Bryonia alba
Dioscorides, the famous Greek physician of the 1st century CE,advocated bryony for gangrenous wounds, and the ancient Greeks and Romans also used it for epilepsy, vertigo, paralysis, gout, and coughs. In 17th-century England the herbalist Culpeper found bryony useful for phlegm, coughs, and shortness of breath. In 1834 Hahnemann proved the homeopathic remedy, which is used mostly for slow-starting ailments accompanied by pain on the slightest movement.
REMEDY PROFILE
Bryonia is mainly used for people who are highly irritable when ill. Often clean-living,meticulous individuals, they can be contrary and capricious if ill, wanting things that, when given, are promptly rejected. They may feel tired, taciturn, languid, and angry if disturbed. Anxiety is common, especially about financial security.The chief physical symptom treated by Bryonia is pain felt on the slightest movement.It is often accompanied by infrequent spells of great thirst, and dry lips, mouth, and eyes.Illness sets in slowly, typically after overexposure to heat or cold. Bryonia is useful for chest inflammation, pneumonia,bad headaches, and rheumatic pains. It may also be taken for some forms of constipation and breast pain.
Dry coughs
SYMPTOMS Great dryness in the mouth, throat,chest, and mucous membranes, with a tickly cough and sharp chest pains. Pressing the chest during a coughing fit may alleviate pain in the head, chest, or rib cage, as may lying still and breathing gently. Coughs may be linked to colds, pleurisy, or bronchitis.
Colds & influenza
SYMPTOMS Red, sore, swollen nose, a hoarse,constricted throat, and a dry cough. The lips are often cracked and itchy,and the mouth is dry, with a white-coated tongue. Sharp, shooting ear pains may develop, as may sore eyes with sensitivity to movement and heavy eyelids. There may be an intense, aching headache,raging thirst, and copious perspiration.
Headaches
SYMPTOMS Bursting, splitting headache over the forehead or left eye, so that even moving the eyeball hurts. Pain extends to the back of the head, then the whole head, often lasting all day. The mouth may be dry, and there may be great thirst.
Joint pain
SYMPTOMS Joints and muscles are hot, swollen,stiff, and prone to stabbing pain, usually due to gout, tenosynovitis, or arthritis, or after an injury.
Constipation
SYMPTOMS Large, hard stools that look black or burned. The rectum may be particularly dry, with burning pain after passing a stool. Rumbly,colicky pains in the abdomen are common.
S O U R C E D E TA I L S
O R I G I N
Grows mainly in hedges and woodlands of southern England, and in central and southern Europe.
B A C K G R O U N D
Used traditionally for shortness of breath,coughing, and the clearing of phlegm from the chest.
P R E PA R AT I O N
The fresh root is unearthed before the plant ?owers, chopped, pulped, macerated in alcohol for ten days, diluted, and succussed.
C O M M O N N A M E S
Bryony, white bryony, wild hops.
Dioscorides, the famous Greek physician of the 1st century CE,advocated bryony for gangrenous wounds, and the ancient Greeks and Romans also used it for epilepsy, vertigo, paralysis, gout, and coughs. In 17th-century England the herbalist Culpeper found bryony useful for phlegm, coughs, and shortness of breath. In 1834 Hahnemann proved the homeopathic remedy, which is used mostly for slow-starting ailments accompanied by pain on the slightest movement.
REMEDY PROFILE
Bryonia is mainly used for people who are highly irritable when ill. Often clean-living,meticulous individuals, they can be contrary and capricious if ill, wanting things that, when given, are promptly rejected. They may feel tired, taciturn, languid, and angry if disturbed. Anxiety is common, especially about financial security.The chief physical symptom treated by Bryonia is pain felt on the slightest movement.It is often accompanied by infrequent spells of great thirst, and dry lips, mouth, and eyes.Illness sets in slowly, typically after overexposure to heat or cold. Bryonia is useful for chest inflammation, pneumonia,bad headaches, and rheumatic pains. It may also be taken for some forms of constipation and breast pain.
Dry coughs
SYMPTOMS Great dryness in the mouth, throat,chest, and mucous membranes, with a tickly cough and sharp chest pains. Pressing the chest during a coughing fit may alleviate pain in the head, chest, or rib cage, as may lying still and breathing gently. Coughs may be linked to colds, pleurisy, or bronchitis.
Colds & influenza
SYMPTOMS Red, sore, swollen nose, a hoarse,constricted throat, and a dry cough. The lips are often cracked and itchy,and the mouth is dry, with a white-coated tongue. Sharp, shooting ear pains may develop, as may sore eyes with sensitivity to movement and heavy eyelids. There may be an intense, aching headache,raging thirst, and copious perspiration.
Headaches
SYMPTOMS Bursting, splitting headache over the forehead or left eye, so that even moving the eyeball hurts. Pain extends to the back of the head, then the whole head, often lasting all day. The mouth may be dry, and there may be great thirst.
Joint pain
SYMPTOMS Joints and muscles are hot, swollen,stiff, and prone to stabbing pain, usually due to gout, tenosynovitis, or arthritis, or after an injury.
Constipation
SYMPTOMS Large, hard stools that look black or burned. The rectum may be particularly dry, with burning pain after passing a stool. Rumbly,colicky pains in the abdomen are common.
S O U R C E D E TA I L S
O R I G I N
Grows mainly in hedges and woodlands of southern England, and in central and southern Europe.
B A C K G R O U N D
Used traditionally for shortness of breath,coughing, and the clearing of phlegm from the chest.
P R E PA R AT I O N
The fresh root is unearthed before the plant ?owers, chopped, pulped, macerated in alcohol for ten days, diluted, and succussed.
C O M M O N N A M E S
Bryony, white bryony, wild hops.
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