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Berberis
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Origin Simple
Sources 7 entries across 5 books: Kent, Hering, T. F. Allen, Cowperthwaite, Gladstone Clarke

Dose
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No dose stated in the library’s books

By regionHering
Mind ► Defective recollection and weak memory. ► Mental labor, requiring close thinking, very difficult ; the least interruption breaks the chain of thoughts. ► Indifference and pensiveness, with disinclination to speak. ► Everything seems twice as large as natural. ► Anxious and fearful. ► Fretful humor, with weariness of life.
Inner Head ► Dulness of the head, like from coryza. ► Heaviness of the head, particularly when stooping. ► Pressure from within outward, particularly in forehead, but also in temples and occiput. ► Sensation as if the head were becoming larger. ► Tensive pain, also with pressure in the temples and forehead or with dulness of the whole head. ► Stitches in the forehead. ► Tearing in the forehead and orbits. ► Cold sensation in right temple. ► Heat in the head, after dinner and from exertion.
Eyes ► Pressure in the eyes. ► Violent shooting pains through the eyes into the brain, or from temples to the eyes ; sometimes into the arms ; also after operation for strabismus. ► Tearing in left eye ; also in lids. ► Dryness of the eyes, with burning and redness of the conjunctiva. ► Sensation of sand between the lids ; dryness of internal canthus and sensation as of a foreign body there. ► Sticky feeling and white scum on dry eyelids, mornings. ► Itching, burning and smarting on the lids, or in the canthi, frequently only on small spots. ► Cold feeling in the eye, like from a cool wind, with lachrymation when closing the eyes. ► Quivering of the eyelids when reading by candle light.
Stomach ► Pressure in the stomach, as if it would burst, also stinging and burning. ► Chilliness in the region of stomach, ceasing after vomiting. ► Pit of stomach puffed up.
Female Sexual Organs ► Suppressed sexual desire, with long delayed thrill, and frequently, cutting and stitching in the parts during coition. ► Menses : too slight of watery blood, or grey mucus ; too short ; scanty, of black drops or filthy slime. ► Acrid leucorrhoea, very prostrating. ► Sensation of burning and soreness in vagina. ► Vagina painful to touch.
Lungs ► Stitches in and around clavicle, also pulsation and burning. ► Pressure behind the left nipple. ► Rawness and soreness on the chest, as during a catarrh. ► Stitches in the chest ; increased by deep inspiration, with short, dry cough. ► Tearing in the chest, particularly left side. ► Cutting contraction in the chest, to the abdomen, compels one to bend over.
Neck And Back ► Pain as if bruised or swollen from right scapula to shoulder-joint. ► Tearing in and between the scapulae. ► Tearing in the spine. ► Spinal irritation ; general hyperaesthesia ; pains about kidneys, along false ribs, starting from the spine. ► Backache, worse while sitting or lying, mostly in the morning, when awaking. ► Bruised pain, with stiffness in small of back ; rises from a seat with difficulty. ► Painful pressure and tension in lumbar and renal region, sometimes with sensation of numbness, puffiness, warmth, stiffness and lameness, extending at times into lower limbs. ► Constant pulsating stitches in sacrum.
Limbs In General ► Tearing, also stitching, or throbbing-tearing in the limbs.
Sleep ► Sleepiness by day ; feels tired, must lie down. ► Restless, dreamful sleep, with frequent waking, and congestion of blood to the head. ► Difficult awaking in the morning, succeeded by pains in the head and back, exhaustion, and want of recollection. ► Anxious dreams.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill before dinner ; with ice-cold feet dry, viscous mouth, without thirst. ► Chill from the face and arms to the back and breast, succeeded by heat, with anxiety and oppression of chest, especially forenoon and evening. ► Chill as if in the bones, with warmth of skin. ► Coldness of the body, with heat of face, commencing at 11 A.M. ; heat and inclination to sweat at night. ► With the chill pressure and dulness of the head. ► Heat in hands and head in the afternoon. ► Transient sensation of warmth at different places. ► With the heat, anxiety, oppression of chest, shooting in the head, thirst, and often sore throat. ► Inclination to sweat with the exertion.
Skin ► Burning, smarting, stitching or corrosive itching, which provokes scratching, though it soon returns at the same or some other place. ► Boils : hastens suppuration and prevents return. ► Red marbled spots : with corrosive or bruised pain ; like petechia, with burning, itching and stitching ; sensitive to pressure ; changing into brown spots. ► Running cold, and crawls in the skin. ► Swollen varices. ► Pimples, usually isolated, sometimes in groups. ► Lymphatic swellings. ► Jaundice, with pale, tough feces ; or with profuse, acrid, watery diarrhoea. ► Old yellow spots around the navel peeling off. ► Red spot on left eyelid, feels like a mosquito bite, but swelling nearly closes the eye ; next day other spots on face, behind the ear, on neck ; third day on the chin and nose, with itching and burning ; in evening covered with small vesicles, oozing watery fluid.

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Compare Aloe Socotrina, Antimonium Tartaricum, Arsenicum Album +11

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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