Ignatia

St. Ignatius Bean

Abdomen

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Rumbling in bowels. Weak feeling in upper

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Feminine sexual frigidity. Suppression from grief.

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Throbbing in abdomen, [Aloe; Colicky, griping pains in one or both sides of

Compare

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Zinc.; Kali phos.; Sep.; Cimicif. Complementary: Nat. mur. Incompatible: Coffea; Nux; Tattac. Antidotes: Puls.; Cham.; Cocc.

Dose

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Tincture, to 200th potency.

Extremities

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Jerking of

Eyes

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Asthenopia, with spasms of lids and neuralgic pain about

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[A’^Z. m.] Flickering zigzags.

Face

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Tzmtching of muscles of face and lips. Changes color when at rest.

Female

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Menses, black, too early, too profuse, or scanty. During menses great languor, with spasmodic pains in stomach and

Fever

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Chill, with thirst ; not relieved by external heat. During fever, itching; nettle-rash all over body.

Guiding symptoms

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rapid in execution. Rapid change of mental and physical condition, opposite to each other. Great contradictions. Alert, nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling patients who suffer acutely in mind or body, at the same time made worse by drinking coffee. The superficial and erratic character of its symptoms is most characteristic. Cannot bear tobacco. Pain is small, circumscribed spots.' [Oxal. ac.] The plague.

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longs fur great variety of indigestible articles. Sinking in stomach, relieved by taking a deep breath.

Head

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Feels hollow, heavy ; worse, stooping. Headache as if a nail were driven out through the side. Cl amp-like pain over root of

Limbs

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Pain in tendo- Achilles and calf. Ulcerative pain in soles.

Mind

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Changeable mood ; introspective ; silently brooding. Melancholic, sad, tearful. Not communicative. Sighing and sobbing. After shocks, grief, di.sappointment.

Modalities

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Worse, in the morning, open air, after meals, coffee, smoking, liquids, external warmth. Better, while eating, change of position.

Mouth

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396 IGNATIA — ILLICIUM

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Sour taste. Easily bites inside of cheeks. Constantly full of saliva. Toothache: worse alter drinking coffee and smoking.

Nose

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Congestive headaches following anger or grief; worse, smoking or smelling tobacco, inclines head forward.

Rectum

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Prolapse. Stools pass with difficulty; painful constriction of anus after stool. Stitches in Iijemorrhoids during cough. Diarrhcea from fright. Stitches from anus deep into

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Itching and stitching up the

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Haemorrhage and pain ; worse when stool is loose. Pressure as of a sharp instrument from ivithin outward. Urine. — Profuse, watery. [Phos. ac.]

Respiratory

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Dry, spasmodic cough in quick successive shocks. Reflex coughs. Coughing increases the desire to cough. Much sighing. Hollow spasmodic cough, worse in the evening, little expectoration, leaving pain in the

Skin

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Itching, nettle-rash. Very sensitive to draught of air. Excoriation, especially around vagina and

Sleep

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Insomnia from grief, cares, with itching of arms and violent yawning. Dreams continuing a long time; troubling him.

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Very light.' Jerking of limbs on going to

Stomach

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Sour eructation. All-gone feeling in

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worse slightest contact. Averse to ordinary diet ;

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much flatulence; hiccough. Cramps in

Text

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Produces a marked hyperaesthesia of all the senses, and a tendency to clonic spasms. Mentally, the emotional element is uppermost^ and co-of^ination of function is interfered with. Hence, it is one of the chief remedies for hysteria. It is especially adapted to the nervous temperament — women of sensitive, easily excited nature, dark, mild disposition, quick to perceive. 394

Throat

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Feeling of a lump in throat that cannot be swallowed. Sore

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stitches when not swallowing ; better, eating something .solid. Stitches between acts of swallowing. Stitches extend to ear. [//c/».] Ton sils inflamed, swollen, with small ulcers. Follicular tonsillitis.

References

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