IGNATIA AMARA

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Hyperesthesia of all senses
  • Tendency to clonic spasms
  • Hysteria
  • Nervous temperament
  • Sensitive nature
  • Easily excited
  • Dark disposition
  • Mild disposition
  • Quick to perceive
  • Rapid in execution
  • Rapid change of mental and physical condition
  • Great contradictions
  • Alert
  • Apprehensive
  • Rigid
  • Trembling
  • Worse by coffee
  • Superficial symptoms
  • Erratic symptoms
  • Effects of grief
  • Effects of worry
  • Cannot bear tobacco
  • Pain in small circumscribed spots
  • Hiccough
  • Hysterical vomiting
  • Changeable mood
  • Introspective
  • Silently brooding
  • Melancholic
  • Sad
  • Tearful
  • Not communicative
  • Sighing
  • Sobbing
  • After shocks
  • Disappointment
  • Head feels hollow
  • Head feels heavy
  • Worse stooping
  • Headache as if a nail were driven out through the side
  • Cramp-like pain over root of nose
  • Congestive headaches following anger or grief
  • Worse smoking
  • Worse smelling tobacco
  • Inclines head forward
  • Asthenopia
  • Spasms of lids
  • Neuralgic pain about eyes
  • Flickering zigzags
  • Twitching of muscles of face
  • Twitching of lips
  • Changes color when at rest
  • Sour taste
  • Easily bites inside of cheeks
  • Constantly full of saliva
  • Toothache
  • Worse after drinking coffee
  • Worse after smoking
  • Feeling of a lump in throat
  • Cannot be swallowed
  • Tendency to choke
  • Globus hystericus
  • Sore throat
  • Stitches when not swallowing
  • Better eating something solid
  • Stitches between acts of swallowing
  • Stitches extend to ear
  • Tonsils inflamed
  • Tonsils swollen
  • Small ulcers in throat
  • Follicular tonsillitus
  • Sour eructation
  • All-gone feeling in stomach
  • Much flatulence
  • Cramps in stomach
  • Worse slightest contact of stomach
  • Averse to ordinary diet
  • Longs for great variety of indigestible articles
  • Craving for acid things
  • Sinking in stomach
  • Relieved by taking a deep breath
  • Rumbling in bowels
  • Weak feeling in upper abdomen
  • Throbbing in abdomen
  • Colicky griping pains in abdomen
  • Itching and stitching up the rectum
  • Prolapse
  • Stools pass with difficulty
  • Painful constriction of anus after stool
  • Stitches in hemorrhoids during cough
  • Diarrhea from fright
  • Stitches from anus deep into rectum
  • Hemorrhage and pain
  • Worse when stool is loose
  • Pressure as of a sharp instrument from within outward
  • Profuse watery urine
  • Dry spasmodic cough
  • Cough in quick successive shocks
  • Spasm of glottis
  • Reflex coughs
  • Coughing increases the desire to cough
  • Much sighing
  • Hollow spasmodic cough
  • Worse in the evening
  • Little expectoration
  • Pain in trachea
  • Menses black
  • Menses too early
  • Menses too profuse
  • Menses scanty
  • Great languor during menses
  • Spasmodic pains in stomach during menses
  • Spasmodic pains in abdomen during menses
  • Feminine sexual frigidity
  • Suppression from grief
  • Jerking of limbs
  • Pain in tendo-Achillis
  • Pain in calf
  • Ulcerative pain in soles
  • Very light sleep
  • Jerking of limbs on going to sleep
  • Insomnia from grief
  • Insomnia from cares
  • Itching of arms
  • Violent yawning
  • Dreams continuing a long time
  • Troubling dreams
  • Chill with thirst
  • Not relieved by external heat
  • Itching during fever
  • Nettle-rash all over body
  • Itching skin
  • Nettle-rash skin
  • Very sensitive to draught of air
  • Excoriation especially around vagina
  • Excoriation especially around mouth

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