IGNATIA byCOMMENTATORS

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IGNATIA by COMMENTATORS
DR. Bipin S. Jain M.D.
(Hom) DIRECTOR MALAD P.G. CENTRE ICR - MUMBAI
Acknowledgement- Dept. of
Materia Medica MLDMHI
DR.YOGESH D. NITURKAR DR. RAHUL CHOUGULE
M.D. PART II
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Kent

• Gentle, sensitive, fine fibred, refined, highly
  educated, overwrought women with nervous
  complaints.
• But a woman, when over wrought and overexcited
  and emotional, will do things that she herself
  cannot account for.
• She will do things as if she were crazy.
• Will do things she regrets, while the hysteric
  is always glad of it.
• No matter how much foolishness there is in it
  she has only made an exhibition that she is
  proud.

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Clarke

• In order to obtain a proper understanding of the
  power and place of Ignatia it is necessary to
  get rid of two prevalent erroneous ideas. The
  first of these is that Ign. is a remedy for
  hysteria and nothing else, and the second is
  that it is the only remedy ever required in
  cases of hysteria
• Sadness and concentrated sorrow, with sighing.
• Irresolution, anxious to do now this, now
  that.
• Strong disposition to be frightened.
• Morose and discontented humor, and involuntary
  reflections on painful and disagreeable things.
• Alternation of foolish gaiety and tearful
  sadness

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• Love of solitude
• 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
• Fearfulness, timidity.
• Anger, followed by quiet grief and sorrow.
• Laconic speech.
• Great weakness of memory.

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M. L. Tyler
A great remedy of moods and contradictions of
mental stress and strain, connected with shock,
bereavement, disappointment or distress, which
have spasmodically and completely unhinged
judgement and self-control.
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Boericke

• Women of sensitive, easily excited nature,
  dark, mild disposition, quick to perceive,
  rapid in execution.
• Rapid change of mental and physical
  condition, opposite to each other.
• Alert, nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling
  patients who suffer acutely in mind or body, at
  the same time made worse by drinking coffee
• EFFECTS OF GRIEF and worry.
• Changeable mood introspective silently
  brooding.
• Melancholic, sad, tearful.
• Not communicative.
• SIGHING AND SOBBING.
• After shocks, grief, disappointment.

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GUERNSEY
Anyone suffering from suppressed or deep
grief, with long drawn, sighs, much sobbing,
sleep, entirely absorbed in grief for recent
grief as at the loss of a friend affection of
the mind in general, particularly if actuated
by grief sadness hopelessness
hysterical variableness fantastic illusions.
Worse From mental affections from anger
from anger with fright, anger with silent
grief from anxiety from anxiety with sorrow
unhappy love mortifications caused by
offence from exertion of the mind.
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Nash E B

• Remedy of paradoxicalities.
• Sad, sighing, changeable, moody disposition
  
• Twitching or spasms, or convulsions from
  exciting or depressing emotions, fright,
  etc.
• Adapted to emotional, hysterical subjects

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Pulford

• Fears one will never sleep again
• Laughs involuntarily
• Oversensitive, especially after suppressed
  grief.
• Yielding, like Puls.
• Anger at least blame, then anger at oneself.
• Melancholy, sits in a vacant stare.
• Laughing and crying, becoming spasmodic, ending
  in screams, even spasms of chest and blue face.

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FARRINGTON
-The Ignatia patient nurses her sorrows, keeping
them from others. -We find Ignatia indicated in
nervous women who are burdened with grief,
particularly when they dwell upon their troubles
in secret. -Such cases find relief in Ignatia,
especially when of recent origin. -We have also
globus hystericus or feeling as if a ball ere
rising in the throat. This is often relieved by
belching, while drinking water causes an
aggravation of the convulsive action.
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DR. R. DOCKX DR. G. KOKELENBERG
Ignatia has rashness abruptness. Anger can go
on to hysteria, it will soon over. The anger is
accompanied by physical symptoms, for instance a
lump in throat or palpitation from anger or
vexation. They will have short flare up anger,
mostly due to emotional frustration, frustrated
love for instance. The sensitivity to suffer from
romantic, emotional love disappointments. They
have fits of anger, fits of laughing fits of
weeping. They are usually looking for the perfect
relation. Their weakness lies in relational
problems. They can very cross when they suffer
an illness, anger or pain.
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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.
• Unhappy love. Inward weeping enjoys being sad
• Desire to be alone.
• Everything irks her.
• Intolerant of contradiction
• Capricious.

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• Delicately conscientious.
• Fear of thieves of trifles, of things coming
  near, robbers.
• Faints easily
• Hurried during menses
• Looks about the bed as if to find something.
• Delights to bring on her fits and produce a
  scare or a scene.
• Thinks she has neglected her duty.

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• Vithoulkas
• Changing of moods
• Demands nothing from others
• Symptoms starts after severance of love
  affair/death

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• Eventually withdraws inside, sulks, over
  protection of herself, becomes critical
• A state of Ignatia where everything is
  suppressed
• Doesnt talk
• May go into thoughts of suicide

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Whitmont

• Ignatias impatience springs from an emotional
  confusion
• She is caught up in contradictory emotions or of
  emotions that conflict with the demands of reality

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Funeral Remedy
CATHERINE COULTER

• It is known as the funeral remedy ,being one of
  the most frequently administered to those
  overwhelmed by loss of loved one
• Person makes a supreme effort to appear carefree
  , as to not burden others with her sorrows. Thus,
  also indicated for the overtly cheerful one as
  well as the reserved non-communicating one.
  Occasionally, the patient is less willing than
  unable to communicate her sorrow.
• Longing for ones native country.

Burdening Grief
Homesickness
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Delicate Conscience

• Collapse of an ideal usually forces an
  individual to reconstruct forces of reality
  this the person finds nearly impossible. She
  cant pick up the pieces of her crumbled dreams.
  She displays the intensity of feelings without
  the intellectual energy to sublimate it or
  transmute.
• Has self-blame from having failed someone,
  thinks she has failed some duty and reproaches
  herself mercilessly.The individual harbors high
  expectations of self wants to excel in
  everything.Keeps dwelling on it.
• She believes that love can change and transform
  people...it does , but only for a while. Idealism
  is shattered when the loved one slips back into
  his old patterns of behavior.

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Emotional Roller -Coaster
Phillip Bailey

• All emotions are felt with an intensity not
  seen in any other type
• Shes unable to control them.. Emotions as the
  word suggests are moving transient. She too
  appears to be very changeable..
• She becomes the emotion..