People of the type of Bryonia are dominated by their persistent, chronic disease; they are never happy and never well.

These are spare, dark people with characteristic sickly yellowish faces and sharpened features. Above all, they seek rest, silence and warmth, but are irritable and easily angered – qualities largely responsible for much of their illness.

Never really hungry, these people like meat, coffee and alcoholic drinks. Wide pressure over painful organs produces a relief of pain, while the dryness of their mucous membranes makes them drink large quantities of cold water.

Bryonia is very effective in the treatment of all types of inflammatory processes and diseases of mucous and serous membranes, and diseases resulting from stress and hypothermia.