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do not come in contact, and they keep it up night and day. A great many remedies have grinding of theteeth. When intermittent fever comes on with marked congestion, stupefaction of the intellect, violentrigors, even to a congestive chill, the patient lying in stupefaction or a semi- conscious state, withoutgrinding the teeth, yet wagging the jaw back and forth by the hour, Bryonia is often suitable. Constantmotion of the mouth as if the patient were chewing, in brain affections of children; it occurs in littleones when there are no teeth; but they keep up a chewing motion.In regard to the lips and lower part of the face, that bloated, swollen condition, the sluggishcirculation, a venous congestion or stasis will be found in bryonia, making the aspect as of one longintoxicated; it is not so marked as in Baptisia and is not accompanied by so low a state, so advanced astupor, as in Baptisia. Great dryness of the lips; the lips parched and dry. "Children pick the lips". "Lipscracked and bleeding". Lips parched, dry and bleeding, such as will be seen in typhoid states, where thewhole mouth is dry and brown, cracked, parched and bleeding; dry, brown tongue. Sordes on the teeth.In Arum triph. there is marked picking of the nose and lips; they pick and pick and bore the finger intothe nose.Bryonia has toothache, worse from warmth. "Tearing, stitching toothache while eating;" fromwarm drinks, from warm foods, worse in a warm room, wants cold foods in the mouth, wants to be incold air, but worse from motion. "Toothache > by cold water or lying on painful side". Pressing hardupon the painful tooth ameliorates it. "Toothache < from smoking". You see how the relief from coldand aggravation from heat go along with us; we shall keep reiterating these modalities that affect thepatient as a general state and we shall see as we go through that nearly all his symptoms are worse frommotion, worse from heat, etc. He keeps on telling us they are better from pressure in each region we goover, until finally we come to the conclusion that they are general. We may have in two remedies thesame set of symptoms, and yet they are an made worse from the opposite things. Thus you seemodalities indicate and contra-indicate remedies. This is the studying of remedies by their modalities,for modalities sometimes constitute strong generals.You will not be surprised to know that Bryonia loses his sense of taste, so that if he has a coryzanothing tastes natural. Not only is there mental sluggishness, but there is a slowing down of hissensations, his whole state is benumbed. "Taste flat, insipid, pasty". His intelligence is so affected thathe docs not know where he is even, thinks he is away from home, and even his tongue is no longerintelligent; so, that something that is sour tastes as though bitter; his senses deceive him. "Tonguethickly coated white". In typhoid, in cerebral congestion, in sore throat, in pneumonia, in all cases ofthe respiratory apparatus, in rheumatic affections, the tongue is thickly coated. "Dry and bleeding andcovered with crusts". Such a tongue is found in typhoid fever, a dry, brown, cracked, bleeding tongue.When he takes a cold the mouth becomes dry. It is very common for the Bryonia patient to have greatthirst; he is apt to drink large quantities of water, at wide intervals. With this dry, brown tongue,however, he loses his taste for water and does not want it; dry mouth and thirstless like Nux moschata."Aphthae". "Bad odor from mouth".Bryonia has nondescript sore, throats, with stitching pains, with dryness, with parchedappearance of the throat, and thirst for large quantities of water at long intervals. "Constitutionaltendency to aphthous formations in the throat", little white spots in the throat.Then we come to the desires and aversions that relate to the stomach, and they are greatlyperverted. He is worse from eating.The stomach has lost its ability to digest, and hence he has an aversion to all food. "Desiresthings immediately, and when offered they are refused". He is changeable, does not know what hewants. He craves in the mind the things he has an aversion to in the stomach. When he sees it he doesnot want it. His intelligence is in a state of confusion. He craves acids. "Great thirst day and night"; hewants cold water. "Thirst for large quantities at long intervals". Many remedies want to sip water all thetime. In Bryonia the large quantities relieve the thirst immediately. In Arsenic the drink does notrelieve, he wants a little and wants it often.The stomach complaints of Bryonia are relieved from warm drinks; that becomes a particularbecause his desire is for cold drinks, but his stomach is better from warm drinks. In his fever and headcomplaints and febrile states he wants cold things, which often bring on and increase the cough andpains, but the hot drink, which he does not crave, relieves the stomach and bowel complaints. In thechill, Bryonia often has desire for ice- cold water, which chills him dreadfully; and hot water relieves."Desire for cold and acid drinks". Aversion to rich fat food; all greasy things "Desire for thingswhich are not to be had".When patients are under constitutional remedies, they need caution about certain kinds of foodsthat are known to disagree with their constitutional remedy. A Bryonia patient is often made sick fromeating sauerkraut, from vegetable salads, chicken salad, etc., so that you need not be surprised, after