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.
- 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.
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; worse 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 (Aur; Nat sal; 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; Col).
- 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 draughts.
- 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 (Lilium; Croc).
- 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 pleuro-pneumonia.
- 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 carb).
- Heaviness 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 (Helleb).
Skin
- Yellow; pale, swollen, dropsical; hot and painful.
- Seborrhea.
- Hair very greasy.
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 gastro-hepatic 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: Upas when Bryonia fails.
- Rhus; Alumina.
- Illecebrum.--A Mexican drug.--(Fever with catarrhal symptoms, gastric and typhoid fever symptoms).
- Antidotes: Acon; Cham; Nux.
- Compare: Asclep tub; Kali mur; Ptelia.
Dose
- First to twelfth attenuation.
