Bryonia alba

 Generalities

 – Bryonia develops a marked action on all Serous Membranes and the viscera they contain, causing Inflammation and exudation.

 – It disorders circulation, producing congestion; alters the blood, giving rise, to typhoid, bilious, rheumatic and remittent types of fevers.

 – Aversion to least motion, even to distant parts, is due to its action on nerves and muscles.

 – Mucous membranes become dry, hence discharges are scanty and adherent.

 – Complaints, develop slowly, but forcibly.

 – Pains are Bursting; Stitching or heavy sore; going backwards.

 – Effects are very painful; on coughing holds sides, chest, head.

 – Joints painful.

 – Streaks of red-lymphangitis.

 – Gastro-bilious-rheumatic constitution.

 – Every spot in the body is painful to pressure.

 – Dropsical swelling gradually increase as the day progresses and disappear during the night.

 – Children dislike to be carried or raised.

 – Physical weakness; on slightest exertion; all pervading apathy.

 – Ill effects; of anger, fright; chagrin.

 – Suppressed eruptions and discharges.

 – Alcohol.

 – Gluttony.

 – Wounds.

 – Complaints from taking cold drinks, in hot weather.

 – Often indicated in injury of the joint when Arnica fails.

 – Muscles become hard, after neuralgia.

 – Dryness everywhere, of mouth, throat etc.

 – It is adapted to nervous dry, slender people.

 – Right sided effects.

 – Vicarious bleeding.

 Worse

 – Motion-Least; Raising up; Stopping; Coughing; Exertion; Deep Breathing.

 – Dry cold or heat.

 – Becoming Hot; In Room.

 – Hot weather.

 – Drinking; while hot.

 – EATING.

 – Vegetables.

 – Acids.

 – Calomel.

 – Vexation.

 – Touch.

 – Suppressions.

 – Taking cold.

 – Early a.m.

 Better

 – Pressure; Lying on Painful Part.

 – Bandaging.

 – Cool Open Air.

 – Quiet.

 – Cloudy, damp days.

 – Drawing knees up.

 – Heat to inflamed part.

 – Descending.

 – Sitting up.

 – Cold food, drink.

 Mind

 – Very irritable and ugly in behaviour.

 – Determined.

 – Taciturn.

 – Delirium, wants to go home, thinking he is not there.

 – Talks of business.

 – Wants to be let alone.

 – Desire for things which are rejected when offered.

 – Dull.

 – Apprehension and dread for future.

 – Despair of being cured, with fear of death.

 Head

 – Dizzy or Faint on Rising up.

 – Vertigo felt in occiput.

 – Bursting; Splitting or Heavy crushing headache; fronto-occipital agg. moving eyes, coughing, straining at stools etc.

 – Vertigo; as though all objects are whirling, or as if sinking deep down in the bed, amel. cold.

 – Pain over left eye, pressive, going to occiput, thence spreading over whole body.

 – Scalp very sensitive, can not bear even a soft brush, every hair pains.

 – Oily hair.

 – Headache; from ironing; when constipated.

 Eyes

 – Eyeballs sore; pains behind the eyeballs.

 – Glaucoma.

 – Lachrymation, during day esp. in the sun.

 – Lids swollen and puffed.

 Ears

 – Aural vertigo.

 – Ringing, humming in ears.

 – Vicarious bleeding from ears.

 Nose

 – Nose bleeding; vicarious; when menses should appear; in pregnancy.

 – Swelling of tip of the nose, feels as if it would ulcerate when touched.

 – Boils.

 – Descending colds.

 Face

 – Dark red, hot, bloated.

 – Chewing motions, in brain affections, of children.

 – Lips; dry, as if burnt, parched, cracked, wants to moisten them.

 – Burning of lower lip in old smokers.

 – Picking of lips.

 Mouth

 – Dry.

 – Tongue; very dry, rough, coated along centre; red at base.

 – Taste Bitter, can not swallow food, amel. cold drinks.

 – Toothache amel. cold water, agg. brushing teeth.

 – Jerking toothache when smoking or chewing tobacco.

 – Collection of soapy, frothy saliva.

 Throat

 – Hawks brown lumps, with effort.

 – Throat; dry, scraping roughness in.

 – Back of throat seems swollen.

 – Aphthous patches; recurring.

 Stomach

 THIRST, FOR LARGE QUANTITY OF COLD WATER; also for warm drinks which amel.

 – Craves what he cannot relish.

 – Loathing for food.

 – Nausea agg. rising up, lying on right side.

 – Bitter vomiting; of bile and water, immediately after eating.

 – Vomits solid food only.

 – Heavy load in stomach agg. eating.

 – Stomach sensitive to touch.

 – Great desire for coffee, wine and acid drinks.

 – Aversion to milk, but when he takes it he relishes it.

 – Tasteless eructations.

 – Vomits warm drinks.

 – Drinks hastily and eagerly.

 Abdomen

 – Epigastrium; tender, throbbing.

 – Liver, heavy, sore, swollen, amel. lying on it.

 – Abdominal wall very tender.

 – Appendicitis.

 – Peritonitis.

 – Stools; LARGE DRY, VERY HARD, as if burnt; loose, painless, undigested, involuntary, during sleep.

 – Constipation.

 – Diarrhoea; gushing agg. in the morning, on rising, eating cabbage.

 – Diarrhoea; in hot weather; after cold drinks.

 – Lumps of tough mucus, after stools.

 – Burning in anus, with stools.

 – Yellow, mushy stools.

 – Jaundice.

 – Groins sore before menses.

 – Complaints from over lifting, concussion.

 Urinary

 – Urine; red, brown like beer; scanty, hot.

 – Inclination to make water, with suspended respiration on lifting loads.

 – Involuntary urination during exertion.

 – Burning in urethra, when not urinating.

 Female

 – Menses; suppressed with vicarious discharges or splitting headache.

 – Pain in breast at menstrual period.

 – Breast; hot and painful, hard.

 – Milk fever.

 – Intermenstrual pain, with great abdominal and pelvic soreness.

 – Mastitis, stony hard mammae.

 – Abscess of mammae.

 – Ovaritis.

 – Infant-sore mouth; child does not want to take hold of breast, but after mouth becomes moist it nurses well.

 – Menses; dark, foul.

 – Stitches in the ovaries on taking deep breath.

 – Frequent nose bleed at the appearance of menses.

 Respiratory

 – Cough; Dry, Hard, Very Painful, at night as of from stomach, must sit up agg. eating and drinking.

 – Wants to take deep breath, but can not or it excites cough.

 – Expectoration; rusty blood streaked or tough.

 – Bronchitis.

 – Asthma.

 – Pneumonia.

 – Sharp Stitches in chest or at right scapula, agg. deep breathing and coughing.

 – Pleurisy.

 – Coming into warm room excites cough.

 – Holds chest, or presses the sternum when coughing.

 – Dry friction sound.

 – Cough, with sneezing.

 Heart

 – Stitches in cardiac region.

 – Pulse; FULL, QUICK, harsh.

 Neck and back

 – Instrascapular numbness or pain going to epigastrium or from left scapula to heart.

 – Painful stiffness of neck.

 – Pain in the small of back agg. walking or turning.

 – Stitches and stiffness in small of back.

 – Lumbago agg. stooping.

 Extremities

 – Joints red, swollen hot.

 – Pins and needles in soles, preventing walking.

 – Constant motion of left arm and leg, with sighing.

 – Swelling of elbow.

 – Knees totter and bend under him when walking.

 – Tendency to run backwards.

 – Sciatica amel. lying quietly and lying on painful side.

 Skin

 – Slow development or sudden recending of rash, in eruptive fevers.

 – Undeveloped measles.

 – Skin; yellow, pale swollen, dropsical.

 Sleep

 – Dreams; of hard work, about household affairs, about business of the day, in delirium.

 – Drowsy.

 – Starting when falling asleep.

 – Walks in sleep.

 Fever

 – Chill with hot head and red face; agg. warm room.

 – Dry burning heat; with agg. of all the symptoms.

 – Blood seems hot.

 – Painful continued fevers.

 – Sweat; sour or oily.

 Complementary

 – Abro; Alu; Kali-c; Lyc; Nat-m; Rhus-t; Sep; Sul.

 Related

 – Phyt; Rhus-t.