Ignatia amara

Common name: st. ignatius bean.

Especially suited to women of a sensitive, easily excited nature (Puls.) (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 in the ears relieved by music; the piles better when walking; sorethroat 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 if 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 (Asaf., Bell., Cupr., Gels., Kali-P., Lach., Lyc., Mosch., Nat-C., Puls.).

Convulsive twitches (Agar., Bell., Cupr., Hyos., Stram., Tarant., Zinc.).

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 (Acon., Hyos., Op.) (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.).

Sorethroat: 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 (Agar., Asaf., Bism., Cimic., Coff., Lac-C., Lach., Nat-C., Sil.).

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 (Bry., Phos.) (N.).

Pruritus vulvæ with itching extending up into the vagnia (Calad., Calc., Graph., Kreos., Merc., Nit-Ac., Petr., Sep., Sulph.) (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 (A.).

Menses: Scanty, black, of a putrid odour (Cycl., Sep., Sulph.) (G.).

Metrorrhagia (Ham., Lach., Puls., Sec., Sep.).

Menstruation too early, and too profuse (Sep.).

Uterine spasms, with lancinations or labour-like pains.

Purulent, corrosive leucorrhœa (Ars., Calc., Kreos., Merc., Nit-Ac., Sep.) (C.).

Erection during stool (C.).

Complete loss of sexual desire (Agn., Graph., Sep., Sulph.) (C.)

Convulsive movements of eyes and lids (Agar.) (C.).

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

INTERMITTENT FEVER, WITH THIRST DURING THE CHILL ONLY (Apis, Arn., Caps., Cina, Eup-P., Ferr., Nat-M., Nux-V., Pyrog., Sep., Sil., Tub., Verat.).

External heat with internal shuddering (Ars., Bry., Calc., Lyc., Meny., Nux-V., Pyrog., Sep., Thuj.).

SHAKING CHILL WITH REDNESS OF THE FACE (Am-M., Arn., Cham., Ferr., Nux-V. Stram.) (N.).

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

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

Sweats on the face while eating (N.).

Bleeding after, and during stool (Lach., Nux-V., Sulph.) (Dn.).

Neuralgia of the rectum (Bt.).

Constipation, associated with constant, ineffectual urging to stool (Nux-V.) (Bl.).

Itching about the anus, as from ascarides (Calc., Cina, Teucr.) (D.).

Painful contraction of the sphincter after stool (Bell., Lach.) (D.).

PROLAPSUS ANI (Podo., Sulph.).

Coarse stitches from the anus deep up into the rectum (Nit-Ac., Sil.) (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 (Ars., Bry., Chin., Nat-M., Nux-V., Puls., Sep., Sulph.) (D.).

Extreme aversion to tobacco-smoke (N.).

Regurgitation of a bitter fluid (Eup-P., Nat-M., Puls., Sep.) (D.).

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

Empty retching, relieved by eating (D.).

Hiccough (Bell., Mag-P., Nux-V.) (D.).

Distension of the abdomen after eating (Carb-V., Lyc.) (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: Coff., Nux-V. and Puls.

Similar to: Agar., Apis, Bell., Cimic., Cycl., Ferr., Gels., Hep., Kali-B., Kali-P., Lach., Lyc., Mosch., Nat-M., Nux-V., Op., Puls., Sep. and Sulph.

Complementary: Aur., Nat-M. and Phos-Ac.