IBERIS AMARA

Bitter Candytuft


  • State of nervous excitement. 
  • Has marked action upon the heart. 
  • Possesses great efficacy in cardiac diseases. 
  • Control vascular excitement in hypertrophy with thickening of the heart's walls. 
  • Cardiac debility after influenza. 
  • Liver region full and painful. 
  • White stools.

Mind

  • Sad and sighing; fearful and trembling. 
  • Irritable.

Head

  • Vertigo and pains around heart. 
  • Constant hawking of thick, stringy mucus until after a meal. 
  • Hot, flushed face. 
  • Vertigo, as if occiput were turning around; eyes feel forced outwards.

Heart

  • Conscious of heart's action. 
  • On turning on left side, stitching pain as of needles through ventricles felt at each systole. 
  • Palpitation, with vertigo and choking in throat. 
  • Stitching pains in cardiac region. 
  • Pulse full, irregular, intermittent. 
  • Worse, least motion and in warm room. 
  • Sensation of weight and pressure, with occasional sharp, stinging pains. 
  • Dropsy, with enlarged heart. 
  • Violent palpitation induced by slightest exertion, or by laughing, or coughing. 
  • Darting pains through heart. 
  • Cardiac dyspnea. 
  • Dilation of heart. 
  • Wakes with palpitation about 2 am. 
  • Throat and trachea fills up with mucus. 
  • Cough causes redness of face. 
  • Tachycardia.

Extremities

  • Numbness and tingling in left hand and arm. 
  • Whole body sore, lame and trembling.

Modalities

  • Worse, lying down; on left side; motion, exertion; warm room.

Relationship

  • Compare: Cact; Dig; Amyl; Bell.

Dose

  • Tincture and first potency.