Materia Medica de A a Z

IGNATIA AMARA (ign)

Region

MIND. NERVOUS SYSTEM. Cerebro-spinal axis.

Worse

EMOTIONS (GRIEFS. Chagrin. WORRY. Fright. Shock). AIR (Open. Cold). Odors. Touch. Coffee. Tobacco.

Better

Position (Change of. Lying on part). Urination. If alone. Pressure.

General

ERRATIC, CONTRADICTORY OR SPASMODIC EFFECTS; often violent; with rigidity, twitchings, tremor, etc.; during pain. Jerks run through whole body. SENSE OF A LUMP, foreign body or sharp pressure. Globus. Clavus. Hysteria. Pain in a spot, agg. close attention. Symptoms pass off with a profuse flow of urine. Oversensitive to pain. Tonic spasm of single parts, with frothing at mouth. Neurotic inheritance. Spasms from punishment (Agar)..................... Brooding grief. Silent and sad; inward weeping. Intolerant of contradiction; of reprimands (Coloc; Staph). Angry with himself. Delicately conscientious. Everything irks her. Weak and excitable. ALERT, OVERSENSITIVE AND NERVOUS. Highly emotional. Capricious. Moody. Changeful. Faints easily. SIGHS, weeps or laughs by turns. Unhappy; love. Enjoys being sad. GRIEF; brooding. Alternate headache and backache (Meli). Headache ends in yawning and vomiting. Eyelids seem dry. Flashes of light, from violent coughing. Nose sensitive to inspired air. Pain over root of nose. Sneezing attacks. One cheek red. Jaws snap shut; bites inside of cheek, tongue, etc. Masseters stiff and hard. Indurated tonsils; with little ulcers. Cramp in gullet. Swallows over a lump, amel. solids. Hiccough; with eructations, empty or bitter. Nausea or vomiting, amel. indigestible foods. Hunger, with nausea. Craves raw foods. Empty sinking or spasmodic ache in stomach; not amel. eating. Stool painful; difficult although soft, then constriction of rectum. Obstipation of neurasthenics. Pain shoots up rectum. Piles, amel. sitting. rolapsus recti. Irregular menses. TAKES DEEP BREATHS; for relief. Choking. Spasm of glottis. Hacking cough. Cough violent, it shuts off the breath; dry, as from dust or sulphur fumes; agg. coughing. Constriction of thorax. Goitre. Tension in nape. Cramp in calf. Heavy feet. Painful skin, amel. pressure. Violent, spasmodic yawning. Light sleep, every sound wakes. Dreams same horrid dreams, over and over. Chill with a red face. Chill, shaking; nervous; with thirst; agg. pain. Heat, with aversion to uncover, but no thirst.

Complementary: Aur; Nat-m; Ph-ac; Sep.

Related: Cimic; Nux-v; Sep.