Bryonia Alba bry.

Blood. CIRCULATION. Liver. SEROUS MEMBRANES: HEAD. CHEST. JOINTS. ABDOMEN. Motor apparatus: Nerves. Muscles. Right side. Lymphatics. Cellular tissue.

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.

PRESSURE: LYING ON PAINFUL PART. Bandage, etc. COOL OPEN AIR. QUIET. Cloudy, damp days. Drawing knees up. Heat to inflamed part.

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. Lumbago, < stooping. Delirium; dreams of hard work. FULL, QUICK, HARD PULSE. Undeveloped measles. Jaundice. Chill, with hot head and red face; < warm room. Dry, burning heat; with < of all symptoms; blood seems hot. Painful, continued fevers; typhoid, catarrhal, etc.; after suppressions. Sour or oily sweat. Groins sore before menses.

Complementary: Alu. Lyc. Nat-m. Related: Phyt. Rhus-t.

Is best adapted to persons of gouty or rheumatic diathesis; prone to so- called bilious attacks. Bryonia patients are irritable, inclined to be vehement and angry; dark or black hair, dark complexion, firm muscular fibre; dry, nervous, slender people (Nux). Pains: stitching, tearing, worse at night; < by motion, inspiration, coughing; > by absolute rest, and lying on painful side (Ptel., Puls. - stitching pain, but < and > are opposite, Kali c.). Excessive dryness of mucous membranes of entire body; lips and tongue dry, parched, cracked; stool, dry as if burnt; cough, dry, hard, racking, with scanty expectoration; urine, dark and scanty; great thirst. Vicarious menstruation; nosebleed when menses should appear (Phos.); blood spitting, or heamoptysis. Ailments from chagrin, mortification, anger (Col., Staph.); violence, with chilliness and coldness; after anger chilly, but with head hot and face red (Aur.). Complaints: when warm weather sets in, after cold days; from cold drinks or ice in hot weather; after taking cold or getting hot in summer; from chilling when overheated; kicks the covers off; from exposure to draft, cold wind (Acon., Hep.); suppressed discharges, of menses, milk or eruption of acute exanthema. One of the chief characteristics of Bryonia is, aggravation from any motion, and corresponding relief from absolute rest, either mental or physical. Desires things immediately which are not to be had, or which when offered are refused. Children dislike to be carried, or to be raised. Delirium: talks constantly about his business; desire to get out of bed and go home (Act., Hyos.). Constant motion on left arm and leg (Apoc., Hell.); Patient cannot sit up from nausea and faintness. Great thirst for large quantities at long intervals. Headache: when stooping, as if brain would burst through forehead; from ironing (Sep.); on coughing; in morning after rising or when first opening eyes; commencing in the morning, gradually increasing until evening; from constipation (Aloe, Colin., Op.). Pressure as from stone at pit of the stomach, relieved by eructation (Nux, Pul.). Constipation: inactive, no inclination; stool large, hard, dark, dry, as if burnt; on going to sea (Plat.). Diarrhoea: during a spell of hot weather; bilious, acrid with soreness of anus; like dirty water; of undigested food; from cold drinks when overheated, from fruit or sour krout; < in morning, on moving, even a hand or foot. Mammae heavy, of a stony hardness; pale but hard; hot and painful; must support the breasts (Phyt.). Cough: dry, spasmodic, with gagging and vomiting (Kali c.); with stitches in side of chest; with headache, as if head would fly to pieces; < after eating, drinking, entering a warm room, deep inspiration.

Complementary: Alumina, Rhus. Similar: to, Bell., Hep., for hasty speech and hasty drinking. To Ran. in pleuritic or rheumatic pains of chest. To Ptelea, in aching heaviness in hepatic region; > lying on right side, greatly < lying on left side; turning to the left causes a dragging sensation. After Bryonia; Alum., Kali c., Nux, Phos., Rhus, Sulph.

Motion, exertion, touch; cannot sit up, gets faint or sick or both; warmth, warm fold; suppressed discharges of any kind.

Lying, especially on painful side (Ptel., Puls.); pressure; rest; cold, eating cold things.

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 up 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. Nervous, dry, slender people, bilious temperament.

Lowness of spirits; apprehensions and dread on account of the future. Delirium, "wants to go home." Intolerance of noise.

Bluish-red face; red face; exanthema on the under lip; parched, dry, and cracked lips are very characteristic.

Furred, usually dry and hard with deep cracks.

Dry catarrh of the nose. Epistaxis especially just before the beginning of the menses, or in pregnant women, just before the time for the menses to appear.

Respiration oppressed; deep sighing: desire to take a long breath, but cannot, as there is a feeling as though the lungs will not expand sufficiently. Right chest, inner chest; cough in general; if the patient is in bed when the cough comes on, he must immediately rise up into a sitting posture; cough with expectoration in the morning and daytime, without expectoration in the evening. Expectoration grayish, bloody, brownish; concomitant complaints to cough, as there may be vomiting, or micturition, or pain in the chest with every coughing spell.

Vomiting in general; of bile; of what has been eaten, which comes up very soon after eating, of food in mouthfuls at a time (vomiting very often excited by motion); of a watery fluid; bitter and flat taste; belching or eructations; collection of water in the mouth.

Obstruction from induration of the feces; dry, hard, burnt looking stool; feces too thick, i.e., too large.

Urine is dark; becomes turbid; often casts a pinkish stain all over the bottom of the chamber.

Female: Menses of dark color and bad smell; epistaxis at time of. Mammæ: Feel hard and heavy, and are generally pale; increased secretion of the milk.

Affections of the shoulder; hip; arthritic pains in; swollen, presenting a pale reddish appearance. Sensation of tension in the joints.

Burning pains in the internal and external parts; as if the parts were pushed or pressed asunder; as if the parts would burst. Pricking dartings in the outer parts, also in the inner parts, as the patient may complain that he can't walk on account of a sensation of pins and needles in the feet; darting in the muscles; swellings in general; drawing in outer and inner parts; corns pricking; dryness of the skin with heat (especially after perspiration); burning itching; pricking itching; pricking in the skin (this pricking sensation is very characteristic of Bryon.). Stinging pains. Erysipelas feels very hard, as if indurated; pale, tender.

Compound fevers in general; chilliness and heat alternately; heat and shuddering alternately; want of perspiration. Wants to drink much water during chill and fever. Chilliness in general; with thirst; with shivering. Heat in general; external heat; heat of single parts; internal heat; heat on one side only; dry heat. Pulse hard, usually quick.

Affections of the right hypochondrium; inner lower belly; inner region of the liver; inner navel region; of right upper and right lower extremity. Disposition to catch cold; inflammation of the inner parts; sudden startings of the body; miliary eruptions, which may look scarlet or pale; petechiæ; rubeola. External swelling in general; burning; dropsical, hard, inflamed, pale swellings. Ulcers with sensation of coldness.

Falling asleep late; not refreshing; sleeplessness in general, especially before midnight; complaints causing sleeplessness; lying on the back during sleep.

In the evening; from warmth; before falling asleep; on stooping down; while drawing breath (stitch); on taking a deep breath; from suppressed catarrh; after taking cold; while coughing; after the suppression of cutaneous eruptions; after eating; from exertion of the body; from shutting the eyes (may make the pain in the head worse); from getting heated; from lying on the side; lying on the painless side; on ascending; on moving the eyes; moving the parts affected; from cabbage; fruits; saur-krout; from vegetables with husks; from warm food; sometimes, during perspiration; on rising; from running; walking; during the first hours of sleep; during sleep; stepping heavily on the ground; when swallowing; getting warm in the open air; when walking quickly.

Exhaling; after eructation; on going down, (descending); while lying down; lying on the back: lying on the painful side; when quiet: while sitting; from cold things; cold food, etc.

Bellad., Nux vom., Phosphor., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Sulphur (after Sulphur, very often Psorin).

Acon., Camphor. Chamom., Coffea, Rhus tox.

Very irritable, inclined to be angry. Sensation in bed as if be were sinking deep down. Headache from ironing, or from washing the perspiring face in cold water. Parched and dry lips, likes to moisten them often, mouth dry and thirsty for cold water. Delirium about his business, worse at night, after Anxiety about his business, worse at night, not the where-withal to live. Frequent drinking of cold water relieves the bitter taste and the inclination to vomit. Desire for things immediately, which when offered, are refused. Sitting up in bed causes nausea and fainting, Gastric affections, dry mouth and tongue, tongue coated white, giddy when stooping or rising, forehead heavy, taste bitter, food lies heavy, pit of stomach sore to touch, constipation, etc. Constipation, stools hard and dry as if burnt. Coming into warm room from cold air excites cough. Joints red, swollen, stiff, with stitching pains from slightest motion. Dropsical swellings increase during the day diminish during the night. Complaints when warm weather sets in after cold days. Sharp stitching pains in the chest, cannot ham to move or draw a deep breath. Sore, bruised pain in muscles of nape as from taking cold, also in lumbar region or small of back.

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.

Exceedingly irritable; everything puts him out of humor. Delirium; wants to go home; talks of business.

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.

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.

Aural vertigo (Aur; Nat sal; Sil; Chin). Roaring, buzzing.

Pressing, crushing, aching pain. Glaucoma. Sore to touch and when moving them.

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.

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

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.

Liver region swollen, sore, tensive. Burning pain, stitches; worse, pressure, coughing, breathing. Tenderness of abdominal walls.

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.

Red, brown, like beer; scanty, hot.

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).

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).

Painful stiffness in nape of neck. Stitches and stiffness in small of back. From hard water and sudden changes of weather.

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).

Yellow; pale, swollen, dropsical; hot and painful. Seborrhœa. Hair very greasy.

Drowsy; starting when falling asleep. Delirium; busy with business matters and what he had read.

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.

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.

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.

First to twelfth attenuation.

All complaints < on motion.

Dryness of mucous membranes generally (lips, mouth, stomach, wants drink in large quantities, at long intervals; intestines, dry hard stools as if burnt).

Effusions in serous membranes (meninges, pleura, peritoneum, etc.).

Constipation (no desire) or diarrhœa, < mornings on beginning to move.

Stitching pains, especially in serous membranes and joints.

Sitting up causes nausea and faintness.

Suitable to dry, spare, nervous, slender persons, of irritable disposition; rheumatic tendency. Complaints in hot weather, or exposure to dry, cold air, in wet weather (Rhus tox).

Cough, dry, hard, racking, with scanty expectoration; with splitting headache; delirium, about the business of the day; (typhoid) headache; < stooping; ironing; hot weather; coughing; motion, vertigo; with nausea, and faintness; < from sitting up after lying down. Pressure, as from a stone, at pit of stomach relieved by eructation.

Vicarious menstruation; nose bleeds when menses should appear (Phos.).

Mammæ heavy, of a stony hardness; pale, but hard; hot and painful.

Rheumatism of joints, with pale swelling, great paint worse on touch or least motion.

As in Pulsatilla, so in Bryonia, the leading characteristic lies in its "modality." Three words express it -aggravation from motion.

What is aggravated on motion? Sufferings of almost any and every kind. We will not undertake to enumerate them. All that Hering says in his cards on that line is -"Joints red, swelling, stiff with stitching win from slightest motion," and this so far as it goes is genuine, but it is only the beginning of all the ailments that are < on motion.

Look in "Guiding Symptoms," under "Motion," and see the long list of symptoms aggravated by motion, and even these do not cover all. Now we begin to realize the value of this modality.

It makes no difference what the name of the disease, if the patient feels greatly > by lying still and suffers greatly on the slightest motion, and the more and longer he moves the more he suffers, Bryonia is the first remedy to be thought of, and there must be very strong counter-indications along other lines that will rule it out.

Nor does it make much difference what organ or tissue is the seat of the disease, mucous, serous or muscular, the same rule applies.

Another very valuable modality of Bryonia is again expressed in three words -amelioration from pressure. This is the reason the patient, much to the astonishment of the nurse, wants to lie on the paintful side or part. (Opposite Belladonna, Kali carbonicum).

No one can realize the value of these two modalities until he has often met them at the sick bed and witnessed the prompt relief from the use of Bryonia.

When writing upon Pulsatilla, we noticed the characteristic action of that remedy upon the mucous surfaces. Here Bryonia acts just as characteristically, but it is so different. With Bryonia it is excessive dryness or lack of secretion in them. It begins in the lips, which are parched, dry and cracked, and only ends with the rectum and stools, which are hard and dry as if burnt. The same condition is undoubtedly present in the stomach. which is evidenced by the excessive thirst; which can only be satisfied by large draughts of water; a little does not satisfy.

The same condition obtains in the lungs and bronchia, which causes hard, dry cough with little or no expectoration, and with soreness and pain in the chest when the patient coughs. (Natrum sulphuricum has loose cough with soreness). The urine is scanty and only exceptionally (or as I would express it reactionally) copious. We must remember that every remedy has a dual action. These two actions are termed primary and secondary. I think that the so-called secondary action is only the reaction of the organism against the first or primary (so-called) action of the drug. For instance -the real action of Opium is to produce sleep or stupor, the reaction is wakefulness; of Podophyllum, Aloes, etc., catharsis; the reaction constipation, and I think that the truly homœopathic curative must be in accord with the primary (so-called) effects of every drug in order to get the best and most radical cure, but if given for the secondary (so-called) symptoms, the primary ones having passed by, we should carefully inquire for all the symptoms which have preceded those which are present; and taking both past and present, let them all enter into the picture whose counterpart is to be found in the drug which is to cure. Any other method is only palliative and not curative.

Bryonia has also a very decided effect upon the serous membranes. It is very useful in the second stage of inflammation, after the stage of serous effusion has set in. In most of these cases the first stage has been attended by symptoms calling for the exhibition of such remedies as Aconite, Belladonna, Ferrum phos., etc., but not always; and right here let me call attention to the most characteristic pains of this remedy. They are stitching pains. Now observe, the characteristic pains of inflammatory affections of the serous membranes are stitching pains; this is the reason why Bryonia comes to be such a regal remedy in pleuritis, meningitis, peritonitis, pericarditis, etc. The subjective symptoms corresponding to the remedy must go down before it, and the objectives must as surely follow. Only one remedy can equal Bryonia for stitching pains, viz, Kali carbonicum. (Stitching pains in chest are particularly found under Bryonia, Kali carb., Natrum mar., Squilla and Mercur. viv.). And there is this difference between them: The Bryonia stitches come on or are aggravated by the least motion, while those of Kali carbonicum will occur whether the patient moves or not, (Bryonia > by pressure, Kali carb., not). But in both remedies they cry out sharply with the pains. Apis has pains which cause the patient to cry out sharply, but they are stinging pains -like a bee sting. All these three are great remedies for effusions into serous cavities, and Sulphur precedes and follows equally well anyone of them.

A word right here in regard to interpolating Sulphur, when, as we express it, "the seemingly indicated remedy does not act." Some would stumble over that, and ask -as they would have a right to do- how about your similia, etc., in such a use of Sulphur? I answer -Sulphur is a remedy of wide range of action, and covers more perfectly those conditions and symptoms which are the outgrowth of psora than any other remedy; so it does meet the case complicated by psora very often, and either cures it or removes the complication so that the other remedies may act. But remember it will not always do it, and other antipsoric remedies must be chosen. It must be the simillimum for the psoric condition.

Bryonia stands alongside of Nux vomica and Pulsatilla for disorders of alimentation. All three remedies have a sensation as of a stone in the stomach, Bryonia and Nux vomica more so than Pulsatilla. Bryonia leads in thirst, Nux vomica less, and Pulsatilla little or none. All have bad taste in the mouth; Bryonia and Pulsatilla bitter and Nux vomica sour. All have nausea and vomiting; Bryonia worse on motion, as rising up, Nux vomica in the A. M. and after eating, Pulsatilla in the evening and also after eating.

The gastric derangements of Bryonia often occur as a result of dietetic errors, especially when warm weather sets in after cold. Those of Nux vomica more from continued over-eating and inactivity, the abuse of drugs, coffee, tobacco or alcoholics; Pulsatilla from too rich foods, pastries, fat foods and ice cream (in excess); a little ice cream feels good in the Pulsatilla stomach, but much overdose the matter, because it is too rich.

All three remedies have attacks of diarrhœa, although constipation is most characteristic of Bryonia and Nux vomica, and is only exceptionally found under Pulsatilla.

Bryonia diarrhœa is worse in the morning, on movement, and open occurs as an effect of over-eating in the heat of summer. Nux vomica diarrhœa is also apt to be worse in the morning, is mostly caused by over-eating and is apt to put on the dysenteric type. The Pulsatilla diarrhœa is more apt to occur in the night, from causes above mentioned, and is attended with great rumbling of the bowels.

All have white, sometimes very thickly-coated tongue, but taking into account the causes of these gastric and bowel troubles, temperament and modalities there should not be much difficulty in choosing the right remedy for any case.

So far as temperament is concerned, Bryonia is like Nux vomica, but Bryonia has much more of the "rheumatic diathesis." Both are easily irritated or angered, and are oftenest found indicated in spare, dark-complexioned subjects. Both are aggravated generally on motion, by Bryonia very much the more so, while Pulsatilla is sometimes like Rhus toxicodendron relieved by motion.

Now a few special indications for Bryonia and we will have it:

"Bursting headache, as if it would split the head open, aggravated by stooping; coughing; ironing; opening or moving the eyes; moving any way; in hot weather. Nausea and faintness when rising up, relieved when lying still."

"Epistaxis instead of menses (vicarious menstruation), also blood spitting."

"Mastitis; breasts pale, hot, hard, heavy and painful."

"Suppression of lochia with bursting headache."

"Suppression of milk, menses, measles or rash of scarlatina, or where all these are slow in appearing; of course the other Bryonia symptoms must be present."

"Frequent desire to take long breath; must expand the lungs. (Cactus, Ignatia, Nat sulph.)."

"Cough dry, < after eating, sometimes math vomiting; < moving; < coming from open air into warm room. (Nat. carb)."

"Cough hurts head and chest, holds them with hands." (Eupatorium perf., Natrum sulph.).

These are some of the peculiar symptoms which cannot be ranged under any general head, and are excellent leaders to the consideration of Bryonia, all and each of which will be found associated with the more general characteristics already noticed.

The dominant school do not know what they have lost in not being acquainted with the virtues of this remedy, as developed in our provings and clinical use, but we know what we have gained.

Modalities: < from motions, warm weather after cold. > from quiet, lying on painful side.

Exceedingly irritable and inclined to be angry. Restlessness, with fear of the future ; fear of death, which he thinks is near. Despair of recovery. Delirium at night of the business of the day. Unconsciousness. After having been angry he is chilly ; has a red face and heat in the head.

Giddiness, with sensation of looseness in the brain when stooping, and when raising up the head. Fulness and heaviness in the forehead, as if the brain were pressed out ; with bleeding of the nose ; red, bloated face ; worse when opening or moving the eyes ; when stooping ; in the evening ; from motion ; better from closing the eyes ; from external pressure. Tearing in one (right) side of the head, extending into the cheek and jaw-bones ; worse from motion, touch and heat ; better during rest and from external pressure. Heat of the head, with dark-red face ; with coldness of the rest of the body ; with much thirst and pain in the limbs when moving them ; worse in the evening. Oily, greasy, sour-smelling perspiration on the head (and the whole body) during sleep ; at night, especially towards morning. Greasiness of the hair of the head.

Stitches in the eyes. Burning in the eyes and edges of the eyelids. Inflammation of the eyes, aggravated by heat. Inflammation of the eyes, especially in gouty subjects. The eyes feel as if pressed out of the head. The eyes feel very sore to touch, and when moving them. Swollen eyelids, especially the upper lids.

Swelling of the nose, with very sore pain when touched. Bleeding of the nose, especially in the morning -with suppressed menstruation.

Yellow paleness of the face. Hot, bloated red face. Nodosities and indurations on the face. Lips dry, swollen ; cracked.

Toothache ; shooting from one tooth to another, or into the head and cheeks ; from an exposed nerve (sensitiveness of the decayed teeth to contact of the air) ; pain worse from smoking or chewing tobacco ; from introducing any thing warm into the mouth ; relieved, momentarily, by cold water, and when lying on the painful side.

Dryness of the mouth, tongue and throat. Tongue coated white or yellow, especially in the middle.

Great peen in the throat. Stitches in the throat when swallowing. Sensation of swelling and constriction in the œsophagus.

Abnormal hunger ; he must often cat something. Does not drink often, but much at a time. Taste bitter, even of food.

Vomiting of solids, and not of fluids. Bitter vomiting when drink immediately after a meal. Vomiting, first of bile, then fluids. Pressure in the stomach after eating, especially after eating bread. Stitches in the stomach. Burning in the stomach and pit of the stomach, especially when moving. Inflammation of the stomach. Sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach to touch and pressure.

Bloated abdomen (dropsy). Stitches in the liver, when touching it ; when coughing and breathing. (Inflammation of the liver).

Constipation. Stools too large in size ; too hard and dry. Diarrhœa, preceded by pain in the abdomen ; during stool burning at the anus. Diarrhœa putrid ; smelling like old cheese ; worse (or only) in the morning ; during hot weather. Involuntary stools while asleep.

Diminished secretion of hot, red urine. White, turbid urinating). Burning in the urethra, (when not urinating). Cutting in the urethra, or sensation of constriction while urinating.

Men. Stitches in the testicles while sitting. Women. Menstruation too early and too profuse, with dark, red blood. Suppressed menstruation, with bleeding of the nose. During pregnancy, pain in the abdomen and burning in the uterus. Swelling and inflammation of the left labia majora. Lumps indurations and inflammations of the mammæ, with diminished or retarded secretion of milk. (Puerperal fever).

Hoarseness and roughness of the voice (acute bronchitis). Deep, slow breathing. Difficult breathing, only possible with the assistance of the abdominal muscles. Frequent sighing, breathing. Continued inclination to draw a long breath. Breathing quick, difficult and anxious ; caused by stitches, principally in the chest, compelling him to sit up. Cough, from tickling in the throat and pit of the stomach ; in the evening and at night without expectoration ; during the day the expectoration is yellow, or consists of coagulated brown blood, or of cold mucus of a disagreeable flat taste. Cough and stitches in the head and chest ; or pain, as if the head and chest would burst. Stitches in the chest, when breathing or coughing. Heat in the chest (pleurisy, pneumonia). Palpitation of the heart, with oppression of the chest (carditis). Dry, spasmodic cough, after eating and drinking, with vomiting of food. Cough, with involuntary secretion of urine ; hoarseness ; thirst ; sneezing ; stitches in the chest and small of the back ; red face ; aggravated by motion, talking, laughing, eating and drinking.

Stitches in the back and small of the back. Painful stiffness in the small of the back, compelling him to walk and sit crookedly. Painful stiffness of the neck.

Swelling of the elbow and hand joints, and upper parts of the hands. The wrist feels as if dislocated, when moving it. Rheumatic swelling of the right shoulder and upper am, with stitches. Swollen hands.

Cracking and dislocation of the hip-joint, when walking. Stitches in the hip-joint, extending to the knee. Painful stiffness of the knees, with stitches, especially when moving them. The ankle feels as if dislocated, especially when walking. Swelling of the lower extremities. Hot, inflammatory swelling of the feet, with redness. Stitches in the feet (soles of the feet, big toe). Putrid ulcers on the lower extremities.

Over-sensitiveness of the senses to external impressions. Rheumatic and gouty pains in the limbs, with tension ; worse from motion and contact. Paralysis of the limbs. Stiffness and stitches in the joints. Swelling (pale or red) of the affected parts, with inability to move them.

Sleeplessness before midnight, with thirst, heat and ebullitions. Drowsiness, with half-closed eyes. Yawning and sleepiness in the day-time. Delirium, as soon as he awakes.

Pulse full and hard, tense and quick ; seldom intermitting. Chilliness predominating, frequently with heat of the head, red cheeks and thirst. Chill, with external coldness of the body. Coldness and chilliness, mostly in the evening, and often only on one (right) side. More chilliness in the room than in the open air. Heat. Fever, with bitter taste and thirst. Dry, burning heat, mostly internal, as if the blood were burning in the veins. Perspiration, profuse and easily excited when walking slowly in the open, cold air. Profuse night and morning perspiration. Perspiration sour, or oily.

Yellowness. Burning itching eruptions. Rash, especially of children, and during child-bed. Petechiæ. Erysipelatous inflammations, especially of the joints. Hard knots and blotches. Putrid ulcers, feeling cold.

Aggravation, in the evening (9 A.M.). From motion, exertion of the body, on ascending ; worse on sitting up in bed ; the patient is made sick at the stomach by sitting up ; can't sit up a moment ; gets faint, or sick, or both, on sitting up. From heat and warm food ; while coughing, after eating, while swallowing ; after the suppression of cutaneous eruptions. Amelioration, while making an expiration. On descending ; while lying, especially on the painful side ; while sitting ; from eating cold things ; on getting warm in bed.

Bryonia alba. White Bryony. N. O. Cucurbitaceæ. Tincture of root procured before flowering.

Alcoholism. Amenorrhœa. Anger, effects of. Aphthæ. Apoplexy. Asthma. Bilious attack. Brain, affections of. Breast, inflamed. Bronchitis. Cancer . Chill, effects of. Chlorosis. Constipation. Consumption . Coryza. Cough . Dentition. Diaphragm, rheumatism of . Diarrhœa. Dropsy. Dyspepsia . Eczema. Enteric fever. Eruptions . Gastro-enteritis. Hæmorrhages. Hands, swollen. Headache. Heart, inflammation of . Hernia. Hiccough. Hydrocele. Hydrocephalus. Influenza . Intermittent fevers. Jaundice. Joints, pain in. Lactation, disorder of. Liver, disorders of. Lumbago . Measles. Meningitis. Menstruation, vicarious . Miliaria. Milk fever. Myalgia . Nephritis. Nose-bleed. Peritonitis . Phlegmasia alba dolens. Pleurisy. Pleurodynia. Pneumonia. Pregnancy, morning cough of ; sickness of. Puerperal fever. Pyuria. Relapsing fever . Remittent fever. Rheumatism. Scarlatina. Screaming. Side, pain in. Sleep, anxious dreams in. Spina bifida. Stiff-neck . Suppressed eruptions, bad effects of. Thirst. Tongue, coated. Toothache. Trachea, pain in. Vertigo. Waking, starts and screams on. Water-brash . Whooping-cough. Yellow fever .

Bryonia alba is one of the polychrest remedies of the homœopathic materia medica. The common Bryony of this country is the Bryonia dioica , which has been substituted for the B. alba , and has probably identical properties; but the Alba alone has been proved, and consequently this should always be dispensed. Less rapid in its action than Aconite , it goes deeper in its effects, and often takes up the work where Acon . leaves off. It not only disorders the circulation, but alters the blood itself. It corresponds to fevers of almost all kinds, especially rheumatic, typhoid, bilious and remitting. In these, as in all other complaints, the exquisite sensitiveness of the drug to movement of all kinds is a leading characteristic. The patient avoids even the movement of the eyes; raising head from pillow causes faintness, nausea, and vomiting. Allied to this is > from pressure; from lying on painful side. (This distinguishes Bry . from Bell . in pulmonary complaints. A case of intense pleurisy with high fever grew steadily worse under Bry . until I noticed that the patient lay on the unaffected side. Bell . was then given, and cured rapidly. Lying on the painful part keeps the part at rest .) There is also an intense headache, dull throbbing or sharp stabbing pains; sharp pain in or over eyes. "Headache or neuralgia in (left) side of head and face; > from hard pressure and cold applications; < moving. Head greasy, scalp tender; eyeballs tender." Mouth very dry; tongue coated white down the middle, the edges may be quite clean; later it becomes yellow with bitter taste; later, very dry, but still coated. If the fever is intermitting there is chill mixed with heat: during chill, head hot, cheeks deep red, decided thirst, generally for large quantities at long intervals; sweat < by least motion, sour or oily. The lips are dry and cracked. Facial eczema has been cured with it in an infant five months old, presenting these additional symptoms: Constipation, peevish, fretful, thirsty, face and lips cracked and sore, child scratched continually. The mother had had a similar eruption for some years, and it disappeared suddenly at the sixth month of her pregnancy. The mucous membranes are dry , especially those of the mouth and stomach; deficient secretion. The serous membranes are inflamed, the seat of sharp, stitching pains, < from motion; later on, exudation occurs. The muscles, likewise, are inflamed and sore. Irritability of mind and tissues runs through the remedy. Hæmorrhages are frequent. In this connection it may be remembered that Bryonia dioica is a popular remedy for "black-eye" as a local application. I have often known nose-bleed occur in patients to whom I have been giving Bryonia , especially in the night, 3 to 4 a.m., which is characteristic. This may or may not be preceded by a sense of fulness in the head. Nose-bleed occurring consequent on suppression of the menses is characteristic. The characteristic mental state of Bry . is irritability. Easily angered (with biliousness, headache, dyspepsia, &c.), and it corresponds to the effects of anger, fright, chagrin. The patient desires things to eat which cannot be had; or are refused if offered. In fever cases there is often a stupid, drowsy condition; or mild delirium, in which the patient has the delusion that he is somewhere else and "wants to go home." The headache is dull, frontal; or bursting, splitting; < by any motion or by the concussion of cough; goes from before backward. The headache of drunkards; of over-feeding. Nausea and faintness when rising up, > when lying still. Bry . is a gourmand ( Nux an epicure); dirty wash-leather, foul tongue, congested eyes, bitter nausea. Bry . is a coarse feeder. Food lies at the epigastrium like a stone; > bringing up wind. The digestion is < in summer. Symptoms < after a meal. There is intolerance of vegetable food. Everything tastes bitter. Thirst for large quantities. "Eructations of tasteless gas" is characteristic. Sour stomach. Van den Berghe has found Bry . signally curative in chlorosis. There is diarrhœa and constipation. Diarrhœa occurs: in the morning "as soon as he moves"; from cold drinks in warm weather; on every spell of hot weather. The usual Bry . state is one of constipation; there is the usual dryness of mucous membranes; atony of the bowels; stool large, dry , hard, brown or black; as if burnt or charred; crumbling. ( Plat . has sticky, tenacious stool; sticks to rectum.) Stools smell of old cheese. The liver is tender and inflamed. The kidneys also are inflamed, the urine being dark red without deposit (from excess of colouring matter). Mastitis, hard, tender. Left ovarian pain, > lying on painful side. The respiratory organs and heart are profoundly affected. Dropsical swellings, swellings of the legs, sensitive to touch. "joints red, swollen, stiff, with stitching pain from slightest motion." Synovial swellings. I have cured a case of congenital hydrocele with Bry . The Bry . patient dreams of the occupations of the day. The child kicks the covers off. Speech is hasty. "Frequent desire to take a long breath; must expand the lungs" is a characteristic.

The typical Bryonia patient is of dark complexion and hair, choleric, bilious tendency with firm fleshy fibre; tendency to great irritability and bad temper; but Bryonia has a wide range, and no great stress must be laid on the absence of these features. Teste takes Bryonia as the type of a group which includes All. sat., Lyc., Digit., Nux v., Coloc ., and Ignat . All these act with much more power on carnivorous than on herbivorous animals. They are thus appropriate to persons who over-eat or eat excessively of meat, and have strong constitutions; "persons accustomed to rich living, with rich blood, firm resisting flesh." Teste regards the digestive canal, and more particularly the stomach, as the principal seat of the action of Bry . With regard to the burning thirst of Bry ., which is < by drinking beer, he says, the gastric derangement of Bry . "absolutely requires water as a dissolvent ." The constipation of the remedy is not due to inertia merely; it depends on "a more or less marked antiperistaltic movement of the rectum: hence the pains and the ataxic phenomena that accompany it sometimes, as is the case, for example, in the period of constipation of low typhoid fevers, &c." A peculiar and characteristic symptom of Bryonia in brain affections is: Constant motion of the mouth as if chewing. Complaints from taking cold or getting hot in summer; from cold drinks in hot weather. Complaints when warm weather sets in after cold days. Most symptoms are < by warmth and in warm room (cough, chilliness). < From warm food; but there is thirst for large draughts of cold water, which > . Rash > getting warm in bed. Pains in joints and limbs > by warmth. Toothache is > by pressing head into pillow; by cold applications. Chilliness predominates. Dry, burning heat as if blood burning in veins. Sweat profuse night and morning; sour or oily. Cough, headache, diarrhœa < in morning. Nose-bleed < 3-4 a.m. Symptoms generally < evening (9 p.m.). < While coughing; after eating; while swallowing; from motion of all kinds; exertion; ascending; sitting up in bed (can't sit a moment gets faint, or sick, or both on sitting up). < After suppression of eruption or discharge. Headache following checked coryza. > Descending; lying, especially on painful side; sitting. > From pressure.

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Partial loss of consciousness. θ Hydrocephalus.
Unconscious, could not speak. θ Cholera Asiatica.
Stupefaction ; weak memory.
So weak in mind that his ideas vanish as if he would faint, together with heat in face, especially on standing.
Confusion in head, with drawing in occiput, extending into neck before going to sleep.
Head confused and aching, as after a night's dissipation ; does not wish to rise, morning on awakening.
Difficult comprehension.
Sees visions and faces when closing eyes. θ Typhus.
Fancies ; mental excitability.
Nightly delirium ; delirious talk, especially about business, < after 3 A. M.
Delirious, at daybreak.
Talking of business of day in his delirium at night. θ Diarrhœa. θ Typhus.
The patient desires to go home. θ Typhus.
Desire to get out of bed and go home. θ Diarrhœa.
Desire for things that cannot be had, which are refused, or not wanted when offered.
Irrational talk or prattle of his business.
Taciturnity.
Weeping mood, with headache and other complaints.
Great depression and very morose mood without any cause, quite contrary to his habit.
Great sense of insecurity, with mental depression.
Apprehensiveness ; fearfulness.
Apprehensive ; uneasiness and dread of future.
Anxiety and restlessness.
He became very anxious in room, > in open air.
Anxiety in whole body compelled him to do something constantly, wherever he went he found no rest.
Anxiety about future, particularly in childbed or after.
She fears not to have wherewithal to live.
Anxiety, worse in room, better in open air.
Anxious, peevish and hasty disposition.
Fear of death, which he thinks in near.
Fear of death. θ Pertussis.
Anxious feeling referred to sternum or cardiac region ; pressing or painful sensation.
Easily startled, with headache.
Despair of recovery. θ Pertussis.
Great despondency ; disinclined to think ; exhaustion of intellectual powers.
Both mental and bodily quietness is required.
Mood irritable, weeping and morose ; wishes to be alone.
Very irritable ; inclined to fright, fear and vexation.
Very irritable ; inclined to be angry ; after getting angry, chilly or a red face and heat in head.
Peevishness ; ill humor. θ Diarrhœa.
Peevishness, irritability and violence. θ Pertussis.
Morose ; everything puts him out of humor.
Contradiction easily provoked anger during whole proving.
Obstinate and passionate.
Mental exhaustion.
Somnambulism.
Restlessness : wants change ; with fear of future ; fear of death, which he thinks is near ; with nocturnal heat.
Bad effects from mortification, violence and anger.
Ailments arising from chagrin, and other conditions, when attended with chilliness and coldness of body.
After having been angry, he is chilly, has red face and heat in head.
As consequence of fright : painful rigidity of limbs.

Sensorium blunted.
Distracted state of sensorium.
Stupefaction of head.
Great confusion in head : especially in frontal region ; after rising from bed ; with drawing in occiput, extending into neck before going to sleep.
In morning, on waking, head confused and aching as if he had been drunk the evening previous ; does not wish to rise.
Dizzy in morning, and weak in limbs whole day.
Dizziness on turning head, or on stooping.
Giddiness, especially when rising from a seat, or from a recumbent position.
Giddiness, with sensation of looseness in brain when stooping, and when raising up head.
Swaying to and fro.
In morning, on rising from bed, dizzy and whirling, as if head was turning in a circle.
Sensation in bed as if she was sinking deep down.
Tendency to run backward.
Vertigo : as though all objects were reeling ; as though brain was turning around ; as if head was turning in a circle ; on rising, or on raising head ; with reeling backward.
Slight vertigo on raising head after inclining it forward.
Vertigo like whirling if he sits up in bed, with nausea in middle of chest, as if faintness would ensue.
Vertigo as if one was being turned around, or as if everything whirled about when standing.
Vertigo conjoined with headache in occiput ; < from motion.

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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. It also affects the coating of nerves with its congestions, and these gradually increase in severity.

From the beginning there are present the characteristic features, and it may be seen that this patient is coming down with a Bryonia sickness.

The patient has several days of preparation. He does not feel very well, is languid and tired, does not want to be spoken to, does not want to move, and this gradually increases; pains begin to flit over the body, they move around here and there over the fibres in one place and another, and every time he moves the pain increase, until they end in a steady and continuous pain. The parts become hot and inflamed, and at last he is down with rheumatism.

The complaints come on after taking cold, not the first few hours, as in Aconite or Bell ., but the day after an exposure he begins to feel uneasy and he sneezes and the nose discharges, there is rawness in the chest, and in a day or so he has a chill and comes down with some inflammatory trouble, pneumonia or pleurisy.

Its inflammatory complaints include inflammation of the membranes of the brain, sometimes extending, into the cord; the pleural membranes, the peritoneum and the heart covering, these are the most common; it also has inflammation of organs.

When these conditions come on there is noticed, very early in the case, even before the pains begin, an aversion to motion, and the patient does not know why, but finally he observes that his symptoms are made worse if he has to move, so that the slightest inclination to move is resisted with a feeling of anger, and when he does move he finds he is aroused to great suffering, and that all the aches and pains of the body come on.

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Suitable to the gouty or rheumatic diathesis; persons with bilious tendency, exceedingly irritable, inclined to be angry; black hair, dark complexion and firm muscular fibre; prone to so-called "bilious attacks;" dry, nervous, slender (Nux).

Hering says: "Indicated in light complexions but more in dark."

Complaints: when warm weather sets in after cold days; from cold drinks or ices in hot weather; after taking cold or getting heated in summer; from exposure to draft, cold wind (Acon., Hep.); suppressed discharges of menses, milk or eruption of acute exanthema.

The pains are stitching, tearing, worse at night, greatly < by motion, > by rest and lying on the painful side (Ptel., Puls.—Similar pain but < and > are opposite, Kali c.). The parts which are the seat of subjective pain become subsequently sensitive to external pressure, and then swollen and red.

Children dislike to be carried, or to be raised.

Ailments from chagrin, mortification, anger (Col., Staph.); violence, with chilliness and coldness; after anger chilly, but with head hot and face red (Aur.).

Constant motion of left arm and leg (Apoc., Hell.).

Excessive dryness of mucous membrane of entire body; lips and tongue dry, parched, cracked; stool, dry as if burnt; urine, dark and scanty; great thirst; cough, dry, hard, racking, with scanty expectoration.

In delirium: talks constantly about his business; desires to get out of bed and go home (Act., Hyos.).

Headache: when stooping, as if brain would burst through forehead; from ironing; on coughing; in morning after rising, or when first opening the eyes; commencing in morning and gradually increasing till evening; from constipation; dull pain in forehead.

Headache: gastric, rheumatic, congestive; with vertigo, heaviness, pressure, and rush of blood to head.

Desires things immediately which are not to be had, or which when offered are refused.

Cannot sit up from nausea and faintness.

Pressure, as from a stone, at pit of stomach, relieved by eructation.

Constipation: inactive, no inclination; stool large, hard, dark, dry as if burnt; on going to sea (Plat.); forerunner of typhoid.

Diarrhœa: during hot days in summer; bilious, acrid; like dirty water; of undigested food; from cold drinks when overheated; from fruit or saur kraut; < in morning; < on moving, even hand or foot.

Vicarious menstruation; nosebleed when menses should appear (Phos.); blood spitting, or hemoptysis; during course of typhoid.

Mammæ heavy, of a stony hardness; pale, but hard; hot and painful; must support the gland (Phyt.).

Great thirst for large quantities, at long intervals.

Cough: dry, spasmodic, with gagging and vomiting (Kali c.); with stitches in side of chest (Ran.); with headache, as if head would fly to pieces; < after eating, drinking, entering a warm room, a deep inspiration.

Motion; exertion; touch; cannot sit up, gets faint or sick or both; warmth, warm food; at night; suppressed discharges.

One of the chief characteristics of Bryonia is, < from any motion, and corresponding > from absolute rest, either mental or physical.

Lying, especially on painful side (Ptel., Puls.); rest, cold, eating cold things; pressure, heat, sweat.

Complementary: Alumina, Rhus tox.

Quotidian, tertian or quartan fevers, periodical sweats on single parts; restless every other night. Anticipating or postponing. Typhoid; typhus; yellow fever.

All periods—time not characteristic. Morning.

Fevers caused by getting wet (Cal., Rhus—sleeping in damp room or bed, Aran.); in dry weather, whether hot or cold.

Great thirst for large quantities of cold water. Stretching and drawing in the limbs; violent headache, stitching, jerking, throbbing from before backwards as if the head would burst; vertigo.

With great thirst for large quantities of cold water, which affords relief (Ign., Nat.—unquenchable thirst, drinks little and often, but drinking causes vomiting, Ars.); heat of the head and face, with flushed cheeks; cough violent, dry, racking, with pleuritic stitching pains in chest and region of the spleen (dry, teasing cough, before and during chill, without pain, Rhus). Stitching pain in right hypochondrium and abdomen; oppressed breathing; chill with external coldness of body and violent pains in the limbs; evening chill, frequently only of the right side (chill of right side, with heat of left, Rhus—one-sided chilliness, Caust., Lyc.). Shaking chill all over; hot head (internal), red, hot face and cheeks, with intense desire for cold drinks (Arn.). Chill begins on lips, tips of fingers and toes, in abdomen or stomach; worse in a warm room than in the open air (Apis); worse from moving, lessened by sitting. Desire to lie down, in this stage.

Chill and coldness predominate, often with heat of head, red cheeks and thirst. Chill with external coldness of the body. Chill and coldness most at evening or on the right side of body. Chill more in the room than in the open air.

With increased thirst, same cough with pleuritic stitches as in chill (dry cough during heat, Acon. Ipec.); increased headache and vertigo; pain in limbs aggravated by motion; nausea and vomiting. Dry, burning, internal heat, as if the blood in the veins was burning, or as if molten lead was running through the blood-vessels (Ars., Rhus). More fever in a warm room than in the open air; aggravation of all the sufferings during the heat. Heat: with desire to uncover; in face with red face; with bitter taste. Wants to be quiet and not move about in any stage. Paleness of face. Thirst less than in cold stage.

Dry, burning heat for the most part internal only, and as if the blood burned in the veins. All the symptoms are aggravated during the heat.

Profuse, sour, oily (as if mixed with oil, Cinch.). Easily excited by exercise in open air (Am. m.), even from slow walking, it runs in streams from his face. Sweat flowed in streams from whole body, even dropping from the hair (Cinch.—the least exertion puts him into a perspiration, Psor.). Sweat in short spells, and on single parts only (Petr.); profuse, at night and towards morning. Sweat on side on which he lies (on side not lain upon, Benz., San.). Sweat relieves.

Much sweat: easy sweating, even from walking slowly in the cold open air. Copious night and morning sweats."

Thick, yellow coating on the tongue; mouth and lips dry and peeling off (Cinch., Ipec.); everything tastes bitter. Mouth bitter when not eating. Desires things which are refused when offered. Aversion to food or drink (aversion to meat, Arn.—to pork, Dros.).

Full, hard, rapid and tense, sometimes intermittent.

All symptoms of this stage are characteristic and should be carefully studied. Gastric symptoms predominate (Ant. c., Puls., Nux), but the general constitutional are almost always to be found and if present are guiding. Every spot in the body is painful to pressure. (Soreness of the part lain on, which compels him to move, although motion hurts, Arn., Bap., Pyr.) Feels best when lying upon painful side.

"When fever is caused by getting wet, occipital cephalalgia, preceded by rheumatic pains in muscles of whole body; loss of appetite, eating a mouthful suffices; rotatory vertigo; redness of face, and thirst in all stages of paroxysms."—DR. HIGGINS.

Bönninghausen's picture of the Bryonia fever:

"Pulse hard, frequent and tense.

CASE I.—Tertian; the fever anticipates one or two hours every day. The paroxysms are preceded by vertigo, with headache, and stitching in the chest during an inspiration. Moderate chilliness, followed by great heat. Delirium. Unquenchable thirst, with dry cough. Lastly sweat. Bry. 18 two doses, after fever. Cured.—Hom. Clinique. Pr. Com., I., p. 181.

CASE II.—Tertian fever (this man had received large doses of Quinia under allopathic treatment). Violent chilliness for half an hour every third day at noon, preceded by violent headache; after this the skin became warmer, the pulse full and frequent, but no heat properly so called, although there was violent thirst. Sweat considerable. The apyrexia was characterized by pricking and cutting in the chest, especially when coughing; the cough being dry and troublesome. Face pale; no gastric symptoms; pulse normal; sleep tranquil. Bry. 21 soon after attack. Two days after, a feeble paroxysm. No return.—DR. THORER, Hom. Clinique. Pr. Com., I., p. 38.

CASE III.—Intermittent fever. Patient had "double legs" while taking

Bryonia. The symptom disappeared after taking Petr 200, one dose.—**GIL-

BERT**.

CASE IV.—Remittent Fever. The symptom of the whole body being "double" was present for several days, though the patient was improving under Arsenic; with it there was occipital headache and vertigo on sitting up. After a dose of Bryonia the "double" first disappeared, then the head- ache followed, and the next morning the vertigo was gone.—GILBERT.

These cases—two of them reported many years ago, 1834— illustrate the fact that one or two doses of the properly selected remedy, even in the low potencies, given after severity of the paroxysm had passed, as Hahnemann advised in the Organon, are sufficient to cure. The single dose treatment is not new.

Patient desires to go home.
Great depression and very morose mood, without cause.
Anxiety, worse in room, better in open air; fears not to have the wherewithal to live.
Irritable mood, wishes to be alone.
Very irritable; inclined to fright, fear and vexation.
Obstinate and passionate.
Bad effects from violence and anger.

Pressing outward in frontal region and left eyeball, especially on stooping.
Headache worse by so slight a motion as moving eyelids.
Confusion of head, especially of forehead.
Benumbed, stupid from suppressed eruptions.
Head confused and aching, as after a night's dissipation; does not wish to rise in morning on awaking.
Confusion in head, with drawing in occiput, extending into neck before going to sleep.
Vertigo: as though all objects were reeling; as though the brain were turning around; as if the head were turning in a circle; on rising, or on raising the head; with reeling backward; better from cold.
Great heaviness of head and pressure of brain forwards.
Pressure in the head, as if the brain were too full and pressed outward, mostly when sitting.
Rush of blood to the head.

Headache commences in morning not on waking, but when first opening eyes.
Pressive pain above left eye, followed by dull, pressive pain in occipital protuberances, thence spreading over whole body; on quick motion, and after eating, pain so severe that it seemed a distinct pulsation within head.
Digging pressure in forepart of brain toward forehead, especially severe on stooping and walking rapidly; walking fatigues him very much.
Tearing across the forehead, then in cervical muscles, then in right arm.
Drawing, tearing pain in right temple, mostly extending to upper molars and muscles of neck.
Throbbing ache on top of head, morning when walking.
Continued stitch deep in the brain, on left side, when coughing.
Headache in occiput, extending to shoulders, while lying on the back, in bed, after waking in the morning.
Pressive pain in occiput, drawing down into neck, relieved toward noon.
Headache as though the head would burst, commencing in morning and gradually increasing till evening.

In the morning the head seems very greasy, with cool head.
Scalp very tender to touch; cannot bear even a soft brush.
Dandruff, rough and uneven.

Very sensitive pressive pain (coming and going) in left eyeball, especially violent on moving the ball with a feeling as if eye became smaller and was retracted within the orbit.
Severe burning and lachrymation of right eye.
Eyeballs so painful that the patient cannot bear to have them touched.
Puffiness of right upper lid.
Painless twitching-drawing together in left upper lid, with a persistent sensation of heaviness therein.
Frequent lachrymation.

Intolerance of noise.
Chirping in the head, as from locusts.
Ringing; roaring; humming in the ears.
Swelling, redness, painful sensitiveness and heat of external right ear; at times piercing stitches deep into ear accompanied by swelling and painfulness of right parotid gland.

Frequent sneezing.
Nosebleed in morning after rising; less frequently during day; but sometimes during sleep, about 3 A.M.; vicarious: 23.
Fluent coryza, watery or greenish.
Catarrh extending to the frontal sinuses or into chest.
Swelling of tip of nose, with twitching pain in it, and on touch feeling as if it would ulcerate.
Boils.

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A tincture is prepared from the fresh root of Bryonia alba, L.

In large doses a violent hydragogue cathartic. ▶ It also (like its botanical ally, Colocynth) produces sharp pains. ▶ It causes inflammation of various organs, particularly of serous membranes and lungs, and gives rise to a fever of a rather low type. ▶ Its marked peculiarity is a disinclination to make any effort and great aggravations from motion of any sort.

Iodine, Bell., Verat. v., Colch., Led., Coloc., Lyc., Arn., Phos., Carbo v., Sulph.

▶ Unsteadiness of all parts of body when walking, agg. after rising from a seat and on beginning to walk, amel. continued walking. ▶ Trembling of the part of disappearance of the pain, with coldness of face. ▶ Anxious tossing about of hands and feet until 1 A.M., she lies as if unconscious, with cold sweat on forehead, with sighing, then weakness. ▶ Convulsions, with tonic contractions of extremities, opisthotonos, immobility of thorax and on inspiration remarkable depression of pit of stomach.

Stitches; in joints on motion and on touch; over whole body; in affected parts upon pressure; here and there, especially in right eye and left arm; jerking, here and there, on vertex, wrists and elbows, especially in places on forehead, with sensitiveness of teeth; in evening in anterior and posterior direction through middle of chest and above navel. ▶ Tearing across forehead, then in cervical muscles, then in right arm; in head and limbs, afterwards in chest and abdomen; in right shoulder, in knees and toes; in various parts, especially in toes and right shoulder, with feeling as if motion were difficult. ▶ Bruised or suppurating pain in whole body when taken hold of (Arn.), especially in pit of stomach, and agg. morning; B. feeling in morning, especially in right hip, with lame feeling.

Pressing in whole body, especially on chest. ▶ Pains in every part, agg. on right side; in teeth and limbs, agg. lying down and last till sleep; in joints, agg. after walking; in several parts, in metacarpus, metatarsus, ribs and clavicles; here and there in body when walking, and in left knee, left hip and in loins; during rest, are amel. after motion, others arise during motion and are amel. during rest; wandering, gradually becoming seated in left shoulder; over whole body, as if the flesh were too loose.

▶ Drawing pains here and there; especially in sinewy expansions; at 10 P.M. in bed, wandering through all limbs and joints, especially in left middle ribs, where it caused stitches, impeding respiration; in periosteum of all bones in forenoon, causing apprehension, as in onset of ague. ▶ In almost all limbs and joints, with tension, the pain most sensitive in left wrist, now in knees now ankles and neck, remaining longest in left shoulder-joint, with sensation of paralysis (during motion); afterwards the same pains also in neck, with drawing scraping in long bones, combined with stitches. ▶ Drawing rheumatic pains in various parts at different times during the day, especially at insertion of left ligamentum patellæ, anteriorly on right leg and in nape. ▶ Drawing in lumbar region and in temporal bones, agg. after eating, with pressing; in temporal muscles, and in muscles of upper arm and here and there in body; painless, back and forth in affected parts.

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In large doses a violent hydragogue cathartic.
It also (like its botanical ally, Colocynth) produces sharp pains.
It causes inflammation of various organs, particularly of serous membranes and lungs, and gives rise to a fever of a rather low type.
Its marked peculiarity is a disinclination to make any effort; great aggravation from motion of any sort.

Sharp pains, often with a feeling of tension, < motion and touch.
The pains, as a rule, while < motion, are > continued moderate pressure, but < sudden, hard pressure or jerking; there is also general relief from warmth, or warm applications.
Pains nearly always sharp, sticking or tearing, sometimes bruised, or like suppurating, or like a stiffness.
General weariness, especially in the morning, also on rising; < in the forenoon while walking, can scarcely drag himself about.
Faintness on rising from bed, with cold perspiration.
The weakness is generally accompanied by easy perspiration from a little effort.
Symptoms are usually > rest in bed; are frequently worse in the evening.

Mental weakness, difficult holding a continuous train of thought.
General ill humor; very easily put out of humor, with needless anxiety.
Quarrelsome.
Despondent, especially about his recovery.
Restless mood, with dread of the future, and of approaching death.
Nightly delirium, especially about business.

Pressing headache; a feeling of fullness and heaviness, particularly in the forehead, as if everything would press out, beginning in the morning on opening or moving the eyes, < rising.
Splitting headache, < by raising the eyes, inability to rise from stooping.
Sharp pains through the head from before backward, < stepping hard or coughing.
General confusion of the head, especially in the morning on walking, < rising from bed.
General stupefaction and heaviness; a sort of rush of blood to the head.
Headache inclined to extend from the forehead to the occiput, where it becomes seated, with drawing, extending down into the neck.
The frontal headaches tend to extend downward into the face, especially drawing in the zygoma.
Vertigo, < in the morning on rising, as if the head were turning in a circle; even on rising from a chair, somewhat > after walking; sometimes associated with a feeling of nausea in the middle of the chest, as if faintness would ensue; sometimes with tendency to fall backward, > after walking, by sitting down and by lying down.
The hair of the head becomes unnatural oily.

Burning in the eyes, inflammation, < warmth.
Tearing stitches in the eyes.
A feeling of sand.
A feeling as though the eyes were being pressed out of the head.
Swelling of the lids, especially of the upper.
Lachrymation.
Intermittent pain in the left eye, < on moving it, with a feeling as if the eye became smaller, and were retracted within orbit.
Weakness, even with lachrymation, in bright sunlight, better in a dim light, and in twilight.

Roaring in the ears.
Intolerance of noise.

Painful swelling of the nose, with inflammation in the nostrils.
Frequent nose-bleed, especially if the menses are suppressed.
Nose-bleed every morning after rising (in suppressed menstruation).

Red, hot, puffy, especially over the malar bones.
Yellowish paleness.
(Small nodules and indurations, like abortive boils, on the face.)
Upper lips swollen, cracked, like erysipelas, bleeding.
Cracking of the lower lip, and an eruption upon it.

Jerking toothache, > warmth, also > lying on the painful side.
The toothache is a sticking, tearing, sometimes temporarily > cold water, or on walking in the open air.
The gums are sore about the painful teeth.
Tongue sometimes dry during fever, usually with a thick, white coat.
Aphthæ on the tip of the tongue.
A general bitter taste.
Salivation; at times soapy, frothy, rarely bloody.

Sticking pains on swallowing.
Soreness temporarily > drinking, but returning, with dryness, rawness on empty swallowing.

Excessive thirst; he does not drink frequently, but much at a time.
Frequent pain or empty eructations after taking food.
Regurgitation of food, without any effort to vomit.
At times, an unnatural hunger, but does not wish food when brought.
Nausea in the morning on waking, with vomiting.
Vomiting of the food, but not drink.
Bitter vomiting of liquids after eating.
Vomiting of blood.
Vomiting; first bile, then food.

Sensation as if a stone lay in the stomach after eating, causing ill humor.
Soreness and pain on pressure, or on coughing.
Contractive pain > drawing up the legs, and by warm applications.
Gastric symptoms particularly < eating bread.
Sharp pains, arresting breathing on motion, especially on making a false step.
Great sensitiveness in the pit of the stomach to touch and pressure.

Sticking pains in the region of the liver on touch, coughing or breathing.
Symptoms of inflammation of the liver and of the diaphragm.
Abdomen distended.
A feeling of something heavy lying in the abdomen.
Movements, loud rumbling or a gurgling and soreness and dragging downward.

Burning during evacuations.
Stools large and dry.
Stools becoming pasty and loose.
Diarrhœa, putrid, followed by burning in the anus and cutting in the abdomen.
Diarrhœa generally of a brown color and very disagreeable.
In obstinate constipation, evacuations are generally dry and passed with difficulty.

Urine diminished in quantity, red and hot, or brown.
Urine whitish, turbid.
Sometimes the urine is increased in quantity and retained with difficulty.

Menstruation too early and too profuse, dark red.

Clinical:
Suppression of menses, with the characteristic gastric derangements, or with periodical discharge of blood elsewhere, nose, throat, etc.
Inflamed ovaries.
Puerperal fever in the early stage, with headache, pains in limbs, weakness.
Suppressed lochia.
Pelvic peritonitis.
Inflammation of mammary glands, breasts much swollen, hot, sharp pains.

Cough generally dry, from tickling in the pit of the stomach, or from the throat; finally, with some expectoration of mucus.
Cough on coming into a warm room, caused by sensation of a suffocating vapor, or as if he could not breathe enough air.
Cough < talking or smoking, followed by a soreness in the trachea.
Spasmodic cough after eating and drinking, followed by vomiting of food.
Cough causes bursting headache, and stitches in the sides of the chest.
Bloody expectoration, blood clotted or of a brown color.
Dyspnœa, so that he could not talk.
Dyspnœa as if he could not expand the chest, with rapid breathing.
Severe stitches in the sternum and sides of the chest when coughing, must hold with the hands.
Sticking pains in the chest, < deep breathing or motion, or coughing, > pressure, or lying upon the painful side.
A general feeling of constriction through the chest; needs to breathe deeply, but on attempting to breathe deeply a sensation as if the chest could not be distended.
Internal heat in the chest.

Clinical:
Laryngitis and bronchitis (the cough in these diseases is generally dry, hacking, with soreness of abdominal muscles, aggravated at night and on motion, aggravated on coming into a warm room, aggravated after eating or drinking, ameliorated by heat).
Pneumonia in the early stage; Bryonia follows immediately after Aconite, high fever, sharp pains, ameliorated by lying on the affected side, thirst, profuse sweat, headache, etc.
In pleurisy it is most frequently required (the Bryonia patient sweats easily and freely), extremely sharp pain, ameliorated by pressure and warmth, cannot tolerate the slightest motion.
Sometimes useful in pleuritic exudation, when the sharp pains continue.

Palpitation, with dyspnœa.
Stitches.
Pulse full, hard and rapid.

Indurations in the mammary glands.
(Mammary glands of nursing women over-distended and inflamed.)

Pain in the nape of the neck, as if taking cold.
Drawing in the muscles on the right side of the neck, with stiffness.
Stiffness involves the right shoulder.
Stitches in the small of the back, and in the shoulder blades.
Painful sensation in the small of the back, so that one must walk bent over.
The sharp sticking or tearing pains in the small of the back are apt to extend forward, either upward to the chest, or around through the abdomen; < sitting up, moving the legs, > at rest when bent forward.

A feeling of tension and sticking; drawing pains in the shoulder joints and upper arms.
Swelling of the elbow joints and hands, especially of the back of the hand.
In the right elbow a feeling as though the arm were broken, with drawing pains, extending upward; similar pain in the wrist on motion.
Sticking pains in the fingers and finger joints, which are swollen.

Sticking pains and cracking in the hip joints when walking.
Pains in the hip, extending along the anterior surface of the thigh to the knee.
Weakness of the knees when walking.
Tension in the bend of the knee, the pain extending along the tibia.
Painful stiffness in the knee.
Tearing pains in the calf; during rest this changes to a sensation of numbness.
Hot swelling of the foot, with bruised pain on stretching the foot.
Stitching pains in the foot.
Pain as from sprains, specially in periosteum and ligaments, always < motion.
Acute inflammation of the joints of the toes.
Sudden pain in the balls of the great toes.

An elevated, red rash over the whole body.
Itching eruption over the whole body.
Itching stitches, > scratching, < walking rapidly.
Hard nodes in various parts of the body.
Acute swelling and inflammation, with shining redness, especially over the joints.

Much yawning, and sleepiness during the day.
Sleeps with eyes half open.
Sleeplessness before midnight, on account of frequent shivering over one arm and leg, followed by perspiration, warmth and anxiety in the blood.
Sleeplessness on account of orgasm of blood, heat and thirst.
Sleep restless, busy with the occupations of the previous day.
Starting up in fright before falling asleep, with anxious dreams and screaming out.
Talks irrationally when he first wakes out of sleep.
Vivid, fatiguing dreams about the business of the day.

Chilliness after the midday nap, with confusion of the head.
Chilliness in the evening, with thirst and hot cheeks.
Chilliness, with heat of the head and thirst.
Internal heat; the blood seems on fire, with thirst for cold drinks.
(Rarely without thirst.)
Heat in the head, and face particularly, which is red, with thirst.
Sweat from the slightest exertion, even when walking in the cold air.
Sweat, especially early in the morning.
Sweat oily; of a sour odor.

Bry. / (2nd B.) / Bryon.

Bryonia,-Voices this refrain-
"All Motion aggravates my pain,
And when I ease, I would abide,
I lie upon the painful side.
A stitch, and sense of tightness, show
Where e'er my indications go."
But don't forget, I do my best,
In ailment sof the joints, and chest,
My joints rheumatic, swollen, ache,
and easy breath I cannot take,
Because a stitch arrests by breath,
Or stitching cough, that threatens death.
A vertigo affects my head,
And faintness when I rise in bed.
My Face is puffy, red- A glow
Of read upon my cheek bones show.
My lips, and mouth and tongue are dry,
And dry my stools-with fever high.
My taste is bitter, tongue coat white,
My urine brown- a bilious plight-
And craving is my appetite
For that which had, is never right.
My stomach tender, and oft feels,
A stone-like pressure after meals.
I take big drinks, and if my teeth
Are pained, cold water gives relief.

Bryon,-Has aggravation of pain from motion.

Bryon Colch, the fighting spy, is Cudgeling Job Ledum, the old black cook with a club.

This Bryon,-Who is subject to a stitching Cough, -Is in the dark car, with Saint Che-bora sleeping with a joyous smile.

Worse from motion: Bry., Colch., Phyto., Spig., Chin., Dig., Gel., Aco., Bell., Led., Con., Sep., Coc., Lyc. (Motion and pressure, Phyto.-First motion after rest, Con., Lyc., Rhus, Sep.)

Stitching Cough: Bry., Nit. a., Carb. v., Ig., Chel., Borax., Sil., Lach., Pho., Aco., Arn., Sul., Mer., Lyc. (Extending through the back, Mer., Sil., Sul.- Between the shoulders, Carb. v.- In the throat, Hep., Nit. a.- In the anus, Ig., Lach.)

Indicated in indigestion, with bilious derangements; constipation; headache with vertigo and gastric disorders; diarrhoea, particularly during hot weather; bronchitis, pneumonia, coughs; fevers tending towards a typhoid state; rheumatic affections; inflammation of serous and synovial membranes. Suited to persons of dark complexion, vigorous constitution, lean, of firm fibre, of rather irritable disposition.

Dryness of mucous membranes.

Mental irritability.

Delirium; talks about affairs of the preceding day of business.

Headache; bursting, splitting, pressing from within outward; often occipital. Worse from slightest motion, even moving the eyeballs.

Headache, stitching, throbbing, in forehead, extending backward, down the neck, shoulders and back.

Mouth dry, with bitter taste.

Tongue heavily coated white, yellowish, dark brown; dry.

Thirst for large draughts of water.

Vomiting of bilious, watery substance immediately after eating.

Stomach sensitive to touch; pressure as from a hard stone, especially after eating; soreness in stomach when coughing.

Constipation of hard, large stools; stools dry as though burnt.

Abdominal tenderness, worse from motion (coughing, breathing, pressure).

Urine scanty, hot, dark, like beer.

Heat and painful hardness of breast.

Cough: dry, tickling in throat; worse at night with feeling as though he must expand the chest in order to breathe.

Cough with tickling sensation in epigastrium worse when comming into warm room.

Cough, with gagging, though not sick at the stomach, and sudden vomiting of food.

Stitching pain in the chest, worse from motion interfering even with breathing.

Chest feels as though it would fly to pieces relieved by strong pressure from without.

Expectoration rust-colored, tough, like lumps of jelly.

Joints hot, red, swollen, with pain worse from pressure and motion.

Fever with great thirst and acid sweats.

Chewing motion of the jaws (fever).

Worse from motion, pressure, warmth; in the morning, when first moving about; during hot weather (diarrhoea); cough worse from eating, drinking, coming into a warm room.

Better from lying on the painful side; from rest.

Effects of vexation, leaving irritability, with chill and coldness of body behind. Nightly delirium about the events of the day. Thoughtless. Forgetful. Unusual peevish irritability and wrathful violence. Restlessness, with fear to the future and the near approach of death. Despondent, and doubtful of salivation. Despair of recovery. Pusillanimity. Tearful disposition.

When raising up, or stooping. With a swaying feeling in brain, and heat. As if drunk.

Compressive ache, with fullness and heaviness in forehead, as if everything would be forced out, nose - blood and a puffy red face. Congestion, to. Bursting pressure in forehead, and pressure upon eyeballs. Bursting pain with heat in. Stitches in. Bursting pain with heat in. Stitches in. Burning in bregma. Twitching throbbing in, which can be heard and felt here and there, with obscured vision. Twitching tearing in one side (worse r.), extending into cheeks and maxillary bones. Brain feels loose. Outward sticking in forehead. Tensive tearing in external head. Worse: Motion: Of head, of eyes, in open air, on opening eyes. Stooping. Stepping hard. From warmth and becoming heated. Touch. After eating. In evening Better: External pressure, lying quietly on painful part, bandaging up head, lying on back, closing eyes.

Sore pain in occiput and behind ears, worse in dry weather. Better after sweat. Profuse, sour, oily sweat on, and over whole body, especially during sleep towards morning, worse as the accompanying pains are worse, from eating, and slightest motion, particularly in the cold air.

Burning in. Inflammation of, worse by warmth. Tearing sticking in. Pressure as from sand in. Feel as if pressing out of head Swelling, especially of upper lids. Weakness and lachrymation in murky air and twilight. Photophobia.

Roaring in. Intolerance of noise.

Painful swelling of, with inflamed nostrils. Frequent nose - bleed (also after suppressed menses). Chronic stuffed coryza with a dry nose.

Yellowish pale. Hot, bloated, very red. Nodes and indurations like boils. Dry, swollen, fissured, bleeding lips. Eruption, especially on lower lip. Trismus.

Jerking toothache worse by warmth, better by lying on painful side.

Dry mouth, throat and tongue. Sticking in throat on swallowing. Scratching in throat. Coating on middle of tongue.

Taste: Flat, slimy. Bitter, in mouth, food is tasteless.

Pressure in, after eating, especially after bread. Burning in. Stitches in pit, with obstructed breathing during motion, especially when making a misstep. Pit, sensitive to touch and pressure.

Hypochondria: Stitches in hepatic region when touched, coughing and breathing. Inflammation of liver and diaphragm.

Appetite: Abnormal hunger, he must eat little and often. Strong craving for coffee, or things he cannot relish. Aversion to, and loathing of food. Intense thirst. He does not drink often, but a great deal each time. Thirst for cold water.

Eructations: Frequent, bitter or empty, after eating. Regurgitation of food, without retching. Water collects in mouth.

Vomiting: Of solid food, but not liquids. After eating bread. Bitter, while drinking after a meal. Bloody. First of bile, then of food. Of bitter water.

Distended, after every meal (disappearing without discharge of flatus). Hysterical cramps in. Inflammation of. Bellyache, after taking cold, from motion. Better by tight bandaging. Ascites. Stitches in.

Flatulence. Loud growling and rumbling in abdomen.

Very dry, hard. Chronic constipation. Diarrhoea, Fetid, preceded by cutting in abdomen, and bellyache, alternating with constipation and stomach - ache, in morning hours only.

Diminished discharge of hot, red. White, turbid. Urging to urinate and scanty discharge. Irresistible urging to urinate, with want of breath during heavy lifting. Burning in urethra.

Menses of red blood, too early and too profuse. Suppressed. Uterine hemorrhage.

Panting, short. Impeded, during violent motion. Anxious, rapid. Deep, slow during exertion. Laborious, with aid of abdominal muscles, and intermingled with deep inspiration. Frequent, sighing inspirations. Continual inclination to take a deep breath. Attacks of dyspnoea and suffocation.

Spasmodic, as from sulphur fumes or a tickling in throat and epigastrium. Dry in evening and at night, during day expectoration is yellow or mixed with coagulated brownish bloody, often cold, mucus, of a repulsive flat taste, and hard to loosen at first. Dry, spasmodic, after eating and drinking, with vomiting of food. Haemoptysis, of coagulated or brownish blood. Bursting headache and sticks in sides of chest during.

Soreness in. Hoarseness.

Soreness and bursting pain in. Stitches in, when breathing, coughing and during motion, better lying on back. Violent stitches in left side of. Inflammation of lungs, with stitches. Pressure, as of a load on. Soreness of ribs, as if beaten. Palpitation with shortness of breath. (Painless) nodes and induration in mammae. Mammae of lying - in women are excessively full of milk and congested.

Stitches in lumbar region, back and scapulae. Painful stiffness in small of back, compelling him to bend forward when walking and sitting.

Neck: Eruption on. Tension and stiffness in nape and neck.

Tensive and sticking tearing in shoulder - joint and hands, especially on dorsal surface. Sprained pain in wrist during motion. Twitching of fingers when moving hands.

Cracking and dislocation of hip - joints when walking. Hot, tensive swelling of thighs and lower legs or feet, frequently on back of the latter only. Tensive stiffness in legs. Dislocative pain in ankle - joint when walking and stepping. Offensive ulcers on feet. Podagra, with sticking pains.

Tensive or sticking rheumatic or gouty pains in limbs better by motion and touch. Stitches in joints Stiffness in joints. Paralysis of limbs (Pale or red) swelling and immobility of affected parts. Oversensitive to external impressions. The complaints are intensified in the evening (towards 9 o'clock) and by motion (also during rest, in its rare alternating action.)

Glands indurated.

Pain as though' flesh were beaten from.

Burning, itching, eruptions. Nettlerash (especially in children and during child - bed). Petechiae. Hard nodes on many parts. Erysipelatous inflammations, especially about joints, Foul ulcers, with feeling of coldness therein.

Yawning and sleepiness during day. Somnolency with half - closed eyes. Sleepless before midnight on account of thirst, heat and ebullition of blood. Nightly delirium as soon as he awakes. Somnambulism.

Pulse: Very full, hard, rapid and tense, sometimes intermittent, with strong ebullition of blood Chill: And chilliness predominate, often with heat of head, red cheeks, thirst and many pains in limbs. With external coldness of body. And coldness, mostly evening, and often only right sided. More in a room than in the open air. Heat: Dry, burning, mostly internal, as if blood burned in veins. Symptoms are greatly intensified during Internal, with thirst for cold drinks. Sweat: Profuse and easy, even when walking slowly in cold, open air. Profuse at night and in early morning. Sour or oily. Cough in all stages. Febrile movements with bitter taste and thirst.

Allied Remedies: ACO., ALUM., Ang., Ars, Bell., Bor., Calc-c., Carb-v. Caust., Chin., Clem., Coloc., Dulc., Guai., Iod., Ip., Kali-c., Led., Lyc., Mez., MILLEF., (MUR-AC.). Phos. Phyt., PULS., Ran-b., RHOD., RHUS-T., Scill., Seneg., Sep., Verat-a.

An irritable mood and inclined to be angry.

Rheumatic pains in the limbs with tension, aggravated by motion and contact.

Stiffness in the joints.

Swelling and stiffness of the affected parts.

Oversensitiveness of the senses to external impressions.

Pricking, darting and stinging in the joints, muscles and inner parts.

Inflammations of the inner parts (lungs and liver).

Pain in the bones, as if the flesh had been beaten off.

Color of the face bluish-red.

Vomiting of bitter substance (bile).

The taste is bitter and the tongue is dry and has a yellowish coat.

Thirst - he drinks not often, but much at a time.

Constipation from induration of the stools or because the feces are too large in size.

Respiration oppressed and deep.

The pulse is hard and hurried.

Repercussions of eruptions.

Aggravated at 9 P. M. and by motion, moving the affected parts, during inspiration, while lying on the painless side.

Amelioration while exhaling, while lying on the painful side, and by tightly bandaging the affected parts.