Materia Medica de A a Z

IRIS VERSICOLOR (iris)

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; Ip; Kali-i). 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-v.

Compare: Iris florentina (Iris-fl) - Orris-root — (delirium, convulsions, and paralysis); Iris factissima (Iris-fa) (headache and hernia); Iris germanica (Iris-g) - Blue Garden Iris — (dropsy and freckles); Iris tenax-I. minor (Iris-t) — (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); Ip; Podo; Sanguin (Sang); Ars; Ant-c.

Dose

Tincture to thirtieth potency. Favorable reports from the very highest potencies.