Ignatia



Stomach

Regurgitation of food, or of bitter serous matter. Hiccough from smoking. Hiccough, always after eating or drinking. Acid risings. Nausea, with agitation and anguish. Vomiting of food, even at night. Vomiting of bile and mucus. Periodical attacks of cramp in the stomach, which disturb sleep at night, and are worse by pressure on the part affected. Dull aching or shootings in the epigastrium. Coldness, or sensation of burning in the stomach, especially after taking brandy. Sensation of emptiness, and of weakness, in the epigastrium. Sensation of weakness (sinking) in the pit of the stomach. Heaviness and pressure in the pit of the stomach. Fullness and swelling in the epigastrium. Painful sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach to the touch.

Abdomen

Sensation of fullness and inflation of the hypochondria, with difficulty of respiration. Pain in the left hypochondrium, worse by pressure, and by walking. Shooting sensation of burning and pressure, or swelling and hardness in the region of the spleen. Expansive pain in the abdomen, as if the intestines were going to burst. Inflation of the abdomen. The flatulence presses on the bladder. Cutting pains in the umbilical region. Spasmodic pains, cutting, stinging, like labour pains. Violent aching in the abdomen. Rolling sensation around the navel. Drawing and pinching in the region of the navel. Sensation of protrusion in the umbilical region. The pains in the abdomen are worse after taking coffee, brandy, or things sweetened with sugar. Shootings and pinchings in the abdomen, especially in the sides. Periodical cramp-like pains in the abdomen. Cramp-like pressure in the inguinal region. Beating in the abdomen. Borborygmi in the intestines. Flatulent colic, especially at night. Sensation of weakness and trembling in the abdomen, with sighing respiration.

Stool & Anus

Constipation from taking cold, from riding in a carriage. Hard evacuations, with frequent ineffectual efforts. Unsuccessful urging to stool, felt mostly in the upper intestines. Feces yellow, whitish, of a very large size, soft but difficult to eject. Diarrhoea of sanguineous mucus, with rumbling in the abdomen. Slimy evacuations, accompanied by colic. Discharge of blood from the anus. Prolapsus of the rectum while at stool. Itching and tingling in the anus. Ascarides in the rectum. Contraction of the anus. Contractive pain, as of excoriation, in the anus, after evacuation. Prolapsus ani, with smarting pain, from slight pressure to stool. Shootings from the anus high up into the rectum. Smarting in the rectum during the loose evacuations.

Urinary Organs

Frequent and copious emission of watery urine. Urine lemon colour. Involuntary emission of urine. Urgent and irresistible want to make water. Continual want to urinate after taking coffee. Sensation of burning and smarting in the urethra, during micturition. Itching in the fore part of the urethra. Urging to urinate with inability.

Male Sexual Organs

Much itching in the genital parts, and in the penis, in the evening after lying down, removed by scratching. Pain, as of excoriation and ulceration, on the margins of the prepuce. Strangling sensation, and aching in the testes, especially in the evening, after lying down. Sweat on the scrotum. Lasciviousness, with weakness of genital power (without erections). Contraction of the penis, it becomes quite small. Absence of sexual desire. Erections, with painful uneasiness, and aching at the pubis. Erections during every evacuation.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia premature and violent, every ten or fifteen days. Blood of the catamenia black, of putrid odour, mixed with clots. Metrorrhagia. During the catamenia, heaviness, heat, and pain in the head, photophobia, colic, and contractive pains, anxiety, palpitation of the heart, and great fatigue, even to fainting. Cramp-like and compressive pains in the region of the uterus, with fits of suffocation, pressure and lying on the back, mitigate the pain. Cramp in the uterus, during the catamenia. Uterine spasms, with lancinations, or like labour pains. Corrosive and purulent leucorrhoea, preceded by contractive pressure in the uterus.

Respiratory Organs

Sensation of soreness in the larynx. Constrictive sensation in the trachea and larynx. Voice feeble, inability to speak loud. Catarrh, with coryza and headache. Cough, excited by a sensation of constriction at the fossa of the neck, as from the vapour of sulphur. Hollow spasmodic cough, caused in the evening from a sensation of vapour 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. (Whooping-cough). Obstinate nocturnal cough. Dry cough, sometimes with fluent coryza. Cough, continuing equally day and night. The longer he coughs the more the irritation to cough increases. Dry, hoarse cough. Spasmodic shaking cough. Short cough, as from a feather in the throat, becoming stronger from repetition (the more he coughs, the more he wants to). Hoarse dry cough, excited by a tickling above the stomach.

Chest

Desire to draw a long breath. Slow breathing. Difficulty of respiration, and oppression of the chest, especially at night (after midnight). Oppressed breathing, alternating with convulsions. Difficult respiration, as if hindered by a weight upon the chest. Shortness of breath when walking, and cough as soon as one stands still. Sighing respiration. Feeling of suffocation on running. Aching of the chest. Constriction of the chest. Shootings in the chest and in the sides, excited by flatulency (flatulent colic).

Heart

Palpitation of the heart at night, with shootings in the heart, or else in the morning on waking, as well as when meditating, and during repose. Throbbing in the chest. Sticking in precordial region on expiration. Cardiac hyperaesthesia. Anxious feeling in precordia, sinking sensation and emptiness at stomach, constriction, with anxiety and disposition to cry.

Back and neck

Stiffness of the nape of the neck. Stitches in the small of the back, in the nape of the neck. Aching pain in the glands of the neck. Enlarged glands (painless), like nodosities, in the neck. Pain in the os sacrum in the morning, when lying on the back. Violent sacral pains, like shootings or pullings, or like squeezing by a claw. The back is bent forward. Convulsive bending backwards of the spine. Lancinations as by knives, from the loins to the thighs. Weak back, with sciatica.

Upper Limbs

Lancinating, cutting pain in the shoulder-joint, when bending the arm forward. Insupportable pains in the bones and joints of the arms, as if the flesh were being loosened, or with a paralytic sensation and pain of dislocation (on moving the arm). Convulsive startings in the arms (in the deltoid muscles) and in the fingers. Tearing in the arms, excited by cold air. Tension in the wrist. Hot sweat of the hands. Sensation of torpor and digging in the arms, 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 Limbs

Incisive, tearing pains in the posterior surface of the thighs, on fatiguing the muscles. Sciatica, with weakness of back and lower limbs. Limbs swollen, thigh knotty, cannot get up or lie down without pain (generally left). Heaviness of the legs and of the feet, with tension in the legs, and calves of the legs, on walking. Heat of the knee, with coldness and itching of the nose. Convulsive startings of the legs. Stiffness of the knees and of the feet. When walking, the knees are involuntarily drawn up. Cracking in the knee. Painful sensibility of the soles of the feet, when walking. Shootings and pain, as from ulceration in the soles of the feet. Sensation of burning in the heels at night, on placing them near one another, when they come in contact they are cold to the touch. Coldness of the feet and legs, extending above the knee. Sensation of burning in corns.

Generalities

Simple and violent pain, in various parts, when they are touched. Incisive or acute, and sometimes hard pressive pain (as from a hard pointed body pressing from within to without), in the limbs and other parts. Trembling of the limbs. Lancinations, as by knives. Sensation of pressing asunder, or constriction in the internal organs. Arthritic tearing in the limbs. Pain, as of dislocation, or of a sprain in the joints. Heaviness, and crawling numbness, in the limbs. Convulsions alternating with oppressed breathing. Attacks of cramps and of convulsions, sometimes with anxiety, fits of suffocation, throwing back of the head, bluish or red face, spasms in the throat, loss of consciousness, etc. Epileptic convulsions, with foam at the mouth, frequent yawning, convulsed eyes, retraction of the thumbs, face red, or alternately pale and red, etc. Convulsive twitchings, especially after fright or grief. Involuntary movements of the limbs, as in St. Vitus’ dance. After the convulsions, profound sighs, or drowsy sleep. Great sensitiveness to the open air. Convulsions, with cries and laughter. Tetanus. Hysterical debility, and fainting-fits. Hysterical spasms. The symptoms chiefly manifest themselves just after a meal, also in the evening, after lying down, or in the morning, immediately after rising. Coffee, tobacco, brandy, and noise aggravate the pains. The pains are removed either by lying on the back, or by lying on the part affected, or on the healthy side, and always by change of position. Nocturnal pains which disturb sleep.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica