Iris Versicolor
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General
IRIS VERSICOLOR Blue Flag
Thyroid, pancreas, salivary, intestinal glands, and gastro-intestinal mucous membrane, are especially affected. Increases the flow of bile. Sick headaches and cholera morbus are a special therapeutic field for its action.
Head
Frontal headache, with nausea.
Scalp feels constricted.
Right temples especially affected.
Sick headache, worse rest; begins with a blur before eyes, after relaxing from a mental strain.
Pustular eruption on scalp.
Ears
Roaring, buzzing, ringing in ears, with deafness. Aural vertigo, with intense noises in ears.
Face
Neuralgia after breakfast, beginning in infra-orbital nerve, and involving whole face.
Throat
Mouth and tongue feel scalded.
Heat and smarting in throat.
Burning.
Profuse flow of saliva; ropy.
Goitre.
Stomach
Burning of whole alimentary canal.
Vomiting, sour bloody, biliary.
Nausea.
Profuse flow of saliva (Merc;
Ipec;
Kali iod).
Deficient appetite.
Abdomen
Liver sore.
Cutting pain.
Flatulent colic.
Diarrhoea; stools watery, with burning at anus and through intestinal canal.
Periodical night diarrhoea, with pain and green discharges.
Constipation (give 30th)
Extremities
Shifting pains.
Sciatica, as if left hip-joint were wrenched.
Pain extends to popliteal space.
Gonorrhoeal rheumatism (use Irisin).
Skin
Herpes zoster, associated with gastric derangements.
Pustular eruptions.
Psoriasis; irregular patches with shining scales.
Eczema, with nightly itching.
Modalities
Worse, in evening and at night, from rest. Better, from continued motion.
Relationship
Antidote: Nux.
Compare
Iris florentina-Orris-root--(delirium, convulsions, and paralysis);
Iris factissima (headache and hernia);
Iris germanica-Blue Garden Iris--(dropsy and freckles);
Iris tenax-I. minor--(dry mouth; deathly sensation at point of stomach, pain in ileo-caecal region; appendicitis.
Pain from adhesions after).
Pancreatinum-a combination of several enzymes--(Indicated in intestinal indigestion; pain an hour or more after eating.
Lienteric diarrhoea.
Dose.--3-5 grains, better not given during the active period of stomachic digestion).
Pepsinum--(Imperfect digestion with pain in gastric region.
Marasmus of children who are fed on artificial foods.
Diarrhoea due to indigestion.
Dose.--3-4 grains) (Diseases of pancreas, gout, diabetes);
Ipec;
Podoph;
Sanguin;
Ars;
Ant cr.
Dose
Tincture to thirtieth potency. Favorable reports from the very highest potencies.