Bryonia



Skin

Yellow colour of the skin. Skin moist and clammy. Burning and pricking over the whole body, as if from nettles, after slight emotions. Erysipelatous inflammation, especially in the joints. Nettle-rash. Miliary eruption, especially in children, and lying- in women. Phlyctenoid eruptions, with gnawing or burning itching. Hard knots and blotches. Furfuraceous tetters, with burning itching. Petechiae. Putrid ulcers, feeling cold Ulcers, with sensation of cold or with pulsative or smarting pains. Chilblains. Corns, with pressure, or burning shootings, or pains of excoriation on being touched.

Sleep

Constant inclination to yawn. Great sleepiness during the day, especially after dinner. Drowsiness, with half-closed eyes. Falling asleep late, not refreshing, complaints causing sleeplessness, lying on the back during sleep. Comatose sleepiness, interrupted by anxious delirium. Sleeplessness, especially before midnight, caused by heat. Sleeplessness before midnight, with thirst, heat, and ebullitions. Ebullition of the blood, and anxiety, especially in the chest. Sleep disturbed by thirst, with better taste in the mouth on waking. Inability to remain lying on the right side. Starts, with fright, on going to sleep and during sleep. Unquiet sleep, with confused dreams, and great flow of ideas. On going to sleep, cries and delirium, as soon as the eyes are closed. Delirium as soon as he awakes. Disagreeable, vexatious dreams. Vivid dreams of the transactions of the day. Nocturnal delirium, and visions with the eyes open. Groans, especially towards midnight. Somnambulism. Nightmare.

Fever

Pulse full and hard, tense, and quick, seldom intermitting. Chill, with external coldness of the body. Coldness and chilliness, mostly in the evening, and often only on one (right) side. More chilliness, mostly in the evening, and often only on one (right) side. More chilliness in the room than in the open air. Cold and shivering in the body, even in bed, in the evening, or accompanied by pains in all the limbs and cold sweat on the forehead. Shiverings, with trembling, often with heat in the head, redness of the face, and thirst, or followed by heat, with sweat and thirst. Before the shiverings, vertigo and cephalalgia, then shivering, with tension and drawing in the limbs. Fever, with bitter taste and thirst. Dry, burning heat, mostly internal, as if the blood were burning in the veins. Dislike to food and drink during the shiverings. Heat, at first alternately with shiverings, then burning heat and thirst, afterwards copious sweat. Universal dry heat, external and internal, almost always with a strong desire for cold drinks. Want of perspiration. Wants to drink much water during chill and fever. Heat on one side only. During the heat, vertigo and cephalalgia. Febrile attack, with cold, and shivering predominating, type, tertian, nausea, and necessity to remain in a recumbent posture, or with shooting pains in the side and in the abdomen, and thirst during the shiverings and the heat. At the termination of the fever, dry cough, with vomiting, shootings and oppression in the chest. Cold sweat on the forehead and on the head. Copious sweat while walking slowly in the open, cold air. Greasy sweat, day and night. Sweat, with anxiety and inquietude. Sighing-like breathing, short cough, and pressure on the chest. Profuse sweats, night and morning, sometimes of a sour smell. Compound fevers in general, chilliness and heat alternately, heat and shuddering alternately.

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