BRYONIA.
ABDOMEN.
► Hypochondria.
► Slight pressive sensation in both hypochondria, [23]. [760.] ► A tensive pain in the right hypochondrium lasting ten
minutes, then disappearing with rumbling in the upper abdomen (from 3d dil.), [12]. ► *Tensive pain below the false
ribs in the right hypochondrium, especially sensitive on deep inspiration,
lasting about ten minutes (from 1st dil.) (28th d.), (from half an hour), [12]. ► Transient, sharp stitches
deep in the right hypochondrium, [13]. ► A sharp transient stitch beneath the wall of the abdomen in
the right hypochondrium, extending toward the epigastrium (from 5th dil.), [12]. ► Sharp, transient stitches
in the right hypochondrium, soon followed by a similar on in the epigastrium, [13]. ► *Some transient stitches in
the right hypochondrium; painful sensitiveness of this region, especially to hard pressure
and deep inspiration, [13]. ► Burning pain in the abdomen in the region of the liver (after
eight hours), [1]. ►
*Tensive pain in the region of the liver, [1].
► Long-drawn stitches in the liver while sitting (ninth
day), [26]. ► The
region of the liver was sensitive, [15]. ► Umbilical and Sides. [770.]
► Hard swelling about the navel and beneath the
hypochondria, [1]. ►
Transient burning in the abdomen below the navel, [33].
► In the afternoon, while riding in a very jolting wagon,
pinching pain above the navel extending towards the spleen, [15].
► Slight griping around the navel (after quarter of an
hour), [15]. ►
Slight, frequently repeated griping in the upper part of the umbilical region (first day), [22]. ► Slight griping
above the navel, extending from the region of the liver to the spleen, with nausea and
inclination to vomit, [15]. ►
Severe griping around the navel, [15]. ► Awakened three times in the night by severe griping in the
umbilical region, [16]. ►
Violent griping in the umbilical region, which started the sweat on the forehead an hour
after dinner; it gradually disappeared with passage of offensive flatus (thirty-second day),
[16]. ► Colic-like
pain around the navel before eating, [13]. [780.] ► Colic-like pains
around the navel half an hour after dinner, lasting half an hour, relieved by passage of
flatus, [17]. ►
Very violent attack of colic, two fingers breadth below the navel, followed by passage of
flatus after eating, [13]. ►
Boring pains around the navel, [15]. ► Boring pain around the navel (after two hours), [15]. ► Boring, but
transient pains around the navel, with chilliness (after half an hour), [15]. ► Slight pressive pain below
the navel towards noon, [33]. ►
Pressive pain in the region of the navel and great urging to stool, which awoke him from
sleep at 6 A.M. (second day), [10]. ► Dull pressure in the region of the navel every time on
waking, but he soon sank back into a kind of half sleep, in which he was busy with frequent
fancies; this continually recurred until he awoke at six in the morning, with urgent desire
for stool, [9]. ►
Pressure on the navel, as from a button, when walking in the open air, [1]. ► A pressive sensation in the
region of the navel was relieved by walking in the open air, but lasted in a slight degree
till about 5 P.M. (second day), [15]. [790.] ► Painful twisting,
with stitches around the navel, [1]. ► Twisting about the navel, with slight nausea, [31]. ► Rather severe bruised
sensation at the ends of the left false ribs, extending to the navel, continuing thirty
hours, [9]. ►
*Painless twitching in the left side of the abdomen between the navel and the left flank, as
of twitching in the muscles of the walls of the abdomen, followed by sticking pains deep in
the left side of the back, [13]. ►
Tearing pains in the left side of the abdomen, [26]. ► Sudden colic-like pain in the right side of the abdomen
somewhat below the navel, sticking-pinching, lasting several minutes, and followed by
passage of flatus, [13]. ►
Stitches in the left flank (fourth day), [34]. ► General Abdomen. ►
*Distension of the abdomen, [28], [33]. ► Distension of the
abdomen (soon after taking), [33]. ► Great distension in the abdomen, towards evening, [33]. [800.]
► Great distension of the abdomen after eating, [33]. ► Distension of the
abdomen and feeling of discomfort after a simple meal (eleventh day), [26]. ► *Distension of the abdomen
after every meal, [1]. ► *Distension of the abdomen, relieved by passage of offensive
flatus, [23]. ► The
abdomen is very much distended, with an unusual uneasy feeling in it, as if menstruation
would come on, [1]. ►
Distension of the abdomen, impeding respiration, [33].
► *Distended abdomen, continued motions in the abdomen, and
colic, then continued constipation; feels as if something lay in the abdomen, [1]. ► Sudden dropsy of
the bowels; is unable to breathe and must sit (after eighteen hours), [1]. ► The whole abdomen very
tense (second day), [36]. ►
Very troublesome tension in the abdomen after eating, which even made respiration difficult,
[36]. [810.] ► Tension in the abdomen, which disappears after a long walk, [36]. ► Tympanitic
tension of the abdomen, painful, followed the next day by two pasty evacuations, which
relieved the distension, [20]. ►
The abdomen tense and distended, [21]. ► Tension and distension of the abdomen, especially in the
afternoon after eating (third day), [36]. ► Extreme tension and distension of the abdomen and epigastric
region, which was only relieved towards morning by passing a great deal of offensive flatus,
[36]. ► Abdomen
very much retracted, [11]. ►
Frequent twitchings and convulsive movements in the abdominal muscles on the right side, [13]. ► Gurgling in the
bowels in the afternoon at three, followed by a moderate pasty evacuation and passage of
flatus, [13]. ►
Rumbling in the abdomen, without pain, [23]. ► Rumbling in the abdomen, especially in the forenoon, [35]. [820.] ► Rumbling, with tension in the abdomen, after eating, [36]. ► Rumbling in the
abdomen and sensation as if diarrhœa would ensue, [1].
► Rumbling in the abdomen and passage of offensive
flatus, [13]. ►
Rumbling in the abdomen; griping, rather severe colic pains in the left side of the abdomen,
which cease after a few minutes, followed by passage of flatus, [13]. ► Rumbling in the intestines
followed by three liquid stools, without relief, [37].
► Rumbling and gurgling in the intestines with gripings,
followed by two liquid stools at short intervals (soon after taking), [11]. ► Frequent rumbling in the
abdomen, with desire for stool, which was softer than usual, [36].
► Loud rumbling of the bowels for fourteen days, [2]. ► Loud rumbling in
the bowels, especially in the evening, in bed, for eighteen days, [2]. ► Flatulent troubles, with
constant inclination to diarrhœa, [22]. [830.] ► Passage of much
flatus, [32]. ► All
day long discharge of flatus (third day), [42]. ► Passage of much loud odorless flatus, [35]. ► *Passage of offensive flatus,
[17], [23]. ►► *Passage of offensive flatus (second day), [32]. ► Constant, or
rather frequent, short emissions of offensive flatus (after three hours to hour hours), [42]. ► Passage of flatus
in the night, preceded by loud rumbling and grumbling, [1].
► Heaviness in the abdomen, [33]. ► Heaviness in the abdomen
below the navel, [33]. ►
The abdomen, especially the lower abdomen, seemed heavy while sitting, as if it hung down
upon the thighs, [33]. [840.]
► (Sensation as if a lump were lying in the abdomen), [1]. ► Pain in the
abdomen as if one would vomit (after fifth day), [1]. ► Pain in the abdomen as if he had taken a purge, or as of hæmorrhoids;
vomiting, [1]. ► *Pain
in the abdomen, as if diarrhœa would ensue, for one and a half hours (after five
minutes), [12]. ► All
day long feeling in abdomen as though a diarrhœa would come on; the same
sensation exists in anus (third day), [42]. ► Pain in the abdomen on urinating, [1]. ► At 6, 7, and 8 P.M., sense
of fulness, weight, and intestinal hypertrophy (third day), [42].
► Tension in the abdomen, [22].
► Pinching and pressure in the abdomen, in the region of
the navel, when walking and standing, [1]. ► *Slight pinching and moving in the intestines, followed by
watery stool, with passage of flatus; the pinchings of not disappear, but are frequently
repeated during the afternoon, with a sensation of soreness in the
intestines, together with a dragging downwards and outward, with two profuse
watery evacuations in one hour, followed by slight burning in the anus, [24]. [850.] ► Gripings in the abdomen, [37].
► Griping in the abdomen (fifth day), [34]. ► Slight griping in the
abdomen (fourth day), [34]. ►
Frequent griping in various places in the abdomen, [16].
► Griping in the abdomen, while walking, before a meal,
followed by a liquid stool, whereby the contents of the intestines poured out as from a
tube; after the meal a similar stool, followed by burning in the anus, [33]. ► Gripings and rumblings in
the abdomen, with tympanitic distension of the abdomen, [21].
► Gripings and rumblings in the bowels, with ineffectual
urgings to stool, [11]. ►
*Griping and pinching in the abdomen and in the region of the navel, as after taking cold,
for several days, and (after three days) a profuse, thin evacuation followed, [1]. ► Dull griping and cutting in
epigastric region, prior to passage of flatus; motion and standing increase the pains (after
three to four hours), [42]. ►
The griping in the abdomen returned several times (second day), but became less severe as
flatus was passed, and at last there was only rumbling in the abdomen (second day), [16]. [860.] ► A slight attack of colic after eating, followed by passage of
flatus and afterwards a pasty evacuation, [13]. ► Slight colic at time of rising, and through forenoon (second
day), [42]. ► The
nights rest was disturbed by continuous wind colic, [21].
► Colic-pain during and after dinner, [13]. ► Flatulent colic after
supper, with pressure in the cæcum, [1]. ► *Colic with the stool, like a constriction and griping with the
hand, which causes diarrhœa, [1]. ► The colic lasted two hours and disappeared with a pasty
evacuation and passage of flatus, [21]. [The patient
frequently suffered from a similar wind colic of a less severe character, [21]] ► Spasmodic pain in the
abdomen after dinner, [1]. ►
Intermittent cuttings in the abdomen in the forenoon, as if dysentery would ensue, without
stool, [1]. ► *Sudden
painful cuttings in the intestines, with a feeling as though one were digging him with the
fingers, compelling him to bend double; relieved by profuse pasty evacuations, [25]. [870.] ► Very violent cuttings in the abdomen, with gurglings and
rumblings, followed by a watery stool, [24]. ► Severe cutting stitches in the abdomen from below upward into
the stomach (after drinking a cup of warm milk in the afternoon); the pain obliges him to
bend double and is relieved after a stool, [1]. ► Pain in both sides of the abdomen, like a pleuritic, [1]. ► Tearing and
drawing in the abdomen, especially on motion, followed by stitches, especially with stool,
mostly in the evening, [1]. ►
*Sensitiveness in the abdomen, [24]. ► *Abdomen very sensitive, as if sore (first day), [17]. ► Sensitiveness of
the abdomen; rumbling and passage of flatus, [25]. ► Constant movings in the abdomen, as if a stool would follow,
which, however, did not, [21]. ► Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. ►
Slight, crampy, cutting pain, with heat in right hypogastric region, increased by every
inspiration (after half an hour to two hours), [42]. ► Violent colic-like pain, starting from the small of the back
and extending over the whole lower abdominal region (after four hours), [21]. [880.] ► Pressure and pinching in the lower abdomen, [4]. ► Violent cutting deep in the
lower abdomen, [32]. ►
A sudden violent stitching in the lower abdomen from left to right, soon followed by two
very painful stitches across through the chest from the left to the right side, while at
dinner, [18]. ►
Drawing in both groins, which gradually changed to a burning on the right side; afterwards
this sensation extends over the inner surface of the right thigh (second day), [26]. ► Pressive pain in
the region of the left inguinal ring every morning for half an hour for several days, [39]. ► Pressive pain
towards the inguinal ring on sitting down, [40]. ► Dull stitches in the right inguinal region (fourth day), [28]. ► Soreness in the
groin, in the overhanging folds of the abdomen, [1].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
► *Slight
burning with the evacuation of the stool and urine, [27]. ► Long-continued burning in
the rectum after a hard stool, [1]. [890.] ► Dragging in the
rectum, like urging to stool, without real need for it, with slight pain in the anus, [33]. ► Severe stitches
in the rectum as often as flatus passed; it seemed to press against the rectum (twentieth
day), [34]. ►
Itching, jerking-like coarse stitches from the anus into the rectum, [1]. ► Four stitches, with slight
tenesmus and scanty fæces, [27]. ► A pulse-like jerk in the rectum (second day), [16]. ► A hæmorrhoid protruded,
when had formed the previous night, and lasted several days (third day), [15]. ► Burning in the
hæmorrhoidal vessels in the evening, [33]. ► Severe aching in the hæmorrhoidal vessels, which renders
sitting difficult, [33]. ►
Severe dragging and pressure in the hæmorrhoidal vessels, with severe transient stitches
through the pelvis into the urethra, [33]. ► Pressure in the hæmorrhoidal vessels, [33]. [900.] ► Severe pressure and burning in the hæmorrhoids, [33]. ► Retraction of the
anus, [33]. ►
Slight discharge of mucus from the anus, [33]. ► A feeling as from a plug in the anus, [33]. ► At 6 A.M., sensation of
plug in anus (second day), [42]. ►
Burning pain in the anus before a meal, [33]. ► Burning in the anus for some time after a natural stool, [33]. ► Pressing towards
the anus, [26]. ►
Severe itching and burning in the anus (twentieth day), [34].
► Drawing-sticking stitches in the perineum, in the
evening, for half an hour; they extend to the urinary bladder, and especially to the bulbus
urethræ, whereby urination was momentarily prevented (eighteenth day), [26]. [910.] ► Urging to stool without result, [37]. ► Ineffectual desire for
stool in the afternoon (second day), [27]. ► Urging to stool, followed by a soft evacuation, [26]. ► Urging to stool,
and a soft stool, although he had a natural one in the morning (after two hours), [15]. ► *Urging to stool,
followed by copious pasty evacuations, with relief of all the symptoms, except that the
confusion of the head remained, [32]. ► Violent urging to stool followed a scanty passage of firm
consistence, [11]. ►
Urging to stool without result, twice in the evening; only the day after a stool followed,
after great exertion, [26]. ►
Urgent desire for stool, but in spite of much urging only wind passed, together with
rumbling in the intestines, [32]. ► Much straining in order to finish defecation (sixth and
seventh day), [42]. ►
With passing of flatus, sensation as though a diarrhœic stool would come on. Instant and
striking is the sensation, as though he must go to. It seems to be a sense of pressure,
heat, weight, and powerlessness of the sphincter ani and rectum (after three to four hours),
[42]. [920.] ► He felt well excepting the inclination to diarrhœa, which
especially came on from the slightest drafts of air (third day), [9]. ► On the slightest tightening
of the clothes, a sensation as if must go to stool, without any pain in the abdomen; stool
somewhat soft (third and fourth days), [10]. ► After a crumbly stool, a sensation, with severe urging, as if
the fæces could not be voluntarily retained, [33]. ► Urgent desire for stool, at 6 A.M.; the stool was acrid,
fluid, with compact portions; during the course of the day three or four similar stools
(second day), [9].
STOOL.
► Diarrhœa. ► Diarrhœa (after three days), [1].
► Diarrhœa (for four days in succession every three
hours), so sudden that he was not able to retain it; during the following twelve days the
usual stool passed just as suddenly, [2]. ► Diarrhœa, without the slightest griping, [22]. ► Diarrhœa, mostly in the
morning, [2]. ►
Diarrhœa, at 4 P.M., [13]. ►
(Diarrhœa at night), [1]. [930.]
► *Diarrhœa, especially at night, and burning in the anus
with every passage (after seventh day), [2].
► Painless diarrhœa, after eating, [13]. ► Painless diarrhœa of thin
slimy fluid, at 1 P.M., after eating, [13]. ► Easy, painless diarrhœa of the greenish-brown liquid,
preceded by a pinching pain, extending from the right hypochondrium toward the stomach,
lasting several seconds, after eating, [13]. ► *Diarrhœa smelling foul, like old cheese, [2]. ► *Diarrhœa, preceded by colic
(forty-four to seventy-two hours), [2]. ► Diarrhœa of a green, slimy fluid, followed by loud passage
of flatus, [13]. ►
Diarrhœa twice a day; makes her so weak that she must keep her bed (after three days), [2]. ► It purges without
other symptoms (twenty-four and thirty-eight hours), [5].
► Frequent stool (after forty-eight hours), [1]. [940.] ► Frequent brown stool in an infant, [1]. ► Stool softer than usual,
four times in the day, followed by constipation, for several days, [40]. ► Three thin fluid stools,
in the afternoon, [27]. ►
Three diarrhœa-like stools without pain, but with passage of very offensive flatus (after
seven hours), (from 200 drops), [18]. ► Liquid stool, three or four times a day, followed by a
burning in the anus, [22]. ►
Diarrhœa-like stool, two or three times a day, for several days, [22]. ► Two liquid stools (after
one hour), [15]. ►
Two stools a day; after some days constipation, [1].
[More frequent primary action of Bryonia is retention of stool; its secondary action,
looseness of the bowels, is more rare; when the other symptoms correspond, it permanently
cures constipation, which but few remedies besides Nux vomica and Opium can do -H.] ► Two soft stools in the afternoon, [15]. ► Two mucous stools in the
evening and at night (three to twenty-seven hours), [1].
[These symptoms were the more noticeable, since, for some two months, the stools had been
irregular, and seldom, so that he scarcely had an evacuation for two days.) [950.] ►► *Two pasty,
offensive evacuations in the afternoon, followed by burning in the anus, [23]. ► Two thin fluid
evacuations in the forenoon, [27]. ► Rumbling in bowels, sharp colic and at short intervals two
liquid stools (soon after 50 gtt. 0) 11th d. Colic,
rumbling in intestines and, within an hour, ten to twelve liquid stools (16th d.) Evening
two liqui stools (21st d.) (four and five days), [11].
► Bilious liquid stools, [22].
► Two copious watery stools, about 6 P.M., with tenesmus,
and slight burning in the anus, [24]. ► A dark, not liquid evacuation, at noon, [33]. ► Stool 6 A.M., very watery,
followed by a similar one in half an hour (two days), [10].
► A very thin stool in the morning (night day), [12]. ► Evacuation in the
afternoon, with slight burning in the anus, [27]. ► Involuntary stool, at night, during sleep, [2]. [960.] ►
The irregularity in the stools lasted a long time, [11].
► Diarrhœa-like stool (after twenty-eight hours), [3]. ► Diarrhœa-like
stool after dinner, followed in an hour by a second, with little fæces but much mucus, followed by a burning in the anus, [27].
► *Diarrhœa-like stool followed by prickling and burning in
the anus, [22]. ►
*Diarrhœa-like, bilious, acrid stools, with soreness in the anus, continuing eight days,
[22]. ►
Diarrhœa-like passage of a thin greenish mass (at 2 1/2 P.M.), [13]. ► Soft stool in the morning
(second day), [15], [36].
► A soft, but not otherwise diarrhœa-like stool, at 1
P.M. (second day), [10]. ►
Soft stool, with sharp burning pain in the anus, [1]. ► Pasty evacuations, [25].
[970.] ►► *Very
offensive, pasty evacuation (soon after 25 drops), [33].
[From the body getting cool, while eating or soon after eating, or from taking cold water
after eating soup, or after eating stewed fruit; or from sudden change of temperature while
driving, from cold to warm or vice versâ; sudden severe
griping in abdomen, followed by copious pasty
evacuations of a dark greenish-black color, and a very offensive cheesy odor, followed by
great prostration; the natural course of the attack extending over twenty-four hours, with
five or six stools, and ending in a dysenteric diarrhœa; arrested in fifteen minutes by
Bryonia (the potency apparently a matter of indifference, the 6th, 30th, 200th, and 50th m.,
having been equally efficacious). An observation many times repeated on three patients,
whose habit was constipated -C. D.] ► A brownish, pasty
evacuation, in the morning, [13]. ► Soft, pasty stool soon after eating, [15]. ► Copious pasty stools at 2
P.M., [15]. ► *Stool
pasty, with much flatus, followed by hard portions, and again by soft, so that he believed
that he would scarcely finish the evacuation (second day), [36]. ► *A pasty evacuation, with
burning in the anus, soon after waking; a second fluid stool after half an hour, [33]. ► *In the morning, a
pasty, afterwards a liquid stool, of a strong odor, followed by burning and soreness in the
anus (soon after 15 drops), [33]. ► Very offensive, profuse stool, and cutting in the
forepart of the bowels, [1]. ►
After every meal, very liquid stools, [22]. ► Liquid stool after a meal, followed by transient pain in the
sacrum, [33]. [980.]
► Watery offensive stool (fourth day), [38]. ► Thin bloody stool (after
twenty-four hours), [2]. ►
Constipation. ►► *Obstinate constipation,
[11]. ►
Constipation; if an evacuation takes place, it is with the greatest exertion (third day), [36]. ► Constipation,
with painful swelling of the hæmorrhoidal vessels, [21].
► Stool retained (first day), [36]. ► No stool (first and second
days), [18]. ► No
stool, not the slightest desire for one (third morning), [32].
► No stool, the whole day, when was never before the case
(second day), [15]. ►
Stool scanty, delayed (from second to thirtieth day), [24].
[990.] ►► *Dry,
parched stool, with effort, in the morning
(second day), [42]. ►
Stool sluggish, with a twitching and sticking in the anus (second day), [28]. ► The evacuations are very
sluggish; although the fæces are never hard, yet the expulsion of them is only effected
with great exertion, [26]. ►
Stool copious, pasty, but passed only after a long exertion (second day), [36]. ► A very difficult stool, [29]. ► Stool very
difficult (second day), [36]. ►
Fæces thick, firm, difficult to pass, [1]. ► The stool, which at first was regular, became, during the
latter part of the proving, difficult, and was expelled with great exertion, less from the
firmness of the fæces than from the inactivity of the intestines, [26]. ► *Stool very unsatisfactory,
only after much straining, which caused a rush of blood to the head, and a feeling of
confusion in the head (four morning), [32].
► The stool, during the first days of the proving, was
very unsatisfactory, or omitted altogether, while during the latter days, there were daily
frequent and very copious evacuations, almost like diarrhœa, [32].
[1000.] ►
Stool hard (second day), [16]. ►
A hard stool (evening of second day), [36]. ► Very hard stool, [1]. ► Very hard stool, with pressing out of the rectum, which
however, returns of itself; this is followed by a diarrhœa-like stool, with fermenting in
the abdomen, [2]. ►
The evacuations became suddenly harder, and passed with more exertion; at first, hard
portions, followed by softer (third and fourth days), [36].
► *Hard stool, with great exertion, with confusion of the
head (third and fourth days), [36]. ► A hard stool at 3 P.M., with inclination to eructations, [13]. ► Hard, difficult
stool, only for two days, [18]. ►
Hard, unsatisfactory stool (second day), [32]. ► A hard, unsatisfactory stool (second morning), [32]. [1010.] ► Two hard, unsatisfactory stools, preceded by colicky cuttings
in the abdomen (sixth day), [11]. ► Hard stool, followed by drawing and heaviness in the sacrum, [33]. ► The usual
evacuation is hard, and the tense abdomen is not relieved after it (second day), [36]. ► Hard, difficult
stool, [36]. ►
Scanty, hard stool in the evening, [21]. ► A hard stool, with drawing and pressure in the small of the
back (one hour after taking), [27]. ► *Stools very dry, large, and hard (sixth and seventh
days), [42]. ► *Morning
stool large, hard, and dry (fourth day), [42].
► Stools dry, large, hard, and very dark (third day), [42].® 2000
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