Iris foetidissima


Iris foetidissima signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Iris foetidissima is used…


      Iris foetidissima. *N.O. Iridaceae. Tincture of root.

Clinical

Headache. Hernia.

Characteristics

*Ir-foe. was proved under Berridge’s direction. One prover, Dr. Crocker, chewed a pieced of the root, another took the tincture, one experienced symptoms form potentizing the drug, and later 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.

Relations.

*Compare: The Arums and the other Irises.

SYMPTOMS.

Mind

Makes mistakes in writing and speaking, puts “right” for “left” and vice versa.

Head

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

Great burning feeling in mouth and fauces, extending into stomach, not worse by cold water or anything else.

Stomach

Burning as from vitriol in stomach. Pain in right groin as if inguinal hernia would protrude when walking (14th dil.).

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica