(rubeosis) growth of blood vessels onto the iris, usually as a result of ischaemia of the eye. This occurs, for example, in diabetic *retinopathy and central *retinal vein occlusion.
Linn.
English: Orris, Iridis Rhizome, German Iris.
Ayurvedic: Paarseeka Vachaa, Haimavati, Shveta Vachaa (also considered as Pushkarmuula), Baal-bach.
Action: Demulcent, antidiarrhoeal, expectorant. Extract of the leaf is used for the treatment of frozen feet.
Key application: In irritable bowel, summer diarrhoea in children, in stubborn cases of respiratory congestion. (Folk medicine.) (Claims negatively evaluated by German Commission E: "blood-purifying," "stomach-strengthening" and "gland-stimulating.")The rhizomes gave triterpenes, beta- sitosterol, alpha-and beta-amyrin and isoflavonoids; an essential oil, about 0.1-2%, known as "Orris butter," consisting of about 85% myristic acid, with irone, ionone, methyl myris- tate. Isoflavonoids include irisolidone, irigenin and iridin. In volatile oil, chief constituents are cis-alpha and cis-gamma-irones. Triterpenes include iridal and irigermanal. Rhizomes also gave xanthones C. glucosylxanthones (Orris root is the root of Iris germanica. In homoeopathy, Iris versicolor is used.)Related species ? I. florentina Linn.; I. pallida Lam.
Habitat: The Himalayas from Garhwal to Arunachal Pradesh at 2,400-3,600 m.
Folk: Karkar, Tezma (Punjab).
Action: Diuretic, spasmolytic, febrifuge; antidote for opium addiction.
The rhizomes contain isoflavones— iridin, iriskumaonin and its methyl ether, irisflorentin, junipegenin A and irigenin.... iris germanica
n. colour difference in the iris of the eye, which is usually congenital but is occasionally secondary to inflammation of the iris (as in *Fuchs’ heterochromic cyclitis). In heterochromia iridis one iris differs in colour from the other; in heterochromia iridum one part of the iris differs in colour from the rest. —heterochromic adj.... heterochromia
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