IGNATIA
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- especially suited to nervous temperament
- women of a sensitive, easily excited nature
- dark hair and skin but mild disposition
- quick to percieve, rapid in execution
- the remedy of great contradictions
- roaring in ears relieved by music
- piles relieved when walking
- sore throat feels better when swallowing
- empty feeling in stomach not relieved by eating
- cough worse the more he coughs
- cough on standing still during a walk
- spasmodic laughter from grief
- sexual desire with impotency
- thirst during a chill, no thirst during the fever
- color changes in the face when at rest
- mental conditions rapidly change from joy to sorrow, from laughing to weeping
- moody
- persons mentally and physically exhausted by long-concentrated grief
- involuntary sighing
- weak, empty feeling at pit of stomach, not relieved by eating
- bad effects of anger, grief, or disappointed love
- broods in solitude over imaginary trouble
- desire to be alone
- finely sensitive mood, delicate consciousness
- inconstant, impatient, irresolute, quarrelsome
- amiable in disposition if feeling well, but easily disturbed by very slight emotion
- easily offended
- slightest fault finding or contradiction excites anger, and this makes him angry with himself
- children, when reprimanded, scolded, or sent to bed, get sick or have convulsions in sleep
- ill effects from bad news
- ill effects from vexation with reserved displeasure
- ill effects from suppressed mental sufferings
- ill effects of shame and mortification
- headache, as if a nail was driven out through the side, relieved by lying on it
- cannot bear tobacco
- smoking, or being in tobacco smoke, produces or aggravates headache
- in talking or chewing, bites inside of cheek
- sweat on the face on a small spot only while eating
- oversensitiveness to pain
- constipation from carriage riding
- constipation of a paralytic origin
- constipation with excessive urging, felt more in upper abdomen
- constipation with great pain, dreads to go to the closet
- constipation in women who are habitual coffee drinkers
- prolapsus ani from moderate straining at stool, stooping or lifting, worse when the stool is loose
- haemorrhoids: prolapse with every stool, have to be replaced
- haemorrhoids: sharp stitches shoot up the rectum, worse for hours after stool
- twitchings, jerkings, even spasms of single limbs or whole body, when falling asleep
- pain in small, circumscribed spots
- fever: red face during chill
- chill, with thirst during chill only, relieved by external heat
- heat without thirst, worse by covering
- complaints return at precisely the same hour
- worse from tobacco, coffee, brandy contact, motion, strong odors, mental emotions, grief
- better from warmth, hard pressure, swallowing, walking