2. ROOT
The root of the plant is taken before the blooming and macerated into a
pulp which is then mixed with alcohol to make the mother liquid or
tincture
5. CONSTITUTION
• Gouty or rheumatic diathesis; prone to so-
called bilious attacks. Bryonia patients are
irritable, inclined to be vehement and angry;
dark or black hair, dark complexion, firm
muscular fibre; dry, nervous, slender people
7. AILMENTS FROM
• Hot weather/heat of summers, splly Indian
summer
• Chilled in hot weather/change of temp
• Intake of cold water/ice in hot weather
• Ironing(heat and movement)
• Cold dry air
• Alcohol
• Suppressed discharges/eruptions
• Anger/Mortification/humiliation/wounded
pride
8. MODALITIES INDICATE & CONTRAINDICATE
• WORSE MOVEMENT/WORSE
OVEREXERTION
• WORSE-OVERHEATED
• BETTER BY REST/RESTRICTION
OF MOVEMENT
• BETTER BY PRESSURE
11. DR BURNETT’S OWN CURE
• He mentions the cure of his own
complaints, the stitching pains which
remained after pleurisy, by Bryonia, as one of
the 50 reasons –why I became a homoeopath
12. COUGH /BRONCHITIS/PNEUMONIA
• Coughs , from simple ones to the more diagnostic
terms like bronchitis, laryngitis, tracheiitis,
pneumonia.
• Causation will be appreciated, getting chilled in hot
weather ( compare with Ars ) , or sudden change of
temp, warm to cold or cold to warm.
• Dry cough mainly coming in the evening with or
without sneezing , in little kids with headache
bodyache malaise and mabe even fever ( compare
with Rhus tox, Gels Ars) with the irritability of temper
, the thirst and feeling of warmth.
13. LIVER DISORDERS
• INDICATED IN HEPATITIS WHERE HE MUST LIE
ON RIGHT SIDE.
• CANNOT TAKE A DEEP BREATH, IT HURTS
SO,COUGH CAUSES PAIN IN RT HYPOCHON IF
LIVER IS INFLAMED
• WITH CONSTIPATION, DRY HARD STOOLS,
THIRST AND THE IRRITABLE TEMPER, HEADACHE
• ALL BETTER BY REST AND WORSE BY ANY
MENTAL AND PHYSICAL EXERTION
14. FEMALE DISORDERS
• MASTITIS
• DYSMENORRHOEA
• MENSES EARLY PROFUSE WITH GREAT PAIN IN
LEGS AND OVARIAN REGION
• PAIN IN BACK
• ALL BETTER BY REST AND WORSE MOVING
• CASE- 13 YR OLD GIRL-spasmodic
dysmenoorhoea
• CASE-30 YR OLD WOMAN..Mastitis
15. SUPPRESSED ERUPTIONS
• We homoeopaths use Bryonia for the tardy/slow
developing eruptions(measles) either naturally slow
or suppressed by anti fever rems like
Paracetamol/crocin/Acetaminophen.
• With cold cough coryza, even when it’s not clear
whether it is an eruptive fever we can give Bry if the
child be brought to us and if brought when the rash
isn’t erupting well, then Bry will cause the rash to
come out well and will prevent the complications of
an undeveloped/poorly developed rash.
16. INJURY/TRAUMA/SPRAIN/FRACTURE
• A priceless remedy after sprains and even
breakage of bones .
• With the modality of- worse movement
, better rest /restriction of movement
• In sprains compare with Arn, rhus tox and
Ruta..
17. CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
• -Right sided complaints.
• -Dryness of all mucous membranes.
• -Stitching pains < slightest motion
• > rest, pressure, lying on painful side.
• -Great thirst for large quantities of cold water.
• -Constipation, no desire for a number of days, or
dry, large, hard, as if burnt stools.
18. FEVERS-TYPHOID AND CATARRHAL
• ALL TYPES OF FEVERS WHICH ARE SLOW DEVELOPING INCLUDING
TYPHOID/VIRAL/FLU/GASTRIC/BILIOUS
• DR HAHNEMANN CURED ALL WAR TYPHUS CASES WITH RHUS TOX
AND BRYONIA AND NOT A SINGLE PATIENT DIED. He refers to Bry
and Rhus Tox as –sister concordant rems.
• S/S here will be headache <stooping, severe splitting with
faintness, nausea on rising, confusion, or irritable wants to go
home and rest, dry cracked lips, bitter taste, coated tongue, dry
dark,hard stools with thirst for full glasses of water. Wants to lie
perfectly still, no movement is tolerated( compare with rhus tox)
• PUERPERAL FEVERS TOO-Fevers after parturition, when due to
exerion of labour the woman is exhausted and tired and then
develops feverwith or without cough and cold headache and fever
and constipation with great thirst. (generals will confirm
, causations and mods will be the pointers)
19. CLINICAL CONDITIONS MET WITH BRY
• Appendicitis, Arthritis, Asthma, Bronchitis, B
ursitis, Constipation, Coma, Diarrhoea,
• Epistaxis, Headache, Hepatitis, Influenza, Lu
mbago, Mastitis, Meningitis, Migraines,
• Pleurisy, Pneumonia, Sciatica, Tendonitis, Too
thache, Vertigo
