Bryonia Alba: Powerful Homeopathic Remedy for Pain and Inflammation

• 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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