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Iris Foetidissima

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Iris Foetidissima · Stinking Iris · "The Burning Mouth Iris"
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🎯 Acts primarily as an irritant to the mucous membranes of the digestive tract and as a disturber of neurological coordination.
📖 Clarke writes:
Iris foetidissima. N. O. Iridaceae. Tincture of root.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Burning feeling in mouth and fauces
Burning feeling extending to stomach
Pains in the head
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Burning sensation not relieved by cold water or anything else
Proving Methodology
Proved under Berridge's direction
One prover (Dr. Croker) chewed a piece of the root
One prover took the tincture
One prover experienced symptoms from potentising the drug and later took the 14th dilution
The rest of the provers took very high potencies
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Great burning feeling in mouth and fauces, extending into stomach, not relieved by cold water.
Clarke
Burning sensation in the stomach as if from vitriol.
Clarke
Mistakes in writing and speaking, such as swapping right for left.
Clarke
Light-headedness with a tendency to stagger to the left.
Clarke
Great weight on the vertex occurring simultaneously with stomach burning.
Clarke
Pain at the vertex radiating down to the eyes.
Clarke
Inability to perform office work in the morning due to head symptoms.
Clarke
Pain in the right groin as if an inguinal hernia would protrude when walking.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Consider for cognitive confusion, specifically errors in speech and writing or directional confusion.
puts "right" for "left" and vice versâ.
Makes mistakes in writing and speaking
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Morning
inability to perform office work
Better from
📚 Sources & References
Kent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM

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