Other names and synonyms
iris-foe.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Description
Iris foetidissima. N. O. Iridaceae. Tincture of root.
Nosology
Headache. Hernia.
Typical features
Ir. foet. was proved under вerridge s direction. One prover, Doctor сroker, chewed a piece of the root; another took the tincture; one experienced symptoms from potentising the drug, and later took the 14th dilution. The rest took very high potencies. The prover who chewed the root experienced a burning feeling in mouth and fauces extending to stomach, and not relieved by cold water or anything else. A number of pains were felt in the head.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: The Arums and the other Irises.
Psyche and consciousness
Makes mistakes in writing and speaking; puts right for left and vice versâ.
Head, face, and ears
Light-headed; staggers to left-Great weight on vertex when the pain in the stomach (burning) occurs; cannot sit to his office work, in the morning; pain at vertex sometimes reaching down to over eyes.
Mouth and throat
Great burning feeling in mouth and fauces, extending into stomach, not by cold water or anything else.
Gastrointestinal tract
Burning as from vitriol in stomach. Pain in right groin as if inguinal hernia would protrude when walking (14th dil.