Iris Versicolor
Dewey, Essentials of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 1894, p. 152
Questions
Give the Headache of Iris. Periodical sick headache, especially- of students or teachers; pains intense, throbbing and supraorbital, causing temporary blindness; at height of headaches bitter or sour vomiting; hemicrania, commencing with blurring of vision.
What are the digestive and bilious symptoms of the drug ?
Severe burning distress in the stomach, vomiting of food, vomiting of excessively acid substances, with distress over the liver.
What is the Diarrhoea of Iris ?
Copious, associated with vomiting; worse 2 or 3 a. m., with excoriated, raw feeling about the anus; the stools are watery, yellowish-green and mixed with bile.
What are the nasal symptoms of Cyclamen europum ?
Similar to Pulsatilla; thick, bland discharge, but in addition sneezing.
What are the digestive symptoms ?
Aggravation from fat food; desire for lemonade, and thirst; otherwise similar to Pulsatilla. Give the cough of Drosera. Spasmodic cough, coming on in the evening; efforts to raise the phlegm end in retching and vomiting; barking cough, coming so frequently that the patient cannot get his breath; whooping cough; phthisis.
What are the urinary symptoms of Equisetum ?
Enuresis, with marked vesical irritation, cystitis, painful urination and urging; bladder sore and tender; great desire to pass water from pressure on the bladder.
What drug has sudden desire to pass water from emotional causes ?
Gelsemium .
What are the stools of Gambogia ?
Stool preceded by cutting at the navel, and expelled all at once after considerable urging; stools thin, watery and yellow mucus.