Bryonia Alba

Anxiety and inquietude, with fear of the future

Frequent tears

Despair of being cured, with fear of death

Restlessness, with fear of the future; fear of death, which he thinks is near

Fear, with desire to run away

Discouragement

Aversion to conversation

Exceedingly irritable and inclined to be angry

After having been angry he is chilly; has a red face and heat in the head

Irascibility and passion

Want of memory

Momentary absence of mind

Giddiness

Desire for things which are rejected when obtained

Delirium (at night) and ravings about the transactions of the day

Unconsciousness.

Confusion, giddiness, and cloudiness of the head

Giddiness, with sensation of looseness in the brain when stooping, and when raising up the head

Staggering and drunkenness, as if from congestion of the head

Staggering backward

Tendency to run backward

Vertigo only when stooping

Swimming in the head, esp. on rising from a seat, or on getting up after lying down

Cephalalgia, as after a nocturnal debauch

Headache after every meal

Attack of headache, with vomiting, nausea, and urgent inclination to lie down

Headache in the morning as soon as the eyes are, open

Great fulness and heaviness of the head, and digging with pressure towards the forehead, and, when stooping, a sensation as if everything were going to fall out through the forehead

Expansive pressure, or compression of the brain

Shootings in the head, sometimes on one side only

Pulsative starting pains, increased by movement, with aching in the eyes

Congestion in the head, with heat in the brain

Burning pain in the forehead

Headache aggravated by movement, or rapid walking, or when the eyes are opened

Painful sensibility of the scalp, as if from excoriation

Drawing and starting pains in the head, from the cheek-bone to the temple, increased by contact

Tearing in one (r.) side of the head, extending into the cheek and jaw-bones; worse from motion, touch, and heat; better during rest and external pressure

Burning heat of the head, externally

Heat of the head with dark-red face; with coldness of the rest of the body; with much thirst and pain in the limbs when moving them

Cold sweat on the forehead

Hair very greasy

Oily, greasy, sour-smelling perspiration on the head (and the whole body) during sleep; at night, esp. towards morning.

Pains in the eyes on moving them

Aching of the eyes, as if they were going to start out of the head

Pressure on the eyes, as if from sand, esp. morning and evening

Stitches in the eyes

Shooting and drawing pains in the eyes

Burning pain in the eyes

Inflammation of the eyes and of the eyelids, with redness

Inflammation of the eyes, < by heat

Inflammation of the eyes, esp. in gouty subjects

The eyes feel very sore to the touch, and when moving them

Painful swelling of the eyes, with suppuration, and the conjunctiva swollen and red

Red swelling of the eyelids, esp. of the upper lids, with aching pains

Furfuraceous tetters on the eyelids, with burning itching

Stye on the eyelid

Abscess in the internal angle of the eye

Nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids, with lachrymation during the day, esp. in the sun, and with confused sight

Eyes dull, glassy, turbid, or sparkling, and, as it were, drowned in tears

Presbyopia

Confusion of the letters when reading

Blackness or flames before the eyes

Photophobia.

Contractive pains in the ears, with diminution of hearing

Shootings in the ears, while walking in the open air, and afterwards

Swelling, like a knob, before and behind the ear (parotitis)

Bleeding from the ears

Sensation in the ears, as if they were stopped

Buzzing in the ears

All noise is insupportable to the ears.

Swelling of the nose, with painful sensibility to the touch, and obstruction of the nose

Inflammation and ulceration of the nostrils

Ulcer in the nostrils, with gnawing pain

Frequent bleeding of the nose, sometimes in the morning, or when the catamenia are suppressed, or even when sleeping

Epistaxis, esp. just before the beginning of the menses, or in pregnant women, just before the time for the menses to appear

Dryness and obstruction of the nose, sometimes obstinate

Fluent coryza, with shooting and aching in the forehead

Dry coryza, sometimes obstinate

Catarrh with dryness, sudden suppression of discharge and headache

Hard mucus, drying in crusts.

Face of a pale, yellow, earth-coloured hue

Face red and burning

Red spots on the face

Hot, bluish, and brownish swelling of the face

Pains in the face, mostly aching, mitigated by external pressure

Swelling of the face, sometimes on one side only, or under the eyes and at the root of the nose

Swelling of the cheek, close to the ear

Small nodosities and indurations in the face, like subcutaneous glands

Lips swollen and cracked, with bleeding, and sensation of burning on being touched

Lips dry

Exanthema on the under lip; parched, dry, and cracked lips (very characteristic)

Eruption on the lips, with burning smarting.

Toothache; shooting from one tooth to another, or into the head and cheeks; from an exposed nerve (sensitiveness of the decayed teeth to contact of the air); pain < from smoking or chewing tobacco; from introducing anything warm into the mouth;

> momentarily by cold water, and when lying on the painful side

Toothache, with urgent inclination to lie down, < at night by hot things

Jerking, pulling odontalgia, with a sensation as if the teeth were too long, or as if they were loose, esp. during a meal and afterwards

Pains, as of excoriation in the gums, with loosening of the teeth

Gums spongy.

Dryness of the mouth, with burning thirst

Dryness of the mouth, tongue, and throat

Accumulation of a soapy and frothy saliva in the mouth

Salivation

Putrid smell of the mouth

Tongue dry, loaded with a white coating, or dirty, or yellow; esp. in the middle

Tongue furred, usually dry and hard with deep cracks

Dark coloured and wrinkled state of the tongue

Burning blisters on the edge of the tongue

Speech indistinct, from dryness of the throat.

Sore throat, with hoarseness and difficult deglutition

Pain, as of excoriation in the throat, during empty deglutition

Sensation of swelling and constriction in the oesophagus

Sensation of dryness, and great dryness, in the throat

Pressure in the pharynx, as from a hard and pointed body

Shootings in the throat on contact, also on turning the head and on swallowing

Tenacious mucus in the throat, which is not detached without effort.

Loss of appetite

Taste insipid, clammy, putrid

Insipidity of food

Sweetish taste

Bitter taste of all food, or only after meal-time, or at other times, as well as in the morning

Burning thirst, sometimes after a meal, increased by taking beer

Infrequent, but copious, drinking

Bitter taste and thirst

Great desire for wine, for acid drinks, for coffee, and even for things which are not eaten

Abnormal hunger; he must often eat something

Morbid hunger, which forces frequent eating, and little at a time

Bulimy, often with absence of appetite, or with thirst and transient heat, sometimes even in the night

Loss of appetite after the first morsel has been eaten

Repugnance and disgust for food

After every meal, risings, with pressure on the stomach and on the epigastrium, colic or vomiting, principally after having eaten bread.

Risings, especially after having eaten, mostly bitter or sour, with a taste of the food

Empty risings

Regurgitation if the food after every meal

Hiccough

Nausea and inclination to vomit, esp. after eating food which has pleased the palate, or on rising after lying down

Nausea, with inclination to vomit and anxiety, when sitting, or on forcing one's self to drink

Nausea in the morning

Retching, with water-brash

Vomiting soon after drinking, and esp. on drinking after a meal

Bitter vomiting, when drinking immediately after a meal

In the evening, vomiting of viscid mucus

Vomiting in general of what has been eaten, which comes up very soon after eating, of food in mouthfuls at a time (vomiting very often excited by motion); of a watery fluid; bitter and flat taste; belching or eructations; collection of water in the mouth

Vomiting of food, with hiccough and retching, or vomiting of bitter water, or of bile, even at night

Vomiting of solids, and not of fluids

Vomiting of blood

Shootings in the left side of the abdomen, during the vomitings

Pressure in the stomach after eating, esp. after eating bread

Pressure, as if from a stone in the stomach, esp. after a meal, or on walking, sometimes accompanied by ill-humour

Incisive pains in the pit of the stomach, as from knives

Contractive pains in the stomach, sometimes with vomiting of food

Squeezing in the pit of the stomach, and painful tension on being touched, with sensation of heat

Shootings in the stomach, when lying on the side, as well as in the pit of the stomach, during movement and walking, or making a false step

Pain, as of excoriation, in the pit of the stomach, sensible to the touch, or on coughing

The least pressure on the pit of the stomach is insupportable

Sensation of burning in the pit of the stomach, and in the stomach, esp. when moving

Inflammation of the stomach

Sensation of swelling in the pit of the stomach.

Pains in the liver, mostly shooting, tensive, or burning, esp. on being touched, on breathing, or on coughing

Tractive pains in the hypochondrium, extending to the stomach and the back, in the morning and after dinner, sometimes with vomiting

Hard swelling in the hypochondriac and umbilical regions

Shootings in the region of the spleen

Colic with tension of the abdomen, and water-brash

Inflation of the abdomen, with pressure in the epigastrium, esp. after dinner

Inflammation of the liver

Tearing in the stomach, from the hips to the pit of the stomach

Cramp-like pains, pinching, or cuttings and shootings in the abdomen, chiefly after eating or drinking (esp. hot milk), sometimes with loose evacuations

Hard swelling round the navel

Dropsical swelling of the abdomen

Gurgling and borborygmi in the abdomen, with escape of flatus; sometimes only in the evening, in bed.

Constipation

Faeces too large, with difficult evacuation

Stools too large in size; too hard and dry

Faeces scanty, but hard, and as if burnt

Diarrhoea, with colic, sometimes alternating with constipation and gastralgia

Loose evacuations, of a putrid smell, as of rotten cheese;

(worse (or only) in the morning; during hot weather)

Involuntary stools while asleep

Evacuations of undigested substances

Diarrhoea in the morning; on beginning to move about

Diarrhoea preceded by pain in the abdomen

Nocturnal diarrhoea, with burning pain in the anus

Colliquative diarrhoea

Constrictive colic, during an evacuation

Loose and frequent evacuations, of a brownish colour (in the case of infants at the breast).

Urine scanty, reddish, brownish, and hot

White, turbid urine

Urine is dark; becomes turbid; often casts a pinkish stain all over the bottom of the chamber

Urgent inclination to make water, without power of retention

Frequent emission of aqueous urine

Inclination to make water, with suspended respiration, on lifting loads

Inclination to make water at night

Involuntary emission of hot urine, when moving

Sensation of burning, and incisive pains in the urethra, before making water

Cutting in the urethra, or sensation of constriction while urinating

Sensation of contraction

Shooting and burning pains in the urethra.

Red, itching, miliary eruption on the glans penis

Shootings in the testes

Stitches in the testicles while sitting.

Catamenia suppressed

Suppressed menses, with bleeding of the nose

Catamenia premature

Menstruation too early and too profuse, with dark, red blood

Menses with bad smell

Acute, tractive pains in the limbs, during the catamenia

Flow of blood between the periods

Metrorrhagia of a deep red blood, with pain in the loins and in the head

Burning pains in the fundus uteri, during pregnancy, increased by movement, diminished by pressure and repose

Swelling and inflammation of the labia majora (< l.)

Swelling of one of the labia, with a black and hard pustule

Lumps, indurations, and inflammations of the mammae, with diminished or retarded secretion of milk.—(Puerperal fever.)

Hoarseness, with tendency to perspiration, cough and rattling in the chest.—(Acute bronchitis)

Deep, slow breathing

Difficult breathing only possible with the assistance of the abdominal muscles

Frequent sighing, breathing

Continued inclination to draw a long breath

Breathing quick, difficult, and anxious; caused by stitches principally in the chest, compelling him to sit up

Stitches in the chest, when breathing or coughing

Inclination to cough, as if from viscid mucus, afterwards pains, as of excoriation, in the larynx, aggravated by speaking, or by smoking tobacco

Cough, mostly dry, excited by a tickling in the throat, or as if caused by smoke in the larynx, with a necessity for breathing often

Cough, from tickling in the throat and pit of the stomach; in the evening at night without expectoration; during the day the expectoration is yellow, or consists of coagulated brown blood, or of cold mucus of a disagreeable flat taste

Cough and stitches in the head and chest; or pain as if the head and chest would burst

Cough: with involuntary secretion of urine; hoarseness; thirst; sneezing; stitches in the chest and small of the back; red face; aggravated by motion, talking, laughing, eating, and drinking

Cough, as if from irritation of the stomach

Cramp-like, suffocating cough, esp. after midnight, or after having eaten or drunk, and often with vomiting of food

Cough in the morning, with water-brash

Cough which seems to bruise the chest

Cough, with shootings in the sides of the chest, or with aching pains in the head, as if it were going to split, as well as with shooting pains in the pit of the stomach, or with pains in the hypochondria

Cough, with expectoration of mucus of a dirty reddish colour

Cough, with yellowish expectoration

Cough, with expectoration of pure blood, or of slimy matter with streaks of blood

On coughing, pain, as of excoriation, in the pit of the stomach

Fit of choking before the paroxysm of nocturnal cough.

Respiration difficult, or short, rapid, and anxious, or sighing

Oppression, with fits of choking

Respiration impeded by shootings in the chest

Respiration deep and slow, esp. while making any exertion

Constant occasion to make a deep inspiration

Fit of dyspnoea, even at night, sometimes with shooting colic and inclination to evacuate

Pressure on the chest, as if from a weight, with oppression

Contractive pain in the chest, excited by the cold air

Tension in the chest, on walking

Shootings in the chest and in the sides, as from an ulcer, esp. when coughing or breathing deeply, obliging the patient to remain seated, and when lying down to rest only on the back; aggravated by every movement

Heat in the chest (pleurisy, pneumonia)

Heat and burning pain in the chest, with anxiety and tightness

Sensation in the chest as if all there were detached, and were falling into the abdomen.

Painful stiffness of the neck

Rheumatic stiffness and tension in the nape of the neck, and in the neck

Red spots on the sides of the neck

Red miliary eruption on the neck, with violent itching

Sweat in the arm-pits

Sacral pains, with rigidity, which does not allow of walking upright

During rest, pain, as if caused by a bruise in the loins

Contractive, cramp-like pain all over the back

Shootings in the loins and in the back

Painful stiffness in the small of the back, compelling him to walk and sit crookedly

Shootings under the left shoulder-blade, extending to the heart, greatly aggravated by cough and respiration

Pressure on the shoulder, with shootings on breathing deeply.

Rheumatic swelling of the r. shoulder and upper arm, with stitches

Tractive pains in the joints of the shoulders and of the arms, with tension, shootings, and shining red swelling

Tractive pains in the whole arm, and to the ends of the fingers

Convulsive movements, startings, and trembling of the arms

Burning pains and weariness in the arms

Constant trembling of the arms, and of the fingers

Swelling of the arm, round the elbow

Swelling of the elbow and hand joints, and upper parts of the hands

The wrist feels as if dislocated when moving it

Shootings in the joints of the elbow, and of the hand, with heaviness of the hands

Red miliary eruption on the forearm

Pain of dislocation in the joints of the hands, on moving them

At night, inflammation in the back of the hand, with burning pain

Swelling of the hands

Sensation of torpor in the palms of the hands

Shooting pains in the fingers when writing

Hot and pale swelling of the joints of the fingers

Starting of the fingers on moving the hands.

Cracking and dislocation of the hip-joint, when walking

Stitches in the hip-joint, extending to the knee

Drawing pains in the thighs

Shootings in the thigh, from the buttock to the ankle, with insupportable pain on being touched, and during movement, as well as with great sweat over the whole body

Weariness and instability of the legs, esp. on going up stairs

Paralysis of the legs

Tensive and painful stiffness of the knees

Red and shining swelling of the knees, with violent shootings, esp. on walking

Painful stiffness of the knees, with stitches, esp. when moving them

Staggering and yielding of the knees, while walking

Tensive shootings and cramp-like pains in the knees, with tension extending to the calves of the legs

Sharp pains in the knees, extending to the tibia

Tensive and drawing shootings from the calves of the legs to the ankles, with red, shining swelling of the parts affected

The ankle feels as if dislocated, esp. when walking

Putrid ulcers on the lower extremities

Cramp in the calves of the legs, night and morning

Lassitude of the legs when walking and standing for any time

Swelling of the legs, extending to the feet

Pain, as of dislocation, in the foot when walking

Swelling of the feet, with redness and heat; pain, as from a bruise, on stretching the feet, tension on moving them; and pains, as from ulceration, on being touched

Shootings in the feet, the soles of the feet, and the toes, esp. when resting on the foot

Corns, with pressure, or with burning shootings, or with pain of excoriation on being touched.

Yellow colour of the skin

Skin moist and clammy

Burning and pricking over the whole body, as if from nettles, after slight emotions

Erysipelatous inflammation, esp. in the joints

Nettle-rash

Miliary eruption, esp. in children, and lying-in women

Phlyctaenoid eruptions, with gnawing or burning itching

Hard knots and blotches

Furfuraceous tetters, with burning itching

Petechiae

Putrid ulcers, feeling cold

Ulcers, with sensation of cold or with pulsative or smarting pains

Chilblains

Corns, with pressure, or burning shootings, or pains of excoriation on being touched.

Constant inclination to yawn

Great sleepiness during the day, esp. after dinner

Drowsiness, with half-closed eyes

Failing asleep late; not refreshing; complaints causing sleeplessness; lying on the back during sleep

Comatose sleepiness, interrupted by anxious delirium

Sleeplessness, esp. before midnight, caused by heat

Sleeplessness before midnight, with thirst, heat, and ebullitions

Ebullition of the blood, and anxiety, esp. in the chest

Sleep disturbed by thirst; with bitter taste in the mouth on waking

Inability to remain lying on the r. side

Starts, with fright, on going to sleep and during sleep

Unquiet sleep, with confused dreams, and great flow of ideas

On going to sleep, cries and delirium, as soon as the eyes are closed

Delirium as soon as he awakes

Disagreeable, vexatious dreams

Vivid dreams of the transactions of the day

Nocturnal delirium, and visions with the eyes open

Groans, esp. towards midnight

Somnambulism

Nightmare.

Pulse full and hard, tense, and quick; seldom intermitting

Chill, with external coldness of the body

Coldness and chilliness, mostly in the evening, and often only on one (r.) side

More chilliness in the room than in the open air

Cold and shivering in the body, even in bed, in the evening, or accompanied by pains in all the limbs and cold sweat on the fore" head

Shiverings, with trembling, often with heat in the head, redness of the face, and thirst; or followed by heat, with sweat and thirst

Before the shiverings, vertigo and cephalalgia; then shivering with tension and drawing in the limbs

Fever, with bitter taste and thirst

Dry, burning heat, mostly internal, as if the blood were burning in the veins

Dislike to food and drink during the shiverings

Heat, at first alternately with shiverings, then burning heat and thirst, afterwards copious sweat

Universal dry heat, external and internal, almost always with a strong desire for cold drinks

Want of perspiration

Wants to drink much water during chill and fever

Heat on one side only

During the heat, vertigo and cephalalgia

Febrile attack, with cold, and shivering predominating; type, tertian; nausea, and necessity to remain in a recumbent posture, or with shooting pains in the side and in the abdomen, and thirst during the shiverings and the heat

At the termination of the fever, dry cough, with vomiting, shootings and oppression in the chest

Cold sweat on the forehead and on the head

Copious sweat while walking slowly in the open, cold air

Greasy sweat, day and night

Sweat, with anxiety and inquietude

Sighing-like breathing, short cough, and pressure on the chest

Profuse sweats, night and morning, sometimes of a sour smell

Compound fevers in general; chilliness and heat alternately; heat and shuddering alternately.