IGNATIA



A kind of bellyache; a contractive pain from both sides, just beneath the ribs (aft. 1/4h.).

Constrictive sensation in the hypochondria, as in constipation, with a semilateral headache, as from a nail pressed into the brain,( The ancients called this kind of headache clavus. This kind of pain is characteristic of ignatia : a pressure as from a sharp-pointed body, as shown in other symptoms also, as 365, 462, 485, to which also “pressure as with a hard body” seems to belong, as 59, 599. in the morning (aft. 20 h.).

Spasmodic flatulent colic in the epigastrium in the evening on going to sleep and in the morning on awaking (aft 8 h.).

Bellyache; continued bruised pain of the bowels, in the morning in bed.

300. Sensation in the abdomen, in the region of the navel, as if something alive were in there (aft. 8 h.).

Easy discharge of flatus (aft. 1/2 h.). (The opposite is generally secondary action.)

Nocturnal flatulent colic.

Flatulent colic with stitches towards the chest.

In the morning flatulent bellyache in the hypogastrium, which gives off stitches towards the chest and towards the side.( Comp. 332.)

305. Flatulent colic above the navel alternating with copious flow of saliva (Comp. 246, 247, 248, 368 ) in the mouth (aft. 1 h.).

Discharge of much flatus at night, even during sleep, and always production of more, so that everything in the abdomen seems to turn flatus.

Much troubled with flatus, which then presses on the urine (aft. 96 h.).

Unsatisfactory discharge of short interrupted flatus of foetid odour. passed not without an effort of the abdominal muscles (aft. 24, 30 h.).

Flatulent distension immediately after a meal.( Alternating action with 310.)

310. Frequent discharge of flatus immediately after a meal (aft. 26 h.).

After a meal loud rumbling in the abdomen.

(Rumbling in the abdomen.) (Comp. 311, 314, 315.) [VALENTINUS.( Not accessible. ) Hist. Simple Reform, p 198. ]

Grumbling in the abdomen as in a hungry person (aft. 1 h.).

Rumbling and rattling in the bowels.

315. Throbbing in the abdomen.

Itching exactly in the navel (aft. 2.5 h.).

On the left near the navel a painful pressure. [Gss.]

On the left above the navel a sharp shooting. [Gss.]

Oppression in the abdomen and cutting.

320. Cutting in the abdomen (aft. 2 h.).

Immediately after a meal, cutting shooting pain in the abdomen, which changed into flatulent distension (aft. 4 h.).

A continual pinching on a small spot in the right hypogastrium, in the region of the caecum, especially when walking (in the open air) (aft.4h.).

Aching in the hypogastrium (aft. 1/4h.). [Gss.]

Painful aching in the left side of the hypogastrium. [Gss.]

325. Violent aching in the left side of the abdomen. [Gss.]

A pinching distension in the whole abdomen, immediately after a meal, only when he is standing, and worse when he is walking increased to an intolerable degree on continuing to walk, though flatulence does not seem to be the cause of it; on sitting still it soon goes off, without discharge of flatus (aft. 4 h.).

Shooting in the left side of the hypogastrium(Comp. 330.) [Gss.]

An aching pinching in the abdomen after eating the smallest quantity of fruit, especially when standing and walking, which goes off when sitting.

Pinching colic in all the bowels, even long after a meal, when walking in the open air.

330.Fine shooting pain below the navel (aft. 1 to 2 h.).

Pain, first pinching, then shooting, in one side of the abdomen (aft. 2, 10 h.).

Pinching pain in the abdomen, just in the umbilical region, the pain afterwards goes into the left side of the chest, where it is a mixture of pinching and shooting.

Pinching in the abdomen (aft. 1 h.)

Pinching pain in the abdomen in the open air, as if diarrhoea would come on.

335. Drawing and pinching in the abdomen: it came into the rectum like pressing, with qualmishness and weakness in the scrobiculus cordis (Comp. 267, 630.) and paleness of the face (aft. 48 h., two days before the catamenia).

(Tearing pain in the abdomen.).

Shooting twitching pain in the left groin, in the evening when lying in bed.

Sensation in the left groin as if a hernia would protrude.

Above the left hip an intermitting, deep internal aching. [Gss.]

340. Stool first of hard and then of thin faeces.( Easy and satisfactory evacuation of faeces is generally only primary action, which comes on in half an hour or one hour.)

Thin faeces pass involuntarily with flatulence (in 50 h.).

Soft stool immediately after a meal.

Three evacuations of soft faeces in the afternoon. [Hb. Ts.]

Three moderate evacuations of the bowels. [Hb. Ts.]

345. Two evacuations of the bowels of thin consistence (2nd d.). [Hb. Ts. ]

Three diarrhoeic stools (the 1st d.). [Hb. Ts.]

After cutting, diarrhoeic stool. [Hb. Ts.]

Whitish yellow stools (aft. 3 h.).

Slimy stools.

350. Acrid stools.

Prolapsus of the rectum during moderate straining at stool.

Straining at stool without result. [Hb. Ts.]

Frequent almost ineffectual urging to stool, with bellyache, tenesmus, and tendency to prolapsus of the rectum (aft. 48 h.).

In the evening great desire and urging to go to stool, more in the middle of the abdomen; but no stool came, only the rectum was forced out.

355. Yellowish-white stool of a very large size and passing through the rectum and anus with great difficulty.

Very large stool passing with great difficulty (aft. 12 h.).

Ineffectual urging to stool in the rectum, not in the anus (aft. 1.5 h.).

Ineffectual call and straining to stool and urging in the intestines of the upper part of the abdomen, (Hahnemann’s “Oberbauch,” usually rendered “epigastrium sometimes means, w here, the abdomen above the navel.) chiefly soon after a meal.

Anxious urging to stool, with inactivity of the rectum; he cannot press out the faeces without danger of prolapsus of the rectum.

360. Violent urging to stool, more in the upper bowels and upper part of the abdomen; he has great desire, and yet the stool although soft does not pass in sufficient quantity ; the urging lasts long after the stool is passed (aft. 20 h.).

Ineffectual call and urging to stool.

After sudden urgent call an insufficient quantity of tenacious, claycoloured, but not hard faces is passed with difficulty and not without great straining of the abdominal muscles (almost as if there was a deficiency of the vermicular movement of the bowels) (aft. 3 d.).

Spasmodic tension in the rectum all day.

Sharp pressing pain deep in the rectum after the stool, as from incarcerated flatus (such as usually occurs after a too hasty evacuation–a kind of proctalgia)( Comp. note to 297.) (aft. 2 h.).

365. In the evening after lying down, for two hours, sharp pressing pain in the rectum (proctalgia), without relief in any position, which is allayed spontaneously without discharge of flatus.

Painless contraction of the anus(366, 368. Bee note to 61) a kind of stricture for several days (af. 12 h.).

Creeping and burning in the anus. [Hb. Ts.]

Contraction of the anus (in the evening), which returns next day at the same hour, painful when walking, but most so when standing, but Painless when sitting, with flow of insipid saliva( Comp. 246, 247, 248, 305 )into the mouth (aft. 4, 12, 36 h.).

Several times cutting, rather deep in the rectum (aft. 20 h.).

370. A coarse stitch from the anus deep into the rectum.

Coarse stitches in the anus (aft. 2 h.).

Violent itching in the rectum in the evening in bed.

Creeping in the rectum, as from thread-worms.

In the lower pail of the rectum, towards the anus, disagreeable creeping as from thread-worms (aft. 24 h.).

375. An itching lump at the anus, which is not painful during stool, but which causes an aching when sitting.

Haemorrhoidal sufferings along with soft stool (aft. 5 h.).

Soon or immediately after a stool, pain in the anus, as from blind piles, and like sore pain.

Sore pain in the anus when not at stool (aft. 1 h.).

Pain in the rectum, as from haemorrhoids, constrictive and sore as when a wound is touched (aft. 3 h.).

380. From one to two hours after stool, pain in the rectum, as from bilnd piles, compounded of contraction and sore pain (aft. 2 and 36 h.).

After Straining trio mind with thinking, soon after a stool, pain as from blind piles, aching and as if excoriated (aft. 36 h.).

Swelling of the border of the anus round about, as from distended blood-vessels.

Blind haemorrhoids with pain compounded or aching and soreness (at the anus and in the rectum), more painful when sitting and standing, slighter when walking (Alternating action with 368 )but recurring most severely after enjoying the open air.

(Flow of blood from the anus, with itching of the perinaeum and anus.)

385. Thread-worms crawl out at the anus (aft. 16 h.).

Itching at the anus.

Itching in the perinaeum especially when walking.

(Exhaustion after the stool.)

A sharp pressure on the bladder, as from misplaced flatulence, after supper.

390. A scraping, aching pain on the region of the neck of the bladder, especially when walking and after a meal, when not urinating; the urine passes without pain.

Frequent micturition. [Hb. Ts.]

Frequent discharge of much watery urine (aft. 2. 6, 20 h.).

Samuel Hahnemann
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) was the founder of Homoeopathy. He is called the Father of Experimental Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare medicines in a specialized way; proving them on healthy human beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases.

Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.