Homoeopathy — Page 395
Ignatia 395 IGNATIA Ignatia is an excellent treatment for depression. Women who have the constitution of Ignatia are very sensitive in nature. Although extremely pleasant and affable, they are very frail and tender. They become easily stricken with grief, which affects their mind, resulting in various diseases and physical ailments. It is not surprising that women who have the nature of Ignatia become mentally ill due to grief. Sometimes, such a patient becomes hysterical. Under these circumstances, the patient should be treated with Ignatia. One obvious symptom of Ignatia is that the patient cannot drink coffee. Since the patient’s mind is already very sensitive and delicately tuned, coffee amplifies her symptoms. It becomes extremely difficult for the patient to take even one or two sips of coffee. When mentally agitated, the patient cannot express her anger openly. Instead, she torments herself in solitude or becomes extremely sallow. Staphysagria patients also tend to keep their anger suppressed. When the condition becomes out of control, this results in physical ailments. Similar is the case in Ignatia. If an Ignatia patient is taunted or laughed at in a social gathering, she will quietly tolerate it. But when she returns home, she will develop severe headache, mental anguish and restlessness. In this situation, a single dose of Ignatia will relieve her anger and save her from the ill effects of her suppressed emotions. In Ignatia, the patient feels the grief of the death of a child or a dear one very strongly , resulting in far reaching bad effects on the health of the person. Ignatia can be very useful to avert this from happening. In my experience, I have found Ignatia to be very useful in the treatment of recent grief or bereavement , as well as to prevent its long lasting ill effects. However, if the ill effects have already been well established, then Ignatia is of no use. Under these circumstances, Ambra Grisea, Silicea and Natrum Mur will prove to be more effective. Sometimes the woman quivers or may shudder when nervous. This may lead to convulsions followed by unconsciousness like hysteria. This unconsciousness is not a sign of epilepsy but a sign of their nervous weakness. This unconsciousness, superficially resembling