Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

Physical and mental restlessness, fright

Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, with fever

Does not want to be touched

Sudden and great sinking of strength

Complaints and tension caused by exposure to dry, cold weather, draught of cold air, checked perspiration, also complaints from very hot weather

First remedy in inflammations, inflammatory fevers

Serous membranes and muscular tissues affected markedly

Burning in internal parts; tingling, coldness and numbness

Tension of arteries; emotional and physical mental tension explain many symptoms

Its action is brief and shows no periodicity; its sphere is in the beginning of an acute disease and not to be continued after pathological change comes

Eyes red, inflamed; feel dry and hot, as if sand in them

Lids swollen, hard and red

Aversion to light

Vomiting, with fear, heat, profuse sweat and increased urination

Thirst for cold water

Bitter taste of everything except water

Intense thirst

Drinks, vomits, and declares he will die

Menses too profuse, with nosebleed, too protracted, late

Nightmare

Nightly ravings

Anxious dreams; long dreams, with anxiety in chest

Sleeplessness, with restless and tossing about

Starts up in sleep

In evening and night

Lying on affected side

From music

From tobacco-smoke

Dry, cold winds

Always is associated with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperæsthesia of all senses, delirium, restless sleep, convulsive movements, dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water, neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly

Heat, redness, throbbing and burning

No thirst, anxiety or fear

Violence of attack and suddenness of onset

Throbbing deep in eyes on lying down

Pupils dilated

Eyes feel swollen and protruding, staring, brilliant; conjunctiva red; dry, burn; photophobia; shooting in eyes

Ocular illusions; fiery appearance

Sensation as if eyes were half closed

Loss of appetite

Averse to meat and milk

Great thirst for cold water

Desire diminished

Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse; very offensive and hot

Sleep restless, crying out, gritting of teeth

Screams out in sleep

Sleeplessness, with drowsiness

Starting when closing the eyes or during sleep

Sleeps with hands under head

Jar

Noise

Draught

After noon

Lying down

Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and trembling

Slow pulse, tired feeling, mental apathy

Paralysis of various groups of muscles about the eyes, throat, chest, larynx, sphincter, extremities, etc

Muscular weakness

Complete relaxation and prostration

Lack of muscular co-ordination

General depression from heat of sun.

Sluggish circulation

Vision blurred, smoky

Dim-sighted; pupils dilated and insensible to light

Orbital neuralgia, with contraction and twitching of muscles

Bruised pain back of the orbits

One pupil dilated, the other contracted

No thirst

Cannot get fully to sleep

Fog

Before a thunderstorm

Emotion, or excitement

Bad news

Tobacco-smoking

When thinking of his ailments

At 10 am

By profuse urination

Open air

Continued motion

Stimulants

Violent supra and infra-orbital neuralgia; violent pains and lachrymation

Green colors surround candle-light

Increase in intra-ocular tension, dim sight, photophobia

Great susceptibility to external impressions, to light, sound, odors, touch, electrical changes, thunder-storms

Suddenness of symptoms, sudden prostration, faints, sweats, shooting pains

Sensation as if everything were covered with a mist or veil, or dust, or something pulled tightly over eyes

Black points seem to float before the eyes

Patient sees better by shading eyes with hand

Fatigue of eyes and head even without much use of eyes

Green halo about the candlelight

Letters appear red.

Pain in orbital bones. Paresis of extrinsic muscles

Thirst for very cold water

Hunger soon after eating

Sour taste and sour eructations after every meal

Belching large quantities of wind, after eating

Very fetid stools and flatus; long, narrow, hard, like a dog's

Lack of power in males; irresistible desire; involuntary emissions, with lascivious dreams

Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but last too long

Leucorrhœa profuse, smarting, corrosive, instead of menses

Great drowsiness, especially after meals

Vivid dreams of fire; of hæmorrhage; lascivious dreams

Goes to sleep late and awakens weak

Short naps and frequent wakings

Physical or mental exertion

Twilight

Warm food or drink

Change of weather

From getting wet in hot weather

Evening

Lying on left or painful side

During a thunder-storm

Ascending stairs

Lying on right side

Cold food

Cold

Open air

Washing with cold water

Sleep

Throbbing pain, heavy over eyes in forehead

Vertigo, hazy feeling

When walking, every jar seems repeated in the head

Memory weakness

Desire to talk constantly

After going heated

Stabbing pains

Very sensitive to touch

Parts feel chilly; send shudder through frame

Pain beneath frontal eminence and temples, extending to eyes ; semi-lateral, involving left eye; pain violent, throbbing; worse, making a false step

Eyes feel too large; pressive pain on turning them

Pupils dilated; photophobia;

Severe pain in and around eyes, extending deep into socket

Craving for hot water which relieves

Motion

Noise

Turning

Washing

Concussion

Inspiring

Everything appears large

Motes over everything

On reading, words run together; double vision, all objects seem to be elongated

Palpitation and congestions

Extreme photophobia

Great soreness all about the eyes and into eyeballs

Double vision; upper half of objects invisible

Eyes feel tense; sees fiery objects

Violent pains in bones around eye

Pains from without inward; sticking pains inward

Appetite and thirst increased, with qualmishness

Urine turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment

Sleepless

Sobs aloud in sleep

Frightful dreams

When getting cold

 Many complaints come on only in winter

From sunset to sunrise

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

Affects especially the constitution of a robust, firm fiber and dark complexion, with tendency to leanness and irritability

Physical weakness, all-pervading apathy

Complaints apt to develop slowly

Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick

Nausea and faintness when rising up

Abnormal hunger, loss of taste

Thirst for large draughts

Urine red, brown, like beer; scanty, hot

Menses too early, too profuse; worse from motion, with tearing pains in legs; suppressed, with vicarious discharge or splitting headache

Drowsy; starting when falling asleep

Any motion

Morning

Eating

Hot weather

Exertion

Touch

Right side

Evening

Open air

Warm weather after cold days

Warm drinks

Pressure

Rest

Cold things

Broken down seniles

Suits  preferably dark-complexioned and rigid-fibered persons

Restlessness at night, with tearing pains in joints and bones, and faint-like sinking of strength. T

skin  is of a dirty white sallow

Emaciation due to disease, worry, etc, and of long standing

Burning, rawness, and soreness

Sparks and dark spots before eyes

Vision impaired, as if film were before eyes

Greasy taste

Aversion to sweets

Feels as if lime were burned in stomach

Worse after eating fresh meat; smoked meat agrees

Loss of sensibility on passing urine

Menses cease at night; flow only during day; delayed, late

Leucorrhœa at night, with great weakness

In clear fine weather

Cold air

From motion of carriage

Warmth

Heat of bed

Adapted to persons of a voluptuous disposition, excitable, nervous temperament

Shooting over left eye

Severe pain in eyeball, with radiating pains around eye, shooting into nose

Supra-orbital neuralgia periodic

Glaucoma, increased tension, decreased corneal sensibility; eyes staring, expressionless

Loss of appetite for solid food

Likes sweets

Restless, cannot sleep for hours after retiring

Tearing pains; worse, in the evening and at night and from touch

Great prostration, internal coldness, and tendency to collapse

Shocks as from electricity through one half of body

Bad effects from suppressed sweat

Dreams of mice

Pupils unequal; left pupil contracted

Variations in visual acuity

Lachrymation worse in open air; violent tearing pain in eyes

Dim vision after reading

Spots before eyes

The smell of food causes nausea even to fainting, especially fish

Profuse salivary secretion

Craving for various things, but is averse to then when smelling them, seized them with nausea

Thirst for effervescent, alcoholic beverages

Motion

Loss of sleep

Smell of food

In evening

Mental exertion

Glaucoma, sense of fullness; eyeball feels too large;  motion of eyes aggravates; worse, near warm stove; feels as if pressed outward.

Sees only glimmer of light with left eye

Warmth

Rest

Night

Scratching

By motion

Frequent and extreme changes in sensations and mental conditions

Anger with violence followed by repentance

Drowsiness and lassitude; better by literary labor

Appearance as of electric sparks in eyes

Must wipe eyes as if mucus or water were in them

Feeling in eyes as after violent weeping

Sensation as if she had been looking through too sharp spectacles

Eyes feel as if in smoke

Pupils enlarged and react slowly

Sensation as if cold air was rushing through eye

Threatened glaucoma; embolism of arteria centralis retinal

Menses dark, viscid, too frequent and copious, black and slimy

Hot weather

Warm room

In morning

Fasting

Before breakfast

Looking fixedly at an object

Twitching of lids, soreness of eyeballs, blurring of vision after using eyes, pains around eyes and head

Broken-down, "worn-out" women, with uterine and climacteric disorders

With numbness and distension in various, parts and nerve prostration

Sensitive to the least start, noise, touch, etc

Effects of shock, blows, mental distress

Sense of numbness; nerve prostration

Intense neuralgic pains

Pain above margin of right orbit

Blank motes before eyes.

Desire for fruit, acids, and vegetables

Eructations sour, and vomiting of bitter water

Craving for meat

Sleep unrefreshing; more tired on rising than on retiring

Change of temperature

Cold wind or weather

Every three weeks

Rest

Walking in open air

Seeks stimulants, coffee, wine, possibly in excess; or, again, he hopes to quiet his excitement, by indulging in the sedative effects of tobacco

Takes preferably rich and stimulating food; wine and women play their part to make him forget the close application of the day

Is pre-eminently a male remedy

An irritable, nervous system, hypersensitive and over-impressionable

Zealous fiery temperament

Easily chilled, avoid open air, etc

Always seems to be out of tune; inharmonious spasmodic action

Photophobia; much worse in morning

Smarting dry sensation in inner canthi

Infra-orbital neuralgia, with watering of eyes

Sour taste, and nausea in the morning, after eating

Flatulence

Sour, bitter eructations

Nausea and vomiting, with much retching. Ravenous hunger, especially about a day before an a

Desire for stimulants; loves fats and tolerates them well

Difficult belching of gas

Wants to vomit, but cannot

Frequent calls to urinate; little and often

Menses too early, lasts too long; always irregular, blood black with faint spells

Sexual desire too strong

Mental exertion

After eating

Touch

Spices

Stimulants

Narcotics

Dry weather

Cold

In evening

While at rest

In damp, wet weather

Strong pressure

Sopor; heavy, stupid sleep;  stertorous breathing

Sweaty skin

Dark, mahogany-brown face

Depressed higher intellectual powers, lessened self-control and power of concentration, judgment; stimulated imagination

Eyes half-closed, dilated; pupils insensible, contracted.; staring glassy

Hungry; no desire to eat

Great drowsiness; falls into a heavy stupid sleep

Loss of breath on falling asleep

Very sleepy, but cannot go to sleep; distant noise, cocks crowing, etc, keep him awake

Dreams of cats, dogs, black forms

Bed feels so hot cannot lie on it

Pleasant, fantastic, amorous dreams

Constant desire to uncover

Hot perspiration over whole body except lower limbs

During and after sleep

Constant walking

Sudden pain in left eye as if it would burst, better by lachrymation

Eyes feel as if bursting

Ineffectual effort to urinate; hurriedly impelled to urinate; the urine seems to pass as far as glans, and then returns and causes pain in urethra

Must press a long time before urine appears

Swollen, red, œdematous eyes P

Eye painful on turning it or pressing, can hardly move it

Profuse gush of hot, scalding tears upon opening lids

Want of appetite for any kind of food, with unquenchable thirst

Bitter taste

Nausea, vertigo, and bloated abdomen after eating

Desire for milk

Great thirst, with dry mouth and throat

Drowsy after eating

Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white sediment

Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid

Dreams of great exertion

Heavy sleep, as from stupor

Sleepless before midnight

Cold, wet rainy weather and after rain

At night

During rest

Drenching

When lying on back or right side

Motion

Walking

Change of position

Rubbing

Warm applications

From stretching out limbs