Library · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

Bryonia

A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica · C. M. Boger

Open remedy: Bry.

For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice. Consult a registered homeopath.

Region:

Blood

CIRCULATION

Liver

SEROUS MEMBRANES:

HEAD,

CHEST,

JOINTS,

ABDOMEN,

Motor apparatus:

Nerves,

Muscles

Right side

Lymphatics

Cellular tissue

Worse:

MOTION:

LEAST RAISING UP,

STOOPING,

EXERTION,

COUGHING,

DEEP BREATHING

Dry:

Heat,

Cold

HOT: BECOMING, ROOM, Weather

Drinking, while hot,

EATING,

Vegetables,

Acids,

Calomel,

VEXATION,

Touch,

Suppressions,

Taking cold,

Early AM

Better:

PRESSURE: LYING ON PAINFUL PART, Bandage, etc

COOL OPEN AIR

QUIET

Cloudy, damp days

Drawing knees up

Heat to inflamed part

Slowly advancing, forcible processes, localizing in unyielding tissues. Very painful effects; on coughing holds sides, chest or head; in joints, etc. BURSTING, STITCHING or heavy, sore pain, going backward. AVERSE TO LEAST MOTION, even of distant parts. Dryness everywhere. Dryness of the mucous membranes. Scanty, adherent secretions. Congestion, INFLAMMATION, exudation. Streaks of red. Gastro-bilious-rheumatic type. Determined, taciturn, irritable and ugly. Wants to be let alone or go home. Dull DIZZY OR FAINT ON RAISING UP. Vertigo; felt in occiput. BURSTING, SPLITTING OR HEAVY crushing headache; fronto-occipital; < moving eyes, coughing, straining at stool, etc. Pain over l eye. Sensitive scalp; every hair pains. Oily hair. Eyeballs sore; pains behind. Dark red face. Nosebleed; vicarious. Suppressions or non-appearing discharges, eruptions, etc. Wagging lower jaw. Descending colds. Chewing motions. Dry, parched, cracked lips. Dry mouth. Tongue. very dry, rough, coated along center; red at base. Soapy saliva. BITTER TASTE, or vomitus. Hawks brown lumps from posterior nares. THIRST; FOR LARGE DRINKS. Craves what he can't relish. Loathing Nausea, < lying on r side. Throbbing, tender epigastrium. Heavy load in stomach. Heavy, sore liver, > lying on it. Appendicitis. Peritonitis. LARGE, DRY, VERY HARD STOOLS, as if burnt. Constipation. Gushing diarrhoea on rising, < cabbage; burning; < hot weather Lumps of tough mucus after stool. Yellow, mushy stool. Vicarious menstruation. Right chest; rusty expectoration. Wants to take a deep breath, but can't, or it excites cough. DRY, HARD, VERY PAINFUL COUGH, as if from stomach; < eating or drinking. Blood-streaked or tough expectoration. Bronchitis. Pneumonia (r). SHARP STITCHES IN CHEST, or at r scapula. Dry, friction sound. Pleurisy. Stony, hard mammae; before menses. Milk fever. Heavy, hard breasts before menses. Interscapular numbness or pain going to epigastrium or from l to heart Lumbago, < stooping Delirium; dreams of hard work. FULL, QUICK, HARD PULSE Undeveloped measles. Jaundice. Chill, with hot head and red face; < warm room. Dry, burning heat; with < of all symptoms; blood seems hot. Painful, continued fevers; typhoid, catarrhal, etc; after suppressions. Sour or oily sweat. Groins sore before menses.

Relations:

Complementary: Alu, Lyc, Nat-m

Related: Phyt, Rhus-t.

What is in this library

These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

Chapter text is on this shelf for study: open a title, then a heading. When a medicine appears in more than one materia medica, switch authors on the chapter to compare how each describes it. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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