The surface linings of the tongue, throat and mouth are affected.
The throat becomes dry and drinking cold water does not
help. When the condition becomes worse, severe headache sets in. Often, the
headache settles on the right side, but it may be felt on the left side as
well. It is associated with bilious vomiting. The patient suffers from severe
abdominal pain, associated with the feeling of being tense and distended. There
can be severe cramping as well as diarrhoea. In Iris Tenax the patient remains
depressed and pessamistic. He feels homesick. Sometimes, the tendency to become
depressed may alternate with happiness. There are no associated mental
symptoms. His mood changes suddenly.
Sometimes, he feels happy and at other times very sad. At about midnight, he
feels extremely sad and lonely. The
temple areas hurt. There is burning and itching over the scalp. This itch is not the usual kind but merely a
temporarily associated burning sensation. This is certainly not a permanent
ailment. The burning usually settles over the right eye. The headache comes once a week.
The vomit is of a green colour and sour in taste. The eyes also itch. There may
be associated feeling of burning and pricking.
There is pain over the teeth of left upper jaw. However, in my
opinion, Iris Tenax may also be used for the treatment of
pain affecting any tooth presenting the symptoms just mentioned. Iris Tenax is also associated with diarrhoea. There is pain
and severe cramping in the lower part of the abdomen. Being more
closely appendicitis.
Dr. Vig himself never mentioned the use of Iris Tenax for appendicitis. But in
view of its symptoms, subsequent experimentation with Iris Tenax has found it
to be very useful in the treatment of appendicitis. I have often used Iris
Tenax with Arnica and Bryonia in potency 200 for the treatment of appendicitis,
and found it very useful and amazingly effective. If cramps are the salient
symptom, then instead of Bryonia one should use Belladonna. Very often,
appendicitis can become complicated and lead to a very dangerous situation. The
triad just mentioned can bring the situation under control. I often would get
sick with appendicitis and used to get better with this prescription. Once,
while travelling, I felt uneasy right from the beginning of the journey. I used
these three medicines. We travelled the whole night. The next day, I drove the
car myself for 400 miles and we reached Karachi. The pain had remained under
control throughout the journey. The next day I was taken to a hospital and
examined by a surgeon. He was amazed to find that my appendix had burst open,
discharging pus. The surgeon could not comprehend that not only was I alive but
had also driven the car for 400 miles.
Naturally, I underwent the surgical removal of my appendix, but I did
not take penicillin; instead I used homoeopathic antibacterial drugs. My advice to homoeopathy students, as well
as to the patients, is that they should not totally depend upon these three
remedies and keep postponing the need for surgery. Once the appendix is
diseased, the homoeopathic remedies may only be used temporarily but the
removal of the appendix by surgery is still the best treatment. The pain of appendicitis can start during
any time of the day or night.
However, the usual time described for appendicitis is the
night. According to my experience,
there is no such restriction on the time of the onset of appendicitis. In Iris
Tenax, the pain starts on the right side and then spreads in the entire
abdomen. There is a tendency towards severe vomiting.
On waking up in the morning, the Iris Tenax patient has a
sinking sensation over the stomach. There is severe pain in the abdomen, moving
from the right to the left. Many a time the patient develops diarrhoea at
night, which aggravates further by midnight.
Hyperacidity of the stomach may lead to frequent
urination. If the patient happens to feel a burning sensation during
frequent urination and the colour of the urine is brown, then this is a
symptom of Iris Tenax. Arsenic and Natrum Phos are also useful in the treatment
of this condition, though their individual symptoms should also be kept in
mind. In Natrum Phos, the urine is somewhat pale in colour. Hyperacidity
of the stomach, which causes the urine to turn yellow in colour, is
also found in relation to other medicines. Excessive
and frequent urination leaves the patient very weak and makes it
difficult for him to walk. Such patients should be treated with Iris
Tenax. The Iris Tenax patient loses
sleep. In spite of decrease in pain and extreme weakness he is unable to get up
in the morning.
Iris Versicolor is the best remedy for the treatment of hyperacidity of the stomach.
It also affects the internal linings of the intestines as well as the stomach.
It has all the symptoms of migraine
i.e. the acidity of the stomach, the tendency towards nausea, a one-sided
headache and the feeling of tightness, etc.
The ear
symptoms are also very prominent in Iris Versicolor. The patient hears noises and humming sounds, leading slowly to
deafness. Since it affects the ears, it proves effective against the vertigo, secondary
to ear problems. In this condition, mostly Cocculus is very effective. However if Cocculus has failed, then Iris
Versicolor must be used. Iris Versicolor is also the best medicine
for the treatment of the vertigo resulting from problems of the eardrum
and imbalance from the fluid inside the ear (middle ear). Nux
Vomica and Bryonia Alba are useful against the giddiness due to
stomach upsets. The symptoms of Iris Versicolor include: facial neuralgia, which begins after taking breakfast, a burning sensation on the
tongue and inside the mouth, thick string-like saliva like Coccus,
and a burning sensation throughout the digestive system due to
hyperacidity. Excessive wind forms in the stomach causing pain.
Sometimes, the patient suffers from constipation and at other times
develops diarrhoea. This drug is also useful against herpes related to the
gastrointestinal upset.
Any skin disease may be associated with Iris Versicolor.
However, it is difficult to pick this remedy on the basis of skin
signs alone. Iris Versicolor is diagnosed mainly on the basis of symptoms
pertaining to the stomach. The ailments of Iris Versicolor aggravate
while resting, during the night and ameliorate with movement. Nux Vomica
annuls the side effects of Iris Versicolor.