IRIS VERSICOLOR.
Iris versicolor, Linn.
Natural order
, Iridaceæ. Common name, Blue Flag.
Authorities.
1,
Dr. J. G. Rowland, Thesis Phil. Hom. Med. College, 1852, effects of 3d
dil.; 1a,
same, effects of 1st dil.; 1b, same, effects of nearly 1 1/2 ounces of
tinct.; 2, another prover, effects
of 1st and 3d dils. and tinct.; 3,
another prover took 1st and 3d dils. and tinct.; 4, another prover took 1st trituration; 5, Dr. William A. Burt, proving with 3 grains
green root (twice) first day; 10 grains of green and 20 of dried root,
second day; 30 drops tinct., third day; 4 grains of green root, fourth
and fifth days, Hale’s New Remedies, 2d ed.; 5a, same, subsequent proving with 50 grains
of green root; 5b, same, proving with “Irisin;” Note: Probably the mongrel so-called
resinoid, there being no alkaloids known to exist in the natural order
Iridaceæ. -T. F. A.; repeated doses of 1st dec. trit. to 20 grains of
crude; 6, Dr. William A. Holcombe,
proving with 2 or 3 drops of strong tinct. four times a day for five
days, Hale’s New Remedies, 2d ed.; 7,
Dr. Sandford; a lady took 2 or 3 one-grain pills of Irisin for several
days (for constipation, without relief); 8,
Berridge, N. Am. J. of Hom., N. S., 2, 57, Mrs. — took repeated doses
of 6th dil. for eleven days; 9, Dr.
Croker took 6th dil., N. Am. J. of Hom., N. S., 2, p. 58; 10, Wesselhoeft’s provings, Trans. Am. Inst.
of Hom., 1868, effect of chewing fresh root; Note:
Was suffering from severe habitual headache at the time; this headache
disappeared entirely in half an hour, though hitherto it had invariably
lasted till he went to bed; 10a, same, took repeated doses of 5th dil.
for three days; Note: The prover had
been suffering from sore throat for five days, with irritation of the
larynx in the evening, and dryness and burning along the edge of the
soft palate, which awoke him nights; the tonsils were swollen and
painful on swallowing; this sore throat did not trouble him throughout
the first day of the proving, better second day, well forenoon of third
day; 10b,
same prover afterwards took 2 daily doses of 3d dec. dil., beginning
with 10 and ending with 25 drops, for six days; on seventh and eighth
days took 1st dec. dil. twice daily 10 to 20-drop doses; 10c, same
proving with the tinct. doses 10 to 50 drops; 11,
Mrs. N. (from same), a dose of Iris (?); Note:
She had been troubled for the past few days with nausea and disordered
stomach, but after taking the medicine it pased off, and she ate a
hearty dinner; she afterwards took a dose of 5th dec. dil.; 12, Mrs. S. (from same) took 5th dec. dil.,
first and second days; 13, Dr.
Squier (from same), provings with tinct. in doses of 1 to 20 drops; 14, Dr. Butman, provings with 1 to 20 drops
of tinct. (from same); 15, Mrs. D.
B. H., took 5th dec. dil., night and morning (same); 16, Mr. D. B. H., took same (same); 17, Mr. C. B. Fox, took same (same).
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Much mental
depression, [7]. ► Great depression of spirits, with the
headache, [3]. ► Despondency; thinks his is going to be
very sick, then a disposition to laugh at his fears, which, however,
soon return, [1b]. ► Nervous fretfulness, lasting all day, [16]. ►
Vexed, irritable mood, disposed to find fault, [3]. ► Feels
irritable, cross with her children, dislikes every one (third, fourth,
and fifth days), [8]. ► Very irritable through the day (sixth
day), [5]. ►
Awoke feeling very irritable (fourth morning), [5]. ►
Ill-humor, [1b]. [10.] ► A
disposition to feel displeased with everything and everybody, which
gives place to a feeling of liveliness and activity, [1]. ►
Intellectual. ► Inability
to fix the mind on any subject; when writing mind will wander to other
things, [1b]. ► Cannot fix my mind on my studies (fourth
day), [5b]. ►
Dulness of the head (mental faculties and special senses), (five minutes
after 3d dose), [13]. ► Weakness of memory (in twenty-four
hours), [15].
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► Immediate
dizziness, [11]; with pressure in
forehead, [10a]. ► Sudden dizziness, immediately, soon
passing off, [1]. ► Slight giddiness, coming on suddenly
while walking within doors, [15]. ► General Head. ►
Slight momentary dulness of head (resembling vertigo), [13]. ►
Lightness in the head, after the giddiness, [15]. [20.] ► Head feels very heavy, eyes dull, with
pain directly over the left superciliary ridge, [7b]. ►
Sensation of fulness of the head, [1b].
► Headache, with pain in the bowels, [3]. ►
Headache, much aggravated by coughing, [1a].
► Slight headache, [1b]. ►
Headache is very troublesome (eleventh day), [5b]. ►
Headache occurring irregularly several days, [3]. ►
Headache, gradually diminished (five minutes after 2d dose, first day), [14]. ►
Dull, heavy headache (twelfth day); all day (sixth and seventh days), [5b]. ►
Stupid and stunning headache, with the neuralgia (fourth day); violent
headache (fifth day), [6]. [30.] ►
Slight, dull, stupid headache (second day), [6]. ►
Headache for two days; the third day he was seized with a peculiar
headache; the pain shot, as he describes it, like an electric shock,
from the right temple to the left part of occiput, and continued for
about half an hour; headache with great depression of spirits and
general debility, [3]. ► Acute pains in the head, as if the top of
the head would come off; felt chiefly in the forehead and vertex, after
having been in the cold air, and on making quick motions, in the
morning, soon after taking (eighth day), [10b].
► Forehead. ► Pain in the forehead and left temple
(second day), [5b]. ► Pain in forehead at intervals (third
day), [12]. ►
Slight pain in forehead, and considerable in posterior fontanelle, at 6
P.M. (second day), [14]. ► Slight pain in forehead, changing from
side to side (second day), [12]. ► Good deal of pain in the forehead and
temples (eighth day), [5b]. ► Tightness across the forehead, [16]. ►
Whenever attempting to laugh, a sensation as though a band drawn tightly
around the forehead prevents, [1b].
[40.] ►
Frontal headache, with dizziness occasionally, in the evening, [1]. ►
Dull headache in the frontal region (six hours and a half after first
dose, first day), [5b]. ► Dull, heavy headache in the forehead (one
hour after first dose, first day), [5b];
(second day), [5a]. ► Dull, heavy headache in the forehead and
temples (fourth, fifth, and ninth days), [5b].
► Temples. ► Slight pain in right temple (five minutes
after third dose), [13]. ► Slight dull pain in right temple, which
in five minutes passed over top of head, behind left ear, and ceased in
one minute more (ten minutes after first dose), [13]. ► At
times the pain in the temples is very sharp (first, second, fifth, and
tenth days), [5b]. ► By spells the pains in the temples are
very sharp and shooting (fourth day), [5b].
► Severe shooting pains pass through
the temples several times a day, for a fortnight, [3a]. ► On
moving jaws, e. g., in eating or
talking, a tender feeling of mastoid processes, extending half way down
jaw along edge of bone (eighth day), [8].
[50.] ►
Throbbing pain in both mastoid processes; it lasts about fifteen
minutes, then there is a tingling there for three or four minutes, then
all ceases for fifteen minutes; the warmth of hand slightly relieved
pain, in the afternoon (sixth day), [8].
► Parietals. ► Dull pain in the right parietal
protuberance, which increases steadily until it becomes a hammering
pain, and so much aggravated by motion, that for the moment it appears
unbearable, but by continuing movement it gradually abates, returning
again when at rest, [1]. ► Acute and extremely severe boring pain in
right parietal protuberance, causing him to bend down his head, [1a]. ►
Occiput. ► Slight dull
pain at situation of posterior fontanelle (after first dose);
considerable at 6 P.M. (second day), [14].
► Severe stitch in inferior part of
occiput, more on the right than on the left side (after two hours), [1a]. ►
External Head. ► Top of the
head has just twenty-six pustules on it, some of them as large as a
three-cent piece; the pustule is situated upon an inflamed
base of a rose color, with red streaks, running from one to another;
they contain yellow matter; very tender to the touch; gradually
disappearing in four days (after nine days), [5b]. ► Tight
constrictive feeling of the scalp (one hour after first dose, first
day), [5b].
EYE.
►
Eyes much sunken in (second day), [5a].
► Severe burning pain in the internal
canthus of the right eye, [1b]. ► Redness of the conjunctiva, as if from
cold, [2]. [60.] ►
Eye filling with tears, [1b]. ► Profuse flow of tears (after fifteen
minutes, fourth day), [5].
EAR.
►
Pressure towards and out at the ears (first day), [10a].
NOSE.
►
*Sneezing, immediately, [1a].
FACE.
►
General appearance of anguish, [7].
► Expression of great anguish in the
face, [7]. ►
Flushed face (second day), [4]. ► Cracked lips, [17]. ► Dry,
cracked lips, [1a]. ► *Waked with neuralgic pains in the right side of
the face; darting stitches in two carious teeth; pain affects especially
the infra-orbital nerve; facial neuralgia passed off (third
day); facial neuralgia, involving the supra-
and infra-orbital, and the superior maxillary, and the inferior dental
nerves; began after breakfast, with stupid or stunning headache, and
lasted several hours, with great severity (fourth day); began after breakfast, and continued with terrible
severity for twenty hours; violent headache accompanied it, and general
malaise (fifth day); dull soreness
where the neuralgia had been (sixth day), [6].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Toothache, [17]. ►
Slight toothache, in a warm room, [1a].
► Teeth sore (tenth day), [5b]. ►
Teeth feel elongated and sore; back, upper, and lower molars; dull
heavy, aching pain in them for three hours (second and third days), [5b]. ►
Teeth feel too long and are very sore (second day), [5a]. ► Gums.
► Swelling of gums on the inner
surface of left side of lower jaw, under the molar teeth, [2]. ► Tongue.
► Tongue coated white (fifth day), [5b]. ►
Tongue and gums greasy or slimy, in the morning, [17]. ► Tongue
feels thick, at 7 A.M. (second day), [5a].
► General Mouth. ► Rugæ of roof of mouth appear to sight
enlarged, pale, and two on right side are excoriated (sixth day), [8]. [80.]
► Feeling of a greasy coating over
mouth and tongue, early in the morning, [2].
► Burning and smarting of palate, and
fauces, [10c]. ► Mouth and stomach feel on fire (after
fifteen minutes, fourth day), [5].
► Back part of the mouth and fauces
felt on fire all the afternoon, with profuse flow of saliva (first day),
[5]. ►
Soreness of the roof of the mouth, with roughness of the hard palate,
very painful on being touched with the tongue or solid food, for several
days; this is aggravated by a detective filled tooth, painful, feeling
too long, and very tender when used, [10a].
► Soreness of hard palate, [10a]. ►
Great feeling of rawness of roof of mouth just behind front teeth; worse
from hot or cold drinks, eating, touching with tongue, and especially
from onions or cheese; also a feeling as if the skin of that part were
hanging loose (third day); constant (fourth and fifth days); extend down
to throat (sixth day); the same rawness of roof of mouth just behind the
front teeth, but without the feeling of loose skin; after eating
cherries in the morning (thirteenth day), [8].
►► *Mouth and tongue feel as though
they had been scalded, in the morning (second day), [5]. ►
Mouth feels as if it had been scalded, tongue thick and rough, at 4 A.M.
(fifth day), [5]. ► Saliva. ►
*Increased saliva, [9].
[90.] ►►
*Profuse flow of saliva (immediately), [5a]; (after three hours, fifth day), continuing
all day (after fifteen minutes, fourth day), [5]. ► *Constant
discharge of ropy saliva dropped from my mouth during conversation
(second day), [5]. ► Taste. ►
Mouth tastes flat, at 7 A.M. (second day), [5a]. ► Flat
taste in the mouth (second, fifth, tenth and eleventh days), [5b]. ►
Bad taste, [17]. ► Acrid taste of the plant (first day), [6]. ►
Taste so acrid that it was with difficulty that I could get my breath
(first dose, second day, after fifteen minutes, fourth day), [5]. ►
Loss of taste (fifth day), [5].
THROAT.
►
Rough throat, running saliva, [17].
► Burning in the throat, palate, and
tonsils, increased by expiration, diminished by inspiration (five
minutes after first dose); increased (after second dose); same symptoms
(after third dose, first day); increased (third day), [14]. [100.] ► Sore throat, [1b]. ► Sore
throat, with slight soreness of the chest, after the stiffness and
lameness had disappeared, [11]. ► A feeling of rawness in the throat (after
half an hour), [1b]. ► Taste at first sweetish, and resembling
that of slippery-elm bark; he thought it quite insipid at first, but
then began a smarting, burning, and scratching sensation in the soft
palate, at first slight, but slowly increasing to a violent fiery heat,
spreading over the whole extent of the fauces, upward towards the nares,
and far down into the œsophagus; the throat felt as if it were three
times as large as usual, and like a fiery cavern; drinking water
alleviated the burning for a short time only; many enlarged bright-red
bloodvessels became visible on the uvula, palate, and posterior wall of
fauces; the heat, redness, and painful burning lasted for two hours and
a half, very gradually subsiding (after five hours), [10]. ► (Had
to run a long distance in the afternoon to reach the cars; got very much
heated and into a profuse perspiration; took cold in the cars; sore
throat again in the evening; burning, smarting, dryness of palate and
fauces; feeling as if a horsehair were drawn tightly across the left
palate, with burning and smarting; then took ten drops in a teaspoonful
of water on going to bed; for half an hour the smarting increased; slept
two hours and awoke without the smarting (second night); in the morning
raised some loose mucus without coughing; never had the sore throat
without subsequent severe coryza and catarrhal cough for several days;
in this instance the affection was decidedly arrested at the outset), [10a]. ►
Uvula and Tonsils. ►
Tonsils, uvula and soft palate bright-red, with engorgement of larger
vessels (second day), [13]. ► Fauces, Pharynx, and Œsophagus. ► Heat about fauces, soft palate and
tonsils, soon changing into smarting and burning; relieved by inhaling
cold air; deglutition not painful but more difficult; the burning lasted
over two hours (after a few minutes, first day), [10c]. ►
Burning in the fauces (after first dose); some burning in the throat;
burning extends down the course of œsophagus to pit of stomach, with
slight nausea (after second dose); gradually wore off towards evening, [13]. ►
Some burning in fauces, palate, tonsils, and back of tongue; increased
very much during expiration; diminished very much during inspiration
(five minutes after first dose); almost immediately (after second dose);
increased (after third dose); diminished gradually until evening, [13]. ►
Slight burning in fauces, as if from taking cayenne pepper; only felt in
expiration; continued till he went to sleep (after fifteen minutes,
first day); the same burning, more severe, extending slightly to tip of
tongue; it was felt slightly on inspiration; quite severe during
expiration (second day), [13]. [110.] ►
Very frequent spasms of the œsophagus, with inability to swallow; the
food sticks in the throat, with choking and gagging, [10c]. ►
Burning extends down œsophagus to stomach (eight minutes after first
dose, third day), [14]. ► Swallowing. ►
Difficult deglutition while eating; food sticks in the pharynx requiring
several efforts of deglutition to swallow it (after eight hours, first
day), [10c].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Increased
appetite (after larger doses of tincture), [10c]. ► Loss
of appetite, [4]; (second day), [5a]. ►
No appetite (fifth day), [5]. ► No appetite at dinner (third day), [6]. ►
Eructation. ► Empty
eructations and pain in the stomach, [2].
► Frequent empty eructations, in the
course of the day (second day), [10c].
► Constant eructation of gas (seventh
day), [5b]. [120.] ►
*Frequent eructations of tasteless gas (third day), [5b]. ►
*Constant eructations of tasteless gas (fourth day), [5b]; during the whole period, [5]. ►
Constant eructations of sour gas (second day), [5a]. ►
Stomach very sour (second day), [5a].
► Food rises very sour (after seven
hours and a half, first day), [5a];
(four hours and a half after first dose, first day), [5b]. ► Heartburn.
► Heartburn, several times in the
day; a hot cramplike sensation rises upward from pit of stomach (second
day), [10c]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. ► *Nausea (five minutes after second
dose, first day), [14]. ► Nausea and eructations of wind, [1]. ►
Nausea, straining, and belching of wind, [7].
► Nausea, belching of a large
quantity of wind (ten minutes after second dose, third day), [14]. [130.]
► *Nausea, and vomiting of a thin watery
fluid of an exceedingly sour taste; constant nausea for more
than an hour, and vomiting several times (first and second day), [1b]. ►
*Nausea and slight vomiting of watery and extremely sour fluid,
immediately, [1a]. ► Slight nausea (after third dose), [13]. ►
Slight nausea, eructation of much wind, at 6 P.M. (second day), [14]. ►
Slight nausea, with much belching of wind (ten minutes after third
dose), [13]. ►
Nauseous feeling in abdomen, like the beginning of seasickness, soon
(seventh day), [10b]. ► Sickness of stomach in the evening,
obliging him to lie down, [3]. ► Frequent and violent efforts to vomit,
resulting, however, in little more than an enormous discharge of air,
which seemed to move off the stomach in very great force, [7]. ► She
vomited up several of the pills before she was relieved of one of the
most severe attacks of colic I ever witnessed, [7]. ► Stomach.
► Rumbling and uneasiness in the
stomach, accompanied by diarrhœa, with little pain, [1a]. [140.] ► Uneasy feeling in the scrobiculus cordis,
together with rumbling in the lower part of the abdomen; increased until
the lower part of the sternum seemed protruding (after fifteen minutes),
[1]. ►
Great distress in the stomach; lasted two hours (half an hour after
second dose, second day), [5]. ► Great distress in the epigastric region;
the distress is horrible to endure (after three hours); increasing
(after three hours and a half); very restless, cannot be still one
moment; think I cannot live; very much frightened; copious discharge of
thin water from the bowels, but no abatement of the awful agony in the
epigastric region; inhaled chloroform, which gave a little relief;
another large stool of water; tinged with bile; the water an from the
bowels in a continuous stream; nearly two quarts of water passed; there
was great rumbling in the bowels, but no pain; this gave great relief
(after four hours and a half, fifth day), [5].
► *Great burning distress in the
epigastric region, but not much in the mouth; it is awful,
cold water does not seem to reach it (immediately), (first day), [5a]. ►
One-half four of great pain and distress in the stomach; it is awful to
bear; continued 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 (after fifteen minutes, fourth
day), [5]. ►
Feeling of fulness of stomach, followed by eructations of wind, which
relieves it (eight minutes after first dose, first day), [14]. ►
Pinching at pit of stomach (first day), [10a].
► Aching pain in the stomach before
breakfast, [2]. ► Aching pain in the stomach after drinking
cold water, [2]. ► Slight twisting pain in the stomach, [10c].® 2000
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