IGNATIA



Tonic spasm of all the limbs, like stiffness.

Very frequent yawning (aft. 1/4 h.).

690. Great yawning, even during a meal.

Frequent yawning after sleep.

Excessive yawning, in the morning (and chiefly after the midday sleep), as if the jaw would be dislocated.

Extreme convulsive yawning, so that the eyes run over with water, in the evening before going to sleep, and in the morning after rising from bed (aft. 28, 38 h.).

Frequent yawning interrupted by a kind of immobility and unyielding condition of the chest (between 8 and 10 o’clock).

695. In the afternoon and evening thirst.

During the febrile chill thirst.

Dreads the open air (aft. 6 h.).

In moderately cold though not open air he gets immoderate chilliness, and becomes cold all over, with semilateral headache (aft 4 h.).

Coldness and chilliness; the pupils dilate but little.

700. Chilliness and cold, especially on the posterior part of the body; but both can be dispelled immediately by a warm room or a warm stove(The febrile coldness removable by external warmth of ignatia is characteristic.) (aft. 6 h.).

Chill in the back and over the arms (aft. 1/4 h.).

Rigor in the face and on the arms, with chattering of the teeth and goose-skin.

Becomes chilly at subset (heat goes out of him).

Shivering with goose-skin over the thighs and forearms; afterwards also on the cheeks (immediately).

705. Chilliness, especially on the feet.

In the period of apyrexia, constant shivering.

Heat of the face with coldness of feet and hands.( 707-710 single alternating states of the chief symptoms, namely, the heat of particular parts with coldness, chilliness or shivering of other parts.)

Chilliness over the upper aims with hot ears.

Heat of the hands, with shivering over the body and an anxiety terminating in weeping.

710. Along with redness of the face in the evening shaking shivering.

(After a meal chilliness and shaking shivering; at night anxiety and sweat.)

Fever, first chilliness over the arms, especially the upper arms, then heat and redness of the cheeks and heat of hands and feet. without thirst, whilst lying on the back.

In the afternoon, fever : shivering with bellyache; thereafter weakness and sleep with burning heat of the body.

One ear and one cheek are red and burning.

715. Sudden attack of flying heat all over the body.

The external temperature is increased.

External heat and redness, without internal heat.( 717, 718. The heat of. ignatia is hardly ever anything but external; moreover, there is hardly ever any thirst accompanying it, not even when it occurs in the form of an intermittent fever. Hence ignatia in the smallest dose can only homoeopathically and permanently cure those agues which have thirst during the chill but none during the heat.)

Feeling of general heat, in the morning in bed, without thirst, during which he does not like to throw off the clothes.

Nocturnal heat, during which he wishes the bed-clothes taken off, and allows himself to be uncovered.

720. Heat of the body, especially during sleep.

In the afternoon thirstless heat in the whole body, with a feeling of dryness of the skin, but with some sweat on the face (aft. 8 h.).

Heat mounts to the head, without thirst.

From internal restlessness, increased internal heat and thirst, disturbed sleep. [Hb. Ts.]

At 2 a.m. groaning from external heat, desires fewer bed-clothes (aft. 15 h.).

725. External warmth is intolerable to him ; then quick breathing.

Feeling as if sweat would break out (anxious feeling of flying heat) (aft. 1/5 h.).

Feeling as if sweat would all at once break out over the whole body, which did occur partially, in the forenoon.

General sweat.

Profuse perspiration.( After bleeding. and antidotes. )[GRIMM, 1. c.]

730. Cold sweats, [BERGIUS, 1. c.]

Violent anxiety about the scrobiculus cordis, with vertigo, fainting, and very cold sweats.( From a whole bean.) [CAMELLI.( Observations of effects of scruple doses.) Philos. Transact., vol. xxi, No. 250.]

Trembling for several hours.

Trembling all over the body.( Comp. 732. )[BERGIUS, 1. c.]

Trembling of the whole body for three hours, with itching and frightful convulsive twitchings (vellicationibus), so that he could hardly keep up on his legs; they were strongest in the jaws, so that the mouth is distorted as though he were laughing (immediately). [CAMELLI, 1. C.]( From a scruple.)

735. Constant moving of the body (agitatio continua).( From a drachm.)[GRIMM, 1. c.]

Convulsive movements. [BERGIUS, 1. c.]

Convulsions. [DURIUS.( No mention of a y pathogenetic effects of I. here; it is simply reported as antiepileptic.) Miss. Nat. Cur., Dec. iii, ann. 9, 10, Obs. 126.].

Insensibility of the whole body. [GRIMM, 1. c.]

Syncope.( This symptom properly belongs to Bergius, and is not found in Grimm’s narrative.)[GRIMM, 1. c.]

740. The variety of pressure on and in several parts of the head at the same time makes him sullen and cross. [Gss.]

Palpitation of the heart.

Very moderate acceleration of the pulse. [Hb. Ts.]

Acceleration of the circulation, during which, however, the pulse had a small beat. [Hb. Ts.]

Pulse slower and smaller than usual in the first hours of the afternoon. [Hb. Ts.]

745. On thinking deeply, palpitation of the heart.

During dinner, palpitation of the heart (aft. 48 h ).

After the (midday) sleep, palpitation of the heart (aft. 5 h.).

In the morning in bed he gets hot and has palpitation of the heart

Anxiety as if he had done something bad.

750. Anxiety of short duration (aft. 1/4 h.).

Anxiety.( Comp. 749, 750, 753. )[GRIMM, 1. c.]

Goes about quite perplexed, dazed. stupefied.( Comp. 782 783, 786, 787, 788. )[GRIMM, 1. c.]

Extreme anxiety, which prevents speaking.

After exertion of the head, especially in the morning, a hurry of the will; he cannot express himself in talking, write, or do anything as quickly as he wishes; whereby there occurs an anxious behaviour, he makes mistakes in speaking and writing, and does everything awkwardly(Comp. 757.) and needs to be corrected (aft. 20 h.).

755. Excessively busy : he restlessly sets about doing first one thing then another.

Obtuseness of senses, with tendency to hurry; when he makes haste the blood mounts into his face (aft. 6 h.).

He imagines he cannot get on, cannot walk.

She fears she will get an ulceration of the stomach.

Fearfulness, cowardice, cannot trust himself to do anything, considers all is lost.

760. On awaking, after midnight, has fear of thieves (aft. 10 h.).

Uncommon tendency to be frightened.

Fears every trifle, is especially afraid of objects coming near him (762, 763 alternating states.) (aft. 1 h.).

Audacity (aft. 3. 5 h.).

Slight blame or contradiction excites him to quarrel, and he is vexed at himself for doing so (aft. 36 h.).

765. From slight contradiction he is irritated and angry (aft. 8 h.).

From slight contradiction his face gets red.

Quickly passing crossness and anger.

Towards evening he is discontented, sulky, stubborn, no one can do anything right, anything to please him (aft. 8 h.).

Is extremely sulky; finds fault and makes reproaches.

770. Fickle, impatient, irresolute, quarrelsome (recurring every 3, 4 h.).

Incredible changeableness of disposition, at one time he jokes and jests, at another he is lachrymose (alternately every 3, 4 h.).

Some hours after the angry humour jocularity comes on (aft. 6 h.).

Jesting, childish tricks (aft. 8 h.).

Desires improper things, and weeps aloud when they are denied him.

775. When one hesitates in the least to do what she wishes, or remonstrates much with her, though in a mild and friendly manner, or endeavours to persuade her, or wishes differently from what she wishes, she weeps aloud (aft. 1 h.).

Howling and crying, and beside herself about trifles (aft. 1 h.).

Unreasonable complaints about too much noise (aft. 2 h.).

Noise is intolerable to him, and then the pupils dilate more readily (aft. 6 h.).

Whispering low voice; he cannot speak loudly.

780. Loss of the usual cheerfulness (2nd d.). [Hb. Ts.]

Loss of the usual liveliness, in the afternoon. [Hb. Ts.]

Avoids opening the mouth and speaking; laconic (aft. 1 to 4 h.).

Is as if in slumber; he dislikes opening the eyes to look, and the mouth to speak, with low, slow respiration.

A kind of apathy in the whole body (2nd d.). [Hb. Ts.]

785. Indifference to everything (2nd d.), [Hb. Ts.]

Quiet, serious melancholy; cannot be induced to converse or be cheerful, with flat, watery taste of all food and small appetite (aft. 24 h.).

Quiet reserve, internally disposed to anger and irritable (aft. 1/2 h.).

Sits to all appearance in deep thought, and looks staringly in front of him, but is all the time quite destitute of thought (788 forms, as a rare condition, alternating action with the following symptoms.) (aft. 2 h.).

Fixed ideas, e. g, about music and melodies, in the evening. before and after lying down.

790. A fixed idea, which he follows out in thought, of pursues all too zealously and completely in conversation (aft. 2 h.).

Thinks against his will of annoying, vexatious things, and dwells on them (aft. 1/2 h.).

Delicate disposition, with very clear consciousness.

Sensitive disposition, delicate conscientiousness (aft. 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.