Berberis vulgaris

Mind and Disposition

Indifference, apathy.

Melancholy, inclination to weep.

Head

Darting and shooting pains in the head, often changing their locality.

Heat in the head after dinner, or in the afternoon.

Headache aggravated by movement, relieved in the open air.

Eyes

Dryness of, or biting, -burning, or itching sensation in the eyes.

Itching in the canthi, eyebrows, and eyelids.

Ears

Stitches in the ear.

Nose

Dryness in the nose.

Face

Pale face, with a dingy-grayish tinge, sunken cheeks, and deep-seated eyes, surrounded with bluish and blackish-gray border.

Mouth

The mouth feels dry and sticky.

Painful white blisters on the tip of the tongue.

Throat

Inflammation of the tonsils and pharynx, with swelling and fiery redness, and a sensation as if a lump were lodged in the side of the throat; expectoration of a quantity of thick, yellow, jelly-like mucus, -white, sticky tongue, viscid saliva resembling soap-suds.

Appetite and Taste

Thirst and dryness of the mouth.

Taste bitter.

Abdomen

Pressure in the region of the liver.

Burning under the skin, in the left side of the abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Hard, scanty stool, (like sheep's dung).

Watery evacuations.

Burning, stinging pain in the anus, before, during, and after stool.

Hæmorrhoidal tumors, with burning pain after stool.

Painful pressure in the perinæum; stitches in the perinæum, extending deep into the (left side) pelvis (fistula in ano).

Urine

Lancinating or tearing pulsative pains in the region of the kidneys; worse when stooping and rising again, sitting or lying; better when standing.

Violent sticking pains in the bladder, extending from the kidneys into the urethra, with urging to urinate.

Frequently recurring, crampy, contractive pain, or aching pain, in the bladder, when the bladder is full or empty.

Stitches in the urethra, extending into the bladder.

Stitches and burning in the urethra.

Frequent urging to urinate.

Urine dark yellow, red, becoming turbid, copious; mucous sediment, or transparent, jelly-like or reddish, bran-like sediment.

Greenish urine, depositing mucus.

Blood-red urine, depositing a copious, slimy, bright-red, bran-like sediment.

During urination, burning in the urethra, with pressure on the bladder.

After urination, burning in the urethra, or bladder, pressure in the bladder, cutting, burning, and stitches in the urethra.

Movement brings on or increases the urinary difficulties.

With the symptoms in the urinary organs, pain in the loins and hips.

Sexual Organs

Men. Dragging or lancinating pains in the spermatic cord, extending into the testicles.

Cold feeling in the prepuce and scrotum.

Women. Catamenia too scanty, painful (pain in the small of the back).

Menses, consisting of gray mucus or brown blood.

Suppressed menstruation.

Chest

Stitches in the chest (left side).

Back

Stitches in the spine.

Numbness in the small of the back.

Pain in the small of the back; worse when sitting mind lying in the morning, when awaking (during menstruation).

Generalities

Great weakness, like fainting, after a walk, with perspiration and heat on the upper part of the body; cold, pale, sunken face and oppression of breathing.

Sleep

Great sleepiness daring the day and after dinner.

Sleep unrefreshing.

Fever

Pulse slow and weak, or full, hard and rapid.

Chilliness, with hot face, followed by heat, with perspiration, or burning heat in the afternoon, increasing during the night.

Perspires easily from the least exertion.

Conditions

Rheumatic and gouty complaints, with diseases of the urinary organs.

Movement increases or causes the complaints.