St. Ignatius Bean
- Produces a marked hyperaesthesia of all the senses, and a tendency to clonic spasms.
- Mentally, the emotional element is uppermost, and co-ordination 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 (Oxal ac).
- 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 (Aloe; Sang).
- 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 haemorrhoids during cough.
- Diarrhoea from fright.
- Stitches from anus deep into rectum.
- Haemorrhage and pain; worse when stool is loose.
- Pressure as of a sharp instrument from within outward.
Urine
- Profuse, watery (Phos 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 tendo-Achillis 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 draught 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 phos; Sep; Cimicif.
- Panacea arvensis--Poor man's Mercury--(Sensitiveness over gastric region with hunger but an aversion to food).
- Complementary: Nat mur.
- Incompatible: Coffea; Nux; Tabac.
- Antidotes: Puls; Cham; Cocc.
Dose
- Sixth, to 200th potency.
