SBL Bryonia Alba Mother Tincture Common name Wild HopsCauses and Symptoms for SBL Bryonia AlbaBryonia is useful in pains worse by motion and better by rest These characteristic stitching pains greatly aggravated by any motion are found everywhere but especially in the chest worse pressure The Bryonia alba 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 Bryonia alba is a great medicine to relieve the dryness in stools that are large and hard as well Bryonia Alba has marked action on flu and rheumatism Coryza with frequent sneezing dry nose and loss of smell Onset of fever is slow and insidious Fever caused by taking cold in hot summer weather from exposure to draught of cold wind During fever the patient lies quietly Does not want to move even a little bit of motion makes him worse There is constant motion of left arm and left leg during fever Bryonia Alba is a chief remedy for rheumatism and arthritis The knee joints are stiff and painful There is hot swelling of the feet Joints are red swollen hot with stiching pain relieved by absolute rest and pressure and by lying on painful side Worse on least movement Bryonia Alba also helps in respiratory symptoms like dry cough bronchitis asthma and also early stages of pneumonia Cough is caused after taking cold or getting hot in summer Right side of the chest is usually involved Cough is dry hard with gagging and vomiting with stitching pain in chest The patient holds the chest while coughing as slightest movement worsens the pain Cough is worse during night from motion from laughing from talking and from heat of room It is also indicated in early stage of pneumonia Lower lobe of right lung is affected Bryonia Alba is useful in gastro intestinal symptoms There is dryness of the mucus membrane of the entire alimentary canal Dryness of mouth is well marked Dyspepsia with soreness in stomach Vomiting of bile immediately after eating Pain in the abdomen worse after eating and not relieved by pressure Most of the pains relieved by pressure but not the gastric pain Bryonia is also useful in constipation Stool is dry hard knotty as if burnt Headache due to constipation with thirst for large quantity of cold water at long intervals Bryonia Alba is also useful in gastro enteritis causing diarrhoea Morning diarrhoea as soon as the patient gets up from bed and puts the feet on the floor Watery stool containing undigested food particles Bryonia Alba is also helps in headache caused due to draught of cold air from constipation and from ironing Pain is bursting type as if brain going to burst Feels that the contents of cranium would be pushed out Headache is worse from motion in morning and better from pressure and lying on painful side Cough relived is dry as the dryness runs throughout the whole remedy The dropsical effusions into synovial and serous membranes are treated by bryonia alba Bryonia alba affects especially the constitution of a robust firm fiber and dark complexion with tendency to leanness and irritability Mind Irritable wants to be left alone Reserved Fear of poverty fear of starving anxiety about future Materialistic Possession oriented Insecurity withdrawn into themselves isolated from social contact Thoughts talks about Business Determined Despair of recovery Seem to hold others responsible for their suffering Dullness morning on waking worse exertion conversation Children ask for things that are difficult to find immediately throw it away Cham Exceedingly irritable everything puts him out of humor Delirium wants to go home Generalities Worse least MOTION but may be restless from severe pains better rest Heat over heating PRESSURE lying on painful side Cold applications except stomach Worse cold applications n n Often slow onset of acute diseases n n n n Injuries sprains etc n n n n Stitching pains n n n n Acute Slow onset Gels n n n n Great thirst for large quanities often at long intervals n n n n Also possible dry mouth and thirstless n n n n Pains aggravated Slight motion heat n nFood and drinks Desire meat oysters warm drinks milk or cold drinks Aversion Fat aggravated by Beans and peas bread Great Thirst for large quantities often or long intervals Vertigo Sensation they are sinking through bed Hea Pain starts over Left eye extends to occiput and whole head Worse on moving eyes light motion of iris jar cough touch when constipated Better by pressure holding head closing eyes Meningitis Vertigo nausea faintness on rising confusion Frontal headache frontal sinuses involved Eye Pain on moving eyes or lids Pressing crushing aching pain Glaucoma EarsAural vertigo Roaring buzzing in ears Nose Frequent bleeding of nose Epistaxis when menses should appear Worse morning after rising Coryza with shooting and aching in the forehead Swelling of tip of nose feels as if it would ulcerate when touched Face Chewing motion in arteriosclerosis or fever with brain involvement Dry cracked lips Mouth Dryness of mouth tongue and throat with excessive thirst Discoloration tongue brown or white Bitter taste Lips parched dry cracked Burning in lower lip in old smokers Lip swollen dry black and crackeTeeth Pain better by cold water lying on painful side 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 Capricious abnormal appetite loss of taste Gastritis better by warm drinks Vomiting on slight motion while coughing immediately after drinking after eating and warm drinks Sensation of a stone worse after eating Stomach sensitive to touch Nausea and faintness when rising up Soreness in stomach when coughing Dyspeptic ailments during summer heat Sensitiveness of epigastrium to touch Abdomen Appendicitis aggravation touch and better by pressure lying on painful side Peritonitis Pain in liver better lying on right side Burning pain stitches worse pressure coughing breathing Tenderness of abdominal wallsRectum Constipation and Dryness Diarrhea worse by motion morning after rising and moving fruit warm weather Stoo 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 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 Milk fever Pain in breasts at menstrual period Breasts hot and painful hard Abscess of mamm Frequent bleeding of nose at appearance of menses Menstrual irregularities with gastric symptoms Ovaritis Intermenstural pain with great abdominal and pelvic soreness Cough Dry hard painful worse motion warm room Chest Pneumonia Bronchitis Pleuritis Mastitis Pain on coughing hold chest to keep it immobile Pain on inspiration in pleuritis 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 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 Heaviness beneath the sternum extending towards the right shoulder Cough worse by going into warm room Stitches in cardiac region Angina pectorisBack Painful stiffness in nape of neck Stitches and stiffness in small of back From hard water and sudden changes of weather Extremities Multiple pain of joints and muscles arthritis gout inflammation of joints with swelling and stiffness Worse by motion heat and better by rest cold pressure 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 legUrine Red brown like beer scanty hot Sleep On left side Skin Jaundice after anger Nux v Eruptions rash urticaria vesicular Slow appearance in eruptive fevers Dry Yellow pale swollen dropsical hot and painful Seborrh a Hair very greasy Sleep Drosy 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 Complementary Abrotanum Alumina Kali carbonica Lycopodium Natrum muriaticum Rhus tox Sepia Sulph Side effects of Bryonia AlbaThere are no such side effects But every medicine should be taken following the rules as given It is safe to take the medicine even if you are on other mode of medication like allopathy medicines ayurvedic etc