====== IRIS VERSICOLOR ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Iris Versicolor.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Blue Flag. {{anchor:s3}}Iridaceae.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}Provings by Rowland, Burt, Holcombe, Berridge, Croker, Wesselhoeft, etc. {{anchor:s5}}See Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 5, p. 153.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s7}}- <span grade2>Headache</span>, Palmer, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 179; Warren, A. H. O., vol. 1, p. 109; <span grade2>Sick headache</span>, Kitchen, N. A. J. H., vol. 1, p. 464; Williamson, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 16; Wesselhoeft, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 287; <span grade2>Bilious headache</span>, Blake, A. H. O., vol. 9, p. 411; <span grade2>Tinea capitis</span>, Burt, A. H. O., vol. 3, p. 257; <span grade2>Inflamed eyelids</span>, Kitchen, N. A. J. H., vol. 1, p. 466; <span grade2>Prosopalgia</span> (3 cases), Holcombe, B. J. H., vol. 24, p. 512; <span grade2>Salivation</span>, Stevenson, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 70; B. J. H., vol. 29, p. 429; Claude, B. J. H., vol. 36, p. 183; <span grade2>Vomiting</span>, Kitchen, N. A. J. H., vol. 1, p. 462; <span grade2>Colic</span>, Kitchen, N. A. J. H., vol. 1, p. 465; Sanford, B. J. H., vol. 25, p. 671; <span grade2>Bilious colic</span>, Hawkes, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 162; <span grade2>Diarrhea</span>, Oehme, Times Retros., vol. 3, p. 27; (2 cases), Casseday, Hah. Mo., vol. 15, p. 604; Kitchen, N. A. J. H., vol. 1, p. 463; <span grade2>Autumnal diarrhea</span>, cholera, Lade, Hom. Rev., vol. 10, pp. 28, 503; <span grade2>Dysentery</span>, Kitchen, N. A. J. H., vol. 1, p. 464; <span grade2>Constipation</span>, Claude, B. & S.; <span grade2>Cholera morbus</span> (2 cases), Casseday, Hahn. Mo., vol. 15, p. 604; Kitchen, N. A. J. H., vol. 1, p. 462; (Irisin), Lade, N. A. J. H., vol. 15, p. 476; <span grade2>Menorrhagia</span>, Wesselhoeft, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 25; <span grade2>Vomiting of pregnancy</span>, Clark, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 183; <span grade2>Cough</span>, Wesselhoeft, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 180; <span grade2>Sciatica</span>, Payne, Hah. Mo., vol. 4, p. 405; Wesselhoeft, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 293; <span grade2>Neuralgia</span>, Kitchen, N. A. J. H., vol. 1, p. 467; <span grade2>Typhoid fever</span>, Kitchen, N. A. J. H., vol. 1, p. 467; <span grade2>Itch</span> (2 cases), Burt, A. H. O., vol. 3, p. 257; <span grade2>Eczema</span>, Palmer, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 210; <span grade2>Impetigo</span>, Buck., B. J. H., vol. 24, p. 508; <span grade2>Felon</span>, Gilchrist's Surg., p. 98.

====== MIND. [1] ======

{{anchor:s9}}Low spirited; discouraged.\\ {{anchor:s10}}Fears approaching illness.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Easily vexed.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Dullness of mental faculties; cannot fix mind on studies.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Muttering.

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

{{anchor:s15}}Head full, heavy.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

{{anchor:s17}}Constriction around forehead.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Sensation as of a band around head.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s19}}Dull, heavy frontal headache with nausea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s20}}Severe frontal headache, constant nausea and occasional vomiting; sleepless from pain; no appetite; great weakness.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s21}}Headache in forehead and eyes, agg. right side; with distressing nausea and vomiting of intensely sour or bilious matter; agg. in rest.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s22}}Dull throbbing or shooting in right side of forehead; nausea; agg. toward evening, from rest, from cold air, or coughing; amel. from moderate motion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s23}}Habitual headache; violent throbbing on either side of frontal protuberance, agg. in evening or after exertion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s24}}Chronic frontal headache; agg. sitting down, studying or sewing; amel. standing up or working; could not attend school.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s25}}Headache with violent pains over eye, in supraorbital region, on either side, but only on one side at a time.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s26}}Severe pain in head, through temples and over eyes, with vertigo, nausea and vomiting.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s27}}Shooting pains in temples, generally right, with constricted feeling in scalp.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s28}}Headache affecting right side, agg. at rest, amel. by constant motion, accompanied by nausea, vomiting and low spirits.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s29}}Hemicrania of right hemisphere.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s30}}Pain shoots like an electric shock from right temple to left side of occiput; depression of spirits, debility.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s31}}Slight dull pain at situation of posterior fontanelle.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s32}}Severe pain in occiput, agg. right side.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s33}}Stitches in lower cerebellum, right side.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s34}}Violent, stunning headache, with facial neuralgia, followed by copious, limpid urine and vomiting.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s35}}Sick headache, every eighth day.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s36}}Sick headache, of gastric or hepatic origin, always beginning with a blur before eyes.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s37}}Sick headache, seemingly the result of intense gastric and abdominal disturbance; dull, throbbing, or hammering, and also shooting or acute boring pains in one side of forehead, generally left, or passing from right to left, with nausea; pain begins in morning and grows more violent towards afternoon and night; agg. from violent motion; amel. from moderate exercise in open air; sometimes paroxysmal, through day, or at intervals of many days, so as to become periodical; agg. in cold air and from coughing.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s38}}Headache, vomits sweetish mucus, occasionally with a trace of bile.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s39}}Sick headache in bilious subjects, with gastric derangement and dyspepsia, tenderness in region of stomach and liver.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s40}}Headache reflex from acid stomach, or irritation of that organ from acid secretions.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s41}}Neuralgia, facial or cephalic, with nausea and vomiting.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s42}}Neuralgia of head, eyes and temples; pains cutting, of short duration, with acid vomiting; bilious vomiting, or vomiting of sweetish water; great despondency.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s43}}Tired headache, from mental exhaustion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s44}}Chronic headaches with asthenopia and fullness in stomach.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s45}}Sharp, cutting pains of short duration, changing often.</span>

====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s47}}Shooting in temples, mostly right, with constrictive feeling of scalp.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s48}}Pustular eruptions on scalp in children.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s49}}Twenty-six pustules on top of head, some as large as a three cent piece.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s50}}Whole top of head one complete scab, yellow matter oozing from under crust, which has matted hair together; left ear covered with eruption, it also gathers every two weeks and discharges a yellow greenish pus; numerous yellow pustules scattered over scalp, each pustule containing a hair.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s51}}~</span> <span grade3>Tinea capitis.</span>

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s53}}Redness of conjunctiva, as from a cold; eyes feel dull, with neuralgia; burning in internal canthus, with effusion of tears.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s54}}Inflamed eyelids; simple palpebral inflammation, apparently arising from cold.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s55}}Chronic inflammation of eyelids.</span>

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s57}}Constant sneezing; sharp pains in centre of temples; tickling cough; light, mushy stools.</span>

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s59}}Sunken eyes with blue circles.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s60}}Neuralgia, involving supra and infraorbital, superior maxillary and inferior dental nerves; begins after breakfast every morning, with a stupid, stunning headache; copious urine; disposition to stool; burning at anus.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s61}}Neuralgia in head, temples and eyes, attended with most distressing vomiting of sweetish mucus, and occasionally when much straining, with a trace of bile.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s62}}Waked with neuralgic pains in right side of face; darting stitches in two carious teeth; infraorbital nerves especially affected.</span>

====== LOWER FACE. [9] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s64}}Dry, cracked lips.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s65}}Pustular eruptions on face, around nose, lips and cheeks; secreting a sanious, irritating matter.</span>

====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s67}}Toothache in warm room; dental neuralgia.</span>

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

{{anchor:s69}}Taste: lost; flat; bitter or putrid.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s70}}Tongue feels as if scalded; greasy feeling on arising in morning.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s71}}Tongue white.</span>

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s73}}Burning in mouth and fauces, as if on fire.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s74}}Mouth and tongue feel as though they had been scalded.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s75}}Salivation after diphtheria, with swelling of parotids.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s76}}Profuse flow of saliva.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s77}}Constant discharge of ropy saliva, dropped from mouth during conversation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s78}}Salivation, first of tough mucus hawked from throat, which presented a dark appearance, and afterwards a profuse, watery discharge from whole buccal cavity; clammy, greasy sensation in mouth, with bilious coating on root of tongue; lethargy; hunger, with inability to eat; general "bilious" condition; constipation, succeeding a profuse, watery, offensive pancreatic diarrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s79}}Salivation with profuse flow; gums and tongue feel as though covered with a greasy substance.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s80}}Stomatitis, with painful burning in mouth and fauces.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s81}}Ulcers on mucous membrane of cheeks.</span>

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

{{anchor:s83}}Pain in tonsils, shooting into ears.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s84}}Smarting, burning sensation, with feeling of enlargement, like a burning cavern, while throat is dry injected, and of bright red color.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s85}}Peculiar irritability of throat, palate and pharynx, coming on without any appearance of inflammation, and sometimes attended with cough.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s86}}Spasms of pharynx while swallowing food.</span>

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s89}}Loss of taste and appetite, nausea and empty eructations.</span>

====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s91}}Headache after breakfast; aching in stomach before breakfast and after a cold drink.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s92}}Chronic indigestion of milk; it sours and is vomited.</span>

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

{{anchor:s94}}Eructations: of tasteless gas; of wind from stomach with considerable force; tasteless; acid of sour food.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s95}}Heartburn.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s96}}Nausea: from riding, from overexertion or from irregularities of diet; and retching.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s97}}Nausea and vomiting: of sour food, whole person smells sour; of thin, watery fluid of an exceedingly sour taste.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s98}}Vomiting: an extremely sour fluid which excoriates throat; with burning in mouth, fauces, esophagus and stomach; of sweetish water; of ingesta; of soured milk in children; of food an hour after eating; of bile, with great heat and sweat.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s99}}Bilious vomiting, with great heat of head and perspiration.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s100}}Violent pain with every fit of vomiting.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s101}}Periodical vomiting spells, coming on once every month or six weeks, lasting two or three days.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s102}}Vomiting of ingesta, then sour fluid, and at last bile yellow and green, with great heat of head, some general fever, and great prostration; perspiration warm, caused by efforts of straining and vomiting.</span>

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s104}}Great burning distress in epigastrium; can hardly endure it.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s105}}Violent pains in epigastric region, coming on at intervals.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s106}}Gastralgia.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s107}}Pain in stomach before breakfast, and from drinking water.</span>\\ {{anchor:s108}}Beating, throbbing, in and about heart and sternum, then fearful cramps or spasms from middle of sternum to pit of stomach, with repeated vomitings.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Everything sours in stomach.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s110}}Dyspepsia; food vomited an hour or so after meals.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s111}}Gastric symptoms predominate with headache.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s112}}Burning distress in stomach and pancreas, with watery diarrhea and great prostration.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s113}}Burning distress in pancreas, sweetish vomit.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s114}}Shocks of pain in umbilical region up to epigastrium; nausea, straining and belching of wind.</span>

====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s116}}Cutting in region of liver.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s117}}Pain in right hypochondriac region; agg. from motion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s118}}Acute and chronic disorders of liver.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s119}}Increase of bile, then deficiency of, with jaundice.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s120}}Anxious look; vomits almost constantly a greenish yellow matter, very bitter; great tenderness in region of liver; urgent desire for stool; bowels torpid; pulse 130, temperature, 103.2; great pain in abdomen, agg. on pressure; tongue dry, coated on each side, red streak in centre; dull and stupid.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s121}}~</span> <span grade3>Bilious colic.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s122}}Acute affections of pancreas, inflammation or salivation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s123}}Pains above crest of ilium, right side, then left.</span>

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s125}}Colicky pains, intermittent about navel, before each spell of vomiting or purging.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s126}}Pains in umbilical region and loud rumbling in bowels.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s127}}Pain in region of umbilicus, agg. from motion; diarrhea threatening or actually existing; general headache, agg. in anterior half, in individuals subject to headache; nausea and vomiting.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s128}}Sharp, griping pains in bowels.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s129}}Colicky pains, must bend forward for relief; amel. after discharges of flatus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s130}}Great prostration; pulse frequent and feeble; expression of great anguish in face; much mental depression; frequent and violent efforts to vomit, resulting, however, in little more than an enormous discharge of air, which seemed to roll off her stomach with great force; intense pain in umbilical region, passing in successive shocks, like effects of a galvanic battery, upward to epigastric region, followed or accompanied by nausea, straining and belching of wind; great commotion and rumbling of bowels above seat of pain, little or none below; no desire for stool.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s131}}~</span> <span grade3>Colic.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s132}}Abdomen very prominent; severe rumbling of gas; excessive watery discharges, preceded by soft and more substantial evacuations and intense aching, cramplike pains; excessive nausea and vomiting.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s133}}Rumbling and cutting pain in lower part of abdomen, amel. by pressing flatus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s134}}Periodical night colic, amel. by two or three free discharges before morning.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s135}}Colic of infants with flatulency and constipation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s136}}Abdominal complaints of children occurring in Spring and Autumn.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s137}}Syphilitic sinus in left groin, result of a bubo, discharge ichorous.</span>

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

{{anchor:s139}}Diarrhea: with colic and rumbling in bowels; with pain in bowels, with or without vomiting; cramps in bowels; thin, watery; with frequent bilious stools; brown and very offensive, with cutting, colicky pains, nausea and vomiting.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s140}}Stool: thin, watery, tinged with bile, copious, in a continuous stream; green, undigested; mushy, pappy, with fetid flatus; bloody mucus, with great straining; black, with fever, hot sweat, white tongue, severe headache, despondency; yellow, watery, corrosive; copious, watery, with or without tenesmus; frequent, very green and watery; watery, mixed with mucus; thin, yellow, fecal; fetid or coppery smelling; containing undigested food.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s141}}Watery stool; anus feels on fire; disposition to strain and bear down; great burning in anus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s142}}Watery diarrhea and colic pains precede the bloody, mucous discharges.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s143}}Bloody, mucous discharges, with severe tenesmus and rectal prolapsus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s144}}Very soft, yellow stools, with great rumbling in bowels.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s145}}Stool of scybalous matter, together with fluid mucoid feces of offensive, putrid and coppery color.</span>\\ {{anchor:s146}}Before stool: rumbling in abdomen; cutting in lower part of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s147}}During stool: cutting; severe cramplike pains; tenesmus; burning at anus; fetid, coppery smelling flatus.\\ {{anchor:s148}}After stool: pricking as of points in anus; burning of anus, as though on fire; prolapsus of rectum.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s149}}Periodical spells of diarrhea, always at night about two or three o'clock.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s150}}Burning from mouth to anus.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s151}}~</span> <span grade3>Diarrhea.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s152}}Acute mucous enteritis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s153}}Stools brown, slimy, or watery, frequent and generally very offensive; attacks sudden and characterized by uncommonly severe tenesmus, prolapsus of rectum, frequently piles, and very intense feeling of exhaustion from very commencement; appetite not much affected; generally no pain in bowels.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s154}}~</span> <span grade3>Diarrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s155}}Cholera infantum, with profuse, sour discharges from stomach and bowels, and pain in head.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s156}}Cholera morbus: occurring in hottest part of season; vomiting; grumbling pains in bowels, watery, green stools.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s157}}Severe pain in bowels, with much rumbling; constant nausea; vomiting and purging every few moments; limbs and body cold; occasional cramps in lower extremities; vomited matter was glairy mucus with some bile at times; stools thin and colorless.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s158}}~</span> <span grade3>Cholera morbus.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s159}}Autumnal bilious diarrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s160}}Bilious dysentery; body cold; skin blue; vomiting with prostration.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s161}}Constipation: succeeded by thin, watery diarrhea; with flatulent colic; migraine; nervousness; irregular menses; colic and sick headache; headache affecting forehead and eyes; hemorrhoids.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s162}}Prolapsus of rectum.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s163}}Anus feels sore, or as if sharp points were sticking in it.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s164}}Premonitory diarrhea for two or three days, then purging suddenly became agg., with vomiting, cramps in body and lower limbs; two hours later diarrhea profuse and involuntary, evacuations being wholly of rice water character; vomiting frequent and severe, the matter ejected consisting principally of small white flocculent bodies, with bodies of undigested food; crampy pains in abdomen and lumbar region, also less severely in legs; intense and urgent thirst; difficulty and oppression of breathing; choleraic expression; face limbs and body cold; tongue slightly bluish, furred and icy cold to touch.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s165}}~</span> <span grade3>Cholera.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s166}}Asiatic cholera, with rice water discharges, cramps, etc.</span>

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

{{anchor:s168}}Cutting and pricking in urethra while urinating.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Urine: scanty, red; burning length of urethra after passing it; clear, profuse; copious, watery in nervous headache; very high colored and scanty.

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s171}}Nocturnal emissions, with amorous dreams.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s172}}Coldness and itching of parts.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s173}}Excitement of generative organs reflex from an excessively acid stomach.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s174}}Heavy, dragging gait and excitable sexual desire.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s175}}Coldness and relaxation of scrotum.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s176}}Spermatorrhea, with pale face, sunken eyes; depression.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s177}}Secondary gonorrhea or gleet; syphilis; mercurial syphilis.</span>

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s179}}Neuralgia and rheumatism of uterus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s180}}Metrorrhagia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s181}}Menses regular but excessive.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s182}}Uterine leucorrhea.</span>

====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s186}}Morning sickness during pregnancy; vomit sour or bitter.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s187}}Protracted nausea and vomiting during pregnancy; profuse flow of saliva.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s188}}Inflammation and soreness of uterus, very sensitive to touch; pain across umbilicus, with severe griping at short intervals; nausea and vomiting of green or yellow bile, with eructations of a great deal of flatus during and between times of vomiting; diarrhea of a yellow, bilious character.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s189}}~</span> <span grade3>Miscarriage.</span>

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s192}}Dry, tickling cough, with smarting burning in throat.</span>

====== COUGH. [27] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s194}}Short, dry cough, excited by excessive tickling in larynx, preceded or accompanied by dry, smarting, or burning sore throat.</span>

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s196}}Pain in left side of chest, as if ribs were pressing against lungs.</span>

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

{{anchor:s198}}Crampy pain in right lumbar region.

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s200}}Acute rheumatic pain right shoulder agg. from motion, especially on raising arm.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s201}}Shooting burning pain in right shoulder; gastralgia or enteralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s202}}Pains shift rapidly in phalanges and metacarpal bones.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s203}}Fingers pain on writing.</span>

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s205}}Slight coxalgia in left hip.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s206}}Sciatic pains, as if left hip joint was wrenched.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s207}}Painful drawing and lameness behind left trochanter, extending down to popliteal space.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s208}}Shooting, burning, laming pain, affecting posterior femoral muscles; shooting along left sciatic nerve to foot, agg. by motion; moderate motion aggravates, violent motion makes no difference; shooting, burning pains in right shoulder.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s209}}Pain confined to left leg, shooting, burning, laming, affecting posterior femoral muscles, and shooting along left sciatic nerve to foot; agg. by motion.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s210}}~</span> <span grade3>Sciatica.</span>

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s212}}Shifting pains in right hip, both knees, agg. right and in right foot, especially, and first joint of great toe.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s213}}Tearing, shooting and rapidly shifting pains in joints and extremities, especially smaller joints, but more particularly in right shoulder.</span>

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s217}}Rest: headache agg.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Sitting down: chronic frontal headache agg.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Must bend forward for relief: from colicky pains.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Standing up: chronic headache amel.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Raising arm: pain in shoulder agg.\\ {{anchor:s222}}After exertion: headache agg.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Overexertion: causes nausea.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Constant motion: headache amel.\\ {{anchor:s225}}Motion: pain in right hypochondriac region agg.; pain in region of umbilicus agg.; pain in shoulder agg.; pain along sciatic nerve agg.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Moderate motion: headache amel.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Violent motion: sick headache agg.; pains along sciatic nerve not affected.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s229}}Great debility; faint, weak knees, trembling; sunken eyes; after protracted or severe serous or bilious stools, as in summer diarrhea.</span>

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s231}}Sleeplessness; starts in sleep.</span>

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s233}}Aggravation in evening and at night; from rest, also from motion; amel. from continued motion.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Morning: pain in head grows more violent towards afternoon and night; sickness.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Towards evening: headache and nausea agg.\\ {{anchor:s236}}Evening: headache agg.; much itching of eruption.\\ {{anchor:s237}}Night: emissions; chilliness; great itching of eruption; great itching of eczema.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s239}}Warm room: toothache.\\ {{anchor:s240}}Open air: headache amel.\\ {{anchor:s241}}After cold drink: aching in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Cold air: headache and nausea agg.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s244}}Chilliness all night.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s245}}Chills, with sleepiness.</span>\\ {{anchor:s246}}Head and face cold.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s247}}Heat followed by chill, with cold hands and feet.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s248}}Chills over whole body, even when well covered; fever with muttering delirium and bilious diarrhea.</span>\\ {{anchor:s249}}Skin hot; dry, black stool.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s250}}Sweat over whole body, particularly in groin.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s251}}Bilious fever after Bryon. or Acon.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s252}}Typhoid fever, with symptoms similar to Baptis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s253}}Muttering delirium; yellow, watery, stinking diarrhea; involuntary passage of urine and feces; coated tongue, dry, brown, crusty, edges red, sordes on gums and teeth, and foul breath.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s254}}~</span> <span grade3>Typhoid.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s255}}Fever; stupor; black, stinking, involuntary diarrhea, tongue dry and brown; fetid breath.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s256}}~</span> <span grade3>Typhoid.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s257}}Fever, intense headache, pain in small of back, black dysenteric passages, nausea and efforts to vomit.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s258}}~</span> <span grade3>Typhoid.</span>

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s260}}Paroxysmal: headache through day.\\ {{anchor:s261}}Every few moments: vomiting and purging.\\ {{anchor:s262}}At short intervals: severe griping in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s263}}An hour after eating: vomiting of food.\\ {{anchor:s264}}After breakfast every morning: neuralgia of face; headache; pain in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s265}}Periodical nightly colic, diarrhea 2 or 3 A. M.\\ {{anchor:s266}}Every eighth day: sick headache.\\ {{anchor:s267}}At intervals of many days, so as to become periodical: headache.\\ {{anchor:s268}}Every two weeks: ear gathers and discharges.\\ {{anchor:s269}}Once every month or six weeks: periodical vomiting spells, lasting two or three days.\\ {{anchor:s270}}Spring and Autumn: abdominal complaints.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s272}}Right: headache in forehead and eyes agg.; dull throbbing or shooting in side of forehead; shooting in temple; hemicrania; severe pain in occiput agg.; stitches in lower cerebellum; neuralgic pain side of face; pain in hypochondriac region; crampy pain in lumbar region; acute rheumatic pain in shoulder; shooting, burning pain in shoulder; shifting pains in hip, in foot; herpes zoster on side of body.\\ {{anchor:s273}}Left: acute, boring pains on side of forehead; ear covered with eruption; syphilitic sinus in groin; pain in side of chest; slight coxalgia in hip; sciatic pain in hip joint; painful drawing and lameness behind trochanter; pain along sciatic nerve to foot; in leg vesicular eruption on knee.\\ {{anchor:s274}}From right to left: pain shoots like an electric shock from temple to occiput; acute, boring pains through forehead; pain above crest of ilium.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s276}}As of a band around head; tongue feels as if scalded; as if mouth and fauces were on fire; mouth as if it was scalded; gums and tongue feel as though covered with a greasy substance; feeling of enlargement like a burning cavern in throat; pain like effects of a galvanic battery upward to epigastric region; arms feel as if on fire; pricking as of points; as if ribs were pressing against lungs; as if left hip joint was wrenched.\\ {{anchor:s277}}Pain: in head, in forehead and eyes; in tonsils; in stomach; in right hypochondriac region; above crest of ilium, right side, then left; in umbilical region; in bowels; across umbilicus; in left side of chest; shifts rapidly in phalanges and metacarpal bones; in fingers; in left leg; in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s278}}Pain: like an electric shock from right temple to left side of occiput.\\ {{anchor:s279}}Intense pain: in umbilical region.\\ {{anchor:s280}}Violent pain: over eyes; in supraorbital region on either side, but only on one side at a time.\\ {{anchor:s281}}Violent pain: with every fit of vomiting; in epigastric region.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Great pain: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s283}}Severe pain: in head, through temples and over eyes; in occiput agg. right side; in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s284}}Severe frontal headache.\\ {{anchor:s285}}Violent stunning headache with facial neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s286}}Great burning distress: in stomach; in epigastrium; in pancreas.\\ {{anchor:s287}}Fearful cramps: from middle of sternum to pit of stomach; in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s288}}Sharp, cutting pains of short duration in head.\\ {{anchor:s289}}Cutting: in head; in region of liver; in lower part of abdomen; in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s290}}Tearing, shooting and rapidly shifting pains in joints and extremities, especially smaller joints, but more particularly in right shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s291}}Shooting, burning pain: in right shoulder; affecting posterior femoral muscles.\\ {{anchor:s292}}Shooting pains: in temples; into ears; in right shoulder; along sciatic nerve to foot.\\ {{anchor:s293}}Acute, boring or shooting pains: in one side of forehead, generally left.\\ {{anchor:s294}}Sharp pains: in centre of temples.\\ {{anchor:s295}}Darting stitches: in two carious teeth.\\ {{anchor:s296}}Stitches: in lower cerebellum, right side.\\ {{anchor:s297}}Violent throbbing: in either side of frontal protuberance.\\ {{anchor:s298}}Beating, throbbing: in and about heart and sternum.\\ {{anchor:s299}}Dull throbbing or shooting: in right side of forehead.\\ {{anchor:s300}}Dull throbbing or hammering: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s301}}Severe griping: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s302}}Sharp, griping pains: in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s303}}Intense aching, cramplike pains: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s304}}Colicky pains: about navel.\\ {{anchor:s305}}Neuralgic pains: in right side of face.\\ {{anchor:s306}}Neuralgia: facial or cephalic; of head, eyes and temples; involving supra and infraorbital, superior maxillary and inferior dental nerves.\\ {{anchor:s307}}Acute rheumatic pain: in right shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s308}}Sciatic pains: in left hip joint.\\ {{anchor:s309}}Shifting pains: in right hip, both knees, in right foot and first joint of great toe.\\ {{anchor:s310}}Grumbling pains: in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s311}}Shocks of pain: in umbilical region, up to epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s312}}Habitual headache.\\ {{anchor:s313}}Chronic headaches with asthenopia.\\ {{anchor:s314}}Chronic frontal headache.\\ {{anchor:s315}}Slight dull pain: at situation of posterior fontanelle.\\ {{anchor:s316}}Dull, heavy frontal headache.\\ {{anchor:s317}}Sick headache: of gastric or hepatic origin.\\ {{anchor:s318}}Cramps: in lower extremities; in body.\\ {{anchor:s319}}Crampy pains: in abdomen and lumbar region; in right lumbar region.\\ {{anchor:s320}}Aching: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s321}}Pricking: in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s322}}Smarting burning: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s323}}Burning: in internal canthus; at anus; in mouth and fauces; esophagus and stomach; from mouth to anus; in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s324}}Soreness: of uterus.\\ {{anchor:s325}}Painful drawing and lameness behind left trochanter, extending down to popliteal space.\\ {{anchor:s326}}Tenderness: in region of stomach and liver.\\ {{anchor:s327}}Tired headache.\\ {{anchor:s328}}Full, heavy feeling in head.\\ {{anchor:s329}}Fullness: of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s330}}Greasy feeling: in mouth.\\ {{anchor:s331}}Very intense feeling of exhaustion.\\ {{anchor:s332}}Constriction: around forehead.\\ {{anchor:s333}}Constricted feeling: in scalp.\\ {{anchor:s334}}Great heat: of head.\\ {{anchor:s335}}Tenderness: in region of liver.\\ {{anchor:s336}}Excessive tickling: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s337}}Coldness: of male sexual organs.\\ {{anchor:s338}}Itching: of male sexual organs; of eruption.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

{{anchor:s340}}Excites secretion of glands, salivary, pancreatic, intestinal, etc.\\ {{anchor:s341}}Acts powerfully on gastro-intestinal mucous membrane.\\ {{anchor:s342}}Ascites and anasarca of hepatic origin.\\ {{anchor:s343}}Scrofula; eruptions on skin; glandular swellings.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s344}}Will abort felon.</span>

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s348}}Touch: uterus very sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s349}}Pressure: great pain in abdomen agg.\\ {{anchor:s350}}Riding: causes nausea.

====== SKIN. [46] ======

{{anchor:s352}}Small blood-boils on face, hands and back.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s353}}Fine eruption, showing black points after scratching, great itching at night.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s354}}Herpes zoster on right side of body.</span>\\ {{anchor:s355}}Vesicular eruption, becoming pustular, on arms, abdomen, back, nates and left knee; much itching in evening.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s356}}Vesicular eruption, becoming pustular.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s357}}Pustular eruption on scalp, face, around mouth and other parts of body.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s358}}Eczema, with great itching, especially at night; small, fine eruptions, which show black points after scratching.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s359}}Irregular patches on knees, elbows and body, with shining scales, edges slightly raised.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s360}}~</span> <span grade3>Psoriasis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s361}}Psoriasis in relievo, skin fissured and irritable.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s362}}Tinea capitis; crusta lactea; porrigo; eczema of face.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s363}}Impetigo capitis, with gastric complaints, nausea and vomiting.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s364}}Impetigo figurata, eruption dry, distinct and of dark hue.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s365}}Obstinate lepra vulgaris on arms.</span>

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s367}}Scrawny, scrofulous child, few weeks after birth; impetigo.\\ {{anchor:s368}}Baby, aet. 5 months; diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s369}}Baby, aet. 8 months, suffering for two months; diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s370}}Baby, frequently troubled with boils, mother had itch; tinea capitis.\\ {{anchor:s371}}Girl, aet. 11, suffering for three or four years; headache.\\ {{anchor:s372}}A boy, aet. 12; typhoid fever.\\ {{anchor:s373}}Man, aet. 20, has had syphilis and taken mercury, suffering three months; syphilitic sinus.\\ {{anchor:s374}}Woman, aet. 20; cholera morbus.\\ {{anchor:s375}}Woman, aet. 30; bilious colic.\\ {{anchor:s376}}Woman, aet. 30, nervo-sanguine, suffering from phlegmasia alba dolens succeeding an abortion; salivation.\\ {{anchor:s377}}Lady, aet. 31, debilitated by overlactation; cholera.\\ {{anchor:s378}}Man, health good, subject to sudden and often unaccountable attacks; diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s379}}Widow, aet. 42, tall, light complexion and hair, blue eyes, suffering three weeks, sciatica.\\ {{anchor:s380}}Woman, aet. 43, small in stature, black hair, blue eyes, active disposition, slight icteric taint, uses strong tea and coffee to excess; constipation.\\ {{anchor:s381}}Middle aged woman; typhoid.\\ {{anchor:s382}}Woman, aet. 60; cholera morbus.\\ {{anchor:s383}}Woman, aet. 65, nervous bilious temperament, wife of farmer, works very hard; colic.\\ {{anchor:s384}}A woman, aet. 83; typhoid.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s386}}Antidoted by <span grade2>Nux vom.</span>\\ {{anchor:s387}}Antidotes: <span grade2>Mercur., Nux vom., Phytol.</span>\\ {{anchor:s388}}Compare: <span grade2>Ant. crud., Ant. tart., Arsen., Colchic., Eup. perf., Ipecac., Juglans cin., Leptandra, Mercur., Pulsat., Sanguin., Veratr.</span>

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 06, 1888 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r193|Iris versicolor]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r193|Iris versicolor]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1888 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}