Berberis Vulgaris berb.

Urinary and digestive tract: KIDNEYS. Liver. Bladder. Lumbar region (hips). Joints. Uterus. Spermatic cord.

Motion: Jarring. Stepping hard. Rising from sitting. Fatigue. Urinating.

Mentally and physically tired. Sees things in twilight. Many, rapidly changing or alternating symptoms; shooting outward, as in urethra, toes, etc., about or RADIATING from one point; lower spine, etc. Sticking. Soreness. Burning-smarting. Numbness; insensitive to extreme heat or cold. GURGLING or bubbling. Dry mucous membranes; mouth, vagina, etc. Dirty-gray face, gums, feces, etc. Lithæmia. Calculi.

As of a thight cap on head. Cold temples. Suppurating acne. Sticky mouth. Foamy, cottony saliva (Nux-m.). Painful pimple at tip of tongue. Pains from stomach to back or the reverse. Torn loose feeling in epigastrium. Biliary and urinary calculi. Colic, pains from gall-bladder to epigastrium; bilious; along ureter, arresting breathing; renal (r). Stools, pale, smarting, tough; watery, with jaundice. Fistula ani. Burning kidneys. Clear discharge from meatus, before urinating. Urine thick, turbid, yellow; red, mealy, sandy or slimy sediment. Dysuria. Genitals: cold, sweaty, pains change sides. Gray or brown mucus replaces menses. Backache with severe prostration. Sore spot under (r) scapula (Chel.). Crushing, stitching, paralysing lumbar pain. Numb lumbar region. Pain from iliac crests down front of thighs; when urinating. Lumbago. Itchy skin. Eruptions leave a brown stain. Chilly. Cold single parts. Everything excites sweating.

Complementary: Mag-m. Related: Benz-ac. Coc-c. Kali-bi. Lyc. Pul.

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.

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

Motion, walking or carriage riding; any sudden jarring movement.

This remedy affects particularly the lumbar region; kidneys; uterus. The patient is sometimes unable to tell the exact locality, but the pain is somewhere in the back, and shoots up the back; or into the spermatic cord, or testes, bladder, buttocks, or legs. The pain may shoot up or down, or both ways. Pains all over the body, emanating from the region of the back; sticking, pinching, pricking lancinating or jerking character, flying about, now here and now there. There is often a bubbling sensation in the region of the kidneys; this sensation may occur elsewhere, but it is usually found here.

Indifferent, calm; even apathy.

Feels full and heavy; as if a cap were pulled hard down on the head.

Ophthalmia, with the characteristic flying pains from the back; sensation as if sand were between lids and eyes. Bubbling in.

Sensation of coldness in; of bubbling in.

Dryness of mucous membrane.

Fatigued, worn-out expression of countenance; sunken cheeks; deep-seated eyes, surrounded with bluish borders.

Dry and sticky. Teeth feel as if too long or too large. Much thirst.

Tonsillitis, with sensation of something rough there; stiff neck; feeling of a plug in the throat. Fiery redness. Much thick phlegm.

Increased appetite. Taste bitter; like bile. Nausea before breakfast, better after. Empty or bilious eructations. Sticking pain in; whirling pain in.

Sticking pain in; also in liver. Bubbling externally. Violent burning, under the skin; in left side of.

Hard stools like sheep dung; or soft, easy stools, with burning in anus.

Bubbling sensation in region of kidneys; also sticking pains in region of kidneys, bladder, and urethra. Stitch from urethra into bladder; aching in region of bladder; sticking pains from kidneys to bladder. Urine dark yellow, red, like blood. Sediment greenish; mucous; transparent; jelly-like; reddish; bran-like; with a sediment like meal which is easily crushed and dissolved between the fingers; very copious; frequent urging; all increased by motion.

Male: Dragging, wretched sort of pain extending into testicles; smarting, burning very intense, in testicles. Depression of sexual instinct. Burning pain in penis. Female: Dysmenorrhœa, with blood looking like grey serum.

Stitches from without, inward.

Drowsiness and weariness in daytime and evening.

By motion; walking; riding; from fatigue.

Camphor.

Stitching, digging, tearing or pulsative pain in region of one or the other kidneys; violent stitching cutting pains from kidneys to bladder and urethra. Pains in loins and hips while urinating. Dragging or lancinating pain in spermatic cord, extending to the testicles.

Barberry

Rapid change of symptoms-pains change in regard to place and character-thirst alternates with thirstlessness, hunger, and loss of appetite, etc. Acts forcibly on the venous system, producing pelvic engorgements and hæmorrhoids.

Hepatic, and rheumatic affections, particularly with urinary, hæmorrhoidal and menstrual complaints.

Old gouty constitutions. Pain in region of kidneys is most marked; hence its use in renal and vesical troubles, gall-stones, and vesical catarrh. It causes inflammation of kidneys with hæmaturia. Pains may be felt all over body, emanating from small of back. It has also marked action on the liver, promoting the flow of bile. Often called for in arthritic affections with urinary disturbances. Wandering, radiating pains. Acts well in fleshy persons, good livers, but with little endurance. Spinal irritation. All Berberis pains radiate, are not worse by pressure, but worse in various attitudes, especially standing and active exercise.

Listless, apathetic, indifferent. Puffy sensation, feeling as if becoming larger. Vertigo with attacks of fainting. Frontal headache. Chilliness in back and occiput. Tearing pain in auricle, and gouty concretions. Sensation of a tight cap pressing upon the whole scalp.

Dry; obstinate catarrh of left nostril. Crawling in nostrils.

Pale, sickly. Sunken cheeks and eyes, with bluish circles.

Sticky sensation. Diminished saliva. Sticky, frothy saliva, like cotton (Nux mosch). Tongue feels scalded, vesicles on tongue.

Nausea before breakfast. Heartburn.

Stitches in region of gall-bladder; worse, pressure, extending to stomach. Catarrh of the gall-bladder with constipation and yellow complexion. Stitching pain in front of kidneys extending to liver, spleen, stomach, groins, Poupart's ligament. Sticking deep in ilium.

Constant urging to stool. Diarrhœa painless, clay-colored, burning, and smarting in anus and perineum. Tearing around anus. Fistula in ano.

Burning pains. Sensation as if some urine remained after urinating. Urine with thick mucus and bright-red, mealy sediment. Bubbling, sore sensation in kidneys. Pain in bladder region. Pain in the thighs and loins on urinating. Frequent urination; urethra burns when not urinating.

Neuralgia of spermatic cord and testicles. Smarting, burning, stitching in testicles, in prepuce and scrotum.

Pinching constriction in mons veneris, vaginismus, contraction and tenderness of vagina. Burning and soreness in vagina. Desire diminished, cutting pain during coition. Menses scanty, gray mucus, with pain in kidneys and chilliness, pain down thighs. Leucorrhœa, grayish mucus, with painful urinary symptoms. Neuralgia of ovaries and vagina.

Hoarseness; polypus of larynx. Tearing stitches in chest and region of heart.

Stitches in neck and back; worse, respiration. Sticking pain in region of kidneys radiating thence around abdomen, to hips and groins. Numb, bruised sensation. Stitches from kidneys into bladder. Tearing, sticking with stiffness, making rising difficult, involving hips, nates, limbs, with numbness. Lumbago (Rhus; Tart em). Metatarsus and metacarpus feel sprained. Post-operative pain in lumbar region; soreness with sharp pain following course of circumflex iliac nerve to bladder with frequent urination.

Rheumatic paralytic pain in shoulders, arms, hands and fingers, legs and feet. Neuralgia under finger-nails, with swelling of finger-joints. Sensation of cold on outside of thighs. Heels pain, as if ulcerated. Stitching between metatarsal bones as from a nail when standing. Pain in balls of feet on stepping. Intense weariness and lameness of legs after walking a short distance.

Flat warts. Itching, burning and smarting; worse, scratching; better, cold applications. Small pustules over whole body. Eczema of anus and hands. Circumscribed pigmentation following eczematous inflammation.

Cold sensation in various parts, as if spattered with cold water. Warmth in lower part of back, hips, and thighs.

Worse, motion, standing. It brings on, or increases, urinary complaints.

Compare: Ipomea-Convolvulus Duratinus-Morning Glory. --(Pain in left lumbar muscles on stooping. Kidney disorders with pain in back. Much abdominal flatulence. Aching in top of right shoulder renal colic; aching in small of back and extremities), Aloe; Lycopod; Nux; Sarsap. Xanthorrhea arborea (severe pain in kidneys, cystitis and gravel. Pain from ureter to bladder and testicles; pain in small of back returns from least chill or damp). Xanthoriza apifolia-Shrub Yellow Root--contains Berberine. Dilatation of stomach and intestines, atony, enlarged spleen.

Antidotes: Camphor; Bell.

Tincture, to sixth potency.

Bruised pain, with numbness, stiffness and lameness in region of kidneys < in bed in the morning.

Soreness in the region of the kidneys; bubbling sensation, < stepping or jarring motion.

Rheumatism or pains, like gouty pains in the joints; the pains radiate from a center.

"Bruised pain, with stiffness and lameness in the small of the back." "Rise from a seat with difficulty." "Backache worse when sitting or lying, especially when lying in bed in the morning." "Sensation of numbness, stiffness and lameness, with painful pressure in lumbar and renal regions." These pains sometimes extend all through the hips. Guernsey says: "A great many old troubles in the back. Sufferings in the back aggravated by fatigue." One might say all these symptoms are found under Rhus tox. True, but in the Berberis cases they all come from or are in connection with kidney or urinary troubles, Rhus tox. seldom so. The pains extend often into the bladder and urethra, and the urine itself is changed. It may have a turbid, flocculent, clay-like, copious, mucous sediment, or a reddish, mealy sediment, or be blood-red, but the persistent pains in the back are the leading indications. It is especially to be thought of in arthritic and rheumatic affections, when these back symptoms connected with urinary alterations are present. One very characteristic symptom is a bubbling sensation in the region of the kidneys. Another is soreness in region of kidneys when jumping out of a wagon or stepping hard downstairs or from any jarring movement. There is almost always, in the back troubles of Berberis a great deal of prostration or a sense of weakness across the back, and the face looks pale, earthy complexion, with sunken cheeks and hollow eyes, with blue circles under them. No matter what ails the patient, if he has persistent pain as above described in the region of the kidneys do not forget Berberis.

Indifference, apathy. Melancholy, inclination to weep.

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.

Dryness of, or biting, -burning, or itching sensation in the eyes. Itching in the canthi, eyebrows, and eyelids.

Stitches in the ear.

Dryness in the nose.

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

The mouth feels dry and sticky. Painful white blisters on the tip of the tongue.

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.

Thirst and dryness of the mouth. Taste bitter.

Pressure in the region of the liver. Burning under the skin, in the left side of the abdomen.

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).

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.

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.

Stitches in the chest (left side).

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).

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.

Great sleepiness daring the day and after dinner. Sleep unrefreshing.

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.

Rheumatic and gouty complaints, with diseases of the urinary organs. Movement increases or causes the complaints.

Barberry. (Britain.) N. O. Berberidaceæ. Tincture of the bark of the root.

Biliary colic. Bilious attack. Bladder affections. Calculus . Duodenum, catarrh of. Dysmenorrhœa. Fevers. Fistula. Gall-stones. Gravel . Herpes. Irritation . Jaundice. Joint affections. Knee, pain in . Leucorrhœa. Liver disorder. Lumbago . Ophthalmia. Oxaluria . Renal colic. Polypus. Rheumatism. Sacrum, pain in. Side pain . Spermatic cords, neuralgia of. Spleen, affections of. Tumours. Urine, disorders of . Vaginismus.

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 11 a.m.; burning heat in afternoon, < during night." Ague with enlargement of spleen, of spleen pains. Affections of liver and kidneys are strongly marked; but Berb . is a medicine of wide range. Movement < 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; < movement, > 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, < 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 diarrhœa, and a number of symptoms about the anus. Hæmorrhoids, with itching or burning, particularly after stool, which frequently is hard and covered with blood. Fistula in ano with painful pressure in perinæum, 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; < stooping and rising again, sitting or lying; > 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 loamy 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 leucorrhœa associated with painful urinary symptoms. Dysmenorrhœa, pains radiating in all directions down thighs, &c. Vagina intensely painful; reddened. Violent pain in back, with menses which are too scanty. It is a 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 < by fatigue. Aching in small of back; < 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 fell sore as if bruised . A single dose effected a complete cure, improvement commencing on the fourth day. Stuart Close ( H. P. xix. 218) records the cure with Berb . 200 of a woman who had cutting, burning pains in the balls of the feet on stepping. On, standing with most of the weight on the heels she had no pain. On rising in morning sensation in soles as if stepping on needles. There is 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. Great relaxation, with disinclination to do anything. On the indication "tumours and sessile growths," Ozanam cured a case of polypus of vocal cords, red, with a sessile base. Thuja had failed. Berb . 200 was given at first with good effect, the attenuation being gradually reduced with increasingly good effect until the growth disappeared entirely under the 1x, Guernsey admirably sums up the remedy as follows: "Affects particularly the lumbar region; kidneys; uterus. The patient is sometimes unable to tell the exact locality, but the pain is somewhere in the back and shoots up the back; or into the spermatic cord, or testes, bladder, buttocks or legs. The pain may shoot up or down, or both ways. Pains may be felt all over the body, emanating from the back; the pains are of a sticking, pricking, lancinating, or jerking character, flying about now here and now there. There is often a bubbling sensation in the region of the kidneys; this sensation may occur elsewhere, but it is usually found here." Great sleepiness during day and after dinner. After riding much, great sense of weakness in kidney region. Suited to: Bilious diathesis. Cases where renal or vesical symptoms are prominent.

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Defective recollection and weak memory.
Terrifying apparitions in twilight.
Mental labor, requiring close thinking, very difficult ; the least interruption breaks the chain of thought.
Melancholy, inclination to weep.
Indifference, apathy.
Indifference and pensiveness, with disinclination to speak.
Anxious and fearful.
Anxiousness while sitting, standing, or moving.
Fretful humor, with weariness of life.

Vertigo and dizziness in head.
Vertigo : with danger of falling ; when stooping and when rising ; struggling with arms when rising ; with dizziness, faintness, pressure in forehead, succeeded by chills.
Dulness and heaviness in head.
Tensive pain, also with pressure in temples and forehead.
Feeling of drunkenness, dizziness, vacuity, confusion, heaviness in head , especially in front, with pressure in sinciput, attended with alternating chilliness and heat from morning till afternoon, succeeded by a nasal flux and sneezing, as if catarrh
would arise, but which does not appear.

Dulness of head like from coryza.
Heaviness in head, when stooping, as if brain would fall forward, with a sensation of bubbling, as if all would prolapse from forehead.
Pressure from within outward, particularly in forehead, but also in temples and occiput.
Tensive pain, also with pressure in temples and forehead, or with dulness of whole head.
Pressing, straining, bursting headache, especially in sinciput, chiefly in morning, < by stooping, > in open air ; with weariness and exhaustion.
Tearing in forehead and orbits.
Shooting, wringing, rending stitches above forehead and temples.
Rending in different parts, particularly in temples and occiput, arising from neck or extending to it ; from edge of orbit towards nose or upward to forehead, or into orbits.
Tearing pain in whole head, now here, now there, in forehead and temples.
Stitches in forehead.
Sudden stitches from eyes to forehead.
Darting and shooting pains in head, often changing their locality.
A peculiar cold sensation in right temple.
Heat in head after dinner, or in afternoon, and from exertion.
A puffy sensation in whole head.
A feeling in head as if it was becoming larger.
Fulness in head with sensation as if head was enlarged.
Headache aggravated by movement or stooping, > in open air.
Headache : accompanied by hepatic or rheumatic arthritic complaints ; or with affections of urinary organs ; or with menstrual derangements.

In skin of head and face a tension as if it was bloated, or covered with a cap, or benumbed, with difficulty to move it.
Tension of scalp and skin, as if swollen.
Itching, with burning and stitches on scalp and face, more on occiput, especially in evening, and changing its place after scratching.
Hot temples and cold cheeks.
Biting, gnawing on scalp and face.
Burning, pricking along edge of hair on head.
Single pimples on scalp and face, more on occiput, forehead and temples.

Shuns the light.
Illusions ; in twilight objects appear twice as large as natural.
Dim sight, all objects looking dark, as if through a veil, or running together, with itching around eyes and in face, preceded by incipient catarrh, succeeded by itching on legs.
Pressure in eyes.
Tearing in left eye ; also in lids.
Tearing in forehead and orbits.
Tearing near orbits with lachrymation ; eyes and nose moist.
Painfulness of eyes.
Sudden shooting ; arising from forehead and temples, or extending to them.
Violent shooting pains through eyes into brain, or from temples to eyes ; sometimes into arms, or from knee to eye. θ After operation for strabismus.
Biting, burning, or itching sensation in eyes.
Dryness of eyes, with burning and redness of conjunctiva.
Irritation in eyes, as if from sand, heat and burning, with a cloudy appearance.
Conjunctivitis, with inflamed lachrymal caruncle.
Cold feeling in eye, like from a cool wind, with lachrymation when closing eyes.
Coldness of eyes.
Eye symptoms < out-doors, < moving eyes.
Quivering of eyelids when reading by candlelight.
Sensation of sand between lids ; dryness of internal canthus and sensation as of a foreign body there.
Sticky feeling and white scum on dry eyelids, morning.
Itching, burning and smarting in lids, or in canthi, frequently only on small spots.
Red spot on left eyelid, feels like a mosquito-bite, but swelling nearly closes eye ; next day other spots on face, behind ear, and on neck ; third day on chin and nose, with itching and burning ; in evening covered with small vesicles, oozing watery fluid.
Itching in canthi, eyebrows and eyelids.
Inflammation of lachrymal caruncles.
Dryness in internal canthus.
Tearing, especially in lids.

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When we have finished the study of Berberis we will see that it is not a very extensive remedy, but it is a very important one.

Like Benzoic acid, it fits into the gouty and rheumatic sphere. It corresponds to such gouty conditions as do not determine to their proper places.

A low state of the economy is present; anaemic condition; feeble constitution; pallid and sickly, old and worn out; prematurely old and wrinkled men and women.

They are too feeble to determine the gouty deposits to the finger joints, where they naturally belong, and the trouble is yet, as it were, wandering around through the economy.

Wandering pains in the nerves, and nerve sheaths. The wandering, stitching, tearing, twinging pains that run through Berberis are found in old gouty constitutions, and that is where we get the greatest benefit from Berberis.

Its proving would lead us to see it is similar to the wandering, twinging and tearing pains of old gouty constitutions, in persons who are pallid, and sickly, and chilly, where the deposits have not been so marked in the joints; but where the twinging in the fingers and in the toes are just such as are found - where the deposits do exist.

Of course in all of the gouty states we must look to the liver and kidneys for pains and various distresses; they are centers of observation, because these organs are more or less disturbed. And very often cardiac troubles go along with them.

The kidneys, liver, and heart are more or less disturbed in their functions and we see that Berberis takes hold of these organs. We have the uraemic state, and the state of disorder that ends in these conditions. We will have twinging pains along with kidney disturbances.

Irregularities of the urine. Copious discharges, alternating with scanty discharges. Light urine, and heavy urine, excessive deposits of uric acid and urates.

It is changeable, like Benzoic acid. These two remedies run very much together, yet their symptoms are wholly unlike. We find among these sensations that stitching pains are found in almost every region of the body, and they are all the time changing.

Wandering and stitching pains; little twinges. As you sit by his side and talk to a gouty patient-

"Ow," he will say. What does he mean by it?

He has had one of those twitching pains. The next thing he knows it is in his knee; then it is in his toes; then it is in his head, all over him.

Finally the gouty deposits become prominent in the fingers, and after the gout has determined itself, then we have sore fingers; but these corresponds more particularly to Ledum, Sulphur, Aesculus and Lycopodium , where the disease has become marked and has located in the joints.

In Berberis these twinging, tearing, stitching, burning pains are everywhere, they never remain in one place, but are always moving, and they are not often affected by motion.

Whether he moves, or keeps still, they keep coming. In a few instances we have pains aggravated by motion, but a very few in proportion to the many pains in Berberis.

He moves many times, because he cannot keep still. He moves, because he suffers. There are also many pressing pains. But the burning, stinging, tearing, stitching, wandering pains are the main feature, the grand feature of Berberis.

If you single them out in places, in a given joint, from that one joint they will radiate in every direction. If it is the knee joint, they will go up; and down, and every way; if it is the finger joint, they will run in every direction.

If it is the kidney, they will go down the ureters; if it is the liver, they will go down into the abdomen in every direction.

"Radiating from a particular point," is a distinguishing feature, and it puts Berberis almost alone for radiating pains. This is such a strong feature that Berberis, has cured renal colic in many instances because of its well known ability to shoot out in every direction.

It cures gall-stone colic when these little twinges go in every direction from that locality. We see these twinging, shooting pains in gouty constitutions are associated with urinary troubles, and with liver troubles, and we begin to lay a foundation for the study of Berberis.

The joints sometimes swell.

"Enlargement of the joints."

But the swelling is not so common as the pains without swelling. Soreness, lameness in the joints, with these radiating pains. There will be burning, stitching, tearing, and the pains will radiate and appear in one part of the body then in another.

"A pain in the heel as if it were ulcerating," and then the pain shoots off in every direction. Numbness. Lameness.

As to the heart, the pulse becomes slow. Very often it is slowed down astonishingly.

The mental symptoms are very defective, that is, we do not know the mental symptoms. There are a few. We know this, that the mind is weak, that he is unable to sustain a mental effort, and that he is forgetful.

"Defective recollection and weak memory. Terrifying apparitions in twilight."

It is not a strange thing for a child in the dark to imagine all sorts of things, because they have heard graveyard stories from old people; but with this remedy between the daylight and darkness he sees ghosts, imaginary forms - coming round him. It has melancholy, apathy, prostration of mind.

Some dizziness. The headaches are of the game character as the general pains in uraemic subjects, where there is plenty of sand in the urine, red pepper deposit.

The head comes in for its share of these wander ing, pains. Stitching, tearing, twinging in the scalp; in the skull; in the eyes, ears, back of the head. Burning pains.

"A feeling in the head, as if it was becoming large," is a peculiar symptom; a puffy sensation.

Always putting the hand to the head; it feels as if he had on a skull-cap. It fits down over the brow, and it is not an uncommon thing with such patients to put the hand to the head to take off the cap.

"Feels as, if he had a cap on the head," when there is none there.

This symptom is not always described like a cap on the head. It is convertible into numbness of the scalp; many patients describe a sensation of numbness in the scalp, as if they had on a cap.

Some times patients will deny that it is a sensation of numbness, and say it is just a cap. At one time I fully believed the "cap" belonged to two sensations. If it was painful I placed it under "pressure." If it was not painful it was supposed to belong to "numbness;" but I have now made a new rubric, "the sensation of skull-cap," which I now think is entirely distinctive, from numbness; but they both have to be compared.

Then the eyes take on that same gouty condition, with stitching, tearing pains, twinging pains, shooting pains. Shooting off in various directions.

There is one grand feature about Berberis, that it has no particular direction; it has all directions. Most remedies have pains taking a direction from one part to the other, pains going from the eye to the temple, etc., but in Berberis it cannot be said the pains go to any place in particular.

They are wandering pains and they radiate. Pains in the ears of the same character. In every part of the body we have these twinging, tearing, burning, shooting pains coming and going, causing the patient to scowl and make a sharp noise.

The patient has a sickly look; face pale, earthy complexion, with sunken cheeks and hollow, blue-encircled eyes.

That is a description of a sick face. Berberis has been very useful in phtisical conditions; and in the pains, and twinging, and sufferings in persons who have been operated on for fistula in ano.

When the fistula has been closed, these pains will come if it is a Berberis case. The kidney manifestations will come on, or the liver manifestations, or the enfeebled heart, or these wandering pains.

At one time feverish, full of pains, with violent thirst; alternating with the very opposite state.

Prostration land - aversion to water. Want of appetite at one time; canine hunger at another.

The stomach is disordered, digestion is glow and feeble, and we have manifestations usually known to patients as "bilious."

Eructations that are bitter and of bile. The liver is full of suffering.

In the liver we have these pains, and added to them sudden stabbing like a knife puncturing the liver. Shooting, tearing, burning, stitching, twinging pains, wandering from one place to another.

"Gall-stone colic."

These pains with jaundice. The liver seems to slow down in its actions, and the patients becomes, jaundiced.

The stool becomes white, bileless.

"Sharp, pinching pains in the liver, which come suddenly and with great severity. Violent stabbing pain in the region of the liver, taking his breath away. Had to bend double."

These pains last a moment and pass away. In gall- stone colic pains are spasmodic, increase in intensity and diminish, but do. not let up entirely.

Berberis when it is indicated will let the little gall-stone loose, and it will pass through, and the patient will take a long breath and wish he had sent for the doctor sooner. Any thing that is spasmodic can be relieved instantly.

Pains through the abdomen. Copious, thick, mushy stools, and these are yellow, like yellow corn meal mush.

"Diarrhoea; mush-like yellowish discharges."

"Clay-colored."

From what we have seen it is not surprising that it is clay-colored, that it is bileless, that it is white.

The action on the liver does that. When you have these symptoms associated, with radiating pains, and with wandering pains in broken down constitutions, persons who are suffering from cold, who are pallid and sickly, you have a Berberis case.

Then the patient becomes constipated, but the stool is white, or very light colored.

"Burning, stinging pain before, during, and after stool."

"Enlargement of the prostate gland, which causes a constant pressure in the perineum. Pressure as if there were a lump, or as if something was pressing down."

"Tearing extending around the anus. Herpes around anus. Fistula in ano."

Now the surgeons nearly all advocate that if there is a fistulous opening around the anus it must be operated upon. Homoeopathy cures such cases. I have, not operated on one for twenty years. The remedy that is indicated for the patient will cure the patient, and the fistula.

Above all things they should not be operated on. To close up that fistulous opening, and thus neglect the patient, is a very dangerous thing to do. Knowing all that I know, if such a trouble should come upon me and I could not find the remedy to cure it I would bear with it patiently, knowing I was keeping a much less grievance.

Nor I could I advise my patient to have, a thing done that I would not have done upon myself. It is a dangerous thing to operate upon a fistula in ano.

It is a very serious matter. If it is closed up, and that patient is leaning towards phthisis, he will develop phthisis; if he has a tendency towards Bright's disease, that will hasten it; if he threatens to break down in any direction; his weakest parts will be affected and he will break down.

Occasionally time enough elapses so that the physician who is ignorant does not see the relation between the two. But now that you have heard it, you can never forget it.

And then the kidneys and the urinary organs come in for their troubles. There is such a soreness in the lumbar region, in the region of the kidneys, that he can bear no pressure.

He cannot step down from a carriage to the pavement without letting himself down very carefully. A jar is a great shock to him, and sometimes the soreness is so great that he almost faints.

Soreness in the back; in the muscles of the back, and in the region of the kidneys; and this associated with all sorts of disturbances in the urine, with excessive deposits.

The kidneys radiate in every direction. Pains run up into the kidney, and they become worn out if he does not get relief, he will have some serious disease. Hence we have these symptoms.

"Burning and soreness in the region of the kidneys. Burning stitches, single or several in succession, in regions of loins and kidneys. Much pain, soreness and tenderness in back, in the region of the kidneys. Sensitiveness in the region of the kidneys so great that any jarring motion, riding in a wagon, jumping from it, was intolerable. After kidney complaints, a foul, bitter taste, rush of blood to the throat. Great urging, with pain in the neck of the bladder, with burning, scanty urine. Violent, cutting, tensive pain, deeply seated in left side of bladder, at last becoming a sticking, obliquely in female urethra, as if in its orifice, lasting a 'few minutes."

Now we see how these symptoms manifest themselves. Sore, inflamed, sensitive kidney, one or both.

And then, the formation of little calculi in the pelvis of the kidney - little stones like pinheads; and every now and then one of them takes a start down the ureter to the bladder, and, oh, how he suffers.

Then it is that the pains in the kidneys radiate in every direction. Pains run up into the kidneys and down into the bladder.

In the male they appear as if, they ran down the spermatic cord into the testes, and he is a great sufferer. You will, be astonished to know how quickly Berberis will relieve this particular kind of renal colic. Burning pain in the bladder; burning pain in the kidney.

"Urine dark, turbid with copious sediment. Urine very slow to flow. Constant urging."

The bladder becomes very irritable. Catarrhal conditions of the bladder. Smarting, burning, stitch ing pains. Many troubles, pains and aches in the spermatic cord and testes in gouty constitutions. Burning pains along these regions.

Berberis especially fits a woman who is tired, with a gouty constitution; though not old in years she is physically tired, so that all of her domestic affairs fret and tire her.

Coition becomes painful, and she has an aversion to it. The orgasm is delayed, or is entirely absent, and she is prostrated by it.

In all the affairs of her innermost life she is a drudge.

Full of twinging pains in all of her nerves.

"Burning in the female urethra. Burning pain in the vagina".

A lack of sensation normal to these parts in the woman.

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).

Berberis vulgaris. The common Barberry. A tincture in prepared from the bark of the fresh root.

The most numerous and decided effects are the shooting pains in almost every part of the body. ▶ The pains in the region of the kidneys are most marked and have been frequently verified clinically. ▶ It also exerts a marked action on the liver, promoting the flow of bile.

It is interesting to note the close resemblance of the neuralgic symptoms to the botanical relatives in the Ranunculaceæ, Cimicif., Clem., Puls., and even Aconite; the hepatic symptoms similar to its allies Pod., Chel., as well as Iris and Aloes. ▶ Also see Diosc ., Agaric., Silicea and Zinc.

Bruised feeling (Cimicif., Arn., Sil.), after long stooping, with feeling as if unable to do anything; B., feeling, as after great fatigue, especially in lower limbs. ▶ Weakness; of body and mind in morning on waking; in evening and after supper; in evening, with early falling asleep; from continued occupation, with sweat; agg. walking or long standing; even to trembling, so that she feared her knees would break down, with vertigo on rising from stooping; faintlike, when walking, standing or rising from a seat, with vertigo. ▶ Attacks of faintness after a walk, with sudden orgasms of blood, and shortly before going to bed sweat and heat in upper part of body, cold, pale, sunken face and oppression of chest, on lying down in bed shivering difficult falling asleep and restless sleep, with heavy dreams. ▶ Condition near faintness after a drive followed by a short walk.

Anxiety from 4 P.M. till going to bed, with fright, and in the twilight some children and dogs appeared twice as large as natural; A. if she moves, stands long rises from a seat even in morning when rising in bed and on getting out of it. ▶ Ill-will intrepidity. ▶ Peevishness, becoming a loathing of life. ▶ Melancholy and disinclination to speak, with quiet, not conscious longing. ▶ Satisfaction with nothing. ▶ Apathy; with dizziness and disinclination to work. ▶ East disturbance from external causes during mental work, with fretfulness and necessity to cease work. ▶ Thought difficult; agg. morning. ▶ Memory weak.

Sticking. ▶ Tearing now here, now there in whole H., in forehead and temples. ▶ Aching; agg. morning with heaviness and confusion; as if skull would burst, and on stooping sensation as if something shook in H. and as if everything would come out at forehead; as if pressed asunder or pressed down by a heavy weight, especially in forehead; heavy with prostration. ▶ Heaviness; and on stooping sensation as if head were drawn down by a heavy weight. ▶ Fulness, especially in forehead. ▶ Tension. ▶ Puffy sensation. ▶ Feeling as if becoming larger (Cimicif.).

Emptiness and gloominess. ▶ Confusion; from morning after waking till after noon, with heaviness of head, pressure in forehead, prostration, fretfulness, chilliness, sometimes with heat between the chills, then heat, especially in head, with symptoms of impending coryza, especially moisture of nose and sneezing which go no farther, repetition of these attacks, with which aggravations always begin; as from a cap and as if it would be drawn downward from behind. ▶ Intoxicated feeling. ▶ Vertigo; on stooping; on walking, with faintish weakness; so that she must turn from left to right and forward (during hard work, with frequent stooping and exertion of arms), with attacks of faintness frontal headache, then chilliness in back and occiput. ▶ Symptoms generally amel. open air.

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The most numerous and decided effects are the shooting pains in almost every part of the body.
The pains in the region of the kidneys are most marked, and have been frequently verified clinically.
It also exerts a marked action on the liver, promoting the flow of bile.

Tearing, shooting pains.
In general, > in the open air.

Neuralgic pains; burning, with dryness of the eyes.
Pain on reading, with burning and dryness.

Nostrils dry.

Pale.
Eyes surrounded by dark circles.

Dry.
Neuralgic pains in the jaws.
Saliva sticky, like cotton.

Eructations inodorous.

A sharp, sticking pain in the region of the gall bladder < pressure.
Sharp pains in the region of the liver, extending towards the stomach, < pressure.
Sharp pains in the region of the umbilicus.
Severe pains in the inguinal region.
Stitching pains from the lumbar regions, extending down towards the bladder, or towards the kidneys.
Tearing pains in the crest of the ilium, extending into the gluteal muscles and into the bones of the leg.

Burning pain in the urethra and anus, soreness.
Tearing pains in the anus.
Smarting.
Diarrhœa, clay colored, with burning and smarting in anus.
Pains over the liver, etc.

Cutting pains from the region of the kidney to the bladder (left side).
Burning pains in the region of the bladder.
Sensation as if urine remained in the bladder after urinating.
Stitching pains in the urethra; cuttings, burnings.
Urine blood-red, soon becoming turbid, and depositing a mealy sediment.
Urine generally turbid, sometimes very dark, as if containing bile.

Pains in the spermatic cord.
Burning, smarting or tearing, extending into the testicles, especially into epididymis.
Pains in the spermatic cord, extending into testicles or into abdominal ring.

Burning and soreness in the vagina, extending into the labia.
Smarting pain in the vagina, with burning, pain, and soreness in the anus.
Menstruation scanty.
Dysmenorrhœa, with pains radiating in every direction.

Sticking, now in a small spot, now in a larger place, when it is chiefly pressing, either exactly in region of kidneys or extending above or below, but especially outward, so that it extends around abdomen in front, or to region of hips; sometimes in spine and extending to small of back and region of bladder and groins.
The sticking at times extends from region of kidneys straight forward into abdomen, at times with numb, paralyzed, bruised sensation.
Stitches from kidneys into bladder (Coc. c.), < severe pressure; burning in kidney region; inward in one or other, at times as from a nail and arresting breathing; tearing sticking, usually more on one side, often as if crushed or bruised, with stiffness, making it difficult to rise from a seat, so that the hands must assist rising, sometimes involving hip, nates and upper and posterior part of limbs, at times with numbness.
Tearing in morning immediately after rising, extending sideways, forward, upward and downward, affecting whole back between thorax and pelves, with stiffness in lower part of back if she stooped and difficulty on standing up on account of the stiffness; the tearing when sitting, more severe than when standing, > afternoon.
Tearing, pulsating pain in kidney.
Pressive or tensive pain, sometimes on one, sometimes on both, or often across small of back, at times extending into posterior part of pelvis, of thighs, and even to calves, with stiffness and lameness or swelling of back and lower limbs.
Tensive or pressing sensation deep internally, when severe, with a feeling as if bones would be pressed asunder, often with heaviness, warmth, numbness or tingling, < morning on waking and when sitting and lying, at times > stool or passage of flatus, sometimes only on one side, < stooping.
Sticking in one or other, or digging tearing, as if suppurating, < deep pressure.

Numerous pains, mostly tearing and sticking, in all parts of the extremities, both sides.
Sometimes with swelling of the small joints.
Generally < motion and pressure.

Berb. / (BB.) / Bertha

Berberis takes the kidney track,
With pain and lemeness in the back.
White sediment the urine fills,
And gravel is among her ills.
Much worse do all her ailments feel,
When lying down, or sitting still.

Bertha,- has White Sediment in her urine.

Bertha Gray, spies black, hoary Amanda Spon, with her accusing foes.

This Bertha,- Who is subject to pain in the kidneys,- Is in Spain with the lean Canadian, Tere Sarsa.

While Sediment in the Urine: Berb., Graph., Spi., Sep., Hep., Rhus, Am. c., Spong., Colch., Pho., Ph. a. (White sand, Am. c.)

Pain in the Kidneys: Berb., Canth., Lyc., Nux. v., Can. s., Tereb., Sars., etc.

Indicated in kidney troubles with pain in the back, extending to different parts, sometimes difficult to locate; the pain is stitching, jerking, lancinating, tearing. Also in diseases of the liver, with indigestion, vomiting of food, soreness of the liver, bilious colic, gall-stone colic, and jaundice. In lumbago, the pain extending from the back around the body and down the legs with bright-red urine containing mucous sediment.

Nausea before breakfast.

Pain in small of the back, radiating to different parts of the body.

Soreness to touch in the renal region; urine very red.

Rheumatic pains in the arms, shoulders, legs feet.

Lumbago.

Stitches in the back, in the renal region, worse from motion (respiration), extending into the abdomen, hip, loins, bladder etc.

Pain in the thigh and loin when urinating.

Stitching pain in the liver, gall-bladder, in front of the kidneys, radiating to different parts of the body; deep in the ilium.

Urine bright-red, containing thick mucus; mealy sediment.

Diarrhoea, painless, clay-colored.

Skin itches and burns; worse from scratching, small boils and pustules.

Worse from motion; from fatigue; from scratching.