- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“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 (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“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.”
- 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 /…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Very sick headaches, with vomiting of a sweetish substance; in some fevers where there is great stomach derangement and great prostration.”
- Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“{Blue Flag.) Description. — An indigenous plant, with a fleshy, horizontal, fibrous root, or rhizoma. It is common throughout the United States, growing in moist places, and presenting blue or purple flowers from May to July. The root resembles that of Acorus calamus (sweet-flag). It has a peculiar odor, augmented by…”
- 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…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“Iris vers(colort L. Blue flag. Nat. Ord., IrUatete. I. Provings, — I. a. Dr. W, A. BuRT, May 15th, 1865, took 3 gr, of green root at 3 and 8 p.m. No effect, save locally from acridity of substance, and an unwonted emission at n. with amorous dreams. 1 6th. — Mouth and tongue feel as if they had been scalded; natural…”
- 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…”
- Tyler — The whole picture — temperament and leading symptoms drawn as one portrait.
“(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…”