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Blue Flag; Uses/ Indications, Dosage, Side Effects

Blue Flag/ Iris versicolor is also commonly known as the blue flag, harlequin blue flag, larger blue flag, northern blue flag,^[rx] and poison flag, plus other variations of these names,^[rx]^[rx] and in Britain and Ireland as the purple iris.^[rx]It is a species of Iris native to North America, in the Eastern United States and Eastern Canada. It is common in sedge meadows, marshes, and along streambanks and shores. The specific epithet versicolor means “variously colored”.^[rx]

Another Name

Clajeux, Iris, Iris caroliniana, Iris versicolor, Iris Versicolore, Iris virginica, Lirio Azul, Lis Bleu, Sweet Flag, Water Flag.

Materia Medica of Blue Flag

Mind – Irritable; holds everything in contempt. Full of desires, for what they know not.
Head – Bones of the skull feel crushed or bruised. Pain extends to teeth and root of the tongue.
Eyes – Inflamed, red. Pain through eyeballs. Profuse lachrymation. Cornea dim. Eyes tire from near vision. State of vision constantly changing. Spasm of accommodation from the irritable weakness of the ciliary muscle. Nausea from looking on moving objects.
Face – Blue rings around eyes. Periodical orbital neuralgia, with lachrymation, photophobia, and smarting eyelids.
Nose – Coryza, with stoppage of nose and nausea. Epistaxis.
Stomach – Tongue usually clean. Mouth, moist; much saliva. Constant nausea and vomiting, with pale, twitching of face. Vomits food, bile, blood, mucus. Stomach feels relaxed as if hanging down. Hiccough.
Abdomen – Amebic dysentery with tenesmus; while straining pain so great that it nauseates; little thirst. Cutting, clutching; worse, around the navel. Body rigid; stretched out stiff.
Stools – Pitch-like green as grass, like frothy molasses, with griping at the navel. Dysenteric, slimy.
Female – Uterine hæmorrhage, profuse, bright, gushing, with nausea. Vomiting during pregnancy. Pain from navel to the uterus. Menses too early and too profuse.
Respiratory – Dyspnœa; constant constriction in chest. Asthma. Yearly attacks of difficult shortness of breathing. Continued sneezing; coryza; a wheezing cough. A cough incessant and violent, with every breath. Chest seems full of phlegm but does not yield to coughing. Bubbling rales. A suffocative cough; the child becomes stiff, and blue in the face. Whooping-cough, with a nosebleed, and from the mouth. Bleeding from lungs, with nausea; feeling of constriction; rattling cough. Croup. Hæmoptysis from slightest exertion (Millef). Hoarseness, especially at end of a cold. Complete aphonia.
Fever – Intermittent fever, irregular cases, after Quinine. Slightest chill with much heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnœa. Relapses from improper diet.
Sleep – With eyes half open. Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep (Ign).
Extremities – Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other.
Skin – Pale, lax. Blue around eyes. Military rash.

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Uses/ Indications of Blue Flag

Head Problems

Headaches and migraines – especially on the right side.
Pain in the right temple or above or below the right eye.
Migraine with sour and acrid vomiting.
Visual disturbances and blurring before the headache.
Headache after eating sweets.
Headaches or migraines that occur once a week, especially on weekends or Sunday.

Eye and Vision

Visual disturbances and blurring before a headache.

Gastrointestinal (Digestive) Problems

Burning through the length of the gastrointestinal tract – from mouth to the anus.
Sour, bilious and acrid vomiting, especially with a headache or migraine.
Vomiting with headache or migraine which doesn’t relieve the pain.
Profuse ropy saliva.

Skin Problems

Shingles (herpes zoster) usually on the right side of the abdomen.

Others

Constipation.
Fluid retention.
Increasing bile flow
Liver problems
Vomiting
Skin Rashes
Constipation
Crusta lactea
Diabetes (pancreatic)
Diarrhea
Dysentery
Dysmenorrhoea
Dyspepsia
Eczema
Fistula
Headache
Impetigo
Migraine
Neuralgia
Psoriasis
Rheumatism
Salivation
Sciatica

Dosage of Blue Flag

Adults: 4 drops into a tsp. of water 3 times a day.
Children: 1/2 dose. Repeat at greater intervals as condition subsides. Or as directed bya lic. practitioner.