching; nettle-rash all over body.

Itching, nettle-rash. Very sensitive to draught of air. Excoriation, especially around vagina and mouth.

Worse, in the morning, open air, after meals, coffee, smoking, liquids, external warmth. Better, while eating, change of position.

Compare: Zinc; Kali phos; Sep; Cimicif. Panacea arvensis--Poor man's Mercury--(Sensitiveness over gastric region with hunger but an aversion to food).

Complementary: Nat mur.

Incompatible: Coffea; Nux; Tabac.

Antidotes: Puls; Cham; Cocc.

Sixth, to 200th potency.

Remedy of paradoxicalities. Head better lying on painful side, moody, goneness not > by eating, sore throat < by swallowing, thirst during chill, face red during chill, etc.

Sad, sighing, changeable, moody disposition.

Twitching or spasms, or convulsions from exciting or depressing emotions, fright, etc.

All-gone, weak, empty sensation in stomach not > by eating.

Anal troubles (piles, prolapsus, soreness and pain after stool, pains shooting up into abdomen).

Adapted to emotional, hysterical subjects.

Cough; dry, spasmodic; not relieved by coughing; the longer he coughs the more the irritation to cough increases.

Pain; in small circumscribed spots; over-sensitive (Coff., Hep.).

In most cases Ignatia should be given in the morning.

Ignatia bears the same relation to the diseases of women that Nux does to bilious men.

Ignatia is another one of the long list of our nervous remedies. Its peculiar mental symptoms, like those of Aconite, Chamomilla, Nux vomica and many others, are most characteristic. Like these remedies, it seems to exalt the impressionability of all the senses; but unlike the others, it has in it a marked element of sadness, and disposition to silent grieving. Anyone suffering from suppressed, deep grief, with long drawn sighs, much sobbing, etc., and especially if inclined to smother or hide that grief from others, is just the subject for this remedy. She desires to he alone with her grief. Sighs much and seems so sad and weak. The weakness is complained of right in the pit of the stomach. She feels weak, faint, and "all gone " there. Another equally characteristic state or mind is a changeable mood. No remedy can equal Ignatia for this. Aconite, Coffea, Nux moschata and a few others have it, but Ignatia in the greatest degree. And so this remedy becomes one of our best in the treatment of hysterical affections. The patient is at one time full of glee and merriment, to be followed suddenly with the other extreme, of melancholy sadness and tears, and so these states of mind rapidly alternate. Again, we have in Ignatia an impatient, quarrelsome, angry mood (but not to the degree of Chamomilla) at times. Again the Ignatia patient is, because of her excessive impressibility, easily frightened. Here it becomes one of our best remedies for the effects of fright, vying with Aconite, Opium and Veratrum album. In short, Ignatia may justly be termed Pre-eminently the remedy of moods.

Aside from its mental symptoms, it is a great nervous remedy. Its acts upon the spine as decidedly as Nux vomica, affecting both motor and sensory nerves. It is one of our best remedies for spasms or convulsions, and is especially adapted to spasmodic affections originating in mental causes, as after fright, punishment of children or other strong emotions. In one case of puerperal convulsions, other remedies having failed to do any good, the consulting physician while observing the patient during one of the spasms noticed that she came out of it with a succession of long drawn sighs. He inquired if the patient had had any recent mental trouble, and learned that she had lost her mother, of whom she was exceedingly fond, and whom she had mourned for greatly, a few weeks before. Ignatia 30th quickly cured her. Again, short of actual convulsions, Ignatia has, in a most marked degree, twitchings all over the body, hence it becomes one of our best remedies for chorea, especially if caused by fright or grief on the mental side, or teething or worms on the reflex irritation side. There is only one remedy that comes near it for these twitchings and that is Zincum metallicum. Of course, Agaricus, Hyoscyamus, Cuprum met., etc., come close, and some might think are equal. Veratrum viride, when better known, may lay claim to high rank here. Ignatia is sometimes recommended for paralysis, but will be found, I think, exceptionally useful, and that mainly in hysterical cases, which are not of a very dangerous character. Like Aconite, Chamomilla and Coffea, Ignatia is over-sensitive to pain.

Ignatia, like its male partner, Nux vomica, is a great remedy for headaches of nervous, especially hysterically nervous, subjects. That would be about the same as saying, that while Nux vomica is adapted to nervous men Ignatia is the same for women, which is quite true. You will remember that hysterical, nervous headaches are often one-sided. Hence Ignatia is such an efficient remedy for headaches as expressed in these words: "Headache as if a nail there driven out through the side of the head relieved by lying on it." These headaches come on in highly nervous and sensitive subjects, or in those whose nervous systems have suffered from over-anxiety, grief or mental work. The ever-changeable and contradictory symptoms so characteristic of the drug shows here as elsewhere. Not only does the pain in head change locality but at one time the pain will come on gradually and abate suddenly (like Sulphuric acid), or, like Belladonna, it will come on suddenly and abate as suddenly as it came. Like Aconite, Gelsemium, Silicea, and Veratrum album, the headache often terminates with a profuse flow of urine. That is often the case in headaches of nervous hysterical women. (Lac defloratum, profuse flow during headache).

Finally the headaches are aggravated by coffee, smoking, the abuse of snuff, inhaling tobacco smoke, alcohol, close attention, from pressing at stool, and, while it is sometimes relieved while eating, is aggravated soon after. The Ignatia headache is sometimes accompanied by hunger like that of Psorinum. It is also < by cold winds, turning head suddenly, stooping, change of position, running, looking up long, moving the eyes, noise and light.

It is ameliorated by warmth, lying on it, soft pressure, external heat and profuse flow of limpid urine. Ignatia has some strong throat symptoms. In the first place it has the so commonly observed symptom called "globus hystericus," or as if a lump came up from the stomach into the throat as if she would choke. She swallows it down but it comes right back and is very distressing. It is especially apt to come if she gets grieved and wants to cry. These are of course purely nervous sensations, but Ignatia goes further, and also cures real serious affections of the throat like tonsillitis and diphtheria. In these cases the real characteristic symptom is, that the pain and suffering in the throat is relieved by swallowing or is worse between the acts of deglutition. (Capsicum). A very peculiar symptom for such troubles, for such cases are generally aggravated by swallowing, hence we would not expect to frequently find a case in which this would be the remedy; but such cases do arise occasionally and baffle us if we haven't the remedy. Here is where Homœopathy, as we say in base ball, "scores some of its best runs," and the satisfaction of curing such a case with an unusual remedy is, to say the least, very gratifying to him who performs the cure. With Ignatia cases, in addition to the aggravation when swallowing liquids and relief from swallowing solids. This is like Lachesis, you remember, but is the reverse of Baptisia, which can swallow liquids only; the least solid food gags. It is necessary to keep these correspondences and opposites in mind, for it often enables us to make what are called "snap shot" prescriptions and save much time, study and suffering.

Some of the particularly valuable "guiding symptoms" of Ignatia, in addition to those already noticed, are "extreme aversion to tobacco smoke." This is a general aversion and aggravates many, many complaints. "Weak, empty, gone feeling at the pit of the stomach." In the case of Ignatia this symptom is apt to be accompanied by a disposition to sigh or take a long breath. Two other remedies have this symptom of goneness in the stomach as prominently as Ignatia. They are Hydrastis and Sepia. The other symptoms must decide between them. This weak feeling in the stomach in Ignatia is sometimes described as a feeling of flabbiness, as though the stomach hung down relaxed. Ipecacuanha has a similar feeling. Sometimes we come across very severe cases of gastralgia in women of hysterical tendencies. Here this remedy is the first to be thought of.

Ignatia has as positive action upon the anus and rectum as does Nux vomica. Prolapsus of the rectum is marked. (Ruta graveolens). Like Nux vomica it has frequent desire for stool, but in place of stool, or with it, comes the prolapsed rectum. The patient is afraid to strain at stool, to stoop down or lift, for fear of the prolapsus. A contractive sore pain follows after a stool and lasts for an hour or two. This is like Nitric acid, which has the same symptom only after a loose stool. There is also some pain in anus without reference to stool. Dunham, that prince of observers, gave us the characteristic: "Sharp pains shooting upward into the rectum." (Sepia has similar pains in uterus). It is a gem, and has often been verified. So we see that Ignatia is one of our important anal and rectal remedies.

This remedy is also very unique in its fever symptoms. There is no disease in which we are better able to show the power of the potentized remedy to cure, than intermittent fever. Chronic cases that have resisted the Quinine treatment for years are often quickly and permanently cured by the 200th and upwards. The following symptoms indicate Ignatia: 1st. Thirst during chill and in no other stage. 2d. Chill, relieved by external heat. 3d. Heat aggravated by external covering. 4th. Red face during the chill. Here are four legs to the stool, and we may sit upon it in perfect confidence. No other remedy has thirst during chill and in no other stage. In Nux vomica, you will remember, the chill is not relieved by the heat of the stove, or the bed, and during the heat Nux vomica must be covered, as the least uncovering brings back the chill. So we see that notwithstanding the alkaloid of both drugs is strychnia they differ widely when we come to apply them to the cure of the sick. The red face during chill led me to the cure of an obstinate case, and after I noticed the red face I also noticed that the boy was behind the stove in the warmest place he could find. The 200th promptly cured. Two other cases in the same family, at the same time, and from the same malarious district, were cured, one by Capsicum, 200th. the other by Eupatorium perfoliatum, same potency. The former had chill beginning between shoulders, in the latter the chill in the A. M., great pain in bones before, and vomiting of bile at the end of chill. I do not know but I have mentioned these three cases before; but it will bear repeating, for it illustrates the efficacy of potencies in obedience to our great law of cure. can any reasonable man doubt such evidence?

Modalities: < slight touch, smoking, coffee; > lying on painful side; hard pressure; profuse watery urination.

Sensitiveness of feeling ; delicate conscientiousness. Fearfulness, timidity. Irresoluteness ; anxious ; to do now this, now that. The slightest contradiction irritates. Intolerance of noise. Taciturn, with continuous sad thoughts ; still, serious melancholy, with moaning. Anger, followed by quiet grief and sorrow. Inclination to grief, without saying any thing about it ; keeping it to himself. Great tenderness. Changeable disposition ; jesting and laughing, changing to sadness, with shedding of tears. (Hysteria). Inclination to start.

Heaviness in the head. Pressing, stinging pain, from within to without, in the forehead and root of the nose. Headache, as if a nail were pressing, from within to without, in the temples and sides of the head ; relieved when lying on the painful side. Pressing headache in the forehead and vertex. Sensation as if sore ; bruised in the head (morning). The headache is aggravated in the morning, from coffee, alcohol, tobacco, noise ; from reading and writing ; from the sunlight ; from moving the eyes ; and is relieved when changing the position and when lying on the painful side. Trembling and shaking of the head. ; the head is bent backward (during spasms) ; relieved by heat.

Acrid tears in the eyes during the day ; agglutination during the night. Pressing in the eyes, as if grains of sand were lodged under the upper lids. Swelling of the upper eyelid, with bluish veins ; the eyelid is turned upwards. Inflammation of the upper art of the eyeball as far as it is covered by the upper lid. Convulsions of the eyes. Cannot bear the glare of light. Flickering zigzags before the eyes.

Itching in the ears. Hard hearing, except for speech. Noise before the, ear, as from strong wind.

Soreness and sensitiveness of the inner nose, with swelling of it. Ulcerated nostrils. Stoppage of one nostril. Dry coryza.

Alternate redness and paleness of the face. Redness and heat of one cheek (and ear). Clay-colored, sunken face, with blue margins around the eyes. Perspiration only in the face. Convulsive twitchings in the muscles of the face. Twitching of the corners of the mouth. Spasmodic closing of the jaws (lock-jaw). Lips dry, cracked, bleeding. Ulceration of one of the corners of the mouth.

Toothache from cold in the molars, as if they were crushed. Difficult dentition, with convulsions. Redness, inflammation and soreness of the inner mouth. Stitches ; in the soft palate, extending to the ear. Stitches ; in the throat, when not swallowing (only between the acts of deglutition). Sensation as from a plug (lump) in the throat, when not swallowing. When swallowing, sensation as ; if one swallowed over a lump, causing soreness and a cracking noise. Inflamed, hard, swollen tonsils, with small ulcers. Accumulation of much acid saliva in the mouth. When talking and masticating, he bites his tongue easily. Pain in the submaxillary glands, when moving the neck. Trembling, low voice.

Sour taste in the mouth. Food has no taste. Feeling of hunger in the evening, which prevents one going to sleep. Desire for a variety of things, but when they are offered the appetite fails. Aversion to tobacco, warm food, meat and brandy. Hiccough from smoking. Taste flat, like chalk. Gulping up of a bitter fluid. Regurgitation of the ingests. Hiccough after eating and drinking (evening). Nausea without vomiting. Vomiting of food at night. Sensation of emptiness in the stomach. Sensation of weakness (sinking) in the pit of the stomach. Spasmodic pains ; in the stomach. Stitches in the region of the stomach. Burning in the stomach, especially after brandy. Heaviness and pressure in the pit of the stomach. Fulness and swelling in the epigastrium. Swelling and induration of the spleen. Periodical abdominal spasms. Drawing and pinching in the region of the navel. Spasmodic pains, cutting-stinging, like labor pains. Pulsation (throbbing) in the abdomen. The colic pains are aggravated by brandy, coffee and sweet things. Sensation of protrusion in the umbilical region. Protrusions on various parts of the abdomen. Rumbling in the bowels, as from hunger. Flatulent colic (at night). Increased accumulation of flatulence and an increased discharge of it. The flatulence presses on the bladder.

The stool is of too large a size, soft, but difficult to discharge. Diarrhœa, with smarting in the rectum. Unsuccessful urging to stool, felt mostly in the upper intestines. Constipation from taking cold and riding in a carriage. Stitches from the anus up the rectum. Itching and creeping (as from ascarides) in the rectum. Prolapsus ani, with smarting pain, from slight pressure to stool. Constriction of the anus after stool.

Sudden irresistible desire to urinate. Frequent discharge of watery urine. Pressure to urinate, from drinking coffee. Burning and smarting in the urethra during micturition. Itching in the forepart of the urethra.

Men. Violent itching of the genitals in the evening ; relieved by scratching. Lasciviousness without erections. Contraction of the penis ; it becomes quite small. Erections during stool. Perspiration on the scrotum. Women. Menstruation too early (and too profuse). Menstrual blood, black, of putrid odor, in clots. Metrorrhagia. During menstruation uterine spasms, with crampy pressing (relieved by pressure and in a recumbent posture). Uterine spasms with lancinations or like labor pains.

Impeded breathing and suffocative attacks. Desire to draw a long breath. Slow breathing. Oppression of the chest at night (after midnight). Oppressed breathing, alternating with convulsions. Arrest of breathing when running. Spasmodic constriction of the chest. Sensation of soreness in the larynx. Constrictive sensation in the trachea and larynx. Low voice. Hollow spasmodic cough, caused in the evening from a sensation of vapor of sulphur or dust in the pit of the throat ; in the morning, from a tickling above the pit of the stomach, with expectoration in the evening difficult, tasting and smelling like old catarrh. (Hooping-cough). Dry spasmodic cough. The longer he coughs the pore the irritation to cough increases. Stitches in the chest, from flatulent colic. Palpitation of the heart at night, with stitches in the heart.

Painless glandular swellings on the neck. The back is bent forward. Lancinating stitches in the back through the loins, extending to the legs, as from a sharp-cutting knife. Pain in the os sacrum in the morning, when lying on the back. Stitches in the small of the back, in the nape of the neck.

Upper. Lancinating, cutting pain in the shoulder-joint, when bending the arm forward. Pain in the shoulder-joint, as if dislocated, on moving the arm. Twitching, jerking in the deltoid muscle ; arms ; fingers. Sensation of numbness of the arts, at night in bed, with the sensation as if something living were running in the arm. Warm perspiration in the palm of the hand and fingers. Lower. Lancinating, cutting pain in the hip-joints. When walking the knees are involuntarily drawn up. Convulsive jerking of the lower limbs. Cracking in the knee. Heaviness of the feet. Sensation as if bruised or stinging in the soles of the feet. Burning in the heels at night ; when they come in contact they are cold to the touch. Coldness of the feet and legs, extending above the knee.

Spasmodic yawning, with pain in the lower jaw, as if dislocated, with running of the eyes. Light sleep ; hears every thing that happens around him. Restless sleep and great restlessness at night. Dreams with fixed ideas, continuing after waking.

Convulsive twitchings, especially after fright or grief. Convulsions alternating with oppressed breathing. Hysterical spasms. Trembling of the limbs. Pressing pains, as from a hard-pointed body pressing from within to without. Sensation as of dislocation in the joints. Lancinating stitches, as from a sharp knife.

Pulse hard, full and frequent, or very variable. Chill and coldness, causing the pains to increase. Chill with thirst, and relieved by external heat. Chill, frequently only of the back part of the body. External coldness with internal heat. External heat with internal coldness. Only external heat without thirst, with aversion to external heat. Flushes of heat externally. Burning heat of the face, only on one side. Very little perspiration or only in the face. Perspiration while eating. Intermittent fever; chill with thirst, followed by heat without thirst ; redness of the cheeks, or first heat (without thirst), followed by chill with thirst, or afternoon fever ; shiverings with colic (and thirst), afterwards weakness and sleep, with burning heat of the body. During the fever violent itching ; nettle-rash over the whole body.

Itching over the whole body, which disappears on scratching. Itching when becoming heated in the open air. Great sensitiveness of the skin to a draught of air.

The symptoms ; are renewed after dinner, in the evening after lying down, and in the morning as soon as awaking ; they are relieved when lying on the back or on the painful side, or from a change of position. Aggravation from tobacco, coffee and brandy.

Ignatia amara. (Strychnos ignatia? Strychnos multiflora?-The actual tree from which the so-called "beans" are obtained is not known.) Faba indica. St. Ignatius' Bean. (Philippine Islands.) N. O. Loganiaceæ. Tincture and trituration of the seeds.

Abdomen, distended. Anger, effects of. Anus, affections of. Anxiety. Appetite, disordered. Back , weakness of. Catalepsy. Change of Life. Chorea. Clavus . Convulsions. Croup. Debility . Dentition. Depression of Spirits . Diphtheria. Dysmenorrhœa. Epilepsy. Fainting. Fear, effects of . Flatulence; obstructed. Glands, enlargement of. Hæmorrhoids. Headache. Heart, affections of. Hiccough. Hysteria. Hysterical-joint . Intermittent fever. Locomotor ataxy. Melancholia. Numbness. Œsophagus. Paralysis . Phlyctenular ophthalmia. Proctalgia. Rectum, prolapse of. Rheumatic fever. Sciatica. Sensitiveness. Sinking. Sleep, disordered. Spinal irritation. Tenesmus. Throat, sore . Toothache. Tremors. Urine, abnormal. Vagina, spasm of. Voice, lost. Yawning .

In order to obtain a proper understanding of the power and place of Ignatia it is necessary to get rid of two prevalent erroneous ideas. The first of these is that Ign . is a remedy for hysteria and nothing else; and the second is that it is the only remedy ever required in cases of hysteria. One minor inconvenience attending these notions is, that patients have become very shy of the drug, and resent having it prescribed for them, thinking that their doctor deems them hysterical if he does prescribe it. The recent outbreak of plague in the East has recalled the fact that Ign . has earned a reputation as curative even in that disease. Honigberger relates that it was a common plan when plague was raging in Constantinople for people to wear a bean attached to a string as a prophylactic; he administered "minute doses" of it to patients affected with plague with the best success. Later on he himself caught the disease in India, and cured himself with the same remedy ( H. W ., xxxiii. 51). In intermittent fever it is the only remedy that will cure certain cases. In the early part of my homœopathic career I astonished myself once by curing rapidly with Ign . (prescribed at first as an intercurrent remedy) a severe case of rheumatic fever, which had been making no progress under Bryonia , &c. The mental symptoms called for Ign ., and along with these the inflammation of the joints, as well as the fever, disappeared under its action. The seeds of Ign . contain a larger proportion of Strychnia than those of Nux vomica , and the great differences in the characteristic features of the two medicines prove the wisdom of considering medicines apart from their so-called "active" principles. There are many activities in plants besides the alkaloids they may contain, and these are often the determining factors of the drug's specific action. It is in the mental sphere that the majority of the keynote symptoms of Ign. are developed. "Although its positive effects," says Hahnemann ( M. M. P .), "have a great resemblance to those of Nux v . (which indeed might be inferred from the botanical relationship of these two plants) yet there is a great difference in their therapeutic employment. The emotional disposition of patients for whom Ign . is serviceable differs widely from that of those for whom Nux v . is of use. Ign . is not suitable for persons or patients in whom anger, eagerness, or violence is predominant; but for those who are subject to rapid alternations of gaiety and disposition to weep, or other characteristic emotional states, provided always that the other corporeal morbid symptoms resemble those that this drug can produce." Guernsey thus depicts the Ign . state of mind: "Any one suffering from suppressed or deep grief, with long-drawn sighs, much sobbing, &c.; also much unhappiness, cannot sleep, entirely absorbed in grief; for recent grief at the loss of a friend; affections of the mind in general, particularly if actuated by grief; sadness; hopelessness; hysterical variableness; fantastic illusions." To this list fixed ideas may be added, and desire to be alone. Ign . covers many of the effects of grief, especially if recent. I once gave instant relief with Ign . 30 in the case of a lady who had just heard of her brother's death (not unexpected), and who complained of an intense pain in the head just over the root of the nose. The consequences of worry, or a worrying state of mind, no less than grief, call for Ign . — an introverted state of mind. The special indication of Ign . in cases of hysteria is the rapid alternation of moods. Uncontrollable laughter alternating with outbursts of tears. Laughs when she ought to be serious. Sensitive, impressionable. This condition with the characteristic globus hystericus (a lump rises from the stomach into throat as if she would choke; she swallows it down but it constantly returns; < by drinking water) unmistakably indicate Ign . Nervous twitchings and even convulsions also occur. Distortion of the facial muscles whenever the patient attempts to speak. Pains rapidly alternate in character and are excessive. Exaggerated and outlandish symptoms. Rapid alternation of effects is one of the leading features of the drug; also paradoxicalness. Ign . has cured many cases of diphtheric and other sore throats, when the pain has been > by swallowing. In the fever of Ign ., the thirst occurs during the chill and in no other stage. This is a very unlikely condition, and no other remedy has it. Empty retching is > by eating. Suddenness is another note of the Ign . effects. Sudden loss of function in any organ. There are many bodily conditions not associated with mental disturbance that require Ign .; for it must always be borne in mind that the absence of any particular characteristic of a drug is no contraindication to its use provided other indications are sufficiently pronounced. Ign . will cure many painful conditions of the anus and rectum, including piles and prolapse when characterised by "sharp stitching pain shooting up the rectum"; or "constricting pain at anus < after stool, > whilst sitting." Pressure as of a sharp instrument from within outward is a characteristic. "Headache as if a nail were driven out through the side of the head, > by lying on it." Pains 2 change their locality, come gradually and abate suddenly, or come and go suddenly. Headaches terminate with a profuse flow of urine. In dentition it is frequently called for. It has cured hydrocephalus from sudden metastasis from bowels to brain during dentition, with sudden pallor, delirium, rolling of head, difficult swallowing; convulsive movements of eyes and lids. The eye symptoms are also noteworthy. It has cured many cases of inflammatory affections, especially with intense photophobia and nervous excitement; also asthenopia with spasms of lids and neuralgic pains. Ign . is one of the remedies which have "goneness." or sinking at the stomach, in a very pronounced degree. It often occurs in the night, keeping the patient awake. With this there is a disposition to sigh. Sometimes a feeling as if the stomach were relaxed. There is regurgitation of food. Hiccough < by eating, or smoking, or emotional disturbances (especially in children); empty retching > by eating; vomiting at night of food taken in evening. Hysterical vomiting. Sour saliva and sour taste in mouth. Toothache, < after a meal, not so bad whilst eating — another paradoxical condition. The facial expression of Ign . is one of deadly pallor, or it may be flushed at times. There are twitchings of individual muscles of eyelids or mouth, and fluttering in chest, and in smaller muscles of body; heart flutters and rises in chest, causing choking and oppression; it seems to rise and fall as she attempts to sleep. Convulsions, spasms from fright. The child stiffens out and bends backward. Half-unconscious state, thumbs clenched, face blue. Cramps and spasms are prevalent as with Nux . The dysmenorrhœa in which Ign . is indicated has labour-like bearing-down in hypogastrium, > by pressure; by lying down; by change of position. The flow is black, putrid; if profuse, clotted. Spasms and convulsions, ending in long-drawn sighs , are met by Ign . Nash relates a case of puerperal convulsions in which this feature led to a cure. There are a number of characteristic respiratory symptoms: Hysterical aphonia. Laryngismus stridulus; patient sits up in bed, hoarse, hacking cough. The characteristic cough of Ign . is an irritable and irritating cough: the longer the cough lasts the more the irritation to cough increases. Kent describes it as: "Hack, hack-ety-hack, ending in sobbing." Cough every time he stands still during a walk. Hollow, spasmodic cough as from sulphur fumes. Cough as from inspired feathery dust. Sensations of formication and numbness are very general. Pains are apt to be in small circumscribed spots. The fever characters are: Thirst during cold spell only. Red face during chill. Chill > by external heat (wraps, stove). External chilliness and internal heat. As soon as heat commences must be uncovered (opp. Nux ). Sensation as if sweat would break out but does not. Sweats: when eating; cold at times, generally warm; sometimes sour. Ign . is one of the chilly medicines like Nux, Caps., Ars . Cold < and warmth > (except in the last stage of fever). Rest > the pains; and so does change of position. Lying down > . Lying on side < headache; lying on painful side > headache. Sitting > anal and many other symptoms. < By stooping, walking, standing. < From slight touch; > from hard pressure. Soft pressure > headache. Slightest touch < stomach pains; cramps in uterus; tenderness of scalp and region of pylorus. There is great aversion to tobacco, which < many symptoms. Aversion to warm food, meat, alcohol. Desire for sour things; for bread, especially rye bread. < From emotion; from sweets; coffee; strong smells; from ascarides; when yawning. > From changing position; while eating; from eructation; when taking an inspiration; from swallowing. Ign . acts rapidly, and the duration of its action, according to Hahnemann, is short. "It is best administered in the morning if there is no hurry. When given shortly before bedtime it is apt to cause too much restlessness at night." It is adapted to the sensitive, excitable, nervous temperament; women of a sensitive, easily excited nature; dark hair and skin, but mild disposition; quick to perceive, rapid to execute. Ign . has been called the "feminine" of the "masculine" Nux . B. Simmons defines the place of Ign . in sciatica thus: "Lancinating, cutting pains, beating, bursting pains, < in winter, > in summer, chilliness with thirst, flushes of heat, chiefly face, without thirst." The limb is swollen and thigh knotty, and she cannot get up or lie down without pain; generally left side.

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Memory weak and untrustworthy.
Heaviness of head ; very great weakness of memory ; forget everything except dreams ; hardness of hearing ; sees everything as if through a fog ; sits quietly, with a vacant gaze, always thinking of the mortification endured, and knowing nothing of what passes
around him ; prefers to be alone ; thinking of the past mortification prevents him from going to sleep as early as usual ; restless sleep, starts during sleep, much dreaming ; pain in left hypochondrium < by pressure and continuous walking ; loses hair ; face
colorless, hollow ; voice low, trembling, with distortion of muscles of face ; does not like to talk ; no desire to eat or drink ; appetite is soon satisfied ; feels cold, especially in evening ; very weak ; staggering walk ; walks carefully ;
increased stool and urine. θ Melancholy after mortification.
Absent-mindedness.
Difficult comprehension ; mental dulness ; mental effort is irksome.
Incapacity for thought in evening.
Brooding over imaginary or real troubles ; is wrapt in thought.
Hurry of mind, after exerting brain, especially in morning ; is unable to talk, write or do anything else as rapidly as he wishes, whereupon there occur anxious behavior, mistakes in talking and writing and awkward actions requiring constant corrections.
A torrent of words pours out of mind, and confusion of writing is caused by profusion of thought.
Fancies ; delirium ; insanity.
Spasms and insanity after fright ; imagines her soul cannot be saved and cries very much ; at times rages and tears clothes, can scarcely be restrained by four strong persons.
After catamenia, which came at night time, symptoms of insanity ; believes herself married and pregnant ; is tormented by remorse for imagined crimes ; seeks constantly to escape to drown herself ; terrible anxiety from rush of blood to head and heart ; is only
quiet when lying undisturbed and brooding over her troubles, which she rehearses in a doleful tone ; if disturbed, screams, strikes and tears things, crying all the while "I am neglecting my duty, breaking my vow ;" face pale and distorted ; desire for sour
things ; difficulty to get her to eat ; conscientious scruples after eating ; menses suppressed.
Desire to be alone.
Sighs and sobs ; will not be comforted.
Inclined to be very secretive and passive.
Changeable disposition, laughing and crying almost in same breath.
Looks about bed as if to find something.
Taciturn, with continuous sad thoughts ; still, serious melancholy, with moaning.
Aversion to being alone.
Incredible changes of mood ; at one time jokes and makes merry, at another is lachrymose, alternating every three or four hours.
Apprehensive feeling.
Sadness and sighing, empty feeling in pit of stomach.
Melancholia from suppressed mental sufferings, with much sighing ; desire to be alone so as to give way to her real or imaginary grief ; weeps bitterly.
Silent melancholy ; twitching of one muscle at a time.
Melancholy after disappointed love, always combined with spinal symptoms.
Fright is followed by grief.
Great grief after losing persons or objects very dear.
Unhappy love with silent grief.
Senseless staring at one object, with sighing and moaning ; remorse about imaginary crimes, intolerance to noise ; great inclination to have fixed ideas.
Appetite and digestion left him. θ Morbid grief.
Became bilious, nervous, depressed, and would scarce move from the fire, for days together. θ Morbid grief.
A peculiar trembling of hands disturbs her very much in writing, most when she has to write in any one's presence, gets worse as soon as she fancies any one might notice it.
Unusual tendency to be frightened.
Dread of every trifle, especially of things coming near him.
Fear of thieves, on waking after midnight.
Fearfulness ; does not like to talk ; prefers to be alone.
Anxiety as though something terrible had happened ; cannot speak because of it ; hurry, fearfulness, terror, alternating with irresolution and inertness.
Tears wept inwardly, the pain and penalty of unrequited love ; desires solitude so that one may nourish inward grief ; great anxiousness at night or when awaking in morning, with taciturnity ; aversion to every amusement.
Anxiety, as if he had committed some crime.
Anxiety and disquiet as if she had done something wrong, or as if some great misfortune were about to happen, this so overpowers her, that she can with difficulty refrain from weeping ; has oppression of breathing, but feels distinctly that oppression begins at stomach and spreads
up into throat ; becomes very weak, incapable of work, and disinclined to company ; no appetite ; bowels torpid and insufficiently moved ; paroxysms about twice a day, one lasting often for hours.
Anxiety, sleeplessness, despair ; severe palpitation ; loss of appetite ; constipation.
Altered appearance ; made an unsuccessful attempt to end his almost unendurable sufferings, by eating the phosphorus from matches ; after business embarrassments.
A state of anguish in which she shrieks for help, with suffocating constriction of throat, difficult deglutition ; comes out of spasms with deep sighing. θ Parturition.
Indifferent to everything ; seemed to live without his usual good humor.
Suppressed menstruation with melancholy ; indifference to things she loved best ; sits alone and weeps, imagines things, especially that she might go crazy ; in all parts crawling sensation as if gone to sleep, as if she had no feeling in epigastrium ; sleep
unrefreshing and disturbed by dreams.
Sensitive disposition and hyperacute feeling.
Tender mood, with very clear consciousness.
Finely sensitive mood, delicate conscientiousness.
Amiable disposition if feeling well ; every little emotion disturbs her.
Mild disposition ; bears suffering, even outrage, without complaining. θ Leucorrhœa.
Jealousy, disappointed love.
Inconstant, impatient, irresolute, quarrelsome.
The slightest contradiction irritates.
Slight blame or contradiction excites him to anger, and this makes him angry with himself.
Peevish, capricious and quarrelsome ; impatient.
Anger, followed by quiet grief or sorrow.
Fright ; inclination to start.
Headache < from reading and writing.
Palpitation while engaged in deep thought.
Spasmodic affections of children, consequent on being put to sleep soon after punishment.
After fright : disturbed, introspective, taciturn ; insomnia and great restlessness ; anorexia.
Melancholia after great grief and much domestic trouble ; complete sleeplessness ; suicidal thoughts and desire to escape.
Ill effects from hearing bad news ; from vexation with reserved displeasure ; from grief, or suppressed mental sufferings ; of shame and disappointed love.

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Ignatia is frequently required and is especially suited to sensitive, delicate women and children; to hysterical women. You will not cure the natural hysterics with Ignatia, but you will cure those gentle, sensitive, fine fibred, refined, highly educated, overwrought women in their nervous complaints with Ignatia when they take on complaints that are similar to such symptoms as come in hysteria.

The hysterical diathesis is one that is very singular and difficult to comprehend.

But a woman, when overwrought and overexcited and emotional, will do things that she herself cannot account for. She will do things as if she were crazy in her excitement. Will do things she regrets, while the hysteric is always glad of it. No matter how much foolishness there is in it she has only made an exhibition that she is proud of. But our efforts go out for those who imitate them unconsciously. Those who will to do well.

A woman has undergone a controversy at home. She has been disturbed, is excited, and goes into cramps, trembles and quivers. Goes to bed with a headache. Is sick. Ignatia will be her remedy. When she has great distress; unrequited affections. A sensitive, nervous young girl finds out that she has misplaced her affections; the young man has disappointed her; she has a weeping spell, headache, trembles, is nervous, sleepless; Ignatia will make her philosophical and sensible.

A woman loses her child, or her husband. A sensitive, delicate woman, and she suffers from this grief. She has headaches, trembles, is excited, weeps, is sleepless; unable to control herself. In spite of her best endeavors, her grief has simply torn her to pieces. She is unable to control her emotions and her excitement.

Ignatia will quiet her and tide her over the present moment. In all of these instances where all of these conditions brought on from such troubles keep coming back, where your patient dwells upon them, dwells upon the cause, and the state keeps recurring, Natrum mur. will finish up the case.

It will nerve her up and help her to bear her sufferings. Especially useful in constitutions that have been over wrought at school, in science, music, art. Of course, it is natural for very sensitive girls to go into the arts, such as music, painting, etc.

A daughter comes back from Paris after a number of years close application to her music. She is unable to do anything. She flies all to pieces. Every noise disturbs her. She cannot sleep nights. Excitable, sleepless, trembles, jerks, cramps in the muscles; weeps from excitement, and from every disturbing word. Ignatia will tone her up wonderfully.

Sometimes it will complete the whole case. But especially in these oversensitive girls is Natrum mur. very commonly the chronic. It is the natural chronic of Ignatia. When the troubles keep coming back, and Ignatia comes to a place when it will not hold any longer.

Another place where Ignatia and Natrum mur. run close together. A sensitive, overtired girl, after she has been working in music, and in art, and in school, and has tired herself out, is unable to control her affections. Her affections rest on some one whom she would despise. That may be a singular thing, one may not be able to understand it.

A sensitive girl, though she would not let anyone but her mother know of it, falls in love with a married man. She lies awake nights, sobs. She says,

"Mother, why do I do that, I cannot keep that man out of my mind."

At other times a man entirely out of her station, that she is too sensible to have anything to do with, she just thinks about him. Ignatia, if it is very recent, will balance up that girl's, mind. If not, Natrum mur. comes in as a follower. We do not know half as much about the human mind as we think we do. We only know its manifestations.

These little things belong to this sphere of the action of this medicine. The one who knows the Materia Medica applies it in its breadth and its length, and sees in it that which is similar.

Ignatia has quivering in the limbs. Nervous, tremulous excitement.

"Weakness of the body coming on suddenly.

Hysterical debility and fainting fits.

Fainting in a crowd."

It is especially useful in the tearful, nervous, sad, yielding, sensitive minds.

"Jerking and twitching.

Convulsive twitchings."

Children are convulsed in sleep after punishment.

"Convulsions in children in the first period of dentition.

Spasms in children from fright."

The child is cold and pale, and has a fixed staring look, like Cina.

"Convulsions with loss of consciousness.

Violent convulsions.

Tetanic convulsions.

Tetanus after fright.

Emotional chorea.

After fright, or grief."

Choreic girls. Emotional epilepsy, or epileptiform manifestations. Paralytic weakness.

"Great mental emotion."

Nursing; night watching. A loss of one arm with as perfect paralysis as if it had come from a cerebral haemorrhage. In a few hours this passes off, and the arm is as well as ever. That is a hysterical paralysis.

"Numbness of one or the other arm.

Tingling and prickling in the arm."

Ignatia is full of surprises. If you are well acquainted with sickness, well acquainted with pathological conditions and that manifestations, you are then able to say whether you should or should not be surprised. You are then able to say what is natural, what is common to sickness. In Ignatia you find what is unnatural, and what is unexpected.

You see an inflamed joint, or an inflamed part where there is heat, redness, throbbing, and weakness; you will handle it with great care for fear it will be painful. Ordinarily you have a perfect right to expect it would be painful. But you find it is not painful, and sometimes ameliorated by hard pressure. Is not that a surprise?

You look into the throat. It is tumid, inflamed, red; the patient complains of a sore throat and pain. Naturally you will not touch it with your tongue depressor for fear it will hurt.

You have every reason to suppose that the swallowing of solids will be painful. But you ask the patient when the pain is present, and the patient will say:

"When I am not swallowing anything solid."

The pain is ameliorated by swallowing anything solid, by the pressure. It pains all other times. Mentally, the patient does the most unaccountable and most unexpected things. Seems to have no rule to work by, no philosophy, no soundness of mind, and no judgment. The opposite of what would be expected, then, will be found.

The patient is better lying on the painful side. Instead of increasing the pain, it relieves the pain.

"Pain like a nail sticking into the side of the head."

The only comfort that is felt is by lying upon it, or pressing upon it, and that makes it go away.

The stomach is just as strange in its indigestion. Some day or other you will have a queer patient, vomiting everything taken into the stomach, and you will have her try gentle food, a little toast, and the simplest possible things, because she has been vomiting for days and people begin to worry about it for fear she will starve to death.

You try this, and you try that, and she can keep nothing down. Finally she says,

"It I could only have some cole slaw and some chopped onions, I think I could get along all right."

It is a hysterical stomach, and the patient eats some raw cabbage and some chopped onions, and from that time on she is well.

Those strange things that are ordinarily hard to digest ameliorate the nausea rather than increase it. While milk and toast, and delicate things, and warm things, such as are usually taken, disturb the stomach and increase the nausea. Cold food is craved, and cold food will be digested when warm food will be disturbing and create indigestion.

The cough has similar features in it. An irritation will come in the throat, as a rule, that is why people cough.

People cough from smarting in the larynx and trachea, from irritation, from tickling, and from a sensation of fullness or a desire to expel something, and this is better by coughing.

But when the irritation in the larynx and trachea comes in the Ignatia patient you have the unexpected again; because the more she coughs the more the irritation to cough is observed, until the irritation is so great and the cough is so great that she goes into spasms. It has been known of an Ignatia patient, that the more she coughed the greater the irritation to cough, and she was drenched with sweat, sitting up in bed with her night-clothes drenched, gagging and coughing and retching, covered with sweat and exhausted.

When you are called to the bedside of such a patient, don't wait. You cannot get her to stop coughing long enough to say anything to you about it, only you will see the cough has grown more violent; Ignatia stops it at once. Without any provocation whatever a spasmodic condition will come on in the larynx.

Any little disturbance, a mental disturbance, a fright, or distress, or a grievance, will bring a young, sensitive woman home and to her bed, and she will go on with a spasm of the larynx. It is a laryngismus stridulus that can be heard all over the house. Ignatia stops it at once ( Gelsemium, Moschus).

Nervous affections and troubles of all sorts come on at the menstrual period. The mind is always in a hurry, in a state of excitement.

No one can do things rapidly enough. The memory is untrustworthy. The mind flies all to pieces. It is a sort of confusion. No longer able to classify the things that have been classically put into the mind. Cannot remember her music, and her rules, and her scholastic methods. They have all vanished, and she is in a state of confusion. She is a worn-out, nervous person.

Then come fancies, vivid fancies, that are like delirium. Without fever, without chill. just after excitement. She comes home from some great disturbance of her emotions, and goes into a state that, if looked upon, per se, would appear to be a delirium such as appears in a fever. But upon close examination it is not a delirium. It is a momentarily hysterical excitement of the mind, in which the balance is lost, and she talks about everything.

Sees every manner of thing; it is a hysterical insanity, because after she rests or the next morning it has vanished. But these spells come oftener and oftener after they have once begun, and she gives way to them easier and easier, and, if they are not remedied, she becomes a lunatic, a confirmed mental wreck, so that excitement, grief, insanity, all intermingle together as cause and effect. These come first at the menstrual period, and then they come at other times, until they come from every little disturbance. Whenever she is crossed or contradicted.

"She desires to be alone and to dwell on the inconsistencies that come into her life.

Sits and sobs.

At times she is taciturn; again, she prattles and is loquacious, and talks to herself."

She comes into a state in a little while where she delights to bring on her fits and to make a scare. The natural hysteric is born with that, and Ignatia will do her no good. But when this is brought on from conditions described, Ignatia is of the greatest benefit. It runs closely along by the side of Hyoscyamus.

"A feeling of continuous fright, or apprehensiveness that something is going to happen."

With all these mental states she has a feeling of emptiness in the stomach and abdomen. Emptiness and trembling.

"Melancholy after disappointed love, with spinal symptoms,"

"Great grief after losing persons or objects very near.

Trembling of the hands disturbs her very much in writing.

Dread of every trifle."

She goes into a state where she is utterly unable to undertake anything, even to write a letter to a friend.

The Ignatia patient is not one that has been a simpleton, or of a sluggish mind or idiotic, but one that has become tired, and brought into such a state from over-doing and from over-excitement. From going too much. If rather feeble in body, from too much social excitement. Our present social state is will calculated to develop a hysterical mind. The typical social mind is one that is always in a state of confusion. Asks questions, not waiting for the answer.

A good many remedies have this state; a lack of concentration of mind, that is what it is, but this is a peculiar kind of lack of concentration of mind. Dread, fear, anxiety, weeping, run through the remedy.

"Sensitive disposition; hyperacute."

Overwrought intense. Ignatia has another thing:

"Thinks she has neglected some duty."

That is very much like Puls., Hell. and Hyos., only Aurum believes that she has committed a great wrong.

"Thinks that she has neglected some duty."

Dwells upon that much.

"Melancholy after great grief."

It is full of headaches, and they are all congestive, pressing headaches, or tearing headaches, or headaches as if a nail were sticking into the side of the head or temple; ameliorated from lying upon it. The headaches are all ameliorated by heat. The patient generally is ameliorated by warmth and aggravated by cold. Wants cold things in the stomach, but warm things externally. Jerking headaches, throbbing headaches, congestive headaches.

Headaches in nervous and sensitive temperaments. Those whose nervous system has given way to anxiety, grief or mental work.

"Headaches from abuse of coffee, from smoking, from inhaling smoke, from tobacco or alcohol."

Headache from close attention.

"Headache ameliorated, by warmth and rest; worse, from cold winds and turning the head suddenly; worse when pressing at stool, or from jar, from hurrying, from excitement."

Looking up increases the pain; moving the eyes; worse from noise, from light.

"Pain in the occiput; worse from cold, better from external heat.

Headache better while eating, but soon after it is worse."

"Disturbance of vision.

Zigzags.

Confusion of vision."

Excessively nervous eyes.

"Acrid tears.

Weeping."

The face is distorted, convulsed, pale and sickly. Pains in the face.

"Violent rending, tearing pains in the face."

Let me put it this way: Some of these overwrought girls that come back from Paris, that I described, overworked in their music, will have violent face-ache, pains in the face, or some other hysterical pains. Others will come back with violent headaches; others with the mental state and confusion; others with all the hysterical manifestations.

Prolonged excitement. Musical excesses. Yes, other girls come back fairly crippled with painful menstruation, ovarian pains, hysterical conditions, displacement; prolapsus of the vagina and of the rectum.

"Tearing, shooting pains upwards from the anus and vagina up into the body towards the umbilicus."

Strange antipathies run through the remedy. It will be impossible for you to ever form any conclusion what one of these sensitive women will think of any proposition that is presented. You cannot depend upon her being reasonable or rational.

It is best to say as little as possible, about anything. Make no promises, listen, look wise, take up your traveling bag and go home after you have prescribed, because anything you say, will be distorted. There is not anything you can say that will please

Thirst when you would not expect it. Thirst during chill, but none during the fever, if she has a feverish state. It is suitable in intermittent fever. Excitable, nervous children and women with intermittent fever.

Especially adapted to the nervous temperament; women of a sensitive, easily excited nature; dark hair and skin, but mild disposition; quick to perceive, to execute. In striking contrast with the fair-complexioned, yielding, lachrymose, but slow and indecisive Pulsatilla.

The remedy of great contradictions: the roaring in ears $>$ by music; the piles $>$ when walking; sore throat feels $>$ when swallowing; empty feeling in stomach not $>$ by eating; cough $<$ the more he coughs; cough on standing still during a walk (Ast. fl.); spasmodic laughter from grief; sexual desire with impotency; thirst during a chill, no thirst in the fever; the color changes in the face when at rest.

Mental conditions rapidly, in an almost incredibly short time, change from joy to sorrow, laughing to weeping (Croc., Nux m.).

Persons mentally and physically exhausted by long concentrated grief; involuntary sighing, and a weak, empty feeling at pit of stomach, not $>$ by eating.

Desire to be alone.

Finely sensitive mood, delicate conscientiousness.

Inconstant, impatient, irresolute, quarrelsome.

Amiable in disposition if feeling well, but easily disturbed by very slight emotion; easily offended.

The slightest fault finding or contradiction excites anger, and this makes him angry with himself.

Bad effects: of anger, grief, or disappointed love (Cal. p., Hyos.); from bad news, from vexation with reserved displeasure; from suppressed mental sufferings; of shame and mortification; broods over imaginary trouble in solitude.

Children: when reprimanded, scolded, sent to bed, get sick or have convulsions in sleep.

Headache, as if a nail were driven out through the side, relieved by lying on it (compare, Cof., Nux, Thuja).

Cannot bear tobacco; produces or $<$ headache (Lob.).

In talking or chewing, bites inside of cheek.

Sweat on the face, of a small spot only, while eating.

Prolapsus ani from moderate straining at stool (Nit. ac., Pod., Ruta).

Constipation: from carriage riding; of a paralytic origin; excessive urging, felt more in upper abdomen (Ver.); with great pain, dreads to go to closet; women who are habitual coffee drinkers.

Hemorrhoids: prolapse with every stool, have to be re-placed; sharp stitches up the rectum (Nit. ac.); < for hours after stool (Rat., Sul.).

Cough: dry, spasmodic; after warm drinks; every time he stands still during a walk; the longer he coughs the more the irritation to cough increases.

Twitchings, jerkings, even spasms of single limbs or whole body, when falling asleep.

Pain; in small circumscribed spots; oversensitive to (Cof., Hep.).

In most cases Ignatia should be given in the morning.

Incompatible: Cof., Nux, Tab.

Ignatia bears the same relation to the diseases of women that Nux does to sanguine, bilious men.

There are many more Ignatia persons in North America than Nux vomica persons.—HERING.

Tobacco; coffee; brandy. Contact; motion; strong smells; mental emotions, grief, etc.; cold air.

Warmth; hard pressure; lying on the back.

Quotidian; tertian; quartan. Irregular; continually changing, especially by the abuse of Quinine (Eup.).

Postponing or anticipating; the former the rule, the latter the exception (postpones or anticipates, Gamb.). Typhoid.

The attacks are irregular both in periodicity and evolution of stages. Return each spring after suppression by Quinine.

Irregularity of hour, characteristic. Paroxysm at sunset. late in afternoon or evening; then fever heat nearly all night. At all periods.

2 P. M., 4 to 5 P. M., and 9

P. M. Regular—every day at same hour.

Morning fever, without chill.

Not characteristic, chill late in afternoon or evening. Irreg- ular—anticipates or postpones.

Morning fever, with chill.

Violent yawning and stretching; sometimes terrible shuddering.

No symptoms.

Yawning and stretch- ing.

Always with great thirst for large quantities of water (same, but in all stages, Bry.—before and during chill, Caps., Carbo v., Eup.), only during chill (if thirst in any other stage, it is light and in short spells). Chill commences in upper arms and spreads to back and chest (in both arms at once, Bell.—in hands and feet, Gels.—chill begins in and spreads from arms; goose-flesh; hot face; drowsy; motion; < by getting out of bed Hell.). Chilly at sunset; chilly in cool air; very cold all over, with one-sided headache. Shaking chill, with redness of the face, in the evening. Coldness and chilliness of whole body, or only of posterior portions, > at once in a warm room or by a warm stove (Kali c.). Chilliness on the back, and over upper arms, with heat of ears; about the knees, which are cold externally; in the face and on the arms, with chattering of teeth and goose-flesh; feet and legs, thigh and forearm; chill of single parts only (chill and heat of single parts, Bell., Rhus); proceeding from the abdomen (most severe in abdomen, Meny.—from the stomach, Cal.—running to and terminating in the stomach, Arn.). During the chill: ill humor, colic, nausea, vomiting of food, mucus and bile (rare); great paleness of face; pain in back; lameness of lower limbs. Chill and coldness aggravate the pains. External coldness, internal heat, or internal chill with external heat.

"The febrile coldness relieved by external warmth is characteristic of Ignatia."—HAHNEMANN.

Without thirst; commenc- ing in hands and feet. Chills follow each other in wave-like rapid succes- sion up the spine from sacrum to occiput.

With great thirst; com- mencing in upper arms and spreads to back. Shaking chill with red face, relieved at once in warm room or by heat of stove.

Without thirst. Heat of the whole body in the afternoon, without thirst, with sensation of dryness of the skin. External heat and redness, without internal heat. Sudden flushes of heat over the whole body. External warmth is intolerable (Puls.); must be uncovered as soon as heat begins (Acon., Sec.). One ear, one cheek, and side of the face red and burning (one cheek red and hot, the other cold and pale, Cham.); hot knees with cold nose; heat of the face, with coldness of the hands and feet; continuous quick alternations from heat to cold. Heat and coldness of single parts (Apis, Bell.). Deep snoring sleep during heat (Apis, Op.); frequent sighing; beating headache; vertigo, delirium; pain in stomach and bowels; vomiting of ingesta, with coldness of the feet and spasmodic twitching of the extremities. Urticaria over the whole body, with violent itching, easily $>$ by scratching, which disappears with the sweat (itching, stinging, nettle-rash before and during chill, Hep.—during chill and heat, Rhus—see Dul.). Patient is hungry after the fever (Eup.).

"The heat of Ignatia is almost always external; also, there is very seldom thirst with this heat, even in intermittent fever; hence Ignatia is able to cure homeopathically and permanently in the smallest dose, intermittent fever which presents thirst during chill but not during heat."—HAHNEMANN.

Without thirst. Flying heat and flushes followed by per- spiration.

Without thirst. External heat and redness, without internal heat.

Without thirst; warm perspiration of extremities; usually light, though general. Fainting during sweat, or as the heat passes into sweating stage. Sweat when eating. Sensation as if sweat would break out over the whole body, which, however, does not follow. Warm perspiration on the hands, or on the inner surface of the hands and fingers, in the evening; at times cold, but generally warm and sour-smelling.

Profuse, coming on grad- ually, relieving all the pains.

Light, warm, chiefly on extremities, or of the face only.

Clean. Saliva has a sour taste. Food tasteless.

Yellowish-white, breath fetid. Saliva blood-colored.

Clean. Saliva has a sour taste. Food tasteless.

Complete. The face is pale; eruption on the lips and in the corners of the mouth; lips dry and chapped; hungry about 11 A. M. (Sul.), but little or no appetite at time of meals; aching pain in pit of stomach; colic, with hard stools and ineffectual urging; pain in back and limbs; languor, apathy, giving away of the knees, starting in sleep, or sound sleep with snoring. The sleep usually continues from the heat during and through sweating stage, into apyrexia. All pain and headache aggravated by tobacco and coffee.

"During the chill thirsty, seeks external warmth; during the fever heat, no thirst, external warmth very pleasant; sitting up relieves the chill."—HAHNEMANN.

Ignatia is adapted to recent mild cases, or long-lasting and complicated ones, particularly those occurring among women and young people of a highly nervous organization. No remedy has thirst during chill and in no other stage, chill relieved by external heat, and heat aggravated by external covering, so prominently marked as Ignatia. The Ignatia patient is able to resume his occupation as soon as paroxysm is over. Ignatia is indicated if the tertian type has become quartan after taking large doses of

Quinine.

Gelsemium.

Often wanting or very short. Intermittents often become remittents.

Ignatia.

Complete. Face is very pale. One type frequently changes to another.

Red face during chill (Fer.); chill, with thirst dur- ing chill only; $<$ by external heat; heat without thirst, $<$ by covering ($>$ by covering, Nux).

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.

Heaviness of the 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 præcordia.
Fulness and pressure in epigastrium; distention of hypochondria and pit of stomach, so full she can hardly breathe.

Swelling and induration of the spleen.

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.

Diarrhœa: 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.

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.

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.

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 leucorrhœa.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Periodical: 17, 36.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

A tincture (or trituration) is made of the seeds of Strychnos Ignatia, Lindl.

It contains a large amount of strychnia, and most of its toxic properties are due to that alkaloid, but the other elements contained in it determine marked peculiarities, especially extreme sensitiveness of the nerves, symptoms of hysteria, neuralgia and a peculiar form of fever.

Nux vom., Cham., Silicea , Lach., Gels., Zinc., Puls., Lycopod., Staph.

▶ Trembling; with twitching and spasms. ▶ Twitching in various parts of muscles, here and there after lying down. ▶ Convulsions; so that he could not stand, agg. jaws, causing risus sardonicus, without other symptoms. ▶ Frequent change of position at night, lies now here, now there. ▶ Constant motion of body, looks as if in a doze, it is irksome to look or to open mouth to talk, respiration light and slow.

Tearing in right arm and on right side of head, from cold air. ▶ Deeply sticking, burning pain in various parts. ▶ Pains as if beaten in joints of neck, back and shoulders at night when lying on either side, amel. lying on back. ▶ Tingling pain, agg. head. ▶ Pain here and there is spots on touch, as for example, on ribs. ▶ Pains renewed after dinner, in evening after lying down, and in morning after waking. ▶ Crawling in all bones. ▶ Weight, congestion and orgasm of blood in whole body in morning on waking, with melancholy.

Weariness in morning on waking; in afternoon, over-powering sleep at 2 P.M., unrefreshed by two hours sleep; in evening; on walking, it seems as if his breath would fail, is qualmish at pit of stomach, and the coughs; from slight exertion; after dinner, agg. 2 to 4 P.M., with sleepiness (after stool), with yawning; as from weakness about pit of stomach, with nausea and necessity to lie down; so that he had no desire to dress himself and go out, has no pleasure in anything, but prefers to lie. ▶ Unwillingness to move, shirking of work. ▶ Stiffness of knee, ankle, thigh and sacrum in morning on rising; S. of knees and loins, motion causes pain. ▶ Faintness. ▶ Insensibility. ▶ Aggravation from coffee (Cham., Nux v.) and smoking tobacco (Nux v., Puls., Staph.).

The general characteristic conditions of the Ign. patient are extremely important, since they are almost always unexpected in character, for example, if the patient has fever he is not thirsty and wants to be covered, if he is cold he wants to be uncovered, the headache in the forehead is relieved by stooping, the irritation to cough increases with coughing; this "contrariness" is a general characteristic of Ign., both mentally and physically. ▶ Extreme sensitiveness to pain (Cham.). ▶ General tendency to faintness and debility, with nervous prostration and excitability. ▶ Numerous phases of hysteria and of neuralgias in various parts of the body, spasms in children from teething or from worms, or from fright. ▶ Cholera especially in children who have been frightened. ▶ Epilepsy originally caused by fright. ▶ Hysterical paralysis. ▶ In all the phases of hysteria there is a changeable mood, often flushing of one or the other cheek (Cham.), tendency to scream, or to tear, or to bite, or to cry.

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Trembling; twitching of various muscles.
Convulsions.
Constantly changing position, especially at night.
Pains shift about, mostly in small spots; pains are usually sharp, boring, or shooting, extending from within outward, sometimes in the opposite direction.
Hysterical spasms.
General aggravation from tea, coffee, tobacco and brandy; after dinner, in the evening after lying down, and in the morning immediately after waking.
Amelioration, from lying on the back, or on the painful portion; and, in general, from change of position.

Note:
The general keynote of Ignatia is a condition of contrariness; thus, a frontal headache is ameliorated by stooping: fever without thirst, etc.

Extreme sensitiveness and impatience: changeable mood; becomes angry on the slightest contradiction.
Frightened mood, as if he had committed a crime.
Dread of trifles.
Hysterical mood; laughs and cries alternately.

Clinical:
Especially useful for results of depressing emotions, such as grief, love.

General heaviness.
Headache, consisting of a pressing pain from within outward, usually in the forehead between the eyes; > bending the head forward on the table (sometimes < stooping).
Pain as from something pressing hard on the brain, especially in the morning on waking; pain constantly shifts to other parts of the body; > coffee.
Sharp, piercing pain, as from a nail being driven in the head, or like a boring.
Headaches; sometimes < coughing or stimulants, always by noise and by odors.
The head is sometimes bent excessively backward with the pain.

Inflammation, with biting tears and agglutination at night.
A feeling as if sand were under the upper lid.
Inflammation of the upper part of the eyeball, which is covered by the lid.
Convulsive movements of the muscles of the eyes.
Zigzag flickerings before vision.
Photophobia.

Roaring and ringing in the ears.
Obstinate itching in the auditory canal.

Nasal catarrh, with crawling and itching in the nostrils, which are sore, sensitive or swollen.

Alternately pale and red.
Convulsive twitchings of the facial muscles (especially on attempting to talk).
Always dry, cracked, bleeding.

Inner surface of the lower lip seems raw.
The whole interior of the mouth red and inflamed.
One bites the inside of the cheek when chewing.
Taste is sour: sometimes bitter, then sour.

Inflammation, with sharp sticking pains when not swallowing: usually > swallowing.
Constriction in the œsophagus as from a plug; worse when not swallowing.

Hunger in the evening, which prevents falling asleep.
Desire for different things, but when they are brought they are not relished.
Aversion to the customary smoking.
Aversion to meat and brandy.
Thirst with the chill, but not during the fever.
Eructations of a bitter taste.
Hiccough after eating, drinking or smoking.
Vomiting of food at night.
Stitches in the region of the stomach.
A feeling of weakness and emptiness as if the stomach hung down relaxed.
Gastric symptoms, usually > eating.

Fullness and distention in the hypochondria; a feeling of hardness and swelling in the region of the spleen.
Twisting around the navel.
Localized distention here and there of the abdomen.
Pulsating pains in the lower part of the abdomen.
Pressing-outward pain in the pelvic region.
Extreme flatulence, with hysteria.

Prolapsus from slight straining at stool.
Cutting and sharp pains in the rectum, as from contraction and soreness, especially after stools.
Itching and crawling as from thread-worms in the anus.
Ineffectual urging to stool, with protrusion of the rectum, felt particularly in the middle of the abdomen.
Sensation of piles in the anus, with soreness and pain; usually better when walking.
Sharp sticking pain in the anus, extending deep into the rectum.

Diarrhœa; thin, involuntary.

Clinical:
Diarrhœa resulting from fright or emotional excitement, especially grief.
Diarrhœa, with tenesmus.
Desire for stool is felt in the abdomen, but is ineffectual.
Alternate diarrhœa and constipation.

Frequent micturition of large quantities of pale urine.
Constant micturition after coughing.
Burning and smarting in the urethra when urinating.

Itching about the genitals in the evening; > scratching.
Menstruation too early.
Menstrual flow black, offensive, clotted.

Clinical:
Dysmenorrhœa, with great pressure.
Ovarian pains.
Uterine hæmorrhages from grief or emotional excitement.
During pregnancy, nausea, weakness, sinking in the stomach, ameliorated by eating.
During labor, spasms amounting almost to convulsions.

Hacking cough in the evening after lying down, seeming to come from the larynx; finally > forcibly suppressing the cough by will power.
Dry cough as from feathers or dust in the pit of the throat; worse the longer he coughs.
Dyspnœa, as from a load on the chest; expiration easy.
Dry cough in the morning on waking, and from tickling near the pit of the stomach.

Palpitation, especially at night; sometimes with stitches in the region of the heart.

Stiffness in the nape of the neck.
Spasmodic bending of back backward.
Cutting stitches extend from the small of the back down through the legs as from a knife.
Pain in the sacrum in the morning when lying on the back.

Convulsive jerkings and twitchings, especially on falling asleep.
Pain in the shoulders as after violent effort.
Twitching of the deltoid muscles.
Twitching of the muscles of the forearm, especially in the evening after lying down.
Cutting stitches in the hips and knees; when walking he involuntarily draws the knees up too high.
Stitching pain in the soles of the feet.
Burning in the heels at night, though they are cold to touch.

Itching, > scratching, but immediately appearing in another place.
Itching from becoming heated in the open air.
Skin very sensitive to the air.
Itching nettle-rash over the whole body.

Excessive, spasmodic yawning, which causes pain in the jaws as if they would be dislocated.
Sleep sometimes deep; stupid; sometimes so light that one hears everything; generally with great restlessness and twitching of the limbs, especially on falling asleep.
Dreams of one idea persistently.

Chilliness, with thirst, without relief from external warmth.
Heat largely external, with internal shivering; in the afternoon, without thirst; with dry skin, but sweat on the face: external heat and redness: without thirst and without internal heat, with intolerance of external warmth.

Ign. / The Saint.

Ignatia,-Brooding child of grief!
For Nervous ailments thou the chief.
Thy every sense acutely keen,
Thy mind unstable-unserene.
Thy moods hysteric-laughing-crying,
Or bowed in grief, in silence sighing.
Thy nerves in agitated plight,
Convulsed perchance by worms or fright.
Whilst all the while there seems to sit,
A goneness at thy stomach pit;
Or in the brain a pressure keen
As of a nail there driven in.
Thine, too, an ague chill, that may
To warmth of cover yield the sway.
A falling of the rectum, which is
Attended with deep rectal stitches.
Neuralgic pain, of head and chest,
And cough that teasing, gives no rest.
A soreness of the throat relieved
By food in gulping act, received.
Thy ailments are augmented all
By coffee and by alcohol.
Thy pains some ease from pressure gain,
Or lying on the seat of pain.
Though much averse to victuals warm,
In acids thou dost find a charm.

The Saint,-Has Hysteria.

The Saint, Asa Plat, who is as blue as a Cim-hyson plum, is with old nun, Jessie Taren, in the vale of Zu-zu Moss.

This Saint,-Who is subject to Clavus,-Is in the Pantheon Cafe, with Madge Hepar.

Hysteria: Ig., Asa., Plat., Indigo, Cimi., Hyos., PB., Con., Nux m., Gel., Tarentula, Val., ZN., ZN. p., Mos.

Clavus-"Peg in the Brain": Ig., Pul., Nux v., Thuj., Hep., Coff., Mag. p., Hepar.

Indicated in patients with pronounced nervous symptoms, erratic in manifestation and resting upon a neurotic basis. The emotional symptoms are unusually important. There is often present muscular excitement, i.e., jerking and twitching, with a tendency to spastic conditions.

Mental depression; sadness.

Ill effects of depressing emotions, recent grief, disappointment in love; of abuse of coffee, alcohol, tobacco.

Great sensitiveness; broods over fancied slights and wrongs.

Amiable when everything is all right, but easily upset and annoyed.

Deep, involuntary sighing, with sense of goneness and sinking at the pit of the stomach; the latter nearly always better from eating.

Nervous excitement; feels as though would have convulsions or paralysis, and is afraid of it, but they do not come to pass.

Headache, as if a nail were being driven into the head; agonizing.

Headache, with sense of unfitness for mental effort, seemingly congestive, yet better from leaning forward and from resting head on the table; worse from tobacco smoke.

Toothache with tenderness and soreness of teeth, felt least when chewing.

Violent cough, caused by tickling in the throat as from a feather; the more he coughs, the worse the tickling; can stop it by effort of will.

Twitching of muscles, especially about the face.

Pain in small circumscribed spots.

Constriction of anal sphincter, worse from sitting down.

Haemorrhoids, with stitching pain from anus into rectum.

Chill with thirst; fever without thirst.

Urine profuse, watery.

Worse from coffee, tobacco, alcohol; from depressing emotions; from contact and motion; in the open air; in the morning.

Better from change of position; from hard pressure; from lying on the back, on the painful side.

Weakness of thought and recollection, especially after violent concealed vexation. Extraordinarily changeable mood. Hysteria. Paroxysms of laughter or screaming. Introverted and tatiturm with low spirits and weeping. Tenderness. Internal, concealed grief, with frequent sighing. (Arg - n) Carking mental care. Unfortunate love. Very easily frightened. Overconscientious. After effects of mortification and vexation, with silent, concealed grief or spasms. Alternatively frolicsome and sad. Always desire to be alone. Despair of recovery. Dread of work. Vertigo.

Heavy, Empty feeling in. Trembling, nodding or backward bending of. Headache: As of a nail pressing outward in temples or sides, from chagrin or silent grief, or by stooping. Tearing in brain, especially in forehead. Pressure in forehead and vertex, following a befuddled feeling in. Outward pressing or sticking pain in forehead and at root of nose. Pain as if crushed, often ending in a similar toothache. Distensive pressure in either temple. Worse: Coffee, spirituous liquors, smoking, noise, odors, morning moving eyes, sunlight, reading, writing, after siesta, lying on painless side, lying on back, mental exertion, emotions, sitting upright. Better: Changing position, lying on painful side, lying on back, external warmth.

Scalding tears during day (especially in sunlight) with nightly agglutination of lids. Convulsive motions of. Flickering zigzags before. Pressure as from sand under upper lid. Swelling of upper lid, with bluish veins. Inflammation of upper part of eyeball, as far as covered by upper lid. Photophobia.

Roaring before, like a strong wind. Difficult hearing, but not for the human voice.

Excoriated before, like a strong wind. Difficult hearing, but not for the human voice.

One - sided redness. Alternate paleness and redness of. Sunken, earth colored, with blue circles around eyes. Spasmodic twitching of muscles of. Sweat only on face (never on scalp). Dry, bleeding, cracked lips.

Ache, as though being crushed, from taking cold in molars. Convulsions of children, during difficult dentition.

Redness and inflammation in entire buccal cavity. Stitches in palate, extending into ear. Soreness as from a plug in throat, when not swallowing. Sticking sore throat swallowing food. Sensation of a lump in throat, with painful soreness when swallowing. Much sour saliva in. Salivation. When talking or chewing he easily bites his tongue or cheek. Faint, tremulous voice.

Appetite: Feeling of hunger in evening, which prevents sleep. Appetite for this or that which is distasteful when obtained. Great aversion to tobacco, smoked meat or brandy.

Taste: Flat, insipid, like chalk. Lost, of food.

Eructations: Hiccup. Regurgitation: Bitter, of the ingesta. Hiccough after eating, drinking and smoking.

Nausea, etc - Without vomiting. Qualmishness, with sweat and bellyache after smoking. Nightly vomiting of ingesta.

Stitching in region of. Burning, especially after brandy. Pressure in pit. Weak or empty sensation in pit.

Hypochondriac: Fullness and distension in. Swelling and induration of spleen.

Turning and twisting about navel. Protrusions here and there on. Throbbing in. Uterine cramps, with cutting, sticking and labor - like pains. Outpressing pain in inguinal region. Abdominal pains are after sweet foods, coffee and brandy.

Flatulence: Nightly, flatulent colic. Rumbling in abdomen, as from hunger. Evolution of much flatus, which is easily discharged.

Easy and satisfactory. Very thickly formed, difficult altho soft. Ineffectual urging, felt more in upper intestine. Diarrhoea, with fissures in rectum. Constipated, from taking cold and driving.

Anus, etc - Itching and crawling in. Prolapsus recti with smarting pains during moderate pressure to stool. Contraction of, after stool.

Frequent discharge of much watery. Sudden, irresistible urging to urinate. Involuntary urination. Constant urging to urinate after coffee. Burning and smarting in urethra when urinating.

Violent itching in evening, disappearing by scratching. Sweat on scrotum. Impotency with lasciviousness. Pains in penis.

Menses: Too early (and too profuse). Menstrual blood black, smell badly and is discharged in clots. Uterine hemorrhage. Uterine spasms during menses.

Oppression of: Alternating with twitchings and convulsions, nightly, of chest, especially after midnight. Want of breath from abdominal disturbances. Loses his breath when running. Changeable. Deep. Slow inspiration and rapid exhalation.

Dry, spasmodic. Dry, hollow, from tickling in stomach, early in morning when awaking. Dry, from irritation, as feather - down or sulphur vapor in throat pit, in evening, always by continued coughing. Expectoration scanty and difficult, tasting and smelling like secretions of an old catarrh, in evening only.

Soreness in. Tearing and contraction in. Pains in whole trachea. Loss voice.

Pressure in. Stitches in, from flatulent colic. Spasmodic constriction of. Feels as if too small. Nightly palpitation, with stitches at heart.

Spine curved backward. Cutting stitches, as from a sharp knife, extending from lumbar region cut throw loins down into thighs. Pain in sacrum when lying on back in bed, early in morning.

Neck: Painless glandular nodules on.

Convulsive twitchings in arms, fingers and legs. Cutting stitches in shoulder - joint when flexing arm. Sense of numbness and something alive crawling about in arm, at night in bed.

Cutting sticking in hip and knee - joints. When walking knees are involuntary drawn up. Ulcerative pain or stitches in soles of feet. Nightly burning of heels when held in contact with each other, at the same time they seem cold to touch.

Extraordinary changeableness of all the symptoms. Crawling, asleep feeling in limbs. Dislocative pains in joints. Trembling of limbs. Pain, as from hard, pointed body, pressing from within outward. Cutting stitches, as from a sharp knife. Convulsive twitches, especially after fright or vexation, with silent grief. Hysterical spasms. Coffee, tobacco and brandy intensify the symptoms. The attacks are renewed after dinner, in evening after lying down, and early in morning immediately upon awaking, they are diminished when lying upon back, upon painful parts, or in general by a change of posture.

Itching on body, which immediately leaves the spot when gently scratched. Itching when becoming heated or in open air. Great sensitiveness to drafts. During fever, violent, itching nettlerash covering entire body.

Deep, stupefying. Sleep after the cough paroxysms. Extraordinary spasmodic yawning with pain in maxillary joint as though it would be dislocated. Sleep so light that patient hears everything. Restless sleep and great restlessness at night. Fixed ideas in his dreams which continue after waking.

Pulse: Generally hard, full and rapid, with throbbing in blood vessels, more seldom small or slow, in other respects upon the whole, very changeable. Chill: And coldness, with increased pains. Capable of being by external warmth, always with thirst. Often on posterior part of body only. Internal, with external heat. External coldness with internal heat. Heat: External only without thirst, with intolerance of external warmth. External, with redness, internal shuddering and sticking in limbs. Overrunning attacks of external heat. Constant rapid changes of heat and cold. One - sided burning heat, of face. Sweat: Slight, often only on face. Feeling as if sweat would break out, which does not. While eating. Sometimes cold, but generally warm and somewhat sour smelling. Thirst during apyrexia.

Allied Remedies: Alum., Arn., Ars., Bism, Coloc, Calc-c., Caps, Carb-v., Caust., CHAM., Coccl., Coff., Cupr., Hep., Ip., Lyc., Mgs., M - arct., M - aust., Mar., Nux v., Phos - ac., Plat., Puls, Ruta., Selen., Stram., Valer., ZINC.

Complementary: Aur., Nat - m.

Bad effects from fright and sorrow, offenses and unfortunate love affairs.

Fickleness.

Pain, as from the pressing of a pointed hard body from the inside to the outside.

Pressing asunder or constriction in internal organs.

Spasmodic and hysterical complaints.

Convulsive twitches.

Spasmodic yawning.

Convulsions with oppression of breathing during dentition.

Pain, as if dislocation in the joints.

Tingling and sensation, as if the limbs had gone to sleep.

Cutting and stinging, as from a sharp knife.

Intermittent fever with thirst during the chill only.

External heat with internal shuddering.

Prolapsus ani.

Aggravation in the evening, after lying down and in the morning after awakening.

Aggravation after eating, after the use of tobacco and coffee.

Amelioration from change of position.