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Ignatia Amara

30C / 200CIgnatia
St. Ignatius Bean · Strychnos Ignatii · "The Acute Grief Remedy"
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🎯 Acts primarily on the nervous system to address emotional disturbances, grief, and spasmodic conditions.
📖 Boericke writes:
St. Ignatius Bean
(IGNATIA)
Produces a marked hyperaesthesia 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 of sensitive, easily excited nature, dark, mild disposition, quick to perceive, 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 anderratic character of its symptoms is most characteristic.Effects of grief and worry. Cannot bear tobacco. Pain is small, circumscribed spots (Oxal ac). The plague. Hiccough and hysterical vomiting.
👤 Constitution
•Typically women of a sensitive, easily excited, and nervous temperament; often dark-haired with a mild disposition, quick to perceive and act.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Mentally, the emotional element is uppermost, and co-ordination of function is interfered with.
introduction
The plague.
introduction
Sighing and sobbing.
mind
Congestive headaches following anger or grief; worse, smoking or smelling tobacco, inclines head forward.
head
Twitching of muscles of face and lips.
face
Sour taste.
mouth
Follicular tonsillitus.
throat
Sinking in stomach, relieved by taking a deep breath.
stomach
Prolapse.
rectum
Stools pass with difficulty; painful constriction of anus after stool.
rectum
Pressure as of a sharp instrument from within outward.
rectum
Much sighing.
respiratory
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Used for emotional distress, grief, and hysteria characterized by sighing and mood swings.
Changeable mood; introspective; silently brooding.
Melancholic, sad, tearful.
Not communicative.
Sighing and sobbing.
After shocks, grief, disappointment.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Sixth to 200th
Centesimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Natrium Muriaticum →
🚫 Antidotes
Chamomilla →Pulsatilla Pratensis →Coccus Cacti →
🔄 Compare With
Zincum Metallicum →Kali Phosphoricum →Sepia Officinalis →Cimicifuga Racemosa →Panacea →
⚠️ Inimical
Nux Vomica →Coffea Cruda →Tabacum →
📚 Sources & References

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