Ignatia

Question 1

Essence of Ignatia

Answer 1

Refined, sensitive, conscientious, well-educated, artistic, high-strung, excitable, changeable mood, silently brood, easily hurt/offended and disappointed, touchy, rigidly idealistic, contradictions, changeable, averse to consolation, paradoxical symptoms, moody, unpredictable, irresolute, overly conscientious, over-achiever, alternates laughter/tears

Question 2

Ailments from

Answer 2

grief, anticipation, death, jealousy, disappointment in love, mortification, punishment, rejection, excitement, worry, fear, bad news, suppressed mental and emotional suffering

Question 3

Worse from

Answer 3

excessive overwork, alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco, coffee, sweets, strong odors and perfumes, morning, waking, slight touch, cold, open air, winter

Question 4

Main remedy for

Answer 4

acute grief. deep and continuous, and brings insomnia, deep long-drawn, involuntary sighing, silent brooding and sobbing alone, and despondency, silent grief

Question 5

Neurological symptoms

Answer 5

oversensitive to pain, neuralgias, pain located in small spots, with emptiness in the stomach, biting the tongue or cheek, trembling and jerking, hysterical spasms, chorea, paralysis, aphonia brought on by emotional causes. aggravated by light, noise, commotion, suddenness of Sx, epilepsy from fright, twitches and tics

Question 6

Better from

Answer 6

heat, hot drinks, eating, warm room, walking, occupation, lying on painful side, hard pressure on painful part, profuse watery urination, change of position, external warmth

Question 7

Throat and chest

Answer 7

sensation of lump in throat. sore throats (sticking, stitching) > swallowing solids. dry spasmodic cough agg. lying down in evening made worse by coughing (paroxysms)
as if dust or fumes in the throat

Question 8

GI and rectum

Answer 8

gone/sinking sensation, dyspepsia from strong emotions, distention, bitter fluid, flatulence, salivation, mucous, empty retching, hiccough follows eating or smoking, morning sickness, stabbing pains shooting up the rectum

Question 9

Desires

Answer 9

cheese, indigestibles, sour foods, pickles, bread. craving or strong aversion for fruit

Question 10

Aversions

Answer 10

liquors, warm food, milk, maybe fruit

Question 11

Female genitalia

Answer 11

Amenorrhea. sadness and irritability before menses. bearing down pains and dark blood and clots.

Question 12

Fears

Answer 12

birds, anxiety about themselves, cancer, feeling of suffocation, not being good enough

Question 13

Generals

Answer 13

chilly, suddenness of symptoms, pains are felt in spots

Question 14

Head

Answer 14

jaw and neck tension, HA like a nail driven out through side of head, better lying painful side. HA after grief worry mental work. HA from tobacco smoke, alcohol, coffee.

Question 15

Face

Answer 15

Perspiration only on face (keynote) bites the inside of her cheeks easily, twitching of face muscles

Question 16

Menses

Answer 16

dark, offensive, with clots. colicky dysmenorrhea, better pressure and lying. amenorrhea

Question 17

Back

Answer 17

tension throughout muscles. tight trap and jaw, neck