BERBERIS VULGARIS


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Berberis Vulgaris from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Violent burning pain in the anus as if the parts around it were sore.

Lancinating tearing, stinging, or burning pain on one side of the umbilicus and passing to the lumbar region.

Sticking-digging, or digging-tearing pain in one or the other kidney regions.

Burning pain in the bladder.

Drawing-sticking pain in one or the other side of the bladder extending down into the female urethra, often arising in the lumbar region and extending along the course of the ureters.

painful cuttings in the left side of the region of the bladder extend into the urethra coming from the left kidney along the course of the ureters.

Violent sticking pain in the bladder extending from the kidneys.

Pale yellow urine either with a slight transparent gelatinous sediment which does not deposit, or a turbid, flocculent, clay-like copious mucous sediment mixed with a white or whitish-gray, and later a reddish mealy sediment

Blood -red urine which speedily becomes turbid, and deposits a thick mucous and bright-red mealy sediment.

Sensation of burning and soreness in the vagina, very sensitive.

Menstruation too scanty of too short duration, and attended with violent pain.

Smarting pain in the vagina.

Chilliness along the back.

Pressive or tensive pain in the region of the loins and kidneys sometimes on one side only, sometimes on both, or frequently across the small of the back at times extending downwards into the posterior portion of the pelvis, and of the thighs with a feeling of stiffness and lameness; rises from a seat with difficulty.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.