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By
Joy Lucas R.S.Hom. I love this remedy and it is appropriate that we should be learning about it at this time of year as the festive holidays are here for some of us, which means lots of over indulgence in food, drink, etc. Iris is on a par with Nux Vomica for this = it is a great liver and pancreas remedy, lots of burning nausea and vomiting, masses of ropy saliva, diarrhea which burns like fire, sick headaches with the diarrhea, colic like pains in the abdomen, blurred vision, migraines from over studying Homeopathy!! :-)). |
The burnings go throughout
the digestive system and are intense.
They are <<< periodically (we never learned
from the last festive season!) and also <<< 2-3 am.
Iris is on a par
with Nux Vomica for this = it is a great liver and pancreas remedy, lots of
burning nausea and vomiting, masses of ropy saliva, diarrhea which burns like
fire, sick headaches with the diarrhea, colic like pains in the abdomen, blurred
vision, migraines from over studying Homeopathy!! :-)).
The burnings go
throughout the digestive system and are intense.
They are <<<
periodically (we never learned from the last festive season!) and also <<< 2-3
am.
It is related to
Arsenicum, Mercury and Phosphorous.
Iris Versicolor is
the 'wild' iris, the fleur de lis.
Wild they can be.
They love parties
and being wild, joking and laughing.
They have a robust
and almost aristocratic personality.
In fact they are
quite the party buffoon, always laughing at their own actions in a strange
isolated sort of manner.
Iris is a very
ornamental flower and you can expect this 'showing off' in their dress sense as
well as their actions.
But this actually
hides quite a different picture underneath.
Keeping in mind the
other remedies Iris is related to you will discover a lot of fear, anxiety and
sadness with this remedy.
The fears are
centered around their illness and dying.
They think they are
dying and have a great fear of growing old, but they won't tell you about their
concerns - it comes out in other ways.
Being a liver
remedy they are often really irritable and bossy, especially when they have the
headaches or stomach problems (the hangover?).
When alone, when
they no longer have to be the ornament of society, their anxieties take hold.
Anxiety drives them
to be restless and nervous, they mutter a great deal to themselves, their
thoughts wandering as much as their bodies.
They cannot
concentrate on one thing at a time, easily discouraged by this dullness of mind.
A great sadness
prevails.
The connection with
death is interesting.
The roots of iris
provided a huge industry for perfumeries and many were employed as root diggers
- there are dreams of digging, especially graves and a lot to do with corpses.
But more
importantly the Greek goddess Iris lead the souls of dead women and laid Irises
on their graves.
Iris has also been
used as a thyroid stimulant and this might explain the apparent mood swings from
irritable to party socialite, to the dull, sluggish, fearful state.
You have to look
'underneath' with Iris - there is a certain amount of deceit, a hiding of their
true feelings.
The Orris root
(which was used in the perfume) made social interaction possible - everything
was made to be sweet smelling but underneath, yuk, quite the opposite.
Not only is the
smell hidden (sweat smells like vinegar) but so is their pain.
Like a lot of
plants Iris contains alkaloids which contribute greatly to 'killing' pain.