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it hurts so from the action of coughing. Many remedies have this, but it is in keeping with the generalaggravation of Bryonia from motion, from jar, from any effort. "The headache is expanding,aggravated by the slightest motion; after eating". The aggravation after eating is in keeping with theBryonia state in general. The patient himself, in all complaints, feels worse after eating. It hardlymatters what the trouble is, it is worse after eating; the cough is worse after eating, the gouty state isincreased by eating. The Bryonia patient will finally sum up the whole subject and say, "I am alwaysworse after eating"; so that it becomes a general. The headaches are often accompanied by nosebleed".Obstinateheadache with constipation". Bryonia is particularly suitable in venous, sluggishconstitutions, with sluggish heart, poor circulation, yet apparently plethoric, apparently rugged, butsubject to gouty exacerbations from change of weather.Dandruff is common; sensitiveness and great soreness of the scalp; worse from the slightesttouch of the scalp, feels as if the hair were pulled; women must always have the hair hanging down. Inthe Bryonia headaches, as well as rheumatic attacks, if he can perspire freely, he will get relief. Bryoniais ameliorated in all its complaints as soon as the perspirations becomes free and general. Catarrhalconditions of the eyes are found in Bryonia; it is not so often thought of as an inflammatory remedy forthe eyes when there are no other symptoms, but eye symptoms will be found, redness, inflammation,congestion, heat, enlargement of the veins, burning and smarting, associated with headaches, withcoryza, with troubles in the air passages, bronchitis, etc. Sore aching in the eyes, the eyeballs canhardly be touched, so tender to touch, as if bruised, increased from coughing or pressure. Suchconditions come with chest complaints, with colds and headaches. "Soreness and aching of eyes whenmoving them". "Pressing, crushing pains in eyes"."Inflammation in eyes and lips, especially in new-born infants".Think of Bryonia when gouty conditions have left certain parts and all at once the eyes areaffected, tumefaction of the lids, the conjunctiva looks like raw beef, so highly inflamed is it, red andoozing blood. You find out that a few days before the patient, an old gouty subject, had rheumaticattacks of the joint, and now he has sore and inflamed eyes. "Rheumatic iritis, caused by cold".Rheumatic inflammation of the eyes, i.e., in inflammatory conditions and congestion with redness,associated more or less with gouty affections. In olden times it was described as "arthritic sore eyes",which means sore eyes in a gouty constitution.Many of the complaints of Bryonia commence in the nose; sneezing, coryza, running at thenose, red eyes, lachrymation, aching through the nose, eyes and head the first day; then the trouble goesdown into the posterior nares, the throat, the larynx, with hoarseness, and then a bronchitis comes on,and if not checked it goes into pneumonia and pleurisy, so that the trouble has travelled from thebeginning of the respiratory tract, the nose, to the lung tissue. This is a field for the complaints ofBryonia. All are worse from motion, all parts are subject to a good deal of burning and congestion;more or less fever, sometimes intense fever; the patient himself worse from the slightest motion andwants to keep still; dullness of mind, pressive, congestive headaches; sore, lame and bruised all over,often worse at 9 o'clock in the evening; increased dullness of the mind after sleep or on waking in themorning. The cough comes on with great violence, racking the whole body and increasing theheadache, and with copious discharge of mucus from the respiratory tract."Frequent sneezing". "Sneezing between coughs". "Loss of smell". Bleeding from the nose inthese congestions, or with coryzas. During menstruation there is epistaxis. Congestion of the head ispresent at the menstrual period. Epistaxis appears as a vicarious flow in case of menorrhoea. If themenstrual flow should be checked suddenly from cold, nose bleed comes on.Dryness in the nose.The aspect of the face is important; the besotted, purple, bloated countenance is not dropsicallybloated, although it has the oedematous face sometimes, but puffed from vascular stasis, not pittingupon pressure; swollen and puffed, purple, with a doltish state of the mind, as if he were drunk. He willlook at you and wonder what you were doing, and what you said; a stupefaction of the intellect; theeyes do not look at you intelligently. When a patient is about to come down with some Bryoniacomplaint, with a remittent, or with head congestions, or pneumonia, or some other respiratory disease,the family will notice when he awakes in the morning that he has that besotted expression, and he sayshe has to make such an effort to think or do anything, and his head aches hard, and is worse frommotion.Or the face is red and burning, "red spots on the face and neck;" "hot, bloated, red face".In children, as well as adults, there is gradually increasing cerebral trouble, dilated pupils,besotted countenance, and continual lateral motion of the lower jaw. This motion of the jaw in acongestive attack is a strong feature of Bryonia. It is not the grinding of the teeth so much that I refer tonow, although that is found in Bryonia, but a lateral movement of the jaw as if chewing, but the teeth