BRYONIA


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Bryonia from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Suitable to the rheumatic diathesis; persons with bilious tendency, exceedingly irritable inclined to be angry; black hair, dark complexion and firm muscular tissue.Hering says: “Indicated in light complexions, but more in dark The pains are stitching, tearing, worse at night, greatly aggravated by motion relieved by heat.

The parts which are the seat of subjective pain become subsequently sensitive to external pressure and then swollen and red.

After anger; chilly or head hot and face red.

In delirium talks constantly about his business; desire to get out of bed and go home.

Headache; when stooping as if brain would burst through forehead from ironing on coughing; in morning after rising or when first opening the eyes; commencing after rising or hen first opening the yes; commencing in morning and gradually increasing till evening; from constipation; dull pain in forehead.

Headache: gastric, rheumatic, congestive, with vertigo, heaviness, pressure, and rush of blood to head.

Vicarious menstruation, epistaxis when menses should appear.

Cannot sit up from nausea and faintness.

Pressure as from a stone at pit of stomach relieved by eructation.

Constipation no inclination; stool large, hard dark, dry as if burnt.

Mammae heavy, of a stony hardness; pale, but hard, hot, and painful.

Great thirst for large quantities at long intervals.

Complaints when warm weather sets in after cold days; from cold drinks or ices in hot weather; after taking cold or getting hot in summer.

Very morose, ill-humored, inclined to needles anxiety; fright fear and vexation.

Exceedingly irritable and inclined to be angry.

Vertigo as if head were turning in a circle on rising from the chair or bed.

Headache commences in the morning not on waking, but when first opening the eyes.

Nosebleed especially in morning when rising.

Hot red, soft puffiness of the face.

Great dryness of mouth lips, and tongue.

Toothache relieves by cold water; aggravated by lying on painless side goes away if one lies on painful side.

Tongue thickly coated white.

Frequent drinking of cold water relieves the bitter taste and the inclination to vomit.

Epigastric region painful to touch.

Passage of offensive flatus.

Stools followed by burning in anus.

Stools offensive, pasty, or bilious and acrid.

Obstinate constipation; stools large, hard, and dry as if burnt with great effort.

Urine dark, almost brown.

Coming into warm room from cold air excites cough.

Intense sticking pains or stitches in chest cannot bear to move or to draw a deep breath.

Menstruation too early and too profuse with dark-red blood.

Weariness and heaviness in all limbs; weakness; stiffness.

Joints red, swollen, stiff, with stitching pains from slightest motion.

Tensive painful stiffness of the knees.

Hot swelling of the feet of instep with bruised pain on stretching out the feet.

Sitting up in bed causes nausea and fainting Red round hot spot on the cheek over the malar bone.

Worse from motion even of a hand or foot, better by rest.

Just before falling asleep she starts up in fright.

Chill; anticipating or postponing.

Cough violent, dry racking, with pleuritic stitching pains in chest and region of the spleen.

Sweat profuse sour, oily.

Aggravation of all the sufferings during the heat.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.