Bryonia personality –Rich person with great fear of poverty under beneath and capricious state of mind
Chief action bryonia is on serous membrane, mucous membrane and liver. Serous membrane of lungs (pleura), heart (pericardium), head (meninges) and joints comes under its action. So it is useful in pleuritis , pericarditis, synovitis, meningitis etc
Under its action on mucous membranes. Bryonia produces great dryness of mucous membranes so we can see dry cracked lips, very hard stool and constipation.
Bryonia types of persons (Persons having bryonia type of personality) have very great fear of poverty in their mind. They always talk about money matters,
talking about their business and constant worrying about money.Even their dreams are centred on money or business deals. There is worry in their mind that who will take care of them in case there business fail. When they started to think about it there is one question in their mind that who will help them in such a situation of financial disaster so they always feel unsupported and insecure.
One more mental aspect of bryonia personality is Capriciousness. Always want something but does not know what
they actually want. When something is offered to them they refuse it immediately. This is observed in children mainly for toys.
Thirst is for large quantities of water at a time. They drink 1-2 glass easily at a time.
This symptom is very reliable in acute complaints especially in summer complaints whether it is diarrhoea or fever it does not matter.
Constitutionally persons need this energy are warm blooded and are very much aggravated from heat , in summer season, or from heat of the sun .
Another peculiarity is whatever may be their complaint it gets better by absolute complete rest (whether it is vertigo, joint pain, or headache ) and lying on painful parts
When they are worse?
Answer is motion of effected parts. It is the least motion which these persons can not tolerate which aggravates their sufferings. So they want to be lie perfectly quiet because even least motion of affected parts increased their sufferings.