Materia Medica

Iberis

Bitter Candytuft

State of nervous excitement. Has marked action upon the heart. Possesses great efficacy in cardiac dis- eases. Controls vascular excitement in hypertrophy with thickening of the heart's walls. Cardiac debility after influenza. Liver region ful and painful. White stools.

Mind

Sad and sighing; fearful and trembling. Ir- ritable.

Head

Vertigo and pains around heart. Constant hawking of thick, stringy mucus until after a meal. Hot, flushed face. Vertigo, as if occiput were turning around; eyes feel forced outwards.

Heart

Conscious of heart's action. On turning on left side, stitching pain as if needles through ventricles felt at each systole. Palpitation, with vertigo and chok- ing in throat. Stitching pains in cardiac region. Pulse full, irregular, intermittent. Worse, least motion and in warm room. Sensation of weight and pressure, with occasional sharp, stinging pains. Dropsy, with enlarged Violent palpitation induced by slightest exertion, or by laughing, or coughing. Darting pains through Cardiac dysp@. Dilation of heart. Wakes with palpitation about 2 A. M. Throat and trachea fills up with mucus. Cough causes redness of face. Tachy- cardia.

Extremities

Numbness and tingling in left hand and arm. Whole body sore, lame and trembling.

Modalities

Worse, lying down; on left side; mo- tion, exertion; warm room.

Relationships

Compare: Cact.; Dig.; Amyl.; Bell.

Dose

Tincture and first potency.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 385. Public domain.

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