====== IBERIS AMARA ====== {{anchor:s1}}Iberis Amara. {{anchor:s2}}Bitter Candy Tuft. {{anchor:s3}}Cruciferae. {{anchor:s4}}Provings by Sabin and Dodge, under supervision of Hale. {{anchor:s5}}See Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 5, p. 60. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s7}}- Heart affections, Williams and Sylvester. {{anchor:s8}}See Note, Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 5, p. 61. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s10}}Sad, downhearted, oppressed, with desire to sigh.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Very irritable, with dullness of mind and lack of memory.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Nervous and irritable on rising in morning.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Feels as if frightened; an indefinable dread with trembling.\\ {{anchor:s14}}An excited, frightened feeling, with cold sweat on face.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Peculiar inability to fix mind on any one thing. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s17}}Vertigo: with dull pain and chilliness; when rising, morning, had to lie down; when making any exertion, with nausea; when standing, agg. on stooping; in back part of head, as if occiput was turning around.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Entering the house after walking felt faint.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Heat and fullness in neck and head, with flushed face and cold feet and hands.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Heaviness of head, with roaring in ears. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s22}}Pain in right side of head.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Frontal headache: on rising in morning; with nausea and loss of appetite.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Heat in head and neck and flushed face.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Dull pain in head, with vertigo and feverish chilliness. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s27}}Red eyes with flushed face.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Feeling in eyes as if being forced outward.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Flashes before eyes, with dull headache and palpitation of heart. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s31}}Dullness of hearing and comprehension.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Dull hearing and labored breathing.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Roaring in ears, with heaviness of head, slight nausea and palpitation of heart. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s35}}Looks as if he had been ill a long while.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Flushed hot face and red eyes, with palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Cold sweat on face, with fearfullness. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s39}}Throat dry as if filled with dust.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Throat feels as if both tonsils were enlarged.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Constant hawking up of thick, viscid, stringy mucus amel. after a meal.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Choking sensation: in throat, with fullness and heat; just above cricoid cartilage.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Constrictive sensation in throat, with stabbing pains in heart, dyspnea and palpitation. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s46}}Loss of appetite, with feeling of indigestion.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Desire for stimulants. ====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ====== {{anchor:s49}}After eating: sour belching; hawking of stringy mucus amel. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s51}}Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting\\ {{anchor:s52}}Nausea, with cold, chilly feelings over body. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s54}}Fullness and oppression in right hypochondriac region.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Pain in region of liver with clay colored stool. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s57}}Fullness and distension of bowels.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Tenderness of bowels, with thin, whitish stool. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s60}}Stool: clay colored; thin, whitish; large, white. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s62}}Frequent but scanty urination.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Excessive evacuation of urine. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s66}}Choking sensation just above cricoid cartilage.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Dryness in larynx and throat, with hawking up of thin, stringy mucus, for many hours; amel. after eating.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Tickling in throat, with expectoration of stringy mucus.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Tightness and constrictive feeling in larynx. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s71}}Dyspnea and palpitation on going up stairs.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Constant desire to draw a long breath, without relief.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Respiration more frequent and labored. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s75}}Slight pain under sternum, at articulation of third rib.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Fullness and constriction under sternum, with lancinating pain through chest.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Continued feeling of weight and anxiety in chest.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Fullness in chest, with fullness and heat in head and neck, and flushed face. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s80}}Increased action of heart, full feeling in neck and head.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Palpitation: with flushed hot face and red eyes; with dull headache and flashes before eyes; with heaviness of head, roaring, slight nausea; on going up stairs.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Stabbing pains in heart with constriction in throat.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Palpitation, with vertigo and choking in throat after walking, and on entering house felt faint; tingling and numbness commencing in fingers of left hand, gradually extending up arm, with irregular, tremulous and not well defined pulse; dull, heavy aching in left arm.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Increase of heart's action from 72 to 88, after fifteen minutes.\\ {{anchor:s85}}A wavy, tremulous sensation in radial artery, felt by finger, pulse intermitting every third beat, easily compressible.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Pulse has peculiar double beats, which seem to run into each other, full, soft and easily compressed.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Palpitation of heart on slight exertion (pulling down a window).\\ {{anchor:s88}}Palpitation plainly visible over whole chest, agg. by walking, amel. sitting still, but renewed by slightest exertion.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Much pain over base of heart with dull, heavy pain in left arm, and tingling and numbness in tips of fingers.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Sensation of weight and pressure in region of heart, with occasional sharp, stinging pains, passing from before backwards; heart's action from 70 to 96.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Hypertrophy of heart.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Pulse rises from 60 to 94 after fifteen minutes, with slight pains in region of heart.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Pains darting through heart at night, in bed; agg. lying on left side.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Dull, dragging pain in heart not amel. by any position nor by pressing with hand.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Sharp, sticking pain in heart, with constriction in throat, red eyes, flushed face.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Pain as if needle were crosswise in ventricles, and pricked at each contraction.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Palpitation with marked increase of force of apex beat, with irregular, jerking pulse, and a peculiar thrill under finger.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Strong palpitation, with forcible impulse; hand placed on heart was visibly moved.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Palpitation when going up stairs, obliged to lie down, with dyspnea and weak feeling.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Constant dull pain in heart agg. lying down.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Distressing palpitation with increase of dull pain, caused by coughing, laughing or slight exertion.\\ {{anchor:s102}}With the full, intermittently irregular pulse auscultation revealed great excitement of heart.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Contractions at intervals of three or four beats, after which there was a much longer interval.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Near end of proving sounds of heart increased in intensity, especially region of semilunar valves.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Force of apex beat visibly increased, heart impulse raised the touching hand; pulse hard, jerking, intermitting every third beat; rising from 70-90.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Heart's action apparently weakened for the first few moments, in ten minutes pulse rose to 100, full, strong, somewhat irregular.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Heart's action weak and fluttering, with small weak pulse. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s109}}Sensation of fullness in neck and head. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s111}}Tingling and numbness commencing in fingers of left hand, gradually extending up left arm, with irregular, tremulous pulse, not well defined.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Dull, heavy aching in left arm.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Tingling and numbness in finger tips, agg. lying on left side.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Dull aching in left arm, as if he had slept on it all night.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Rheumatic pains in right shoulder. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s117}}Trembling of lower limbs after exercise. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s119}}Cold feet and hands. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s123}}Any position: does not amel. pain in heart.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Lying down: dull pain at heart agg.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Lying on left side: darting pains through heart agg.; tingling and numbness in finger tips agg.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Had to lie down: on rising in morning.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Desire to lie down.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Sitting still: palpitation passes off.\\ {{anchor:s129}}When stooping or standing: vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s130}}When making any exertion: vertigo with nausea; palpitation; trembling of lower limbs.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Walking causes indescribable sensation under the sternum.\\ {{anchor:s132}}After walking: faint feeling; choking sensation in throat; palpitation agg.\\ {{anchor:s133}}On going up stairs: dyspnea and palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Feeling of inability to move even a finger. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s136}}Feels weary, with desire to lie down.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Feeling of general nervous excitement.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Feeling of inability to move even a finger; great weakness and debility.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Nervous and irritable on rising in morning.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Feeling of lameness and soreness through whole body, as from a cold.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Looks as if he had been ill a long while.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Trembling sensation all over, had to lie down.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Desire for stimulants. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s145}}At night in bed darting through heart.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Sleep at night disturbed by all sorts of dreams.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Restless, turning in bed, with ludicrous dreams.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Restless nights with horrid dreams. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s150}}Morning: on rising nervous and irritable; dull pain, chilliness, vertigo; frontal headache.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Night: darting pain through heart; sleep disturbed by all sorts of dreams; restless with horrid dreams. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s153}}Heat and fullness in neck and head with flushed face and cold feet and hands.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Feverish chilliness.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Cold, chilly feeling with nausea.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Quickly passing febrile paroxysms. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s158}}Quickly passing febrile attacks.\\ {{anchor:s159}}After ten minutes: pulse rose from weak to 100.\\ {{anchor:s160}}After fifteen minutes: a wavy, tremulous sensation in radial artery, with pulse intermitting every third beat; pulse rises from 60 to 94.\\ {{anchor:s161}}For many hours: dryness of larynx and throat, with hawking up of thin, stringy mucus. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s163}}Right: pain in side of head; fullness and oppression in hypochondriac region; rheumatic pain in shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Left: tingling and numbness commencing in fingers, extending up arm; dull, heavy aching in arm.\\ {{anchor:s165}}From before backward: sharp, stinging pains in heart. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s167}}As if frightened; as if occiput was turning around; as if eyes were being forced out; as if throat was filled with dust; as if both tonsils were enlarged; as if needles were crosswise in ventricles; as if he had been asleep on left arm all night.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Pain: in right side of head; in region of liver.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Much pain: over base of heart.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Stabbing pains: in heart.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Lancinating pain: through chest.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Darting pains: through heart.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Sharp, sticking pain: in heart.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Sharp, stinging pain: passing from before heart backwards.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Pricking pain: at each contraction of heart.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Dull, dragging pain: in heart.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Dull, heavy aching: in left arm.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Dull pain: in head; in heart.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Rheumatic pains: in right shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Slight pain: under sternum at articulation of third rib; in region of heart.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Feeling of lameness and soreness: all over body.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Heat and fullness: in neck and head; in throat; Fullness and distension: of bowels.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Fullness and constriction: under sternum.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Fullness and oppression: in right hypochondriac region.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Fullness: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Tenderness of bowels.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Great weakness and debility.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Faint feeling: after walking.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Weary feeling.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Choking sensation: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Constrictive sensation: in throat; in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Tightness: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Tickling: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Dryness: in larynx and throat.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Sensation of weight and pressure: in region of heart.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Continued feeling of weight and anxiety: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Heaviness: of head.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Roaring: in ears.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Tingling and numbness: commencing in fingers of left hand, extending up arm.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Wavy, tremulous sensation: in radial artery.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Trembling: of lower limbs; all over.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Chilly feelings: over body. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s204}}Cardiac affections; bronchitis; asthma; dropsy. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s208}}Pressure: by hand does not amel. pain in heart. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s210}}Compare: Amyg. amara, Bellad., Cact. grand., Digit. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 06, 1888 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r517|Iberis amara]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r517|Iberis amara]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1888 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}