BRYONIA ALBA
Wild Hops
(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 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 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.
Mind.--Exceedingly irritable; everything puts him out of humor. Delirium; wants to go home; talks of
business.
Head.--Vertigo,
nausea, faintness on rising, confusion. Bursting,
splitting headache, as if everything would be pressed out; as if hit
by a hammer from within; worse from motion, stooping, opening eyes. Headache
becomes seated in occiput. Drawing
in bones towards zygoma. Headache;
worse on motion, even of eyeballs. Frontal headache,
frontal sinuses involved.
Nose.--Frequent
bleeding of nose when menses should appear. Also
in the morning, relieving the headache. Coryza with shooting 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 touch and when moving them.
Mouth.--Lips
parched, dry, cracked. Dryness of mouth, tongue, and throat,
with excessive thirst.
Tongue coated yellowish, dark brown; heavily white in gastric derangement. Bitter taste (Nux; Col). Burning in lower
lip in old smokers. Lip swollen, dry, black, and
cracked.
Throat.--Dryness, sticking on
swallowing, scraped and constricted (
Stomach.--Nausea and faintness when rising up. Abnormal hunger, loss of taste. Thirst for large draughts. Vomiting of bile and water immediately after eating. Worse, warm drinks, which are vomited. 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.
Abdomen.--Liver
region swollen, sore, tensive. Burning pain, stitches; worse,
pressure, coughing, breathing. Tenderness
of abdominal walls.
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.
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 sensitive to
touch. Pain in right ovary as if torn, extending to thigh (Lilium; Croc).
Milk fever. Pain in breasts at
menstrual period. Breasts
hot and painful hard. Abscess of mammæ.
Frequent bleeding of nose at appearance of menses. Menstrual irregularities, with gastric symptoms. Ovaritis.
Intermenstrual pain, with great abdominal and pelvic
soreness (Ham).
Respiratory.--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 (Nat carb). Heaviness beneath the
sternum extending towards the right shoulder. Cough worse by going into warm room. Stitches in cardiac
region. Angina pectoris (use tincture).
Back.--Painful
stiffness in nape of neck. Stitches
and stiffness in small of back. From hard water and sudden changes 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 motion of left arm and leg (Helleb).
Skin.--Yellow; pale,
swollen, dropsical; hot and painful. Seborrha.
Hair very greasy.
Sleep.--Drowsy;
starting when falling asleep. Delirium; busy with business matters and
what he had read.
Fever.--Pulse full, hard, tense, and
quick. Chill with external coldness, dry cough, stitches. Internal
heat. Sour sweat after slight exertion. Easy, profuse perspiration. Rheumatic and
typhoid marked by gastro-hepatic complications.
Modalities.--Worse, warmth, any motion, morning, eating, hot
weather, exertion, touch. Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick. Better, lying on painful side, pressure, rest, cold 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