Ignatia Homeopathic Remedy

In this remedy there is great strain upon the emotional centers. Recurrent shocks develop sensitivity, an aversion of personality, and confusion in the normal rhythm of the thought mechanism and indecision in action, which leads to various forms of irrational behavior. 

Ignatia basically typifies irresolution throughout the mental function; a heart breaking jumble of contradictory
Homeopathy utilizes microextracts made from plants, flowers, herbs and animals in very diluted alcohol-based tinctures or pellets that are taken under the tongue. The extracts take time to work but can help alleviate health  issues ranging from depression, anxiety, sadness or obsessive behaviors.Ignatia Mara is one remedy that every household could benefit from. It is often recommended by licensed homeopaths for use when a person is grieving over a death of family, friend or pet, or in times of a relationship breakup.
Especially suited to nervous temperament; women of a sensitive, easily excited nature; dark hair and skin but mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in execution. In striking contrast with the fair complexion, yielding, lachrymose, but slow and indecisive, Pulsatilla.
The remedy of great contradictions: the roaring in ears > by music; the piles > when walking; sore throat feels > when swallowing; empty feeling in stomach not > by eating; cough < the more he coughs; cough on standing still during a walk ([Ast. fl.]); spasmodic laughter from grief; sexual desire with impotency; thirst during a chill, no thirst during the fever; the color changes in the face when at rest.
Mental conditions rapidly, in an almost incredibly short time, change from joy to sorrow, from laughing to weeping ( Coff. , Croc. , Nux m. ); moody.
Persons mentally and physically exhausted by long-concentrated grief.
Involuntary sighing ( Lach. ); with a weak, empty feeling at pit of stomach; not > by eating ( Hydr. , Sep. ).
Bad effects of anger, grief, or disappointed love ( Cal. p. , Hyos. ); 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.
The 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; from vexation with reserved displeasure; from suppressed mental sufferings; of shame and mortification ( Staph. ).
Headache, as if a nail was driven out through the side, relieved by lying on it. ( Coff. , Nux , Thuja ).
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 ( Coff. , Cham. ).
Constipation; from carriage riding; of a paralytic origin; with excessive urging, felt more in upper abdomen ( Ver. ); with great pain, dreads to go to the closet; in women who are habitual coffee drinkers.
Prolapsus ani from moderate straining at stool, stooping or lifting ( Nit. ac. , Pod. , Ruta ); < when the stool is loose.
Haemorrhoids: prolapse with every stool, have to be replaced; sharp stitches shoot up the rectum ( Nit. a. ); < for hours after stool ( Rat. , Sulph. ).
Twitchings, jerkings, even spasms of single limbs or whole body, when falling asleep.
Pain in small, circumscribed spots.
Fever: red face during chill ( Fer. ); chill, with thirst during chill only; > by external heat; heat without thirst, < by covering ( > by covering, Nux ).
Complaints return at precisely the same hour.
Ignatia bears the same relation to the diseases of women that Nux does to sanguine, bilious men.
There are many more Ignatia persons in North America than Nux vomica persons – Hering.
Relations. – Incompatible: Coff. , Nux , Tab.
The bad effects of Ign. are antidoted by Puls.
Aggravation. – From tobacco, coffee, brandy contact, motion, strong odors, mental emotions, grief.
Amelioration. – Warmth, hard pressure ( Cinch. ); swallowing; walking.

ind.
AILMENTS AFTER GRIEF (headache, amenorrhea, chorea, etc.).
AILMENTS AFTER ROMANTIC DISAPPOINTMENTS.
EASILY HURT FEELINGS; EASILY OFFENDED.
SIGHING, especially common in older patients, often loud sighs.
<<Desire to avoid crying giving way to sobbing.>>
<<Aversion to consolation.>>
<<Stormy relationships filled with recrimination. Jealousy.>>
<<Alternating moods>> - laughing to weeping (Puls, Merc, Croc).
HYSTERIA OR HYSTERICAL SYMPTOMS such as numbness, paresthesia, paralysis, etc.
FEAR OF BIRDS or chickens. Claustrophobia.
<<Desire for and amelioration from traveling.>>
<<Great defensiveness and touchiness.>>
<<Rude or suspicious and doubting patients.>>

General.
<<General and local complaints better when traveling.>>
<<General aggravation from eating sweets>> (Arg-N).
Paradoxical symptoms - inflamed joints which are better when pressed, sore throat better when swallowing, etc.
Aversion to tobacco smoke or smokey rooms.
Amelioration in the rain.

Nerves.
Tics, twitches, spasms especially coming after grief.
Convulsions. Petit mal. Encephalitis. Chorea.
Hysterical paralysis or anesthesia.

Head.
PERSPIRATION ONLY ON THE FACE; perspires first on face or lip.
Headaches after a grief.
Headache with pain like a nail driven into head.
Alopecia, especially after grief (Ph-Ac).
Hirsutism.
Tendency to bite tongue or inner cheeks when speaking or chewing.
LUMP IN THE THROAT.

Gastro-intestinal.
Cravings: <<Cheese.>> Fruit.
Aversion: FRUIT.
Bulimia.
Hiccoughing paroxysms.
<<Rectal spasms>>, fissure, hemorrhoids, prolapse.
Sensation of poker or a knife in rectum.

Chest.
IRRESISTIBLE PAROXYSM OF COUGH WITHOUT SIGNS OF ILLNESS.
SIGHING. Yawning.
Constriction or sensation of weight in the chest with dyspnea.
Palpitation from grief (Dig).

Extremities.
<<Back spasms, especially after a grief.>>
Arthritis.
Cramps or drawing pains.

Sleep.
Insomnia or more commonly, excessive sleepiness after grief.
<<Dreams of water>> or waves breaking over her.

Clinical.
Arthritis. Arrhythmia. Asthma. Bulimia. Chorea. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Cough. Depression. Encephalitis. Environmental illness. Globus hystericus. Headache. Hirsuitism. Hysteria or conversion reactions. Low back pain. Migraine. Obesity. Rectal cramp. Rectal fissure. Rectal prolapse. Spasm. Tics.

Relationship.
Complementary.
Nat-M. Sulph. Calc. Sep. Apis.
Inimical.
Nux V.
Comparisons.
Nux-V - Spasms, cramps and tics, sensitive to criticism, jealousy, rectal pathology, constipation.
Nat-M - Complaints from grief and disappointed love, hysteria, aversion to consolation, globus hystericus, sighing, back pains.
Chin. Caust. Calc-P. Strych. Plat. Sep.