BRYONIA ALBA

Source : Vegetable Kingdom

Common Name : Wild Hops

Family : Cucurbitaceae

Prover : Dr. Hahnemann

Miasm : Psora

Temperament : Irritable

Diathesis : Rheumatic & Gouty

Thermal : Hot

Active Principle :Bryonine

Side affinity : Right 

Duration of action : 7 to 21 days

Year : Proved by Master Hahnemann in 1816 (Austrian Society Of Homoeopathy)

CONSTITUTION

◆ Tall, slender person, dark hair, dark complexion, firm muscular fiber.

GUIDING SYMPTOMS + KEYNOTES

◆ All Complaints Are worse from Motion & Ameliorated By Absolute Rest And Pressure.

◆ Bryonia causes of All Mucus Membranes i.e. Mouth, nose respiratory tract, alimentary tract. Which produces knotty stool, dry spasmodic cough, stitching pain etc.

◆ Thirst : Great Thirst For Large Quantity Of Cold Water At Long Intervals.

◆Bryonia is often indicated in injuries of joints where Arnica would be a failure.

◆ Vicarious menstruation Nose bleed when menses should appear (Phosphorus)

◆ Breasts Are Heavy, Stony Hardness Of Breast, Must Support Them To Prevent The Least Motion.

◆ 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 3. - a.m.

◆ 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.

◆ Constipation, stools hard and dry as if burnt.

◆  Intolerance of vegetable.

◆ 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.

MIND

◆Very irritable and ugly in behaviour.

◆Talks of business.

◆Wants to be let alone.

◆Desire for things which are rejected when offered.

◆Apprehension and dread for future.

◆Despair of being cured, with fear of death.

◆Delirium, wants to go home, thinking he is not there.

HEADACHE

◆Due to Daught Of Cold Air, Constipation.

◆ Location : frontal sinus, frontal to the occiput.

◆ Sensation : Head would be burst with stitching pain

◆ Character : bursting, Splitting Type Of Pain In Morning After Rising Or When First Opening The Eyes.

◆ Worse from motion, stooping.

GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT

◆ Mouth : Great Dryness present in Mouth With Great thirst of Large Quantity of Cold water at long Intervals.

◆ Stomach : Pressure in the Stomach as if Stone Is Lying at the pit of stomach. Dyspepsia With soreness Of Stomach.

◆ All complains relieved by pressure, except Gastric Pain.

◆ Constipation : No Inclination or Desire For Stool.

◆ Stool : Dry, Hard, Knotty As If Burnt.

◆ Diarrhoea: After Taking Cold Foods & Drinks, Morning Diarrhoea, Acrid With Soreness of Anus.

Mouth

◆ You will not be surprised to know that Bryonia loses his sense of taste, so that if he has a coryza nothing tastes natural.

◆ Tongue thickly coated white

◆ Dry, and bleeding and covered with crusts

◆ Bad odor from mouth

RESPIRATORY

◆ Nose Bleeds When Menses should Appear (Vicarious Menstruation), Dryness of Nose With Frequent Sneezing & Loss of smell.

◆ Cough : Dry, Spasmodic with Gagging & Vomiting Right Side of Chest Is Involved.

PNEUMONIA

◆ Stage : In Early Stage Of Pneumonia, 

◆ Location : Lower Lobe Of Right Lung.

◆ Sensation : Stitching Pain In Chest, Patient holds The Chest While Coughing. 

FEVER

◆ Typhoid Fever, Onset Of Fever Is Slow & Insidious.(Gels.- Sudden onset)

◆ After Taking Cold In Hot Summer Weather,from exposure to Draught of Cold Air.

◆ During Fever : There may be Low Muttering Delirium, Patient Talks About His Daily Business.

◆ Dry White Coating Of Tongue with great Thirst For Large Quantity Of Cold water at long Intervals.

◆ Pulse is Full, Hard, Tense with quick with Profuse Perspiration.

◆ Associate with dry spasmodic cough, with stitching pain in the chest. 

DIARRHOEA

◆ Diarrhoea putrid; smelling like old cheese

◆ Very offensive

◆ Brown, thin, faecal stools

◆ Burning of the anus with every passage

URINES

● Burning in urethra, when not urinating;" relieved by passing urine

● Pressure to urinate and involuntary discharge of urine

FEMALE

◆ Breasts Are Heavy, Stony Hardness Of Breast, very much hot and painful, Must Support Them To Prevent The Least Motion.

◆ Vicarious Menstruation; Nose Bleeds When Menses Should Appear.

SLEEP

● Dreams of hard work (Daily routine work) 

● Walks in sleep.

MODALITIES

◆ Aggravation: Slightest Motion, Exertion, Warmth, Warm Food or Drinks, Suppressed Discharges of any kind at 9PM.

◆ Amelioration : Complete Rest & Pressure on Painful Side, Cold, Eating Cold Food & Cold Drinks. 

MEMORIZING TIPS

B :- Bilious trouble and other that hot weather sends

R :- Rheumatism that comes when warm or when cool

Y :- Yellow tongue that is dry, which symptom extends

O :- Over mouth down that throat even including the stool 

N :- Now the stool is beside quite large and quite hard

I :- Imitating the pulse in the latter regard

A :- Aconite like in frequence and fullness and tension

A :- As found in the fevers of every dimension

L :- Look out, when the pains serious membrane invest

B :- Beneficial Eruptions, when being suppressed 

A :- All complain worse from motion, relieved by rest

A :- Abnormal hunger

A :- A stony hardness mamme heavy, must support the breast.

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