Bryonia

▲   GENERAL

General

Bryonia acts on all serous membranes and the viscera they contain. Aching in every muscle. The general character Of the pain here produced is a stitching, tearing; worse by motion, better rest. These characteristic stitching pains, greatly aggravated by any motion, are found everywhere, but especially in the chest; worse pressure. Mucous membranes are all dry. The Bryonia Alba patient is irritable; has vertigo from raising the head, pressive headache; dry, parched lips, mouth; excessive thirst, bitter taste, sensitive 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 Alba affects especially the constitution of a robust, firm fiber and dark complexion, with tendency to leanness and irritability. It prefers the right side, the evening, and open air, warm weather after cold days, to manifest its action most markedly.

Children dislike to be carried or raised. Physical weakness, all-pervading apathy. Complaints apt to develop slowly.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, warmth, any motion, morning, eating, hot weather, exertion, touch. Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick.

Better

BETTER, lying on Painful side, pressure, rest, cold things.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Asclep. Tuberculinum ^Tub.; Kali Muriaticum ^Kali-mur.; Ptelea Trifoliata ^Ptelea.

Antidotes

Antidotes: Aconite ^Acon.; Chamomilla ^Cham.; Nux Vomica ^Nux.

▲   MIND

Mind

Exceedingly Irritable; everything puts him out of humor

Delirium; wants to go home; Talks of business.

Behaviour; habits; holds head with hand; on coughing

Dazed

Delirium

morning

at daybreak

muttering

quiet

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions; environment and surroundings; home; think is away from home

Desires, wants; to go home

Symptoms follow intense emotions; scorn

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

anger (see irritability and quarrelsome)

impulsive; capriciousness

irritability

morose

suspicious

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting); before coughing

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; confusion

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety

anxiety; about future

fear; poverty

frightened easily; starting, startled

Preoccupied; talks of one subject; talks of business

Quiet, peace (or lack of); wants to be quiet

during chill

Sighing (see respiration); while perspiring

Talking, conversation

speech; incoherent

speech; prattling

talks of one subject; talks of business

Unconsciousness

morning

morning; on rising

on rising up

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo, nausea, faintness on rising, confusion

Morning; on rising

From movement

moving the head

raising head

On rising

from a seat

Spinning

▲   HEAD

Head

Drawing in bones towards zygoma

Congestion (see pulsation)

Hot; during chilliness

Pulsating

back of head (occiput)

back of head (occiput); on moving

Headache

Bursting, splitting headache, as if everything would be pressed out; as if hit by a hammer from within; wore from motion, stooping, opening eyes

Headache becomes seated in occiput

Headache; worse on motion, even of eyeballs

Frontal headache, frontal sinuses involved.

Heaviness (see pain; pressing); forehead

Pain, headache

morning

in bed; on first movement

morning; on rising

morning; on waking

eyes and vision (affecting or affected by); on moving eyes

from cold (including cold parts); becoming cold

while constipated

with running or blocked nose

on coughing

with stomach complaints

from ironing

from any jar (see sensitive, coughing, laughing, stepping, riding)

from certain movements; movement in general

from certain movements; from stooping

pressure

rheumatic

violent pains

walking; while

walking; on walking up steps or hill

walking; while walking rapidly

walking; stepping heavily

from warmth; from exposure to sun

cold weather

damp

in forehead

coughing

on movement

pressure

from stooping

while walking

above eyes; above left

back of head (occiput)

heat of sun

the small lump at the very back of head (occipital protuberance)

the small lump at the very back of head (occipital protuberance); movement

bursting

on coughing

pulling; noon

pulling; back of head (occiput)

noon

pulling; temples; extending to other parts; cheek bone

pressing (see bursting, pulling); while coughing

pressing (see bursting, pulling); on movement

pressing (see bursting, pulling); on shaking head

pressing (see bursting, pulling); as if brain bound up

pressing (see bursting, pulling); forehead

while stooping

over eyes

over eyes; movement

pressing (see bursting, pulling); back of head (occiput); movement

pressing (see bursting, pulling); temples; extending to other parts; cheek bone

stitching, sudden, sharp; stepping

▲   EYES

Eyes

Pressing, crushing, aching pain

Glaucoma

Sore to touch and when moving them.

Inflammation; wounds; back of eye (behind retina - choroid)

Pain

from exertion of vision

on movement of eyes

aching

moving eyes

burning, smarting, gnawing, biting; corner

night

crushing

pressing

when moving eyes

sore, bruised, tender

moving the lids

moving the eyes

▲   EARS

Ear

Aural vertigo ( Aur.; Natrum Salicylicum ^Nat-sal.; Silicea ^Sil.; Chin.) Roaring, buzzing.

Itching; in ear; burning

▲   FACE

Face

Heat

Motions of jaw; chewing motion of the jaw (see grinding teeth)

Lips

cracked lips

dryness

picking lips

Pain

exertion

affected by movement (for better or worse); movement

rheumatic

Skin

discoloration; bluish

discoloration; pale; during chill

discoloration; red

dark red

bluish red

Swelling

lips

▲   NOSE

Nose

Frequent bleeding of nose when menses should appear

Also in the morning, relieving the headache

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

Nose bleed

morning; after rising

in women; when period is suppressed

Discharge from nose; suppressed

Discharge

Coryza with shooting and aching in the forehead

Running or blocked nose (coryza); with fever

with inflammation larynx

Sneezing

▲   MOUTH

Lips

Lips parched, dry, cracked

Lip swollen, dry, black and cracked.

Gums and teeth

Teeth

pain

pain; molars

pain; cold; cold water

pain; lying on painful side

pain; lying on painless side

pain; with swelling of cheek

pain; stitching, sudden, sharp, stinging

Saliva

Dryness

with thirst

with no thirst

Tongue

dryness of mouth, tongue, and throat, with excessive thirst

Tongue coated yellowish, dark brown; heavily white in gastric derangement

Discoloration

tongue; brown

tongue; white

Dryness; tongue

Taste

Bitter taste ( Nux Vomica ^Nux; Col.) Burning in lower lip in old smokers

Taste

bitter

bitter; drinking

▲   THROAT

Throat

Dryness, sticking on swallowing, scraped and constricted ( Belladonna ^Bell.) Tough mucus in larynx and trachea, loosened only after much hawking; worse coming into warm room.

Dryness

Irritation; larynx

Pain

trachea (wind pipe)

trachea (wind pipe); on coughing

sore; trachea (wind pipe); on coughing

sudden, sharp; on swallowing

Voice; hoarseness

External throat

pain; tearing; sides

stiffness of sides

▲   CHEST

Chest

Breast

milk; increased

milk; suppressed

Catarrh

Congestion

Constriction, tension

Inflammation

bronchial tubes (bronchitis)

lungs

right

pleura-pneumonia (affecting lung lining)

breast

lung lining

rheumatic

Lungs; fluid build up in chest cavity (pulmonary oedema)

Oppressed feeling

Pain

during chill

during a cough

while lying down

on painful side

movement

pressure

rheumatic

when sneezing

middle of chest; pressure of hand

sides; during cough

sides; laughing

sides; on movement

breast bone; when coughing

aching; breast bone

burning; sides; right

cutting (sudden sharp pain); movement

pressing; during cough

sore, bruised

from coughing

holds chest with hands during cough

sitting upright

under breast bone; on coughing

stitching, sudden, sharp

during chill

coughing

during fever

lying on the painful side

during movement

pressure

sides

sides; right

sides; coughing

sides; lying on painful side

sides; during movement

sides; lower part of; movement

breast bone; on coughing

heart

Perspiration; arm pit

Pulse

Pulse full, hard, tense, and quick

Respiration

Soreness in larynx and trachea

Hoarseness; worse in open air

Dry, hacking cough from irritation in upper trachea

Cough, dry, at night; Must sit up; worse after eating or drinking, with vomiting, With stitches in chest, and expectoration of rust-colored sputa

Frequent desire to take a long breath; MUST expand lungs

Difficult, quick respiration; worse every movement; caused by stitches in chest

Cough, with feeling as if chest would fly to pieces; presses his head on sternum; must support chest

Croupous and pleuro-pneumonia

Expectoration brick shade, tough, and falls like lumps of jelly

Tough mucus in trachea, loosened only with much hawking

Coming into warm room excites cough ( Natrum Carbonicum ^Nat-carb.) Heaving beneath the sternum extending towards the right shoulder

Cough worse by going into warm room

Stitches in cardiac region

Angina pectoris (use tincture).

Pain

when breathing in

when breathing; breathing normally

when breathing; breathing deeply

sides; breathing in

sides; when breathing

with deep breathing

cutting (sudden sharp pain); when breathing in

sore, bruised; when breathing in

stitching, sudden, sharp; when breathing in

stitching, sudden, sharp; respiration

deep

stitching, sudden, sharp; sides; right; when breathing

stitching, sudden, sharp; sides; when breathing in

Accelerated

Deep

desire to breathe deeply

Difficult (dyspnea)

on movement

Impeded, obstructed; with pain; pains take away the breath

Interrupted

Rough

crowing (see croup)

Sighing

▲   COUGH

Cough

Open air

Cough from deep down; seems to come from the stomach

Dry cough

during fever

as if from stomach

Holds self during cough; must hold chest with both hands, while coughing

When breathing; deep breathing

Loose; morning

Painful to cough

Racking

Intermittent

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Morning

Bloody, spitting of blood (see chest haemorrhage); brown

streaked with blood

Rusty

Mucous

▲   SKIN

Skin

Yellow, pale, swollen, dropsical; hot and painful

Seborrhoea

Hair very greasey.

Dry

burning

Abnormal growths

ulcers; with cold feeling

ulcers; with deep hole (fistula)

Itching

burning

stinging

Out-breaks on skin

measles

small, purple spot

rash (see granular)

receding in eruptive fevers

receding in eruptive fevers; scarlet fever

slow evolution of rash in eruptive fevers

rose coloured patches

suppressed

Pain; burning

Sticking

Swelling

burning

fluid in tissues

hard

inflamed

pale

shining

stinging

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back and neck

Pain; sore, bruised, beaten; lumbar (lower half of back)

Neck

Painful stiffness in nape of neck

Back

Stitches and stiffness in small of back

From hard water and sudden changes of weather.

Pain

when coughing

on movement

rheumatic

in women

during period

lumbar (lower half of back)

while lying down; turning in bed is almost impossible

during movement

rheumatic pains

on turning

aching

lumbar (lower half of back)

stitching, sudden, sharp, shooting

coughing

movement

lumbar (lower half of back)

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Abnormal hunger, loss of taste

Thirst for large drafts

Stomach sensitive to touch

pressure in stomach after eating, as of a stone

Soreness in stomach when coughing

Dyspeptic ailments during summer heat

Sensitiveness of epigastrium to touch.

region swollen, sore, tensive

Burning pain, Stitches; worse, pressure, coughing, breathing

Tenderness of abdominal walls.

Sensation as if diarrhoea would come on

Bloated; painful

Inflammation

appendicitis

neck of large intestine (right side, between hip and ribs. typhlitis)

Pain

during cough

as if diarrhoea would come on

on movement

during stool

right side, above hip

groin region

liver; lying on right side

sore, bruised, tenderness, etc.

on jarring

on movement

behind lower ribs

behind lower ribs; right

behind lower ribs; on jarring

right side, between ribs and hip

sudden, sharp (sticking, etc.)

groin region; right

groin region; on breathing in

liver

liver; on breathing

liver; from coughing

Bladder

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire)

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); while perspiring

Stomach

appetite; capricious (hunger, but knows not for what, or refuses things when offered)

desires, cravings; cold drinks

desires, cravings; indistinct, knows not what

desires, cravings; warm drinks

disordered

burping, belching; clear, salty liquid from stomach in mouth (waterbrash)

heat, flushes

inflammation

sensation of lump; stone

after eating

pain; from coughing

pain; after eating; bread

pain; during heat

pain; on movement

pain; while walking

pain; pressing; movement

pain; sore, bruised, beaten (tenderness)

on coughing

thirst; burning, intense

thirst; extreme

thirst; during heat

thirst; for large quantities

often

at long intervals

Eating

burping, belching; tasting like food

vomiting; food

from cough

Nausea

Nausea and faintness when rising up

nausea; drinking

nausea; on rising; up in bed

Vomiting

Vomiting of bile and water immediately after eating

Worse, warm drinks, which are vomited

Pain; with vomiting, blood and mucus in stool (intussusception); pain in region of liver

Stomach

vomiting; on coughing

vomiting; after drinking

immediately after

smallest quantity

vomiting; after eating

vomiting; on movement

vomiting; bile

vomiting; bitter

vomiting; water

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Constipation

difficult stool

inactivity of rectum

Diarrhoea

morning

morning; after rising; and moving about

after certain foods or drinks; fruit

hot weather

movement

Flatulence; offensive

Pain; burning; after stool

Stool

Constipation; stools hard, dry, as if burnt; seem too large

Stools brown, thick, bloody; Worse in morning, from moving, in hot weather, after being heated, from cold drinks, every spell of hot weather.

Dry

Hard

as if burnt

Large

Food appears to be passed undigested (lientery)

Mushy

yellow

Odour

like rotten cheese

offensive

Pasty, mushy

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Red, brown, like beer; scanty, hot.

Cloudy

when standing up

Colour

brown

dark

red

Sediment; pink

Womb

Female

pain; womb (see abdomen, pain); movement

pain; womb (see abdomen, pain); walking

pain; sore, tenderness; womb

from movement

Genitals

Stitching pains in ovaries on taking a deep inspiration; very sensitive to touch

Pain in right ovary as if torn, extending to thigh ( Lilium Tigrinum ^Lilium; Crocus Sativus ^Croc.) Milk fever

Breasts hot and painful, hard

Abscess of mammae

Menstrual irregularities, with gastric symptoms

Ovaritis

Intermenstrual pain, with great abdominal and pelvic soreness ( Ham.)

Female

after-birth; suppressed

pain; ovaries; movement

pain; sore, tenderness; ovaries

walking

pain; stitching, sudden, sharp; ovaries; movement

Menses

Menses too early, too profuse; worse from motion with tearing pains in legs; Suppressed, with vicarious discharge or splitting headache

Pain in breasts at menstrual period

Frequent bleeding of nose at appearance of menses

Female

period; brown

period; frequent

period; offensive smell

period; bleeding from another orifice instead of period

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

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 motion of left arm and leg ( Helleb.)

Hands and feet; corns; stinging

Heat; hand; palm

Heaviness; tired limbs

Inflammation

joints

knee

foot

Inflammed veins in legs of breast feeding women

Pain

during fever

during influenza

on movement

rheumatic

acute

in cold weather

joints

gouty

movement

rheumatic

upper limbs

movement

rheumatic

elbow

movement

lower limbs; movement

lower limbs; sciatica (pain radiating from back along back of thigh)

lying on painful side

movement

knee; movement

knee; rheumatic

pulling; elbow; during movement

pulling; knee

stitching, sudden, sharp; joints

stitching, sudden, sharp; upper arm; movement

Skin; out-break on skin; pimples

Stiffness

elbow

knee

painful

rheumatic

Swollen

joints

elbow; rheumatic

knee

rheumatic

foot

evening

hot

back of foot

Tension, tightness

ankle; movement

foot; while sitting

foot; on stepping

Weakness

knee; rest

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Chill with external coldness, dry cough, stitches

Internal heat

Sour sweat after slight exertion

Easy, profuse perspiration

Morning

Evening

Open air

Autumn

Beginning in particular area

fingers; tips of fingers

fingers; tips of fingers and toes

lips

Chilliness (see also whole body; temperature)

From emotions; after anger

During movement

Periodic, recurring

attacks recurring earlier each time

recurring every third day

With fever, but chill predominating

Sides, one-sided

right

In warmth; in warm room; not relieved in warm room, nor by a warm heater

Evening; in bed; after lying down

Night

dry burning heat

9 p.m.

before midnight

Alternating with chills

Autumn

Localised; stomach (gastric fever)

Burning heat; night; before midnight

Catarrh with fever

Fever without chill

evening

night

before midnight

Continued fever

evening

night

before midnight

abdominal

chest

Dry heat

Fever with skin out-break; measles

External heat

Infectious fevers

Inflammatory fever

Internal heat

Irregular stages

Wants to be quiet in any stage

No perspiration

Remittent

Septic fever (see infectious, continued, from childbirth, etc.)

One-sided

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Drowsy; starting when falling asleep

Delirium; busy with business matters and what he had read.

Dreams

busy

previous events; events of the previous day

Position; on back

Sleeplessness, insomnia

night; from before midnight

Perspiration

In cold air

After eating

On movement

Odour; sour

Oily

Profuse

From suppressed complaints

Other symptoms relieved while perspiring

While walking (see exertion); in open air

Generalities

Morning

Evening

9 p.m.

Walking up stairs or hill

Change of weather; cold to warm

Becoming heated

Physical exertion

Eating and food

after eating

beans and peas

bread

cabbage

cold drinks

foods which cause flatulence

fruit

sauerkraut

warm food

Faintness, fainting

morning

on rising

on rising; from bed

from sitting up

Fluid build up; excess of blood, or other fluids

Heaviness; externally

Inflammation

internally

thin, watery membranes

Jar, stepping

Lying down

lying on side

lying on side; on painless side

Movement

movement of affected part

Aversion to movement

Pain

burning externally

burning externally; internally

pressing; as from load

pressing; from within outward

sudden, sharp; externally

sudden, sharp; internally

sudden, sharp; bones

sudden, sharp; muscles

tearing; externally

tearing; internally

ulcerative; externally

Perspiration

Pressure; on painless side

Pulsation; internally

Pulse

frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid

full

hard

Rising

Running

Symptoms not symmetrical

symptoms on one side

right

Sitting

Before sleep

At beginning of sleep

During sleep

Swelling

in general

of affected parts

glands; hot

Tension; externally

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); after becoming cold

tendency to catch cold

warmth

becoming warm in open air

warm bed

Touch

Walking

Warmth; becoming warm in open air

Warm bed

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness); morning; on rising

late morning

from slight exertion

from perspiration

on rising

walking

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