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Bryonia Alba

30C / 200CBryonia

White Bryony · Wild Hops · "The Grumpy Bear"

bry.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric

🎯 It acts primarily on serous membranes and viscera, producing stitching, tearing pains that are significantly worsened by any form of motion.

📖 Boericke writes:

(BRYONIA)

Acts on all serous membranes and the viscera they contain. Aching in every muscle. The general character of the pain here produced is a stitching, tearing; worse by motion, better rest. These characteristic stitching pains, greatly aggravated by any motion, are found everywhere, but especially in the chest; worse pressure. Mucous membranes are all dry. The Bryonia patient is irritable; has vertigo from raising the head, pressive headache; dry, parched lips, mouth; excessive thirst, bitter taste, sensitive epigastrium, and feeling of a stone in the stomach; stools large, dry, hard; dry cough; rheumatic pains and swellings; dropsical effusions into synovial and serous membranes.

Bryonia affects especially the constitution of a robust, firm fiber and dark complexion, with tendency to leanness and irritability. It prefers the right side, the evening, and open air, warm weather after cold days, to manifest its action most markedly.

Children dislike to be carried or raised. Physical weakness, all-pervading apathy. Complaints apt to develop slowly.

👤 Constitution

•Typically a robust person with a firm build and dark complexion, often prone to leanness and irritability.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

The general character of the pain here produced is a stitching, tearing; worse by motion, better rest.

introduction

Mucous membranes are all dry.

introduction

Bursting, splitting headache, as if everything would be pressed out; as if hit by a hammer from within; worse from motion, stooping, opening eyes.

head

Frequent bleeding of nose when menses should appear.

nose

Lips parched, dry, cracked.

mouth

Dryness of mouth, tongue, and throat, with excessive thirst.

mouth

Nausea and faintness when rising up.

stomach

Stomach sensitive to touch.

stomach

Pressure in stomach after eating, as of a stone.

stomach

Burning pain, stitches; worse, pressure, coughing, breathing.

abdomen

Stools brown, thick, bloody; worse in morning, from moving, in hot weather, after being heated, from cold drinks, every spell of hot weather.

stool

Menses too early, too profuse; worse from motion, with tearing pains in legs; suppressed, with vicarious discharge or splitting headache.

female

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Useful for states of extreme irritability and delirium where the patient is preoccupied with work or home.

Exceedingly irritable; everything puts him out of humor.

Delirium; wants to go home; talks of business.

🔑 Modalities

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

First to twelfth attenuation

Other

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🤝 Complementary

Upas →Rhus Toxicodendron →Alumina →

🚫 Antidotes

Aconitum Napellus →Chamomilla →Nux Vomica →

🔄 Compare With

Kali Muriaticum →Asclepias Tuberosa →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Bryonia Alba is listed in 725 rubrics across 24 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 365 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Respiratory System89 Abdomen77 Head76 Locomotor System72 Female Sexual System59 Stomach58 Fever47 Modalities43 Nervous System32 Mind24 Eyes24 Generalities19 Skin16 Mouth15 Urinary System14 Throat11 Circulatory System11 Teeth10 Nose10 Tongue6 Face5 Male Sexual System3 Ears2 Taste2

See all 725 rubrics for Bryonia Alba →