Bryonia alba
bryo-albWild Hops 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, bit
Bryonia alba — Materia Medica
Bryonia alba — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Slowly advancing, forcible processes, localizing in unyielding tissues. Very painful effects; on coughing holds sides, chest or head; in joints, etc. BURSTING, STITCHING or heavy, sore pain, going backward. AVERSE TO LEAST MOTION, even of distant parts. Dryness everywhere. Dryness of the mucous membranes. Scanty, adherent secretions. Congestion, INFLAMMATION, exudation. Streaks of red. Gastro-bilious-rheumatic type. .................... Determined, taciturn, irritable and ugly. Wants to be let alone or go home. Dull. DIZZY OR FAINT ON RAISING UP. Vertigo; felt in occiput. BURSTING, SPLITTING OR HEAVY crushing headache; fronto-occipital; < moving eyes, coughing, straining at stool, etc. Pain over l. eye. Sensitive scalp; every hair pains. Oily hair. Eyeballs sore; pains behind. Dark red face. Nosebleed; vicarious. Suppressions or non-appearing discharges, eruptions, etc. Wagging lower jaw. Descending colds. Chewing motions. Dry, parched, cracked lips. Dry mouth. Tongue very dry, rough, coated along center; red at base. Soapy saliva. BITTER TASTE, or vomitus. Hawks brown lumps from posterior nares. THIRST; FOR LARGE DRINKS. Craves what he can't relish. Loathing. Nausea, < lying on r. side. Throbbing, tender epigastrium. Heavy load in stomach. Heavy, sore liver, > lying on it. Appendicitis. Peritonitis. LARGE, DRY, VERY HARD STOOLS, as if burnt. Constipation. Gushing diarrhœa on rising, < cabbage; burning; < hot weather. Lumps of tough mucus after stool. Yellow, mushy stool. Vicarious menstruation. Right chest; rusty expectoration. Wants to take a deep breath, but can't, or it excites cough. DRY, HARD, VERY PAINFUL COUGH, as if from stomach; < eating or drinking. Blood-streaked or tough expectoration. Bronchitis. Pneumonia (r.). SHARP STITCHES IN CHEST, or at r. scapula. Dry, friction sound. Pleurisy. Stony, hard mammæ; before menses. Milk fever. Heavy, hard breasts before menses. Interscapular numbness or pain going to epigastrium or from l. to heart.
Bryonia alba — mind · James Tyler Kent
This sluggish state of the mind then is the state of Bryonia, not an excitable state, as in Coffea, Nux vomica, Ignatia, but sluggish aggravated from motion, aggravated from being talked to; wants to lie still in bed; very great irritability, which is as extreme as that found in Nux or Chamomilla. It also has acute complaints aggravated from anger, from being aroused, from being disturbed, from controversy. Following the early sluggishness, there is later a state of complete stupefaction in Bryonia, in which he becomes quite unconscious, as in typhoid. He goes from a state of partial unconsciousness to one of complete unconsciousness, as in hydrocephalic children. In rheumatic complaints, in pneumonia, and in typhoid conditions, when he is aroused from this stage of stupefaction he is confused, sees images, thinks he is away from home and wants to be taken home. Sometimes he will lie and say nothing but that he "wants to go home." The delirium is of a low type; it is not the flashing wild excitement of Bell. or Stram.; it is the very opposite; he talks and wanders and does not say much unless he is disturbed.
Bryonia alba — general · James Tyler Kent
Every medicine has a sphere of action, a peculiar nature whereby it differs from all other medicines, and hence it becomes suitable to complaints of one class and not suitable to those of another. It is like the nature of human beings, as they differ from each other, and also like the nature of diseases, which differ from each other in character. We study a remedy also in regard to its velocity and continuance, its remittence or intermittence. The symptoms of some remedies come on suddenly, with great violence, with great rapidity, stay but a short time in their paroxysm, and go off as it nothing had happened. Others come on slowly, are deep acting and continuous, like the continued fevers. We notice the complaints of Ignatia, how flitting and intermittent and unexpected everything is; we notice in Aconite how complaints come on with violence, and in Belladonna with what suddenness they come on. When we come to the study of Bryonia we find it is a most persistent remedy; its complaints develop slowly, i.e., slowly for acute conditions. Its complaints are continuous, remittent, and only occasionally intermittent. They increase into violence, but the violence is not the first flash as in Aconite or Belladonna, and hence it conforms to a type of disease with continued fever; to rheumatisms that come with gradually increasing severity, gradually increasing and involving one joint after another, until all the white fibrous tissues are in a state of inflammation, pain and distress. It has inflammatory conditions anywhere about the body, but particularly of the fibrous tissues, serous membranes, ligaments of joints and aponeuroses.
Bryonia alba — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
M 3 Bryonia is one of the priceless remedies of Homoeopathy, especially useful in acute diseases. Bryonia is also a remedy of very definite symptoms that can hardly be missed, therefore it is one of the easiest to prescribe with assurance. It was one of Hahnemann’s earliest provings—one of those “ without which”, as Dudgeon says, " we might indeed shut up shop ” Hence Bryonia finds its way into every handbook of Homoeo pathy, and into every domestic medicine chest. But—it behoves us to know when and how to use it, if we want to see the miracle work. Guernsey says, of Bryonia, ” The great characteristic of this drug is aggravation produced by any motion. The patient cannot bear a disturbance of any kind, either mental or physical. Can’t sit up in bed, as it makes the patient so sick and faint, even when rising to take a drink of water. Moving from one side of the bed to the other is not so bad, but the patient cannot sit up.” Let us follow this out into the provings. This Worse from motion, vnth.Bryonia, is such a constant symptom with sufferings in all parts of the body, as to have become a General. Motion aggravates the vertigo and headache ; the fullness in the forehead ; (worse even from moving the eyes ! ) the severe pulsating pains in head ; the shooting pains in head and eyes ; the expanding headaches, etc.
Bryonia alba — modalities · H.C. Allen
Aggravation: Motion, exertion, touch; cannot sit up, gets faint or sick or both; warmth, warm fold; suppressed discharges of any kind. Amelioration: Lying, especially on painful side (Ptel., Puls.); pressure; rest; cold, eating cold things.
Bryonia alba — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
MOTION: LEAST RAISING UP. STOOPING. EXERTION. COUGHING. DEEP BREATHING. Dry: Heat. Cold. HOT: BECOMING. ROOM. Weather. Drinking, while hot. EATING. Vegetables. Acids. Calomel. VEXATION. Touch. Suppressions. Taking cold. Early A.M.
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