IGNATIA.
SKIN.
►
Objective. ► Pimples about
the sore eye (after two hours), [1].
► Papulous pimples painful only when
touched, just beneath the lower lip (after thirty-six hours), [1]. ►
Boils on the inner portion of the thigh (after twelve hours), [1]. ►
Subjective. ► Numberless
fine stitches, like fleabites, here and there (especially in bed), [1]. [740.]
► The outer skin and the periosteum
are painful (after eight hours), [1].
► *Itching, [26]. ►
Itching here and there over the body, if he became somewhat heated on
walking in the open air, [1]. ► Itching, here and there, easily relieved
by scratching, in the evening after lying down in bed, [1]. [It is
characteristic of Ignatia that the itching is easily relieved by slight
scratching, and disappears from that spot. -Hahnemann.] ► Burning in an ulcer, [1]. ►
Crawling in the feet, [1]. ► Fine sticking crawling in the feet (in
the skin of the calves), after midnight, which does not allow him to
rest or remain in bed, [1]. ► Itching stitches in the thumb-joint,
which oblige him to scratch, [1]. ► Itching about the genitals and on the penis, in
the evening after lying down, it disappears on scratching
(after three hours), [1]. ► Itching here and there, beneath the
shoulder, etc., at night, disappearing on scratching, [1]. [750.] ► Itching on the wrist, elbow, and neck, [1]. ►
Itching exactly in the umbilicus (after two hours and a half), [1]. ►
Burning-itching pain in a spot on the back of the foot, during rest, [1].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness. ► Frequent
yawning, after sleeping, [1]. ► Frequent yawning interrupted by a kind of
immobility and rigidity of the chest (between 8 and 10 o’clock), [1]. ►
Great yawning, even while eating, [1].
► *Excessive yawning in the morning
(and especially after the midday nap), as if the lower jaw would be
dislocated, [1]. ► *Excessively frequent yawning (after
a quarter of an hour), [1]. ► Excessive, convulsive yawning, so that
the eyes overflow with water, in the evening before going to sleep, and
in the morning after rising from bed (after twenty-eight and
thirty-eight hours), [1]. ► Inclination to sleep, [13]. [760.] ► Sleepiness, [13]. ►
Sleepiness, so that he falls asleep while sitting, but if he lies down
he remains half awake, in a dreamy doze (after a quarter of an hour), [1]. ►
So great sleepiness that he was obliged to go to bed by 9 o’clock and
slept soundly the whole night, yet in the morning he was very tired and
apathetic, which condition continued the whole day (seventh day), [10a]. ►
Became very sleepy after sad news, [1].
► Falls asleep while sitting over his
reading (after four hours), [1]. ► The midday nap was unusually sound but
nor refreshing (third day), [10a].
► Very sound though not refreshing
sleep, [1]. [On waking he does not
believe that he has slept at all. -Hahnemann.] ►
Deep sleep (after three hours), [1].
[766, 767, are alternations of 770, 773. -Hahnemann.] ► In sleep he lies upon the back with the
palm of the hand under the occiput, [1].
► Sleeplessness. ► Sleeplessness, [1]. [770.] ► Sleepless, is unable to fall asleep, and
wakes at night without cause (after fourteen hours), [1]. ► Sleep
restless, with internal uneasiness and increased warmth in the temples, [16a]. ►
Sleep restless, interrupted by dreams, [12].
► He sleeps so lightly that he hears
everything, as for example, the striking of a very distant
clock, [1]. ► Dreams. ►
Dreams while slumbering before midnight, with general heat, without
sweat, [1]. ►
Dreams about the same subject for several hours, [1]. ► *Fixed
ideas in a dream, dreams the whole night of one and the same thing,
[1]. ►
*In his dream he is occupied with thinking of the same object throughout
the whole night; a fixed idea, which does not leave him on waking,
[1]. ►
Dreams in which thoughts is exerted, towards morning (after ten hours), [1]. ►
Dreams at night full of mental exertion and scientific investigations, [1]. [780.]
► Dreams with reflections and
deliberations (after four hours), [1]. ► Dreams
full of sadness; he awakes weeping, [1].
► Dreams at night full of
disappointments, miscarrying plans and efforts, [1]. ► Dreams
of frightful things, [1]. ► Dreamed at night that he had fallen into
the water and cried, [1]. ► Dreamed of being buried alive, for a
month or more, [24]. ► Wakes in the morning from frightful
dreams (after eighteen hours), [1].
► Wakes from the afternoon nap from
frightful dreams (for example, of drowning), (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ►
(She dreams that she was standing, but not firmly; awoke and examined
her bed to see if she was lying safely; also that she had bent herself
quite double in order to be sure not to fall, therewith she was always
in a perspiration all over), [1]. ► Talks as if weeping and complaining in
sleep; inspiration is snoring, with widely opened mouth, sometimes one
eye and sometimes the other is partly open (after ten hours), [1]. [790.]
► Whimpering prattling in sleep; he
tosses about the bed (after two and five hours), [1]. ►
Groaning, grunting, and sighing in sleep (after four hours), [1]. ►
He is suddenly frightened in sleep, cries and expression of complaining,
steps and stamps with the feet, wherewith the face and hands are pale
and cold, [1]. ► Frightful shuddering on falling asleep,
on account of monstrous, fantasies, which appear to him and are still
present after waking, [1]. ► She moves the muscles of her open mouth
in all directions, almost convulsively, during sleep, wherewith the
hands jerk inwards (after two hours), [1].
► Stamps with the feet in sleep
(after four hours), [1]. ► Wakes with a friendly expression (after
twenty hours), [1]. ► Wakes with a morose look, [1]. ► On
waking she stands up suddenly and talks disconnectedly before she
collects herself (after four hours), [1].
► In the morning he is lying upon the
back with the arm over the head so that the palm of the hand is under
the occiput or on the neck, [1].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. [800.]
► Chilliness, especially of the feet,
[1]. ►
(Chilliness and shivering, after eating; anxiety and sweat at night), [1]. ►
He becomes chilly at sunset, [1]. ► He becomes excessively chilly in
moderately cool, though not open air; becomes very cold all over, with
one-sided headache (after four hours), [1].
►► *Shaking chill, with redness of
the face, in the evening,
[1]. ►
Coldness of the whole body, [23]. ► *Coldness and chilliness, especially in the
posterior portions of the body; they
are, however, relieved immediately in a warm room, or by a warm stove
(after six hours), [1]. [The
febrile coldness, relieved by external warmth, is characteristic of
Ignatia. -Hahnemann.] ► Coldness and
chilliness; the pupils are very little dilated, [1]. ►
Constant shivering during the apyrexia, [1].
► Frightful shuddering, in the
morning on waking from a sleep, so light that he hears every stroke of
the clock, [1]. [810.] ►
Dread of open air (after six hours), [1].
► Fever; at first chilliness in the
arms, especially the upper arms, then heat and redness of the cheeks,
and heat of the hands and feet without thirst, while lying upon the
back, [1]. ►
Chilliness on the back and over the arms (after a quarter of an hour), [1]. ►
*Chilliness over the upper arms, with heat of the ears, [1]. ►
*Chilliness about the knees, which are not cold externally, [1]. ►
Shivering chilliness in the face and on the arms, with chattering of the
teeth and goose-flesh, [1]. ► While eating (in the evening) the feet
became chilly, the abdomen was distended (and he had become quite
hoarse), [1]. ► Coldness of the feet and legs, as far up
as above the knees, [1]. ► Shivering and goose-flesh on the thigh
and forearm; afterwards also on the cheeks, immediately, [1]. ► Heat.
► Attacked with heat and palpitation,
in the morning in bed, [1]. [820.] ►
Sensation of general heat, in the morning in bed, with thirst, whereby he does not wish to be uncovered, [1]. ►
Heat from 2 to 5 A.M. (while fully awake) all over, especially on the
hands and soles of the feet, without perspiration, thirst, or feeling of
dryness, [1]. ► He woke at 3 A.M. hot all over, and
vomited the food that had been eaten in the evening, [1]. ►►
*Heat of the whole body, in the afternoon, without thirst, with sensation of dryness of the skin, though with some
perspiration on the face (after eight hours), [1]. ► Nightly
heat, wherewith he desires to uncover himself, and remains uncovered, [1]. ►
Heat of the body, especially during sleep, [1]. ►
External warmth is increased, [1].
►► *External heat and redness
without internal heat, [1].
[The heat of Ignatia is almost always wholly external; also, there is
very seldom thirst with this heat even when it exhibits the character of
intermittent fever; hence Ignatia is able to cure homœopathically and
permanently in the smallest dose, intermittent
fever, which presents thirst during chill, but not during heat.
-Hahnemann.] ► Sighing on account of
external heat, about 2 A.M.; he wishes to be lightly covered (after
fifteen hours), [1]. ► General anxious heat, with slight
perspiration about the nose, at night; there is
the most heat in the hands and feet, which however, he does not uncover,
but constantly wishes to keep them covered, with cold thighs,
palpitation, short breath, and lascivious dreams; mostly when lying upon
one or the other side, less when lying upon the back, [1]. [830.] ► Sudden flushes of heat over the whole body,
[1]. ►
External warmth is intolerable; followed by rapid
respiration, [1]. ► Feeling of orgasm of blood, in the
evening in bed, on which account he is unable to fall asleep, [1]. ►
Afternoon fever; shivering, with colic, followed by weakness and sleep,
with burning heat of the body, [1].
► Heat mounts to the head, without
thirst, [1]. ►
Heat of the face and coldness of the hands and feet, [1]. [803, 813, 835, 837, show the alternations
of leading symptoms, viz.; heat of certain parts, with coldness,
chilliness, or shivering over other parts. -Hahnemann.] ► Heat and burning externally in the nape
or upon one side of the neck, [1].
► Heat of the hands, with shivering
over the body, and anxiety developing into weeping, [1]. ► *Hot knees,
with cold nose (with tickling itching of one knee), (after
three hours), [1]. ► The feet are burning hot, [1]. [840.] ► *One ear and one cheek are red and burning,
[1]. ►
Sweat. ► Feeling as if
perspiration would break out (an anxious sensation of flushing heat),
(after one hour and a half), [1]. ► Feeling as though perspiration would
break out at once over the whole body, which even in part takes place,
in the forenoon, [1]. ► Sudden sensation as though perspiration
would break out over the whole body, which in part was really the case, [16a]. ►
He perspires every morning, if he falls asleep a second time; and if he
then rises he is so weary and exhausted that he would rather lie down
again, [1]. ►
General perspiration, [1]. ► [Copious perspiration], [6]. [After bleeding and antidotes. -Hughes.] ► Cold perspiration, [4]. ► Cold
sweats, [27]. ► Perspiration on the scrotum, [1]. [850.]
► Warm perspiration on the inner
surface of the hands (after thirty-six hours), [1]. ► Warm
perspiration on the inner surface of the hands and fingers (after
sixteen hours), [1]. ► Profuse warm perspiration on the hands,
in the evening (after eight hours), [1].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Immediately after waking, pains
renewed; on waking, confusion, etc., of head; on waking, heaviness of
head; in bed, on waking, aggravated after eating, pressive headache; on
waking, bruised headache; in bed, while lying upon either side, headache
at temples; on waking, pressure in and above eyes; on reading, biting on
margins of lids; on waking, mucus in mouth; in bed, when lying upon
side, pain in upper abdomen; on waking, hollow cough; while lying on
back in bed; pain in small of back; pain in sacrum; pain in wrist; while
slumbering in bed; pain in thumb-joint; on rising, stiffness of knee,
etc.; very early, in bed, disappearing on stretching the limb out, or
pressing against it, cramps in calves; on waking, pain in ankle-bones;
while walking, pain in ankle; stiffness of the feet; very early,
stitches in heel; in bed, pain in ball of heel; on waking, shuddering;
in bed, heat, etc.; from 2 to 5 o’clock, heat; about 2 o’clock, external
heat; on falling asleep a second time, perspiration. ► (Forenoon),
Dullness in forehead; bitter eructations; nausea, etc. ► (Afternoon),
Pressure, etc., in head; pain in occiput; towards evening, dry cough;
heat of body; *fever. ► (Evening),
Before and after lying down, fixed ideas; immediately after lying down,
pains renewed; pressure in the head; while lying in bed, pain in groin;
pressure in chest; in bed, while lying upon either side, pressure in
long bones; after lying down, jerking in muscles of forearm; after lying
down, motion in finger; after lying down in bed, itching; itching about the genitals, etc.; at sunset,
chilly; in bed, orgasm of blood; perspiration on the hands. ► (Night),
Itching here and there; anxiety etc.; heat; anxious heat. ► (Walking in open
air), Submaxillary glands painful; colic in intestines;
pinching in lower abdomen; pain in spine; anxiety. ►
(Taking fresh air), Pain in
hæmorrhoids. ► (Ascending steps), Jerking pain in head; pain
in forehead; stiffness in knee-joint. ►
(In bed), Stitches here and there. ► (Breathing),
Tearing in larynx. ► (When not breathing), Stitches in side of
chest; coarse stitches in side of chest, etc. ►
(Coffee), *The
symptoms. ► (Coughing), Tearing in larynx. ► (After dinner),
Immediately, pains renewed; palpitation. ►
(After eating), Immediately, only on
standing; aggravated on waking, pinching tympanites in abdomen; fulness
in abdomen; chilliness. ► (After eating and drinking), Hiccough. ►
(Expiration), Sticking in
præcordial region. ► (Violent exertion), Pain in forehead. ► (After fruit),
Especially when standing or walking, pinching in abdomen. ► (Inspiration),
Pressure in sternum, etc.; stitches in nipple. ►
(Bright sunlight), Pain in frontal
region. ► (Lying
on side), Tearing headache; pain in neck, etc.; general heat,
etc. ► (Motion),
Dull headache; pain in tibial muscles. ►
(Unpleasant news), Condition
aggravated. ► (Raising eyes), Jerking headache. ► (Reading),
Pressure in brain; headache; pain in anterior molars. ► (Rest),
Sticking in scrotum; pain in shoulder-joint; itching pain in back of
foot. ► (Sitting),
Pain in hæmorrhoids; cramp in soles, etc. ►
(Sitting erect), Pains in occiput. ► (After midday
sleep), Immediately, headache; palpitation. ► (Speaking),
Confusion of head, etc.; headache. ►
(Speaking loud), Headache. ► (Standing),
Pain in hæmorrhoids. ► (Standing erect), Pain in small of back. ► (Standing still),
Cough; during a walk, pain in backs of legs. ►
(Stooping), Headache.
► (Stooping
low down), Headache above orbit. ►
(Swallowing), Tearing in larynx. ► (When not
swallowing), Constrictive sensation in middle of throat;
sticking in throat; sensation of plug in throat; stitches in throat;
sticking in parotid gland. ► (Talking), While walking in open air, headache
in half the brain. ► (Thinking), Confusion of head, etc.; while
walking in open air, headache in half the brain; deeply, palpitation. ► (Thinking of it),
Bruised headache. ► (Tobacco), *The
symptoms. ► (Walking), Pain in root of penis; knee drawn
upward; pain in left leg; pain in tibia, cramp in calves; stiffness of
soles of feet. ► (Writing), Pressure in brain. ► Amelioration. ►
(Morning), On rising, headache
disappears. ► (Bending head forward while sitting), *Pains in occiput. ►
(Eating), Efforts to vomit. ► (Lying on back),
*Tearing headache; tearing headache
in forehead; headache at temples; pains in occiput. ► (Scratching),
Itching. ►
(Sitting still), Reading or writing,
headache; pinching tympanites in abdomen. ►
(Stooping), Headache in forehead. ►
(Swallowing), *Stitches in throat; sticking in throat. ► (Walking),
Pain in hæmorrhoids. ► (External warmth), *Febrile
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