Iris Versicolor iris.

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

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

Gentle motion.

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).

Related: Ars. Merc. Pho.

Very sick headaches, with vomiting of a sweetish substance; in some fevers where there is great stomach derangement and great prostration.

Sick headache, resulting from gastrohepatic derangement; dull, heavy, or throbbing headache, with vomiting of food and bile. Mouth and tongue feel as though they had been scalded.

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.

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.

Roaring, buzzing, ringing in ears, with deafness. Aural vertigo, with intense noises in ears.

Neuralgia after breakfast, beginning in infra-orbital nerve, and involving whole face.

Mouth and tongue feel scalded. Heat and smarting in throat. Burning. Profuse flow of saliva; ropy. Goitre.

Burning of whole alimentary canal. Vomiting, sour bloody, biliary. Nausea. Profuse flow of saliva (Merc; Ipec; Kali iod). Deficient appetite.

Liver sore. Cutting pain. Flatulent colic. Diarrhœa; stools watery, with burning at anus and through intestinal canal. Periodical night diarrhœa, with pain and green discharges. Constipation (give 30th)

Shifting pains. Sciatica, as if left hip-joint were wrenched. Pain extends to popliteal space. Gonorrhœal rheumatism (use Irisin).

Herpes zoster, associated with gastric derangements. Pustular eruptions. Psoriasis; irregular patches with shining scales. Eczema, with nightly itching.

Worse, in evening and at night, from rest. Better, from continued motion.

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-cæcal region; appendicitis. Pain from adhesions after). Pancreatinum-a combination of several enzymes--(Indicated in intestinal indigestion; pain an hour or more after eating. Lienteric diarrhœa. 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. Diarrhœa due to indigestion. Dose.--3-4 grains) (Diseases of pancreas, gout, diabetes); Ipec; Podoph; Sanguin; Ars; Ant cr.

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

Burning of mouth, tongue, throat, clear down into stomach, and of anus if there is diarrhœa.

Vomiting of stringy, glairy, ropy mucus; hangs in strings down to receptacle on the floor.

Gastric or hepatic sick headaches with blur before the eyes at the beginning. Vomiting sour, or bitter.

Iris is another remedy which causes great nausea and vomiting. It is sometimes very serviceable in cholera infantum. The substance vomited is generally very sour, so sour that it excoriates the throat.

The gastric troubles of this remedy are often accompanied with a burning of tongue, throat, œsophagus and stomach, and, if diarrhœa is present, with burning of the anus. This burning of the alimentary canal is very characteristic of this drug.

The vomiting is not always sour, but may be bitter or sweetish There is also profuse flow of saliva. I once had a case of stomach trouble in a middle-aged lady. She had frequent attacks of vomiting of a stringy, glairy mucus which was very ruby, would hang in strings from her mouth to the receptacle on the floor. Then the substance vomited became dark-colored; like coffee grounds. She became very weak, vomited all nourishment. She also had profuse secretion of ropy saliva. Thinking she had cancer of the stomach, she made her will and set her house in order, to die. Kali bichromicum was given with no benefit whatever, but Iris cured her completely in a short time and she remains well ten years since.

Iris is also one of our best remedies for sick headache. These headaches seem to be of gastric or hepatic origin, and often begin with a blur before the eyes. I used to give the remedy in the 3d.; but of late years have given it in the 50m. and am better pleased with the result, because it is more prompt and lasting. It is recommended in sciatica, but I have had no experience with it in this affection It seems to act most powerfully upon the alimentary tract. I have never used it in skin troubles.

Low-spirited ; discouraged. Fear of an approaching illness.

Fulness in and heaviness of the head. Head and face are cold. Headache (temples and eyes), with distressing vomiting (of a sweetish mucus, occasionally with a trace of bile). Sensation of constriction around the forehead (when trying to cough). Stitches in the lower part (right side) of the cerebellum.

Redness of the conjunctiva. Inflammation of the eyelids.

Toothache in the warm room. The tongue and gums feel as if covered by a greasy substance (in the morning on rising). Dry, cracked lips. Roughness in the throat. Burning in the mouth and fauces. Increased flow of saliva.

Bitter, putrid taste. Nausea and empty eructations. Nausea and vomiting of a watery and very acid substance. Vomiting of food, sour ; bilious. Pain in the stomach before breakfast and from drinking water. Pain in the region of the liver ; worse from motion. Colic relieved by bending forward ; relieved by discharge of flatulence. Cutting pain in the lower part of the abdomen. Fetid flatulence.

Diarrhœa, with colic and rumbling in the bowels.

Cutting and pricking in the urethra while urinating.

Coldness and itching of the genitals.

Acute rheumatic pain in the right shoulder ; worse from motion, especially on raising the arm. Pain in the fingers on writing.

Great sleeplessness. Starts up in his sleep.

Great debility. Gastric symptoms predominate (with headache).

Pulse accelerated. Chilliness during the whole night. Heat over the whole body, follower by chilliness, with cold hands and feet. Perspiration over the whole body, but principally in the hypochondria.

Small blood-boils, face, hands and back.

Most symptoms appear in the evening and at night. The right side is ; principally affected. Aggravation of the pains by motion.

Iris hexagona. Blue flag. N. O. Iridaceæ. Tincture of fresh root collected in early spring or autumn. Trituration of the resinoid, Iridin or Irisin.

Anus, fissure of. Bilious attack. Constipation . Crusta lactea. Diabetes (pancreatic). Diarrhœa . Dysentery. Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia. Eczema. Fistula. Gastrodynia, intermittent. Headache . Impetigo. Liver, affections of . Migraine. Neuralgia. Nocturnal emissions. Pancreas, affections of. Parotid glands, affections of. Pregnancy, morning sickness of. Psoriasis. Rectum, burning in. Rheumatism. Salivation. Sciatica. Vomiting . Whitlow. Zoster.

The Blue Flag is in great repute as a remedy among the Indians of North America. It was introduced into homœopathic practice by Kitchen, of Philadelphia, by whom it was proved, as well as by that heroic prover, Burt, and others, of all of whose experiences Hale gives an excellent account. I will relate one of Burt's experiments. "May 18th. — Took forty grains of the green root; fifteen minutes after, profuse flow of saliva and tears; mouth and stomach feel on fire; almost impossible to breathe, it is so acrid; one half-hour of great pain and distress in the stomach; it is awful to bear; continues all the afternoon and evening; it is not a sharp pain but an awful burning distress; appears to be deep in the region of the pancreas; cold water does not touch it; profuse flow of saliva all day; constant eructations of tasteless gas; very restless all night with bad dreams. May 19th. — Awoke at 4 a.m. with great rumbling and distress in the umbilical and hypogastric regions, with great desire for stool followed immediately by a copious, thin, watery stool, which could not be retained a moment without much pain; mouth feels as if it had been scalded, tongue thick and rough. 8 a.m. — Another thin, watery stool, with great rumbling in bowels; no appetite, loss of taste." Dr. Burt took more of the drug and developed a repetition of these symptoms and many others, including toothache, an eruption of pimples on the top of the head; inflammation of the glans penis; amorous dreams and seminal emissions (to which he was not accustomed). Vomiting of a watery, extremely sour fluid, excoriating the throat, was prominent in some provings. The sourness may be so great that not only the vomit but the whole person smells sour. "Everything in the stomach turns to vinegar; similarly in threatened rheumatic fever the sweat smells strongly of vinegar" (Cooper). Sometimes the vomit was not sour but bitter or sweetish. The action on the salivary gland., and pancreas was very marked, and Iris has proved an excellent remedy in affections of these organs. Nash relates the case of a middle-aged lady who had frequent attacks of vomiting of ropy mucus hanging from mouth to receptacle on the floor. Then the substance vomited became dark-coloured like coffee grounds. She became very weak and vomited all nourishment. There was also profuse secretion of ropy saliva. The patient believed she had cancer of the stomach and made her will. Kali bi . gave no relief. Iris cured in a short time and permanently. Kitchen found Iris the most effective all-round remedy in cases of vomiting of all kinds. He relates this case: A girl, æt. 9, had periodic spells of vomiting every month, six weeks, or sometimes four months. The attack would last three days. It began with vomiting of ingesta, then sour fluid, lastly bile, yellow and green, with great heat of head. Some general fever, and great prostration. Warm perspiration from efforts of straining. A single dose of Iris would arrest the attack at once, all other remedies having failed. This action of Iris on the intestinal tract and liver together with another characteristic action of the drug, on the nerves, renders it a great remedy in bilious sick-headaches. Here again it resembles Kali bichr ., for the headache of Iris is associated with a blur before the eyes. Hemicrania begins with a blurring of sight; paroxysms attended with sour watery vomiting; pain involving supraorbital and dental nerves; with stupid or stunning headache. A dull soreness is left where the neuralgia had been. L. L. Helt relates a typical case ( Med. Adv ., xxii. 395). The patient, a lady, said: "The way I know an attack is coming on is, I feel so tired and drowsy that I can go to sleep at any time or place, and my sight becomes dim , but not one bit of pain yet." After this stage has lasted from twelve to twenty-four hours, vomiting begins, always from 3 to 4 a.m. The vomiting stage continues about twelve hours, followed by a most excruciating headache, or by severe pain and great distress in stomach and abdomen. If one is present the other is absent. At the end of the third day she is able to sit up a little. The periods of recurrence are very irregular. Iris v . 3x given on the approach of an attack warded it off on three occasions, and then the attacks ceased to recur. Med. Visitor , xiii. 1, reports a discussion on Ir. v ., in the course of which C. C. Conant said he had repeatedly verified "right-side headache, beginning with a blur and very severe in front of head." E. H. Linnell cured a sick-headache of two years' standing invariably produced by eating anything sweet. Baruch ( H. W ., xxxiii. 478) has cured with Ir. v . 2x a case of diabetes having (in addition to the glycosuria) right-side supraorbital pains, low spirits, dull mental faculties, anorexia, urine pale and copious, pain in pancreas. In pancreatic diabetes Ir. v . should have a very important place. Ir. v . is no less effective in pure neuralgias, either facial or sciatic. I have cured with it left-side sciatica following influenza. The generality of affections appear on the right side. Pains are erratic; shoot from right to left. The irritating, excoriating, and inflaming properties of Iris are seen in the affections of the skin. It has cured cases of herpes zoster (right side), eczema capitis, impetigo figurata, and psoriasis. There is well-marked periodicity in the Iris affections, headaches, colic; diarrhœa and dysentery, recurring every spring and autumn; diarrhœa and colic 2 or 3 a.m.; morning sickness; attacks at short intervals. Symptoms set in suddenly. The headaches are < by rest, > by moderate motion, < by violent motion. Bending forward > colic. Motion < abdominal and sciatic pains. Toothache is < in warm room. Open air > headache; cold air < headache and nausea. The concomitance of gastric symptoms gives the key to many of the cases which call for Iris ; and it should not be forgotten that constipation as well as diarrhœa may be a strong indication.

Antidoted by: Nux v. Antidote to: Merc., Nux v., Phytol. Compare: Ipec. (nausea and vomiting of pregnancy with tenderness over stomach, profuse salivation. Iris has thick, ropy saliva; Ipec. saliva is thin, must be constantly swallowed); Sang. (periodic sick-headache); Kali bich. (sick-headache beginning with a blur — with Kali bi. the blur precedes the pain and passes off as the pain comes on -thick, ropy saliva and vomit; sciatica); Ver. (diarrhœa and summer complaints; Ver. has collapse, coldness, cold sweat. Iris more inflammatory symptoms, excoriation about anus); Puls. (nightly diarrhœa -Puls. more before midnight; Iris 2-3 a.m.); Chi. (summer diarrhœa); Sep. (sick-headache); Epipheg. (sick-headache, ropy saliva); Ant. c., Ant. t., Ars., Colch., Eupat. perf., juglans c., Lept. In burning in throat, Caps. (Caps. has < by cold Water; Ir. v. is temporarily > by drinking cold water).

Low-spirited; discouraged; vexed; despondent. — Great depression with headache. — Fear of an approaching illness. — Cannot fix mind on studies.

Fulness in and heaviness of the head. — Head and face are cold. — Headache (temples and eyes), with distressing vomiting (of a sweetish mucus, occasionally with a trace of bile). — (Sick headache invariably induced by eating anything sweet.). — Sensation of constriction around the forehead (when trying to cough). — Dull throbbing or shooting in r. side of forehead, with nausea; < toward evening; from cold air or coughing; > from moderate motion. — Dull, heavy frontal headache, with nausea, with dulness of eyes and pain over l. superciliary ridge. — During headache, nausea and profuse salivation. — Recurrent sick headaches with constipation. — Aching in forehead and vertex as if the top of the head would come off. — Shooting in the temples, mostly r., with constrictive feeling of the scalp. — Stitches in the lower part (r. side) of the cerebellum. — Pustular eruption on the scalp.

Redness of conjunctiva. — Burning in internal canthus (r.) with lachrymation. — Inflammation of eyelids, apparently from cold. — Eyes sunken Violent pains in both supraorbital regions, but in only one at a time.

Constant sneezing.

Wakes with neuralgia, r. side of face, darting stitches in two carious teeth. — Neuralgia, involving supra- and infra-orbital, superior maxillary and inferior nerves; begins after breakfast every morning, with a stupid, stunning headache, and lasts several hours. — Pustular eruptions on the face, around nose, lips, and cheeks, secreting a sanious, irritating matter.

Toothache in the warm room.

Food tastes flat or acid. — Taste at first sweetish or insipid; later violent burning. — Dry mouth in the morning, in bed. — Mouth dry and clammy. — Mouth and stomach feel on fire; almost impossible to breathe, it is so acrid. — Mouth and tongue feel as if they had been scalded. — Profuse flow of saliva; ropy, drops when talking. — Raw pain in l. side of tongue. — The tongue and gums feel as if covered by a greasy substance in the morning on rising. — Dry, cracked lips.

Sore throat, with constriction of pharynx and difficult deglutition. — Pains in tonsils shooting into ears. — Sometimes burning sensation, with feeling of enlargement like a burning cavern, while throat is dry, injected and of a bright red colour. — A peculiar irritability of throat sometimes attended with cough. — Spasms of pharynx while swallowing food. — Burning from fauces to stomach, > inspiring cool air, < exposure. — Feeling as if a horsehair were drawn tightly across l. palate with burning and smarting. — Cold water > burning short time only.

Loss of appetite. — Bitter, putrid taste. — Nausea and empty eructations.

Eructations of tasteless gas; frequently empty. — Nausea and vomiting of a watery and very acid substance. — Contents of stomach "turn to vinegar.". — Vomiting: of food; sour; bilious; of sweetish water; of sour milk in children. — Pain in stomach before breakfast and from drinking water. — Great burning distress in epigastrium; mouth and stomach feel on fire. — Cancer of pylorus with sour vomiting and great prostration (Cooper).

Pain in the region of the liver; < from motion. — Awful burning distress, deep in region of pancreas, not > by cold water. — Colic > by bending forward; > by discharge of flatulence. — Cutting pain in the lower part of abdomen. — Fetid flatulence. — Sharp griping pains in the bowels. — Pain in abdomen > by discharge of flatus.

Diarrhœa, with colic and rumbling in the bowels. — Stool: thin, watery; soft yellow, with rumbling, but no pain; mushy, painless; blood and mucus with straining. — Frequent watery stools with burning in anus; disposition to strain and bear down. — [Dysentery with choleraic depression. — Dark bilious discharges, low febrile state and much emaciation. — Chronic diarrhœa with pain in lower abdomen, followed by burning in rectum (A. E. Smith)]. — Great burning in anus, as if on fire, after stool. — Anus sore in morning, as if points were sticking into it. — Distress in anus as if prolapsed. — Constipation: succeeded by thin, watery diarrhœa; with flatulent colic; with migraine; with irregular menses; with hæmorrhoids.

Pain in r. kidney. — Cutting and pricking in the urethra while urinating with coldness and itching of genitals. — (Urine of high specific gravity containing sugar.). — Urine voided in large quantities. — Urine of disagreeable odour. — Urine thick, of strong odour, deep colour. — Urine passes without force.

Coldness and itching of the genitals. — Emission with amorous dreams. — Inflammation of glans, which is much swollen and red.

Neuralgia and rheumatism of uterus. — Menses regular but excessive. — Leucorrhœa. — Morning sickness of pregnancy, vomit sour or bitter; protracted nausea; profuse ropy saliva: tenderness over stomach. — Inflammation and soreness of uterus, very sensitive to touch; pain across umbilicus, griping at intervals, nausea and vomiting of green or yellow bile, eructations of much flatus between the vomitings; yellow bilious diarrhœa. (Miscarriage.)

Rheumatism in muscles of chest along with acid indigestion (Cooper).

Acute rheumatic pain in r. shoulder; < from motion, esp. on raising arm. — Severe shooting pains about the phalangeal and metacarpo-phalangeal articulations. — Pain in the fingers on writing. — (Will abort felon).

Sciatica; painful drawing and lameness, as if l. hip were wrenched, extending to popliteal space. — Sudden shooting pains in l. sciatic nerve, causing lameness < on motion. — Moderate motion < exceedingly, violent motion does not affect. — Coxalgia in l. hip.

Great debility. — Nervous debility, more tired in morning than evening, head and eyes heavy, chilly, stomach sour with fulness, aches all over and feels rheumatic, < on awaking, cannot keep to work, stools dark brownish green (cured with Ø, man, 55. — Cooper). — Gastric symptoms predominate (with headache).

Pustular eruptions (impetigo), esp. on scalp and face. — Tinea capitis. — Herpes zoster (r.). — Psoriasis; eczema, with gastric derangements. — Impetigo figurata. — Porrigo.

Great sleeplessness. — Starts up in his sleep. — Amorous dreams with seminal emissions.

Pulse accelerated. — Chilliness during the whole night. — Heat over the whole body, followed by chilliness, with cold hands and feet. — Perspiration over the whole body, but principally in the hypochondria (and in the groin). — (Bilious and typhoid fevers.) Sweat smells of vinegar (Cooper.)

Low spirited ; discouraged.
Fears approaching illness.
Easily vexed.
Dulness of mental faculties ; cannot fix mind on studies.
Muttering.

Head full, heavy.

Constriction around forehead.
Sensation as of a band around head.
Dull, heavy frontal headache with nausea.
Severe frontal headache, constant nausea and occasional vomiting ; sleepless from pain ; no appetite ; great weakness.
Headache in forehead and eyes, < right side ; with distressing nausea and vomiting of intensely sour or bilious matter ; < in rest.
Dull throbbing or shooting in right side of forehead ; nausea ; < toward evening, from rest, from cold air, or coughing ; > from moderate motion.
Habitual headache ; violent throbbing on either side of frontal protuberance, < in evening or after exertion.
Chronic frontal headache ; < sitting down, studying or sewing ; > standing up or working ; could not attend school.
Headache with violent pains over eye, in supraorbital region, on either side, but only on one side at a time.
Severe pain in head, through temples and over eyes, with vertigo, nausea and vomiting.
Shooting pains in temples, generally right, with constricted feeling in scalp.
Headache affecting right side, < at rest, > by constant motion, accompanied by nausea, vomiting and low spirits.
Hemicrania of right hemisphere.
Pain shoots like an electric shock from right temple to left side of occiput ; depression of spirits, debility.
Slight dull pain at situation of posterior fontanelle.
Severe pain in occiput, < right side.
Stitches in lower cerebellum, right side.
Violent, stunning headache, with facial neuralgia, followed by copious, limpid urine and vomiting.
Sick headache, every eighth day.
Sick headache, of gastric or hepatic origin, always beginning with a blur before eyes.
Sick headache, seemingly the result of intense gastric and abdominal disturbance ; dull, throbbing, or hammering, and also shooting or acute boring pains in one side of forehead, generally left, or passing from right to left, with nausea ; pain
begins in morning and grows more violent towards afternoon and night ; < from violent motion ; > from moderate exercise in open air ; sometimes paroxysmal, through day, or at intervals of many days, so as to become periodical ; < in cold air and from coughing.
Headache, vomits sweetish mucus, occasionally with a trace of bile.
Sick headache in bilious subjects, with gastric derangement and dyspepsia, tenderness in region of stomach and liver.
Headache reflex from acid stomach, or irritation of that organ from acid secretions.
Neuralgia, facial or cephalic, with nausea and vomiting.
Neuralgia of head, eyes and temples ; pains cutting, of short duration, with acid vomiting ; bilious vomiting, or vomiting of sweetish water ; great despondency.
Tired headache, from mental exhaustion.
Chronic headaches with asthenopia and fulness in stomach.
Sharp, cutting pains of short duration, changing often.

Shooting in temples, mostly right, with constrictive feeling of scalp.
Pustular eruptions on scalp in children.
Twenty-six pustules on top of head, some as large as a three cent piece.
Whole top of head one complete scab, yellow matter oozing from under crust, which has matted hair together ; l. ear covered with eruption, it also gathers every two weeks and discharges a yellow greenish pus ; numerous yellow pustules scattered over scalp, each pustule
containing a hair. θ Tinea capitis.

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Low-spirited.
Fear of approaching illness.
Easily vexed.
Cannot fix his mind on his studies.
Dulness of mental faculties.

Dull throbbing or shooting in right side of forehead; nausea; worse toward evening; from rest, from cold air, or coughing; better from moderate motion.
Tired headache, from mental exhaustion.
Sick headache, eighth day. Begins with blurred vision.

Shooting in the temples, mostly the right, with constrictive feeling of the scalp.

Redness of the conjunctiva, as from a cold; eyes feel dull, with the neuralgia; burning in the internal canthus, with effusion of tears.

Constant sneezing; sharp pains in centre of temples; tickling cough; light, mushy stools.

Neuralgia involving supra and infra-orbital, superior maxillary and inferior dental nerves; begins after breakfast every morning, with a stupid, stunning headache; copious urine; disposition to stool; burning at the anus.
Sunken eyes with blueness around.

Loss of taste; flat taste.
Tongue feels as if scalded; greasy feeling on arising in morning.

Burning in mouth and fauces, as if on fire.
Ulcers on the mucous lining of the cheeks.
Salivation after diphtheria, with swelling of the parotids.
Saliva taste greasy, slimy.

Loss of taste and appetite.

Headache after breakfast; aching in the stomach before breakfast and after a cold drink.
Milk sours and is vomited.

Eructations tasteless, or of sour food.
Nausea and vomiting of sour fluid that excoriates throat; sour vomit with the headache.
Vomiting: of food, an hour after eating; of bile, with great heat and sweat.

Great burning distress in epigastrium; can hardly endure it.
Colicky pains every few minutes, in the epigastrium.
Shocks of pain in the umbilical region up to epigastrium; nausea, straining and belching of wind.
Inflammation, burning distress in pancreas, sweetish vomit.

Cutting in the region of the liver.
Pain in right hypochondriac region; worse from motion.
Pains above the crest of the ilium, right side, then left.

Colicky pains, intermittent about the navel, before each spell of vomiting or purging.

Stool: thin, watery, tinged with bile, copious, in a continuous stream; green, undigested; mushy, pappy with fetid flatus; bloody mucus, with great straining; burning in anus and rectum after stool; black, with fever, hot sweat, white tongue, severe headache, despondency; yellow, watery, corrosive.

Scanty, red; burning the length of the urethra after passing it; clear, profuse.

Nocturnal emissions, with amorous dreams; coldness and itching of the parts.

Morning sickness, vomit sour or bitter.

Dry, tickling cough, smarting burning in throat.

Short, dry cough, from tickling in the larynx.

Pain in left side of chest as if the ribs were pressing against the lungs.

Pains shift about rapidly in phalanges and metacarpal bones.

Sciatica, sudden shooting, causing lameness; feels as if (left) was wrenched; pain and lameness extend to popliteal space; worse from moderate, better from violent motion.

Shifting pains in right hip, both knees (worse right) and in right foot especially, and first joint of great toe.

Motion: 3, 18, 33, 34.

Faint, weak knees, trembling; sunken eyes; after protracted or severe sero-bilious stools, as in summer diarrhœa.

Morning: 8, 11, 15, 24. Evening: 3. Night: 22, 46. 3 A.M.: 20. Day: 3.

Cold air: 3, 13. When covered: 40.

Chills, with sleepiness.
Heat followed by chill, with cold hands and feet.
Chills over the whole body, even when well covered; fever with muttering delirium and bilious diarrhœa.
Skin hot; dry, black stool.
Sweat all over, particularly on the groin.

Every morning: 8. Every eighth day: 3.

Right: 3, 4, 28, 34, 36. Right to left: 10. Below upwards: 17, 24.

Excites the secretion of the glands; salivary, pancreatic, intestinal, etc.
Acts powerfully on gastro-intestinal mucous membrane.

Pustular eruption on scalp, face, around mouth.
Irregular patches on knees, elbows and body, with shining scales, the edges slightly raised.
Herpes zoster on the right side of the body.
Fine eruption, showing black points after scratching, great itching at night.

A tincture is made of the fresh root of Iris versicolor, L.

It produces nausea and vomiting, is an active cathartic and diuretic, and stimulates the liver, increasing the flow of bile.

Aloe, Sulph., Sang., Bry., Pod., Phyto.

Malaise with the neuralgia. ▶ Feeling as if he had taken cold, with lameness of trunk and lumbar region. ▶ Languor; in morning on rising; in afternoon, with feverishness.

Irritable; in morning on waking. ▶ Displeased with everybody and everything, then lively and active. ▶ Depressed. ▶ Despondency, thinking that he is going to be very sick, alternating with disposition to laugh at his fears. ▶ Dullness of mind and special senses. ▶ Inability to fix mind. ▶ Memory weak.

Aching; in morning after being in cold air and on quick motion, agg. forehead and vertex, as if top of head would come off, agg. cough; with pain in bowels; with depression of spirits and debility; nervous, gastric, in forenoon; stunning, with neuralgia; dull, stupid. ▶ Fulness. ▶ Heaviness, with dullness of eyes and pain over left superciliary ridge. ▶ Dullness (resembling vertigo). ▶ Feeling as if brain were partially narcotized, then cutting through temples. ▶ Intoxicated feeling at 7 A.M. ▶ Dizziness; with pressure in forehead; then lightness of head; sudden; sudden, when walking in-doors.

Pain; over eyes; at 6 P.M., and in posterior fontanelle; in evening, with occasional vertigo; intermittent; changing from side to side; dull, heavy (Sulph.). ▶ Tightness across. ▶ Sensation of a band across (Carbol. ac.), on attempting to laugh and preventing laughing.

Shooting; through; from right to left part of occiput. ▶ Cutting through T., with dim vision. ▶ Sharp pains. ▶ Pain; in right, then it passed over vertex and behind left ear; heavy.

Pain in vertex. ▶ Boring in right parietal protuberance, causing him to bend head. ▶ Pain in right parietal protuberance, becoming a hammering pain, agg. movement, amel. continued movement, returning during rest. ▶ Stitching in lower part of occiput, agg. right side. ▶ Pain at posterior fontanelle. ▶ On vertex, twenty-six pustules tender to touch, on inflamed base, with red streaks running from one to another, and containing yellow matter. ▶ Constrictive feeling in scalp.

Neuralgic headaches are very frequently cured by this drug; they are generally one-sided, are associated with gastric symptoms, are, as a rule, periodic, occurring every few days, are nearly always associated with blurring of vision and frequently with vomiting; the pain usually begins over one eye.

Eyes sunken. ▶ Conjunctiva red. ▶ Lachrymation; with burning pain in right inner canthus. ▶ Pressure towards and out at ears. ▶ Throbbing pain in mastoid processes in afternoon, amel. warmth of hand, then tingling. ▶ Tender feeling in mastoid process on moving jaws, extending half way down jaw along edge of bone.

Sharp, raw, excoriating feeling in both nares, with constant inclination to blow nose, free discharge of mucus, constant sneezing, bronchi similarly affected. ▶ Stuffed-up feeling in nasal sinuses and posterior nares with discharge of thin clear mucus, snuffing and sneezing. ▶ Sneezing.

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Cathartic and diuretic, stimulating the liver, increasing the flow of bile, producing nausea, vomiting, etc.

Headache, especially in the forehead and vertex, as if the top of the head would come off, < coughing, by cold air and on quick motion.
Depressed spirits, debility, pain in the stomach and bowels.
Fullness of the head and heaviness.
Pain in the forehead over the left eye.

Clinical:
Neuralgic headaches, generally one-sided, with gastric symptoms; with blurred vision; pain usually begins over one eye.

Neuralgia of the right side, beginning in the infra-orbital nerve, thus involving the whole face, with headache, etc.

Mouth and tongue feel scalded; profuse saliva, ropy.

Heat, smarting and burning, and dryness.

Empty eructations.
Nausea and sour vomiting.
Burning in the epigastric region, with tenderness, vomiting of food.

Flatulent colic, with vomiting of bile and acrid fluid, soreness over the liver, cutting pains.

Burning after the stool.
Soreness in the anus as from sharp, stinging points.
Distressed feeling as if prolapsed.
Stools watery, with burning tenesmus.

Clinical:
Diarrhœa, watery, characterized by burning in the anus as if on fire and burning through the intestinal canal; stools generally preceded by colic.
Constipation, particularly associated with gastric derangement, sick headaches, etc.

Dry cough, caused by tickling in the larynx, with dry, smarting or burning sensation; larynx sore externally.

Cutting pain in the left side as if the ribs were pressing against the lung.

Sharp tearing; shifting pains in joints and extremities, particularly in the right shoulder, where it is < raising the arm, and by motion.
Shifting, shooting pains in the fingers and joints of the hand.
Pain in the left hip as if it were wrenched.
Pain, extending down the left sciatic nerve to the knee, and burning and shooting; < motion.

Clinical:
Herpes zoster of right side, and other skin affections, associated with gastric derangements, etc.

Iris. / Ira.

Iris,-Overflows with bile,
Cholera morbus is his style.
Bilious fever, too, his rule,
Bilious colic, burning stool.
Bilious headache-heart burn-drool.
And while bile corrodes within,
Scabs deploy upon the skin.
Motion first, augments his pain,
Whilst continued, soothes the same.

Ira,-Has sick headache.

Ira Chion, the Epicure, hid the eggs from "the black queen " as she sang.

This Ira,-Who is affected with hot liquid stools.-Is at Dio's with one fo the children of Tereb, the Arab.

Sick Headache-Bilious Headache: Iris, Chion., Epiph., Hyd., Glo., Sul., Sep., Ipe., Nux. v., Sang. (Chronic, Sang., Sil., Sul.)

Hot liquid Stools: Iris, Dio., Nat. m., Cham., Tereb., Ars.

Indicated in bilious sick headache and choleraic states.

Frontal headache (temporal), with nausea, copious flow of saliva, profuse vomiting of bile.

Constant nausea; tongue feels dry and scalded; throat hot and smarting.

Watery diarrhoea, bilious, with burning in the intestines and at the anus.