01/04/2026
A great post. I used this remedy on my 2 year old granddaughter recently when she was in a hysterical pattern of crying for what seemed no reason at all and it worked like a dream đź’—
IGNATIA: THE REMEDY THAT MAKES NO SENSE
One of the things I remember from my student days is my teacher describing Ignatia Amara's picture as reactions that make no sense or are even the opposite of what is expected. A good example is when someone laughs on hearing really bad news, like somebody's death. This is a nervous response, not a sign that the person is so heartless as to feel happy about somebody dying.
Another peculiarity of Ignatia is the randomness of symptoms, with seemingly no cause. Take the case of a child who cannot sleep, no matter what. After all the usual remedies have been tried and failed, all the bed time routines tested, you may find that Ignatia finally puts the child to sleep. But why?
We are told that Ignatia is the "grief remedy" and that is not an emotion we associate with young children necessarily, unless there is an obvious cause. We think: "You are well fed, loved, have a good life, what's the problem?"
Young children cannot verbalise anxiety or sadness, they can only show us through behaviour. Ignatia is not just about grief, it is about "shock" and this is a very relative concept: what's shocking for one is a perfectly forgettable event for another individual: when my daughter was little, she got on really well with our ex neighbours, a lovely family; that was until the husband decided to grow a beard and my daughter freaked out and would run away screaming every time she saw him. It sounds funny but it sure was not funny to her at the time. This is why Ignatia will work even though we don't know why and that's fine, we cannot know everything.