BRYONIA ALBA (Wild Hops)
HOMEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
by William BOERICKE, M.D.
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.
Head.--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.
Abdomen.--Liver region swollen, sore,
tensive. Burning pain, stitches; worse, pressure, coughing, breathing.
Tenderness of abdominal walls.
Back.--Painful stiffness in nape of
neck. Stitches and stiffness in small of back. From hard water and sudden
changes of weather.
Extremities.--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).
Ref:
Homeopathic Materia Medica William Boericke M.D
Bryonia
is used to treat dry, spasmodic cough that causes pain, influenza symptoms,
and severe headaches that develop slowly. Other conditions for which
homeopathic healers recommend bryonia include inflammation of the chest,
pleurisy, pneumonia , and other lung conditions
Homeopathic Bryonia Alba
(Repertory)
Neck
and Back.:
Painful stiffness of the neck. / Rheumatic stiffness and tension in the
nape of the neck, and in the neck. / Red spots on the sides of the neck. /
Red miliary eruption on the neck, with violent itching. / Sweat in the
arm-pits. / Sacral pains, with rigidity, which does not allow of walking
upright. / During rest, pain, as if caused by a bruise in the loins. /
Contractive, cramp-like pain all over the back. / Shootings in the loins
and in the back. / Painful stiffness in the small of the back, compelling
him to walk and sit crookedly. / Shootings under the left shoulder-blade,
extending to the heart, greatly aggravated by cough and respiration. /
Pressure on the shoulder, with shootings on breathing deeply.
Upper
Limbs.:
Rheumatic swelling of the right shoulder and upper arm, with stitches. /
Tractive pains in the joints of the shoulders and of the arms, with
tension, shootings, and shining red swelling. / Tractive pains in the whole
arm, and to the ends of the fingers. / Convulsive movements, startings, and
trembling of the arms. / Burning pains and weariness in the arms. /
Constant trembling of the arms, and of the fingers. / Swelling of the arm,
round the elbow. / Swelling of the elbow and hand joints, and upper parts
of the hands. / The wrist feels as if dislocated when moving it. /
Shootings in the joints of the elbow, and of the hand, with heaviness of
the hands. / Red miliary eruption on the forearm. / Pain of dislocation in
the joints of the hands, on moving them. / At night, inflammation in the
back of the hand, with burning pain. / Swelling of the hands. / Sensation
of torpor in the palms of the hands. / Shooting pains in the fingers when
writing. / Hot and pale swelling of the joints of the fingers. / Starting
of the fingers on moving the hands.
Generalities.: Over-sensitiveness of the
senses to external impressions. / Rheumatic and gouty pains in the limbs,
with tension, worse from motion and contact. / Tension, drawing pains,
acute pullings and shootings, especially in the limbs, and chiefly during
movement, with insupportable pains on being touched, sweat of the part
affected, and trembling of that part when the pains diminish. / Stiffness
and shootings in the joints, on being touched and when moved. / In the
evening, pain, as from fatigue, in the limbs, with paralytic weakness. /
Torpor and numbness of the limbs, with stiffness and pain of fatigue. /
Pale, tense, hot, swelling. / Red, shining swelling of some parts of the
body, with shooting during movement. / Pain, as from a bruise, or of
subcutaneous ulceration, or as if the flesh were detached from the bones. /
Dragging, with pressure, on the periosteum. / Swelling and induration of
the glands. / Hard nodosities, in several parts of the skin, like small
indurated glands. / Pain, with shivering and cold in the body. /
Disposition to catch cold, inflammation of the inner parts. / Startings of
the muscles and of the limbs. / Convulsions. / Aggravation of the pains and
sufferings at night, or in the evening, towards nine o'clock, as well as
after having eaten, and from movement, amelioration during repose. /
Affections of the right hypochondrium, inner lower belly, inner region of
the liver, inner navel region, of right upper and right lower extremity. /
General uneasiness, sensation of squeezing, with shiverings, caused by the
pressure of the clothing. / Sensation of pulling throughout the whole body.
/ Trembling of the limbs on rising after lying down. / Want of strength in
the limbs on walking, after having been seated. / Great weariness and
weakness, especially in the morning, or on walking in the open air. /
Necessity to remain in a recumbent posture.
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