Iris versicolor

by C.M. Boger — General Analysis

ALTERNATING EFFECTS, sides, states, etc.(Comp. Periodicity, Wandering, Waves).
BURNT, SCALDED AS IF
COATED FEELING
GREASY, oily, fatty
LYING, right, Agg.
MIGRAINE
NERVE PAIN
SEASON, Summer, hot weather
SIDE, Right
YELLOW
3 A.M.

Iris versicolor across the other classic books

Iris versicolor appears in 8 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Iris versicolor, Linn. Natural order , Iridaceæ. Common name , Blue Flag. Authorities. 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…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“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…”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“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. …”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“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 /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Blue Flag. Iridaceæ. Provings by Rowland, Burt, Holcombe, Berridge, Croker, Wesselhœft, etc. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 153 . CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Headache , Palmer, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 179 ; Warren, A. H. O., vol. 1, p. 109 ; Sick headache , Kitchen, N. A. J. H., vol. 1, p. 464 ; Williamson, Raue's Rec…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“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…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Burning of mouth, tongue, throat, clear down into stomach, and of anus if there is diarrhoea. 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…”

Iris versicolor in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Iris versicolor in 723 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (124), HEAD (122), STOMACH (66), ABDOMEN (51), RECTUM (41).

ABDOMEN - ERUPTIONS - herpes - zona - right side
HEAD - PAIN, - Sides,one side - right - blurred vision before the attack
VISION - BLURRED - headache,before
VISION - DIM - headache, - before
RECTUM - DIARRHOEA - autumn,in
HEAD - PAIN, - vomiting
HEAD - PAIN, - blinding
VISION - DIM - headache, - during
STOMACH - VOMITING - bile - headache,with
RECTUM - PAIN - burning - diarrhoea - during
RECTUM - PAIN - sticking
MOUTH - PAIN - burnt,as if
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - herpetic - zoster,zona
GENERALITIES - PAIN - burning - as from
STOOL - ACRID,corrosive,excoriating
HEAD - PAIN, - gastric
HEAD - PAIN, - cutting,darting,stabbing
HEAD - PAIN, - Sides,one side - right
RECTUM - DIARRHOEA - night
RECTUM - PAIN - burning - stool - during

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Iris versicolor across the other classic books

Iris versicolor appears in 8 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.

“Iris versicolor, Linn. Natural order , Iridaceæ. Common name , Blue Flag. Authorities. 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…”

Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.

“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…”

Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.

“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. …”

Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.

“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 /…”

Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.

“Blue Flag. Iridaceæ. Provings by Rowland, Burt, Holcombe, Berridge, Croker, Wesselhœft, etc. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 153 . CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Headache , Palmer, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 179 ; Warren, A. H. O., vol. 1, p. 109 ; Sick headache , Kitchen, N. A. J. H., vol. 1, p. 464 ; Williamson, Raue's Rec…”

Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.

“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…”

Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.

“Burning of mouth, tongue, throat, clear down into stomach, and of anus if there is diarrhoea. 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…”