Text Book of Materia Medica.
By Adolph Lippe, M. D.
Professor of Materia Medica at the Homœopathic
College of Pennsylvania.
Presented by Médi-T.
Berberis vulgaris.
Mind and Disposition.
Indifference, apathy.
Melancholy, inclination to weep.
Head.
Darting and shooting pains in the head, often changing their locality.
Heat in the head after dinner, or in the afternoon.
[5] Headache aggravated by movement,
relieved in the open air.
Eyes.
Dryness of, or biting, -burning, or itching sensation in the eyes.
Itching in the canthi, eyebrows, and eyelids.
Ears.
Stitches in the ear.
Nose.
Dryness in the nose.
Face.
[10] Pale face, with a dingy-grayish
tinge, sunken cheeks, and deep-seated eyes, surrounded with bluish and
blackish-gray border.
Mouth.
The mouth feels dry and sticky.
Painful white blisters on the tip of the tongue.
Throat.
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.
Appetite and Taste.
Thirst and dryness of the mouth.
[15] Taste bitter.
Abdomen.
Pressure in the region of the liver.
Burning under the skin, in the left side of the abdomen.
Stool and Anus.
Hard, scanty stool, (like sheep’s dung).
Watery evacuations.
[20] 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).
Urine.
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.
[25] 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.
[30] 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.
[35] With the symptoms in the urinary
organs, pain in the loins and hips.
Sexual Organs.
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.
[40] Suppressed menstruation.
Chest.
Stitches in the chest (left side).
Back.
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).
Generalities.
[45] 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.
Sleep.
Great sleepiness daring the day and after dinner.
Sleep unrefreshing.
Fever.
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.
[50] Perspires easily from the least
exertion.
Conditions.
Rheumatic and gouty complaints, with diseases of the urinary organs.
Movement increases or causes the complaints.
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