BERBERIS VULGARIS


BERBERIS VULGARIS symptoms from Manual of the Homeopathic Practice by Charles Julius Hempel. What are the uses of the homeopathy remedy BERBERIS VULGARIS…


INTRODUCTION

BERBERIS VULGARIS. Barberry. See Journal fur Arzneimittellehre, I., I. Duration of Action; several weeks.

COMPARE WITH

Aloes., Arsenicum, Asa-f, Bryonia, Calcarea, Carbo vegetabilis, Chamomilla, China, Lycopodium, Natr-mur., nitr-ac., Nux-v., Pulsatilla, Rheum., Tart-em.

ANTIDOTES.

Camph. According to Buchner, Barberry antidotes Aconite

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Itching, corrosive sensation here and there. Smarting pain, as from excoriation (on the genial organs). lacerating pains (head, eyes, ears, cheeks, upper-jaw, lips, teeth, neck, abdomen, mons- veneris, chest, back, extremities). Lancinating, darting pains, (head, eyes, ears, teeth, tongue, stomach, abdomen, inguinal region and region of the bladder, extremities). Tensive aching pains(bones, head, eyes, nape of the neck, chest, inguinal and vesical region, small of the back, extremities). Feeling of coldness in various parts. Bubbling sensation in various parts. jerking pains here and there. Burning sensation in various parts of the body. Bone-pains, distention of joints. Lymphatic swellings on the tendon. Feeling of anxiety during movement, long standing, rising from a seat, or early in the morning, when sitting up in the bed or rising. General languor and debility, increased by walking or standing for some time, feeling of exhaustion, even after slight exertion only; languor, even unto trembling; slow, feeble pulse. General feeling as if bruised in the whole body, particularly in the lower limbs, and more especially after stooping for some time. Weakness, almost amounting to fainting, when walking, standing, or rising, sometimes accompanied with vertigo; condition of fainting while walking after rising in a carriage; fainting turn after a walk, with sudden seething of the blood, sweat, heat of the upper half of the body; coldness, paleness, and sunken, appearance of the face, oppression of the chest shortly before going to bed, shivering while entering the bed, difficulty in falling asleep, restless tossing about, and heavy dreams. *Arthritic and rheumatic complaints, connected with affections of the urinary organs, or haemorrhoidal affections, or menstrual derangement, complaints which are, either aggravated or excited by movement, fatigue, riding in a carriage or on horseback, coition, spirituous drinks.

CHARACTERISTIC PECULIARITIES

The pains are either excited or aggravated by movement. The pains are more particularly experienced on the left side. The pains are frequently most violent in the afternoon.

SKIN

Burning pricking, as of mosquitoes, in the skin of the head, Corrosive itching and stinging in the scalp and face, felt repeatedly in various places. Small, dingy-red, petechial, sometimes slightly itching or burning spots on the fore-arms, or on the dorsum of the hand. Blotches like nettle-rash on the upper arm. Clusters of red, burning itching or stinging, also gnawing pimples on the skin, painful when pressed upon, generally surrounded with a vividly-red areola, and surmounted by small tips containing pus, lastly changing to brown spots, resembling hepatic spots. Painful, intensely-red and inflamed pimples on the mucous membrane of the cheeks and lips, with ulceration in the centre, Vesicles on the lower lip, of the size of a pea or smaller; blisters on the tongue and gums. Soreness of the skin around the anus, with violent burning, severe pain to the touch, and great sensitiveness when sitting, terminating in the formation of a crust around the border to the anus. Soreness of the anus, after a walk of several hours.

SLEEP

Great weariness and drowsiness in the daytime and evening. Unusually long sleep, with a feeling of languor and as if bruised, with oppressive headache, pain in the small of the back and loins. REpeated waking at night, with tightness in the head, congestion of blood to the head, and nervous irritation. Restless sleep, disturbed with itching and burning, or with anxious dreams; sleep full of dreams, restless. Bodily and mental languor, early in the morning on waking.

FEVER

Chilliness, particularly before or after dinner, with icy-cold feet, dryness and viscidity of the mouth, without thirst. Chilliness along the back. Chills over the whole body, with subsequent heat and increase of thirst. Feeling of chilliness on the whole body, with heat in the face and icy-cold feet. Heat in the hands and head, in the afternoon. Feeling of heat the whole body. Violent flush of heat in the face; particularly in the evening. Profuse night, sweat.

MORAL SYMPTOMS

Mental languor, with difficulty to collect one’s senses,

and weakness of thought. Want of disposition to work dizziness; indifferent calm, sometimes even apathetic mood. Disposition to weep. Out of humor. Anxious mood, with great fearfulness and tendency to start. Great anguish and uneasiness.

HEAD

Giddiness and dizziness in the head, when walking, or at work, with weakness, as if he would faint in stooping. Feeling of intoxication in the head. Empty and muddled sensation in the head; stupid and dizzy feeling in the head. Early in the morning the head feels dull and heavy, sometimes with languor, ill humor, and chilliness; feeling of heaviness and fullness, particularly the sinciput.Sensation as if the head were swollen and bloated. Feeling of tension and numbness in the skin of the head and face. Oppressive, or oppressive tensive pain in the whole head, particularly the fore part; dull aching or stinging pain in the head. Oppressive dragging, tensive pain in the forehead, increased or excited by stooping, relieved in the open air. Pressing pain in the forehead and temples, from within outwards. Oppressive pain in the temporal regions, in the direction of the eyes. Lacerating pain in the whole head. Sticking pains in the head, generally darting or shooting, or in paroxysms. Lancinating pain in the forehead and temples. Increased warmth in the head; heat in the head after dinner, and in the afternoon. Peculiar feeling of coldness in the temporal region. The pains are relieved in the open air air and aggravated by movement.

EYES

Sunken eyes, surrounded with blue or dingy-gray borders. Itching in the eye-brows and eye-lids, burning, biting, or stinging; itching in the canthi of the eyes, sometimes biting or stinging. Heaviness in the eye-lids when moving them. Feeling as if the lids were swollen. Heat in the face in the evening, mostly in and around the eyes; heat, burning, and redness of the inner surface of the lids. Continual dryness of the eyes. Dryness and biting or burning, sometimes with a sensation as if sand were in the eyes, with occasional slight redness of the conjunctiva of the lids and even the eye-ball. Inflammation of those canthi

which the lachrymal glands are situated; sensation of coldness in the eyes. Pressure and burning in the eyes. Intermittent, painful lacerating in the eye-ball. Bubbling in the eye. Dartings in the eyes. The eyes are sensitive to bright light. Most of the eye-symptoms seem to become worse in the open air; movement of the eye-balls excites or aggravates the pains.

EARS

Heat or itching in the ears. Drawing pains in the ears, terminating in severe stitches. Lacerating and lancinating pain in the inner ears, alternating with similar phenomena in other parts of the head. Pressing pain with stitches in the ear, as if the parts were being dug up by something. Painless beating with pressure, and buzzing in the ears, particularly the left, with dryness and a feeling of coldness of the ear. Lancinations through the tympanum at intervals, causing one to start, mingled with fine digging-up stitches and a sensation as if the ears were full. Stitches in the ear.

NOSE

Frequent tingling, biting, or itching in the nostril. Profuse coryza, with oppression of the chest, particularly at night. Dryness of the mucous membrane of the nose. Catarrh of the nose, lasting for months.

FACE

Striking paleness of the face, with a dingy-grayish tinge, sunken cheeks and deep-seated eyes surrounded with bluish or blackish-gray borders. Frequently returning evanescent heat of the countenance, with redness. Cool cheeks and hot temples. Pressing sticking pains in the jaws, particularly in the lower jaw, more especially at night.

TEETH

Sight bleeding of the gums. Dingy-red border of the gums. Sensation in the teeth as if too long, too large or dull. Scraping gnawing pain in the roots and on the body of all the lower molars. Ulcers on the gums. Lacerating pain in the upper molars. Darting through the teeth, with sensation as if the gums were loose, and as if the teeth were raised out of their sockets.

MOUTH

Burning about the mouth and chin. Simple, or else biting or burning itching in the lips, going off by rubbing. The mouth feels dry and sticky. Bad, metallic smell from the mouth. Stinging-burning sensation on the tongue, with painfulness to the touch. Painful white blister on the tip of the tongue, violently-stinging, small, red pimples on the tongue, the forepart of which is stiff and somewhat thick.

THROAT

Dryness in the throat and feeling of pressure in the posterior region of there palate and fauces. Scraping in the throat. The pain is either excited or increased by talking or swallowing, and is accompanied with redness of the tonsil. Inflammation of the throat, with stiffness of the neck, hoarseness, and burning in the throat.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.