BRYONIA ALBA



The sacrum pains as if bruised when lying on it.

Pain in the hip-joint, like jerks or blows, when she lies or sits; it is better when walking.

When walking bent forwards shooting pain from the hip-joint into the knee.

520. pain in the trochanter, startling shooting on making a false step; when at rest throbbing therein; the part hurts very much when touched. (Comp. 601, 602.)

Unsteadiness in the thighs and legs, and staggering when going downstairs (aft. 20 h.).

In the hips obtuse shooting pain. [Hbg.]

Itching on the hips and thighs (aft. 48 h.). [Fr. H-n.]

Tearing pain in the right thigh when moving. [Fr. H-n.]

525. Great weakness in the thighs; he can hardly go upstairs; less when going downstairs. [Rkt.]

Vacillation of the thighs, especially on going up and downstairs (aft. 2 d.). [Fr. H-n.]

Great weakness in the thighs, observable even when sitting (aft.8 h.). [Rkt.]

Drawing in the thighs as if the catamenia were about to come on.

In the morning, in bed, the thigh becomes stiff, like cramp.

A stitch in the upper and anterior part of the thigh.

530. Bruised pain in the middle of the thigh, and beating as with a hammer on the same spot when sitting.

When sitting and at night when lying cramp in the knee and sole of the foot.

On going downstairs pain as if the patellae would break.

On going upstairs the legs are weak.

Tensive, painful stiffness of the knees.

535. Under the knee a pustule, which only hurts and shoots when touched.

A (tearing and) burning in the right knee.

The patellae are painful as if they had been beaten loose.

An itching, as if something were healing, in the hough, and sweat on that part at night.

Stitches in the knees when walking. [Hbg.]

540. Fine, flying stitches in the knee-joints only when moving. [Rkt.]

Dry eruption on and in the houghs, which itches in the evening, looks red, and after scratching causes stinging pain. [Fr. H-n.]

Weakness, especially in the knee-joints. [Hbg.]

Weakness, especially in the knee-joint (immediately). [Mch.]

The knees totter and bend under him when walking. [Hbg.]

545.The legs are so weak that they can scarcely support him on beginning to walk, and even when standing. [Hbg.]

Swelling of both legs (aft. 40 h.). [Fr. H-n.]

On the outside of the left calf bruised pain on moving and turning the foot, as also on touching; when quite at rest numb feeling on the part for many days (aft. 12 h.). [Hbg.]

Swelling without redness of the lower half of the legs, with the exception of the feet; which are not swollen. [Hbg.]

Violent drawing pain in the leg, especially the calf, for an hour, followed by sweat (aft. 4 d.).

550. Drawing pain in the shafts of the bones of the legs.

(Eruption exuding moisture on the thighs.)

A tearing, twitching pain in the upper half of the tibia

A twitching in the leg at night; by day a twitching like an electric shock.

Sudden swelling, of the legs.

555. In the morning cramp in the left calf (aft. 12 h.).

At night, when lying in bed, cramp in the feet, in the dorsum of the feet and heels (aft. 6 h.)

At night cramp in the calf (a contractive tension) which went off by movement.

Stitch-like tearing from the feet up to the houghs, less when at rest than when moving. [Hbg.]

Pressure on the inner border of the left foot (aft. 1 h.). [Hrr.]

560. Tearing in the dorsum of the right foot the first night. [Fr. H-n.]

Hot swelling of the foot (aft. 8 h.).

Hot swelling of the instep, with bruised pain when the foot is stretched out; the foot feels tense on treading, and on touching it pains as if gathering and as if ulcerated.

(White pustules on the foot, with pain in them like a bad ulcer, the foot became red, and he could not walk for pain.)

Along with the swelling of the feet tearing in the tibiae and heaviness in the arms.

565. In the evening the feet feel tense and swollen.

In the ankle-joint tension on moving.

In the dorsum of the foot tensive pain, even when sitting.

On two nights, immediately after lying down, felling as if a hook penetrated the heel; obtuse stitches rapidly following one another, for a quarter of an hour.

In the morning, in bed, needle-pricks in both heels, which went off after rising.

570. Pain in the feet as if sprained.

Shooting in the feet. [Hbg.]

In both soles such violent shooting that she could not tread, with tension in the ankle-joints; neither could she lie on account of tension and shooting. [Fr. H-n.]

Single stitches into the toes. [Hbg.]

In the hollow part of the sole stitches on treading.

575. Knife-stabs in the left sole.

In the hollow of the soles when treading pain as though they were numb(Comp. 505.) and tense.

Samuel Hahnemann
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) was the founder of Homoeopathy. He is called the Father of Experimental Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare medicines in a specialized way; proving them on healthy human beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases.

Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.