IGNATIA AMARA

Action of Medicine:

Ignatia is adapted to the persons of nervous temperament especially women of sensitive, easily excited nature, mild disposition, quick to perceive and rapid in execution. The superficial and erratic character of its symptoms are most characteristic. Ignatia has a marked hypersensitivity of all the senses and a tendency to clonic spasms. Hence, it is one of the chief remedies for emotional shock, conflict, disappointment, fright and grief. Effects of grief and worry,. Rapid change of mental and physical condition, opposite to each other. An emotional state of grief or frustration. Great contradictions. Alert, nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling patients who suffer acutely in mind or body, at the same time made worse by drinking coffee. Cannot bear tobacco smell. It affects the mind and the emotional element is profoundly influenced and co-ordination is interfered with. It causes erratic, contradictory, paradoxical mental and physical effects, which change rapidly and are opposite to each other. The nervous system is affected causing spasmodic effects often violent with rigidity, twitching and tremors. Pain is small, circumscribed spots. Hiccoughs and hysterical vomiting. Sensation of lump, foreign body or sharp pressure. Jerks run through the whole body. Tendency to start. Globus. Hysteria. Chorea after fright from grief worse after eating, better lying on back. Convulsions of children during dentition after punishment after dear or fright, return at the same hour daily. Spasms with cries or involuntary laughter. Spasms alternating with oppressed breathing. Pain in spot worse close attention. Oversensitive to pain. Pains change their locality, come gradually, abate suddenly or come and go suddenly. Symptoms pass after profuse urination, preventive and curative. Nervous shuddering with pain. Paralysis after great mental emotions and night watching in sick chamber. Catalepsy with opisthotonos.

References:Boericke’s New Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica with Repertory