Generalities
Iris acts powerfully on GASTRO-INTESTINAL MUCOUS MEMBRANES; on salivary glands, LIVER and pancreas; producing profuse secretions; which are sour, acrid and burning. Oily nose; greasy taste and fatty stools;are other characteristics. Promotes the flow of bile. Symptoms set in suddenly; accompanied by rapid elimination. Cholera morbus and sick headaches.
Worse
Periodically. Weekly; 2-3 a.m.; Spring and Autumn; after midnight. Mental exhaustion. Hot weather.
Better
Gentle motion.
Mind
Low-spirited. Fear of approaching illness. Dullness of mental faculties.
Head
Aches begin with blurring of vision. Sick headaches, with diarrhoea. Shooting in temples with contractive feeling of the scalp. Tired headache, with mental exhaustion (studying, sewing) worse coughing, cold air; better gentle motion.
Eyes
Sunken. Violent supra-orbital pains. Periodic visual disturbances, blindness, hemiopia etc. with headache.
Ears
Aural vertigo with intense noises in ears.
Nose
Oily. Constant sneezing.
Face
Neuralgia worse after breakfast, involving the whole face; with copious urine, and urging for stools.
Mouth
Feels greasy, burnt or scalded. Tongue burns or feels cold. Greasy or sweetish taste. Profuse ropy saliva; drops when talking.
Throat
Heat and smarting in throat. Burning from fauces to stomach; better inhaling cool air or drinking cold water. Goitre.
Stomach
Sour, bitter eructations. Burning of whole alimentary canal, not better by cold drinks. Continuous nausea; BITTER, sweetish water, ACRID, WATERY, SOUR VOMITING WITH BURNING. Deficient appetite. Periodical vomiting spells, every month, six weeks, lasts for two or three days.
Abdomen
Liver sore. Colicky pain before each spell of vomiting and purging. STOOLS; BILIOUS, ACRID, WATERY, BURN LIKE FIRE. Painless cholera morbus. Urging to stools with headache, facial neuralgia, and pain in teeth. Stools fatty. Anus feels sore as if sharp points sticking in it.
Urinary
Profuse, clear urine, with headache. Burning along the length of urethra after urination. Diabetes.
Female
Protracted nausea and vomiting during pregnancy; profuse flow of saliva.
Extremities
The hips feel wrenched out. Shooting laming pains along limb; sciatica.
Skin
Herpes zoster; with gastric derangements; right side. Psoriasis, irregular patches with shining scales. Sweat smells of vinegar.
Related
Ars; Merc; Phosphorus
He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.
He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.