Iris versicolor iris
General
- 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
- Tincture to thirtieth potency. Favorable reports from the very highest potencies.