# Iberis Amara ## Remedy Classification - **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy - **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm - **Temperament:** Chilly - **Aggravation Time:** Morning ## Keynote Indications Iber. has a marked action on the heart and is useful in heart diseases. Sylvester ob served that Iber. controlled the violence and sharp action of the heart and softened the pulse. Hale's provers confirmed this observation, the pulse being softened even during palpitations. Controls vascular excitement in hyper trophy with thickening of th e heart's walls. Heart enlarged with thickening of the heart walls. Infarction of the myocardium. Paroxysmal tachycardia. Conscious of heart's action. State of nervous excitement and fright. Dull or stitching pains. “On turning on left side a sharp sticking pain is felt as if a needle were crosswise in the ventricles and pricked at each contraction.” Sharp, stinging pains, through the chest. Pains down the left arm and numbness with an intermittent pulse. Palpitations with vertigo and choking in the throat, worse slightest exertion, laughing, coughing. Palpitations and breathlessness on slightest exertion. Dyspnea and palpitations on going up the stairs (Calc.). Darting pains through heart. Weakness of heart after influenza (Crat.). Cold hands and fee t. Numbness and tingling in left hand and arm. Feeling of lameness and soreness through whole body, as from a cold. Fullness and heat in head and neck, vertigo, nausea. Liver region full and painful. Choking sensation in the throat. White stool (Dig.). Desire for stimulants. ## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations) Better by eating, belching, expelling gas, cold. Worse lying down, on left side, on turning in bed, motion, exertion, sitting still. Worse from heat, warm room, at night, morning, on rising. ## Symptoms by System ### Mind - Nervous and irritable, especially on rising in the morning. - Frightened, indefin able fear with trembling. - Excited, cold sweat on face. - Fear of taking too much medicine. - Depression. - Sad, down -hearted, oppressed with desire to sigh. - Aware of heart's action. - B ad-tempered. - Very irritable with dullness of mind and lack of memory. - Inability to fix mind on any one thing. - Diminution in intellectual capacity with poor powers of con centration. - Trouble in remembering recent events, but can remember past events. - Abdomen - Heaviness and pain in the hepatic region. - Fullness with oppression in right hypochondriac region. - Fullness and distention of bowels. - Intestinal process accelerated with painful cramps, eased by the elimination of gas. - Nervous and irritable, especially on rising in the morning. - Frightened, indefin able fear with trembling. - Excited, cold sweat on face. - Fear of taking too much medicine. - Depression. - Sad, down -hearted, oppressed with desire to sigh. - Aware of heart's action. - B ad-tempered. - Very irritable with dullness of mind and lack of memory. - Inability to fix mind on any one thing. - Diminution in intellectual capacity with poor powers of con centration. - Trouble in remembering recent events, but can remember past events. - Abdomen - Heaviness and pain in the hepatic region. - Fullness with oppression in right hypochondriac region. - Fullness and distention of bowels. - Intestinal process accelerated with painful cramps, eased by the elimination of gas. ### Vertigo - Vertigo and pains around heart. - Vertigo, as if occiput were turning around. - Vertigo, eyes feel forced outwards. - Vertigo on standing, ameliorated by lying down. - Vertigo with dull pain and chilliness. - COMMENTS - Proctor related his own ex perience with this remedy. - After an attack of influenza of moderate intensity in 1890, he suffered from cardiac weakness for over two years. - Every waking mom ent was attended with cardiac distress. - On the least agitation the weakness de veloped into irregular palpitation with great anxiety. - Worse from tobacco, which had to be discarded. - Worse from wine, except port. - After all the usual remedies had been taken in vain, he took Iber., one drop in a powder on the tongue, two or three times a day. - After about ten days the heart suddenly fell almost into its perfect, regular, uncon scious beat and retired at once and finally from further observation. - Proctor repeated ly gave Iber. - since then in similar cases with the same success. ### Head - Headache with nausea and loss of appetite. - Dull headache, with vertigo and feverish chilliness. - Sensation of heaviness and fullness in the head with buzzing in the ears. - Congestion and headache, ame - liorated by fresh air. - Headache with nausea and loss of appetite. - Dull headache, with vertigo and feverish chilliness. - Sensation of heaviness and fullness in the head with buzzing in the ears. - Congestion and headache, ame - liorated by fresh air. ### Eyes - Red eyes with flushed face. - Feel ing in eyes as if be ing forced outward. - Flashes before eyes with dull headache and palpitations of heart. ### Ears - Dullness of hearing and comprehen sion, labored breathing. - Roaring in ears with heaviness of head, slight nausea and palpitation of heart. ### Face - Sick looking. - Flushed hot face and red eyes with palpitations. - Cold sweat on face, with fearfulness. ### Mouth - Dryness of the mouth with bitter or peppery taste. ### Throat - Dryness in the throat and larynx with feeling of constriction. - Tickli ng in throat. - Throat as if filled with dust. - As if both tonsils were enlarged. - Throat and trachea fills up with mucus. - Constant hawking up of thick, viscid, stringy mucus better after a meal. - Choking sensation in throat with fullness and heat, just above cricoid cartilage. - Constrictive sensation in throat with stabbing pains in heart, dyspnea and palpitations. ### Chest - Fullness in chest with fullness and heat in head and neck and flushed face. - Continued feeling of weight and anxiety in chest. - Slight pain under sternum, at articulation of third rib. - Fullness and constric tion under sternum with sharp pain through chest. - Conscious of heart's action. - Heart's action weak and fluttering, with small weak pulse. - Pulse full, irregular intermittent. - Pulse has peculiar double beats, which seem to run into each other. - Pulse full, soft and easily compressed. - Enlarged heart. - Dropsy with enlarged heart. - Dilation of heart. - Hypertrophy of heart. - Tachycardia. - Palpitations with vertigo and choking in throat. - Violent palpitations induced by slightest exer- tion or by laughing or coughing. - Wakes with palpitations about 2 a.m. - On turning on left side, stitching pain as of needles through ventricles felt at each systole. - Darting pains through heart. - Stabbing pain in heart with constriction in throat. - Sharp pains in cardiac region. - Sensation of weight and pressure with occasion al sharp, stinging pains. - Kidneys - Frequent but scanty urination. - Excessive evacuation of urine. - Frequent presence of bile pigment in the urine. - Dyspnea and palpitations on going upstairs. - Heart dyspnea, shortness of breath. - Constant desire to draw breath without relief (Carb -v.). - Respiration more frequent and labored. - Pulmonary rattle with viscous, stringy sputum. - Constant hawking of thick, stringy mucus until after a meal. - Cough causes redness of face. ### Stomach & Abdomen - Heavy and full sensation in the gastric region. - After eating, sour belching, better hawking of stringy mucus. - Nausea with cold, chilly feelings over body. - Heartburn, nausea with belching, which eases the condition. - Temperature - Cold, chilly feeling with nausea. - Feverish chilliness. - Quickly pass ing febrile symptoms. - Heat and fullness in neck and head with flushed face and cold feet and hands. - Loss of appetite with feeling of indigestion. - Desire for stimulants. - Ameliorated by eating. ### Extremities - Cold feet and hands. - Numbness and tingling in left hand and arm. - Whole body sore, lame and trembling. ### Neck & Back - Sensation of fullness in neck and head. ### Sleep - Sleep disturbed with aggravating dreams. - Restless turning in bed with ludicrous dreams.