Ignatia



Skin

Itching (over the whole body), which is easily removed by scratching. Chilblains. Excoriation of the skin, (especially round vagina and mouth. Cooper). Itching on becoming warm in the open air. Great sensitiveness of the skin to a draught of air. Nettle-rash over the whole body, with violent itching (during the fever).

Sleep

Profound and comatose sleep, with stertorous respiration. Violent spasmodic yawnings (with pain in the lower jaw, as if dislocated, with running of the eyes), especially in the morning, or after a siesta. Very light sleep, hears everything that happens around him. Sleep, disturbed by nightmare, or by starts and frequent dreams. Starting of the limbs on going to sleep. Dreams, with reflection and reasoning, or with fixed ideas. Dreams with fixed ideas, continuing after waking. Restless sleep, and great restlessness at night. Starts with fright on going to sleep. Whimpering during sleep.

Fever

Pulse hard, full and frequent, or very variable. Febrile shivering, especially in the back and arms, with thirst for cold water, and sometimes with nausea and vomiting. Chill, frequently only of the back part of the body. Mitigation of the cold by external heat. External heat with internal coldness. Universal heat, especially in the head, with redness, principally (of one) of the cheeks, and adipsia, sometimes with internal shuddering, coldness of the feet, shootings in the limbs, and headache. Chill and coldness, causing the pains to increase. Sudden flushes of heat over the whole body. Troublesome sensation of heat, sometimes with sweat. Absence of thirst during the heat, and perspiration, or during the apyrexia. Only external heat, without thirst, with aversion to external heat. Fever, with headache, and pain in the pit of the stomach, great fatigue, paleness of face, or paleness and redness alternately, lips dry and cracked, nettle-rash, tongue white, profound sleep with snoring, etc. Intermittent fever, chill with thirst, followed by 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. Burning heat of the face, only on one side. Very little perspiration, or only in the face. Sweat, with shootings and buzzing in the ears. Sweat during a meal.

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