BRYONIA ALBA



EYES.

The eyes are painful when touching them; pressure in the eyes, as if pressed out of the head; pressure in the eyes as of sand or smoke, particularly early in the morning on waking, or in the evening; lancinations in the eyes. Soreness as from excoriation in the inner canthus; burning in the eyes, also in the margins of the lids, with biting and itching. Redness and inflammation of the lids, also with swelling, pressure, heat, and nightly agglutination particularly of the upper lids, or only of the lower; painful swelling of one eyes, without redness, with discharge of pus, and dark-red and puffed conjunctiva; ophthalmia of infants at the breast and of arthritic persons.? Fistula- lachrymalis.? Furfuraceous herpes on the upper lid, with burning itching. Frequent lachrymation, particularly in the open air, especially when the sun shines brightly, with dimness of night. Dim, faint, glassy, or sparking, swimming eyes. Photophobia. Obscuration of sight, or else flames before the eyes.

EARS.

Contractive pain in the ear, with hardness of hearing; dartings in the ear, during and after and a walk in the open air; burning in the ear from within outwards Hard tumor behind the ear; tumor in the front of the ear, breaking, moist, covered with a yellow scurf. Discharge of blood from he ears. Ulcerated concha. Sensation as if the ears were obstructed; humming in the ears; buzzing or singing in the ear. Intolerance of noise.

NOSE.

Swelling of the nose, with violent ulcerative pain when touched, twitchings in the nose, and chronic dry coryza; inflamed and ulcerated nostrils. Bleeding of the nose, particularly early in the morning, or after rising: during the suppression of the catamenia. Dryness and obstruction of the nose, also when chronic. Profuse, violent coryza; with obstruction of the nose and chilliness; with darting in the head, or pain in the forehead, as if everything would issue through the forehead, particularly when stooping; dry coryza, also chronic. Crusts of hardened mucus in the nose.

FACE.

Pale, yellow, or livid color of the face. Heat in the face, particularly in the evening, also with burning and redness, particularly of the cheek; red, round spots in the face, particularly in the region of the malar bone, and on the neck. Bloatedness of the face; red, soft, hot; blue and brown-red; swelling of the face, also of one side only; swelling of the check close to the ear, with burning. Tension of the skin of the face and forehead, when moving the muscles; laceration and darting from the malar bone to the temple, worse when touching the parts; (throbbing in the every part of the face, perceptible on the outer side). Hard blotches in the face resembling swollen cutaneous glands. The lips are swollen and chapped covered with ulcerated patches, burning when touched.

TEETH.

Pain of a molar tooth, when masticating; excessive pain during rest, particularly when in bed, relieved by chewing; toothache on introducing anything warm into the mouth; toothache occasioned by the contact of air. Darting or flashing pain in the teeth. in the direction of the ear, obliging one to down. Lancinations: extending into the cervical muscles, when eating, and aggravated by warmth. Painful soreness in a tooth. Looseness, and sensation as if elongated; particularly early in the morning on waking. The gums are painful, as if sore and raw; spongy gums.

MOUTH.

Dryness of the mouth, with great thirst, or else absence of thirst. Tongue coated, white or yellow; dry tongue; rough dark- colored tongue; burning vesicles on the border of the tongue. Indistinct speech, owing to a parched state of the throat.

THROAT.

Great dryness of the throat, particularly in the evening. Sore throat, with difficult deglutition and hoarseness; food and drinks produce a choky sensation in the oesophagus, as if they would not go down. Pressure in the oesophagus, as from a hard body; sticking sensation, when swallowing, turning the head, or touching the throat; scraping and roughness in the throat, posteriorly. Sensation oh swelling in the pharynx and oesophagus, or as if mucus had accumulated, particularly during deglutition; also attended with difficulty of speech. Painful sensation of constriction in the oesophagus.

APPETITE AND TASTE.

Loss of taste; flat, insipid, sweetish, sickly, disgusting taste; putrid taste, as of decayed teeth or fetid meat, particularly early in the morning, or even with clean tongue; bitter taste, even of the food, or and before a meal; particularly before breakfast, or in the evening when in bed, the food has no taste. Loss of appetite, even with empty stomach, with hunger; aversion to food; loss of appetite after the first mouthful. Morbid hunger, with frequently obliges him to eat a little; violent hunger, canine hunger, extending into the night, or early in at the morning, with thirst and flushes of heat, frequently; accompanied with loss of appetite Violent thirst. Desire for sour drinks, for many things which cannot be eaten, Eructations, oppression of the stomach and pit of the stomach, with colic or vomiting, after ever meal, particularly after eating breed. After a meal: Astringent dry taste, with dry parched lips; distention of the abdomen, headache.

GASTRIC SYMPTOMS.

Frequent empty eructation; particular after a meal; pungent, eructations; bitter or sourish eructations. Regurgitation of the ingesta, also after every meal. Nausea: Nausea on waking in the morning, accompanied with empty eructations. Nausea with bitterness of the mouth. Nausea with ptyalism, in the evening before going to bed, or in the morning after rising. Nausea with anxiety whenever he attempts to drink or sits down. Empty retching, also in the evening up water and mucus, like water- brash. with coldness of the whole body. Vomiting: immediately after drinking; after eating bread; vomiting of the ingesta, also attended with hiccough and gagging; bitter vomiting, of bile and water,, particularly after drinking immediately after a meal. Bloody vomiting (obliging him to lie down). Stitches in the left side of the abdomen during vomiting.

STOMACH.

Pressure in the stomach: particularly after eating, as of a stone, with ill-humor; after eating bread. Pressure in the stomach, when walking, disappearing when sitting. Contractive pain in the stomach, particularly after eating, succeeded by cutting on the pit of the stomach, flushes of heat, eructations, nausea, and vomiting of the ingesta. Stitches in the stomach when lying on one side. Darting in the pit of the stomach when treating, particularly when making a false step, or also during movement. Painful soreness in the pit of the stomach, when touching the part or when coughing. Intolerance of the least pressure in the pit of the stomach. Pinching in the pit of the stomach. Cutting as with knives in the pit of the stomach. Oppression in the pit of the stomach and feeling of warmth with tensive pain when touching the part. Sensation of swelling in the pit of the stomach. Burning in the stomach, or in the pit of the stomach, particularly during motion. Inflammation of the stomach. Spasms of the stomach, Contraction of the orifice of the stomach.?.

HYPOCHONDRIA.

Hard swelling in the hypochondria and around the umbilicus. Tension, burning, or stinging in the region of the liver, particularly when touching it, or when coughing or taking breath. Drawing in the region of the liver, extending into the stomach and back, particularly early in the morning and after a meal, with vomiting. Inflammation of the liver. Stitches in the region of the spleen. Diaphragmitis.??.

ABDOMEN.

Colic of pregnant females. Chronic colic, with tension of the abdomen and water-brash. Hysteric abdominal spasms.? Abdomen complaints from sedentary habits. Inflammation of the bowels.? Peritonitis.? Ascites. Hard swelling around the umbilicus and under the hypochondria. Pain.in the abdomen, as if one would vomit. Laceration the abdomen, from the his to the pit of a the stomach, especially during motion followed by stitches, especially during stool, and mostly in the evening Painful writhing (twisting) around the umbilicus, with stitches. Pain in the abdomen, with anguish which renders the breathing difficult and is relieved by walking. Pain in the abdomen, as if he had been purged, or as if haemorrhoids would make their appearance. Spasmodic pain in the abdomen after dinner. Rumbling in the abdomen, with sensation as if diarrhoea would set in. Horrible colic (in the forenoon), as if she would have an attack of dysentery, without stool. Colic and pinching in and the abdomen, and the umbilical region, as after a cold for several days. Copious, fetid stool, preceded by cutting in the abdomen, flatulence moves about in his abdomen with colic, continual constipation, and sensation as if something were lodged in his abdomen. Colic during stool, as if the something were lodged in his abdomen. Colic during stool, as if the parts were constricted, or were being pinched together with the hand.

STOOL NOTE BY HAHNEMANN

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.