Bryonia. Anhang
[dr. deoshlok sharma]
Characteristics:
Dreads to be disturbed.
Following
conversation might have taken place between you and your patient.
"Dr" says your patient, "You see, I am a poor person. If I stop
attending to my business, I will not be able to meet my daily needs. So Please
do not stop me from going to my work by aggravating my troubles."
If I stop attending to my bussiness?
Business talks of
That he will lose the day's earnings? Fear
poverty of
He further
adds, "the other more important thing about me is that I fear pain, like
anything. It is really dreadful,and that is why the
very idea of it makes me shudder." And on further questioning how he feels
like during the suffering, he replies, "I simply like to remain quiet in
all respects. No movement, no talking, except talking about my business which I
do on my own initiative and at my own convenience and do not like that anybody
else should disturb me in any way.
"If
this goes, he will be alright. “means if this trouble which is disturbing him
like a thorn in his body, is pulled out he will be alright?
Disturb averse to being
Except that I want to remain quiet? Quiet,
wants remain
Let no one disturb me? Disturb, averse to being
Now take
the example of another patient, who comes to you and says, "Dr., I do not
know, What is happening to me." And adds further," Can you give
medicine without asking any questions from me about my condition, because I am
not able to understand as to what to tell you."
6.
weeping, tearful mood, nervous all day
And on further
enquiry, "but you want me to help you?" he replies, "Dr., I know
only this much that I do not have any other problem except this one (about
which I am not actually aware of) and if this goes away I shall be
alright."
"But
why are you weeping?
"I simply
do not know, except this that I have been getting nervous all the time,"
That this
weeping is due to his nervousness
Mean boss:
He is bad
to his subordinates or employees. If some one needs to take his son to the
doctor and asks for a day off, most probably Mr. Bryonia
will deny the leave. Usually curses and accuses to his employee that they are
lazy and just want paycheck without doing any work.
He is suspicious that nobody wants to work but make more money off him.)
1. Fears poverty and starving
2. Industrious mania for work.
3. Restless in bed
4. When sick wants to rest in peace but jumps
up to talk business.
5. Forgets his ailments when talking or
involved in business.
6. Greedy, cruel, self pity, dishonest.
7. Does not care for others.
8. Heavy bargainer.
9. Too many desires
10. Wants complete silence.
Even little
sound made by water drops bothers him. Thinks this time he tolerated the pain
but next time he won’t.
At home he
will fight and curse his wife, “You wives are no good, and your parents didn’t
teach you a damn."
If his
subordinates, kids or wife don’t follow him he gets in rage.
When he
goes to Doctor he can even steal medicines or things.
In fevers,
the most guiding symptom is giddiness while getting up from bed. It is very
prominent in Bryonia.
Fever with
dry lips (the patient licks their lips often).
Walking
into warm room excites cough in a Bryonia patient.
Urine is
brown in colour like beer and hot.
[Eileen Naumann]
Vine symbolizes
many things. One has to be careful how to look at one. There are many different
kinds, and they each have a unique definition. Vines can cling/climb/spread out
and take over.
They can be
strong and rigid. Weak and wimpy. Choking. Killing. Struggle for survival.
One must
look at each kind of vine as a unique individual. Not all vines are clingy. Nor
do all of them choke or kill off others in order to survive. Each must be
looked at to assess their modus operandi. A vine is something that has tendrils
that curl and fix themselves around something else. Usually it is something
stronger, more stable and rigid than themselves. However, this doesn't have to
be so. Being a vine, one must get into their mind set and ask why they do what
they do. A vine has this adaptive reflex in order to survive. In a triple
canopy of
This
particular knowledge is intrinsic to most vine type people. There are other
vines that snake and curl around to choke out another plant so that it dies and
they then have the room to receive
that spot
of sunlight, instead. There are vines that kill other plants and suck and drain
them of their life fluids, in order to survive. Cusc-e. (= Dodder) is a good example of this. Each type
of vine is a particular mind set.
We can
generally put vines into several categories based upon their above behavior.
Vines cling
for survival. They climb. They are driven, almost obsessively, to climb higher.
In human psychology terms, this would be a person who is a Type A personality
who must win, must be 'top dog' and survive at all
costs. Not
only that, but be successful about it.
A very good
illustration of this is Bry. This is a member of the
Gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. The gourd is symbolic of
a person's head. Possibly, a tumor, which is round
and holds some thing.
Bry.
grows in well drained, neutral to alkaline soil and loves the sun. It does not
like the shade. The root is a tuber (symbolizing a bowl, a gourd or a cup in which some thing is
held and also associated with tumor production
or head
related ailments). Bry. has many curled tendrils that
are offshoots from the stem. If one looks at the homeopathic rubrics, there is
a definite agreement between them. Bry. people are
business people. They may own a Mom and Pop business, a small business, or a
mighty corporation. The reason why they do is security driven and
materialistic.
Why? Because
they have vines as part of their Doctrine of Signature. Bry.
likes to be top dog. The only time s/he gets riled is when her movement to the
top is stopped for some reason out of her control. Then, she gets splitting
migraine headaches (the gourd family, the tuber root), is irritable, angry (Bry. has red berries, and red rules rage, anger, irritation
and irritability, among many other things), doesn't want the light (just the
opposite of the plant, which loves the sun), doesn't want to move (and this is
typical of a vine plant - they are better in a fixed, stable, static position).
Vines are anchoring into someone or something else in order to achieve
stability. In Bry.'s case, security and stability are
essential, but we see it in the DOS of the plant.
It has
tendrils (vines). It 'climbs' other bushes, trees and shrubs in order to get
the most light of all. They climb several yards (1 meter is 3 yards) in 1 summer! This plant moves fast, and moves like
a corporate raider, taking no prisoners to get what s/he wants: sun (this
equates to money, fame, greed, fortune, placement, food, air, water and honors) light. This is security to this plant because sun
equates with survival. Interestingly, as a vine-related plant, Bry. is typical in that it will take on someone bigger that
itself - a shrub or even a towering tree, and wrap its tendrils around it,
climb it and get what it wants. This vine plant can be a bully, and sometimes Bry. vine people have been bullies as children. But we all
know that a bully is really fearful inside, with low self-esteem and they
attack to stop potential attacks against them, first. That is survival reflex.
The Bry. person is the same way. Corporate raider is
a label to attach to this person. That doesn't infer anything negative, however.
Bry. and other vine people can certainly be leaders
in the business world. The more interesting question is why they are a leader
and a successful business person who is driven into Type A behavior
(industrious, a mania for work, a workaholic), however.
A vine
person achieves business success for the reasons of security. Security means
being top dog. Means bringing in sufficient amounts of money. All this equates
with stability, then, in their psyche. Materialism means security and
stability. Where Bry. gets in trouble is that they
get in over their head is that they are working so hard, perhaps 12 - 16 hours
a day, 5 7 days a week, that they go
into an exhaustion phase.
Their mind
(the gourd family / Bry. has a berry that is round.
Round symbolizes the head, also) goes to 'mush' and they can't think their way
out of a paper bag, much less do any counting of money or checking their stock
portfolio! Like all vines, there is a terrible inner insecurity to them. They
cannot stand on their own two feet. No, they need the help, stability and
support of others (bush, shrub, trees or family, business partner or spouse).
That's a terrible realization to make that one cannot ever do anything without
support from somewhere else.
Consequently,
vine / Bry. has fear of poverty (her stability will
be yanked out suddenly from her without warning and she, the vine, looses her
security), anxiety about the future (every vine worries about the day their
unsteady superstructure might fold their tent and go away), and mental
insecurity (because they did not climb up to the top on their own - they had a
lot of people, i.e., brush, shrubs and trees, to get there to the top). Bry. may project a prodigious confidence, but inside s/he
is worried that others might see through her and see where her weaknesses are
located.
Every vine
is anxious about their stability. And why not? They should! Whatever the vine
climbed up on, could die and then it will find itself no longer in the air, but
on the ground. Some vines are very aggressive, move fast, and take over a lot
of territory in a short amount of time. Bry. alba is
one such vine.
The fact
that they can grow several yards in a summer, is pretty amazing. This is a fast
plant, a take-over raider-vine, and so is the Bry.
person. That's all they know; how to battle, scratch, scramble, climb and
strive to get to the top of the heap to the get the sunlight. And their
reputation is everything to them; to be on top, to be seen as the best. Top
dog.
Interestingly,
Bry., even when delirious with a fever, will mutter
incoherently about business! Because business, to them as a vine person, is
where and how they can survive! Because Bry. loves
direct, full sun, the vine-person prefers light, airy rooms in which to work.
Like most vines, they like to be left alone (of course, a vine doesn't want any
intruders sneaking in on their territory they've claimed). They do not like the
company of others. They are best when left alone. Vine people, in general, are
very sensitive people.
If you look
at their tendrils, which are very tender, soft and delicate (although usually
super strong despite their initial appearance....) they need an environment
that is quiet, secure, with no one bothering them. Music, children laughing,
talking or crying, or noise of any kind, offends them. Vine people see other
people barging in and intruding upon them as an offensive attack. Much like a
vine that is in place being taken on by another plant, and then it feels
panicked, intimidated and anxious about its survival. Vines don't like a lot of
movement. Once they have wrapped their tendrils around a more stable object,
they hate displacement or movement of any kind for obvious reasons. Bry. < movement/bending forward/with exercise. How like
a vine! Bry. > rest and pressure applied to the
affected part.
I find
vines like pressure - they press themselves flatly and fully against the stable
shrub, bush or tree. So, pressure equates with stability, and something healthy
in their psyche of survival.
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