Bryonia

Characteristic symptoms

Bryonia- alba. Aggravations in the open air, by movement and contact, after eating and towards midnight. — Tension, drawing and tearing in the affected part, which does not bear motion ; sweat during rest and trembles when the pain abates ; bruised pain, as if ecchymosed, or as if the flesh had been detached from the bones by blows ; great nervousness, obliging one to lie down ; miliary eruptions ; tight, red, hot swellings, or pale ; hard nodes in the skin ; erysipelatous inflammation in the joints; sleepless at night, or disturbed sleep ; nightmare ; nightly rushes of blood, with heat, dreams and delirium ; chilliness, frequently with heat and red face ; sweat day and night, sometimes greasy, or dry heat and thirst ; calls for large draughts of cold water ; lowness of spirits, discouragement, despairs of a recovery ; disposition to be angry ; hyperesthesia of all the senses, especially of hearing and of sight; rush of blood to the head, with heat in the head ; headache, early in the morning, on waking, relieved by eating ; jarring headache as if the brain were loose ; heaviness from loss of energy in the brain ; rheumatic headaches in cold, raw, and wet seasons; headache with nausea, vomiting, worse even by moving the eyes; the hair of the head is very greasy ; face red and bloated, or yellow and livid, or circumscribed redness of the cheeks ; lips dry and chapped, taste insipid, tongue presents only slight coating; dryness of mouth, constant or occurring shortly after eating ; little thirst, unless for cold water; pain, pressure and shooting in stomach, increased by motion, aversion to food, bitter taste of the food, eructations with remains of food rising in mouth ; desire for wine, acids, or coffee ; vomiting of food or of bitter substances ; painful pressure in the region of the stomach ; painful sensitiveness of the liver ; cannot bear anything tight round the waist ; obstinate constipation ; or yellow nightly, or morning diarrhœa; foul diarrhoeic stools; scanty, brown, hot urine; dry coryza; dry cough, racking or with vomiting of food. Cough almost immediately after eating and drinking, and vomits what he has eaten ; coughs up coagulated or brownish blood ; excruciating headache during cough ; stitches in the chest and sides of the chest, painful, when coughing, breathing or moving ; deep, panting, or anxious and hurried breathing ; lumbago ; painful tension, like bruise ; shooting, as if the flesh were loose on the bones. Bright and shining swelling of the integuments. Rheumatism caused by cold dry air.