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most common; it also has inflammation of organs. When these conditions come on there is noticed,very early in the case even before the pains begin, an aversion to motion, and the patient does not knowwhy, but finally he observes that his symptoms are made worse if he has to move, so that the slightestinclination to move is resisted with a feeling of anger, and when he does move he finds he is aroused togreat suffering, and that all the aches and pains of the body come on. Thus we have the well-knownBryonia aggravation from motion. This runs all through the remedy.This medicine is suitable in a great many diseases, diseases of a typhoid nature, diseases thattake on a symptomatic typhoid, diseases that start out as remittents and run into a continued fever, as inpneumonia, pleurisy, inflammation of the liver, of glands, of the bowels, etc. It may be a gastroenteritisor peritonitis, or inflammation of the bowels, with the sensitiveness, the aggravation from motion andthe desire to keep perfectly still. Inflammation of joints, whether of rheumatic character or not, whetherfrom cold, exposure or injury. Bryonia is often indicated in injuries of joints where Arnica would be afailure.There is an extreme state of irritability in Bryonia; every word which compels him to answer aquestion or to think will aggravate him. The effort to talk will be attended with horror.At the beginning of complaints you go to the bedside of a patient who has been grumbling a fewdays; . something is evidently coming on; the family meet you at the door and say, "The patient isalmost unconscious;" you look at him, the face is puffed and purple, he seems to be dazed, thereappears to be a sort of venous stasis all over the body, but especially about the face; his countenance isalmost that of an imbecile, yet he is perfectly capable of talking, although he has an aversion to it andappears to outsiders to ignore everything that is said. This sometimes comes on apparently in a shorttime; the patient awakens in the morning with a dull, congestive headache and a stupid feeling in thehead; dullness of mind so that he cannot work, and this feeling gradually increases; such a state issometimes the forerunner of a serious illness. We find, when a pneumonia or inflammation of the liver,or some slow insidious inflammation is coming on somewhere in the body, but not yet located, that thisstate will begin in the morning. This is peculiar about the aggravation of Bryonia its troublescommence many times early in the morning. On waking, with the first move, he realizes that things arenot all right there is a state of stupidity bordering on unconsciousness. Those who have been grumblingfor a week or ten days wake up in the morning feeling miserable, some time that night or the next daythey have to send for the doctor. If this is watched for a few days, a continued fever is observed. Or atnight a chill will come on, with much pain in the chest, rusty expectoration, short, dry cough and othersymptoms that will be spoken of under Bryonia later, showing that the trouble is going toward thechest; or the condition may gradually increase as a congestive, dull headache.This will be seen when congestion of the brain is coming on.Bryonia sickness often picks out plethoric subjects, those who are venous in their make up,those who, when suffering with cold, come down with catarrhal congestions. Catarrhal fever may becovered by Bryonia. This sluggish state of the mind then is the state of Bryonia, not an excitable state,as in Coffea, Nux vomica, Ignatia, but sluggish, aggravated from motion, aggravated from being talkedto, wants to he still in bed; very great irritability, which is as extreme as that found in Nux orChamomilla It also has acute complaints aggravated from anger, from being aroused, from beingdisturbed, from controversy.Following the early sluggishness, there is later a state of complete stupefaction in Bryonia, inwhich he becomes quite unconscious, as in typhoid. He goes from a state of partial unconsciousness toone of complete unconsciousness, as in hydrocephalic children.In rheumatic complaints, in pneumonia, and in typhoid conditions, when he is aroused from thisstage of stupefaction he is confused, sees images, thinks he is away from home and wants to be takenhome. Sometimes he will he and say nothing but that he "wants to go home". The delirium is of a lowtype; it is not the flashing wild excitement of Bell. or Stram.; it is the very opposite; he talks andwanders and does not say much unless he is disturbed. You disturb him and he says, "Go away and letme go home", and if you let him alone he will relapse into a perfectly quiet state ,and seldom speak."Irrational talk or prattle of his business, aggravated after 3 P.M. Usually you will find the deliriumcommencing about 9 P.M., and keeping up all night like the fever. The acute mental state you will findmanifesting its symptoms on rising in the morning, but as the febrile state advances and takespossession of him the symptoms will take on a 9 P.M. aggravation; those who have chill will have it at9 P.M.; in those who have a fever, the fever will come at 9 P.M. If mental symptoms are uppermostthey increase and spread over the night. It has a 3 P.M. aggravation. Bell. will begin at 3 and run ontowards midnight, but Bryonia will begin at 9 P.M. and run on through the night. The aggravation ofthe Chamomilla patients, who are also extremely irritable, is at 9 A.M. Sometimes we go to the bedsideand can hardly distinguish between bryonia and Cham.