Iris Versicolor
Hering - Condensed Materia Medica · Constantine Hering · 4,887 chars · source ↗
General
IRIS VERSICOLOR. [Iris vers.] Blue Flag. Kitchen. Iridaceae.
Mind
► Low-spirited. ► Fear of approaching illness. ► Easily vexed. ► Cannot fix his mind on his studies. ► Dulness of mental faculties.
Inner Head
► Dull throbbing or shooting in right side of forehead ; nausea ; worse toward evening ; from rest, from cold air, or coughing ; better from moderate motion. ► Tired headache, from mental exhaustion. ► Sick headache, eighth day. Begins with blurred vision.
Outer Head
► Shooting in the temples, mostly the right, with constrictive feeling of the scalp.
Eyes
► Redness of the conjunctiva, as from a cold ; eyes feel dull, with the neuralgia ; burning in the internal canthus, with effusion of tears.
Nose
► Constant sneezing ; sharp pains in centre of temples ; tickling cough ; light, mushy stools.
Face
► Neuralgia involving supra and infra-orbital, superior maxillary and inferior dental nerves ; begins after breakfast every morning, with a stupid, stunning headache ; copious urine ; disposition to stool ; burning at the anus. ► Sunken eyes with blueness around.
Tongue, Etc
► Loss of taste ; flat taste. ► Tongue feels as if scalded ; greasy feeling on arising in morning.
Mouth
► Burning in mouth and fauces, as if on fire. ► Ulcers on the mucous lining of the cheeks. ► Salivation after diphtheria, with swelling of the parotids. ► Saliva taste greasy, slimy.
Desires And Aversions
► Loss of taste and appetite.
Eating And Drinking
► Headache after breakfast ; aching in the stomach before breakfast and after a cold drink. ► Milk sours and is vomited.
Nausea And Vomiting
► Eructations tasteless, or of sour food. ► Nausea and vomiting of sour fluid that excoriates throat ; sour vomit with the headache. ► Vomiting : of food, an hour after eating ; of bile, with great heat and sweat.
Stomach
► Great burning distress in epigastrium ; can hardly endure it. ► Colicky pains every few minutes, in the epigastrium. ► Shocks of pain in the umbilical region up to epigastrium ; nausea, straining and belching of wind. ► Inflammation, burning distress in pancreas, sweetish vomit.
Hypochondria
► Cutting in the region of the liver. ► Pain in right hypochondriac region ; worse from motion. ► Pains above the crest of the ilium, right side, then left.
Abdomen
► Colicky pains, intermittent about the navel, before each spell of vomiting or purging.
Stool, Etc
► Stool : thin, watery, tinged with bile, copious, in a continuous stream ; green, undigested ; mushy, pappy with fetid flatus ; bloody mucus, with great straining ; burning in anus and rectum after stool ; black, with fever, hot sweat, white tongue, severe headache, despondency ; yellow, watery, corrosive.
Urine
► Scanty, red ; burning the length of the urethra after passing it ; clear, profuse.
Male Sexual Organs
► Nocturnal emissions, with amorous dreams ; coldness and itching of the parts.
Pregnancy
► Morning sickness, vomit sour or bitter.
Larynx
► Dry, tickling cough, smarting burning in throat.
Cough
► Short, dry cough, from tickling in the larynx.
Lungs
► Pain in left side of chest as if the ribs were pressing against the lungs.
Upper Limbs
► Pains shift about rapidly in phalanges and metacarpal bones.
Lower Limbs
► Sciatica, sudden shooting, causing lameness ; feels as if (left) was wrenched ; pain and lameness extend to popliteal space ; worse from moderate, better from violent motion.
Limbs In General
► Shifting pains in right hip, both knees (worse right) and in right foot especially, and first joint of great toe.
Position, Etc
► Motion : 3, 18, 33, 34.
Nerves
► Faint, weak knees, trembling ; sunken eyes ; after protracted or severe sero-bilious stools, as in summer diarrhoea.
Time
► Morning : 8, 11, 15, 24.
Evening : 3.
Night : 22, 46. 3 A.M. : 20.
Day : 3.
Temperature And Weather
► Cold air : 3, 13. When covered : 40.
Chill, Fever And Sweat
► Chills, with sleepiness. ► Heat followed by chill, with cold hands and feet. ► Chills over the whole body, even when well covered ; fever with muttering delirium and bilious diarrhoea. ► Skin hot ; dry, black stool. ► Sweat all over, particularly on the groin.
Attacks
► Every morning : 8. Every eighth day : 3.
Sides
► Right : 3, 4, 28, 34, 36.
Right to left : 10.
Below upwards : 17, 24.
Tissues
► Excites the secretion of the glands ; salivary, pancreatic, intestinal, etc. ► Acts powerfully on gastro-intestinal mucous membrane.
Skin
► Pustular eruption on scalp, face, around mouth. ► Irregular patches on knees, elbows and body, with shining scales, the edges slightly raised. ► Herpes zoster on the right side of the body. ► Fine eruption, showing black points after scratching, great itching at night.