Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

altercation or dispute. If a headache comes on, such a patient may need Bryonia. If in a chronic state apatient says, "Doctor, if I ever have a dispute with a man over anything I come down with nervousexcitement, sleeplessness, headaches" you do not have to work long upon that case, because more thanlikely Staph.will be suitable.Bryonia has dizziness; the dizziness is worse in a warm room.You will notice, as I go through, that in everything of a nervous nature, nervous excitement, andcommonly the bodily state, the patient is worse from a warm room, worse from too much clothing,worse from the warmth of the bed, wants the windows open, wants to breathe fresh, cool air. He suffersmore than ordinary persons, from a stuffy room. Persons who are subject to Bryonia conditions sufferin church, at the opera, in close warm rooms, like Lycopodium Girls that faint every time they go tochurch are relieved by Ignatia.We commence now with the study of the head. The head complaints may he looked upon asstriking features of the remedy, because there is pain in the head with almost every acute complaint.Headaches are associated associated with inflammatory and congestive complaints. The mentaldullness and confusion of the find is spoken of with the congestive headache, and bursting headache.The head feels so full she wants to press it with the hand, or tie it up; tight pressure, over the wholeskull, is grateful. The headaches are worse in a warm room and commonly worse from heat. Sometimessuperficial neuralgias have relief from local heat, but a warm room or a close room is very distressingto the Bryonia headache. Headaches as if the skull would split open; the pains are worse from everymotion, even the winking motion of the eyes, the motion necessary to talking, and the effort ofthinking, so that all exertion of body or mind becomes impossible with a severe headache. Must keepperfectly quiet. Sometimes lying down and keeping perfectly quiet in a dark room will give some relief.Light aggravates; if you think a moment you will see that the accommodation to light and shadow of aroom involves motion; it is said that the light aggravates, but even here it is the motion that is carriedon by the muscles of accommodation. The headaches of Bryonia are very commonly the forerunner ofother complaints, congestion of the lungs, bronchitis, or congestion of some other part of the body; hewakes up in. the morning with headache; if it be coryza that is coming, he has the headache in themorning and through the day he commences to sneeze; or if the trouble is in some other part of thebody, before the symptoms develop, he wakes up in the morning with this congestive headache overthe eyes or in the back of the head, or both; it seems as if the head would burst; better from pressure,worse from the warmth of the room, and worse from every motion. Headache over the eyes, sometimeslike the stabbing of a knife, worse from the first motion. He realizes it on waking, upon moving theeyes, with soreness in the eyeballs, with bruised feelings all over. The motion of the arms, doing workwith the arms, as in various kinds of business that are carried on with the use of the arms and hands, isgenerally accompanied by complaints of the upper part of the body and especially the head, so that oneof the old keynotes in the time of Hering was "complaints from ironing". You know that ironing iscommonly carried on in a warm room, it involves the motion of the arms, and thus brings in two moststriking features of Bryonia, so that this keynote is no longer an abstract statement; it is not to beconsidered apart from the general nature, but only serves to bring it out. Splitting, violent congestiveheadaches; headaches as if everything would burst out of the forehead. Pressure pain in the forehead,fullness and heaviness in the forehead as if the brain were pressed out. This fullness or congestion ofthe head is accompanied by what was described as sluggishness of the mind, and it will often benoticed that the countenance is somewhat besotted. The patient looks as if he were an imbecile. Theface is mottled, and purple, with congestion in a marked Bryonia state. The eyes are red and congested;he is listless, does not want to move, to speak, or to do anything, because all these things are motion,are efforts, and they make him worse. You will burning, and sometimes throbbing. The throbbing isseldom felt until he moves. After any movement, like going up stairs, walking, or turning over in bedduring the headache, he feels the violent throbbing; on keeping still a moment it settles down into abursting, pressing pain as if the skull would be pressed open.There are many other pains in connection with the Bryonia headache; in the text it is described"tearing and stitching pains". "Shooting pains", sharp pains.Some of the pressing pains are described asif a great weight were on the head, but the same idea prevails; it is an internal pressure; a sluggishnessof the circulation in the brain, a stasis as if all the blood in the body were surging in the head. "Stitchesin the head". "splitting headache"."Rush of blood to head"."Threatened apoplexy"."Headache afterwashing himself with cold water when face was sweating"; That is, taking cold from suppression ofperspiration. "Always on coughing, motion in head like pressure. The headache is so bad in many casesof pneumonia or bronchitis, in fact in any of the inflammatory or congestive conditions, that very oftenyou will see the patient grasp the head when he knows he is going to cough. He holds his head because