Berberis Vulgaris

Guernsey - Key-notes to the Materia Medica · Henry Newell Guernsey · 2,538 chars

General

This remedy affects particularly the lumbar region; kidneys; uterus. The patient is sometimes unable to tell the exact locality, but the pain is somewhere in the back, and shoots up the back; or into the spermatic cord, or testes, bladder, buttocks, or legs. The pain may shoot up or down, or both ways. Pains all over the body, emanating from the region of the back; sticking, pinching, pricking lancinating or jerking character, flying about, now here and now there.

There is often a bubbling sensation in the region of the kidneys; this sensation may occur elsewhere, but it is usually found here.

Mental.-- Indifferent, calm; even apathy.

Head

Feels full and heavy; as if a cap were pulled hard down on the head.

Eyes

Ophthalmia , with the characteristic flying pains from the back; sensation as if sand were between lids and eyes. Bubbling in.

Ears

Sensation of coldness in; of bubbling in.

Nose

Dryness of mucous membrane.

Face

Fatigued, worn-out expression of countenance; sunken cheeks; deep-seated eyes, surrounded with bluish borders.

Mouth

Dry and sticky.

Teeth feel as if too long or too large.

Much thirst.

Pharynx.-- Tonsillitis, with sensation of something rough there; stiff neck; feeling of a plug in the throat.

Fiery redness.

Much thick phlegm.

Gastric.-- Increased appetite.

Taste bitter; like bile.

Nausea before breakfast , better after.

Empty or bilious eructations.

Sticking pain in; whirling pain in.

Abdomen

Sticking pain in; also in liver.

Bubbling externally.

Violent burning, under the skin; in left side of.

Stool And Anus

Hard stools like sheep dung; or soft, easy stools, with burning in anus.

Urine

Bubbling sensation in region of kidneys; also sticking pains in region of kidneys, bladder, and urethra.

Stitch from urethra into bladder; aching in region of bladder; sticking pains from kidneys to bladder.

Urine dark yellow, red, like blood.

Sediment greenish; mucous; transparent; jelly-like; reddish; bran-like; with a sediment like meal which is easily crushed and dissolved between the fingers; very copious; frequent urging; all increased by motion.

Sexual.-- Male : Dragging, wretched sort of pain extending into testicles; smarting, burning very intense, in testicles.

Depression of sexual instinct.

Burning pain in penis.

Female : Dysmenorrhoea, with blood looking like grey serum.

Chest

Stitches from without, inward.

Sleep

Drowsiness and weariness in daytime and evening.

Worse.-- By motion; walking; riding; from fatigue.

Antidote

Camphor .