DR KESSLER’S HOMEOPATHY BOOK

BRYONY
Polycrest
IDEA: Dryness, pain by slightest motion, thirst, relief by pressure of painful area.
Gout. Warm, red, sheeny joints with pain by slightest motion. Avoids company. Wants to be
left alone. Irritable. Materialistic. Mental rigidity
Symptoms of dryness e.g. mucosa, serosa, synovia, vagina, intestine, joints etc. Worse by
motion . Sharp, stinging pain. Better by pressure, lying on the painful area. Very thirsty for
cold fluids. Worse: heat. Better: cold.
One of the main remedies against respiratory diseases and flu (Gelsemium, Eupatorium
perfoliatum ) Scarlet fever, Morbilli. Chewing motions of the jaws.
Cough begins when entering a warm room. Dry cough (Spong). Likes to expand the lungs.
Compare Kal. Carb in respiratory disease: stinging pain is prevalent also when the patient is
at rest and does not move or breathe.
Vertigo from rising the head, feeling of a stone in the stomach; stools dry, hard; rheumatic
pains and swellings; dropsical effusions into synovial and serous membranes.
In the delirium patient wants to go home, even if he is at home. Physical weakness (Mur.ac),
all-pervading apathy. Complaints apt to develop slowly.
Complementary: Upas when Bryonia Alba fails. Rhus; Alumina. Illecebrum. - A Mexican
drug. –