# Iris Tenax / Iris Minor ## Remedy Classification - **Type:** Herbal Remedy - **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm - **Temperament:** Chilly - **Aggravation Time:** Morning ## Keynote Indications Dr. George Wigg of Portland, Oregon proved Iris -t. in the later part of 1885. He pu blished the proving under the name of Iris minor. This, as Heath later showed, is a local name only, its true botanical name is Iris tenax. Dr. Wigg particularly noted the absence of saliva with dry mouth. Burning in eyes without tears. Pain in one tooth only. Itching and burning of scalp without eruption. Chill at 2 p.m. Painful spot in ileo -cecal region. Bilious vomiting, burning sensations (Iris.). Deathly sensation at point of stomach. Appendicitis. Gloomy, cast- down, homesick feeling. ## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations) Sweet oil and camphor amelio rates burning in mouth and throat. Worse by sucking in cold air, (burning in mouth and throat). Hot applications aggravates pain in bowels. Cup of tea aggravates vomiting. Worse on waking. COMMENTS - Dr. Wigg, age 44, took 5 drops to lx of the strong tincture. A female prover took repeated doses of Iris-t. 2x and 3x. The order in which the symptoms occurred in Dr. Wigg's case is roughly as follows: In the first fifteen minutes, there was burn ing in the mouth and throat. This passed off in the night, but was intensified by each fresh dose. After the second dose, taken early the next morning, the burni ng was reproduced, followed two hours later by dry mouth and absence of saliva. This was followed by a mental gloom and homesick feeling, increasing towards midnight. Headache in temples. Itching and burning of the scalp. Toothache. Sinking, all gone feeli ng. Abdominal pains, diarrhea. Desperate exhaustion compelling him to keep in bed. Hard chill followed by rise of temperature. Wigg noticed the all -gone feeling par ticularly on standing up, on walking in the morning. Cold water did not improve the burning in mouth and throat. A cold pillow improved pain in the temples. The acute pains in the bowels passed off in the night, but for fourteen days there was a tender spot over the ileo-cecal region and the bowels did not act normally for ten days. In the female prover, it produced a strange sensation in her mind: she though some of her friends had died, the next day she was unusually cheerful. The most remarkable symptoms were the “fearful pain in the ileo -cecal region and the hard chill at 2 p.m.” These indications led to the cure in the two following cases: The first case concerned Miss A., a schoolteacher, who had for several years a pain beginning in right eye, extending to the right half of her head. When the pain was most severe, she vomited a quantity of green bile. When she did not vomit she had nausea and chill between 2 and 3 p.m. The pain passed off in sleep at night. It always began on Saturday, before rising. Iris-t. 30x every six hours commencing on Friday morning, was given and quickly cured after Iris., Aloe, Cimic. and Kali-bi. had failed to give much relief. The relief from Iris -t. was so marked the patient thought she had received morphine. The second case concerned Mr. E., who drank a large quantity of buttermilk while in a state of perspiratio n after walking thirty miles over a mountainous country in August. Four hours after, he was taken with fearful pain in ileo -cecal region. This caused a deathly sensation at his epigastrium. Finally he vomited much dark green bile without relief. An old school doctor was called in and diagnosed obstruction with probable death in four days. He lingered three weeks and was brought home to Portland where Dr. Wigg saw him and diagnosed typhilitis, badly treated. Pressure on the ileo -cecal region caused the de ath like sensation at stomach pit. Pain continued until he vomited a cupful of dark green bile. He was somewhat constipated. Under Iris-t. 15x every three hours he commenced to improve at once and in two weeks was back at his business. ## Symptoms by System ### Mind - Gloomy, cast-down, homesick feeling. - Gloomy, cast-down, homesick feeling. ### Stomach & Abdomen - Appendicitis. - Pain in ileo-cecal region. - Pains from adhesions after surgery.