Bryonia



Stool and Anus.

Constipation. Faeces too large, with difficult evacuation. Stool too large in size, too hard and dry. Faeces scanty, but hard, and as if burnt. Diarrhoea, with colic, sometimes alternating with constipation and gastralgia. Loose evacuations, of a putrid smell, as of rotten cheese, (worse (or only) in the morning, during hot weather). Involuntary stools while asleep. Evacuations of undigested substances Diarrhoea in the morning, on beginning to move about. Diarrhoea preceded by pain in the abdomen. Nocturnal diarrhoea, with burning pain in the anus. Colliquative diarrhoea. Constrictive colic, during an evacuation. Loose and frequent evacuations, of a brownish colour (in the case of infants at the breast).

Urinary Organs

Urine scanty, reddish, brownish, and hot. White, turbid urine. Urine is dark, becomes turbid, often casts a pinkish stain all over the bottom of the chamber. Urgent inclination to make water, without power of retention. Frequent emission of aqueous urine. Inclination to make water, with suspended respiration, on lifting loads. Inclination to make water at night. Involuntary emission of hot urine, when moving. Sensation of burning, and incisive pains in the urethra, before making water. Cutting in the urethra, or sensation of constriction while urinating. Sensation of contraction. Shooting and burning pains in the urethra.

Male Sexual Organs.

Red, itching, miliary eruption on the glans penis. Shootings in the testes. Stitches in the testicles while sitting.

Female Sexual Organs.

Catamenia suppressed. Suppressed menses, with bleeding of the nose. Catamenia premature. Menstruation too early and too profuse, with dark, red blood. Menses with bad smell. Acute, tractive pains in the limbs, during the catamenia. Flow of blood between the periods. Metrorrhagia of a deep red blood, with pain in the loins and in the head. Burning pains in the fundus uteri, during pregnancy, increased by movement, diminished by pressure and repose. Swelling and inflammation of the labia majora ( worse left). Swelling of one of the labia, with a black and hard pustule. Lumps, indurations, and inflammations of the mammae, with diminished or retarded secretion of milk. (Puerperal fever.).

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, with tendency to perspiration, cough and rattling in the chest. (Acute bronchitis). Deep, slow breathing. Difficult breathing only possible with the assistance of the abdominal muscles. Frequent sighing, breathing. Continued inclination to draw a long breath. Breathing quick, difficult, and anxious, caused by stitches principally in the chest, compelling him to sit up. Stitches in the chest, when breathing or coughing. Inclination to cough, as if from viscid mucus, afterwards pains, as of excoriation, in the larynx, aggravated by speaking, or by smoking tobacco. Cough, mostly dry, excited by a tickling in the throat, or as if caused by smoke in the larynx, with a necessity for breathing often. Cough, from tickling in the throat and pit of the stomach, in the evening and at night without expectoration, during the day the expectoration is yellow, or consists of coagulated brown blood, or of cold mucus of a disagreeable flat taste. Cough and stitches in the head and chest, or pain as if the head and chest would burst. Cough: with involuntary secretion of urine, hoarseness, thirst, sneezing, stitches in the chest and small of the back, red face, aggravated by motion, talking, laughing, eating, and drinking. Cough, as if from irritation of the stomach. Cramp-like, suffocating cough, especially after midnight, or after having eaten or drunk, and often with vomiting of food. Cough in the morning, with water- brash. Cough which seems to bruise the chest. Cough, with shootings in the sides of the chest, or with aching pains in the head, as if it were going to split, as well as with shooting pains in the pit of the stomach, or with pains in the hypochondria. Cough, with expectoration of mucus of a dirty reddish colour. Cough, with yellowish expectoration. Cough, with expectoration of pure blood, or of slimy matter with streaks of blood. On coughing, pain, as of excoriation, in the pit of the stomach. Fit of choking before the paroxysm of nocturnal cough.

Chest

Respiration difficult, or short, rapid, and anxious, or sighing. Oppression, with fits of choking. Respiration impeded by shootings in the chest Respiration deep and slow, especially while making any exertion. Constant occasion to make a deep inspiration. Fit of dyspnoea, even at night, sometimes with shooting colic and inclination to evacuate. Pressure on the chest, as if from a weight, with oppression. Contractive pain in the chest, excited by the cold air. Tension in the chest, on walking. Shootings in the chest and in the sides, as from an ulcer, especially when coughing or breathing deeply, obliging the patient to remain seated, and when lying down to rest only on the back, aggravated by every movement. Heat in the chest (pleurisy, pneumonia). Heat and burning pain in the chest, with anxiety and tightness. Sensation in the chest as if all there were detached, and were falling into the abdomen.

Heart

Beatings of the heart, frequently very strong, and attended by oppression (carditis). Frequent sharp pain, stitching in cardiac region.

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.

Lower Limbs

Cracking and dislocation of the hip-joint, when walking. Stitches in the hip-joint, extending to the knee. Drawing pains in the thighs. Shootings in the thigh, from the buttock to the ankle, with insupportable pain on being touched, and during movement, as well as with great sweat over the whole body. Weariness and instability of the legs, especially on going up stairs. Paralysis of the legs. Tensive and painful stiffness of the knees. Red and shining swelling of the knees, with violent shootings, especially on walking. Painful stiffness of the knees, with stitches, especially when moving them. Staggering and yielding of the knees, while walking. Tensive shootings and cramp-like pains in the knees, with tension extending to the calves of the legs. Sharp pains in the knees, extending to the tibia. Tensive and drawing shootings from the calves of the legs to the ankles, with red, shining swelling of the parts affected. The ankle feels as if dislocated, especially when walking. Putrid ulcers on the lower extremities. Cramp in the calves of the legs, night and morning. Lassitude of the legs when walking and standing for any time. Swelling of the legs, extending to the feet. Pain, as of dislocation, in the foot when walking. Swelling of the feet, with redness and heat, pain, as from a bruise, on stretching the feet, tension on moving them, and pains, as from ulceration, on being touched. Shootings in the feet, the soles of the feet, and the toes, especially when resting on the foot. Corns, with pressure, or with burning shootings, or with pain of excoriation on being touched.

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. Syncope. Sensation of weakness, especially on walking in the open air.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica