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Iris Versicolor

30CIris Vers
Blue Flag · Iris · "The Burning Vomiting Migraine Remedy"
iris.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
🎯 It acts primarily on the digestive glands, liver, and pancreas, and is highly effective for sick and digestive disturbances.
📖 Boericke writes:
Thyroid, pancreas, salivary, intestinal glands, and , are especially affected. Increases the flow of . Sick and are a special therapeutic field for its action.
👤 Constitution
The typical person needing this remedy often suffers from digestive weakness, swelling, or recurring sick associated with mental strain.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Burning.
throat
Burning of whole alimentary canal.
stomach
Deficient appetite.
stomach
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Indicated for migraines and that are triggered by mental stress and accompanied by .
Frontal headache, with .
Scalp feels constricted.
Right temples especially affected.
Sick headache, worse rest; begins with a blur before eyes, after relaxing from a mental strain.
eruption on scalp.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Tincture to 30th
Other
📝Favorable reports from the very highest potencies.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Nux Vomica
🔄 Compare With
Arsenicum AlbumIpecacuanhaPepsinumIris Tenax

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Iris Versicolor is listed in 123 rubrics across 20 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 44 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Abdomen36Head26Stomach22Mouth5Modalities4Nervous System4Skin4Face3Urinary System2Tongue2Locomotor System2Ears2Female Sexual System2Throat2Generalities2Nose1Respiratory System1Eyes1Taste1Male Sexual System1

See all 123 rubrics for Iris Versicolor