Ignatia

Characteristic symptoms

Principal sphere of action in the nervous system, especially spinal nerves, with particular reference to genital system, in most disorders of the reflex system of nerves, as long as there are no important changes in the circulation. Pains are borne in dull resignation, patients lie quietly ; excessive sensitiveness, hyperaesthesia of the nerves, marked impressionability; spinal irritation, pains increased by the touch ; distensive or constrictive sensation in the cavities of the body ; pains in the joints, as if luxated ; contusive and bruised pain, especially in the periosteum of long bones, particularly when lying on one side and going off in a recumbent position ; tingling in the limbs, as if gone to sleep ; aggravation and renewal of the pains by smoking, coffee, brandy, noise, after meals, in the evening in bed and in the morning after rising; improvement by change of position, by lying on the back or on the painful part ; pressure as from a hard body, or cutting pains as from knives ; fainting tits ; opisthotonos with blue red face, spasms of the fauces, suffocative fits, loss of consciousness, foam at the mouth ; sore places on the skin ; a good deal of yawning, as if the lower jaw were dislocated ; itching nettlerash ; heavy deep sleep, which does not refresh ; restless night-sleep, with moaning, t walking, twitching of the limbs ; dreams with fixed ideas, continuing after waking up ; chilliness, with renewal of the pains ; heat and redness externally, with intolerance of warmth ; whining, melancholy and internal grief" with moaning ; changeable mood ; sensitiveness of feeling ; obstinate and irritable ; cannot bear being contradicted ; headache, as if the temples would be pressed out, as if the head would burst ; photophobia ; difficulty of hearing the human voice ; change of paleness and redness of the face, or sunken pale face with blue borders around the eyes ; redness and burning heat of only one cheek ; bites his tongue easily when chewing or talking ; increased secretion of saliva ; sensation as if one swallowed over a lump, causing a crackling noise; stitches and sensation as of a lump in the throat, almost only between the acts of deglutition ; aversion against eating, especially meat and warm food ; pains after eating and smoking tobacco ; singultus after eating and drinking ; spasmodic pains in bowels, with flatulency ; constipation, with much urging and disposition of the rectum to protrude ; bloody mucous diarrhœa ; ascarides ; sexual debility, but much desire ; uterine spasms, with lancinating and labor-like constriction ; irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhœa, originating in irritation of the nervous system without uterine congestion ; spasmodic pains of ovaries, with contracted sensation of the stomach ; constriction of the chest and throat, with dry cough.