ALLERGIES

ALLERGIES

Allergy is a response of the defense system to certain substances termed allergens, which usually are harmless. Allergy erupts when your body reacts to something it is abnormally sensitive to. When you come in contact with any allergen your body will defend itself by releasing substances known as antibodies. The ensuing reaction between antibodies and allergens trigger the release of 'Histamine' and other chemicals, which cause the symptoms of allergy.

Causes:

Environment: Grass pollen, animal hair, feathers, dust mites, chemicals and industrial pollutants and certain plants.

Diet:

Almost any food can bring on an allergic respons. The commonest being milk, cheese, eggs, nuts, fish and shell-fish, wheat and flour, chocolates and artificial colourants. Other factors: You can be allergic to soaps, perfumes, detergents, insect bites, antibiotics, cosmetics and jewellery.

Symptoms:

Sneezing, running nose, cough, breathlessness are symptoms of asthma due to drugs or respiratory allergens. Itching, redness, hives, blisters, urticarias, swelling of face and body indicate a skin allergy or food allergy. Stomachache, nausea, diarrhoea and vomiting is seen in food allergies. Pain and swelling of joints, stiffness is seen with drug allergies. Rarely a patient may go into ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK within minutes of coming in contact with an allergen. This is a MEDICAL EMERGENCY.

Do's and Dont's:

There are three steps to be taken when dealing with an allergy. Firstly, identify the cause or allergen Secondly, avoid it. Thirdly, if avoidance is impossible, treat the symptoms. Keep a diary and try to trace a pattern or relation between your allergic reaction and the allergen. Eg. Sneezing while doing housework could mean you are allergic to house dust. Do breastfeed your baby for the first 6 months to strengthen the immune system and avoid contact with allergens such as in cow's milk. Take steps to deal with stress, anxiety and tension as these can influence the frequency and severity of symptoms Good nutrition, balanced diet, adequate rest and relaxation will be beneficial.

Avoid Allergens by:-

Choosing fresh unprocessed food. Checking food labels for additives Taking extra care like wearing gloves while using detergents and cleaners Clean your house, or vacuum frequently to get rid of dust mites, animal hair, etc. Remember that most allergens are in themselves harmless. It is your body's abnormal response and not the allergen that does the damage. So coming in contact with the offending substance will not hurt, as long as you can control your reaction to it. Inform the health care personnel about drugs to which you are allergic to In case of severe breathlessness, giddiness, skin rash feeble pulse - RUSH TO YOUR NEAREST PHYSICIAN. DO NOT SELF MEDICATE.

Pain in chest

Extract from Analogy of pain By SATYA P

1. Pain in the right side of Chest with arrest of breathing when lying; is obliged to jump and catch breath – BORAX.
   
2. Pain in right side of Chest and shoulder, with embarrassed respiration – CHELIDONIUM.
   
3. Severe soreness in right Chest, through to right shoulder – SANGUINARIA.
   
4. Pain from right side of the Chest down arm to fingers – COMOCLADIA.
    
5. Burning soreness in right Chest, through to right shoulder – SANGUINARIA.
   
6. Pain through lower left Chest with or without coughing – NATR. SULPH.
   
7. Pain in upper left Chest – THERIDION.
   
8. Pain in left Chest, sore to touch, expectoration thick – SOLANUM NIGRUM.
   
9. Stitching pain in left side of Chest when breathing and lying on same side – STANNUM MET.
   
10. Stitching and sticking pain in left Chest, with heat – PAEONIA.
    
11. Drawing-pain through the left Chest into the back – CROTON TIG
    
12. Pain in Chest; shooting downward from left Nipple, respiration painful – ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA. 

Cholesterol And Related Precautions

Cholesterol is a type of fat found in the body and is needed for vital body functions such as building new cells, producing hormones & insulation .
The liver makes all the cholesterol which is required by the body.
Cholesterol is of two types:
LDL (bad)
HDL (good)
LDL means a high chance of cardiac disease, while HDL means less
or decreased risk
Cholesterol increases the inflammatory disease of the arterial walls called as artherosclerosis in which there is blocking of artery due to fat deposition, which ultimately leads to heart attack.
Normal levels: 200 mg|dl

CAUSES

Hereditary i.e. it runs in the families
Obesity.
Sedentary life style (no walk no exercise)
Mental stress.
Diabetes
Steroids abuse
And other diseases of the thyroid (Hypothyroidism), kidney & liver.

Sign & Symptoms

They are hard to find and high cholesterol is quite often
detected in routine tests only
Pain in chest
Obesity
Diabetes
Impotency may be due to arteries affected by excessive blood cholesterol.
Muscle pains
An increase in the blood level of cholesterol does not have any
obvious symptoms. But is a risk factor for other conditions such
as angina (pain in chest), Atherosclerosis, Heart disease, High
blood pressure & Stroke

Do & Dont's

Check your diet. Not more than 30% of total calories should be from fat.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR LOW CHOLESTEROL DIETS.
1.Do not use any hydrogenated fats e.g. ghee, butter, margarine
(unless specified), vanaspati, coconut il, and palm oil. Use instead safflower (karadi) oil, soya bean oil, sunflower oil, dietary, saffola, mazola or corn oil.
2.Avoid egg yolks and foods containing egg yolks e.g. mayonnaise,
cakes, sauces, although egg white only is permitted.
3.Avoid all foods baked with fat (shortening lard etc.)e.g. cakes,
pies, doughnuts etc.
4.Avoid whole milk, cream, cheese, whole milk curds and sweets
made with concentrated milk e.g. gulab jamun, shrikhand, Mawa,
chocolates et. Use only skimmed milk and its preparations,
paneer made from skimmed milk can be used
5.All organ meats are to be avoided e.g. kidney, liver, brain,
sweetbreads etc. Fat should be trimmed of all meat before use.
Deskin chicken before cooking. Avoid pork, ham and bacon. Avoid shellfish, clams, prawns, lobsters, fish roe, and fish liver oil. Use, fish and deskinned chicken. Meat used should be lean and its use judicious. Stews and meat stock if made earlier, can be chilled and the congealed fat should be scraped off and discarded.
6.Nuts all nuts are permitted except groundnut, cashewnuts which
must be avoided.
7.Decrease the use of refined foods in your diet, e.g. maida,
cornflour, spaghetti, macaroni etc.
Increase and include instead, high fibre foods e.g salads, greens, chapattis (made with atta), leafy vegetables etc.
8.Roast and boil foods on a rack so fat can drain off. Make use
of non stick vessels/pan and decrease consumption of fats and
oils whilst cooking

INSTRUCTIONS

1.Follow maintenance Diet-Controlled carbohydrate, controlled and
modified fat, low cholesterol
Control the carbohydrate foods that you eat. Carbohydrate (sugar and starch) foods are limited. This means that sugar is not allowed, jaggery, honey and refined foods e.g. macaroni, spaghetti, bread, biscuits should be limited. Free Foods i.e. Foods Allowed.
Clear Soup Soda
Coffee Flavoring Essence
Herbs Vinegar
Mustard Spices.

Suggestions for Meals away from Home

When you eat out daily, it is wise to select one particular restaurant some of your food requires special preparation. A regular customer is more like to receive special attention.
MEAT:
Trim off all fat. The sagest choice is a chop, steak, chicken (deskinned) or fish. Request that the meat be made without fat. e.g. Tandoori Chicken, grilled kababs, tikkas.
VEGETABLES:
Most Vegetables are not limited. However avoid those that are made in cream (malai) e.g. Vegetable Makhanwalla; cheese or whole milk. Ask that your serving of vegetables be made without fat.
SALAD:
Avoid salads with cream dressings, mayonnaise, and cheese.
Instead take Kachumber or mixed salads etc.
FAT:
Limit the amount according to your diet plan.
BREAD:
Limit according to your diet plan. Avoid, rolls, biscuits, muffins, take instead phulka, chapattis, bhakri etc.
BEVERAGE:
Skim Milk, Thin lassi (non sweet) lie juice (non sweet), fresh lime and soda,coconut water, tomato juice (not tinned, non sweet) tea/coffee (non sweet) these are allowed.
DESSERT:
For dessert choose a fresh fruit (not tinned) e.g fresh papaya slice, water melon slice, plums cherries, fresh orange etc.

Remedies And Their Uses Part 1

 Aconite

A remedy of rapid, but short action. Helps in sudden, acute conditions. Sudden fevers, with quick, hard pulse. Pulsations and throbbings all over. Restlessness.
Anxiety. Fear.
Forebodings. Fear of death. Agonized tossings. Worse at night.
Early stages of acute sickness; and for temporary distress during sickness. Acute effects of fright, shock, chill, emotion.

Antimonium TART

Much wheezing. Can't get phlegm up; lungs filling. Dusky face, blue lips and nails. Chest troubles, especially of children and old people (with these symptoms). Hates touch and interference. Head thrown back. Nausea and drowsiness. No thirst as a rule. The eruption of Ant. Tart. is pustular.

Argentum Nit

Funk, as examination funk. Ailments from anticipation. Worry and anticipation, as before making a speech, etc. (but without the restlessness and anxiety of Arsenicum.
Flatulent dyspepsia in a patient who feels the heat, and craves sweet things (which disagree) and salt. Anticipation a misery, even diarrhoea from anticipation,(Gels.)
Hurry. Fear of high places.

Arnica

Over-fatigue of mind or body.
Feels, or is, bruised.
Bed feels too hard (even fevers with this sensation). Must move for change of position. Soreness after strenuous exertion. Fear of being approached or touched-so sore.
Helps patients who, when desperately ill, declare they are quite well. Boils and septic conditions. The remedy of falls, bruises, and of overstrain, mental and physical.
Given internally; also a teaspoonful of the tincture in bath or foot-bath is helpful.

Arsenicum

Restless during a time of strain, or anticipation. Restless. Anxious. Fear. Fear of death.
Mentally, like Aconite, but less excited; and more collapsed. A more deep-acting remedy. Great prostration.
Diarrhoea and vomiting, incessant and prostrating; often simultaneously. Face drawn and anxious. Burning pains, relieved by heat. (Phos. burning pains relieved by Cold.)
Abdominal symptoms brought on by eating Ices: By Fruit :
By TAINTED Meat and Foods. Tongue dry, to brown, or black. Burning pains in abdomen relieved by heat.

Baptisia

Typhoid states and conditions.
Typhoid fever.
Influenza, with gastric and bowel troubles. Influenzal pneumonia. " Typhoid pneumonia." Drowsy. Comatose.
Falls asleep while answering. Bed or dusky-red face. Besotted appearance.
Bed feels hard.(Arn) In delirium, may feel as if limbs scattered about: tries to get the pieces together.
Mouth and tongue dry-foul. Stools offensive. Putridity. Low types of disease, of very rapid onset.

Belladonna

Fevers and inflammations, with parts Red-Hot-Swollen-Dry.
Patient flushed. Eyes bright: pupils dilated. Dry, burning heat of skin-throat-face. Skin so hot, almost burns the examining finger.
Belladonna delirium is of a violent type. Bell. pains are throbbing in character. Jerks and twitches in sleep. Early stages of all inflammations. (May abort whitlow, etc.)
Fevers of the Scarlet Fever type.
Scarlet Fever, to prevent-abort-or modify. In inflammations, visible parts red, hot, swollen, throbbing, dry. Sunstroke. (Glonoine.)

Bryonia

Fevers and inflammations-lungs, pleura joints, meninges of brain, with Bry. symptoms, i.e.,Worse For Movement: for respiration. Better for pressure. Wants to lie still and be let alone.
In nausea, in vomiting, in faintness, worse from even raising the head. All conditions worse from movement, and better for pressure.
Dry, painful cough. Dry mouth. Small, dry, hard, dark stools. Tongue white coated. Thirsty. Irritable.
Sharp stitches in chest, with respiration. A great remedy of pneumonia or pleuro-pneumonia, with above symptoms.

Calcarea

Chilly, clammy, perspiring. The slow, lethargic type of patient.
Nervous: every kind of fear.
Head sweats: at night (Sil.): Face sweats: chest. Cold, clammy hands and feet, Teething children fair, fat, flabby, of plus quantity, minus quality: fat, not strong.
Troubles of skin-chest-nerves-joints- abdomen: bronchitis: diarrhoea, in people or children of the Calc. type.

Cantharis

Burning, scalding urine, with cutting pain during urination. (Any disease, even pneumonia, with this.)
Urging, straining, to pass water: or dribbling. Inflammation of bladder: and genito-urinary tract.
Skin inflamed, blistered. Insect bites with great inflammation, and burning (here give a, few doses internally).
Also for the pain of burns (Urtica urens).

Chamomilla

Intolerant of pain or discomfort. Irritable. Cross. " Impossible." Wants a thing, and throws it away.
Extreme restlessness and ill-humour with the pains, in mouth-abdomen-limbs. Frantic toothache.
Teething babies scream and must be carried. Diarrhoea with this "Cannot bear it! "temper. Fevers at 9 a.m. with the Cham. temper.

Colocynth

Waves of violent griping or clutching abdominal pain. Colic, doubling him up. Relief from doubling up, and pressing hard into abdomen; and hot bottle. (Mag. Phos.) Diarrhoea, with much colic and wind.
Dysentery, with much pain; better for doubling up and pressure. One of the remedies for sciatica and neuralgia.

Crotalus HOR

Blood poisoning. Abscesses, boils, septic conditions. Haemorrhages: with decomposition of blood.
Skin yellow. Great prostration. Bleeding; even from every orifice of body.

CUPRUM
Cramps and colic. Diarrhoea, with cramps. Cramps; also in calves, fingers, etc. Cholera with severe cramps.
Epilepsy where it starts with cramps in fingers.

Remedies And Their Uses Part 2

DROSERA

Whooping-cough. Laryngitis. Diseases of bones, joints, glands in persons with tuberculous family history.
Always give one dose and wait for weeks (even months in chronic disease) before repeating.

EUPATORIUM

Fevers of the " break-bone " type. Malaria, with severe bone and muscle pain. Influenza, with severe bone pains. Fearful headache, worse for moving. Attacks begin 7 to 8 a.m. Bilious. Jaundiced. Influenza with these "break-bone" symptoms.

GELSEMIUM

Severe headaches.
Fevers.
Influenza, and influenza colds. Eyelids heavy. Limbs heavy, aching. No thirst.
Chills up and down back. Colds with heaviness and aching. Measles.
Fish poisoning, with face like measles.

GLONOINE

Sun-headaches. (Bell.)
Sunstroke.
Concussion, and injuries to head. (Arnica.) Waves of terrible, bursting, throbbing headache. Sudden upward rushes of blood to head. Head feels as if it will burst. (Bell.) Violent palpitation. Worse for motion, jar. (Bell.)

Hepar

Boils. Abscesses, (Silica Sulph.) Unhealthy skin: will not heal. (Silica.) Pain and trouble in ear. (Puls.)
Sticking pains in throat, swallowing. Cough, with extreme sensitiveness to draughts and chill. (Nux.)
Sores sensitive: temper sensitive. Choleric"-even violent. (Nux.) Croup (with Acon. and Spong.).

HYPERICUM

Injuries to head, to spine, to coccyx.
Injuries to Nerves. Injuries to soft parts, where skin is broken and Arnica cannot be applied. Injuries to parts rich in nerves, fingers, lips, etc.
To relieve pain and inflammation, and to promote easy suppuration (in boils and abscesses).
Apply to very painful piles. (A few drops in water, saturate a wee bit of rag, and push it up against the piles at night.) (Ham.)
Apply to cuts, lacerations, punctures (Ledum). Two drops to the ounce of water, to saturate gauze or lint. Use also internally, a few pellets four-hourly.

Lachesis

Septic conditions. (Crot. h.) Abscesses.
Whitlow. Septic wounds. The parts, or the patient apt to be dusky, or bluish.
Septic sore throats, especially left-sided. Diphtheria of left throat, without the mercury dirty tongue.
Throat very sensitive, even where little is to be seen. Cannot bear anything near, or to touch, throat.

Sleeps into an aggravation of his complaint. May be loquacious, suspicions, jealous.
Speech hurried: or abnormally slow. Snake bites.
Insect bites that are rather blue. Ulcers, bluish surroundings.

IPECACUANHA

Spasmodic cough. Asthma. Wheezing. Diarrhoea-stools green, or bloody stools-bright blood. With Nausea.
Complaints with nausea unrelieved by vomiting.

Ledum

Punctured wounds, from stepping on nails; stings of insects. Bites of animals.
Later on, if there are shooting pains and threatened lockjaw, use Hypericum (which see).
Rheumatism, where, with a chilly patient, the pains are relieved by cold applications. (Puls.) " Black eye " from a blow.

Lycopodium

Worse afternoon 4 to 8 p.m. Right side ailments; may cross to left side (in diphtheria, etc.). Patient loves sweet things, hot drinks.
Anticipation is a misery. (Arg. nit.: Gels.: etc.)
Hunger, but a little food fills stomach. Fullness and distension after food. Must loosen clothing. Worse from heat: from cold drinks.

Mercurius Cor

Diarrhoea.

practically specific. Tormenting straining, before, with, and after stool.
"Never-get-done " sensation. Stools of blood; of bloody, shreddy slime.
Scanty
Straining in bladder also. Hot urine, passed drop by drop, with much straining.
Flabby, tooth-notched tongue. Swollen tongue. Salivation. Inflammation of bladder. {See Cantharis.)

Merc. CYAN

Almost a specific for Diphtheria.
Septic sore throats, with foul mouth and tongue.
One, or many small white patches on tonsils (follicular tonsillitis), with foul mouth and high temperature.
Give three doses, six hours apart, to prevent diphtheria, where there has been risk of infection.
(A wonderful remedy for syphilitic manifestations and sores. Here give one, or three doses six-hourly, and wait four or five weeks before repeating.)

Mercurius(Merc. Sol.)

Profuse, offensive sweat in fevers, etc. Sweat does not relieve. Mouth and tongue very foul. Salivation.
Rheumatism, influenza, pneumonia, etc., with offensive sweat and foul tongue. Itching eruptions worse at night.

Natrum Mur

Malaria. (See Eupatorium and Arsenicum.) Recurrent attacks of malaria, best given between attacks.
ILLNESSES, and poor health, Following Much Malaria, and Much Quinine. A Natrum mur. malaria begins about 10 a.m.
Severe backache, only relieved by lying on back on a hard cushion. Influenza, with this form of backache. Headaches, maddening, bursting, or hammering in character.
May start, with " fiery zigzags." (Sepia.) The typical Natrum mur. patient is irritable, weeps easily, hates fuss, craves salt, is very affected by the sun.
(It helps the diseases of great salt-eaters.)

Nux VOM

Excitable. Choleric. Impatient. Irritable. Hypersensitive.
Active. Intense. Nervous. Gastric upsets and constipation in persons of such temperament.

Abdominal spasms.
Constipation, with constant desire for stool, and little result; irregular peristalsis. Helps where there is a craving for, or where patient is worse for, alcohol, seasoned foods, coffee.

Phosphorus

Congestions. Haemorrhages. Small, easy bleedings of bright blood (nose, chest, anus). Easy bruising-even to purpura. (Lach.) Vomiting.
Craves cold drinks (which may be vomited when they become warm in stomach). Burning pain in stomach, relieved by cold drinks and ices (reverse of Arsenic). Often craves Salt. (Natrum Mur.) Vertigo.
Feeling as if feet rose in air. Chest tight. Pneumonia, with spitting of bright blood, or " prune juice " expectoration.
The Phos. patient is worse for cold (except for stomach and headache, which are better for cold). Worse for lying on left side. Nervous.
Nervous alone. In the dark. Fear of thunder: disease: death. Dysentery, with gaping anus. Diarrhoea, with gaping anus. Suits the tall, slender, artistic type of patient. Very sensitive and nervous.

PULSATILLA

Changeable disposition.

Loves sympathy and fuss. Timid. Shy. Irritable, jealous, suspicious. Worse for external warmth (except sometimes, the pains). Craves open air. Not hungry: not thirsty.
Bad taste. Ailments worse for eating. Flatulence: stomach and abdominal pain. Easy diarrhoea. Stools generally loose. In rheumatism, pains wander.
Great remedy in catarrh: in women's troubles. Menses begin late: are often late, scanty, irregular, even suppressed.
Curative in skin, joint, chest, digestive troubles, in patients with the Pulsatilla mentality. Measles (Gels.).

Rhus tox

A tendon remedy. Sprains. Acts on fibrous and muscular tissues. Rheumatism, lumbago, stiff-neck. Peri-articular rheumatism, worse first moving.
Fevers, with Rhus symptoms, viz. Tearing pains. No rest in any position. Worse from cold, damp, uncovering, washing.
Better for warmth, change of position, motion-after first painful start.
Eruptions, erysipelas, with the Rhus restlessness, and sensitiveness to wet and cold-and aggravation from washing and bathing.

Sepia

Indifferent: to family, to loved ones (Phos.), to occupations, to pleasure. Depressed, but intolerant of sympathy weeps with sympathy. " Only wants to get away and be quiet."
Intolerant of Noise, Smells, smell of cooking (Ars. Coco. Colch.). Feels the cold, but must have open air. Belief from eating.
Sweat (of feet, cold; of armpits, often offensive), A great remedy in all complaints of women during pregnancy and lactation.
"Bearing-down pains," worse standing (better standing, Puls.). Sepia may be needed in cough, asthma, malaria, skin and joint diseases, etc., but only in patients with the typical "Sepia symptoms.
Backache better for pressure (Nat. mur.). Aversion to fats (Puls., Nat. mur.); desire for sour things-vinegar.

Silica

Want of self-confidence. Lacks grit and enterprise. Mental labour and concentration difficult. Chilly.
Sweating: of head at night (Gale.), of feet, often offensive. Suppressed foot sweat. Skin heals badly. Small wounds fester (Hep.).
Boils: whitlows: suppurations: septic conditions. (Lach., Crot. h., etc.) Tends to extrude foreign bodies, and so promotes healing of wounds.
Was extraordinarily useful in War wounds. Children who don't grow, don't thrive, lack grit and stamina and application: are chilly and sweat.
(In sepsis very like Hepar: but Hepar is violently choleric and irritable: Silica in mentality is as above.)

Sulphur

Red orifices; lips esp., eyelids, anus, if inflamed.
Boils, skin troubles, piles. Morning diarrhoea or constipation; stools too large, and painful.
The typical Sulph. patient is worse for heat. Loves fat, which may disagree: salt: sweets. Feet burn at night: puts them out. (Puls., Cham. Medorrh.)
Starving at 10 or 11 a.m. Always wants to sit down. Stoop-shouldered. Untidy.-Worse for bath-hates bath and washing.
The " ragged philosopher " type. In such patients occasional doses of Sulph. will help, whatever is the matter.
Useful after measles: after cerebral haemorrhages.

VERATRUM Alb

Excessive vomiting, purging.
Excessive cold sweat. Diarrhoea, with above. Cholera, with excessive evacuations, and excessive cold sweat.
Cold sweat on forehead. Faintness or collapse. Sudden, excessive evacuations, with cold sweat.
Rapid sinking of forces: complete prostration (Comp. Ars.).
Neuralgia of head, with sensation of a lump of ice in vertex.
Attacks of pain with delirium, driving to madness.

Characteristics

ARSENICUM. When teeth are drawn by the dentist, and dark blackish blood squirts out.  TIETZE.

CALC-CARB. Mumps on the right side.

KALI BICHR. Mumps on the right side. LIPPE.

LACHESIS. Mumps on the left side.  MARTIN.

MERCURIUS. Mumps on the right side.  LIPPE.

RHEUM. Colic before the discharge from the bowels. TEMPLE

RHUS TOX. Mumps on the left side.  LIPPE.

SQUILLA. The loose cough in the morning is more fatiguing than the dry in the evening

Bryonia Alba

"The typical Bryonia personality is not the artist or scientist or philosopher, the explorer of beauty or the unknown, who disregards the material basis of his existing a safe basis for his economic existence he becomes irritable, angry, anxious, depressed, always on the lookout for something which promises a hold to provide stability and security. ...Worried about his security, he holds on to his back, he holds on to his belly, he holds on to his pocket-book."

"Rich and competent though he is, he fears poverty, he may be slow on the uptake but how persistent; he can follow through with large projects, his obstinacy is an aid, his choleric disposition an added strength. The Bryonia types are not negative; they are a bursting people which their pains symbolize. They are better under pressure, in mind as in body. They are a mighty folk and can produce real end results in the world."

"His depression started after he stopped working. He cannot accept the fact that he is unable to work anymore. His work was his hobby and now he feels he is a misfit. 'I sit behind the window, and other people see me walking around and I have less income than them.' Regarding his income he says he had always tried to improve his turnover. He had changed his job several times in order to make more money."

= FEAR OF POVERTY. 

TALKS CONTINUOUSLY ABOUT HIS BUSINESS. 

Constant worrying about money.

• "Dreams all night very vividly of anxious and careful attention to his business."

• "In his dreams he is occupied with household affairs." [Hahnemann]

= Irritability when disturbed; wants to be let alone.

• "Cross; imagined she could not finish her work." "Too busy; she wishes to undertake and to work at too many things." [Hahnemann]

• "Bryonia patients are withdrawn into themselves, purposely isolated from social contact. Always in the background is a deep feeling of insecurity, a sense of vulnerability and weakness. It is this that leads them to seek isolation. They do not want to be intruded upon, and they are quite content to live alone. ... It seems to me that the insecurity arises out of the lack of social contact in Bryonia patients. They do not allow themselves the sense of security that can be derived from family, friends, community, etc. Bryonia patients are responsible people; they usually take the greatest share of responsibility for their families, for instance, but then they wonder who will take care of them in case of financial disaster. They feel unsupported and insecure." [Vithoulkas]