BERBERIS


Berberis homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


   Common names: Barberry. (German) Sauerdorn. (French) Le Vinettier.

Introduction

Berberis vulgaris, Linn. Natural order: Berberidacae.

Preparation: Tincture of the bark of the root.

Mind

Mental dejection, with difficult thinking and weakness of memory.

Anxious sensation if she moves, stands a long time, rises from sitting, even in the morning when rising, and while in bed and rising from it.

Anxious mood, with great fear and fright from 4 o’clock in the afternoon till going to sleep; in the twilight some dogs and children appeared as large again as natural.

Out of humor; he is satisfied with nothing.

She experiences a certain ill-will, a spirit of intrepidity.

Very fretful, peevish mood, even becoming a loathing of life.

Remarkable melancholy and disinclination to speak, which she can in no way overcome, with quiet, not thoughtful, sensual longing (second and third days).

Indifferent, depressed mood, with slight interest in the outer world, disinclination to work, confusion.

Indifferent, quiet, even apathetic mood at times.

Contemplation of necessary mental work becomes difficult, and affects the head very much, especially in the morning.

During mental work, external occurrences easily cause disturbance, usually unnoticed; he easily loses the connection, becomes fretful, and must cease work.

Head

Confusion and Vertigo.

Confusion of the head, as if coryza would follow.

Tensive-pressive e confusion of the whole head, as if a cap were drawn over it, and as if it would be drawn downward from behind (several times).

Confusion and dizziness in the head (after two hours).

Confusion, heaviness of the head, often also with pressure in the forehead, and great prostration and fretfulness; chilliness, sometimes with slight heat between the attacks of chilliness; this commences in the morning after waking, continues till after midday, when it is followed by an increased warmth, especially in the head, with symptoms of an impending coryza, especially moisture of the nose and sneezing, which, however, goes no farther; these attacks are repeated during the long proving, and aggravations always begin with them.

Feeling of intoxication in the head (after two three hours).

Vertigo and dizziness in the head (after half an hour).

Vertigo on stooping (first day).

Vertigo on walking, so that she almost fell, with faintish weakness (eighteenth day).

Vertigo and sensation of fainting, with great weakness (tenth day).

During rather hard work, with frequent stooping and exertion of the arms, a whirling vertigo on rising up, so that she must turn from left to right and forward, and with difficulty keeps, erect; with attacks of faintness, pressive frontal headache; followed by chilliness in the back and in the occiput, as in the coldest winter; for half in hour (forty-fourth day).

Dizziness in the head (first day).

Head in General.

Feeling of emptiness, and gloominess in the head repeatedly.

Feeling of heaviness in the head.

Heavy, pressive headache, with great weariness and prostration (third day).

A feeling in the head as if it were becoming larger (after an hour and a half).

Feeling of fullness in the head, especially in the forehead (after two to three hours).

A puffy sensation in the whole head (after nine hours).

Tensive sensation in the head (after nine hours).

Headache as if the skull would burst; on stooping, a sensation as if something shook in the head, and as if everything would come out at the forehead (first day).

Dull, pressive, sticking headache (after nine hours).

Pressive pain in the whole head (after an hour and a half).

Pressive pain in the whole head (after an hour and a half).

Pressive headache, especially in the forehead, but also extending towards the vertex (after three hours).

Pressive headache, especially in the forehead, as if it would bruise the head, or also as if it would be pressed down by a heavy weight (second day).

Pressive headache, with heaviness and confusion of the head, especially in the morning hours during the first days, and returning afterwards at times.

Tearing pain in the whole head, now here, now there, in the forehead, in the temples (frequently returning the first weeks).

Forehead.

Stupid sensation in the forehead (after half an hour, and after ten hours).

On stooping, a painful sensation in the forehead and in the eyes, as if the brain were heavy and fell forward (after ten hours).

Pressive headache, as if the forehead would press out (first day).

Pressure in the forehead for several days together.

An outward-pressing headache in the forehead and temples (ninth day).

Pressive-tensive headache in the forehead, temples, and eyes (after three hours, and frequently later).

Pressive headache, now over the eyes, now in the frontal eminences, now in the temples, now in other places in the forehead (seventeenth day).

A pressure in the upper part of the right frontal region (seventh day).

Pressive-twinging tensive pain in the forehead several times repeated during the first days, caused and increased by stooping, better in the open air (as most of the head symptoms are generally).

Sticking headache internally in the forehead (after nine hours).

Sticking tearing headache in the forehead and temples, sometimes lasting only half a minute, sometimes several minutes, rarely longer.

Sticking pain in the forehead and in the temples, now very fine, now very severe; seldom continuous, but rather coming and going in paroxysms, generally ceasing suddenly.

Headache in the forehead, sticking, paroxysmal, lasting one-half to three minutes, especially shooting suddenly through the supraorbital region (after half an hour and ten hours, frequently).

Sticking, shooting, or also twitching or rolling pain, at several points in the left frontal region, about an inch above the margin of the orbit, extending outward and upward (after three hours).

Violent stitches in the right forehead extending outward to the side (fifth day).

Stitching pain and jerking in the forehead, also in the upper part of the head when stooping (after nine hours).

Temples.

A peculiar cold sensation in the right temple (one hundred and eighth day).

Tensive pressive pain in the left temple.

Pressive pain in the right temple extending forward to the eye, as if in the bone, with stitches shooting into the forehead (third and fifth days).

Pressive pain in the right temple, as if it were thick, or would be pressed out, increased by touch (after half an hour).

Dull, stitches in the right temples (after two hours and a half).

Piercing stitches in the left temple (second day).

A stitch from without inward in the right temple (after two hours).

Jerking stitches in the right temple extending into the right eye, then shooting into the vertex (after four hours).

Twitching, tearing pains at times in the temples (first day).

Slight tearing in the temples and forehead (seventh day).

Slight transient tearing in the right temple and the right cheek (after twelve hours, and frequently also afterwards).

Parietals, Occiput, and External.

Single stitches in the left parietal region.

Tearing pain in the left parietal eminence; it pains somewhat on touch.

Pressive-tensive pain in the occiput, as if the scalp were too small and the brain too large (second day).

Tearing in the left occipital region.

Tearing pain in the left occipital region for two days in succession, lasting several hours; and returning it extends upward from the throat and neck to this place (twenty-sixth day).

The integuments of the head and face feel puffy and tense (after two hours and a half).

Tensive sensation in the scalp and the skin of the face, as if the head were swollen; the scalp is difficult to move ( first and second day).

A tensive numb sensation of the skin of the head and face (after three and four hours).

Smarting or corrosive sensation in the skin of the head and face, now here, now there, aggravated by rubbing; sometimes, afterwards a red spot appears.

Corrosive itching or sticking in the skin of the head and face, in various places, repeatedly.

Itching below the hair, chiefly in the occipital region, either simple or biting or burning, associated with fine stitches, frequently with a sensation of warmth in the skin, mostly in the evening, causing scratching, by which it disappeared for a moment, but soon reappeared in other place, sometimes lasting only a few minutes, sometimes several hours (thirty-sixth, seventy-fifth, ninety-third, and one hundred and seventh days, etc).

Eyes

In General.

In most of the provers the eyes seemed to lie deep, encircled by blue or dirty-gray rings for a long time.

The eye was excessively and uniformly red (second day).

Inflammation of the eyes became so much worse in the afternoon that it is like what I have experienced from large doses (second day).

The eyes feel very dry (second day).

Dryness in the eyes almost constantly.

Dryness and biting or burning, also sometimes an itching sensation in the eyes, frequently also with a feeling as if sand were between the lids and the eye, at times with a slight redness of the conjunctiva of the lid and even of the ball; this symptom did not only appear very early, on the first or one of the first days, but also lasted throughout nearly the whole proving, with intermissions (80).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.