Ignatia And Aurum: Some Points
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2002 Mar / Apr VOL 4 NO 2.
Dr Yogita Bhanushali
'Ign / Aur

IGNATIA:
Hering’s Guiding Symptoms

• Ill effects from hearing bad news.
• Melancholia after great grief and much domestic trouble, complete sleeplessness, suicidal thoughts and desire to escape.
• After fright disturbed, introspective, taciturn, insomnia and great restlessness and anorexia.
• Anxiety as though something terrible had happened, cannot speak because of it; hurry, fearfulness, terror alternating with irresolution & inertness.
• Unusual tendency to be frightened.
• Single jerks of limbs, when falling asleep.

Phatak Materia Medica

• Nervous system is affected causing spasmodic effects, often violent with rigidity, twitching and tremors.
• It is adapted to nervous temperament esp women of sensitive, easily excited nature, mild disposition, quick to perceive and rapid in execution.
• Jerks through the whole body.
• Ill effects of grief, fright, worry, disappointed love.
• Oversensitive and nervous, highly emotional, moody.
• Brooding grief with involuntary sighing.
• Inward weeping, enjoys being sad. Angry with herself. Everything irks her.
• Intolerant of contradiction; of reprimands.
• Introspective.

Catherine R Coulter

• The classic role of Ignatia is however, to counteract "morbid states which are produced by occurrences that cause grief".
• Ignatia’s emotional state finds physical expression in a feeling of suffocation and restriction. The pt complains of lack of air or inability to breathe and wants to loosen or throw off the clothing that oppresses him.

AURUM-MET: A Study of a suicidal remedy, to make the contrast of Ign clear.
Kent

• In Aurum all the affections, natural to healthy man, are perverted. So great in extent is this that one of the fundamental loves, which is the love of living, self-protection, is perverted, and he loathes life, is weary of life, longs to die and seeks methods to commit suicide.
• Self-condemnation, continual self-reproach, self-criticism, a constant looking into self; she does nothing right, everything is wrong, nothing will succeed, hopelessness.
• He is wrong, is wholly evil, has sinned away his day of grace, is noteworthy of salvation- this is the train of thought that runs constantly through his mind.

• Disgust of life, suicidal tendency
• Despondent melancholy, hopelessness.
• Great anguish increasing into self-destruction.
• Anxious palpitation and desire to commit suicide.
• Peevish and vehement; least contradiction excites wrath. Moroseness, indisposed to talk.
• Heat and anger, quite forgets himself with quarrelling.Sulky.
• Extreme tightness: difficulty of breathing at night.
• Tightness of chest, also when sitting and not moving: always takes a deep breath and cannot get enough air.
• Great weight on chest: esp. heavy weight on sternum.
• Violent beating of heart.
• Frightful dreams at night.

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