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that causes groaning. Gastric inflammatory affections and disordered stomach, gastric affections inyoung girls from suppression of the menstrual flow, gastritis, gastro-enteritis.Bryonia has inflammation of the liver and many other liver symptoms, The liver, especially theright lobe, lies in the hypochondrium like a load. with soreness and tenderness to pressure, and hecannot move. Every motion, every touch, every deep breath causes pain in this organ, as in theabdominal viscera. The breathing is short, quick, and when followed by taking a deep breath it causespain through the liver; it burns and stitches. With this, he has the, disordered stomach, nausea andretching worse from motion, spitting up of bile. Stitching pains, sticking pains and burning in the liver."Transient stitches in right hypochondrium;" these are in the liver. When he coughs it feels as if theliver or right hypochondrium would burst. Sever pains when coughing.Bryonia furnishes many symptoms in connection with the stool and rectum. It has constipation,and it has dysentery. The pathogenesis is full of these conditions as well as many symptoms relating tothe parts them-selves. In the constipation the stool is dry and hard, as if burnt. No desire for stool, butafter going many days there are passages of little hard pieces as if they had been burned. No moistureabout the parts, no mucus to soften the hard stools. Any mucus that may be present will be dischargedseparately. Sometimes the stool is composed of little hard particles looking as if burned, at timesscanty, again quite a lot, and then will follow the passage of mucus, as if lying about the mass of feceswas quite a lot of mucus. In most inveterate constipations Bryonia is sometimes suitable. It has also adiarrhea that drives the patient out of bed in the morning, i.e., on first beginning to move in bed hebegins to feel nauseated, he is bloated and distended with colic, and he has urging to go to stool; or alittle while after getting up and moving about the bowel is distended causing colic, and he must hurryto stool. The purgation is sometimes enormous, frequent frequent, and no sooner does the patient finishthan he is perfectly exhausted, lies down like one almost dead, covered with sweat; so tremendouslyfatigued he can hardly reach the vessel the next time, and then it comes a gushing, copious, biliousstool. If, while lying, he makes the least motion, he must hurry to stool. Bryonia cures dysentery withall the tormina and tenesmus possible to imagine, with pain in the abdomen; with bloody and mucousdischarges. In the constipation the straining is often ineffectual. He has urging to stool and goes severaltimes before there is any result. The stool seems to remain in the rectum, although he seems to becompelled to strain; there is inactivity and inability to strain. Ordinarily he has plenty of power and isquite likely to have a passage, but it is so dry.Bryonia has another kind of diarrhea. It is like the yellow corn meal mush. Just such a stool asthis you will find in the typhoid patient, a yellow, mushy stool. This is sometimes intermingled withmucus and slime, sometimes with blood. It may be useful to the physician to know whether this is inthe typhoid state or in the form of chronic diarrhea. Bryonia has cured many cases of chronic diarrheawhere this yellow, mushy discharge was present, and frequent; several times a day, but more frequentin the morning. Sometimes he has several stools in the morning that will satisfy for the whole twentyfourhours, or only one or two in the afternoon and five or six in the morning; during the night no stoolsat all, because when he keeps quiet in bed and comfortable he has not very much urging to stool; everymotion or keeping upon the feet increases the urging to . stool. So that some would think of it as adiarrhea only in the day-time, and would associate it with Petroleum; but with Petroleum no matterhow much he moves about in the night, he will not have a stool, but will have all of the stools in theday-time. It says here "Diarrhea putrid; smelling like old cheese". "Very offensive"."Brown, thin, fecal stools". Sometimes chronic Bryonia patients will diet themselves, eatingonly thin liquids, avoiding solids, etc., and yet the food will come right through the next morningalmost undigested; lienteric stools. "Urging followed by copious pasty evacuations". "Involuntarystools while asleep". "Burning of the anus with every passage". This is especially at night if he moves,that motion is more common in the day-time, and every motion will bring on urging to stool.There are plenty of urinary symptoms in this remedy; inflammatory condition of the kidneys;pinkish urinary deposits, uric acid crystals; urine profuse. Whenever he strains himself in lifting, or anyunusual motion, there is pain in the kidneys, a rousing up of congesting and long-lasting pain. It is agouty constitution with kidney troubles, so that after over- heating or overexertion he gets pain in theback. "Pressure to urinate and involuntary discharge of urine". "Burning in urethra, when noturinating". relieved by passing urine.There are many symptoms of the female sexual organs of great interest. Painful menstruation,dysmenorrhoea; pain in the ovaries at the menstrual period. Every menstrual period is associated withmarked congestion of the ovaries, with sensitiveness to touch. The sensitiveness at the approach ofevery menstrual period, in both groins, will be spoken of by the patient, increasing as the menstrualperiod comes on, until the soreness proceeds across the abdomen and meets, and then the whole