BRYONIA ALBA
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- best adapted to persons of gouty or rheumatic diathesis; prone to so-called bilious attacks
- patients are irritable, inclined to be vehement and angry; dark or black hair, dark complexion, firm muscular fibre; dry, nervous, slender people
- pains: stitching, tearing, worse at night
- worse by motion, inspiration, coughing
- better by absolute rest, and lying on painful side
- excessive dryness of mucous membranes of entire body
- lips and tongue dry, parched, cracked
- stool, dry as if burnt
- cough, dry, hard, racking, with scanty expectoration
- urine, dark and scanty; great thirst
- vicarious menstruation; nosebleed when menses should appear
- blood spitting, or heamoptysis
- ailments from chagrin, mortification, anger
- violence, with chilliness and coldness
- after anger chilly, but with head hot and face red
- complaints: when warm weather sets in, after cold days
- from cold drinks or ice in hot weather
- after taking cold or getting hot in summer
- from chilling when overheated
- kicks the covers off
- from exposure to draft, cold wind
- suppressed discharges, of menses, milk or eruption of acute exanthema
- aggravation from any motion, and corresponding relief from absolute rest, either mental or physical
- desires things immediately which are not to be had, or which when offered are refused
- children dislike to be carried, or to be raised
- delirium: talks constantly about his business
- desire to get out of bed and go home
- constant motion on left arm and leg
- patient cannot sit up from nausea and faintness
- great thirst for large quantities at long intervals
- headache: when stooping, as if brain would burst through forehead
- from ironing
- on coughing
- in morning after rising or when first opening eyes
- commencing in the morning, gradually increasing until evening
- from constipation
- pressure as from stone at pit of the stomach, relieved by eructation
- constipation: inactive, no inclination
- stool large, hard, dark, dry, as if burnt
- on going to sea
- diarrhoea: during a spell of hot weather
- bilious, acrid with soreness of anus
- like dirty water
- of undigested food
- from cold drinks when overheated, from fruit or sour krout
- worse in morning, on moving, even a hand or foot
- mammae heavy, of a stony hardness
- pale but hard; hot and painful
- must support the breasts
- cough: dry, spasmodic, with gagging and vomiting
- with stitches in side of chest
- with headache, as if head would fly to pieces
- worse after eating, drinking, entering a warm room, deep inspiration