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Bryonia Alba

30C / 200CBryonia
White Bryony · Wild Hops · "The Grumpy Bear"
bry.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
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🎯 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 characterof 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
First to twelfth attenuation
Other
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Upas →Rhus Toxicodendron →Alumina →
🚫 Antidotes
Aconitum Napellus →Chamomilla →Nux Vomica →
🔄 Compare With
Kali Muriaticum →Asclepias Tuberosa →
📚 Sources & References

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