(Blue Flag)
Thyroid, PANCREAS, salivary, intestinal glands, and gastrointestinal 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-. 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.
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. Diarrhoea due to indigestion. Dose.
3-4 grains). (Diseases of pancreas, gout, diabetes); IPEC; PODOPH.; SANGUIN.; ARA.; ANT. CR.