Ignatia
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Ignatia
600 W. Emma St.Lafayette, CO 80026www.purehomeopathy.com
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Remedy of Paradoxicalities
Contrary and Inconsistent Head is better lying on the painful side Hunger that is not helped by eating Red face during chill
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Most Common Symptoms
Sad, sighing, changeable, moody disposition
Twitching or spasms, or convulsions from exciting or depressing emotions Fright Grief
Adapted to emotional, hysterical people
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Most Common Symptoms
All gone, weak empty sensation in the stomach, not helped by eating
Anal troubles Piles, prolapsus, soreness and pain
after stools Pains shoot up into abdomen
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Modalities
Aggravation Slight touch Smoking Coffee
Amelioration Lying on painful side Hard pressure Profuse water urination
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Cough
Cough is dry and spasmodic; not relieved by coughing
The longer he coughs the more the irritation to cough increases
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Pain
Pain in small circumscribed spots Similar to Kali-Bic
Over-sensitive to pain Similar to coffea and Hepar-sulph
Acuity of senses Similar to Chamomilla and Nux-vomica
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Grief Great element of sadness;
disposition to silent grieving Anyone suffering from suppressed,
deep grief, with long drawn sighs, much sobbing and if inclined to smother or hide that grief from others
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Grief
Seems so sad and weak Weakness is in the pit of the stomach Feels faint and empty - “all gone”
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Changeable Mood
No other remedy has this so strong Treating hysterical affections One moment full of glee and merriment
followed by extreme melancholy , sadness and tears
These states alternate quickly
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Changeable Mood
Impatient, quarrelsome, angry Not as strong as chamomile
Very impressionable so easily frightened
One of best remedies for effects of fright Similar to Aconite and Veratrum Album
Ignatia is the remedy of moods
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Nervous System
Acts on spine Affects motor and sensory nerves
One of most indicated remedies for spasms or convulsions Especially if caused from fright,
punishment of children or other strong emotions
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Case
Woman with a post partum convulsions; when patient came out of convulsions she had a long drawn sighs. It was discovered she had recently lost her mother weeks before
Ignatia cured
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Spasms
Most marked degree of twitching all over the body
Great for jerking involuntary motions Caused by fright or grief Teething or worms Only remedy close to the twitching are Zincum
Metallicum Other remedies that twitch to some degree are
Agaricus, Hyoscyamus, Cuprum met
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Headaches
Like Aconite, Chamomilla and Coffea, Ignatia is over-sensitive to pain.
Great remedy for headaches of nervous and hysterical patients
Ignatia is for the nervous woman as Nux-vomica is for nervous men
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Hysterical, Nervous Headaches
One sided Headache as if a nail were driven
out through the side of my head and is better lying on it.
Headaches are found in nervous and sensitive people who have suffered from over-anxiety, grief or mental work.
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Headaches
Ever-changeable and contradictory symptoms are so characteristic of this medicine; as found in the headache
Not only does the pain in the head change locality but at one time it will come on slowly then suddenly be gone like Belladonna or it can come on suddenly and stop as fast as it came like Aconite, Gelsemium, silica or veratrum album
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Headache Headache stops during profuse flow
of urine As does Gelsemium
Headaches are aggravated by coffee, smoking, abuse of snuff, inhaling tobacco smoke, alcohol, close attention, pressing at stool
May be relieved by eating is aggravated soon after
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Headache
Headache is worse by cold winds, turning head suddenly, stooping, change of position, runing, looking up long, moving the eyes, noise and light
Headache is better by warmth, lying on it, soft pressure, external heat and profuse flow of urine
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Throat
Strong throat symptoms Commonly observed in globus
hystericus “as if a lump came up from the stomach into the throat as if she would choke.
Swallows down lump but immediately returns
Occurs during grief as fighting tears
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Throat
Throat pain may be subjective or may be a pathological illness like tonsillitis
Throat pain is relieved by swallowing and worse if not swallowing Usually this is the opposite
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Throat
Sometimes aggravation when swallowing liquids and relief from swallowing solids Similar to Lachesis Reverse of Baptisia (only swallow
liquids – gags on solids)
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The characteristic symptoms
These characteristic symptoms lead you to the right remedy and thus cure
As we say in baseball you will hit it out of the park with the right remedy
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Guiding Symptoms
Extreme aversion to tobacco smoke Weak empty, gone feeling at the pit
of the stomach Other remedies with this symptom are
sepia and hydrastis Disposition to sigh or take a long
breath
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Stomach Aches
May hear weak feeling in stomach as a feeling of flabbiness, as though the stomach hung down relaxed Ipecacuanha has a similar feeling
Severe cases of gastralgia in women with hysgterical tendencies think of Ignatia
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Rectum
Prolapse of rectum is marked Like ruta graveolens
Frequent desire for stool but in place of stool is the prolapsed rectum
Patient is afraid to strain at stool, to stoop down or lift for fear of prolapsus
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Rectum
Sore pain after stool last for an hour or two Similar to nitric acid – same symptom
only this happens after a loose stool Sharp pains shooting upwards into
the rectom Sepia has this pain in the uterus
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Fever
Unique in fever symptoms 1st thirst during chill and in no other
stage 2nd chill relieved by external heat 3rd heat aggravated by external
covering 4th red face during chill No other remedy has this
combination
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Fever
No other remedy has thirst during hill and in no other stage
Nux the chill is not relieved by the heat of the stove or they must be covered