Berberis Vulgaris berb.

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.

Vertigo; with danger of falling; when stooping and when rising.
Illusions; in the twilight objects appear twice as large as natural.

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.

Tension of the scalp and skin of face, as if swollen.
Corrosive itching or stitching on scalp, changing place from scratching.

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.

Beating and fluttering noise in the ear.
Stopped up feeling in the ear, with pressure.
Tearing and stitching in the ears, through the membrana tympani, as if a nail were thrust through, or like from the sting of an insect.
Pimples: nodosities, size of hemp-seed, on the auricle, painful to touch.
Tumor behind the ear, size of a hazel-nut.

Crawling, smarting or itching in the ears.
Titillating irritation to sneeze.
Drops of blood from the left nostril.
Dryness of the nose.
Obstinate catarrh of left nostril, with secretions, first of yellow water, later purulent white, yellow or green mucus; empyreumatic smell and taste, particularly in morning.

Pale, earthy complexion, with sunken cheeks and hollow, blue encircled eyes.
Tearing and stitches in the cheek and jaw-bones.
Dark red, painful spot on the right cheek.
Sensation as if cold drops were spurted into the face when going into the open air.
Heat and burning of the face, with red cheeks.

Lips bluish on the inside.
Formication in upper lip around mouth and chin.
Burning in lips.
Dryness of lips, with scaling and formation of thin brown scurf on edges.

Stitches in the teeth, they feel too long or dull.
Tearing in the left molars.
Pain as if the gums were torn, or the teeth pulled out.
Dingy red edges of the gums; small white nodules on gums.
Gums bleed easily.
Ulcer at an upper molar on incisor.
Sore gums during dentition.

Taste: bitter; sometimes sour; of blood.
Tongue smarts when touched.
Slimy furred tongue.
Painful white blisters on tip of tongue.

Offensive metallic odor from the mouth.
Mouth and fauces dry and sticky, especially in morning, relieved after eating.

Increased redness of the palate and tonsils; tonsils pain when speaking or swallowing; sticking as from an awl (a pointed instrument for boring) in the throat.
Sensation of a plug in side of throat, with dryness, roughness and scraping; severe pain from empty deglutition.

Thirst, with dryness, of the mouth.
Great thirst, alternating with aversion to drink.
Appetite either increased or decreased.

Before dinner chilliness.
After eating solids, belching for hours, and soreness, continuing the whole night.

Hiccoughing.
Frequent eructations, alternating with yawning.
Bitter eructation.
Heartburn.
Nausea: before breakfast; after dinner.

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.

Pressure, also stitching in region of liver.
Colic from gall-stones.
Drawing, tearing in left hypochondrium, with sensation, during inspiration, as if something were torn lose.
Cramp-like contraction in splenic region.

Colic-like pains, especially about the navel.
Pressure and tension in the groins, as if a hernia would develop; especially when walking and standing.
Itching, or pressure in the region of the inguinal glands, with pain from touch as if they would swell.
Stitching, tearing or burning in the skin of the abdomen, mostly about the navel.
Rumbling in the bowels.

Watery evacuations.
Large, pappy, free stools, mostly with tenesmus before and after.
Scanty, thin-formed stool, hard or soft.
Hard stool, like sheep's dung, passed only after much straining.
Intense pain before and with stool, as from constriction in the rectum, preventing passage of fæces.
Frequent urging to stool.
Hemorrhoids, with itching or burning, particularly after stool, which frequently is hard, and covered with blood.
Soreness in the anus, with burning; pain when touched, and great sensitiveness when sitting.
Pressure in the perineum.
Fistula in ano, with itching there; short cough and chest complaints.
Herpes around the anus.

Burning and soreness in region of kidneys.
Sharp pain in right kidney, near the spine, thence downwards into the bladder.
Tearing, pulsating pain in right kidney.
Stitches from the kidneys to the bladder and urethra.
Cutting pain from left kidney into bladder and urethra.
Pressure and contraction in the vesical region when pressed upon, with burning in the urethra.
Cutting or burning in the urethra, worse when not urinating, frequently more on one side.
Violent urging after urinating, particularly in morning.
Urine: increased and clear, with small slimy sediment, at the beginning and during the exacerbation of complaints; lessened, and with copious slimy sediment, when the complaints abate; warmer, and attended with pain in the lumbar renal region; dark or bright yellow, or red, with sediment; blood red, speedily becoming turbid, depositing thick mucus and bright red mealy sediment.
Pain in the hips while urinating.

Suppressed sexual desire.
Sensation of weakness and unexcitability in the parts especially after urinating.
During coition too weak and too short thrill; ejection too soon.
Drawing from right or left testicle to the spermatic cord.
Neuralgia of testes and cords; parts swollen, tender.
Testicle drawn up.
Pains in the external genitals, increased by motion.
Coldness and numb feeling in the prepuce and glans.
Pains in genitals, increased by motion.
Scrotum shrunken, cold, with pressure in the testicles.

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 leucorrhœa, very prostrating.
Sensation of burning and soreness in vagina.
Vagina painful to touch.

Hoarseness, with pain of inflammation of tonsils.
Tearing in throat, upwards, particularly left side, with stiffness.

Oppression, with fluent coryza, mostly at night.
With inhalation, stitching between the shoulders, from the back through the chest.
Shortness of breath when going up stairs.
Obstruction of breath when raising the arms.

Short, dry cough, with stitches in the chest.

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.

Stitches about the heart.
Frequent palpitation.
Slow, weak pulse.

Stitching, pulsating, pressing or tensive pains in the muscles of chest.
Corrosive feeling in the skin.
Pimples on the chest and scapula.

Pain as if bruised or swollen from right scapula to shoulder-joint.
Tearing in and between the scapulæ.
Tearing in the spine.
Spinal irritation; general hyperæsthesia; 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.

Gurgling feeling in shoulder, or sensation of something alive in joint, especially about midnight.
Gurgling in the muscles of right upper arm.
Itching, smarting and burning in the axilla.
Tearing in the shoulder.
Stitches in left upper arm.
Pimples on point of each elbow, much inflamed after rubbing.
Pain in the wrist after exertion with the hand.
Tearing along the metacarpal bones.
Tearing in joints of the fingers.
Heaviness and lameness of the arms.
Arms pain as if bruised; feel weak and lame.
Dingy red marbled spots, with bruised pain.
Lymphatic swelling in the flexors of the arm, with petechia-like spots and burning.

Pain in the thighs, worse from changes of weather, mostly before heavy wind.
Varices, from the groins down the thighs.
Tension in bend of knee, as if the tendons were too short.
Tired, bruised and lame feeling in the knee.
Cramp in the calf of leg.
Tearing pain in the tibia.
Heels pain as if ulcerated, when standing.
Stitches between the metatarsal bones, as from a nail, when standing.
Stitches; burning; itching; smarting; pain and cold feeling in the feet, as if frozen.
Tearing in the balls of feet, painful to step thereon.
Stitches in ball of great toe; in joints of the toes.
Lower limbs pain as if beaten; with heaviness; can scarcely rise from the seat.
Twitching, as from something alive.
Wasting of the lower limbs.

Tearing, also stitching, or throbbing-tearing in the limbs.

Affected by the slightest exertion, which also excites breaking out of sweat.
Motion: 22. Raising arm: 26. Walking: 19, 43. Ascending: 26. Exertion: 32, 43. Lifting: 43. Stretching: 43. Rising: 2, 31. Standing: 19, 33, 43. Stooping: 2, 3. Sitting: 20, 31. Lying: 31, 37.

Great weakness, like fainting.
Lame feeling all over, with warm feeling in lower part of back or sacrum.
General relaxation, not inclined to do anything.

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.

Morning: 3, 7, 12, 16, 21, 31, 37, 43. Forenoon: 40. 11 A.M: 40. Afternoon: 3, 16, 40. Twilight: 1, 2. Evening: 40. Night: 15, 26, 40. Midnight: 32.

Walking in the open air: 43. Head complaints better in the open air. Eye complaints worse in open air. Changes of weather; heavy winds: 33.

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.

Right: 3, 8, 18, 21, 22, 31, 32. Left: 5, 7, 10, 18, 21, 22, 25, 28, 32. In out: 3. Above downwards: 21, 28, 31, 34. Below upwards: 25. Behind forwards: 26.

Great lassitude, increases by walking or standing.
Unrefreshed, worn feeling; prostration of both mind and body, in the morning when awaking, also after long sleep.
Exhaustion, even to trembling and shaking of the knees, also undesirous of occupation.
Faintish weakness after walking in the open air.
Gurgling sensation in the muscles, also with feeling as of something alive therein.
Pain, with heaviness and powerless of the affected part.
Pains, as from spraining or wrenching, lifting, or stretching.

In muscles: tension, shooting, tearing, pulsating, gurgling; sensation as of something alive.
Scraping upon the bones.
Cold feeling at the bones.
Varicose veins on many places.
Arthritic and rheumatic affections, particularly with urinary, hemorrhoidal or menstrual complaints.

Riding in carriage causes pain in foot.
After riding, faintness.
Touch: 19, 20, 23. Pressure: 21, 46. Rubbing: 32. Scratching: 4, 46.

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 diarrhœa.
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.

Especially suited where the renal or vesical symptoms are prominent.

Antidote to Berber.: Camphor.
Berber. antidotes: Acon.
Pareira brava is preferable when patient must get on all-fours to urinate: urine contains viscid, white mucus; pains go down into the thighs, rather than into hips as in Berber. (Has even relieved heart symptoms, when above are present).