IGNATIA AMARA

WILLIAM BOERICKE

Changeable mood; introspective; silently brooding. Melancholic,

sad, tearful. Not communicative. Sighing and sobbing. After
shocks, grief, disappointment.

J.H.CLARKE

Taciturn, with continuous sad thoughts; still, serious melancholy,

with moaning. Sadness and concentrated sorrow, with sighing.
Irresolution; anxious to do now this, now that. Impatience. Strong
disposition to be frightened. Morose and discontented humor, and
involuntary reflections on painful and disagreeable things.
Intolerance of noise. Effrontery. Tenderness of disposition and of
conscience. Inconstancy. Alternation of foolish gaiety and tearful
sadness. Laconic speech. Great weakness of memory. Love of
solitude. Anguish, esp. in the morning on waking, or at night,
sometimes with palpitation of the heart. Lachrymose and apathetic
humor, with dread of exertion. Inclination to grief, without saying
anything about it. Changeable disposition; jesting and laughing,
changing to sadness, with shedding of tears (hysteria). Despair of
being cured. The least contradiction excites rage and passion, with
redness of face. Fearfulness, timidity. Anger, followed by quiet
grief and sorrow. Fear of robbers at night. Cries, and complete
discouragement, at the least provocation.

S.R.PHATAK

ALERT; OVERSENSITIVE AND NERVOUS. Highly emotional. Moody.

Brooding GRIEF. Silent and sad. SIGHS. Weeps or laughs by turns,
laughs when she ought to be serious. Changeable moods. Unhappy
love. Inward weeping; enjoys being sad. Angry with himself.
Desire to be alone. Everything irks her. Intolerant of contradiction;
of reprimands. Anguish; shrieks for help. Capricious. Delicately
conscientious. Fear; of thieves; of trifles, of things coming near
him Introspective. Faint easily, girls who faint every time they go
to church; or who fall in love with married men. Sensation as if she
had been fasting for a long time. Hurried during menses; no one
can do things fast enough for her. Looks about the bed as if to find
something. Delights to bring on her fits and produce a scare or a
scene. Thinks she had neglected her duty. Sighing and sobbing.
Not communicative. Fear or robbers at night.

J.T.KENT

Nervous affections and troubles of all sorts come on at the

menstrual period. The mind is always in a hurry, in a state of
excitement. No one can do things rapidly enough. The memory is
untrustworthy. The mind flies all to pieces. It is a sort of confusion.
No longer able to classify the things that have been classically put
into the mind. Cannot remember her music, and her rules, and her
scholastic methods. They have all vanished, and she is in a state of
confusion. She is a worn-out, nervous person. Then come fancies,
vivid fancies, that are like delirium. Without fever, without chill.
just after excitement. She comes home from some great
disturbance of her emotions, and goes into a state that, if looked
upon, per SE, would appear to be a delirium such as appears in a
fever. But upon close examination it is not a delirium. It is a
momentarily hysterical excitement of the mind, in which the
balance is lost, and she talks about everything. Sees every manner
of thing; it is a hysterical insanity, because after she rests or the
next morning it has vanished. But these spells come oftener and
oftener after they have once begun, and she gives way to them
easier and easier, and, if they are not remedied, she becomes a
lunatic, a confirmed mental wreck, so that excitement, grief,
insanity, all intermingle together as cause and effect. These come
first at the menstrual period, and then they come at other times,
until they come from every little disturbance. Whenever she is
crossed or contradicted. "She desires to be alone and to dwell on
the inconsistencies that come into her life. Sits and sobs. At times
she is taciturn; again, she prattles and is loquacious, and talks to
herself." She comes into a state in a little while where she delights
to bring on her fits and to make a scare. The natural hysteric is
born with that, and Ignatia will do her no good. But when this is
brought on from conditions described, Ignatia is of the greatest
benefit. It runs closely along by the side of Hyoscyamus. "A feeling
of continuous fright, or apprehensiveness that something is going
to happen." With all these mental states she has a feeling of
emptiness in the stomach and abdomen. Emptiness and trembling.
"Melancholy after disappointed love, with spinal symptoms," "Great
grief after losing persons or objects very near. Trembling of the
hands disturbs her very much in writing. Dread of every trifle."
She goes into a state where she is utterly unable to undertake
anything, even to write a letter to a friend. The Ignatia patient is
not one that has been a simpleton, or of a sluggish mind or idiotic,
but one that has become tired, and brought into such a state from
over-doing and from over-excitement. From going too much. If
rather feeble in body, from too much social excitement. Our
present social state is will calculated to develop a hysterical mind.
The typical social mind is one that is always in a state of confusion.
Asks questions, not waiting for the answer. A good many remedies
have this state; a lack of concentration of mind, that is what it is,
but this is a peculiar kind of lack of concentration of mind. Dread,
fear, anxiety, weeping, run through the remedy. "Sensitive
disposition; hyper acute." Overwrought intense. Ignatia has
another thing: "Thinks she has neglected some duty." That is very
much like Puls., Hell. and Hyos., only Aurum believes that she has
committed a great wrong. "Thinks that she has neglected some
duty." Dwells upon that much. "Melancholy after great grief." It is
full of headaches, and they are all congestive, pressing headaches,
or tearing headaches, or headaches as if a nail were sticking into
the side of the head or temple; ameliorated from lying upon it. The
headaches are all ameliorated by heat. The patient generally is
ameliorated by warmth and aggravated by cold. Wants cold things
in the stomach, but warm things externally. Jerking headaches,
throbbing headaches, congestive headaches. Headaches in nervous
and sensitive temperaments. Those whose nervous system has
given way to anxiety, grief or mental work. "Headaches from
abuse of coffee, from smoking, from inhaling smoke, from tobacco
or alcohol." Headache from close attention. "Headache
ameliorated, by warmth and rest; worse, from cold winds and
turning the head suddenly; worse when pressing at stool, or from
jar, from hurrying, from excitement." Looking up increases the
pain; moving the eyes; worse from noise, from light. "Pain in the
occiput; worse from cold, better from external heat. Headache
better while eating, but soon after it is worse." "Disturbance of
vision. Zigzags. Confusion of vision." Excessively nervous eyes.
"Acrid tears. Weeping."