Berberis vulgaris
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Rapid change of symptoms-pains change in regard to place and character-thirst alternates with thirstlessness, hunger, and loss of appetite, etc. Acts forcibly on the venous system, producing pelvic engorgements and hæmorrhoids. Hepatic, and rheumatic affections, particularly with urinary, hæmorrhoidal and menstrual complaints. Old gouty constitutions. Pain in region of kidneys is most marked; hence its use in renal and vesical troubles, gall-stones, and vesical catarrh. It causes inflammation of
Berberis vulgaris — Materia Medica
Berberis vulgaris — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Mentally and physically tired. Sees things in twilight. Many, rapidly changing or alternating symptoms; shooting outward, as in urethra, toes, etc., about or RADIATING from one point; lower spine, etc. Sticking. Soreness. Burning-smarting. Numbness; insensitive to extreme heat or cold. GURGLING or bubbling. Dry mucous membranes; mouth, vagina, etc. Dirty-gray face, gums, feces, etc. Lithæmia. Calculi. .................... As of a thight cap on head. Cold temples. Suppurating acne. Sticky mouth. Foamy, cottony saliva (Nux-m.). Painful pimple at tip of tongue. Pains from stomach to back or the reverse. Torn loose feeling in epigastrium. Biliary and urinary calculi. Colic, pains from gall-bladder to epigastrium; bilious; along ureter, arresting breathing; renal (r). Stools, pale, smarting, tough; watery, with jaundice. Fistula ani. Burning kidneys. Clear discharge from meatus, before urinating. Urine thick, turbid, yellow; red, mealy, sandy or slimy sediment. Dysuria. Genitals: cold, sweaty, pains change sides. Gray or brown mucus replaces menses. Backache with severe prostration. Sore spot under (r) scapula (Chel.). Crushing, stitching, paralysing lumbar pain. Numb lumbar region. Pain from iliac crests down front of thighs; when urinating. Lumbago. Itchy skin. Eruptions leave a brown stain. Chilly. Cold single parts. Everything excites sweating.
Berberis vulgaris — mind · James Tyler Kent
The mental symptoms are very defective, that is, we do not know the mental symptoms. There are a few. We know this, that the mind is weak, that he is unable to sustain a mental effort, and that he is forgetful. "Defective recollection and weak memory. Terrifying apparitions in twilight." It is not a strange thing for a child in the dark to imagine all sorts of things, because they have heard graveyard stories from old people; but with this remedy between the daylight and darkness he sees ghosts, imaginary forms - coming round him. It has melancholy, apathy, prostration of mind.
Berberis vulgaris — general · James Tyler Kent
When we have finished the study of Berberis we will see that it is not a very extensive remedy, but it is a very important one. Like Benzoic acid, it fits into the gouty and rheumatic sphere. It corresponds to such gouty conditions as do not determine to their proper places. A low state of the economy is present; anaemic condition; feeble constitution; pallid and sickly, old and worn out; prematurely old and wrinkled men and women. They are too feeble to determine the gouty deposits to the finger joints, where they naturally belong, and the trouble is yet, as it were, wandering around through the economy. Wandering pains in the nerves, and nerve sheaths. The wandering, stitching, tearing, twinging pains that run through Berberis are found in old gouty constitutions, and that is where we get the greatest benefit from Berberis. Pains and urines: Its proving would lead us to see it is similar to the wandering, twinging and tearing pains of old gouty constitutions, in persons who are pallid, and sickly, and chilly, where the deposits have not been so marked in the joints; but where the twinging in the fingers and in the toes are just such as are found - where the deposits do exist. Of course in all of the gouty states we must look to the liver and kidneys for pains and various distresses; they are centers of observation, because these organs are more or less disturbed. And very often cardiac troubles go along with them. The kidneys, liver, and heart are more or less disturbed in their functions and we see that Berberis takes hold of these organs. We have the uraemic state, and the state of disorder that ends in these conditions. We will have twinging pains along with kidney disturbances. Irregularities of the urine.
Berberis vulgaris — modalities · H.C. Allen
Aggravation: Motion, walking or carriage riding; any sudden jarring movement.
Berberis vulgaris — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Motion: Jarring. Stepping hard. Rising from sitting. Fatigue. Urinating.
Berberis vulgaris — head · James Tyler Kent
Some dizziness. The headaches are of the game character as the general pains in uraemic subjects, where there is plenty of sand in the urine, red pepper deposit. The head comes in for its share of these wander ing, pains. Stitching, tearing, twinging in the scalp; in the skull; in the eyes, ears, back of the head. Burning pains. "A feeling in the head, as if it was becoming large," is a peculiar symptom; a puffy sensation. Always putting the hand to the head; it feels as if he had on a skull-cap. It fits down over the brow, and it is not an uncommon thing with such patients to put the hand to the head to take off the cap. "Feels as, if he had a cap on the head," when there is none there. This symptom is not always described like a cap on the head. It is convertible into numbness of the scalp; many patients describe a sensation of numbness in the scalp, as if they had on a cap. Some times patients will deny that it is a sensation of numbness, and say it is just a cap. At one time I fully believed the "cap" belonged to two sensations. If it was painful I placed it under "pressure." If it was not painful it was supposed to belong to "numbness;" but I have now made a new rubric, "the sensation of skull-cap," which I now think is entirely distinctive, from numbness; but they both have to be compared.
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