BRYONIA ALBA

 

BRYONIA ALBA

IT IS A SHORT ACTING REMEDY. IT IS FREQUENTLY USED IN ACUTE DISEASES.

It is a CONSTITUTIONAL remedy for the following types of cases:

1. Children dislike to be carried or to be raised. Fretful.

2. Children desire things immediately which are not to be had, or which when offered is refused. Peevish.

3. Patients are irritable, inclined to be vehement and angry. Nervous.

4. Who have black hair, dark complexion, firm muscular fiber, dry, slender people.

5. Who are worse from slightest motion and better from rest; although restless, wants to keep quiet and still.

6. Who are anxious, angered easily, obstinate.

7. Who are worm blooded; worse from warmth, summer; better from cool open air, cold water, cold food.

8. Who are plethoric and venous in their make up, face is puffed and purplish.

9. Who are of sluggish nature, complaints develop slowly.

10. Who are fearful; fear of death, fear of poverty.

It is a SPECIFIC remedy for the following conditions;

1. Ailments from; chagrin, anger, mortification, fright, chilling when overheated. Exposure to cold. When warm weather sets in after cold days. Cold drinks or ice in hot weather. Suppressed discharges; menses; rash of acute exanthema. Beans, peas, cabbage, bread, flatulent food, fruits.

2. Complaints are WORSE from slightest motion, exertion, jar, swallowing, coughing, sneezing, ascending, motion of ship, lying on painless side, rising from lying, stooping, motion of eyes.

3. Complaints are BETTER from; lying on painful side, when quiet, during rest, pressure, dark room, cool open air, cold water, cold food.

4. Ailments are attended with; dryness of mucous membranes with thirst for large quantities of water; constant motion of left arm and left leg; pressure as from stone at pit of stomach relived by eructation; delirium talks constantly about his business; desires to get out bed and go home; vicarious menstruation; nose-bleed when menses should appear; vertigo on stooping; throbbing in head; tongue coated thick, whitish yellow; nausea and vomiting; urine dark and scanty, high fever with profuse sweat which ameliorates.

5. Acute meningitis: from suppressed rash of examthematous fever with constant chewing motion of mouth; face congested, puffy; temperature high, copious sweats; dry lips, thirst for large quantities of water; not restless; uncover the body.

6. Delirium: from acute infectious fever; talks constantly about his business; desire to get out of bed and go home; constant motion of left arm and leg.

7. Headache: in morning after rising or on first opening eyes; commencing in the morning, gradually increasing until evening; from ironing, with constipation, on coughing, when stooping as if brain would burst through forehead.

8. Pains: stitching, tearing; worse by motion, inspiration, coughing, at night; better from absolute rest and lying on painful side.

9. Acute pleurisy: when the fever has somewhat abated, pains are stitching or tearing, worse from coughing, movement, sneezing, even breathing is painful. It comes in after Aconite. Friction rub present.

10. Acute inflamammation of mammae; hot and painful, heavy, stony hard; must support the breast; pain worse from slightest motion.

11. Cough; dry, spasmodic; with gagging and vomiting; with stitches inside of chest; with headache, worse after eating, drinking, entering a warm room; a deep inspiration.

12. Constipation; no inclination from inactive rectum, stool large, hard, dark, dry, as if burnt; on going to sea.

13. Diarrhea; during a spell of hot weather; bilious, acrid with soreness of anus; like dirty water; of undigested; food; from cold drinks when overheated; from fruits, worse in morning on moving even a hand or foot.

14. Diabetes; dryness of lips and mouth, thirst for large quantities of water, persistent bitter taste in mouth; from warmth and exertion, beans, peas, cabbage, bread, fruits and flatulent food disagree.

15. Acute hepatitis: liver is congested, inflamed and enlarged; stitching pains in the right hypochondria, worse from motion or changing position; better from lying on the right or painful side; jaundice brought on by a fit of anger.

16. Acute pericardia: of rheumatic origin, stitching pains worse from movement; better from lying on the right or painful side; friction rub is present.

17. Pneumonia: it comes after Acon, Ferr p, Ver vir. The patient is not restless; cough is moist, sharp stitching pleuritic pains worse from coughing and any movement; tongue dry and coated, thirst excessive; with delirium or constipation.

18. Acute rheumatism: joints red hot and swollen; painful on slightest motion; touch and pressure aggravate; pains stitching or tearing in character, copious exudation in joint, with perspiration which relieves.

19. Typhoid fever: eve lops sluggishly; with headache, dry mouth, tongue coated, thirst for large quantities of water, lies quietly, not restless, with delirium, constipation, soreness of body; likes cool open air; worse in warm and closed room.

20. Tuberculosis: dry teasing cough as if the head and chest would burst; sharp stitching pains in the sides; inability to take a deep breath on account of aggravation of pains.

DOSAGE: It acts in lower as well as in higher potencies. Lower potencies are indicated in gout, rheumatism, inflammatory troubles. Higher potencies are indicated in diseases of gastrointestinal tract and in cases where its constitutional symptoms are present.

REPETITION: It is a short acting remedy and bears frequent repetition.

DURATION OF ACTION: 7 to 21 days.