Iris versicolor Anhang

 

Similar to Crocus, but this is deeper state - the dreams are much more vexatious and frightening.

An aristocratic and showy flower, which reflects in the patients dress sense. Moods displeasure # irritability to liveliness (parties, joking, laughing). They care for others,

but keep their existential malaise to themselves.

They feel that life is useless.

They are afraid of growing old and death (dreams of digging, graves and autopsies) ... the Greek goddess Iris leads the souls of dead women and lays Irises on their graves. (Joy Lucas)

    Nervous fretfulness. Irritable. > Suicidal, thoughts.

    Censorious. Anger, easily. Discouraged.

    Sadness. Company, aversion to.

    Laughing. Amorous.

    Dreams: The dead. Graves. Fire. Fights. Amorous.

Affinities: Liver. Thyroid. Burning (GI tract).

Therapeutics: Headache or periodic Migraine with blurred vision. Vomits bile. Sciatica. Rheuma.

Sensations: As in Crocus there are stitching, tearing and shootings pains.

Miasm: Syphilis or Malaria.

DD.:. Ant-c. Ant-t. Ars. Calc-f. Fl-ac. Kali-bi. Mag-c. Phos. Sulph.

Ign.: The core mind rubrics.

Lach./Puls.: the core rubrics and a number of dream rubrics.

 

Hilft bei brennenden und mit Säure verbundenen Störungen des Verdauungssystems. Zudem hilft es bei anderen brennenden Beschwerden oder auch bei Migräne, die überwiegend am Wochenende auftritt.

Leitsymptome: brennende Magen-/Darmbeschwerden/Sodbrennen/saures Erbrechen/kolikartige Bauchschmerz/brennende Durchfall/SpeichelFLUSS/Kopfschmerz (Migräne, anfangs mit Sehstörungen, später Übelkeit/oft an Ruhetagen, an denen er nicht arbeiten muss)/periodisch;

Saueres Aufstoßen mit Übelkeit, Brechreiz und saurer, kolikartiger Durchfall, Kopfschmerz und Schwindel

Sodbrennen, Durchfall, (>) Erbrechen, Migräne

    Kopfschmerz durch Süßigkeiten am Hinterkopf Saures Erbrechen,

    Neuralgien,

    Magenschleimhautentzündung,

    Schwindel anfallsweise plötzlich Übelkeit saures Erbrechen,

    Magenkrämpfe,

    Gastritis,

    Erbrechen akut sauer,

    Magenbeschwerden mit Kopfschmerz Übersäuerung galliges Erbrechen,

    Migräne am Wochenende blasse Büromenschen,

    Kopfschmerz (> durch Erbrechen/mit vorherigem verschwommenen Sehen) Schmerz kommt wieder,

    Hyperemesis gravidarum,

    Nabelkolik,

    Sehstörungen,

    Erbrechen,

    Sommerdurchfall saures Erbrechen,

    Kopfschmerz bei Leber Galle Pankreas mit saurem Erbrechen und Stuhl,

    Saures Aufstoßen,

    Bauchspeicheldrüse - Pankreatitis,

    Magenbeschwerden Kopfschmerzen galliges Erbrechen,

    Durchfall,

    Koliken,

    Bauchspeicheldrüsenentzündung akute Erbrechen kolikartiger Durchfall,

    Migräne-Übelkeit,

    Sonntagsmigräne,

    Bauchspeicheldrüsen-Entzündung,

    Schwangerschaftserbrechen,

>: leichte Bewegung;

<: abends/nachts/durch Ruhe/Entspannung;

 

[Joy Lucas]

I love this remedy and it is appropriate that we should be learning about it at this time of year as the festive holidays are here for some of us, which means lots of over indulgence in food, drink, etc.

Iris = similar to Nux-v. as it is a great liver and pancreas remedy, lots of burning nausea and vomiting, masses of ropy saliva, diarrhea which burns like fire, sick headaches

with the diarrhea, colic like pains in the abdomen, blurred vision, migraines from over studying (Homeopathy?).

The burnings go throughout the digestive system and are intense.

They are <<< periodically (never learned from the last festive season!) and also <<< 2 - 3 h.

DD.: Ars. Merc. Phos.

 

Iris versicolor is the 'wild' iris, the fleur de lis.

Wild they can be.

They love parties and being wild, joking and laughing.

They have a robust and almost aristocratic personality.

In fact they are quite the party buffoon, always laughing at their own actions in a strange isolated sort of manner.

Iris is a very ornamental flower and you can expect this 'showing off' in their dress sense as well as their actions.

 

But this actually hides quite a different picture underneath.

Keeping in mind the other remedies: Iris related to you, you will discover a lot of fear, anxiety and sadness with this remedy.

Fears are centered around their illness and dying.

They think they are dying and have a great fear of growing old, but they won't tell you about their concerns - it comes out in other ways.

Being a liver remedy they are often really irritable and bossy [with headaches or stomach problems (the hangover?)].

When alone, when they no longer have to be the ornament of society, their anxieties take hold.

Anxiety drives them to be restless and nervous, they mutter a great deal to themselves, their thoughts wandering as much as their bodies.

They cannot concentrate on one thing at a time, easily discouraged by this dullness of mind.

A great sadness prevails.

 

The connection with death is interesting.

The roots of iris provided a huge industry for perfumeries and many were employed as root diggers - there are dreams of digging (graves)/a lot to do with corpses.

But more importantly the Greek goddess Iris lead the souls of dead women and laid Irises on their graves.

 

Iris has also been used as a thyroid stimulant and this might explain the apparent mood swings from irritable to party socialite, to a dull, sluggish, fearful state.

 

You have to look 'underneath' with Iris - there is a certain amount of deceit, a hiding of their true feelings.

The Orris root (= Veilchenwurzel/which was used in perfume) made social interaction possible - everything was made to be sweet smelling but underneath, yuk,

quite the opposite.

Not only is the smell hidden (sweat smells like vinegar) but so is their pain.

Like a lot of plants Iris contains alkaloids which contribute greatly to 'killing' pain.

 

[Henriettes]

Phytology:

Specific Indications.—Enlarged, soft and yielding lymphatic enlargements; thyroid fullness; splenic fullness; chronic hepatic disorders, with sharp, cutting pain, < movement;

clay-colored feces, with jaundice; nausea and vomiting of sour liquids, or regurgitation of food (after eating fats or rich pastry, ice cream); watery, burning feces; rough, greasy skin, with disorders of the sebaceous follicles; abnormal dermal pigmentation.

Iris stimulates the glands of the body to increased activity and impresses the nervous system. In large doses it is emeto-cathartic, acting violently, the vomitus being acid and the catharsis watery and persistent and + colic and rectal heat. Iris increases the hepatic and pancreatic secretions, as well as those of the intestines. Iris also salivates, but without injury to the gums and teeth.

Salivation from vegetable sialagogues (more saliva) may be differentiated from that caused by mercury by the absence of mercurial fetor and lack of sponginess of the gums

or loosening of the teeth. Neuralgic pain is said to be produced by iris when given in large doses; and when even moderately full therapeutic doses are administered it produces a more or less persistent belly-ache and mild catharsis.

Iris is capable of causing gastro-enteritis resulting in death. To be effective iris preparations must be made from prime, heavy, resinous root-stocks; when old and light, like tan-bark, iris produces neither physiologic nor therapeutic effects.

Therapy External: Specific Medicine Iris has been painted upon goitre with good results, though it is effectual in but few instances, and the type is not as yet well defined.

It is also advised as an efficient local treatment for psoriasis, chronic itching eczema, various types of tinea, prurigo, and crusta lactea. In all of the preceding disorders the drug should be given internally while being applied externally.

Internal: alterative and cholagogue. It exemplifies as fully as any drug the meaning of the term alterative as used in Eclectic therapy. Perhaps this is best expressed to-day by saying that it corrects perverted metabolism.

Iris, in small doses preferably, quietly stimulates the glandular structures of the body, both the glands with outlets and the ductless glands. It promotes waste and excretion, two processes necessary before repair can well take place. In broad terms it is a remedy for "bad blood" and imperfect nutrition. The term "bad blood" or blood dyscrasia has, as a rule, little relation to the blood itself, but pertains chiefly to imperfect lymphatic elimination and faulty retrograde metamorphosis. Iris impresses the thyroid function, is

of great value in the adenopathies of syphilis and skin affections, with imperfect functioning of the lymphatic system resulting in enlarged lymph nodes.

Hepatic torpor, splenic fullness, and jaundice, with clay-colored stools are influenced for good by it, the drug acting quietly as an alterative when given in small and repeated doses.

Iris should be used in the various cachexias—lymphatic, scrofulous and syphilitic. It proves more or less useful in some cases of goitre or enlarged thyroid, whether the enlargement be constant, or merely the temporary fullness associated with the menstrual function, normal or abnormal. When it does good it is chiefly in reducing enlargement, and appears to have but little influence upon the tachycardia and other disturbances of hyperthyroidism.

As a rule, soft glandular enlargements are best treated with iris, and hard enlargements with phytolacca. However, iris is sometimes surprisingly effective in goitre, while more often it seems to fail completely. The exact type most benefited has never been clearly defined. In order to obtain satisfactory results at all, the use of the drug must be continued over a period of several months.

In exophthalmic goitre it may be given early, but without great hope of doing more than to affect the bodily glandular functions, improving the general health of the patient.

The same may be said for it in Addison's disease, in which it has sometimes benefited, but has not, of course, cured. Iris is often useful in splenic fullness, and ovarian and uterine turgescence in cachectic individuals.

Minute doses of iris relieve gastric irritation, with nausea, vomiting, and gastralgia. In like doses it is sometimes useful in cholera infantum, and in either diarrhea or dysentery, both with large, slimy evacuations, repeated small doses have proved very effectual. Still for all these bowel troubles it is far inferior to ipecac. It is quite certain, however, to relieve sick headache dependent upon indigestion, and bilious headache, with nausea and sour and bitter vomiting, and clay-colored stools. In fact one of the most important uses for iris is in that complex condition included in the elastic denomination "biliousness". For regurgitation of fatty foods or pastries it is especially effective. In hepatic congestion, with constipation, and sharp-cutting pains, increased by motion, iris frequently gives relief. When constipation depends upon hepatic and intestinal torpor and in duodenal catarrh, with jaundice and clay-colored faeces,

iris should be considered as a possible remedy. Aching pain, with pressure beneath the scapulae, usually dependent upon hepatic wrong, is relieved by 1 to 5 drop doses of specific medicine iris.

 

[F.J. Norton]

Iris is a remedy that deserves our study. It is not only indicated as above but it is an excellent stimulant and tonic to the entire glandular system. Upon the lymphatic system it acts in unison with Phytolacca. For this reason it may be used in bubo and in other acute glandular enlargements, as well also as in the sub-acute and chronic forms, such as adenitis and the so-called scrofulous and tubercular enlargements. In the treatment of syphilis this remedy is a most active agent, because of the influence upon glands above referred to. I prescribe it in conjunction with phytolacca, podophyllum, chionanthus, caulophyllum, or echinacea as the case seems to demand. In the treatment of those chronic skin disorders which are attended with glandular inactivity it is of excellent service. It may be combined with berberis, or other specific remedy.

In psoriasis it may be used alone externally, while given in conjunction internally. Dr. Kinnett relates in the Feb. THERAPEUTIST an interesting case so treated.

The remedy exercises an active alterative and eliminative influence through its tonic influence upon the glandular structures. In the treatment of goitre no one single remedy, perhaps, has a wider influence than this.

This is especially true of recent cases, while in those of longer standing, proper combinations may be made as indicated.

Dr. Stevens claims that in the treatment of exophthalmic goitre, a combination of phytolacca and cactus, with aconite as indicated, will be found superior to many other advised methods.

Iris can be combined with any or all of these with satisfactory results.

In simple stomach troubles, where there is acid vomiting with a burning sensation in the stomach, the esophagus, mouth and fauces, iris is the indicated remedy,

especially if there is a profuse flow of ropy saliva.

 

[Rakesh Gupta, Vismaya Verlekar]

An anti-migraine remedy and the utility of the migraine disability assessment questionnaire for pre and post treatment assessment. Two cases are used to illustrate.

Abstract: The role of Iris Versicolor as homeopathic remedy in migraines has been demonstrated with the help of two cases. Deriving the homeopathic totality during recurrent distress is a big challenge which can be managed by proper clinical and homeopathic training.

The application of Boeninghausens concept of complete symptom and emphasis on modalities is of great Importance during case taking. Step wise clinical assessment with the help of Migraine Disability Assessment Questionnaire (MIDAS), a 5-item questionnaire designed to evaluate disability within the most recent 3 months is useful for scientific evidence of cure.

 

Homeopathic remedy reaction evaluation of the case with MIDAS as a Tool helps to cure according to scientific principles of homeopathic system.

 

Introduction :

Migraine is defined as a triad of paroxysmal headache, nausea and or vomiting and an aura of focal neurological events usually (visual). Patients with all three of these features are said to have migraine with aura “Classical Migraine”.

Those with paroxysmal headache with or without vomiting but no aura are said to have migraine without aura” Common Migraine”. According to World Health Organization, Migraine (ICD 11 classification code for migraine is 8A80) is of public health importance since it is responsible for high population levels of disability and ill-health.

In the Global burden of disease study, updated in 2013, migraine was found to be the sixth highest cause worldwide of years lost due to disability (YLD). Headache disorders impose a recognizable burden on sufferers including sometimes substantial personal suffering, impaired quality of life and financial cost.

Repeated headache and constant fear of the next one, damages family life, social life and employment. The long-term effort of coping with a chronic headache disorder may also predispose the individual to other illnesses.

Eigen Erfahrung:

Ich hatte Mit etwa 30 Jahre 3 Migraine Anfälle wöchentlich. Ich fand ein Beschreibung von Dokter Bircher Benner. Er entwickelte das Birchermüesli und prägte den Begriff der Vollwertkost. Ich habe mich schon 50 Jahre an dieses Konzept gehalten und ich habe keinen Migraine mehr gehabt, ohne pain killers.

Somato-psychic manifestations like anxiety and depression are more common in people with migraine than in healthy individuals. Homeopathic remedies can be effective therapeutic modality for migraine episode and reduce the indulgence as well as dependency on Nsaids/Pain killers.

 

Different Types Of Migraine according Primary Headache Disorders, Modified from  International Classification of Headache Disorders-III-Beta (Headache Classification Committee of the International Headache Society, 2018)

(Courtesy Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 21st edition.)

Typical aura with migraine headache fulfils the following criteria:-

    At least 2 attacks fulfilling criteria B–D below

    Aura consisting of at least one of the following, but no motor weakness:

    Fully reversible visual symptoms, including positive features (e.g., flickering lights, spots, or lines) and/or negative features (e.g., loss of vision)

    Fully reversible sensory symptoms, including positive features (e.g., pins and needles) and/or negative features (e.g., numbness)

    Fully reversible dysphasic speech disturbances

    At least 2 of the following:

    Homonymous visual symptoms and/or unilateral sensory symptoms

    At least 1 aura symptom develops gradually over ≥ 5 min and/or different aura symptoms occur in succession over ≥ 5 min

    Each symptom lasts ≥ 5 and ≤ 60 min

    Headache fulfilling criteria B–D for migraine without aura begins during the aura or follows the aura within 60 min

    Not attributed to another disorder.

Quantification of Disability due to Migraine: In 1999, Stewart and Lipton developed the Migraine Disability Assessment Questionnaire (MIDAS), a 5-item questionnaire designed to evaluate disability within the most recent 3 months. The patient needs to score the reduction in the performance, in days, of work/school, household work, and family/social activities.

Questions             Score

Q1. How many days have you missed work or school because of headache?            

Q2. Not Including the days in the question no 1, How many days you have lost the productivity by at least half at school or work?            

Q3. How Many Days Have you skipped performing household chores or regular household activities because of a headache?            

Q4. Not including the days from question two, how many days was your productivity in performing household chores reduced by at least half?            

Q5. How many days did you miss leisure or social activities because of your Headache?            

Total Score            

 

A score 0–270 is used to indicate the overall level of disability due to headaches based on the following grading system:

MIDAS Score                  Disability             MIDAS Grade

0-5             Little or no disability             1

6-10             Mild disability             2

11-20             Moderate disability             3

21- 40             Severe disability             4 A

41 & more             Severe disability             4 B

 

Treatment strategy: The treatment for migraine in modern medicine includes pain relievers such as aspirin, ibuprofen, Triptans, etc. which basically work by blocking the pain pathways in the brain. There is no definite cure for migraine in modern medicine as yet.

In homoeopathy, the simillimum can help not only in reducing the intensity of pain but also in reducing and eliminating the occurrence of migraine attacks in an individual.

The homeopathic therapeutic management in such cases can be done by effective observation of the cause and effect relationship. Observation of the evolution of the disease phenomenon leads to construction of the totality.

Conditions for cure in migraine: Migraine is considered cured when the intensity and frequency of attacks gradually reduces to nil as seen in the cases mentioned below.

 

Remedy selection approach: The symptoms which were chosen to form the totality were

    Headache better by motion.

    Throat Pain burning.

    Headache Gastric.

    Headache Blurring of vision.

    Headache Hammering.

    Sour Eructation’s.

    Right sided headache.

    Dreams of snakes.

    Fear of impending disease.

Using Boenninghausen’s approach, the above totality was formulated. On repertorization, the remedy indicated was Iris versicolor. Along with this, Iris also has a sphere of action on the pancreas leading to diabetes along with migrainous headache which further confirmed the selection of this remedy.

Iris versicolor is a species native to North america, in the eastern US and eastern Canada. It is common in sedge meadows, marshes, and along steambanks and shores. The specific epithet versicolor means variously coloured. Both the leaves and roots are poisonous and can cause stomach and intestinal inflammation. Consuming the plant can be fatal to calves.

 

Materia Medica source book references of Iris Versicolor in Migraine:

Materia medica by Boericke W. mentions that there is 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. Pancreas, gastrointestinal mucous membranes are especially affected. There is severe burning in throat.

The patient is better by continued motion.

Constantine Hering Condensed materia medica mentions that mentally there is a fear of approaching illness. Head symptoms include 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 which begins with blurred vision. There is burning in fauces. Eructations of sour food are seen frequently in this remedy.

Clarke mentions 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.

 

The MIDAS score of this case came down to 5 (Little or No Disability) after treatment with Iris versicolor.

 

Case 2: Female /40 years with following symptoms were reported

    Headache aggravated cold air, aggravated fasting.

    Gastric headache.

    Strong odours aggravate.

    Loss of sleep.

    Sun aggravation.

    Abortion in 3rd month of pregnancy.

    Lying on painful side ameliorates complaints.

 

 

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