BRYONIA ALBA
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Aching in every muscle
- Stitching tearing pain worse by motion, better rest
- Stitching pains aggravated by motion
- Dry mucous membranes
- Irritable
- Vertigo from raising the head
- Pressive headache
- Dry parched lips, mouth
- Excessive thirst
- Bitter taste
- Sensitive epigastrium
- Feeling of a stone in the stomach
- Stools large, dry, hard
- Dry cough
- Rheumatic pains and swellings
- Dropsical effusions into synovial and serous membranes
- Dislike being carried or raised
- Physical weakness
- Apathy
- Delirium wants to go home, talks of business
- Vertigo nausea, faintness on rising, confusion
- Bursting, splitting headache as if everything would be pressed out
- Headache worse from motion, stooping, opening eyes
- Headache becomes seated in occiput
- Drawing in bones towards zygoma
- Headache worse on motion, even of eyeballs
- Frontal headache, frontal sinuses involved
- Frequent bleeding of nose when menses should appear
- Coryza with shooting and aching in the forehead
- Swelling of tip of nose feels as if it would ulcerate when touched
- Aural vertigo
- Roaring, buzzing in ears
- Pressing crushing, aching pain in eyes
- Glaucoma
- Sore eyes to touch and when moving them
- Lips parched, dry, cracked
- Dryness of mouth, tongue, and throat with excessive thirst
- Tongue coated yellowish, dark brown, heavily white in gastric derangement
- Burning in lower lip in old smokers
- Lip swollen, dry, black, and cracked
- Dryness of throat, sticking on swallowing, scraped and constricted
- Tough mucus in larynx and trachea, loosened only after much hawking
- Nausea and faintness when rising up
- Abnormal hunger, loss of taste
- Thirst for large draughts
- Vomiting of bile and water immediately after eating
- Stomach sensitive to touch
- Pressure in stomach after eating, as of a stone
- Soreness in stomach when coughing
- Dyspeptic ailments during summer heat
- Sensitiveness of epigastrium to touch
- Liver region swollen, sore, tensive
- Burning pain in abdomen, stitches, worse pressure, coughing, breathing
- Tenderness of abdominal walls
- Constipation stools hard, dry, as if burnt, seem too large
- Stools brown, thick, bloody worse in morning, from moving, in hot weather, after being heated, from cold drinks, every spell of hot weather
- Urine red, brown, like beer, scanty, hot
- Menses too early, too profuse worse from motion, with tearing pains in legs
- Suppressed menses with vicarious discharge or splitting headache
- Stitching pains in ovaries on taking a deep inspiration, very sensitive to touch
- Pain in right ovary as if torn, extending to thigh
- Milk fever
- Pain in breasts at menstrual period
- Breasts hot and painful hard
- Abscess of mamm
- Menstrual irregularities with gastric symptoms
- Ovaritis
- Intermenstrual pain with great abdominal and pelvic soreness
- Soreness in larynx and trachea
- Hoarseness worse in open air
- Dry, hacking cough from irritation in upper trachea
- Cough, dry, at night, must sit up, worse after eating or drinking, with vomiting, with stitches in chest, and expectoration of rust-colored sputa
- Frequent desire to take a long breath, must expand lungs
- Difficult, quick respiration worse every movement, caused by stitches in chest
- Cough with feeling as if chest would fly to pieces presses his head on sternum, must support chest
- Croupous and pleuro-pneumonia
- Expectoration brick shade, tough, and falls like lumps of jelly
- Heaviness beneath the sternum extending towards the right shoulder
- Cough worse by going into warm room
- Stitches in cardiac region
- Painful stiffness in nape of neck
- Stitches and stiffness in small of back
- Knees stiff and painful
- Hot swelling of feet
- Joints red, swollen, hot, with stitches and tearing worse on least movement
- Every spot is painful on pressure
- Constant motion of left arm and leg
- Skin yellow, pale, swollen, dropsical, hot and painful
- Seborrha
- Hair very greasy
- Drowsy starting when falling asleep
- Delirium busy with business matters and what he had read
- Pulse full, hard, tense, and quick
- Chill with external coldness, dry cough, stitches
- Internal heat
- Sour sweat after slight exertion
- Easy, profuse perspiration
- Rheumatic and typhoid marked by gastro-hepatic complications