This treatise is a passage from the book “The Psychological Meaning of Homeopathic Remedies” regarding Ignatia amara. The double-volume compendium was written by Antonie Peppler, the founder of Creative Homeopathy, who psychologically analyzed the most meaningful remedies and the mental imprints behind common illnesses.
Ignatia amara in homeopathy
Typical Indications of Ignatia amara; ign; St. Ignatius Bean
- spastic cephalalgia = spastic headache
- sensation of lump in throat
- laughing/crying cramps
- melancholia = depression
- biting the tongue
Key Symptoms
| the remedy of great contradictions ‹sa› | ›› an attempt to set oneself apart from those dominating |
| moody ‹sa› | ›› doesn’t want to act against himself any longer |
| long-concentrated grief ‹sa› | ›› is defiant against necessary changes |
| oversensitive to pain ‹sn› | ›› has acted decidedly against his own interests |
Additional Selected Symptoms
| ailments after mortification ‹sk› | ›› doesn’t give himself enough importance |
| brooding ‹sk› | ›› seeks a way out |
| hysteria ‹sk› | ›› is helpless because he feels no one understands him |
| involuntarily laughing ‹sk› | ›› lets himself be pressured by others into commitments |
| ailments from disappointed love ‹sk› | ›› cannot stand himself and has committed himself to a wrong goal |
| sighing ‹sk› | ›› longs for change without having to do something for it |
| quarrelsome ‹sk› | ›› compensates for suppressed feelings |
| is intolerant of contradiction ‹sk› | ›› is not really behind the things he represents |
| headache, from grief ‹sk› | ›› seeks for rational solutions and for being able to express his needs |
| convulsions, after punishment ‹ss› | ›› holds back revenge |
| contradictory and alternating states ‹sk› | ›› is only active for others and doesn’t know anymore whom he should follow |
| burning corns ‹sk› | ›› something is happening that prevents him from seeing his own path and traveling it |
| biting cheek when talking or chewing ‹sk› | ›› because he feels suppressed, he reworks and articulates everything only so that he doesn’t have to show his true face |
| irritation in air passages increases the more one coughs ‹sk› | ›› the stronger he demands recognition, the angrier he gets over the form of communication |
| refuses to eat ‹sk› | ›› cannot process any further information |
The psychology of Ignatia amara
Actual Life Situation
The paradox. Through great suppression, an emotion becomes its opposite. Hysterical grief is the release of an emotional blockage. Doing the opposite of that which one would like to do. Smiling instead of attacking the others, which is what the actual inner impulse is.
Remedy Message (high potency)
“Show your real feelings and hurts!”
Message of Ignatia amara
Condition After Taking Ignatia amara
After Ignatia amara the old hurts become more visible (arn, camph) or threatening (nux-m), against which the personality is defiant (cham). The real feelings (nux-v) are hidden behind a false harmony (sep) or the helper syndrome (cocc)
“Through great suppression an emotion becomes its opposite.”
Corresponding imprint of Ignatia amara
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