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Berberis Vulgaris

30C / QBerberis
Barberry · Common Barberry · "The Kidney Stone Remedy"
berb.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
Source
🎯 Acts forcibly on the venous system and liver, with a specific affinity for renal and urinary tract conditions characterized by radiating pains.
📖 Boericke writes:
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 haemorrhoids.
Hepatic, and rheumatic affections, particularly with urinary, haemorrhoidal 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 haematuria. 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.
👤 Constitution
•Fleshy persons, good livers, but with little endurance; old gouty constitutions.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Sensation of a tight cap pressing upon the whole scalp.
head
Nausea before breakfast.
stomach
Fistula in ano.
stool
Pain in the thighs and loins on urinating.
urinary
Neuralgia under finger-nails, with swelling of finger-joints.
extremities
Circumscribed pigmentation following eczematous inflammation.
skin
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤Head
Used for headaches characterized by a tight, constricting sensation and vertigo.
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.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
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💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
6th
Decimal
🕒As directed
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Camphora →Belladonna →
🔄 Compare With
Sarsaparilla Officinalis →Lycopodium Clavatum →Aloe Socotrina →Nux Vomica →
📚 Sources & References

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