Homeopathy Remedy Bryonia



Vertigo; in morning on waking, with weakness; in forenoon; on raising head (Phosphorus), from inclining it forward; on turning head; after eating; while walking, with reeling of all objects and prostration; with fulness of head; with weakness in limbs; in morning on rising, as if head were turning in a circle; on rising from a chair, everything turns, (>) after walking; in afternoon as if brain were turning around; like a whirling if she sits up in bed, with nausea in middle of chest as if faintness would ensue (Phosphorus); when standing, as if everything whirled about; so that he nearly fell backward at 8 P.M. on standing; as from drunkenness and as from rush of blood to head; in attacks while walking in open air, (>) sitting down; sudden, towards noon; sudden, after having a tooth extracted.

Forehead

      Stitches; to occiput; above r. brow; in forepart, with confusion of head; itching, in r. muscles. Digging in forepart of brain, (<) stopping and rapid walking, with fatigue from walking. Pain; in forenoon; in evening; after continued reading; (<) stooping; (<) motion, and in occiput; after motion, especially towards brows; above l. eye, then in occipital protuberances, spreading thence over whole body, the pain becoming so severe on quick motion and after eating that it seemed like a pulsation in head. Pain in l. side and in occiput, with tension in r. side of neck below mastoid process at 4 P.M. Pain as if everything would fall out; as if pressing outward from above downward, (<) evening on stooping, and in l. eyeball. Pressure outward on stooping, with stitches; outward over l. orbit, extending into brain, changing to a pressure on eyeball from above inward. Constrictive pain in afternoon after a nap, (>) washing with cold water, with heaviness in head. Drawing pain, with confusion o head; D. pain in sinciput and pressure in occiput; above r. eyebrow; over r. eye, then in diseased r. tooth, then the headache returned and spread over forehead; in r. eminence at 6 P.M., with tension and posteriorly on r. parietal bone, then alternating with the same pain in same places on l. side; in l. side in morning; in l. half above eyebrow, with tension, also as if a bud slowly unfolded in forehead; intermittent, over l. eyebrow. Drawing distending pain in l. half of F. and occiput while walking about room. Throbbing pain, so that he must lie down; hollow, and in occiput. Pain as from a burn over l. eye, (>) pressure, and on l. side of nose. Compression above eyes. Pressive sensation in sinciput without pain. Confusion. Tension in muscles under skin on moving eyes. Whirling in r. side, with a stitch in l. side of it.

Temples

      Stitches through, on walking in open air; sudden, to forehead; twitching, sometimes extending over l. parietal region. Tearing; sometimes extending to occiput, sometimes to petrous portion of temporal bones, and frequently changing its position. Pain: and in frontal region alternating with pain in finger and wrist- joints, and with griping in abdomen; in r.; r. then l. Pressing- out pain; l.; from both T. towards forehead. Pressing together in bones, alternating with drawing pain occipital protuberances. Throbbing outward pain towards T. on going to bed. Pain as if pulled by the hair. Intermittent drawing pain near l. eye. Drawing in bends towards zygoma, (<) l., afterwards this returned and extended to l. jaw; in both towards malar-bones; in l., with pressing; then copious pasty stools. Tensive twisting pain in single muscle fibres of r. Gurgling.

Vertex

      Increase of pain under V., with soreness of scalp over the same, and bruised soreness of vertex. Throbbing pain in morning on waking. Beating, with beating and fulness in cerebellum. Burning pain in a spot. Weight. Dull motions, and in forehead, causing vertigo and cessation of ideas.

Sides

      Throbbing in r., perceptible to hand. Stitch deep in l. side of brain on coughing. Tearing; l.; in r. parietal bone as by a sharp hook. Digging in a spot in r. half of brain, extending down along both jaw bones, or tearing, with pain in a submaxillary gland. Pain above and behind l. ear; throbbing-drawing pulsating, in parietal bone, extending to forehead; sudden drawing-throbbing, in r. parietal eminence in forenoon, (>) pressure; pressing-together, on both. Sensation as if pressed together from both ears.

Occiput

      Pain; in l. lower part at 4 P.M., (<) touch; (>) towards noon, with drawing down into neck, but in afternoon pressure in temporal bones and frequently in forehead and occiput; sharp P. in l. protuberance, coming and going suddenly; tensive, in both sides.

Pain like a heaviness which pressed upon a sore spot in morning when lying on back, extending to shoulders. Pressure in both sides; on l. side, with sticking in l. heel. Soreness to touch on one side. Numbness, with enlarged feeling.

Scalp. – Hair seems fatty in morning and hands become fatty while combing. Drawn tightly and sensitive. Sensitive towards evening. Sensation as if posterior half were spasmodically contracted, which caused tension in anterior half. Smarting erosion on occiput at night. Crawling on both sides of ears, with creeping. Itching; while combing.

Clinical The headaches of Bryonia are all aggravated by motion, even of eyeballs. The pains either begin in the occiput or finally become seated in the occiput, frequently associated with dryness of the mouth, thirst and coated tongue; the headaches are rarely neuralgic, but are generally sympathetic with gastric disorders or with inflammatory affections. Meningitis from suppressed eruptions.

Eyes

      Sudden swelling of one, with pain, discharge of pus, and the conjunctiva is dark red and swollen. Aching all about r. in evening in open air, especially on lower margin of orbit. Pain as if burnt, extending outward into l. Pressure; with burning itching in lids; painful, (<) r., with redness and swelling of lids; as from a hand or as from a room full of smoke, in morning on waking. Sensation as of sand in r., in afternoon. Biting as of sand (?), which causes rubbing. Burning of r., with lachrymation.

Lachrymation; in open air; with redness of white of eye and agglutination of external canthus; with itching of lids. Intermittent pain in l. ball, (<) moving ball, with feeling as if the eye became smaller and were retracted within orbit. Pressure on ball, more from above downward. Throbbing in r. ball. Pupils dilated.

Lids. – Swelling of r. upper; of lower, with pain; in morning, with agglutination; (<) r. with redness; with redness and pressure. Redness of lower, with inflammation of it and twitching of upper. Twitching drawing together in l. upper, with heaviness. Twitching of r. upper; of upper and of r. eye. Agglutination in morning; with burning biting in r. canthi; in morning, and after forcible opening vision as through a veil. Feel agglutinated in morning, red, and swollen, and feel as if rubbed and heated. Pressure above lids towards evening. Burning of r. Itching on border of l. upper, with burning and tearing; sticking, on margin of r., (>) scratching; sticking, below r. upper, as from a stiff hair, (>) rubbing.

Canthi – Sore pain in l. internal, with smarting. burning in external, on touch. Itching in r. inner, (<) by rubbing, which causes lachrymation; in l. external, not (>) rubbing, with biting. Itching-biting in l. external; in l. internal, as from sand, at 3 P.M.

Orbits – Stitches in brows; in upper border of r. O., with heaviness in eye and itching on lid. Drawing pinching in r. brow, with itching in l. brow. Aching in l., with pulsation; A. deep in r., (<) pressure on ball; in supraorbital ridge in a spot of the size of a needle; in r. supraorbital ridge in a spot of the size of a needle; in r. supraorbital region, extending to l. side; contractive, in muscles of r. brow.

Vision misty; in l. eye. Weak in morning, letters run together if she attempts to read. Presbyopia. Flickering before r. eye on looking out of the window after a moderate dinner, then every object seemed covered with rainbow colors, on closing the eye appearance of a jagged, broken iridescent stripe, which on keeping the eye closed a long time became of a blinding white color, then weakness of eye, then photophobia and confusion of head.

Clinical Congestion and soreness of the eye (sympathetic). Inflammation of the eye, especially of internal parts, iritis, choroiditis, glaucoma, etc., the eyeball very painful, full feeling, pains extending to back of head.

Ears

      Discharge of blood. Stitches; now in one, now in other, on going into open air and on entering house; in r. meatus auditorius; (on convex surface of r. when touched). Pressure on cartilage of r.; in r. concha. Sensation as if a finger were pressed into external meatus, (<) stooping to read. Pain about l.; drawing, in r.; constrictive, in meatus auditorius, at first (>) removing wax, but always returning with difficult hearing; as if burnt, extending out at l. ear. Stopped sensation. (Sensitiveness of whole union with skull); and of border of ear.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.