Iris versicolor
iris-verBlue 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.
Iris versicolor — Materia Medica
Iris versicolor — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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).
Iris versicolor — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Sick headache, of gastric or hepatic origin, always beginning with a blur, before eyes. Dull throbbing or shooting, right forehead : nausea :— Worse : evening, rest, cold air, coughing. Better from moderate motion. Sharp cutting pains of short duration, changing often. Mouth and tongue feel as though scalded. Profuse flow of saliva. Nausea and vomiting ; of sour food ; whole person smells sour ; of thin, watery fluid of exceedingly sour taste. Watery stool. Anus feels on fire: disposition to strain atid bear down : great burning in anus. Anus feels sore : severe burning in anus after stool. Anus feels sore, or as if sharp points were sticking in it. Herpes zoster on right side of body. Cu rious, or Italic Symptoms Habitual headache ; violent throbbing on either side frontal protuberance : worse evening ; after exertion. Chronic frontal headache : worse sitting down, studying, sewing. Better standing up or working. Headache with violent pains over eye, supra-orbital region, only on one side at a time. Severe pain, through temples and over eyes, with vertigo, nausea and vomiting. Violent stunning headache with facial neuralgia, followed by copious, limpid urine and vomiting. Headache ; vomits sweetish mucus, occasionally with a trace of bile. Headache reflex from acid stomach. Tinea capitis : whole top of head one complete scab, yellow matter oozing from under crust which has matted hair : left ear covered with eruption. Gathers every two weeks and discharges a yellow-greenish pus.
Iris versicolor — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
(Blue Flag) Iris is not one of the great polycrests, drugs of “ many ”— almost universal—" uses ”, but it has a very definite place in our Materia Medica which no other drug fills. It is one of our greatest remedies in bilious attacks and sick headaches ; in liver troubles ; in some skin troubles ; is a remedy that affects the pancreas : but everywhere it has very definite peculiarities of action, which should make its prescribing easy. It is one of the very precious drugs we have inherited from the North American Indians. What should we do without, for example, Baptisia, Gelsemium, Viburnum op., Cauhphylum ? Iris affects the whole alimentary canal. It has burning distress in the stomach : the vomit is extremely sour and bums stomach, mouth, fauces, oesophagus. Burning distress not only in stomach but pancreas. In diarrhoea, the stools are watery, and bum the anus, which feels on fire. It affects the liver, increasing, or tending towards deficiency of bile, with jaundice. From regurgitation of bile, bilious attacks occur, with terrible headaches and vomiting of bile—the typical recurrent bilious attacks which make life a burden, and induce dread and uncertainty into the daily routine. Even the urine bums the whole length of the urethra. As Boger succinctly expresses it, it stands for " rapid elimination : with sour, burning, acrid excretions The mouth is greasy, feels burnt or scalded : while profuse ropy saliva may hang down from lips to floor, reminding one nf Kali bich. With all these burning and acrid secretions, there is of course pain : cramps, colics, spasms. ” Violent ” pains : over eyes, in epigastrium : fearful cramps :—cuttings, shootings, burnings, gripings.
Iris versicolor — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Periodically: Weekly. 2-3 A.M. Spring and fall. After midnight. Mental exhaustion. Hot weather.
Iris versicolor — modalities better · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Gentle motion.
Iris versicolor — head · William Boericke
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.
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