The juice of the fresh root before flowering. Proved by Hahnemann and pubhshed in 1816 in second part of his Materia Medica; 208 of his own symptoms, 102 from students, Mishler, Homburg, Riickert and Dr. E. Stapf and one of Nicolai. In 1824, second volume of second edition : 537 of his own and 242 symptoms from others; additional provers are Her- mann and Fred. Hahnemann. In 1833, third edition, 781 symptoms of the former. An unnecessary reproving was made by thirty-one Austrian physicians, many taking (as they did with Aconite) another species, the dioica; further additions by 0. Piper, Lemke, Drs. Stow and Price, and a proving of the Jenichen^™ by Berridge and some poisonings appeared in the journals. ^Mind. 1 1 Partial loss of consciousness. ^Hydrocephalus. Unconsciousness. I Unconscious, could not speak. ^Cholera Asiatica. Stupefaction. Weak memory. I So weak in mind that his ideas disappear as if he would faint, together with heat in face, especially on standing. Confusion of head, especially of forehead. Confusion in head with drawing in occiput, extending into neck before going to sleep- Head confused and aching, as after a night's dissipation ; does not wish to rise, morning on awakening. VOL. III.— 1. (1) BRYONIA ALBA. 2 Difficult comprehension. I Sees visions and faces when closing eyes. ^Typhus. Fancies ; mental excitability. I Nightly delirium. Delirious talk, especially at night. I In the morning, at daybreak, delirious. B Delirium at night of the business of the day. ^Typhus. Delirium about his business ; worse at night, after 3 a.m. I I Talking of the business of the day in his delirium. ^Diar- rhoea. BThe patient desires to go home. ^Typhus. 1 1 Desire to get out of bed and go home. ^Diarrhoea. I Desire for things that cannot be had, which are refused, or not wanted when oifered. Prattling about business to be attended to. I Irrational talking of his business. Hastiness. Taciturnity. Weeping mood, with headache and other complaints. Dejection ; despondency ; irritability. Great depression and very morose mood without any cause, quite contrary to his habit. Depression and apprehension for the future. Great sense of insecurity, with mental depression and appre- hension for the future. I Apprehensiveness ; fearfulness. Apprehensive ; uneasiness and dread on account of the future. Anxiety and restlessness. I In the room he became very anxious, better in the open air. ■ Anxiety in the whole body which compelled him to do some- thing constantly, and wherever he went he found no rest. IB Anxiety about the future, particularly in childbed or after, she fears not to have wherewithal to live. Anxiety, worse in room, better in open air. BB Anxious, peevish and hasty disposition. Fea,r of death, which he thinks is near. B Fear of death. ^Pertussis. Anxious feeling referred to sternum or cardiac region; pressing or painful sensation. Easily startled, with headache. B Despair of recovery. /^Pertussis. ■ Great despondency ; disinclined to think; exhaustion of intel- lectual powers. Both mental and bodily quietness is required. B Irritable mood. ■ Mood at once irritable, weeping and morose. BYery irritable; inclined to fright, fear and vexation. Irritable mood ; wishes to be alone. 3 BRYONIA ALBA. BBYery irritable; inclined to be angry ; after getting angry: chilly or a red face and heat in head. ■ Peevishness. ^Diarrhoea. I Peevishness, irritability and violence. ^Pertussis. I Morose; everything puts him out of humor. ■ Ill-humor. ^Diarrhoea. I Very ill-humor; troubled with needless anxiety. Contradiction easily provoked anger during the whole proving. Obstinate and passionate. I Mental exhaustion. ■ Somnambulism. Restless ; wants to change. Restlessness, with fear of the future; fear of death, which he thinks is near. Restlessness, with nocturnal heat. I Bad effects from mortification, violence and anger. I Ailments arising from chagrin, and other conditions, when attended with chilliness and coldness of the body. After having been angry, he is chilly ; has red face and heat in head. As consequence of fright : painful rigidity of the limbs. ^ Sensorium. Sensorium blunted. I I Distracted state of the sensorium. ■ Stupefaction of the head. ■ Great confusion in the head, especially in the frontal region. ■ Confusion of the head after rising from bed. ■ Confusion in head with drawing in occiput, extending into neck before going to sleep. ■ In the morning, on waking, the head is as confused and ach- ing as if he had dissipated and been drunk the evening pre- vious ; does not wish to rise from bed. ■ Dizzy in morning, and weak in the limbs the whole day. Dizziness on turning the head, or on stooping. ■ Giddiness, especially when rising from a seat, or from a re- cumbent position. G-iddiness, with sensation of looseness in brain when stooping, and when raising up the head. Swaying to and fro. ■ In the morning, on rising from bed, dizzy and whirling, as if the head were turning in a circle. ■ ■Sensation in bed as if she was sinking deep down. ■ Tendency to run backwards. Vertigo: as though all objects were reeling; as though the brain were turning around; as if the head were turning in a circle ; on rising ; or on raising head ; with reeling backward. ■ Slight vertigo on raising the head after inclining it forward. ■ Vertigo like whirling if he sits up in bed, with nausea in mid- dle of chest ; as if faintness would ensue. BRYONIA ALBA. 4 I Vertigo as if one were being turned around, or as if every- thing whirled about when standing. I I A^ertigo conjoined with headache in occiput ; •< from motion. ^ Inner Head. I Vertigo and confusion of head on slightest mo- tion. iPressive frontal headache very much increased by stooping. Pressing outward in frontal region and left eyeball, especially on stooping. I iFullness and heaviness in forehead : as if brain were pressed out ; with bleeding of nose ; red, bloated face ; worse when opening or moving eyes; when stooping; in evening; from motion ; better from closing eyes ; from external pressure. I A pressive pain in forehead, so that he can scarcely stoop. ■ Pressive pain in forehead and occiput; ■< by motion. ■ Headache, as if everything would press out at forehead. Pressive pain above left eye, followed by dull, pressive pain in occipital protruberances, thence spreading over whole body ; on quick motion, and after eating, pain so severe that it seemed a distinct pulsation within the head. Great fullness and heaviness of head, with digging pressure in direction of forehead. Tearing across forehead, then in cervical muscles, then in right arm. Burning in forehead. Headache in forehead and temples, with pressure from within out, and sensation when stooping as if everything would fall out of skull. Puin in right temple ; a tensive twisting in single muscle fibres. Pain in both temples, pressing from within outwards. ■ Slight drawing in temporal bones, from above downward to- ward the zygoma, especially on left side. Drawing, tearing pain in right temple, mostly extending to upper molars and muscles of neck. I I Drawing and tensive headache in temporal region. Tearing in one (right) side of head, extending into cheek and jaw-bones; worse from motion, touch and heat; >■ in rest and from external pressure. ■ Continued stitch deep in brain, on left side, when coughing. Sensible beating in vertex, with same and fullness in cranium, in region of cerebellum. ■ Sensation of weight pressing on the vertex. Throbbing headache on top of head, morning when waking. TrSticking, jerking, throbbing headache, from forehead back to occiput. Headache in occiput, extending to shoulders, while lying on back in bed, after waking in morning. Pressive pain in occiput, drawing down into neck, relieved to- ward noon. Iln morning in bed, after "waking, while lying upon back, head- ache in occiput, which extends to shoulders, like a heaviness when pressed upon a sore spot. ■ Severe shooting pains, extending to vertex or occiput; ■< at night or from motion of eye. Sharp pain in left occipital protuberance, coming and going suddenly. I Violent headache, like a great w-eight in head, as if he w^ould incline it to either side, with pressure in brain from within outward, and great desire to lie down immediately. ■ Headache, as if something pressed the skull asunder. ■ Pressure and burning pain in head. ^Pertussis. Pressure in head, as if brain were too full and pressed outward, mostly when sitting. Headache, as if head would burst, with dry and parched lips. Jerking, throbbing headache. ■ ■Stitches in head from forehead to occiput; on stepping hard. ■ Continued stitch, deep in brain, left side, when coughing. ■ Stitches in head. ^Pertussis. Splitting headache. I I Great heaviness of head and pressure of brain forwards. ■ Congestive headache, as if forehead would burst open, with epistaxis. ■ Heat in the head. ■ ■Rush of blood to the head. ■ ■Apoplexy. ■ Encephalitis. ^Metastasis of miasmatic or exanthematous diseases. ■ Headache commences in morning, not on waking, but when first opening eyes. ■ Headache as though the head would burst, commencing in morning and gradually increasing till evening. ■ Headache, as from nightly revelling. ■ Headache in morning, after rising; a twitching- drawing in molar and maxillary bones. ■ In morning, before breakfast, pain as if head were compressed, with heaviness in it, mingled with stitches ; she could not raise eyes on account of pain, and if she stooped, she could not rise up. Headache after every meal. ■ ■Headache after washing himself with cold water when face was sweating; in such' cases opening eyelids increases head- ache. ■ Always on coughing, motion in head like pressure. ■ ■Headache when stooping, as though all the contents of head would issue from forehead. ■ ■Headache from ironing. ■ The headache is expanding; < by slightest motion, as the BRYONIA ALBA. 6 simple effort of opening eyes, by stooping, after eating, and when coughing, and often accompanied by nosebleed ; >■ by pressure and closing eyes, IB Headache from constipation; dull pain in forehead, and pe- culiar pressing sensation in temples. ■ Headache > by tieing up the head. ■ Obstinate headache with constipation; headache almost every day, beginning immediately after rising in morning, and in- creasing during day ; <^ from mental exertion and from cof- fee; with frequent vomiting of a little bilious fluid; stools dry, hard, as if burnt. ■ ■Gastric, rheumatic and congestive headache, characterized by vertigo, heaviness of head, pressure in head and rush of blood to head. ■ ■Rheumatic headache in cold, raw, wet seasons. ■ Hemicrania; hysterical headache. ^ Outer Head. A small painful spot on forehead. Increase of pain under vertex, with soreness of scalp, just over same ; painful soreness of vertex, it feels bruised. ■ Burning on vertex near forehead. ■ Heat of head in the morning. ■ ■Heat of head: with dark-red face; with coldness of rest of body; with much thirst and pain in limbs when moving them ; worse in evening. ■ Tension and tearing in external head; << from motion, touch, and in a warm room ; > lyii^g quiet and on painful side. ■ ScaJp very tender to touch; child cannot bear even a soft brush upon it. ^Dandruff. ■ Soreness in occiput and behind ears; < from touch and in dry weather ; >■ lying on painful side and after sweat. ■ Oily, greasy, sour-smelling perspiration on head (and the whole body) during sleep ; at night, especially towards morning. ■ The hair seems very greasy, with a cool head; the hands become fatty while combing the hair. I I Greasiness of hair of head. ■ Dandruff; scalp rough and uneven. Burning heat or cold sweat on head. ■ Coldness on vertex; with cold hands, chilliness, inner heat and disagreeable throbbing through whole body. ^ Sight and Eyes. ■Dread of light. ^Intermittent. Aversion to light, particularly sunlight. Optical illusions in bright or prismatic colors. Flickering before right eye, after dinner. Appearance of all the colors of the rainbow ; every object seemed covered with these colors. Letters run together when reading. Eyes sparkling ; watering ; dull or glassy. Dim vision. lA bluish haze appeared before the vision, (vision |J}) with severe pain over eye like a needle going through eyes and head, (compelling her to go to bed) with heat through tlie ■whole head, <^ by stooping. ^Hypersemia of the optic nerve and retina. Very sensitive pressive pain (coming and going) in left eye- ball, especially violent on moving the ball, with a feeling as if the eye became smaller and was retracted within the orbit. I Eyes very sore, and feel as if pressed out of the head. I Eyeballs excessively painful, he cannot bear to have them touched. I I Ciliary neuralgia ; the pains are very sharp and severe, even making the patients scream out ; the pains are aggravated by opening the eye and by any motion of the eyeball ; the eyes must be kept closed and at rest ; the pains are usually sharp in character, passing through eye into head or from eye downward into malar region and thence backward to occiput; the seat of pain becomes sore as a boil, and the least exertion, talking, moving or using the eyes aggravates the trouble. Stitches in the eyes. I The eyes feel very sore to touch, and when moving them. I I Soreness and aching of eyes when moving them. 1 1 Pressing, crushing pain in eyes, worse on motion. Burning in eyes and edges of the eyelids. I I Sensation as if there were sand in eyes. Pressure in eyes, as if full of sand. Aching in left orbit ; pulsation in the same. Inflammation of eyes, aggravatedby heat. ■ Inflammation of eyes and lids, especially in new-born infants and gouty subjects. ■ Inflammation of eye, redness, photophobia and at the same time violent pains in teeth and face; < from warmth and >■ by cold. ■ Inflammation extends to choroid; opacities are present in vitreous ; iris tremulous ; great ciliary injection ; pus in anterior chamber; eyeball sore on moving, and darting pains from left eye through head, with heaviness of head after- noons. ^Acute irido-choroiditis. ■ Rheumatic iritis, caused by cold, with steady aching pain in back part of eye, extending through to occiput, worse at night and on motion. ■ Choroiditis uncomplicated with iritis, especially in serous or exudative forms. ■ Eyeball feels full, as if pressed out, with sharp shooting pains in eye and head, worse at night. ^Glaucoma. ■ Periodical inflammation of eyes, with colic. BRYONIA ALBA. 8 ■ Burning redness of eyes. ^Rheumatic attack. Painless twitching and drawing together of left upper lid, with sensation of heaviness therein. PufEness of right upper lid. ■ Swollen eyelids, especially the upper. ^Pertussis. I I Lids swollen and puffed. Burning in eyes and edges of eyelids. I I Itching and burning of margin of lids. ■ Dry burning-itching tetters on the lids. I I Scalding in corners of eyes aggravated at night. Frequent lachrymation. Severe burning and lachrymation of right eye. Morning, agglutination and frequent lachrymation. I I Discharge of mucus from eye, obstructing visions and pus. ■ Rheumatic inflammation of eyes. ^ Hearing and Ears. Intolerance of noise. Ringing ; roaring ; humming or chirping. Roaring, humming in left ear, resembling pouring of water over a dam. Head feels light, with constant wabbling in both ears. ■ Discharge of blood from ears. ^Vicarious menstruation. Feeling of stoppage in ears. 1 I Obstruction in external meatus. Swelling, redness, painful sensitiveness and heat of external right ear ; at times piercing stitches deep into ear ; accom- panied by swelling and painfulness of right parotid gland, which was especially sensitive to even slight touch of the steel bows of spectacles. I Otorrhoea following inflammation. Complaints predominating in external ears. I I Boil in front of ear. ■ Throating suppuration of parotid. ^ Smell and Nose. Frequent sneezing. When coughing, sneezing twice. Sneezing between coughs. Loss of smell. ■ Nosebleed in morning after rising; less frequently during day, but sometimes during sleep. ■ Bleeding of nose, especially in morning, with suppressed men- struation. ■ Nosebleed. ^Pertussis. I ■ Nosebleed in morning, awaking from sleep ; blood florid. ^Vicarious menstruation. ^Scarlatina. ■ ■Epistaxis and checked menses, or in place of catamenia with other menstrual derangements. Dry cold in head. ■ Dry nasal catarrh. ^Pertussis. Fluid, thin, light-colored discharge from right nostril. 9 BRYONIA ALBA. Catarrh extending to frontal sinuses or into chest. Fluent coryza, watery or greenish. I I Fluent coryza, beginning with violent frequent sneezing ; also a stitching headache when stooping, with hoarseness. Profuse coryza* without cough. Swollen nose with inflamed nostrils. Swelling of nose, with very sore pain when touched. ■ Swollen nose, with nosebleed for several days. Inflamed and ulcerated nostrils. I I Nose much swollen, with sharp pain ; sore to touch. Swelling of tip of nose, with twitching pain in it, and on touch feeling as if it would ulcerate. ' Upper Face. There is a motion, more or less constant, of the jaws, as if chewing something. Pinching pressure in articular cavity of right jaw, more vio- lent on motion. Dull aching, in alveoli of upper jaw, right side, now jumping, and then mild. Twitching, tearing in right malar bone up to right temple, ex- ternally, sore upon touch. Painful pressure under right cheek-bone relieved by external pressure. Bloatedness, or swelling of the face. I I Face swollen, even closing eyes. I Red, burning, hot face. I I Red spots on face and neck. Red, round, hot spot on cheek, over malar bone. Face bluish-red, with diflScult inspiration. Hot, bloated, red face. ■ Face red, hot, puffed. ^Pertussis. Yellow paleness of face, or livid color. Nodosities, indurations and boils on the face. ■ Tetters in face; after washing, red and smooth. Lower Face. Complaints predominate on lower jaw and lip. ■ Drawing and tearing pain, from temple down to malar bone and lower jaw. Compare prosopalgia. ^Trismus. Twitching in both corners of mouth. ■ I Constant motion of mouth, as if chewing. ^Brain afi'ections of children. ■ Upper lip and nose swollen, red, and hot. Lower lip dry, black, thickly encrusted, everted and very sensi- tive. ■ B Lips dry, swollen, cracked. ^Diarrhoea. ^Typhus. ■ Mouth and lips very dry. ■ ■Dryness of lips and tongue, with thirst, drinking much at a time, but not often. ■ Great dryness of lips, of tongue and of hard palate, while tip of tongue was moist. BRYONIA ALBA. 10 llParched and dry lips, likes to moisten them often; mouth dry; very thirsty for cold water. 1 1 Lips parched, dry and cracked. 1 1 Children pick lips. Compare Rhus tox. I Lips cracked and bleeding. ^Pertussis. • I I Lips swollen, with a biting, burning eruption. I I Scrofulous, swollen lips. I Ulcerated lips. ^^ Teeth and Gums. > Toothache about 3 a.m., as if an exposed nerve in a hollow tooth were paining from cold air, which becomes aggravated on lying on painless side, and then goes away if one lies on painful side. I In evening, in bed, jerking toothache, now in upper, now in lower back teeth ; when pain is in upper teeth and they are pressed by tip of finger, pain suddenly ceases and changes to corresponding lower teeth. I Jerking toothache when smoking. iDrawing, at times jerking toothache in left upper back teeth, only during and after eating, when teeth seem too long and wobble back and forth. I Pain as if a tooth were screwed in and then pulled out, which is momentarily relieved by cold water, but becomes better on walking in open air, together with tearing in cheeks and pinching in ears, at night, till 6 a.m. I IDrawing, jumping toothache when eating, or just after eat- ing, or evening in bed ; ■< from warmth. Darting, or flushing pain in teeth. Toothache from an exposed nerve; sensitiveness of decayed teeth to contact of air. Teeth seem too long. I I Teeth feel too long and loose. ■ Tearing, stitching toothache while eating, extending to mus- cles of neck, aggravated by warmth. I I Toothache : shooting from one tooth to another, or into head and cheeks. ■ Worse from brushing teeth. Compare StapMs. I Toothache on introducing anything warm into mouth. Toothache relieved by cold water, or lying on painful side. Toothache worse from smoking or chewing tobacco; from tak- ing anything warm into mouth. I I Teeth and gums sore. iPainful swelling of gums. I Aching of gums with teething children. Similar to DoUchos. Teeth are loose. Toothache: shooting from one tooth to another, or into head and cheeks ; from an exposed nerve (sensitiveness of de- cayed teeth to contact of air) ; pain worse from smoking or chewing tobacco; from introducing anything warm into 11 BRYONIA ALBA. mouth; relieved, momentarily, by cold water, and when ly- ing on painful side. " Taste and Tongue. iLoss of taste. Taste: flat, insipid, pasty, sweetish, putrid, sickly, disgusting, nauseous, I I bitter. I She has almost no taste for food ; when not eating, the mouth is bitter. I The bitter taste remains in posterior part of palate after dinner. ■ Everything tastes bitter; cannot swallow food. I 1 Taste bitter or putrid, with offensive breath. I Nauseous, bitter taste in mouth in the morning. I I Dry tongue. Trembling of tongue. I Great dryness of tongue, mouth and lips. ^Constipation. I Tongue dry, rough, cracked and dark brown. Dryness of tongue, with sensation of prominent papillge. Dryness of tongue ; tip moist. Great dryness of lips, tongue and hard palate, while tip of tongue was moist. I Small aphthae on tip of tongue. Fine pricking in anterior third of tongue. Tongue coated grayish, or thickly yellow, with lips dry and cracked. Tongue thinly coated yellow, with sunken raphe, or longitudi- nal fissure. White tongue with red edges. I Tongue dry and red, brown, white or yellow. ^Diarrhoea. I Tongue thickly coated white. ^Diphtheritis. I Tongue coated white or yellow, especially in the middle. I I Very much furred tongue. Dark brown colored tongue. Tongue viscous, bilious. I Dry, white, filthy tongue. ^Rheumatic attack. '^ Inner Mouth. Offensive smell from mouth, with hawking of offensive tough mucus, sometimes in round cheesy lumps, the size of a pea. Bad odor from mouth, as of the monthly. I Accumulation of frothy, soap-like saliva in mouth and throat, which, at times, almost chokes the patient. ^Typhoid. ■ Accumulation of saliva in mouth. ^'Pertussis. ■ Dryness in mouth, so that tongue sticks to palate. ■ ■Dryness in mouth, without thirst, or with thirst for large quantities of water. ■ Dry mouth during chills. ^Intermittent. ■ Mouth and lips very dry; only momentarily relieved by drinking. Dryness of the mouth, tongue and throat. ■ Feeling of dryness in mouth. 6'Diphtheritis. BRYONIA ALBA. 12 I Aphthae; with infantile diarrhoea ; open fontanelles. ^^ Throat. A great deal of phlegm comes down from the choanse. A kind of scraping and roughness back in throat. Back of throat seems swollen ; feels as if he had a severe coryza, which hinders him when reading. Tough mucus in fauces, loosened by hawking. ■ Harassing, fatiguing hawking of mucus; he fears he Avill suf- focate ; retching ; cannot sleep ; flighty ; sees faces when closing the eyes. I 1 Sensation of pressure and fullness in throat. Pressive pain in right tonsil. Slight pain in left tonsil. 1 I Stitches in throat when swallowing. 1 I Sticking pain on swallowing on feeling of throat, and on bending neck. Itching needle-like stitches in throat (especially if he was walk- ing rapidly), which irritate and cause scratching ; disappear after scratching. I Stitches and scratching in throat. ^Pertussis. Constant disposition to swallow, with sharp, stinging pain in external parts (right side), on a line with promontory of