Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
642.14.10
642.14.10 Berberis aquifolium
English: Oregon grape.
Mind
Unhappiness and depression, sometimes coming on suddenly.
Hysterical crying at frequent intervals.
Nervous, restless.
Disinclined to move or do anything, dullness, stupidity.
Suspicious, does not trust help from others.
General
Sensation: band; beaten, sore.
Type: early old; cachexia; psoric; sycotic.
Desire: food, hunger after eating.
Time: < evening and night; < 5 till 7 pm.
Desire: food, hunger, = eating, without desire for food.
Aversion: food, anorexia.
Food: > strong coffee; > cold water.
Physical: < rest, < prolonged movement.
Body
Energy: drowsy, lassitude in daytime.
Vertigo: dizzy sensation worse sleeping or moving.
Infection: Lyme disease; syphilis.
Head: headache, severe, bilious, compressive band of iron, tighter and tighter, cramping, intense, pulsating, forehead, just above ears, > strong coffee; scaly eczema; hair feels stiff.
Eyes: hollow, weak, tired, burning, aching, < strain; falling from socket; conjunctiva injected; film before eyes.
Nose: chronic catarrh; stuffy; discharge greenish-yellow mucus; itching; sneezing; bilious colds.
Face: pinched expression; acne; blotches, pimples; flashes of heat to cheeks.
Mouth: tongue thickly coated, yellowish-brown; blistered; foetid breath.
Throat: dry; choked with mucus; voice rough, hoarse, cut off as if a damper had closed, lack of timbre.
Lungs: dry, irritating cough; expectoration yellow, greenish, scanty, tenacious, blood-streaked.
Chest: oppression and weakness of upper part of chest; burning heat in lower left lung; tumour of breast, hard, circumscribed, like scirrhus, pain, sharp, < night; glandular induration.
Stomach: heavy; burning; sudden nausea after eating; vomiting.
Abdomen: heavy; liver torpor; insulin resistance; spleen complaints, burning, sore, pounded; rapid peristalsis.
Rectum: stool large, dark, loose, light coloured, constipated; hot bilious diarrhoea.
Urinary: bladder heavy, pain stitching, cramping, thick mucus and bright-red, mealy sediment.
Male: drawing and pressure in testicles.
Female: burning in vagina; bearing-down pains and aching as if menses about to come on.
Limbs: rheumatic pains in the joints of the hands and in the lumbar and sacral regions, < night.
Skin: yellow, waxy, white; pimples; dry, rough, scaly; itching; eczema, eruption dry, scalp, face, neck; psoriasis; acne; pruritus, psoriasis; allergic reactions.