Ign, Ignatia Amara

Core theme

• Excitability / Irritability + Internal conflict = Hysteria

Irritability

• Her quickness affects you too and you feel that should be careful not to upset her.
• With increased irritability, the patient does not want to be visited.
• Illusion: I have no hope of solving my problem anymore. Because there is a conflict that cannot be solved. You cannot satisfy him with any argument.
• She is Oversensitive to all external stimuli (Sensory and emotionally)
• Sense of smell is sensitive and sharp
• Sensitive to pain (Cham) (Ign ₳ Nux-v)

Internal Contradictions

• Ign is the Queen of these contradictions.
• The patient's own modalities are also conflicting. Her modalities are strange and sometimes abnormal.
• You can usually find the starting point of the pathology

Hysteria

• Ign is the Queen of Hysteria
• Uncontrollable hysteria plus psychosomatic symptoms
• Changing continuously
  • A lot of change in the soul and body
  • Even she changes the subject while talking.
  • Fluctuating character, unstable mood, sudden mood changes (Coff, Croc, Nux-m)

Clinic

• Ign rarely gives Agg so don't be afraid of high potency. 10M or 50M in acute attacks
• Main symptoms are :
• Hysteric symptoms such as Resistant cough , Insomnia , Anorexia nevrosa , Globus hystericus, Nervous headaches
• Grief complications
• Other entities: Bell's palsy , Uveitis , Proctitis, Rectal prolapse

Resistant cough

• Her cough doesn't respond to any remedy
• The second point is you do not find any convincing reason for it, means that you are faced with a psychosomatic disorder.
• The third point is the cough gets worse the more he coughs
• In psychology Cough means resistance or protest and this is the core hidden theme of Ign.

Insomnia

• Bad sleep, repetition of incident
• Wakes up with bad sleep and may not sleep again.

Anorexia nevrosa

• They have no appetite. They deny their desire for certain things and foods.
• She did not cope by herself.

Globus hystericus

• Feeling of tightness and mass/spasm/suffocation
• A lump that is felt in the throat area. Anger that is a sign of suppressed sadness, but he cannot or does not want to relieve himself by crying.
• Sighing involuntarily (Lach) with a feeling of weakness and fainting, empty stomach that does not improve with eating (Hydr, Sep)
• Effects of humiliation, shame (Staph)
• He likes to swallow to get some relief from his pain and problem.
• Ign is important at the level of the perception and not at the level of the mind/ Cognition

Nervous headaches:

• They put nails in the head (Coff, Nux-v, Thuj) (Ign ₳ Nux-v)

• Pain gets better with pressure (This is a good example of Paradoxical space of Ign)

• The feeling of mass and plug in Ign is general.

Grief

• Grief has different stages: (1) Denial (2) Self-blame (3) Blaming others (4) Depression (5) acceptance
• If the patient is stopped in any theses stages, you should start the treatment.
• Ign could be used blindly in any grief but remember that unlike Allopathy, here we should not give such blind remedies.
• Grief does not necessarily require Ign, and we should also think of other remedies with the understanding of the space. Nat-m, Caust, Aur, Hyos, Op, Clac-sil. (Ign ₳ Nat-m)
• Therefore you as a homeopath should consider the sense of patient in order to prescribe the appropriate remedy. This is the definition of Subjectivity, the main difference of Homeopathy and Conventional medicine. You may give an acute Grief remedy (such as Ign) to a mother who has lost her son 20 years ago, because her wound is still fresh. Or give a chronic Grief remedy (Such as Nat-m) to a girl for her disappointed love that is occurred yesterday but she is crying for herself because she is reviewing the story of her misery.

Twitching / Jerking

• Seizure, twitch, chorea and constriction
• Twitching / Jerking of the left eyelid is very common, up to 90%
• Sleep jerking: Jumping up / Jerking in sleep (Zinc)
• Biting the lips or tongue while talking or chewing
  

Bell's palsy

• Ign covers neuralgic and stinging pains well.

Uveitis

• Blurred vision, redness of the eyes, pain in the eyes, flickering of the visual field and sensitivity to light

Proctitis, Rectal prolapse

• Stenosis, hemorrhoids, pain and burning, prolapse with excretion, Urging and tenesmus
• Prolapse with slight straining or bending or lifting a load (Nit-ac, Podo, Ruta)
• Hemorrhoid accompanied by upward stabbing pains (Nit-ac)
• Hemorrhoid pain remains for hours after defecation (Rat, Sul, Peon, Nit-ac)
• Travel constipation with many urging, mostly in the upper part of the stomach (Verb)

Rubrics

• MIND - INSANITY - menses - copious, with sep
• MIND - EMOTIONS - respiration; with complaints of: Acon, arg-n, ars, CHAM, coff, IGN, NUX-V