BRYONIA.
URINARY ORGANS.
► Bladder.
► Repeated transient pain as of suppuration in the region
of the right kidney, in the morning in bed, [13]. [1020.] ► After urinating a
feeling in the bladder as if he had not finished, and a few drops still pass involuntarily, [1]. ► A sensation as
though the bladder were not entirely empty, and even after urinating, there remained a
feeling of heaviness in the region of the bladder, with various cramplike motions in it
(second day), [9]. ►
After he has urinated, contraction in the bladder and a feeling as if there was a little
more urine to pass, [1]. ►
Urethra. ► Bright-red spots around the orifice
of the urethra, and in many places on the glans and on the inner place of the prepuce; they
were very sensitive and burned severely; the secreting gland of the prepuce became swollen,
and secreted a profuse, yellowish smegma; this balanitis increased from the third to the
sixth day, then gradually disappeared, with fine itching and biting on the prepuce and
glans, [18]. ►
Burning in the urethra, [1]. ►
Burning and cutting before the urine passes (third day), [2].
► A pain in the forepart of the urethra when not
urinating, consisting of an itching-burning and sticking, [1].
► Sensation on urinating as if the urethra were too
narrow, [1]. ► (A
pressive pain in the urethra), [1]. ► Fine sticking pain in the urethra, [13]. [1030.] ► A severe stitch in the anterior portion of the urethra in the
evening, [17]. ► A
drawing-tearing in the forepart of the urethra when not urinating, [1]. ► Desire to urinate, and
frequent urinating, when walking in the open air (after five hours), [1]. ► He is not able to retain
the urine long, and when he is urged to urinate, and does not immediately attend to it,
there is a feeling as if the urine passed involuntarily, though this does not happen, [1]. ► Micturition.
► Frequent urination, [36].
► Frequent and profuse urination (second day), [32]. ► Urination more
frequent than usual, [24]. ►
The secretion of urine is decidedly increased; the desire to urinate comes very suddenly, [27]. ► Frequent
urinating, with burning in the urethra and a sensation as if all the urine had not been
evacuated, [27]. ►
Frequent urinating at night; the urine was scanty an hot, [15].
[1040.] ► Obliged to
rise several times at night to urinate, [1]. ► Great urgency to urinate; he is obliged to rise at night, [1]. ► He is compelled
with such haste to urinate, even when the bladder is not full, that he is scarcely able to
hold it for a moment (twelfth hour), [1]. ► A few drops of urine pass involuntarily when moving about, [1]. ► Urine scanty,
seldom, [25]. ► The
urine passes hot, [2]. ►
Urine burning, [13]. ►
“Every times on urinating it seemed like a partial crisis,”. [24]. ► Urine. ► Urine profuse, [39]. ► Urine profuse, sometimes clear, sometimes high-colored, [39]. [1050.] ► An unusual quantity of urine, clear yellow, nearly every half
hour, [34]. ► Urine
copious, pale-colored, especially at night, [40]. ► Urine unusually scanty, [33].
► Urine scanty and hot, [15].
► Urine rather scanty and red (second day), [42]. ► *Urine scanty and
darker than usual, [18]. ► Urine hot, [24]. ►► *Red urine, [1].
►► *Urine dark, almost brown, [13]. ► *Urine brown, like beer,
[18]. [1060.] ► Urine brown, without sediment, [13].
► The urine showed a thick brown cloud, [13]. ► *The urine passed through
the night deposited a white sediment; its color was reddish-yellow (third day), [27].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Male.
► A sticking, burning-itching on the border of the
prepuce, [1]. ►
Stitches in the right spermatic cord (fifth day), [34].
► Painful tension extending from the right testicle along
the spermatic cord into the groin, [13]. ► Some stitches in the testicles (immediately) when sitting, [1]. ► Sexual desire
rather increased, [13]. ►
Increased sexual desire; after coition there followed in the night an emission and in the
morning almost painful erections (second day), [34]. ► Emission and strong erections in the night, [34]. ► Female. [1070.] ► Very severe pain in
the region of the right ovary, as though there were a sore spot which caused an irritation
and a dragging; this pain extended down to the thighs, while at rest, [21]. ► Pain in the right ovary
aggravated by touch, [21]. ►
Swelling of the left labia majora, on which a black, hard pustule rises, like a little
button, without pain or inflammation, [1]. ► (Increase of leucorrhœa), [2].
► The menses appear eight days too early, [2]. ► The menses appear fourteen
days too early, [2]. ►
The menses appear three weeks too early, [2]. ► The menses follow within a few hours, sometimes eight days
too early, [1]. [This is the primary action; Bryonia
may therefore effectual for metrorrhagia. -H.]
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx,
Trachea, and Bronchi. ► Slight hawking of
mucus from the larynx, [33]. ►
Sensation as of apple-seeds lodged in upper larynx, or rima glottidis (after half an hour to
two hours), [42]. [1080.]
► At 7 P.M., while sitting, sudden scraping in larynx
with dry cough several times, without apparent cause (first day), [41]. ► Tickling in the larynx,
with dry hacking cough, [33]. ►
Tickling in the larynx, with a violent shaking cough, lasting several minutes (ninth day), [26]. ► *Tough mucus in the
trachea, which is loosened only after frequent hacking, [4]. ► Irritation to cough, as though
some mucus were in the trachea; after he has coughed some time a pain is felt there mingled
with pressure and soreness; the pain is worse while talking or smoking (after
four hours), [4]. ►
When he goes into a warm room from the open air a sensation as if vapor were in the trachea,
which causes him to cough; he feels as though he cannot inspire enough air (after
two hours), [4]. ►
A scraping sensation at the lower portion of the trachea, provoking a dry cough, in the
morning, [13]. ►
Scraping irritation in the trachea causing dry cough, [13].
► A scraping sensation at the bifurcation of the bronchi,
which caused a dry cough, [13]. ► Voice. ► Voice
somewhat higher than usual, [33]. [1090.] ► *Voice rough and hoarse
(after four hours), [4]. ►
*Hoarseness (second day), [28]. ► Hoarseness lasting twenty-one days, [2]. ► A kind of hoarseness
together with an inclination to sweat, [1]. ► Some hoarseness, and only one tone of the voice, on walking
in the open air, [1]. ►
The hoarseness which he commonly had disappeared in the course of the day, and showed itself
in the evening only after long reading aloud (second day), [10].
► At times, loss of voice, [39].
COUGH AND EXPECTORATION.
►
Scraping, painful, hacking cough in the throat, as from rawness and dryness in the larynx,
in the evening after lying down in bed, [1]. ► (Cough, especially after eating), [1]. ► (Nausea excites cough), [1]. [1100.]
► *Dry cough, [1].
► Several attacks of dry cough, [16]. ► *A hacking dry cough from the
upper part of the trachea, [1]. ► Dry cough, in the morning, with coryza, [40]. ► Continued dry cough,
especially in the morning, together with collection in the mouth like water-brash, [1]. ► *A dry hacking
cough; single, spasmodic, forcible shocks towards the upper part of the trachea, which seems
to be covered with dry tough mucus; even tobacco-smoking causes it, [1]. ► *Dry cough, with sticking pain
under the sternum, [39]. ►► *Dry cough, as if coming from the stomach; together with a crawling and tickling in the pit of the stomach, [1]. ► He awoke after a
restless night with a violent dry cough and feeling of soreness in the chest; this cough
returned several times during the day, but disappeared at night; it caused a thin greenish
mucous expectoration (eleventh day, gradually decreasing till thirtieth day), [16]. ► Cough with expectoration
(immediately), [2]. [1110.]
► *Cough, from a constant crawling upward in the throat,
followed by expectoration of mucus, [1]. ► Sudden cough, as if caused by irritation in the abdomen, with
expectoration of yellowish-green mucus (eleventh day), [26].
► In the morning, in bed, a severe cough, which lasts a
quarter of an hour, and causes a profuse mucous expectoration, [1]. ► Cough, with expectoration
of gelatinous mucus, in the morning, [33]. ► Slight, hacking cough, with sensation of soreness and
swelling in the pharynx and air-passages in the morning; expectoration of mucus difficult to
loosen, [39]. ►
Cough, with expectoration, in the forenoon, for four days in succession (after thirty-four
hours), [2]. ►
Frequent expectoration of thick mucus, [33]. ► Frequent easy expectoration of thick mucus in the morning, [33]. ► Expectoration of
thick mucus, almost without cough, which almost causes vomiting, [33]. ► He expectorates clots of
blood (after three hours), [1]. ► Respiration. [1120.] ► Respiration more rapid while walking, with a sensation as if
the upper part of the chest were too narrow, [15]. ► Frequent sighing, [23].
► Deep sighs in quick succession, [29]. ► Frequent catching for
breath immediately before a paroxysm of coughing, a quick spasmodic gasp, as if the child
could not catch the breath, and on this account could not cough; a kind of suffocative
attack, which is followed by cough; especially after midnight, [1]. ► Constant disposition to
sigh, and sigh deeply (first day), [42]. ► Impeded respiration, [1].
► Asthmatic breathing (after one hour), [1]. ► The breathing is short; he
is obliged to expire quickly, [1]. ► Anxiety in the morning which seemed to rise from the abdomen,
as if a purge had been taken, and as if the breathing were too short, [1]. ► Sudden, anxious, almost
impossible breathing, on account of stitches in the chest, at first below the
shoulder-blades, then below the pectoral muscles, which hinder breathing, and cause her to
sit upright, and followed by stitches in the vertex, [1].
[1130.] ► Oppressed
respiration, [33]. ►
Oppressed breathing, with heaviness in the chest in the forenoon, [36]. ► Slight oppression of
breathing in the middle of the upper half of the sternum, with sticking pain in the anterior
wall of the chest, caused by every movement of the trunk, lasting several minutes, [13]. ► Oppression of
breathing for a long time in the forenoon, so that the whole chest could not be expanded,
with accelerated breathing, [33]. ► Breathing difficult; it is relieved by walking, [1]. ► An attack as if
nausea rose up and took away the breath, and stitching, [1].
► Dyspnœa, so that he could not utter a word, [11].
CHEST.
► A sensation as if
everything were loose in the chest and fell downward into the abdomen, [3]. ► Heaviness in the chest, and
heaviness in the body, which disappears on eating, [1].
► Painfulness of the chest, [29]. [1140.] ► Pain over the whole chest, with oppression, which passes off
with passage of flatus, in the evening at 9 P.M., [1].
► Internal heat in the chest, [3]. ► Transient heat internally
in the chest, [23]. ►
Sensation of heat throughout chest, particularly on left side, at every inspiration (first
day), [42]. ► Sense
of fulness and stuffing throughout the chest (first day), [42].
► Tension in the chest, when walking, [1]. ► Constriction in the upper
part of the chest, [33]. ►
Constriction of the chest; heaviness in the sternum, [33].
► Constriction in the lower portion of the chest, [33]. ► Constriction of the
chest; she felt the need of breathing deeply (as if the chest were stooped and she could get
no air), and if she attempted to the breathe deeply there was pain in the chest, as if
something were being distended which could not be completely distended, [1]. [1150.] ► Constriction of the chest, as also a sore pain in the inner
surface of the sternum, became more violent, and at last compelled him to get out of the
wagon and rest, after riding over a rough road; the pectoral muscles also felt bruised, and
every movement of the arms was painful, [15]. ► On going to sleep, a sensation as if the chest were too
narrow; the thorax was somewhat sensitive, [31]. ► Pain in the chest just above the pit of the stomach,
pinching, worse when sitting upon a chair and bending forward, or in bed lying upon the
side, [1]. ► Slight
drawing pain externally in the chest, [33]. ► Pressure over the whole chest (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Pressure on the
chest, as if it was pressed by mucus, and on inspiration some stitches in the sternum, which
seemed to be relieved by eating, [1]. ► Oppression of the chest, [1].
► Great oppression of the chest, [39]. ► Frequent slight oppression
of the chest (fourth day), [38]. ►
Oppression in the chest, in the forenoon, while sitting and talking, [33]. [1160.] ► Oppression of the chest in the morning; he feels as if there
were a coating of mucus in the chest, which could not be easily loosened, [1]. ► Frequent oppression of the
chest, while walking, in the forenoon, [33]. ► Pressive pain in various parts of the chest (after one hour),
[33]. ► Pressive
pain in the lower portion of the chest, extending backward, [33].
► At noon, on walking, pressing pain about the whole
thorax, repeated several times in a few minutes (third day), [41].
► A sticking-pressing in the chest from within outward, [1]. ► Transient stitches
through the chest, [18]. ►
Stitches in the chest, in the evening at 6, with oppression, [1].
► An attack of stitches in the side and portion of the
chest, which lasts twelve hours, [1]. ► *On inspiring, a stitch in the upper part of the chest through the
shoulders, [1]. [1170.]
► Severe stitches shoot through the chest several times, [18]. ► The tearing
pains, which in the beginning of the proving were only in the head and extremities, have
disappeared, and are now seated in the chest and abdomen, [26].
► *Chest very sensitive, with stitches in the left side of it
on inspiration, the whole forenoon (twentieth day), [16]. ► The pectoral muscles do
not seem free, especially on deep inspiration, [33]. ► The pectoral muscles pain when writing, with a sensation as
if the thorax were too tight, [15]. ► Slight drawing in the pectoral muscles (second day), [33]. ► Drawing and
tension in the pectoral muscles, [33]. ► The pectoral muscles and diaphragm are so sensitive that
inspiration is difficult, [33]. ►
The pectoral muscles are sensitive on moving the hands and on pressure, [15]. ► The pectoral muscles are
painful to touch, as if bruised (after six hours), [15].
[1180.] ► On
inspiring, pain in the angles of the ribs towards the back, with tensive pain, which is
increased to a dull stitch on slightly deeper inspiration, especially below the shoulders,
and mostly when stooping, [1]. ►
(A tension across the short ribs), [1]. ► Stitches in the last ribs, on coughing, [1]. ► Front. ► Great swelling of the anterior outer part of the chest, [3]. ► *Sensation of
heaviness beneath the sternum, which extends toward the right shoulder, impeding
respiration; deep inspiration was only accomplished with exertion; together with oppression
in the right side of the chest, with very fine, extremely severe stitches in the right
axillary glands, [25]. ► Burning pain, extending backward from the inner surface of
the sternum, [15]. ►
A griping in the chest near the sternum, [1]. ► Pressure on the upper part of the sternum, as with the hand;
she believes it cannot disappear without pain, even in the open air, [1]. ► Pressive pain in the centre
of the breast-bone, also when inspiring, with ice-cold feet, [1].
► Pinching pressure behind the sternum, more violent when
breathing out or in (after five days), [4]. [1190.] ► Sticking and
pressure beneath the breast-bone, increased by motion and deep inspiration (fourth day), [28]. ► On the slightest
inspiration, a stitch, as in an ulcer, which lasts as long as the inspiration, in a small
spot below the sternum, which pains like an ulcer, even on touch, but still more on raising
the right arm, in the morning (after twenty-four hours), [1].
►► *Stitches in the sternum on coughing; he was obliged
to hold the chest with the hand; even pressing upon it
caused a sticking, [1]. ► Sore pain down the whole length of the sternum, [15]. ► Sore pain beneath
the sternum, [15]. ►
Sore sensation on the inner surface of the sternum the whole day, [15]. ► Soreness of the upper part
of the inner surface of the sternum, especially on the breathing, [15]. ► Soreness in all the
muscles of the anterior surface of the chest; they are also sensitive to touch, [39]. ► Pain in the
ensiform cartilage on touch, as if injected with blood, in the evening, [1]. ► Burning pain along the
anterior insertion of the diaphragm (after half an hour), [33].
► Sides. [1200.]
► A painful sensation in a spot as large as a half
dollar, on the right side of the chest below the axilla, increased by touch, [13]. ► Burning pain in the right
side of the chest (after eight hours), [1]. ► A short burning pain in the ribs of the right side, in a
place of the size of a two-cent piece, at 9 A.M., [13].
► A tensive sensation on both sides of the chest
externally, which is especially noticed on deep inspiration (after five hours), [15]. ► Drawing pain in
the right pectoral muscles, [33]. ► A dull pain in the left side of the thorax and the region of
the lower angle of the shoulder-blade; it extends from behind
forward; It lasts several seconds, and causes a necessity for deep breathing
(thirteenth day), [26]. ►
Pressure in the right wall of the thorax, uninfluenced by respiration (first day), [41]. ► Severe pressure
on the right border of the sternum, especially in the open air (sixth and seventh days), [34]. ► Slight pressure
in the region of the false ribs, and fine stitches in the region of the navel, impeding
respiration, [25]. ►
Pressive sensation at the bend the lower ribs of the right side, over a surface as large as
a palm, [33]. [1210.]
► Pain in the chest, so that he had to go to bed; the
pains were violent, pressive, tearing, seated between the sixth and seventh ribs on the
right side near the sternum, were not aggravated by deep breathing; they continued the next
day, and it seemed as if they approached pleuritic stitches; at the same time a pressive
throbbing pain appeared in the right clavicle, [24]. ► 11 P.M., while sitting, pressing pain in the left intercostal
muscles (first day), [41]. ►
Oppression of the right side of the chest prevented deep inspiration, [25]. ► *Pain of a sharp kind in left
infra-mammary region; worse during inspiration (after two to three hours), [42]. ► Sticking pains
under the lowest ribs of the left side; these lasted an hour, but gave place to sticking
pains in the right loin, but as these disappeared the others also returned, and lasted till
9 P.M., gradually becoming weaker, [18]. ► Slight sticking pain to the right side of the sternum; the
stitches extend deeper downward toward the navel; also, in the same place, constriction; on
sneezing the pain becomes so severe that he is obliged to bend double, [33]. ► *Sharp sticking pain below the
right nipple, extending outward in the thorax, only on expiration, [4]. ► Sticking and throbbing in
the lower portion of the right side of the chest, like a pulse, [1]. ► Transient stitches in both
sides of the chest, [16]. ►
Several stitches in the ribs of the right side, [27]. [1220.] ► Frequent stitches in
the left side of the chest (second day), [38]. ► A momentary stitch in the left clavicle, which is followed by
simple pain (behind this there is a simple aching), [1].
► *Short but violent stitches in the right side of the chest,
so that he was obliged to hold the breath, and could not cry out (sixteenth day),
[16]. ► On turning
in bed, a stitch in the side of the chest on which he does not lie, [1]. ► Stitches in the sides in
the ribs, jerklike, on deep breathing, which disappear in the open air, [1]. ► *Stitches in the right side of
the chest between the third and fourth ribs, while sitting, [33]. ► Dull stitches in the
region of the fifth and sixth ribs on the right side of the sternum, [25]. ► Sensitive stitching in the
left side in the middle of the thorax, lasting several minutes, [18]. ► Fine, wandering, very
sensitive stitches in the right side of the chest, in the pit of the stomach, and in the
region of the navel, as if these places were touched here and there with a fine-pointed
instrument with several points at the same time; some of these stitches pierced with
lightning-like rapidity the right half of the chest, and seemed more like fine cuttings
(second day), [17]. ►
A fine, transient, rather severe stitch in the left side of the chest below the nipple, and
fine needle stitches in the pit of the stomach, the latter only noticed on very deep
inspiration, or on inclining the trunk towards the right side, [13]. [1230.] ► Transient severe stitches at the insertion of the deltoid
muscle, and in the left side of the chest, mostly superficial in the left intercostal
muscles, [24]. ►
Drawing stitches on the right side between the tenth and eleventh ribs (in the evening,
fourth day), [34]. ►
*Tearing stitches in the left side of the chest, which extend from behind forward, are
relieved during rest, are aggravated during motion and on deep inspiration, [26]. ► Slight pleuritic
pain in right breast, about two inches to the right of and in an intercostal space, two ribs
above the nipple of that side; worse during inspiration; better during expiration (after two
to three hours), [42]. ►
A sore pain on the left side of the chest between the seventh and ninth ribs, in a spot of
the size of a palm, rather externally, increased by touch, [33].
► Respiration normal, but the ribs painful, as if torn
from their union, [24]. ►
*A painful spot on the second rib of the right side, extending to the sternum, as after a
blow or bruise, [33]. ►
Throbbing pain between the tenth and eleventh ribs in the right side, in a spot of the size
of a penny, immediately disappearing on pressure (after one hour), [34]. ► Several slight
electric-like shocks in a hardened nipple, for two and a half hours, after which all trace
of hardness disappeared (after five hours), [7].
HEART AND PULSE.
► Aching
in the præcordial region, [33]. [1240.] ► *Pressive pain in the
præcordial region, [33]. ► Stitches in the præcordial region, lasting only a few
seconds, [13]. ►
Cramp in the region of the heart (fourth day), [34]. ► Slight cramp in the region of the heart, with accelerated
pulse, [34]. ► At 6
A.M., decided oppression in the region of the heart, without change in its beat (6th d.), [11]. ► *The heart beats
violently and rapidly (19th d.), [11]. ► Palpitation several days in succession (after twelve hours), [2]. ► *Pulse full, hard, and
rapid, [13]. ►
Pulse full, large, and quick, but not very frequent, at 9 A.M., two hours after breakfast
(second day), [42]. ►
Pulse increased scarcely ten beats in a minute, [24]. [1250.] ► Pulse 80 (after one
hour), [43]. ►
Afternoon, pulse 80 (sixth day), [43]. ► Pulse at three different times, since 4 P.M., has been 84
(third day), [43]. ►
Pulse 85 (after half an hour), [43]. ► Pulse decreased from 94 to 87 (after thirty-five minutes);
rose from 87 to 92 (after forty-eight minutes); sunk to 87 (after one hour); to 82 (after
one and two-third hours); to 74, considerably weaker and more compressible (after three and
five-sixths hours); 75, fuller and stronger (after five and five-sixth hours), [43].® 2000
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