BRYONIA ALBA
Wild Hops
(BRYONIA)
Acts on all serous membranes and the viscera they contain. Aching in each muscle. The widespread persona of the ache right here produced is a stitching, tearing; worse via motion, higher rest. These attribute stitching pains, appreciably aggravated by using any motion, are observed everywhere, however specifically in the chest; worse pressure. Mucous membranes are all dry. The Bryonia affected person is irritable; has vertigo from elevating the head, pressive headache; dry, parched lips, mouth; immoderate thirst, bitter taste, touchy epigastrium, and feeling of a stone in the stomach; stools large, dry, hard; dry cough; rheumatic pains and swellings; dropsical effusions into synovial and serous membranes.
Bryonia influences in particular the charter of a robust, association fiber and darkish complexion, with tendency to leanness and irritability. It prefers the right side, the evening, and open air, heat climate after bloodless days, to appear its motion most markedly.
Children dislike to be carried or raised. Physical weakness, all-pervading apathy. Complaints apt to boost slowly.
Mind.–Exceedingly irritable; the whole lot places him out of humor. Delirium; needs to go home; talks of business.
Head.–Vertigo, nausea, faintness on rising, confusion. Bursting, splitting headache, as if the entirety would be pressed out; as if hit by means of a hammer from within; worse from motion, stooping, opening eyes. Headache turns into seated in occiput. Drawing in bones closer to zygoma. Headache; worse on motion, even of eyeballs. Frontal headache, frontal sinuses involved.
Nose.–Frequent bleeding of nostril when menses have to appear. Also in the morning, relieving the headache. Coryza with capturing and aching in the forehead. Swelling of tip of nose, feels as if it would ulcerate when touched.
Ears.–Aural vertigo (Aur; Nat sal; Sil; Chin). Roaring, buzzing.
Eyes.–Pressing, crushing, aching pain. Glaucoma. Sore to contact and when shifting them.
Mouth.–Lips parched, dry, cracked. Dryness of mouth, tongue, and throat, with immoderate thirst. Tongue covered yellowish, darkish brown; closely white in gastric derangement. Bitter style (Nux; Col). Burning in decrease lip in historic smokers. Lip swollen, dry, black, and cracked.
Throat.–Dryness, sticking on swallowing, scraped and constricted (Bell). Tough mucus in larynx and trachea, loosened solely after plenty hawking; worse coming into heat room.
Stomach.–Nausea and faintness when rising up. Abnormal hunger, loss of taste. Thirst for giant draughts. Vomiting of bile and water without delay after eating. Worse, heat drinks, which are vomited. Stomach touchy to touch. Pressure in belly after eating, as of a stone. Soreness in belly when coughing. Dyspeptic illnesses for the duration of summer season heat. Sensitiveness of epigastrium to touch.
Abdomen.–Liver place swollen, sore, tensive. Burning pain, stitches; worse, pressure, coughing, breathing. Tenderness of stomach walls.
Stool.–Constipation; stools hard, dry, as if burnt; appear too large. Stools brown, thick, bloody; worse in morning, from moving, in warm weather, after being heated, from bloodless drinks, each spell of warm weather.
Urine.–Red, brown, like beer; scanty, hot.
Female.–Menses too early, too profuse; worse from motion, with tearing pains in legs; suppressed, with vicarious discharge or splitting headache. Stitching pains in ovaries on taking a deep inspiration; very touchy to touch. Pain in proper ovary as if torn, extending to thigh (Lilium; Croc). Milk fever. Pain in breasts at menstrual period. Breasts warm and painful hard. Abscess of mammae. Frequent bleeding of nostril at look of menses. Menstrual irregularities, with gastric symptoms. Ovaritis. Intermenstrual pain, with extremely good stomach and pelvic anguish (Ham).
Respiratory.–Soreness in larynx and trachea. Hoarseness; worse in open air. Dry, hacking cough from inflammation in top trachea. Cough, dry, at night; should take a seat up; worse after ingesting or drinking, with vomiting, with stitches in chest, and expectoration of rust-colored sputa. Frequent want to take a lengthy breath; need to extend lungs. Difficult, speedy respiration; worse each movement; precipitated by way of stitches in chest. Cough, with feeling as if chest would fly to pieces; presses his head on sternum; have to aid chest. Croupous and pleuro-pneumonia. Expectoration brick shade, tough, and falls like lumps of jelly. Tough mucus in trachea, loosened solely with a great deal hawking. Coming into heat room excites cough (Nat carb). Heaviness underneath the sternum extending closer to the proper shoulder. Cough worse via going into heat room. Stitches in cardiac region. Angina pectoris (use tincture).
Back.–Painful stiffness in nape of neck. Stitches and stiffness in small of back. From tough water and unexpected adjustments of weather.
Extremities.–Knees stiff and painful. Hot swelling of feet. Joints red, swollen, hot, with stitches and tearing; worse on least movement. Every spot is painful on pressure. Constant action of left arm and leg (Helleb).
Skin.–Yellow; pale, swollen, dropsical; warm and painful. Seborrhoea. Hair very greasy.
Sleep.–Drowsy; beginning when falling asleep. Delirium; busy with enterprise things and what he had read.
Fever.–Pulse full, hard, tense, and quick. Chill with exterior coldness, dry cough, stitches. Internal heat. Sour sweat after moderate exertion. Easy, profuse perspiration. Rheumatic and typhoid marked via gastro-hepatic complications.
Modalities.–Worse, warmth, any motion, morning, eating, warm weather, exertion, touch. Cannot sit down up; receives faint and sick. Better, mendacity on painful side, pressure, rest, bloodless things.
Relationship.–Complementary: Upas when Bryonia fails. Rhus; Alumina. Illecebrum.–A Mexican drug.–(Fever with catarrhal symptoms, gastric and typhoid fever symptoms).
Antidotes: Acon; Cham; Nux.
Compare: Asclep tub; Kali mur; Ptelia.
Dose.–First to twelfth attenuation.
