Iris Versicolor – Blue Flag

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh rootstock of the plant, Iris versicol- or L., which occurs in the U.S.A. and Canada. N.O. Iridaceae.

The main indications are:

Hemicrania. Flickering scotoma, followed by headache. Sunday migraine. Sour vomiting, like vinegar, excoriating. Summer diarrhoea. Sciatica with stabbing, shooting pains, as if lame and the hip dislocated.

The Iris Versicolor headache occurs mostly on the right side, associated with ca- tarrhs of the eyes and conjunctiva and with tinnitus (ringing and roaring noises). It tends to come on mostly on non-working days, especially Sundays, and for this no physiological reason can be given.

Also typical of Iris Versicolor are the frequently changing pains, which are cutting pains of short duration, the right side being mainly affected.

On the skin, Iris Versicolor can also have a beneficial effect on vesicles and pus- tules on the head, face, trunk and limbs with a tendency to suppurate.

Anal prolapse often occurs in the intestinal colics with violent urging for stool, frequent passing of watery, mucous stools and burning pains in the rectum, possibly with blood in the stools.

Should the catarrhal symptoms spread to the renal pelvis, ureters and urethra, then the urine usually has a peculiar, penetrating odour.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Iris versicolor, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for iris: migraine; facial neuralgia; sciatic neuralgia; condition following herpes zoster; inflammation of the gastric mucosa and of the pancreas.