(Wild Hops)
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. | ||
| Mind.
Exceedingly irritable; everything puts him out of humor. Delirium;
wants to go home: talks of business. | ||
| Head. Vertigo,
nausea, faintness on rising, confusion. Bursting, splitting
headache, as if everything would be pressed out; as if hit by a hammer
from within; wore 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. | ||
| Nose.
Frequent bleeding of nose when menses should appear. Also in the
morning, relieving the headache. Coryza with shooting and aching in the
forehead. Swelling of tip of nose, feels as if it would ulcerate when
touched. | ||
| Ears. Aural
vertigo. [Sil.; Chin.] Roaring,
buzzing. | ||
| Eyes. Pressing,
crushing, aching pain. Glaucoma. Sore to touch and when moving
them. | ||
| Mouth. Lips
parched, dry, cracked. Dryness of mouth, tongue, and throat, with excessive
thirst. Tongue coated yellowish, dark brown; heavily white in gastric
derangement. Bitter taste. [Nux-v.; Coloc.] Burning in lower lip in old smokers. Lip
swollen, dry, black and cracked. | ||
| Throat.
Dryness, sticking on swallowing, scraped and constricted. [Bell.] Tough mucus in larynx and trachea, loosened only
after much hawking; worse coming into warm room. | ||
| Stomach.
Nausea and faintness when rising up. Abnormal hunger, loss of taste.
Thirst for large drafts. Vomiting of bile and water immediately after
eating. Worse, warm drinks, which are vomited. 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. | ||
| Abdomen. Liver
region swollen, sore, tensive. Burning pain, stitches; worse, pressure,
coughing, breathing. Tenderness of abdominal walls. | ||
| Stool.
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. | ||
| Female. Menses
too early, too profuse; worse from motion, with tearing pains in legs;
suppressed, 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 mammae. Frequent bleeding of nose at appearance of menses.
Menstrual irregularities, with gastric symptoms. Ovaritis.
Intermenstrual pain, with great abdominal and pelvic soreness. [Ham.] | ||
| Respiratory.
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 pleuropneumonia. Expectoration brick shade, tough, and
falls like lumps of jelly. Tough mucus in trachea, loosened only with much
hawking. Coming into warm room excites cough. [Nat-c.] Heaving beneath the sternum extending towards
the right shoulder. Cough worse by going into warm room.
Stitches in cardiac region. Angina pectoris (use tincture). | ||
| Back. Painful
stiffness in nape of neck. Stitches and stiffness in small of back.
From hard water and sudden changes of weather. | ||
| Extremities.
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. Seborrhea. Hair very
greasey. | ||
| Sleep. Drowsy;
starting when falling asleep. Delirium; busy with business matters and what
he had read. | ||
| Fever. 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 gastrohepatic
complications. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, warmth, any motion, morning, eating, hot weather, exertion,
touch. Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick. Better, lying on
painful side, pressure, rest, cold things. | ||
| Relationship.
Complementary: Rhus-t. Antidote: Acon.; Cham.; Nux-v. Compare: Kali-m. | ||
| Dose. First to
twelfth attenuation. |