Berberis vulgaris

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

Barberry

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Keynotes

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.

Worse

Motion: Jarring. Stepping hard. Rising from sitting. Fatigue. Urinating.

Region

Urinary and digestive tract: KIDNEYS. Liver. Bladder. Lumbar region (hips). Joints. Uterus. Spermatic cord.

Relationships

Complementary: Mag-m. Related: Benz-ac. Coc-c. Kali-bi. Lyc. Pul.

What the other books say about Berberis vulgaris

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Berberis vulgaris in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Berberis vulgaris in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Berberis vulgaris in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Berberis vulgaris in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Berberis vulgaris — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/berberis-vulgaris. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.