- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“St. Ignatius Bean. (Loganiaceae) Especially suited to nervous temperament; women of a sensitive, easily excited nature; dark hair and skin but mild disposition, quick to percieve, rapid in execution. In striking contrast with the fair complexion, yielding, lachrymose, but slow and indecisive, Pulsatilla. The remedy of…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Strychnos Ignatia, Bergius (Ignatia amara, Linn., formerly applied to this plant, seems to belong to one entirely different; see Flückiger and Hanbury, Pharmacographia, p. 387, note). Natural order , Loganiaceæ. Common names , St. Ignatius's bean; Faba Sancti Ignatii. Preparation , Triturations of the bean…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“St. Ignatius Bean (IGNATIA) Produces a marked hyperæsthesia of all the senses, and a tendency to clonic spasms. Mentally, the emotional element is uppermost, and co-ordination of function is interfered with . Hence, it is one of the chief remedies for hysteria. It is especially adapted to the nervous temperament-women…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ACHING ALIVE, sensations (Comp. Formication) ALTERNATING EFFECTS, sides, states, etc.(Comp. Periodicity, Wandering, Waves). ANGER, irritability fretfulness, bad temper, etc. (Comp. Emotions) BALL. BURSTING, splitting, etc.(Comp. Shattered) CHANGE OF POSITION, AMEL. CHILLY, cold COLDNESS, Partial COMPANY, CROWDS, ETC…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“MIND. NERVOUS SYSTEM. Cerebro - spinal axis. EMOTIONS: GRIEFS. Chagrin. WORRY. Fright. Shock. AIR: Open. Cold. Odors. Touch. Coffee. Tobacco. Position: Change of. Lying on part. Urination. If alone. Pressure. ERRATIC, CONTRADICTORY OR SPASMODIC EFFECTS; often violent; with rigidity, twitchings, tremor, etc.; during…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“amara. (Strychnos ignatia? Strychnos multiflora?-The actual tree from which the so-called "beans" are obtained is not known.) Faba indica. St. Ignatius' Bean. (Philippine Islands.) N. O. Loganiaceæ. Tincture and trituration of the seeds. Abdomen, distended / Anger, effects of / Anus, affections of / Anxiety /…”
- Dunham — The method — how symptoms are weighed before a remedy is differentiated.
“STRYCHNOS IGNATIA. FABA SANCTI IGNATII. ST. IGNATIUS’ BEAN. THE seed of a large tree, a native of the Philippine Islands. It contains strychnine, and in poisonous doses its effects are regarded as identical with those of Nux vomica. The seeds are used in medicine. They are bruised and triturated. By allopathic writers…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“IGNATIA AMARA. Ignatia amara, or, more properly speaking, Strychnos ignatia, is a large climbing shrub growing in the Phillipine Islands and in Cochin-China. The fruit is spherical or ovoid, about four inches in diameter. Its shell is smooth and brittle, and encloses some twenty or thirty seeds. Its name is attributed…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Mental.--Any one suffering from suppressed or deep grief, with long-drawn sighs, much sobbing, etc.; also, much unhappiness, can't sleep, entirely absorbed in grief; for recent grief, as at the loss of a friend; affections of the mind in general; particularly if actuated by grief; sadness; hopelessness; hysterical…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(The seed of the Ignatia amara.) (One grain of the pulverized seed is first brought to the million-fold (third) trituration in the way taught in the introduction to arsenic, and of this one grain, after being dissolved, is brought by means of 27 diluting phials to the thirtieth potency (X). From vol. ii, 3rd edit…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Loganiaceæ. Bean of St. Ignatius. A species of strychos native to the Phillipine Islands. The tree bears a pear-shaped fruit, containing intensely bitter seed, from which is obtained the alcoholic tincture. Introduced and proved by Hahnemann and his provers. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 66 . CLINICAL…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“Ignatia amara, L. St. Ignatius' bean. Nat. Ord., Loganiacea. I. Provings.-I . HAHNEMANN, Mat. Med. Pura, vol. ii of original, vol. i of translation. Contains 620 symptoms from self and 175 from others . 2. The following symptoms are given as pathogenetic by HELBIG, but without information respecting provers or the…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“Ignatia is frequently required and is especially suited to sensitive, delicate women and children; to hysterical women. You will not cure the natural hysterics with Ignatia, but you will cure those gentle, sensitive, fine fibred, refined, highly educated, overwrought women in their nervous complaints with Ignatia when…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Sensitiveness of feeling; delicate conscientiousness. Fearfulness, timidity. Irresoluteness; anxious; to do now this, now that. The slightest contradiction irritates. Intolerance of noise. Taciturn, with continuous sad thoughts; still, serious melancholy, with moaning. Anger, followed by quiet grief and sorrow…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“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…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Remedy of paradoxicalities. Head better lying on painful side, moody, goneness not > by eating, sore throat < by swallowing, thirst during chill, face red during chill, etc. Sad, sighing, changeable, moody disposition. Twitchings or spasms, or convulsions from exciting or depressing emotions, fright, etc. All-gone…”
