BERBERIS VUL

BERBERIS VUL berberis vulgaris The renal or vesical symptoms predominate. Pain in small of back; very sensitive to touch in renal ...

BERBERIS VUL

berberis vulgaris

The renal or vesical symptoms predominate. Pain in small of back; very sensitive to touch in renal region; < when sitting and lying, from jar, from fatigue. Burning and soreness in region of kidneys. Numbness, stiffness, lameness with painful pressure in renal and lumbar regions. Pale, earthy complexion, with sunken cheeks and hollow, blue-encircled eyes. Rheumatic and gouty complaints, with diseases of the urinary organs. Colic from gall-stones. Bilious colic, followed by jaundice; clay-colored stools; fistula in ano, with bilious symptoms and itching of the parts; short cough and chest complaints, especially after operations for fistulae (Cal. p., Sil.). Stitching, cutting pain from left kidney following course of ureter into bladder and urethra (Tab., - r. kidney, Lyc.). Renal colic. < left side (Tab. - either side), with urging and strangury. (Canth.). Rubbing sensation in kidneys (Med.). Urine: greenish, blood-red, with thick, slimy mucus; transparent, reddish or jelly-like sediment. Movement brings on or increases urinary complaints.

Relation. - Similar: to, Canth., Lyc., Sars., Tab., in renal colic. Acts well after, Arn., Bry., Kali bi., Rhus, Sulph., in rheumatic affections.

Characteristics.
      The usual preparations of Berberis are made from the root bark.
      Berberis mahonia has a great local repute in the popular treatment of the low fever (typhoid) of the Rocky mountains, an infusion of the fresh plant being used.
      Chills and fever are among the prominent effects of Berb. vulg.: "Coldness of body with hot face, commencing eleven AM., burning heat in afternoon, worse during night." Ague with enlargement of spleen, or spleen, or spleen pains.
      Affections of liver and kidneys are strongly marked, but Berb. Is a medicine of wide range.
      Movement worse its complaints.
      Stitches are frequent, and a "bubbling sensation" or "bubbling stitches" are characteristic.
      A bubbling feeling as if water were coming up through the skin.
      Tearing, burning pains or bubbling sensation in joints.
      The mental condition is one of indifference, apathy.
      Melancholy, with inclination to weep.
      There is aversion to darkness, terrifying apparitions in the twilight.
      In the head there is vertigo and heaviness.
      Darting and shooting pains often changing their localities, worse movement, better open air.
      Heat of head after dinner or in afternoon.
      Puffy feeling in head, as if it were becoming larger.
      Scalp tense.
      The face is pale, with dingy grey tinge, sunken cheeks, deep-set eyes, surrounded with bluish and blackish grey border.
      Mouth dry and sticky, painful white blisters on tip of tongue.
      The pit of the stomach is puffed up.
      Sticking pain in region of liver and gall-bladder shooting up to left shoulder, worse by pressure.
      Gall-stone colic, followed by jaundice.
      Gnawing pain in right hypochondrium, shooting up to left scapula.
      Pains shoot down from tenth rib to navel.
      Burning in either inguinal region (especially right).
      Berberis produces both constipation (sheep-dung stools) and diarrhoea, and a number of symptoms about the anus.
      Hemorrhoids, with itching or burning, particularly after stool, which frequently is hard and covered with blood.
      Fistula in ano with painful pressure in perinaeum, extending deep into pelvis (left side).
      The urinary organs are markedly affected.
      The emission of urine is frequently accompanied by pains in thighs and loins.
      Lancinating, or tearing, bubbling pains in region of kidneys, worse stooping and rising again, sitting or lying, better standing.
      Violent sticking pains in bladder, extending from kidneys into urethra, with urging to urinate.
      Many cases of (especially right) renal colic have been cured by it.
      Frequent urging to urinate.
      Urine dark yellow, red, becoming turbid, copious, mucous sediment, or transparent, jelly-like or reddish, bran-like sediment.
      Urine slimy when passed, depositing copious foamy yellowish sediment.
      Greenish urine depositing mucus.
      During urination burning in urethra, or bladder, pressure in bladder, cutting, burning, or stitches in urethra.
      Dragging or lancinating pains in spermatic cord, extending into testes.
      Cold feeling in prepuce, glans, testes, and scrotum.
      In the female a marked symptom is absence of pleasurable sensation during coition.
      Uterine symptoms and leucorrhoea associated with painful urinary symptoms.
      Dysmenorrhoea, pains radiating in all directions down thighs, etc.
      Vagina intensely painful, reddened.
      Violent pain in back, with menses which are too scanty.
      It is leading remedy in lumbago, pains extend from back, round body, down leg, with red sediment in urine.
      Numbness, stiffness, and lameness in kidney region.
      Many old troubles in the back.
      Sufferings worse by fatigue.
      Aching in small of back, worse sitting, or lying, in the morning on awakening.
      Neuralgia under finger-nails.
      B. Simmons has verified a symptom of Berb. which may be regarded as characteristic.
      A gentleman of 52 complained of rheumatic pains in his legs and loss of walking power.
      After he had walked a short distance he was compelled to stop from a feeling of intense weariness, heaviness, lameness, and stiffness of the legs, which felt sore as if bruised.