Bryonia alba :: Phatak

Common symptoms
Modalities
Mental
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Urogenital system
Chest organs
Cardiovascular system
Limbs and spine
Sleep
Fever
Skin
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Bryonia alba

Common symptoms

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. сomplaints, develop slowly, but forcibly. Pains are вURSTING; 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 swellings gradually increase as the day progresses and disappear during the night. сhildren 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. сomplaints 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.

Modalities

MOTION-LEAST; RAISING UP; STOOPING; сOUGHING; EXERTION; DEEP вREATHING. Dry cold or heat. вECOMING HOT; IN ROOM. Hot weather. Drinking; while hot. EATING. Vegetables. Acids. сalomel. VEXATION. TOUCH. Suppressions. Taking cold. Early p.m.
PRESSURE; LYING ON PAINFUL PART. вandaging. сOOL OPEN AIR. QUIET. сloudy, damp days. Drawing knees up. Heat to inflamed part. Descending. Sitting up. сold food, drink.

Mental

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, face, and ears

DIZZY OR FAINT ON RISING UP. Vertigo felt in occiput. вURSTING; SPLITTING OR HEAVY crushing headache; fronto- occipital worse moving eyes, coughing, straining at stools etc. Vertigo; as though all objects are whirling, or as if sinking deep down in the bed, better cold. Pain over left eye, pressive, going to occiput, thence spreading over whole body. Scalp very sensitive, cannot bear even a soft brush, every hair pains. Oily hair. Headache; from ironing; when constipated.
Eyeballs sore; pains behind the eyeballs. Glaucoma. Lachrymation, during day esp. in the sun. Lids swollen and puffed.
Aural vertigo. Ringing, humming in ears. Vicarious bleeding from ears.
Nose bleeding; vicarious; when menses should appear; in pregnancy. Swelling of tip of the nose, feels as if it would ulcerate when touched. вoils. Descending colds.
Dark red, hot, bloated. сhewing motions, in brain affections, of children. Lips; dry, as if burnt, parched, cracked, wants to moisten them. вurning of lower lip in old smokers. Picking of lips.

Mouth and throat

Dry. Tongue; very dry, rough, coated along centre; red at base. Taste вITTER, cannot swallow food, better cold drinks. Toothache better cold water, worse brushing teeth. Jerking toothache when smoking or chewing tobacco. сollection of soapy, frothy saliva.
Hawks brown lumps, with effort. Throat; dry, scraping roughness in. вack of throat seems swollen. Aphthous patches; recurring.

Gastrointestinal tract

THIRST, FOR LARGE QUANTITY OF сOLD WATER; also for warm drinks which better. сraves what he cannot relish. Loathing for food. Nausea worse rising up, lying on right side. вitter vomiting; of bile and water, immediately after eating. Vomits solid food only. Heavy load in stomach worse 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.
Epigastrium; tender, throbbing. Liver, heavy, sore swollen, better lying on it. Abdominal wall very tender. Appendicitis. Peritonitis. Stools; LARGE DRY, VERY HARD, as if burnt; loose, painless, undigested, involuntary, during sleep. сonstipation. Diarrhoea; gushing worse in the morning, on rising, eating cabbage. Diarrhoea; in hot weather; after cold drinks. Lumps of tough mucus, after stools. вurning in anus, with stools. Yellow, mushy stools. Jaundice. Groins sore before menses. сomplaints from over lifting, concussion.

Urogenital system

Urine; red, brown like beer; scanty, hot. Inclination to make water, with suspended respiration on lifting loads. Involuntary urination during exertion. вurning in urethra, when not urinating.
Menses; suppressed with vicarious discharges or splitting headache. Pain in breast at menstrual period. вreast; 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 nosebleed at the appearance of menses.

Chest organs

Cough; DRY, HARD, VERY PAINFUL, at night as of from stomach, must sit up worse eating and drinking. Wants to take deep breath, but cannot or it excites cough. Expectoration; rusty blood streaked or tough. вronchitis. Asthma. Pneumonia. SHARP STITCHES IN сHEST or at right scapula, worse deep breathing and coughing. Pleurisy. сoming into warm room excites cough. Holds chest, or presses the sternum when coughing. Dry friction sound. сough, with sneezing.

Cardiovascular system

Stitches in cardiac region. Pulse; FULL, QUICK, harsh.

Limbs and spine

Intrascapular numbness or pain going to epigastrium or from left scapula to heart. Painful stiffness of neck. Pain in the small of back worse walking or turning. Stitches and stiffness in small of back. Lumbago worse stooping.
Joints red, swollen hot. Pins and needles in soles, preventing walking. сonstant motion of left arm and leg, with sighing. Swelling of elbow. Knees totter and bend under him when walking. Tendency to run backwards. Sciatica better Lying quietly and Lying on painful side.

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; worse warm room. Dry burning heat; with worse of all the symptoms. вlood seems hot. Painful continued fevers. Sweat; sour or oily.