Ignatia Amara
St. Ignatius bean · Abbrev.: IGN
Dose
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200C single dose traditionally after acute shocks; low potencies risk proving agitation if repeated.
Female
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Menses irregular, black or too scanty after grief; bearing down as if everything would escape.
Introduction
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Acute emotional shock and silent grief with contradictory, changeable phenomena — sighing, globus, and mood flips.
Mind
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Silent grief following disappointment or bereavement; sighing respiration; rapidly alternating moods — laughing turns to tears. Idealizes the lost one; secret sorrow hidden behind composure.
Modalities
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Worse: coffee, tobacco, emotions, touch, morning. Better: swallowing solids, changing position, eating.
Rectum
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Painless urging as if stool would pass, yet nothing comes; sharp, shooting haemorrhoidal pains like sticks.
Relationships
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Compare Natrum muriaticum (chronic guarded grief vs Ignatia's acute shock); complementary Natrum muriaticum; 'never well since' bereavement is its keynote.
Sleep
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Light sleep disturbed by vivid dreams of the upsetting event; insomnia after shocks; starts from sleep with a jerk.
Stomach
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Cramping with hunger not relieved by eating; sour regurgitation; aversion to tobacco smoke markedly.
Throat
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Sensation of a lump (globus hystericus) relieved momentarily by swallowing solids; constant inclination to swallow.
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
Published by Gentle Pills under CC0 1.0 — original wording, dedicated to the public domain. Not a substitute for the primary texts.
Reminder: this information is published for qualified practitioners. Patients must not self-medicate — homeopathic prescribing depends on the complete individual symptom picture, which only a doctor can evaluate. Please visit a homeopathy doctor.