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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 and erratic 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

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Sixth to 200th

Centesimal

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 →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Ignatia Amara is listed in 536 rubrics across 24 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 198 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Nervous System71 Head58 Stomach52 Mind48 Abdomen47 Female Sexual System39 Modalities35 Respiratory System27 Fever24 Throat18 Locomotor System16 Circulatory System16 Urinary System15 Generalities15 Male Sexual System13 Teeth7 Nose7 Eyes7 Face6 Skin6 Ears4 Tongue2 Taste2 Mouth1

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