Iris versicolor

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

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Keynotes

Affections accompanied by rapid elimination. Sour, acrid, BURNING excretions. Oily nose, greasy taste and fatty stool. .................... Headache, with diarrhœa. Mouth feels greasy, burnt or scalded. Tongue feels cold. Sweet taste. Profuse ropy saliva. Sour-bitter belching (Nux-v.). Continuous nausea, bitter, acrid vomiting, urging to stool and profuse urine, with periodic visual disturbances, blindness, hemiopia, etc., accompany ophthalmic migraine (r); involving teeth. BILIOUS, WATERY, SOUR OR ACRID VOMITUS, WITH BURNING. Burning; < along whole digestive tract; not > by cold drinks. Sore over liver. BILIOUS, ACRID, WATERY STOOLS; BURN LIKE FIRE. Painless cholera morbus. Diabetes. Goitre. Zoster (r). The hip feels wrenched out. Shooting laming pains along limb. Sciatica (l).

Worse

Periodically: Weekly. 2-3 A.M. Spring and fall. After midnight. Mental exhaustion. Hot weather.

Better

Gentle motion.

Region

GLANDS: DIGESTIVE TRACT. LIVER. Pancreas. Right side. Nerves.

Relationships

Related: Ars. Merc. Pho.

What the other books say about Iris versicolor

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Iris versicolor in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Iris versicolor — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/iris-versicolor. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.