Iberis Amara

Iberis is one of the many remedies introduced into homceopathy by Hale. The

genus was named by Dioscorides from Iberia (Spain), its supposed original habitat. Old-school

authorities had mentioned /beris as useful in the treatment of hypertrophy of the heart. This led

Hale to have the remedy proved. Sylvester (old school) had observed that /ber. controlled "the

violence and sharp action of the heart and softened the pulse; hence its great service in

hypertrophy." Hale's provers confirmed this observation, the pulse being softened even during

palpitations. Hale considers that the primary depressing action is transient, the secondary,

exciting action more persistent. The cardiac symptoms of the drug are very pronounced and well

marked, consisting of pains dull or stitching, with palpitation and breathlessness on slightest

exertion; pains down the left arm and numbness; intermittent pulse. The concomitant symptoms

are well marked. Fulness and heat in head and neck; vertigo; nausea. The excessive nervousness

and frightened condition so frequently found associated with heart affections was pronounced in

• ▸the provings.
• ▸Cold hands and feet.
• ▸Choking sensation in the throat was also marked.
• ▸The stools

were white as those of Digit. A common symptom was "On turning on left side a sharp sticking

pain is felt as if a needle were crosswise in the ventricles and pricked at each contraction." Sharp

stinging pains from before backward. The symptoms are < at night, and in the morning on rising;

on the slightest exertion, as laughing or coughing; on stooping; on walking; on lying down; lying

on left side; on turning in bed. At the same time trembling weakness and nervousness cause

• ▸desire to lie down.
• ▸< By sitting still; in afternoon; in open air.
• ▸Proctor (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxxv.
• ▸, 489) has

related his own experience with this remedy. After an attack of influenza of moderate intensity in

1890, he suffered from cardiac weakness for over two years. Every waking moment was attended

with cardiac distress. On the least agitation the weakness developed into irregular palpitation

with great anxiety. < From tobacco, which had to be discarded; < from wine, except port. After

all the usual remedies had been taken in vain, he took /ber. ©, one drop in a powder on the

tongue, two or three times a day. "After about ten days the heart fell almost suddenly into its

perfect, regular, unconscious beat, and retired at once and finally from further observation."

Proctor has repeatedly given Iber. since then in similar cases with the same success. "Conscious

of heart's action" may possibly prove a keynote for its use.

Sad and sighing; fearful and trembling. Irritable.

Sad, down-hearted, oppressed, with desire to sigh.—Very irritable, with dulness of

mind and lack of memory.—Nervous and irritable on rising in morning.—Feels as if frightened,

an indefinable dread with trembling.—An excited, frightened feeling, with cold sweat on face.

• ▸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.

Vertigo: with dull pain and chilliness; when rising, morning, had to lie down; when

making any exertion, with nausea; when standing, < on stooping; in back part of head, as if

occiput were turning around.—Entering the house after walking felt faint—Heat and fulness in

• ▸neck and head, with flushed face and cold feet and hands.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸side of head.
• ▸—Frontal

headache: on rising in morning; and loss of appetite —Dull pain in head, with vertigo and

feverish chilliness.

Red eyes with flushed face.—Feeling in eyes as if being forced outward.—Flashes

before eyes, with dull headache and palpitation of heart.

• ▸Dulness of hearing and comprehension (11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸).
• ▸—Dull hearing and laboured

breathing.—Roaring in ears, with heaviness of head, slight nausea and palpitation of heart.

Throat as if filled with dust.—Throat feels as if both tonsils were enlarged.—Constant

hawking up of thick, viscid, stringy mucus > after a meal.—Choking sensation: in throat, with

fulness and heat; just above cricoid cartilage —Constrictive sensation in throat, with stabbing

pains in heart, dyspneea and palpitation.—Tickling in throat, with expectoration of stringy mucus.

After eating: sour belching; hawking of stringy mucus >.—Nausea, with cold,

chilly feelings over body.

Fulness and oppression in r. hypochondriac region.—Pain in region of liver with

clay-coloured stool.—Fulness and distension of bowels.—Tenderness of bowels, with thin,

whitish stool.

Tickling and dryness in larynx and throat, with hawking up of thin

stringy mucus for many hours; > after eating.—Tightness and constrictive feeling in

larynx.—Dyspneea and palpitation on going upstairs.—Constant desire to draw breath without

relief—Respiration more frequent and laboured.

• ▸Conscious of heart's action.
• ▸On turning on left side, stitching pain as of needles through ventricles felt at each systole.
• ▸Palpitation, with vertigo and choking 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 heart.
• ▸Violent palpitation induced by slightest exertion, or by laughing, or coughing. Darting pains through heart. Cardiac dyspnoea.
• ▸Dilation of heart.
• ▸Wakes with palpitation about 2 am.
• ▸Throat and trachea fills up with mucus.
• ▸Cough causes redness of face.
• ▸Tachycardia.

Slight pain under sternum, at articulation of third rib.—Fulness and constriction

under sternum, with lancinating pain through chest Continued feeling of weight and anxiety in

chest.—Fulness in chest, with fulness and heat in head and neck, and flushed face.

Increased action of heart, full feeling in neck and head.—Palpitation: with

flushed hot face and red eyes; with dull headache and flashes before eyes; with heaviness of

head, roaring, slight nausea, on going upstairs.—Conscious of heart.—Palpitation, with vertigo

and choking in throat after walking, and on entering house felt faint: tingling and numbness

commencing in fingers of |. hand, gradually extending up arm, with irregular, tremulous, and not

well-defined pulse; dull, heavy aching in |. arm.—Palpitation of heart on slight exertion (pulling

down a window).—Palpitation plainly visible over whole chest, < by walking, > sitting still, but

renewed by slightest exertion.—Increase of heart's action from 72 to 88, after fifteen minutes.—A

wavy, tremulous sensation in radial artery, felt by finger, pulse intermitting every third beat,

easily compressible.—Pulse has peculiar double beats, which seem to run into each other, full,

soft, and easily compressed.—Pulse first weak and small, later full and strong; easily compressed;

intermitting every third beat—Much pain over base of heart with dull, heavy pain in |. arm, and

tingling and numbness in tips of fingers Sensation of weight and pressure in region of heart,

with occasional sharp, stinging pains, passing from before backwards; heart's action from 70 to

96.—Hypertrophy of heart.—Pulse rises from 60 to 94 after fifteen minutes, with slight pains in

region of heart—Pains darting through heart at night, in bed; < lying on 1. side.—Dull, dragging

pain in heart not > by any position nor by pressing with hand.—Sharp, sticking pain in heart, with

constriction in throat, red eyes, flushed face.—Pain as if needle were crosswise in ventricles, and

pricked at each contraction.—Constant dull pain in heart < lying down.—Distressing palpitation

with increase of dull pain, caused by coughing, laughing, or slight exertion.

Tingling and numbness commencing in fingers of |. hand, gradually

extending up |. arm, with irregular, tremulous pulse, not well defined.—Dull, heavy aching in 1.

• ▸arm.
• ▸—Tingling and numbness in finger-tips, < lying on 1.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Dull aching in I.
• ▸arm, as if he had

slept on it all night—Rheumatic pain in r. shoulder.

Trembling of lower limbs after exercise.

24. Generalities—On going upstairs: dyspnoea and palpitation —Feeling of inability to move

even a finger.—Nervous and irritable on rising in morning.—Feeling of lameness and soreness

through whole body, as from a cold —Trembling sensation all over, had to lie down.—Desire for

stimulants.

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

At night in bed darting through heart.—Sleep at night disturbed by all sorts of

dreams.—Restless turning in bed, with ludicrous dreams.—Restless nights with horrid dreams.

Heat and fulness in neck and head with flushed face and cold feet and

• ▸hands.
• ▸—Feverish chilliness.
• ▸—Cold, chilly feeling with nausea.
• ▸—Quickly passing febrile

symptoms.

• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Bronchitis.
• ▸Dropsy.
• ▸Heart, affections of, conscious action of; influenza heart.

• ▸Compare: Lepidium, Spigel.
• ▸, Digit.
• ▸, Cact.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸, Amygd.
• ▸am.
• ▸, Crateg.
• ▸, Phaseol.

nan.

Compare: Cact; Dig; Amyl; Bell.

Tincture and first potency.