IGNATIA
Source indications
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Abdomen, distended
- Anger, effects of
- Anus, affections of
- Anxiety
- Appetite, disordered
- Back, weakness of
- Catalepsy
- Change of Life
- Chorea
- Clavus
- Convulsions
- Croup
- Debility
- Dentition
- Depression of Spirits
- Diphtheria
- Dysmenorrha
- Epilepsy
- Fainting
- Fear, effects of
- Flatulence, obstructed
- Glands, enlargement of
- Hmorrhoids
- Headache
- Heart, affections of
- Hiccough
- Hysteria
- Hysterical-joint
- Intermittent fever
- Locomotor ataxy
- Melancholia
- Numbness
- sophagus
- Paralysis
- Phlyctenular ophthalmia
- Proctalgia
- Rectum, prolapse of
- Rheumatic fever
- Sciatica
- Sensitiveness
- Sinking
- Sleep, disordered
- Spinal irritation
- Tenesmus
- Throat, sore
- Toothache
- Tremors
- Urine, abnormal
- Vagina, spasm of
- Voice, lost
- Yawning
- Taciturn
- Sad thoughts
- Melancholy
- Sighing
- Irresolution
- Impatience
- Easily frightened
- Morose
- Discontented humour
- Involuntary reflections on painful things
- Intolerance of noise
- Effrontery
- Tenderness of disposition
- Tenderness of conscience
- Inconstancy
- Alternation of foolish gaiety and tearful sadness
- Laconic speech
- Weakness of memory
- Love of solitude
- Anguish
- Palpitation of the heart
- Lachrymose
- Apathetic humour
- Dread of exertion
- Inclination to grief
- Changeable disposition
- Jesting
- Laughing
- Sadness
- Shedding of tears
- Hysteria
- Despair of being cured
- The least contradiction excites rage and passion
- Redness of face
- Fearfulness
- Timidity
- Anger, followed by quiet grief and sorrow
- Fear of robbers at night
- Cries
- Complete discouragement, at the least provocation
- Vertigo
- Sparks before the eyes
- Heaviness of the head
- Head full of blood
- Pressive headache
- Inclination to vomit
- < or > by stooping
- Stinging pain, from within to without in the forehead
- Cramp-like pressure on the forehead and occiput
- Obscuration of sight
- Redness of the face
- Weeping
- Painful sensation of expansion in the head
- Cranium going to burst
- < when conversing, reading, or listening to another
- Pain, as from a bruise in the head
- < in the morning, on waking
- Headaches < by coffee, brandy, tobacco-smoke, noise, strong smell, from reading and writing; from the sunlight; from moving the eyes
- Headaches > when changing the position and when lying on the painful side
- Headaches with zigzags before the sight
- Skin across forehead feels drawn
- Lost and drowsy feeling
- Thousands of stars float before sight
- Headache, as if a nail were driven into the brain
- Headache, as if a nail were driven out through the side of the head
- > when lying on painful side
- Pressive headache in the forehead and vertex
- Piercing and shooting tearings, deep in the brain and forehead, > by lying down
- Pressive, pulsative headache
- Trembling of the head
- Throwing of the head backwards (during spasms)
- > by heat
- Falling off of the hair
- Pressure on the eyes
- Sand in the eyes
- Inflammation of the eyes
- Redness of the eyes
- Acrid tears in the eyes during the day
- Agglutination of the eyelids during the night
- Lachrymation
- Swelling in the upper lid
- Enlargement of the (bluish) veins
- Eyelid is turned upward
- Inflammation of the upper part of the eyeball as far as it is covered by the upper lid
- Convulsive movements of the eyes, and of the eyelids
- Fixed look
- Dilated pupils
- Photophobia
- Sight confused
- Mist before the eyes
- Flickering zigzags (and stars) before the eyes
- Swelling of the parotids
- Shooting pain
- Redness and burning heat in one of the ears
- Hardness of hearing
- Itching in the ears
- Noise before the ear
- Strong wind
- Worry takes away hearing
- Intensifies the noises
- Itching in the nose
- Nostrils excoriated
- Ulcerated nostrils
- Swelling of the nose
- Epistaxis
- Stoppage of one nostril
- Dry coryza
- Dull headache
- Excessive nervous excitement
- Dryness of the nose
- Face pale, red, or blue, or earth-coloured and wan
- Alternate redness and paleness of the face
- Clay-coloured, sunken face
- Blue margins around the eyes
- Perspiration on the face alone
- Redness and burning heat in one of the cheeks
- Convulsive startings and distortion of the muscles of the face
- Eruption on the face
- Lips dry, cracked, and bleeding
- Pain, as of excoriation, in the internal surface of the upper lip
- Scabs on the commissur of the lips, and on the lips
- Pains in the submaxillary glands
- Convulsive jerking of the corners of the mouth
- Ulceration of one of the corners of the mouth
- Spasmodic clenching of the jaws (lock-jaw)
- Odontalgia
- Looseness of the teeth
- Toothache towards the end of a meal
- Toothache < after its conclusion
- Difficult dentition
- Convulsions
- Inflammation of the mouth
- Redness of the mouth
- Inflammation of the palate
- Redness of the palate
- Constant secretion of mucus
- Accumulation of acid saliva in the mouth
- Aptness to bite the tongue, on one side posteriorly, when chewing or speaking
- Moist tongue
- White coating on tongue
- Stitches in palate
- Extending to the ear
- Foam at the mouth
- Voice weak and tremulous
- Sore throat
- A plug in the throat
- Palate red and inflamed
- Sensation as if what is swallowed passed over a burning and excoriated tumour
- Shootings in the throat
- Extending sometimes to the ear
- When swallowing sensation as if one swallowed over a lump
- Soreness
- A cracking noise
- Inflammation, swelling, and induration of the tonsils
- Small ulcers on tonsils
- Impeded deglutition (of drinks)
- Constriction of the gullet
- Sobbing risings
- Pain in the submaxillary glands when moving the neck
- Repugnance to food and drink
- Milk
- Meat
- Cooked victuals
- Tobacco-smoke
- Want of appetite
- Speedy satiety
- Insipid taste
- Chalk
- Weakness and difficulty of digestion
- Sour taste in the mouth
- Bitter taste of food
- Putrid taste of food
- Beer
- Repugnance to, or strong desire for, acid things
- Dislike to wine and brandy
- Painful inflation of the abdomen after a meal
- Feeling of hunger in the evening, which prevents one going to sleep
- Desire for different things, which are disregarded when obtained
- Food has no taste
- Milk taken in the morning leaves an after-taste for a long time
- After smoking, hiccough, nausea, sweat, and colic
- Regurgitation of food
- Regurgitation of bitter serous matter
- Hiccough from smoking
- Hiccough, always after eating or drinking
- Acid risings
- Nausea, with agitation and anguish
- Vomiting of food, even at night
- Vomiting of bile and mucus
- Periodical attacks of cramp in the stomach, which disturb sleep at night
- < by pressure on the part affected
- Dull aching or shootings in the epigastrium
- Coldness in the stomach
- Burning in the stomach
- Brandy
- Sensation of emptiness in the epigastrium
- Sensation of weakness in the epigastrium
- Sensation of weakness (sinking) in the pit of the stomach
- Heaviness and pressure in the pit of the stomach
- Fulness and swelling in the epigastrium
- Painful sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach to the touch
- Sensation of fulness and inflation of the hypochondria
- Difficulty of respiration
- Pain in the l. hypochondrium
- < by pressure, and by walking
- Shooting sensation of burning and pressure, or swelling and hardness in the region of the spleen
- Expansive pain in the abdomen
- Intestines were going to burst
- Inflation of the abdomen
- Flatulence presses on the bladder
- Cutting pains in the umbilical region
- Spasmodic pains, cutting, stinging, like labour pains
- Violent aching in the abdomen
- Rolling sensation around the navel
- Drawing and pinching in the region of the navel
- Sensation of protrusion in the umbilical region
- The pains in the abdomen are < after taking coffee, brandy, or things sweetened with sugar
- Shootings and pinchings in the abdomen, esp. in the sides
- Periodical cramp-like pains in the abdomen
- Cramp-like pressure in the inguinal region
- Beating in the abdomen
- Borborygmi in the intestines
- Flatulent colic, esp. at night
- Sensation of weakness and trembling in the abdomen, with sighing respiration
- Constipation from taking cold
- Constipation from riding in a carriage
- Hard evacuations, with frequent ineffectual efforts
- Unsuccessful urging to stool, felt mostly in the upper intestines
- Fces yellow, whitish, of a very large size, soft but difficult to eject
- Diarrha of sanguineous mucus, with rumbling in the abdomen
- Slimy evacuations, accompanied by colic
- Discharge of blood from the anus
- Prolapsus of the rectum while at stool
- Itching and tingling in the anus
- Ascarides in the rectum
- Contraction of the anus
- Contractive pain, as of excoriation, in the anus, after evacuation
- Prolapsus ani, with smarting pain, from slight pressure to stool
- Shootings from the anus high up into the rectum
- Smarting in the rectum during the loose evacuations
- Frequent and copious emission of watery urine
- Urine lemon colour
- Involuntary emission of urine
- Urgent and irresistible want to make water
- Continual want to urinate after taking coffee
- Sensation of burning and smarting in the urethra during micturition
- Itching in the fore part of the urethra
- Urging to urinate with inability
- Much itching in the genital parts, and in the penis
- Pain, as of excoriation and ulceration, on the margins of the prepuce
- Strangling sensation, and aching in the testes
- Sweat on the scrotum
- Lasciviousness, with weakness of genital power (without erections)
- Contraction of the penis
- Absence of sexual desire
- Erections, with painful uneasiness, and aching at the pubis
- Erections during every evacuation
- Catamenia premature and violent, every ten or fifteen days
- Blood of the catamenia black, of putrid odour, mixed with clots
- Metrorrhagia
- During the catamenia, heaviness, heat, and pain in the head, photophobia, colic, and contractive pains, anxiety, palpitation of the heart, and great fatigue, even to fainting
- Cramp-like and compressive pains in the region of the uterus, with fits of suffocation; pressure, and lying on the back, mitigate the pain
- Cramp in the uterus, during the catamenia
- Uterine spasms, with lancinations, or like labour pains
- Corrosive and purulent leucorrha, preceded by contractive pressure in the uterus
- Sensation of soreness in the larynx
- Constrictive sensation in the trachea and larynx
- Voice feeble, inability to speak loud
- Catarrh, with coryza and headache
- Cough, excited by a sensation of constriction at the fossa of the neck, as from the vapour of sulphur
- Hollow spasmodic cough, caused in the evening from a sensation of vapour or dust in the pit of the throat; in the morning, from a tickling above the pit of the stomach, with expectoration in the evening difficult, tasting and smelling like old catarrh
- Obstinate nocturnal cough
- Dry cough, sometimes with fluent coryza
- Cough, continuing equally day and night
- The longer he coughs the more the irritation to cough increases
- Dry, hoarse cough
- Spasmodic shaking cough
- Short cough, as from a feather in the throat, becoming stronger from repetition (the more he coughs, the more he wants to)
- Hoarse dry cough, excited by a tickling above the stomach
- Desire to draw a long breath
- Slow breathing
- Difficulty of respiration, and oppression of the chest
- Oppressed breathing, alternating with convulsions
- Difficult respiration, as if hindered by a weight upon the chest
- Shortness of breath when walking, and cough as soon as one stands still
- Sighing respiration
- Feeling of suffocation on running
- Aching of the chest
- Constriction of the chest
- Shootings in the chest and in the sides, excited by flatulency (flatulent colic)
- Palpitation of the heart at night, with shootings in the heart, or else in the morning on waking, as well as when meditating, and during repose
- Throbbing in the chest
- Sticking in precordial region on expiration
- Cardiac hypersthesia
- Anxious feeling in precordia
- Sinking sensation and emptiness at stomach
- Constriction, with anxiety and disposition to cry
- Stiffness of the nape of the neck
- Stitches in the small of the back; in the nape of the neck
- Aching pain in the glands of the neck
- Enlarged glands (painless), like nodosities, in the neck
- Pain in the os sacrum in the morning, when lying on the back
- Violent sacral pains, like shootings or pullings, or like squeezing by a claw
- The back is bent forward
- Convulsive bending backwards of the spine
- Lancinations as by knives, from the loins to the thighs
- Weak back, with sciatica
- Lancinating, cutting pain in the shoulder-joint, when bending the arm forward
- Insupportable pains in the bones and joints of the arms, as if the flesh were being loosened, or with a paralytic sensation and pain of dislocation (on moving the arm)
- Convulsive startings in the arms (in the deltoid muscle) and in the fingers
- Tearing in the arms, excited by cold air
- Tension in the wrist
- Hot sweat of the hands
- Sensation of torpor and digging in the arms, at night in bed (with the sensation as if something living were running in the arm)
- Warm perspiration in the palm of the hand and fingers
- Incisive, tearing pains in the posterior surface of the thighs, on fatiguing the muscles
- Sciatica, with weakness of back and lower limbs
- Limbs swollen, thigh knotty, cannot get up or lie down without pain
- Heaviness of the legs and of the feet, with tension in the legs, and calves of the legs, on walking
- Heat of the knee, with coldness and itching of the nose
- Convulsive startings of the legs
- Stiffness of the knees and of the feet
- When walking, the knees are involuntarily drawn up
- Cracking in the knee
- Painful sensibility of the soles of the feet, when walking
- Shootings and pain, as from ulceration in the soles of the feet
- Sensation of burning in the heels at night, on placing them near one another
- Coldness of the feet and legs, extending above the knee
- Sensation of burning in corns
- Simple and violent pain, in various parts, when they are touched
- Incisive or acute, and sometimes hard pressive pain
- Trembling of the limbs
- Lancinations, as by knives
- Sensation of pressing asunder, or constriction in the internal organs
- Arthritic tearing in the limbs
- Pain, as of dislocation, or of a sprain in the joints
- Heaviness, and crawling numbness, in the limbs
- Convulsions alternating with oppressed breathing
- Attacks of cramps and of convulsions
- Epileptic convulsions, with foam at the mouth, frequent yawning, convulsed eyes, retraction of the thumbs, face red, or alternately pale and red
- Convulsive twitchings, esp. after fright or grief
- Involuntary movements of the limbs, as in St. Vitus' dance
- After the convulsions, profound sighs, or drowsy sleep
- Great sensitiveness to the open air
- Convulsions, with cries and laughter
- Tetanus
- Hysterical debility
- Fainting-fits
- Hysterical spasms
- Itching (over the whole body)
- Chilblains
- Excoriation of the skin
- Itching on becoming warm in the open air
- Great sensitiveness of the skin to a draught of air
- Nettle-rash over the whole body
- Profound and comatose sleep, with stertorous respiration
- Violent spasmodic yawnings
- Very light sleep
- Sleep, disturbed by nightmare, or by starts and frequent dreams
- Starting of the limbs on going to sleep
- Dreams, with reflection and reasoning, or with fixed ideas
- Dreams with fixed ideas, continuing after waking
- Restless sleep, and great restlessness at night
- Starts with fright on going to sleep
- Whimpering during sleep
- Pulse hard, full and frequent, or very variable
- Febrile shivering
- Chill, frequently only of the back part of the body
- Mitigation of the cold by external heat
- External heat with internal coldness
- Universal heat, esp. in the head, with redness, principally (of one) of the cheeks, and adipsia, sometimes with internal shuddering, coldness of the feet, shootings in the limbs, and headache
- Chill and coldness, causing the pains to increase
- Sudden flushes of heat over the whole body
- Troublesome sensation of heat, sometimes with sweat
- Absence of thirst during the heat, and perspiration, or during the apyrexia
- Only external heat, without thirst, with aversion to external heat
- Fever, with headache, and pain in the pit of the stomach, great fatigue, paleness of face, or paleness and redness alternately, lips dry and cracked, nettle-rash, tongue white, profound sleep with snoring
- Intermittent fever
- Chill with thirst
- Colic
- Weakness and sleep
- Burning heat of the body
- Burning heat of the face, only on one side
- Very little perspiration, or only in the face
- Sweat, with shootings and buzzing in the ears
- Sweat during a meal