DR KESSLER’S HOMEOPATHY BOOK

IGNATIA AMARA
Strychnos ignatii
The bitter fruit has the size of a lemon. They are yellow and hard berries. In the meat they contain up to 40
Ignatius beans (= seedsn) which are covered with light hairs.The seeds are hard as stones (Philippines). Three
quarters of active ingredients is the cramp venom Strychnin. Nux vomica contains only half as much Strychnin.
IDEA: Deep grief (Phos ac, Nat mur)
Fugacity of symptoms
e.g. blood pressure crisis and normal data after a short time. Hands ice cold ,vascular spasms!
This substance contains more Strychnine than Nux vomica
After grief and worries, sighing, feeling of asphyxiation, globus hystericus.
Hysteria, swollowing, fear, rectum prolapse Schlucken, Furcht, Rektumprolaps, clavus,
sensation of sinking down, marked remedy for females
Heart disease. The superficial and erratic character of its symptoms is most characteristic.
Produces a marked hyperaesthenia of all the senses, and a tendency to clonic spasms.
Mentally, emotional element is most marked.
It is especially adapted to the nervous temperament - 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. Great contradictions. Alert, nervous,
apprehensive, rigid, trembling patients who suffer acutely in mind or body.
Worse by drinking coffee. Cannot bear tobacco. Pain is small, circumscribed spots ( Oxal-ac.)
Hiccough and hysterical vomiting.
Black Plague.
BETTER: while eating, change of position.
WORSE: in the morning, open air, after meals, coffee, smoking, liquids, external warmth.