Materia Medica
Bryonia
Wild Ops
Acts on all serous membranes and the viscera they contain. The general character of the pain here pro- duced is a stitching, tearing; worse by motion, better rest. These characteristic stitching pains, greatly ag- gravated by any motion, are found everywhere, but es- pecially in the chest; worse pressure. Mucous mem- runes 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 a
Mind
Exceedingly irritable; everything puts him out of humor. Delirium; wants to go home; talks of business.
Head
Vertigo, nausea, faintness on rising, con- fusion. Bursting, splitting headache, as if everything 153 would be pressed out; worse from motion, stooping. opening eyes. Headache becomes seated in occiput. Drawing in bones towards zygoma. Headache; worse on motion, even of eyeballs.
Eyes
Pressing, crushing, aching pain, Glaucoma. Sore to touch and when moving them.
Ears
Aural vertigo. I Aur.; Nat. sal.; Sil.; Chin.] Roaring, buzzing.
Nose
Frequent bleeding of nose when menses should appear. Coryza with shooting and aching in the forehead. Swelling of tip of nose, feels as if it would ulcerate when touched.
Mouth
Lips parched, dry, cracked. I Dryness of mouth, tongue, and throat, 2 ith excessive thirst. Tongue coated yellowish, dark brown; heavily white in gastric derangement. Bitter taste. [Nux; Col.] Burn- ing in lower lip in old smokers. Lip swollen, dry, black and cracked.
Throat
Dryness, sticking on swallowing, scraped and constricted. [Bell.] Tough mucus in larynx and trachea, loosened only 1 after much hawking; worse coming into warm room.
Stomach
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 touck. Pressure in stomach after eating, as of a stone. Soreness in stomach when cough- ing. Dyspeptic ailments during summer heat. Sensi- tiveness of epigastrium to touch.
Abdomen
Liver region swollen, sore, tensive. Burning pain, stitches; worse, pressure, coughing, breathing. Tenderness of abdominal walls.
Stool
Constipation; stools hard, dry, as if burnt; seem too large. Stools brown, thick, bloody; worse in morning, from mozing, in hot weather, after being heated, from cold drinks, every spell of hot weather. Urine.- Red. brown, like beer; scanty, hot.
Female
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 sen- sitive to touch. Pain in right ovary as if torn, extend- ing to thigh. [Lilium; Croc.] Milk fever. Pain in breasts at menstrual period. Breasts hot and painful, hard. Alscess of mamma. Frequent bleeding of nose at appearance of menses. Menstrual irregularities, with gastric symptoms. Ovaritis. Intermenstrual pain, veith great abdominal and pelvic soreness. [Ham.]
Respiratory
Soreness in larynx and trachea. Hoarseness; worse in open air. Dry, hacking cougl froin irritation in upper trachea. Cough, dry, at night; must sit up; zuorsc after eating or drinking, with vomit- ing, zeith stitch?s 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 fy 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 y with much hawking. ( Coming into warm room exciles cough. [Nat. carb.] Heaviness beneath the sternum extending towards the right shoulder.
Back
Fainfulness stiffness in nape of neck. Stitches and stiffness in small of back.
Extremities
Knees stiff and painful. Hot swelling of feet. Joints red, swollen, hot, with stitches and tearing; worse on least movement. Every spot is pain- ful on pressure.( Constant motion of left arm and leg.
Skin
Yellow; pale, swollen, dropsical; hot and painful. Seborrhea oleasa. Hair very greasy.
Sleep
Drowsy; starting vhcn falling asleep. De- a a read.
Fever
Easy, profuse perspiration. Rheumatic and typhoid marked by gastro.hepatic complications. Pulse full, hard, tense, and quick. Chill with external coldness, dry cough, stitches. Internal heat. Sour sweat after slight exertion.
Modalities
Worse, warmth, any motion, morning, eating, hot weather, exertion, touch. Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick. Better, lying on painful side, pres- sure, rest, cold things.
Relationships
Complementary: Upas when Bryonia fails. Rhus; Alumina. Illecebrum.- A Mexican drug. -(Fever with catarrhal symptoms, gastric and typhoid fever symptoms.) Antidotes: Acon.; Chanl.; Nux. Compare: Asclep. tub.; Kali mur.; Ptclia.
Dose
First to twelfth attenuation.