- Iber has a marked action on the heart and is useful in heart diseases🌿 DiseasesMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Sylvester ob served that Iber controlled the violence and sharp action of the heart and softened the pulse.
- Hale's provers confirmed this observation, the pulse being softened even during palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions..
- Controls vascular excitement in hyper trophy with thickening of th e heart's walls.
- Heart enlarged with thickening of the heart walls.
- Infarction of the myocardiumHeart muscle tissueThe muscular wall of the heart that contracts to pump blood throughout the body..
- Paroxysmal tachycardiaAbnormally rapid heart rateA condition that causes the heart to beat faster than normal while at rest (usually over 100 beats per minute)..
- Conscious of heart's action.
- State of nervous excitement and fright.
- Dull or stitching pains.
- “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, through the chest.
- Pains down the left arm and numbness with an intermittent pulse.
- Palpitations with vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. and choking in the throat, worse slightest exertion, laughing, coughing.
- Palpitations and breathlessness on slightest exertion.
- DyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions. and palpitations on going up the stairs (Calc.🌿 Calc.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Darting pains through heart.
- Weakness of heart after influenza🩺 InfluenzaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. (Crat.🌿 Crat.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Cold hands and fee t. Numbness and tingling in left hand and arm.
- Feeling of lameness and soreness through whole body, as from a cold.
- Fullness and heat in head and neck, vertigo, nausea.
- Liver region full and painful.
- Choking sensation in the throat.
- White🌿 WhiteMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. stool (Dig.🌿 Dig.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Desire for stimulants.
- COMMENTS-Proctor related his own ex perience with this remedy.
- After an attack of influenzaViral infection of the respiratory tract (flu)A highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever, severe aching, and catarrh. of moderate intensity in 1890, he suffered from cardiac weakness for over two years.
- Every waking mom ent was attended with cardiac distress.
- On the least agitation the weakness de veloped into irregular palpitation with great anxiety.
- Worse from tobacco, which had to be discarded.
- Worse from wine, except port.
- After all the usual remedies had been taken in vain, he took Iber., one drop in a powder on the tongue, two or three times a day.
- After about ten days the heart suddenly fell almost into its perfect, regular, uncon scious beat and retired at once and finally from further observation.
- Proctor repeated ly gave Iber since then in similar cases with the same success.
- Temperature-Cold, chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets. feeling with nausea.
- Feverish chilliness.
- Quickly pass ing febrileFeverish or marked by feverRelating to or characterized by an elevated body temperature or fever symptoms. symptoms.
- Heat and fullness in neck and head with flushed face and cold feet and hands.
- Loss of appetite with feeling of indigestion.
- Ameliorated by eating
