Library · Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica (3 vols)
For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice. Consult a registered homeopath.
Blue Garden Iris (Rhizome also used to make Oris root). N.O. Iridaceae. Tincture of fresh rhizome.
Diarrhoea. Dropsy. Freckles.
The fresh root of Ir-german. I-flor., and our common yellow iris, I-pseudo-acorus, have been much used in dropsies and are violently cathartic. The juice is also used for the removal of freckles from the skin.
These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.
Chapter text is on this shelf for study: open a title, then a heading. When a medicine appears in more than one materia medica, switch authors on the chapter to compare how each describes it. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.
