Ignatia amara
par H. A. Roberts — The Rheumatic Remedies
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
The singularly contradictory character of Ignatia, both mental and physical, gives an insight into its sphere of usefulness in whatever condition.
The pains are acute and excruciating in character; the aggravations and ameliorations are peculiar and marked; and when taken in connection with the concomitant symptoms point unmistakably to its selection.
Use Pulsatilla to antidote Ignatia rather than Nux vomica, for the latter may prove inimical.
EYES
Rheumatic ophthalmia with feeling of sand in eye.
NECK AND BACK
STIFFNESS OF NAPE OF NECK.
STITCHES IN NAPE OF NECK.
Tensive pain in back on standing erect.
SIMPLE PAIN IN BACK WHICH IS APT TO BECOME EXCESSIVE FROM SLIGHTEST TOUCH; jerking pain through body.
STITCHES IN SMALL OF BACK.
SHARP CUTTING STITCHES IN BACK, through loins into legs.
PAIN IN SACRUM WHEN LYING DOWN IN BED MORNINGS.
Violent pain in small of back like clawing and working together.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
Quivering jerks in deltoid muscle.
PAIN IN SHOULDER JOINT AS IF DISLOCATED on moving arm.
LANCINATING CUTTING PAIN IN SHOULDER JOINT when bending arm forward.
Bruised pain in joints of arms when bending them backward.
NUMBNESS OF ARM AT NIGHT IN BED.
Drawing pains in arms.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
Lancinating, cutting pain in hip joint.
PAIN INCISIVE, THROBBING, INTERMITTENT—AT FIRST EVERY OTHER DAY THEN EVERY DAY; RETURNS EVERY WINTER ALONG THE COURSE OF SCIATIC NERVE.
Paroxysmal tearing boring digging pains along course of sciatic nerve, preceded by intense coldness, < at night, lasting from one to three hours.
BEATING PAIN IN ischial region as though it would burst hip joint, intermittent with chilliness and < at night.
Cracking of knee joints.
TEARING PAINS IN BACK OF BOTH LEGS, ESPECIALLY CALVES AND TENDO ACHILLIS, AS THOUGH PARTS WOULD BE CUT OFF, < when standing or on motion.
Numbness of feet and legs.
Bruised or stinging sensation in soles of feet.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
SINGLE JERKS OF MUSCLES WHEN FALLING ASLEEP.
LIMBS GO TO SLEEP EASILY.
PAIN AS IF DISLOCATED IN SHOULDER, HIP AND KNEE JOINTS.
Neuralgic pains in all the limbs.
CONCOMITANTS
MELANCHOLY; SILENT GRIEF, BROODING OVER SORROWS.
VERY SENSITIVE CONSCIENTIOUSNESS.
PAIN IN HEAD AS IF NAIL WERE DRIVEN OUT THROUGH SIDE.
SORE THROAT > FROM SWALLOWING.
Heat without thirst.
CHILL WITH RED FACE.
DURING FEVER WANTS TO BE COVERED; DURING CHILL THIRSTY AND DOES NOT WANT COVERING.
WEAKNESS.
EXTREME AVERSION TO TOBACCO.
AGGRAVATIONS
MORNINGS.
IMMEDIATELY AFTER SLEEP.
EVENINGS AFTER LYING DOWN.
FROM SLIGHT TOUCH.
FROM TOBACCO AND COFFEE.
WALKING FAST.
WINTER.
AMELIORATIONS
WHEN LYING ON BACK IN EVENING.
CHANGE OF POSITION.
Firm pressure.
EXTERNAL WARMTH.