BRYONIA.
Bryonia alba, Linn. Natural order,
Cucurbitaceæ. Common name, White Bryony; German, Zaunrebe. Preparation,
Tincture of the root, procured before flowering.
Authorities.
1, Hahnemann,
from R. A. M. L., 2, 420; 2, Fr. Hahnemann, ibid.; 3, Hornburg, ibid.; 4,
Herrmann, ibid.; 5, Michler, ibid.; 6, Rückert, ibid.; 7, Staph;
8, Nicolai, ibid. (Nos. 9 to 40, are from the
daybooks of the Austrian provings, Œst. Zeit., 3, 1); 9,
Arneth, two provings with 20 to 220 drops of the tincture; 10,
Arneth, two provings with a single dose of an ounce of the 203d. dilution; 11, Gubatta, proving with 20 to 50 drops of tincture; 12, Wm. Huber, proved (Bryonia dioica),
Beginning with the 10th dil. and gradually descending to the 3d; 13,
Wm. Huber, proved (Bryonia dioica), 6 to 100 drops of
the tincture; 14, Wenzel Huber, proving with the 30th
and 25th decimal dil.; 15, ibid., with 15 to 100 drops
of the tincture; 16, Landesmann, proving with 8 to 180
drops of tincture; 17, ibid., with 100 drops of the 1st
dil.; 18, Mayrhofer, 20 to 200 drops of tincture; 19, ibid., 120 to 1000 drops of the 1st dec. dil.; 20, Johanna B. (girl, 21 years old), 10 to 20 drops of tincture; 21, Anna Maria M. (a woman, 34 years old), 5 to 100 drops of
tincture; 22, Reisinger, 5 to 160 drops of tincture; 23, ibid., provings with the dilution beginning with the 8th
decimal and descending to the 1st; 24, Dr. Schwarz, 3 to
140 drops of the tincture; 25, ibid., 20 to 300 drops of
the 6th dec. dil.; 26, Dr. Wachtl, two provings, first,
with 100 drops of tincture, second, with 200 drops; 27,
ibid., 1st dec. dil.; 28, ibid., 6th dil.; 29, Dr. Watzke, 25 to 80 drops of tincture; 30, ibid., 100 drops of tinct. of Bryonia
dioica; 31, ibid., 5 to 50 drops of tinct. of
Bryonia alba; 32,
Dr. Wurmb, 20 to 300 drops of tincture; 33, Zlatarovich,
8 to 50 drops of tincture; 34, “Gary Johann,”
10 drops to 1/2 oz. of tincture; 35, Dr. Wursterl, 6th
dil. (50 to 100 drops) of Bryonia dioica; 36, ibid., 20 to 50 drops of tincture; 37,
Aloys Loewy, 60 to 130 drops of tincture of Bryonia dioica;
38, ibid., one dose of 215 drops of tincture of Bryonia alba; 39, Otto
Piper’s provings (also A. H. Z. 13), 10 to 200 drops of tincture; 40,
ibid., 1 to 70 drops of tincture; 41, Lembke, N. Z. f.
H. Kl., 4, 75, proving with 20 to 60 drops of tincture; 42,
Dr. T. Dwight Stow, H. Month., 5, 359, to 15 drops of the 1st dec. dil.; 43, Dr. E. C. Price, Am. Hom. Obs. 2, 521, proving with 30 to 50
drops of the tincture.
MIND.
► Emotions, Delirium.
► Mental illusion; her head seemed too heavy, [2]. ►► *Irrational
talking of his business, for an hour (after half an hour), [1]. ► *Nightly delirium, [1]. ► *In the morning at
daybreak delirious prattling about business to be
attended to; this disappears when the pain commences,
[1]. ► About 10
o’clock at night, a delirious frightful fantasy, as of soldiers cutting him down; that he
was on the point of escaping; with great heat in the body; sweat (without thirst); the
delirium relieved by uncovering and getting cool, [1].
► Moods. ► Much
crying for one and a half days, [2]. ► *(Great despondency; disinclined to think; exhaustion of the
intellectual powers), [1]. ► *Despondent, [3]. ► A very unusual melancholy mood, [22]. [10.] ► *Great depression, and very morose mood without any cause, quite
contrary to his habit, [11]. ► My usual lively disposition becomes changed to hypochondria,
which lasts several months, without any reason, [36]. ►► *Anxiety; he is apprehensive of the future, [4]. ► *Anxiety in the whole
body, which compelled him to do something constantly, and wherever he went he found no rest,
[1]. ► Feeling of
anxiety on lying down in the evening, which appeared to depend upon a constriction of the
chest, [29]. ► *In the
room he became very anxious; better in the open air, [2]. ► Great anxiety, with
sensation of constriction of the cavity of the chest; difficult short respiration, [11]. ► *Great sense of
insecurity, with mental depression, and apprehension for the future (sixth and
seventh days), [42]. ►
*Apprehensiveness, fearfulness (after eighteen hours), [1]. ► He tried several times to
escape from bed, [2]. [20.]
► *Disposition more irritable than usual; contradiction
easily provoked anger during the whole proving, [13].
► *Irritable, mood (with not have his wife and
children about him; wishes to be alone), [31]. ► *Mood at once irritable, weeping, and morose, [1]. ► *Very irritable mood;
inclined to fright, fear, and vexation, [1].
► *Fretful mood, [15].
► Fretful; she imagines that she cannot accomplish her
work; constantly takes up the wrong piece, and always inclined to change and take another;
followed by pressive headache in the forehead, [1]. ► Ill-humor, [22]. ► *Ill-humored and inclined to be angry, [3]. ► Very ill-humored and
inclined to be angry, [1]. ►
*Ill-humored and quarrelsome without reason, [33].
[30.] ►► *Very
ill-humor; troubled with needless anxiety, [33].
► General ill-humor and discomfort, after a meal, [33]. ► *Out of humor,
[15], [36]. ► Out of humor during and after a meal, [33]. ►► *Morose; everything
puts him out of humor, [3]. ► Discontent, [33]. ► At first despondent, at last (after five days) jovial, [5]. ► Intellect. ► Over-busy; she undertakes and works far too much (after
twenty hours), [1]. ►
Disinclination for work, [15], [22]. ► Imagination very sluggish;
it is impossible to make any plan for the future, even for the next day; the judgment,
however, is unimpaired, [33]. [40.]
► On attentive reading the thoughts seemed to vanish
suddenly, [36]. ► *So
weak in mind that his ideas disappear, as if he would faint, together with heat in the face,
especially on standing, [1]. ►
*Mental exhaustion, [33]. ► Want of memory (after four hours), [1]. ► She is not conscious of
what she is doing, and lets everything fall from her hands (in the room), [2]. ► She was not fully conscious
of what she was doing (in a room); worse when lying; lasting twenty-four hours
(immediately), [2]. ►
Insensibility greatly increased in the evening, [33].
HEAD.
► Confusion. ►► *Confusion of the head, [13], [15], [22], [26], [33]. ► *Confusion of the head
(second morning), [37]. ►
*Head is confused (after one hour), [4], [15]. [50.] ► *Confusion of the whole head, [13]. ► Slight confusion of the
head, [11], [23].
► Head suddenly confused, [19].
► Transient sensation of unusual confusion of the head,
though much less than from previous doses, after 210 drops (first day), [9]. ► *Head more or less confused the
whole day (fourth day), [32]. ► *Confusion of the head for several days after the proving,
[22]. ► *Great
confusion in the head, especially in the frontal region, [23]. ► Slight confusion of the
head in the forehead, [15]. ►
A dull, dizzy confusion in the head, [5]. ► Head confused, as if in a vice, [22]. [60.] ►
Head confused in the morning, [15]. ► *In the morning on waking, the head is as confused and aching as if
he had dissipated and been intoxicated the evening previous; does not wish to rise from bed,
[1]. ► Confusion of the
head after rising from bed, [13]. ► Confusion of the head the whole forenoon (second day), [13]. ► Confusion in the
head until he goes to sleep, [1]. ► Confusion of the head without definite pain, while riding for
two hours over a very rough road, [15]. ► Confusion of the head, especially when walking; disappeared
when sitting quietly, [32]. ►
Confusion of the head, relieved by empty eructations, [36].
► Head very much confused, relieved by moving in the open
air, [36]. ►
Confusion and stupefaction of the head, [13]. [70.] ► Head confused and
heavy, [15]. ► Head
confused and heavy after a meal, [33]. ► More confused than dizzy in the head, [1]. ► Very dizzy confusion and
stupefaction of the head, [13]. ►
Confusion in the head, with dull pain in the forehead, [18].
► Head very much confused, with pressure in both temples,
[36]. ► Confusion
of the head, with pressive pain in the temples and forehead, [23].
► *Confusion in the head, with drawing in the occiput,
extending into the neck before going to sleep, [33].
► Confusion of the head, with pressive pain in various
places, now in the temples, now in the occiput, now in the forehead, [33]. ► Confusion of the head,
which gradually increased to a severe pressive pain, especially in the left temple; this
pain reached its greatest severity at 5 P.M., and was then accompanied by nauseous vomiting,
great sensitiveness of the smell, and a hissing in the left ear like the noise of boiling
water; all these symptoms disappeared within half an hour after riding in a wagon, [32]. ► Vertigo. [80.] ► Continued inclination
to vertigo, [11]. ►►
*Vertigo, [1], [22]. ► Slight vertigo (after
three hours), [15]. ►
*Several times momentary vertigo, as though all objects were reeling (after four
hours), [18]. ►
Vertigo, as from drunkenness, the whole day (after eight days), [1]. ► A kind of vertigo, as if he
were drunk, and as if the blood rushed furiously to the head, [4].
► Vertigo in the morning, [2].
► Frequent attacks of vertigo during the forenoon, [36]. ► *Vertigo in the
afternoon, as though the brain were turning around (eighteenth day), [26]. ► Vertigo suddenly
towards midnight, [39]. [90.]
► Slight vertigo after eating, [26]. ► *Slight vertigo on raising the
head from inclining it forward (after three to four hours), [42]. ►► *Vertigo as soon as he
rises from his chair; everything turns about; after
walking awhile it disappears, [1]. ► *Vertigo like whirling if she sits up in bed, with nausea in the
middle of the chest, as if faintness would ensue, [1].
► *Vertigo, as if one were being turned around, or as if
everything whirled about, when standing, [1].
► *So great vertigo, on standing, at 8 P.M., that he reeled
backwards, and nearly fell over backwards, [1].
► Vertigo and reeling of all objects while walking; the
general exhaustion increased to a feeling of complete prostration, [19]. ► Frequent attacks of
vertigo while walking in the open air, which disappeared always on sitting down, [37]. ► Vertigo, with
feeling of heaviness; it seems as if everything were turning in a circle, [4]. ► Vertigo with fulness of the
head, [3]. [100.]
► Dizziness in the head, [27].
► Dizzy and weak on waking in the morning, [13]. ► *Dizzy in the morning, and
weak in the limbs the whole day, [1]. ►► *In the morning on rising from bed, dizzy and whirling, as if
the head were turning in a circle, [1]. ► On sitting (stooping) and reading, dizzy heaviness in the
head, which disappears on raising up the head, [1]. ► Dizziness on turning the head (third day), [42]. ► He felt as if drunk, and
would lie down, [2]. ►
After moving when standing, she tottered to one side, [1].
► On walking he reeled to both sides, as if he could not
stand firmly (after forty-eight hours), [1]. ► General Sensations. ►
Head feels light, with constant wabbling in both ears (sixth and seventh days), [42]. [110.] ► The head is dull; reflection is difficult, [4]. ► Dulness in the head, with
remarkable forgetfulness, [2]. ► *Stupefaction of the head, [1].
► *Stupefaction of the head (fourth day), [38]. ► Headache (after
half an hour), [18]. ►
Tormenting headache, [11]. ►
The head is painful, especially to touch, mostly in the forepart, for twenty-four hours, [2]. ► Headache in the
morning on waking, [1]. ►
Headache on waking, which continued to increase, lasting all day (second day), [28]. ► Awoke with
headache, especially over the left eye; after rising the pain extended towards the vertex
and occiput, and there disappeared, [33]. [120.] ►► *Headache
commences in the morning, not on waking, but when first opening and moving the eyes,
[1]. ►► *Headache
in the morning after rising, a twitching-drawing in the
malar and maxillary bones, [1]. ► Violent headache in the forenoon, especially in the forehead
and vertex, [33]. ►
Headache towards evening, with all the symptoms of a commencing coryza, [21]. ► (Headache a quarter of an
hour after every meal; it then gradually ceased, but returned after the next meal), [1]. ► *Heat in the head,
with continued nausea from the stomach, [13]. ► *Rush of blood to the head, [13]. ► At first the blood mounts
to the head, then a pressing together of both temples follows, [1]. ► He is scarcely able to turn
the head on account of a feeling of fulness in it, [3].
► Heaviness in the head, [36]. [130.] ► *Excessive heaviness of the head (frequently and also
after four days), [4]. ►
*The head seems as heavy as a hundredweight, [1].
► Sense of heaviness and vertigo in the head, [11]. ► *Great heaviness in
the head, and pressure of the whole brain forward, [1].
► *Violent headache, like a great weight in the head, as if
he would incline it to either side, with pressure in the brain from within outward, and
great desire to lie down, immediately, [1].
► Oppressive headache in the afternoon, [17]. ► *Always on coughing, motion in
the head like pressure, [1]. ► Pressive headache (after three hours), [15]. ► Pressive headache, which
became so severe in half an hour that he was obliged to stop riding, [15]. ► *Headache, as if something
pressed the skull asunder, [1]. [140.] ► Sensation as if the
head were pressed together from both ears, [3]. ► Pressive headache in the morning (second day), [15]. ► Violent pressive headache
on waking in the morning, especially seated in the upper portion of the forehead; after
rising the pain extends to the supraorbital region; during the forenoon slight returns of
the headache; in the afternoon quite well, [33]. ► *In the morning before breakfast, pain as if the head were
compressed, with heaviness in it mingled with stitches; she could not raise the eyes on
account of the pain, and if she stooped she could not rise up (after sixty
hours), [1]. ►
Pressive headache, more upon one side, with severe pressive sensation in the eye of the same
side (in the afternoon), [6]. ►
*A pressure in the head, as if the brain were too full and pressed outward, mostly when
sitting, [1]. ►
(Pressure in the head on stooping), [1]. ► Headache pressing together, with jerks in the brain like
pulsation, [1]. ►
*Stitches in the head from the forehead to the occiput, [1]. [150.] ► *Stitches through the head, mostly from before backward, on stepping
hard, [15]. ►
On walking in the open air, a stitching in the head, then on the temples, [1]. ► When coughing, shooting
thought the whole head, [1]. ►
Pain in the head, more a twitching than a throbbing, with a hot face, [1]. ► A throbbing headache, which
affects the eyes so that she cannot see well; on motion, the throbbing in the head becomes
more rapid; she thinks she hears it, [1]. ► Forehead. ► Whirling
sensation in the right side of the forehead, and a stitch in the left side of the forehead, [1]. ► *Frontal headache,
[18]. ► Dull
headache in the frontal and temporal regions (soon), [9].
► Frontal headache during the whole forenoon, [18]. ► Slight headache
in the left side of the forehead and in the occiput, with slight tension in the right side
of the neck just below the mastoid process at 4 P.M., [13].
[160.] ► A tension in
the frontal muscles under the skin, on moving the eyes, [1].
► Drawing, distending headache in the left half of the
forehead and occiput, while walking about the room, [13].
► Dull compression in the head, in the forehead above the
eyes, [1]. ► In the
afternoon, from a two hours quiet nap, he felt a constrictive pain in the frontal region and
heaviness in the head, which, after one hour, was relieved by washing with cold water
(second day), [37]. ►
Painful drawing in the whole forehead, with cloudiness and confusion of the head, [13]. ► Drawing headache
in the left side of the forehead (morning of third day), [13].
► Painful drawing and tension in the left half of the
forehead above the eyebrow, as though a bud were slowly unfolding in the forehead, and
caused a pressure upon the parts about it, [13]. ► Very painful drawing and tension in the left side of the
forehead above the brow, [13]. ►
Painful drawing and tension in the right frontal eminence and in the posterior portion of
the right parietal bone, lasting ten or fifteen seconds, and after a quarter of an hour
alternating with the same pain in the same place on the left side at 6 P.M., [13]. ► Slight drawing headache in
the forehead, and pressure in the occiput, [13]. [170.] ► Pressive frontal
headache (after one hour), [15]. ►
Pressive pain in the whole frontal region, [23]. ► *A pressive pain in the forehead, so that he can scarcely stoop,
[2]. ►► *Pressive
frontal headache, very much increased by stooping (second day), [27]. ►► *Headache on stooping,
as if everything would fall out at the forehead, [1].
[Sensation of pressing asunder accompanied that of pressing together (162, 127, 140, 148,
144) almost always, since it is felt by the brain inclosed in the unyielding skull; the
organic senses cannot distinguish whether the painfulness arises from its great distension,
or from the resistance of the skull, and hence either may cause the sensation.] ► *Pressing outward in the frontal region and left eyeball from above
downward, especially on stooping, in the evening, [28].
►► *Headache as if everything would press out at the
forehead. [Compare 357.] ► Headache after
eating, and on taking a walk a pressing outward in the forehead, [1]. ► Violent pressive pain in
the forehead, especially toward both eyebrows after an ordinarily violent motion (16th d.), [9]. ► *Pressive pain in the
forehead and occiput, aggravated by motion, [24].
[180.] ► Pressive
pain in the forehead, which appeared after continued reading (third day), [9]. ►► *Pressive pain above the
left eye which continued for half and hour, was followed by a dull pressive pain in the
occipital protuberances, whence it spread over the whole body, and continued more or less
severe the whole day; on quick motion and after eating the pain became so severe that it
seemed like a distinct pulsation within the head, [24].
► *Digging pressure in the forepart of the brain towards the
forehead, especially severe on stooping and walking rapidly; walking fatigues him very much
(after twenty-four hours), [4]. ►
Headache, even on stooping a pressure outward in the forehead mingled with stitches, [1]. ► A drawing-pressive
pain in the forehead over the right eye, which after two hours changed to a violent drawing
pain in the diseased incisors of the same side; a quarter of an hour after this toothache
had ceased the headache returned, which gradually spread over the whole forehead, and lasted
all day, [21]. ►
*Tearing in the head across the forehead, then tearing in the cervical muscles, then tearing
in the right arm, [1]. ► Stitches in the forehead in the forepart, with confusion of
the head, [3]. ►
Itching, needle-like stitches in the right frontal muscles, [4].
► Throbbing headache in the forehead, so that he is
obliged to lie down, [2]. ►
Pain in the forehead and occiput, a kind of hollow throbbing (after two hours), [1]. ► Temples. [190.] ► Gurgling in both
temples, [1]. ►
Headache in the temporal and frontal regions alternating with pressive pains in the finger
and wrist joints, and with griping in the abdomen, [15].
► Pain in the temples, as if one pulled them by the hair,
[1]. ► Drawing pain
in the right temple (soon), [34]. ► Painful drawing in the left temporal region near the eye,
returning several times at short intervals, [13]. ► *Slight drawing in both temples towards the malar bones, [26]. ►► *Slight
drawing in the temporal bones from above downward towards the zygoma, especially on the left side (after four hours); afterwards this
symptom returned and extended to the left jaw, [27]. ► Drawing in the temporal muscles, in the muscles of the upper
arm, and here and there in the body, [33]. ► Drawing in the temples, followed soon afterwards by copious
pasty evacuations, [27]. ►
Drawing and pressing in the left temple (after two hours), [28].
[Almost always the first symptom in the proving of this drug. Wl.) [200.] ► Pressing-out pain in
both temples, [1]. ►
Pressing together in the temporal bones alternates frequently with drawing pains in the
occipital protuberances, [27]. ►
Pain in the left temporal region, as though the brain were pressed out at various places
(fourth day), [32]. ►
The head seemed as if pressed from both temples towards the forehead, [36]. ► Tearing-pressing in both
temples (tenth day), [26]. ►
Throbbing pressure in the head from within outward towards the temporal bones, on going to
bed, [26]. ► Pain in
the right temple; a tensive twisting in single muscle-fibres, lasting several
seconds, very sensitive, [31]. ► *Drawing-tearing pain in the right temple, but mostly extending down
into the upper back teeth and the muscles of the neck (forenoon of fourth days), [26]. [This prover suffered from the same pain two years
previously in the summer; after several days and several ineffectual remedies; it was cured
within an hour by Bryonia.] ► Pressive-tearing pains in
the temples, which sometimes extend to the occiput, sometimes to the petrous portion of the
temporal bones, and frequently change their position during the last days of the proving, [26]. ► Frequent sudden
stitches in the head from the temporal region to the forehead, [36]. [210.] ► Violent stitches in both temples, which several times
extended over the parietal region, [29]. ► Vertex. ► In the
region of the crown and of the forehead dull motions in the head, which cause vertigo and
cessation of ideas, [5]. ►
Increase of pain under vertex, with soreness of scalp just over the same; painful soreness
of vertex, it feels bruised (after three to four hours), [42].
► A spot on the top of the head, as large as half a
dollar, of burning pain, which is not sore to touch, [1].
► Sensation of weight pressing on vertex (sixth and
seventh days), [42]. ►
Sensible beating in vertex, with same, and fulness within cranium, in region of cerebellum
(first day), [42]. ►
*In the morning on waking, a headache on the top of the head, a painful throbbing,
[1]. ► Parietals.
► Pain behind and above the ear on left side of head
(thirteenth day), [42]. ►
Throbbing-drawing pulsating pain in the parietal bone, extending to the forehead (third
day), [34]. ►
Pressing-together pain on both sides of the head, [3].
[220.] ► Semilateral
headache; a (digging) pressure upon a small spot in the right half of the brain, like a kind
of digging or tearing, extending along down the bones of the upper and lower jaws,
associated with a painful submaxillary gland (after thirty hours), [1]. ► *On coughing, a long-continued
stitch deep in the brain on the left side, [1].
► Tearing in the sides of the head (first day), [41]. ► Tearing in the
left side of the head (after twenty-four hours), [2]. ► Throbbing in the right side of the head, which is perceptible
externally to the hand, [1]. ►
Piercing pain in the right parietal bone, as if torn with a sharp hook, [33]. ► Suddenly a
drawing-throbbing pain on the right parietal eminence, which on pressure (forenoon of second
day), [34]. ► Occiput.
► Numb sensation over the whole occiput, with a feeling
as though it were enlarged, [13]. ► Dull pain in the occiput, [3].
► *In the morning, in bed, after waking, white lying upon the
back, headache in the occiput, which extends to the shoulders, like a heaviness which
pressed upon a sore spot, [1]. [230.] ► Painfulness of the
lower portion of the left side of the occiput, aggravated by touch, at 4 P.M., [17]. ► Dull pressure in
the occiput, [6]. ►
Slight pressure in both side of the occiput, [13]. ► Painful pressure on the left side of the occiput, with
momentary sticking pain in the left heel, [13]. ►► *A pressive pain in the occiput, with drawing down into the
neck; this pain was relieved towards noon, but appeared in the afternoon as a
pressure in the temporal bones, also frequently in the frontal and occipital regions, [27]. ► A tensive
pressive pain in both sides of the occiput, [13]. ► Sharp pain in left occipital protuberance, coming and going
suddenly (after half an hour to two hours), [42]. ► Sore feeling on one side of the occiput on touch, [3]. ► External Head.
► The scalp tightly drawn over the head and sensitive, [33]. ► Sensation as if
the scalp on the posterior half of the skull were spasmodically contracted, which caused a
kind of tension in the anterior half of it, for half an hour (eighth day), [26]. [240.] ► Sensitiveness of the scalp towards evening, [31]. ► A biting-gnawing
on the scalp at night, [1]. ►
A peculiar crawling and creeping sensation in the scalp on both sides of the ears to the
distance of about an inch, [33]. ►
Itching of the head while combing, [1]. ► *In the morning the hair seems very
fatty, with a cool head; the hands becomes fatty while combing the hair (after
ten hours), [1].® 2000
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