Ignatia

COMMON NAME:

      ST. IGNATIUS BEAN.

Symptoms

      Especially suited to women of a sensitive, easily excited nature (Pulsatilla) (A.).

BAD EFFECTS FROM FRIGHT AND SORROW, OFFENCES AND UNFORTUNATE LOVE AFFAIRS.

In talking or chewing they bite themselves in the cheek or tongue (N.)

The remedy of great contradictions; the roaring ion the ears relieved by music; the piles better when walking; sore-throat feels relieved when swallowing; empty feeling in the stomach not ameliorated by eating; cough aggravates the more he coughs; cough on standing still during a walk; spasmodic laughter from grief; sexual desire with impotency; headache relieved by stooping; thirst during a chill, no thirst in the fever; the colour changes in the face when at rest.(A.).

Pain, as from pressing of a pointed, hard body from the inside to the outside.

Pressing asunder or constriction in the internal organs.

Pain, as of dislocation in the joints.

Tingling and sensation, as if the limbs had gone to sleep.

Change of position relieves the pains (Kali-P., Rhus-T) (N.).

SPASMODIC AND HYSTERICAL COMPLAINTS (Asafoetida, Belladonna, Cuprum, Gelsemium, Kali-P., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Mosch., Natrum carbonicum, Pulsatilla).

Convulsive twitches (Agaricus, Belladonna, Cuprum, Hyoscyamus, Stramonium, Tarent., Zincum met.).

Spasmodic yawning.

Convulsion with oppression of breathing during dentition.

Convulsive jerkings of arms and legs, or single jerks of limbs on falling asleep (N.).

Spasms in children from fright (Aconite, Hyoscyamus, Opium) (Bt.).

Chorea: the convulsions are greatest in the mouth, producing much distortion of the face (Bt.).

Nervous headache, usually confined to one spot (R.).

Constipation, from carriage-riding (A.).

Throbbing pain in the occiput, worse from pressing at stool, smoking, or the smell of smoke.(N.).

Blind piles, with pressure in the anus and rectum; painful when sitting and standing, less when walking (R.).

There is a lump in the throat and a sticking sensation, which is relieved by swallowing (D.).

Sore throat; stitching or sticking pains only between the acts of deglutition; better swallowing solids (N.).

Cutting and stinging; as from a sharp knife.

SADNESS AND SIGHING, WITH SOBS AND TEARS, AND WILL NOT BE COMFORTED; WANTS TO BE ALONE SILENT GRIEF (N.).

FICKLENESS (Agaricus, Asafoetida, Bism., Cimic., Coffea, Lac-C., Lachesis, Natrum carbonicum, Silicea).

Amiable disposition if feeling well; every little emotion disturbs them (N.).

Introspective (D.)

Has a disposition to brood over her sorrow (D.).

INCREDIBLE CHANGE OF MOOD, JESTING AND LAUGHTER CHANGING TO SADNESS AND TEARS ( Nux-M.) (N.).

Great sensitiveness to external impressions; patients laugh and cry alternately; face flushes on emotion;spasmodic laughing ending in screaming; globus hystericus; profuse pale urine, flatulent conditions; contortions of the muscles (D).

Heaviness in the head as if congested, relieved by stooping; there is pain as if a nail were driven into the parietal or occipital region; clavus hystericus; the headache ends in vomiting or in a copious discharge of pale urine.

INVOLUNTARY SIGHING; MUST TAKE A LONG BREATH ( Bryonia, Phosphorus) (N.).

Pruritus vulvae with itching extending up into the vagina (Caladium, Calcarea, Graphites, Kreosotum, Mercurius, Acid nitricum, Petroleum, Sepia, Sulphur) (N.)

Boring pain in the front teeth, and a soreness in all the teeth; worse after drinking coffee; after smoking, after dinner, in the evening, after lying down, and in the morning (Hr.).

Gets sleepy after every coughing spell (N.).

Dry, spasmodic cough in quick, successive shocks, as if a feather was in the throat; the more the patient coughs the more he wants to and is only stopped by an effort of the will; the cough occurs in the evening on lying down (D.).

Pain in small, circumscribed spots(N.).

Menses: Scanty, black, of a putrid odour (Cyclamen, Sepia, sulph.) (G.).

Metrorrhagia (Hamamelis, LAch., Pulsatilla, Secale, Sepia).

Menstruation too early, and too profuse (Sepia)

Uterine, spasms, with lancinations or labour-like pains.

Purulent, corrosive leucorrhoea (Arsenicum, Calcarea, Kreosotum, Mercurius, Acid nitricum, Sepia) (C.).

Erection during stool (C.).

Complete loss of sexual desire (Agn., Graphites, SEp., Sulphur) (C.).

Convulsive movements of eyes and lids (Agaricus,) (C.).

Complaints return at precisely the same hour (A.).,

INTERMITTENT FEVER, WITH THIRST DURING THE CHILL ONLY (Apis., Arnica, Caps., Cina., Eup-P., Ferrum, Natrum muriaticum, Nux-v., Pyrog., Sepia, Silicea, Tuberculinum, Veratrum).

External heat with internal shuddering (Arsenicum, Bryonia, Calcarea Lycopodium, Meny., Nux vomica, Pyrog., Sepia, Thuja).

SHAKING CHILL WITH REDNESS OF THE FACE (Am-M., Arnica, Chamomilla, Ferrum, Nux vomica, Stramonium) (N.).

Chill relieved by warm room or hot stove (N.)

Haemorrhoids : the tumors prolapse with every stool, and have to be replaced, they are sore as if excoriated; both haemorrhage and pain are worse when the stool is loose (Dn.).

Sweats on the face while eating(N.).

Bleeding after, and during stool (Lachesis, Nux vomica, Sulphur) (Dn.).

Neuralgia of the rectum (Bt.).

constipation, associated with constant, ineffectual urging to stool (Nux vomica) (BI.).

Itching about the anus, as from ascarides (Calcarea, Cina., Teucrium) (D.).

Painful contraction of the sphincter after stool (Belladonna, Teucrium) (D.).

PROLAPSUS ANI (Podophyllum, Sulphur

Coarse stitches from the anus deep up into the rectum (Acid nitricum, Silicea) (N.).

The patient vomits simple food, but retains such things as cabbage (D.).

WEAK, eMPTY, GONE FEELING AT THE PIT OF THE STOMACH, NOT RELIEVED BY EATING (N).

Bitter taste in the mouth (Arsenicum, Bryonia, China, Natrum muriaticum, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Sulphur) (D.).

Extreme aversion to tobacco-smoke(N.).

Regurgitation of a bitter fluid (Eup-P., Natrum muriaticum, Pulsatilla, Sepia) (D.).

Feeling of flabbiness in the stomach, stomach and intestines seem to hang down relaxed. (N.).

Empty retching, relieved by eating (D.).

Hiccough (Belladonna, Magnesia phos., Nux vomica) (D.)

Distention of the abdomen after eating (Carbo vegetabilis, Lycopodium) (D.).

AGGRAVATION:

      In the evening; after lying down; in the morning; after awaking; after eating; after the use of tobacco and coffee; from the slightest touch; and from mental emotions.

AMELIORATION:

      From change of position; from lying on the painful side; from hard pressure; from profuse urination; and from warmth.

RELATIONSHIP:

      ANTIDOTES: Coffea, Nux vomica, and Pulsatilla

Similar to: Agaricus, Apis., Belladonna, Cimic., Cyclamen, Ferrum, Gelsemium, Hepar, Kali bichromicum, Kali-P., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Mosch., Natrum muriaticum, Nux vomica, Opium, Pulsatilla, SEp., and Sulph.

complementary: Aurum, Natrum muriaticum and Acid phosphoricum.

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)