The heat without thirst is the most characteristic symptom. There is a tendency to periodicity in ignatia cases, the symptoms returning each day at the same hour.
The named diseases are diseased conditions treated by ignatia are not many. Hysterical manifestations most frequently call for it, and twitchings, spasms or even convulsive attacks in children during teething and from fright, with the ignatia disposition, or convulsions in women from fright, bad news or severe pain (ex. gr., during labour). Headaches of the type described, clavus, &c., relieved by lying on the painful part, are successfully treated by the remedy.
LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) The ailments are superficial and nervous rather than inflammatory.
(2) Sensitive, excitable subjects of mild disposition.
(3) Changeable mood uncontrolled laughter alternates rapidly with tearful sobbing and sadness-sighing.
(4) Symptoms are contradictory-the unexpected happens-ex. gr., thirst during chill; roaring in ears, relieved by music; sore throat, relieved by swallowing, &c.
(5) Ailments from anger, grief, shame, disappointment, physical exhaustion; or from being scolded (children).
(6) Feeling of unworthiness or sinfulness in people of blameless lives-a form of inferiority-complex.
(7) Wishes to be left alone with his sorrows, broods over them.
(8) Headache (“clavus”), site changes rapidly, relieved lying on painful side; frontal, forcing outwards.
(9) Hunger pain, relieved only briefly by eating.
(10) Hysterical symptoms; sobbing “globus,” flatulent distension in parts of abdomen; polyuria; pale, clear urine.
(11) Twitchings of various parts, going on to convulsions.
AGGRAVATION:
From coffee-drinking habit, tobacco smoking (though usually enjoyed) and spirits, in the morning, drinking water (globus), in the open air, and external warmth, after stool (piles).
AMELIORATION:
From lying on painful part (head), while eating (retching, gastralgia), and from change of position, swallowing (sore throat).
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,