Blue Flag
- Thyroid, pancreas, salivary, intestinal glands, and gastro-intestinal mucous membrane, are especially affected.
- Increases the flow of bile.
- Sick headaches and cholera morbus are a special therapeutic field for its action.
Head
- Frontal headache, with nausea.
- Scalp feels constricted.
- Right temples especially affected.
- Sick headache, worse rest; begins with a blur before eyes, after relaxing from a mental strain.
- Pustular eruption on scalp.
Ears
- Roaring, buzzing, ringing in ears, with deafness.
- Aural vertigo, with intense noises in ears.
Face
- Neuralgia after breakfast, beginning in infra-orbital nerve, and involving whole face.
Throat
- Mouth and tongue feel scalded.
- Heat and smarting in throat.
- Burning.
- Profuse flow of saliva; ropy.
- Goitre.
Stomach
- Burning of whole alimentary canal.
- Vomiting, sour bloody, biliary.
- Nausea.
- Profuse flow of saliva (Merc; Ipec; Kali iod).
- Deficient appetite.
Abdomen
- Liver sore.
- Cutting pain.
- Flatulent colic.
- Diarrhoea; stools watery, with burning at anus and through intestinal canal.
- Periodical night diarrhoea, with pain and green discharges.
- Constipation (give 30th)
Extremities
- Shifting pains.
- Sciatica, as if left hip-joint were wrenched.
- Pain extends to popliteal space.
- Gonorrhoeal rheumatism (use Irisin).
Skin
- Herpes zoster, associated with gastric derangements.
- Pustular eruptions.
- Psoriasis; irregular patches with shining scales.
- Eczema, with nightly itching.
Modalities
- Worse, in evening and at night, from rest.
- Better, from continued motion.
Relationship
- Antidote: Nux.
- Compare:
- Iris florentina-Orris-root--(delirium, convulsions, and paralysis);
- Iris factissima (headache and hernia);
- Iris germanica-Blue Garden Iris--(dropsy and freckles);
- Iris tenax-I. minor--(dry mouth; deathly sensation at point of stomach, pain in ileo-coecal region; appendicitis. Pain from adhesions after).
- Pancreatinum-a combination of several enzymes--(Indicated in intestinal indigestion; pain an hour or more after eating. Lienteric diarrhoea. Dose.--3-5 grains, better not given during the active period of stomachic digestion).
- Pepsinum--(Imperfect digestion with pain in gastric region. Marasmus of children who are fed on artificial foods. Diarrhoea due to indigestion. Dose.--3-4 grains) (Diseases of pancreas, gout, diabetes);
- Ipec; Podoph; Sanguin; Ars; Ant cr.
Dose
- Tincture to thirtieth potency.
- Favorable reports from the very highest potencies.
