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Feels better on a holiday.
(HL. 2 & 3/94)
Perspires on the face; jealous; averse to fruit.
(Peter CHAPPEL, HL. 2 & 3/94)
Infertility with complete absense of Menses. Grief afternoon.
(Amy ROTHENBERG, HT. April 95)
Tendency to a lot of Sore Throats. Better from eating is not commonly true; it usually hurts. Hard to swallow, even liquids.
(HT. May 95)
For the highly strung, sensitive, bright, precocious child who does well at school, but pushed too hard by ambitious teachers or parents.
(Douglas BORLAND)
Artistic temperament. Tendency to be in a state of hurry and excitement. Erotic, and often misplaced affections. Those “who fall in love” with a partner considered totally unsuitable by family and friends. Dreads people and things approaching. Feels she has done something wrong or something dreadful is going to happen. Sudden, irrational symptoms.
(K.G.PRIESTMAN, BHJ. 4/78)
For itching without a rash.
(Marianne HARLING, BHJ. 4/79)
A pure, gentle and modest woman. She is highly intellectual and very sensitive to injustice and ill-treatment. A woman of this type is sexual, capable of great love and affection, infinitely devoted to the man she loves, very firm in her feelings and quick in her decisions. Advice or slander cannot shake her, she believes in her intuition. The more acute her feelings, the more bitter her pangs of disappointment. If she gets disappointed with the man she married for love, she won’t stage a row, but will try to control herself and to put things in order. Ignatia will do good both to men and women with gentle traits of character.
(G.URETZKI, BHJ. 1/92)
Can be very angry and agressive. Harbor a deep-seated anger towards entire family, do not get along with anyone in the family. They are not really averse to consolation, but need it in a ‘perfect’ way. Many times Ignatiapatients have said, “I have desperately waited for consolation, but could find nobody who could console me in exactly the right way.” They take a defensive and aggressive attitude towards the doctor, a challenging mood. When the physician tries to console them, the words have to be chosen very carefully, or else anger turns on the doctor and he is made to feel like a criminal. They
are delicate and exquisitelysensitive.
(Roger MORRISON, JAIH. 2/1993)
Over-educated refinement, too much cherished in mind and body, fed on Chopin instead of Porridge but capable in its changeable way of great things in the arts.
(E.W. HUBBARD, HG. 6/1978)
It is not necessary for the patients to be hysterical to need Ignatia.
The Key note ‘black-out’ has been helpful in cases with great scarcity of symptoms. My wife had this symptom. The palpitation of her radial artery would make her black out; when once I treated her with Acupuncture, the prick of the needle though painless, threw her into a complete faint. Compassion - if I have a seriously ill patient, she is more worried about the patient than myself. If neighbors’ cats come to our garden to hunt mice or birds, she chases them away like they were a black pestilence. She cannot tolerate cruelty.
Sentimental: A lady said on a starlit night “to see the moon shining through the trees breaks my heart”.
(F.K.BELLAKOSSY, HG. 7/1976)
Case: A little girl of 5, an illegitimate child. Left to a foster-mother at age 1, who also rejected her when she conceived a child of her own. The girl began to have screaming fits. Admitted to a residential school for maladjusted children. She was thin - very coquettish and charming - but also rather stiff and jerky in her movements and unsteady on her feet. She tended to speak in a rather babyish way, and was very obstinate, having extremely fixed and definite ideas about what she would or would not, do. She wanted and needed a great deal of personal attention and seemed to sway between extremes of gaiety and heartbroken weeping. She wet her bed at night, often by day too. Ignatia 10M changed her into a much happier, less petted, willing-to-help child. No bed-wetting or tantrums.
(Susan MECHIE, HG. 2/1974)
Certain experiences can be “hard to swallow”. They stay stuck in the throats like a lump blocking the breath, sometimes even to the point of fainting. In some way, we have felt unloved and abandoned. (DG)
ILLICIUM ANISATUM
Pain in the region of the third rib one or two inches from the sternum, generally on the right side may be useful in a stubborn case of Costochondritis.
(Domenick J. MASIELLO, JAIH. 3/91)
IODOFORM
Keynote - dryness of mucous membranes. Frequent desire to blow nose with no discharge. Dryness causes great discomfort.
(Benjamin GOLDBERG, JAIH. Mar.-Apr.1966)
Violent impulses if forced to be inactive. Compulsive Neurosis; checks and rechecks things; Ritualistic. Patients come with many or scattered lists.
Undescended testes.
Rheumatic attacks preceded by diarrhoea.
(Roger MORRISON, HL. 3/93)
Restless activity, but unproductive. Tremendous energy. Must work, move, run, talk out what comes to his mind. They do not walk, but run everywhere; the child can’t sit down to do its home work,but rather stands and will find excuses to leave the work and go here and there. Adults are busy but unproductive, inefficient; may constantly prepare things or walk up and down without purpose.
If their movement is restricted, they become violent.
Constant feeling of having forgotten something, repeatedly reminding themselves. Reads his prepared notes to the doctor; yet feels has forgotten something. Compulsive Neurosis, fixed ideas.
(Beat SPRING, HL. 2&3/1994)
Manic form of Fear. The Thyroid hyperfunction brings an excitation and restlessness into the cardiac circulation which is clearly reflected in the mental picture. The fear drives to constant movement and activity. The more the patient tries to keep quiet and still, the more the fear increases and drives to action. Action is movement, movement produces warmth. Iodum needs cold and food to help against the fear. But the continual movement exhausts, and eating as activity distracts temporarily from the hectic fear.
The whole circulatory system is constantly on the move. Energy is senselessly wasted in restless Fear. Rapid emaciation and exhaustion are the result. Iodum is worse from warmth and direct sun. In the state of exhaustion constant coldness; the internal energy has been used and burned up. From Mania, Iodum changes to Depression.
(Gerhard KÖHLER, BHJ. 1/1976)
“If I rest I’ll go mad.” Never can stay in bed, even with 105º fever.
Compulsions to violence without cause. Wants to hurt her child.
Melancholy, suspicious, suicidal
(E.W.HUBBARD, JAIH. 5-6/1965)
Minute amounts of the element increase the rate of oxidation of Proteins, Carbohydrates and Fats, and stimulate the secretory activity of the Thyroid, the Gonads, the Adrenals and the Mammary Glands. In greater dosage the opposite effect is produced. The result is glandular Atrophy, irritant lesions of mucous membranes and skin, inflammation and swelling of lymph nodes. Tissue proliferations, with formation of gummatous Nodules or Cholesterol lesions in the walls of arteries, may occur.
The patient’s speech is careful, with attention to accuracy in describing symptoms. Anguished, and expects the worst. May be zealous, literary, over-careful, exigent, intense.
With the characteristic voracious appetite, there may be bouts of Anorexia. A striking characteristic of the element is that its effect may be in one of two opposite directions, e.g. excessive hunger or complete loss of appetite; Hyperplasia or Atrophy of tissues.
Arteriosclerotic Headaches.
Tinnitus and deafness from involvement of the pharyngo-tympanic canal. Pain at root of nose with sinus involvement.
Exhausting Diarrhoea from nervousness or from taking some special food, especially milk.
Pericarditis or Cardiac Hypertrophy, with pulsations and palpitations or least exertion.
Surgings of blood towards the head, Dyspnoea, precordial distress, must change position often in search of ease; heart feels “squeezed by hand” or “gripped in a vice”.
Urinary incontinence in old men, probably from Prostate Hypertrophy. Swelling and induration of Testes, especially right side; Atrophy may supervene, with resulting Impotence.
Chronic Arthritis with enlarged and deformed joints.
In Hyperthyroidism, the high potencies. In Cardiovascular affections, Aurum iodatum or Baryta iodata. In Acne, Boils, etc., Sulphur iodatum. It is said to be inadvisable in Tuberculous Lymphadenitis.
(D.M.GIBSON, HG. 12/1973)
Consider the mental veracity of Iodine. The typical Thyroid, zealous, restless, often literary, feeling that if it stopped its active brain, it would go mad. At the same time, overcareful, exigent, impulsive, a great driver of itself even more than of others.
(E.W.HUBBARD, HG. 6/78)
The individuals burn their fuel too fast, using up more than they take inspite of ferocious appetite. Hypertrophied glands or beginning of Goitre. Enlarged adenoids. At times Hypothyroidism; slow growth in children. (DG)
IPECACUANHA
According to Paragraph 153 of the VI of the Organon of Medicine, the striking, peculiar, unusual, singular (characteristic) signs and symptoms of the disease are to be almost solely kept in view; because it is these symptoms which above all must correspond, if it is to be the one most suitable for cure”.
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KÜNZLI (15) has identified with a black mark the remedies and symptoms especially those proved in his practice; these are identified with the numbers 1,15.
Characteristics of Ipecacuanha:
Psora (7) Diseases of Infants (13), of children. Ailments during pregnancy,in childbed.
Epileptic attacks with bluish face; with screaming (2).
Haemorrhages from all the body outlets; bright red (2-4, 6, 8, 17, 19-21); blood clots (3, 14, 17, 21).
Epistaxis with Whooping cough.
Foamy discharges from mucous membranes (21). Hard discharges from the Canthi (1+15).
Fermented stool (1+15).
Perspiration hot, cold, odor pungent or sour; staining the clothes yellow (1, 7).
Moaning in sleep: eyes open (1+15).
Menses early + copious + bright red + clumpy.
Ailments from Anger, suppressed anger (2, 12); (Ars., Chin., Chinin.)
Copper fumes agg., Narcotics agg.
Suppression of menses (2), skin eruptions; Want of reaction
Nausea, constant, in all ailments (17, 19-21) before Headache (20); with sunken eyes, blue rings, pale face,
Twitching of Face and Lips (20).
Dyspnoea accompanies most of the ailments (21); during Menses; during haemorrhages (20).
Striking symptoms:
1. Symptom striking as such:
Sees a red halo (1+15).
Children put their finger in the mouth.
2. by modalities:
vomiting of mucus, food, from coughing (1+15).
vomiting in whooping cough (15).
vomiting agg.
Weakness after Menses unrelated to loss of blood.
Abdominal pain in pregnancy (1+15).
Diarrhoea from emotional excitement (2).
during teething (1+15).
Ineffectual urging for urination.
Cough during teething (7+15).
Joint pains only in Chill stage.
Chill stage not better in open warmth; agg. by warm covering; agg. in warm room.
Damp weather am. (2, 7)/Damp-warm weather agg.
Ailments in sultry weather
3. by localisation:
One side of the face pale/another red, one cold/another hot. Biliary colic (1+15) one hand cold/another hot. One foot cold/another hot. .
Right side
4. by Sensations: No symptoms.
5. by Extension:
Headache extends to Tongue; to root of Tooth (15).
Cutting in abdomen from left to right; in Uterus(21).
Change of side from left to right (7).
6. by Beginning and End, No symptoms.
7. by combination of contrary symptoms:
Heat on head with cold hands, feet, in chill stage warmth is not tolerated.
Face is red in chill stage, pale during hot stage.
Want of vital heat, but warmth ag. (7)
8. by Periodicity:
Ailments at the same hour (6, 17); every second day (6, 7, 17); Agg. in winter (1, 7)
9. by absence of expected symptoms:
Clean tongue in stomach symptoms (17, 19, 20)
Rattling respiration without expectoration (21)
Fever without chill, thirstless in fever (1+15)
(H.BARTHEL, Deutsches Jl. fur Homöopathie, 1982)
A key anti-septic remedy, whether the Spasms are in the digestive system or of a Broncho-pulmonary nature, during attack of Asthma. (DG)