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By Joy Lucas RSHom.
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, diarrhoea which burns like fire, sick headaches with the
diarrhoea, 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 centred 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.
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