BRYONIA ALBA uses / BRYONIA uses [Bry uses]
Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by), ">" denotes amelioration (better by), "<->" denotes alternation (alternates with) and A/F is an abbreviation of, "Ailments from"
Business
oriented, fear of poverty. Irritability, wants to be left alone
Homesickness. Averse to be disturbed
Affects the serous and mucous membranes
Worse from slightest motion
Dryness
Extremely thirsty for large quantities of water, at infrequent intervals
Tongue coated white or yellowish-brown at centre
Injury, trauma, sprains, fractures
COMMON NAME
Wild Hops
FAMILY
Cucurbitaceae
A/F
| - | Anger,
chagrin, mortification |
| - | Complaints after taking cold when hot in summer, or when the days are hot
and nights are cold |
| - | Cold food and drink |
| - | From suppression of discharges and skin eruptions |
| - | Alcohol |
| - | Gluttony wounds (often indicated in injury of the joints when Arnica fails) |
MODALITIES
| < | Motion (Raising up, stooping, coughing) |
| < | Touch |
| < | Hot weather |
| < | Becoming hot |
| < | Dry cold or heat |
| < | Vexation |
| < | Suppressions |
| < | 9 p.m. |
| > | Pressure |
| > | Lying on painful part |
| > | Cool, open air |
| > | Quiet |
| > | Rest |
| > | Drawing knees up |
| > | Cloudy, damp days |
| > | Heat to inflamed part |
MIND
| - | Very
irritable and ugly in behaviour |
| - | Determined |
| - | Taciturn |
| - | Delirium - wants to go home, thinking he is not there < night, constant
motion of left leg and left hand |
| - | Talks of business |
| - | Fear of poverty |
| - | Wants to be let alone. Aversed to being disturbed |
| - | Desire for things, which are rejected, when offered |
| - | Apprehension, dread of future |
| - | Despair of being cured, with fear of death |
| - | Children dislike to be carried or raised |
| - | Easily angered and irritated |
| - | Reserved |
GUIDING INDICATIONS
| - | Oversensitiveness
of senses to external impressions |
| - | All complaints are worse from motion, along with general amelioration by
absolute rest and pressure |
| - | It is a very persistent remedy, all complaints develop slowly, and have an
insidious onset |
| - | Dryness of all the mucus membranes, hence discharges are scanty and
adherent |
| - | Great thirst for large quantities of cold water, at long intervals. Great
appetite and eats voraciously |
| - | Stitching pains which are relieved by absolute rest and pressure, and by
lying on painful side |
| - | Most complaints < in summer and by heat |
| - | Right sided affections |
| - | It disorders the circulation, causing congestion |
| - | Head - Bursting, heavy, crushing, left sided headache |
| - | Headache over the left eye or forehead extending to occipital region <
moving eyes, coughing, straining at stool |
| - | Headache- A/F Ironing, when constipated |
| - | Dizzy or faint on rising up |
| - | Mouth - Tongue - Thick and white coated |
| - | G.I.T. - There is intolerance of vegetable food |
| - | Craving for coffee, wine and acid drinks |
| - | Aversion to milk, rich food, fatty and greasy food |
| - | Blood spitting or haemoptysis |
| - | No desire for stools for a number of days |
| - | Stools - large, dry, hard, as if burnt (constipated) |
| - | Diarrhoea - gushing, painless, undigested < morning, on rising, eating
cabbage |
| - | Respiratory system - Dropsical effusions into the serous and synovial
membrane, resulting in pleurisy |
| - | Pleurisy expectoration rusty, blood streaked |
| - | Cough - dry, hard, very painful, at night, as if from stomach, must sit up -
< eating and drinking |
| - | Sharp, stitching pain in chest < deep breathing and coughing |
| - | Colds travel downwards to chest |
| - | Female genitalia - Vicarious menstruation, nose bleed when menses should
appear |
| - | Breasts are heavy, stony hardness, painful hot, must support them with hand
to prevent least motion, with uniform redness of skin |
| - | Extremities - Rheumatic arthritis causing inflammation and exudation |
| - | Sleep - Sleeps on left side |
| - | Skin - Slow development or sudden receding of rash in eruptive fevers,
undeveloped measles |
| - | Stitching pain, severe, swelling, pale, hot, < touch or least motion |
| - | Fevers - all kinds of fever, bilious, typhoid and remittent fevers |
| - | In intermittent fever, great thirst during chill, and still greater in heat |
| - | Wants to lie down with bodyache, headache, delirium with constant motion of arm and left leg |
KEYNOTES
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
| - | Dry,
spare, nervous slender persons, with dark complexion and hair, of irritable
disposition and rheumatic tendency |
| - | < Slightest movement > Rest, pressure, lying on affected side |
| - | Swellings |
| - | Stitching pains |
CLINICAL
| - | Appendicitis,
Arthritis, Asthma, Bronchitis, Bursitis, Constipation, Coma, Diarrhoea,
Epistaxis, Headache, Hepatitis, Influenza, Lumbago, Mastitis, Meningitis,
Migraines, Pleurisy, Pneumonia, Sciatica, Tendonitis, Toothache, Vertigo |
| - | Bryonia takes care of the effects following the typhoid, paratyphoid states - Dr. Grimmer |
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
Complements: Alum, Rhus-t
Followed Well By: Alum, Ars, Kali-c, Nux-v, Phos, Puls, Rhus-t, Sulph
Follows Well: Acon, Alum, Bell, Calc, Con, Kali-c, Lyc, Merc, Nux-v,
Op, Phos, Puls, Rhus-t, Sep, Sulph
Compare: Acon, Am-m, Ant-c, Arn, Ars, Bell, Calc, Carb-v, Caust, Cham,
Cimx, Cinch, Dulc, Ham, Ign, Ip, Kali-c, Kreos, Lach, Lyc, Merc, Mill, Nat-m,
Nat-s, Nit-ac, Nux-m, Nux-v, Op, Petr, Podo, Puls, Ran-b, Rhus-t, Rumx, Sep,
Sil, Spig, Squil, Sulph
Similar: Acon, Aesc, Ant-c, Arn, Ars, Bell, Calc, Carb-v, Caust, Cham,
Ign, Ip, Kali-c, Kreos, Lach, Lyc, Merc, Nat-m, Nat-s, Nit-ac, Nux-v, Op,
Petr, Phos, Podo, Puls, Ran-b, Rhus-t, Rumx, Sep, Sil, Spig, Squil, Sulph
Antidoted By: Acon, Alum, Calc, Camph, Cham, Chel, Chlr, Cinch, Clem,
Coff, Frag, Ign, Merc, Mur-ac, Nux-v, Puls, Rhus-t, Seneg
It Antidotes: Alum, Chin, Chlor, Frag, Merc, Rhus-t
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