Berberis vulgaris

Berb. V. 

• Source : vegetable kingdom 
• Common name : bar berry 
• Family : berberidaceae
• Prover : Dr.hesse
• Miasm : psora
• Temperament : melancholic 
• Diathesis : rheumatic, gouty
• Side affinity : left

Sphere of action 

• kidney, urinary bladder, liver, gall bladder.

Guiding symptoms + keynotes

1. All Berberis - pain radiates. 
2. Stitching pain in liver region and gall bladder, shooting up to left shoulder, worse by pressure, due to stasis of bile.
3. Gall stone colic followed by jaundice. 
4. All symptoms worse from motion, jar, touch. 
5. Left sided Renal stone pain (right - lyc).
6. Neuralgia of fingernails with swelling of small joints. 

Urinary system 

• Urine :
• while not urinating : constant urging to urinate, Burning pain in urethra. 
• Flow : slow
• Sensation : as if some urine still remained after urinating. 
• Character : greenish, bloody turbid and full of slimmy mucus, reddish or jelly like sediments.

• Renal colic :
• A/F : renal stone.
• Location and pain : stitching pain from left kidney to ureter to bladder to urethra.
• Sensation : bubbling sensation, stiffness with lameness and painful pressure, in kidney region.
• Haematuria. 

Modalities 

• Aggravation : motion, walking, carriage riding, jarring movement. 

Relations

• Antidoted by : bella
• Antidotes : aco
• An occasional dose of lyco helps the action of berb. v. Especially in urinary system.