(St. Ignatius Bean)
Produces a marked hyperesthenia of all the senses,
and a tendency to clonic spasms. Mentally, the emotional element is
uppermost, and coordination of function is interfered with. Hence, it
is one of the chief remedies for hysteria. 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, at the same time made worse by drinking coffee. The
superficial and erratic character of its symptoms is most
characteristic. Effects of grief and worry. Cannot bear tobacco.
Pain is small, circumscribed spots. The plague. Hiccough and
hysterical vomiting. | ||
| Mind.
Changeable mood; introspective; silently brooding. Melancholic, sad,
tearful. Not communicative. Sighing and sobbing. After shocks,
grief, disappointment. | ||
| Head. Feels
hollow, 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 or smelling
tobacco, inclines head forward. | ||
| Eyes.
Asthenopia, with spasms of lids and neuralgic pain about eyes. [Nat-m.] Flickering zigzags. | ||
| Face.
Twitching of muscles of face and lips. Changes color when at
rest. | ||
| Mouth. Sour
taste. Easily bites inside of cheeks. Constantly full of saliva.
Toothache; worse after drinking coffee and smoking. | ||
| Throat. Feeling
of a lump in throat that 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. [Hep.] Tonsils inflamed, swollen, with small
ulcers. Follicular tonsillitis. | ||
| Stomach. Sour
eructation. All-gone feeling in stomach; much flatulence; hiccough.
Cramps in stomach; worse slightest contact. Averse to ordinary diet; longs
for great variety of indigestible articles. Craving for acid things.
Sinking in stomach, relieved by taking a deep breath. | ||
| Abdomen.
Rumbling in bowels. Weak feeling in upper abdomen. Throbbing in abdomen.
Colicky, griping pains in one or both sides of abdomen. | ||
| Rectum. 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. | ||
| Urine. Profuse,
watery. [Ph-ac.] | ||
| Respiratory.
Dry, spasmodic cough in quick successive shocks. Spasm of glottis. [Calc.] Reflex coughs. Coughing increases the desire to
cough. Much sighing. Hollow spasmodic cough, worse in the evening,
little expectoration, leaving pain in trachea. | ||
| Female. Menses,
black, too early, too profuse, or scanty. During menses great
languor, with spasmodic pains in stomach and abdomen. Feminine sexual
frigidity. Suppression from grief. | ||
| Extremities.
Jerking of limbs. Pain in Achilles tendon and calf. Ulcerative pain in
soles. | ||
| Sleep. Very
light. Jerking of limbs on going to sleep. Insomnia from grief, cares, with
itching of arms and violent yawning. Dreams continuing a long time;
troubling him. | ||
| Fever. Chill,
with thirst; not relieved by external heat. During fever, itching;
nettle rash all over body. | ||
| Skin. Itching,
nettle rash. Very sensitive to draft of air. Excoriation, especially
around vagina and mouth. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, in the morning, open air, after meals, coffee,
smoking, liquids, external warmth. Better, while eating, change of
position. | ||
| Relationship.
Compare: Zinc.; Kali-p.; Sep.; Cimic. Complementary: Nat-m. Incompatible: Coff.; Nux-v.; Tab. Antidote: Puls.; Cham.; Cocc. | ||
| Dose. Sixth, to
two hundredth potency. |