Iris versicolor



Teeth

Toothache in the warm room.

Mouth

Food tastes flat or acid. Taste at first sweetish or insipid, later violent burning. Dry mouth in the morning in bed. Mouth dry and clammy. Mouth and stomach feel on fire, almost impossible to breathe, it is so acrid. Mouth and tongue feel as if they had been scalded. Profuse flow of saliva, ropy, drops when talking. Raw pain in left side of tongue. The tongue and gums feel as if covered by a greasy substance in the morning on rising. Dry, cracked lips.

Throat

Sore throat, with constriction of pharynx and difficult deglutition. Pains in tonsils shooting into ears. Sometimes burning sensation with feeling of enlargement like a burning cavern, while throat is dry, injected and of a bright red colour. A peculiar irritability of throat sometimes attended with cough. Spasms of pharynx while swallowing food. Burning from fauces to stomach, better inspiring cool air, worse exposure. Feeling as if a horse-hair were drawn tightly across left palate with burning and smarting. Cold water better burning short time only.

Appetite

Loss of appetite. Bitter, putrid taste. Nausea and empty eructations.

Stomach

Eructations of tasteless gas, frequently empty. Nausea and vomiting of a watery and very acid substance. Contents of stomach “turn to vinegar.” Vomiting, of food, sour, bilious, of sweetish water, of sour milk in children. Pain in stomach before breakfast and from drinking water. Great burning distress in epigastrium, mouth and stomach feel on fire. Cancer of pylorus with sour vomiting and great prostration (Cooper).

Abdomen

Pain in the region of the liver, worse from motion. Awful burning distress, deep in region of pancreas, not better by cold water. Colic better by bending forward, better by discharge of flatulence. Sharp griping pains in the bowels. Pain in the abdomen better by discharge of flatus.

Stool

Diarrhoea, with colic and rumbling in the bowels. Stool, thin, watery, soft yellow, with rumbling, but no pain, mushy, painless, blood and mucus with straining. Frequent watery stools with burning in anus, disposition to strain and bear down. [Dysentery with choleraic depression. Dark bilious discharges, low febrile state and much emaciation. Chronic diarrhoea with pain in lower abdomen, followed by burning in rectum (A. E. Smith)] Great burning in anus, as if on fire, after stool. Anus sore in morning, as if points were sticking into it. Distress in anus as if prolapsed. Constipation, succeeded by thin, watery diarrhoea, with flatulent colic, with migraine, with irregular menses, with haemorrhoids.

Urinary Organs

Pain in right kidney. Cutting and pricking in the urethra while urinating, with coldness and itching of genitals. (Urine of high specific gravity containing sugar.) Urine voided in large quantities. Urine of disagreeable odor. Urine thick, of strong odor, deep colour. Urine passes without force.

Male Sexual Organs

Coldness and itching of the genitals. Emission with amorous dreams. Inflammation of glans, which is much swollen and red.

Female Sexual Organs

Neuralgia and rheumatism of uterus. Menses regular but excessive. Leucorrhoea. Morning sickness of pregnancy, vomit sour or bitter, protracted nausea, profuse ropy saliva, tenderness over stomach. Inflammation and soreness of uterus, very sensitive to touch, pain across umbilicus, griping at intervals, nausea and vomiting of green and yellow bile, eructations of much flatus between the vomitings, yellow bilious diarrhoea. (Miscarriage).

Chest

Rheumatism in muscles of chest along with acid indigestion (Cooper).

Upper Limbs

Acute rheumatic pain in right shoulder, worse from motion, especially on raising arm. Severe shooting pains about the phalangeal and metacarpophalangeal articulations. Pain in the fingers on writing. (Will abort felon).

Lower Limbs

Sciatica, painful drawing and lameness, as if left hip were wrenched, extending to popliteal space. Sudden shooting pains in left sciatic nerve, causing lameness worse on motion. Moderate motion worse exceedingly, violent motion does not affect. Coxalgia in left hip.

Generalities

Great debility, more tired in morning than evening, head and eyes heavy, chilly, stomach sour with fullness, aches all over and feels rheumatic, worse on awaking, cannot keep to work, stools dark brownish green (cured with O, man, 55. Cooper) Gastric symptoms predominate (with headache).

Skin

Pustular eruptions (impetigo), especially on scalp and face. Tinea capitis. Herpes zoster (right) Psoriasis, eczema, with gastric derangements. Impetigo figurata. Porrigo.

Sleep

Great sleeplessness. Starts up in his sleep. Amorous dreams with seminal emissions.

Fever

Pulse accelerated. Chilliness during the whole night. Perspiration over the whole body, but principally in the hypochondria (and in the groin). (Bilious and typhoid fevers.) Sweat smells of vinegar. (Cooper).

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