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Iris Tenax / Iris Minor

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Iris Tenax / Iris Minor Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification

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  • Category: 🩺 Homeopathic
  • Miasm: Psoric Miasm
  • Temperament: ❄️ Chilly
  • Aggravation: 🌇 Morning

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🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
▲ GENERAL
  • Dr.
  • George Wigg of Portland, Oregon proved Iris -t in the later part of 1885.
  • He pu blished the provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. 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 ETC
  • 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 tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water..
  • 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, diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day..
  • 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
▲ RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Compare: (1) Effect on cecal region - Am., Ars., Lach., Sil. (2) Headache - Gels., Grat., Iris.,
Kali-bi., Ign. (3) Burning not worse by cold, Caps. (4) Homesickness - Caps., Ph-ac.

▲ MIND
  • Gloomy, cast-down, homesick feeling.
▲ ABDOMEN
  • Appendicitis.
  • Pain in ileo-cecal region.
  • Pains from adhesions after surgery

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
🩺 Medical Verification & Peer Review:
This profile has been verified by the Herbalhomeo medical team in accordance with authoritative homeopathic references.

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