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IRIS VERSICOLOR   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; Ipe...

IRIDIUM METALLICUM   The Metal (IRIDIUM) Intestinal putrefaction and septicæmia.   Anæmia , increases red corpuscles. Epilepsy; lupus. Rheumatism and gout. Uterine tumors. Spinal paresis.   Exhaustion after disease . Children who are puny, weak-limbed, and grow too fast. Nephritis of pregnancy. Head Difficult concentration of thought. Sensation as if mind were void. Though confused. "Woodeny" feeling in right side of head. Right side of scalp sensitive. Profuse, watery coryza, better indoors. Ozæna. Respiratory Hoarse cough, worse talking; posterior nares feel raw, inflamed, profuse, thick, yellowish discharge. Chronic laryngeal catarrh. Back and extremities Weakness in the kidney region. Spinal paresis, especially for the aged and after disease. Pressing in groin and left thigh. Tension in both thighs, especially left. Dislocated feeling in left hip-joint and dull pain toward left gluteal region. Relationship Compare...

IPECACUANHA   Ipecac-root (IPECA) The chief action is on the ramifications of the pneumogastric nerve, producing spasmodic irritation in chest and stomach. Morphia habit. The principal feature of Ipecacuanha is its   persistent nausea   and vomiting, which form the chief guiding symptoms. Indicated after indigestible food, raisins, cakes, etc. Especially indicated in fat children and adults, who are feeble and catch cold in relaxing atmosphere; warm, moist weather. Spasmodic affections. Hæmorrhages   bright-red   and   profuse . Mind Irritable; holds everything in contempt. Full of desires, for what they know not. Head Bones of skull feel crushed or bruised. Pain extends to teeth and root of tongue. Eyes Inflamed, red. Pain through eyeballs. Profuse lachrymation. Cornea dim. Eyes tire from near vision. State of vision constantly changing. Spasm of accommodation from irritable weakness of the ciliary muscle. Nause...

IODOFORMIUM   Iodoform (IODOFORMUM) Should not be forgotten in the treatment of tubercular meningitis, both as a local application to the head and internally (Bacil).   Tuberculous conditions . Subacute and chronic diarrhœa of children. Head Sharp, neuralgic pain. Head feels heavy, as if it could not be lifted from pillow. Itching of occiput.   Meningitis . Sleep interrupted by sighing and cries. Very drowsy. Eyes Pupils,   dilated ; contract unequally, react poorly. Diplopia. Failing sight due to retro-bulbar neuritis, central scotoma-partial atrophy of optic disc. Chest Sore pain in apex of right lung. Feeling of a weight on chest, as if smothering. Cough and wheezing on going to bed. Pain in left breast, like a hand grasping at the base of the heart. Hæmoptysis. Asthmatic breathing. Abdomen Scaphoid abdomen. Chronic diarrhœa with suspected tuberculosis. Abdomen distended; mesenteric glands enlarged.   Cho...

IODIUM   Iodine (IODUM) Rapid metabolism:   Loss of flesh   great appetite. Hungry with much thirst. Better after eating.   Great debility, the slightest effort induces perspiration . Iod individual is exceedingly thin, dark complexioned, with enlarged lymphatic glands, has voracious appetite but gets thin. Tubercular type. All glandular structures, respiratory organs, circulatory system are especially affected; they atrophy. Iodine arouses the defensive apparatus of the system by assembling the mononuclear leucocytes whose phagocytic action is marked, at a given point. Lead poisoning. Tremor. Iodine craves cold air. Acute exacerbation of chronic inflammation . Arthritis deformans.   Acts prominently on connective tissue. The plague. Goitre . Abnormal vaso-constriction, capillary congestion followed by œdema, ecchymosis, hæmorrhages, and nutritive disturbances are the pathological conditions at the basis of its symptomatology. Sluggish vital r...

INULA HELENIUM   Scabwort (INULA) A mucous membrane medicine. Bearing-down sensations in pelvic organs and bronchial symptoms are most marked. Substernal pain. Diabetes. Head Vertigo on stooping; throbbing after eating, pressure in temples and forehead. Respiratory Dry cough; worse at night and lying down; larynx painful. Chronic bronchitis; cough, with much thick expectoration, with languor and weak digestion. Stitches behind sternum. Teasing cough with much and free expectoration. Palliative in tubercular laryngitis. Female Menses too early and painful. Labor-like pains; urging to stool; dragging in genitals, with violent backache. Itching of legs during menses, chattering of teeth from cold during menstruation. Moving about in abdomen, stitches in genitals. Chronic metritis. Rectum Pressing toward rectum as of something extruding. Urinary Frequent urging to urinate; passes only in drops. Violet odor ( Tereb ). ...

INSULINUM   An active principle from the pancreas which affects sugar metabolism (INSULIN) Besides the use of Insulin in the treatment of diabetes, restoring the lost ability to oxidize carbohydrate and again storing glycogen in the liver, some use of it homeopathically has been made by Dr. Wm. F. Baker, showing its applicability in acne, carbuncles, erythema with itching eczema. In the gouty, transitory glycosuria when skin manifestations are persistent give three times daily after eating. Given a persistent case of skin irritation, boils or varicose ulceration with polyuria, it is indicated. Dose 3x to 30x.

INDOLUM   A Crystalline Compound Derivable from Indigo, but also a product of Putrefaction of Proteids (INDOL) Primary action is to increase the elimination of Indican. Auto-intoxication. Compare:   Skatol . Persistent desire to sleep, dull, discontented mental state, hideous, delusions and nervousness, constant motion of fingers and feet. Intestinal putrefaction. Head Dull occipital and frontal headache in afternoon. Dull sensation over eyes. Eyeballs hot and hurt when moved. Pupils dilated with headache. Stomach Bloated feeling. Hungry sensation after full meal. Great thirst. Constipation. Extremities Very tired and sore in lower limbs. Feet burn. Knee-joints sore. Sleep Sleepiness . Continuous dreaming. Dose Sixth attenuation.

INDIUM METALLICUM   The Metal Indium (INDIUM) Headaches and migraine. Seminal emissions.   Backache. Head Pain in head when straining at stool . Bursting in head during stool. Dull pains in temples and forehead,   with nausea , weakness,   sleepiness . Gone feeling in stomach about 11 am. Violent attack of sneezing. Sexual psychopathy. Face Painful suppurating pimples. Corners of mouth cracked and sore ( Condur ). Male Horribly offensive smell of urine after standing a short time. Emissions too frequent. Diminished power. Testicles tender; drawing pains along spermatic cord. Throat Uvula enlarged, ulcerated; thick, tough mucus in back part of pharynx. Worse evening. Extremities Stiffness in neck and shoulders. Pain, especially in left arm. Legs restless and weary. Toes itch ( Agar ). Dose Sixth to 200th potency. Relationship Compare:   Selenium; Titanium   (male sexual orga...

INDIGO TINCTORIA   Indigo--Dye-stuff (INDIGO) Marked action on the nervous system, and of undoubted benefit in the treatment of epilepsy with great sadness. Excited mood and desire to be busy. Neurasthenia and hysteria. Pure powdered Indigo placed on the wound cures snake and spider poison ( Kali permang; Golondrina; Cedron ). Stricture of œsophagus; blue color ( Cupr ). Head Vertigo with nausea. Convulsions. Sensation of a band around forehead. Undulating sensation through whole head. Sensation as if brain were frozen. Gloomy; cries at night. Hair feels pulled from vertex. Head feels frozen. Nose Excessive sneezing and bleeding from nose. Ears Pressure and roaring. Stomach Metallic taste.   Eructations . Bloating. Anorexia. Flushes of heat rising from stomach to head. Rectum Falling of rectum. Aroused at night with horrible itching at anus. Urinary Constant desire to urinate. Urine turbid. Catarrh of b...

ILEX AQUIFOLIUM   American Holly Intermittent fever. Marked eye symptoms, spleen pain. All symptoms better in winter. Eye Infiltration of cornea; staphyloma; nightly burning in orbits, rheumatic inflammation of eye; psilosis. Relationship Ilex Paraguayensis -Yerba Mate--(Persistent epigastric pain; sense of dryness of mouth and pharynx, anorexia, pyrosis, nervous depression, neurasthenia. Somnolence; incapacity for work, diminution of urinary secretion, headache and pruritus. Hemicrania. Renal colic. Is said to be of use as a prophylactic against sunstroke, being a safe stimulant to the circulation, to diaphoresis and diuresis).   Ilex vomitoria --Yaupon--(Emetic properties-Possesses also tonic and digestive qualities, free from sleepless effects. Has an active principle said to act as a powerful diuretic-employed in nephritis and gout).   Ilex Cassine --(Christmas berry Tea)-Excellent diuretic and substitute for tea.

IGNATIA AMARA   St. Ignatius Bean (IGNATIA) Produces a marked hyperæsthesia of all the senses, and a tendency to clonic spasms. Mentally,   the emotional element is uppermost, and co-ordination of function is interfered with . Hence, it is one of the chief remedies for hysteria. It is especially adapted to the nervous temperament-women of sensitive, easily excited nature, dark, mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in execution. Rapid change of mental and physical condition, opposite to each other. Great contradictions. Alert, nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling patients who suffer acutely in mind or body, at the same time made worse by drinking coffee. The   superficial   and   erratic character   of its symptoms is most characteristic.   Effects of grief   and worry. Cannot bear tobacco. Pain is small, circumscribed spots ( Oxal ac ).   The plague . Hiccough and hysterical vomiting. Mind Changeable mood; in...

ICTODES FOETIDA   Skunk-cabbage-Ictodes (POTHOS FOETIDUS) For asthmatic complaints; worse from inhaling any dust.   Hysteria . Erratic spasmodic pains. "Will-o'-the-wisp" like character of its subjective symptoms and its physometric property are special features (Samuel Jones).   Inflation and tension in the abdomen . Millar's asthma. Head Absent-minded, irritable. Headache in   single spots , with   violent pulsation of temporal arteries . Outward drawing from glabella. Better in open air ( Puls ). Red swelling across the bridge of the nose. Abdomen Inflation and tension   in abdomen. Respiratory Spasmodic croup. Troublesome respiration, with sudden feeling of anguish and sweat. Sneezing, with pain in throat. Pain in chest, with difficult breathing. Tongue feels numb.   Asthma; relieved by stool . Dose Tincture and lower potencies.

ICHTHYOLUM   A Combination of Sulphonated Hydrocarbons, a Fossil Product of Complex Structure found in Tyrol, supposed to be Fish Deposits, contains 10 % Sulphur. Its action on skin, mucous membranes, and kidneys is prompt and useful. It is strongly antiparasitic; redness, pain and inflammation; decreases tension. Excellent in winter coughs of old people. Polyarthritis. Chronic rheumatism.   Uric acid diathesis . Hay-fever.   Chronic hives. Tuberculosis, aids nutrition . Alcoholism when nothing will stay on stomach. Mind Irritable and depressed. Forgetful, lack of concentration. Head Dull, aching; better cold, pressure. Dull frontal and supra-orbital headache; worse moving eyes, cold air; better, warmth. Face Skin feels dry and itches. Acne on chin. Throat Irritated; pain to ears; sore, dry, with hawking and expectoration. Eyes Burn, red; worse, any change of temperature. Nose Bland coryza; stuffed...