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nervous system
headache: nonvascular
homeopathy
remedy differential
Aconitum napellus: headache hard to describe; comes with great violence: wild tearing and burning in brain, scalp; with fear, fever and anguish; fullness, throbbing in left forehead and strong beats in right side by fits; skull feels constricted by a ligature
Anthracinum: headache as if heat was passing through head; dullness, confusion, dizziness, loss of consciousness; swelling of head
Apis mellifica: occiput, with occasional sharp shrieks; pains like bee stings; thirstless, sweat; < heat, warm room, > cold room, cold air, cold applications; pressing pain in forehead and temples; < rising, warm bed, > pressing forehead; brain feels tired
Argentum metallicum: at noon along with other troubles; pressing, burning pain in skull, esp. in temporal bones; the pain gets gradually more violent and suddenly ceases; dullness and emptiness in head; soreness of external head with stiffness in nape of neck
Argentum nitricum: constitutional headache from brain fag, feeling of expansion, as if head were enormously enlarged; wants cold air, cold drinks, cold things; craving for sweets; strange notions and impulses
Arnica montana: burning in head, in brain, the rest of body being cool; aching pains over eyes, to temples; pain shoots in head from coughing, sneezing; effects of injuries to head, concussion
Arsenicum album: periodic headache every other day, every 4th day, 7th, l4th; very congestive headache; chilly; wants body warm and head cold; throbs, burning with restlessness and anxiety; thirst little and often, < after midnight; tearing with vomiting when raising head
Belladonna: great violence, comes and departs suddenly, lasts indefinitely; extending from head into neck; congestion; throbbing in brain, violent throbbing and cutting stabs; < jerking motion (walking, going upstairs), stooping, or moving eyes; bursting pain as if brain was pressed out; < noise, light, lying; > pressure, drawing head back
Bryonia: < from any motion, when washing with cold water especially, cannot bear any disturbance, mental or physical; bursting or splitting or heavy crushing headache; gastric, rheumatic and congestive headache; when opening eyes feels as though contents would fall through forehead; fronto-occipital headache; irritable, thirsty; dry lips and mouth; < straining at stool; stitches esp. from stepping hard
Calcarea carbonica: icy coldness in and on head, on vertex; heaviness in forehead; tearing headache above eyes down to nose with nausea; head numb as if wearing a cap; cold, damp feet, < milk; stupefying pressive pain with confusion of senses; starts in occiput and spreads to top of head; stitches in head; congestion to head; chronic hydrocephalus
Cedron: attacks of headache occur with clockwork regularity; sick headache every other day at 11a.m.
Chamomilla: congestive headache; pressing, bursting pain, < thinking of it, irritable, capricious, oversensitive to pain; one side of the face red, the other pale
Cinchona officinalis: sensitive as though skull would burst; brain beats in waves against skull; heat and redness of face and head, with coldness and chilliness rest of body; brain feels pressed together from sides; < walking in cold air
Cocculus indicus: headache as if skull would burst; sick headache with vertigo; thought or smell of food nauseates; pulsating pains, vertex or temples, occiput and nape; < eating, drinking, sleeping; > rest indoors; least jar unbearable; thinking fatigues head; painful sensation as if something forcibly coming out eyes; as if opening and shutting like a door; from riding in boat, car, etc.; with colic after catching cold
Crotalus cascavella: skull compresses brain like an iron helmet; something alive walks in a circle in the head; red-hot iron stuck into vertex; pain lancinating to right temple; sleeps into headache; epistaxis and great excitement; icy feet and great coldness; has peculiar hallucinations
Epiphegus virginiana: headache when "tired out", > good sleep; constantly wants to spit
Eupatorium perfoliatum: terrible sick headache on waking; lasts all day; pain in occiput; must use hands to raise head; pains throbbing, shooting, darting, thumping
Gelsemium: congestive headache; most violent in occiput; neuralgic headache, in the temples and over eyes with nausea, < vomiting; > copious urination; lies bolstered up in bed as if completely paralyzed from pain; compels walking or rolling of head
Glonoinum: (like bell.) upward rush of blood; waves of terrible bursting, pulsating headache; < bending head backward; headache from sunstroke, < having haircut; holds head with both hands; sudden headache esp. from heat or any bright light, from hot gaslight over head; > cold air, head held high; long sleep but not short nap; < mental activity
Heloderma suspectum: very violent headache, pressure as if skull too full, as of a tumor forming and pressing inside skull; burning in brain, or sensation of a cold band round head; intense arctic coldness, as if being frozen to death from within outwards
Iris versicolor: one of the best prescriptions for sick headache of gastric or hepatic origin; always begins with blur before eyes; nausea and vomiting; burning of tongue, throat, esophagus and stomach; profuse secretion of ropy saliva; vomiting spells every month or six weeks; fullness and heaviness; cold head and face; constrictive feeling around scalp and forehead
Lachesis: violent congestion to head with vomiting and loss of sight; surging waves of pain; throbbing, bursting, sun headache (chronic), > pressure on vertex, sleeps into headache (dreads to sleep); > any discharge, < their suppression; cardiac difficulty with headache; sensation of weight and pressure; coldness of body, oversensitivity
Magnesia phosphorica: pain > heat, pressure; changing location; > rest; < least motion
Melilotus officinalis: congestion headache as bell. and glon.; throbbing with profuse epistaxis
Mercurius solubilis: congestion headache; bursting feeling; constricted by a band, as if in a vice with nausea; heat in head; head painful to touch, scalp tense; < night, warmth of bed; headache around nose and eyes; < cold, damp, draught (whether cold or warm room); dirty offensive tongue and mouth; offensive sweat
Natrum muriaticum: one of the best for chronic headache; dreadful pain, bursting, crashing headache, as if compressing in a vice; headache due to disturbance of vision; may start at 10-11a.m. until 3 p.m. or evening; periodic, every day or 3rd or 4th day, better sleep (dark and quiet); relief from sweating, when acute and violent may worsen the situation: in that case, give its acute, bry.
Nitric acid: violent headache < noise of wagons on paved streets, > riding in carriage; pain as if head were bound up; < cold, > heat and wrapping up; scalp sensitive to hat and combing hair, with falling of hair
Nux vomica: headache connected with gastric, hepatic, abdominal or hemorrhoidal troubles; neuralgic headache; headache on waking, or rising, after eating, in open air, on moving eyes; headache of sedentary persons, after coffee, tea, stimulants, alcohol; from effects of hectic living; oversensitive and touchy; pulling tension in muscles; pain causes weeping and fainting; > head wrapped up, covered, lying down, warmth and heat;
Phosphorus: congestive and throbbing headache, < heat, motion, lying down, > rest, chilly and < cold but needs cold for stomach and head; craves ice; headache most violent with hunger; violent neuralgic pain (darting, tearing, shooting), periodic headache with stiffness of face and jaws; < noise, light; from mental exertion; sensation of heat in head; tension in scalp as if bound by bandage; feels hair pulled back
Psorinum: always hungry during headache; may alternate with cough; if goes without a meal, has a headache; fullness of vertex as if brain would burst out; congestive; no room in forehead for brain in a.m.; > after washing, eating; wakes up at night to eat something; wears fur cap even in summer, worse uncovering head
Pulsatilla: throbbing congestive headache; head hot, > cold application, slowly walking in open air; headache connected with menses and overeating; thirstless, weeping, changeable, > motion, < heat
Rhus toxicodendron: headache as if stupefied, intoxicated; weight in head, as when stooping a weight falls forward into forehead drawing head down; must hold head up straight to relieve this; on waking and opening eyes gets violent headaches; < wetting bed, cold damp
Sanguinaria: sick headache; pain starts occiput, spreads over head to right eye, with nausea and vomiting; headache every 3rd or 7th day; sun headache; from morning to night, increasing all day, with nausea, chills, vomiting of bile; > lying down in the dark, sleep; palms and soles burn
Sepia: headache nervous, bilious, periodic, violent; > lying and quiet, often cured by sleep, violent motion, long walk in open air; < stooping, coughing, jarring, light, thinking, smell of food
Silicea: chronic sick headache with nausea, even vomiting; begins nape of the neck, goes forward over vertex to eyes, especially right eye; > pressure, lying, wrapping head up warmly, heat, profuse urination; chilly, sweats much (face and feet)
Spigelia: sun headache; starts every morning with sunrise, gets worse until noon, gradually decreases until sunset; even on cloudy days; pain from occiput to eyes, especially left; < all movements, noise jar; intolerable pains in eyeballs, feel too large for orbit
Sulphur: burning everywhere; "tight hat" sensation; > head uncovered; throbbing; periodic sick headache; once a week or 2 weeks with characteristic seven-day aggravation; Sunday headache; < motion, eating, drinking; patient is hungry, starving by l0 a.m.
Thuja occidentalis: as if a nail were driven into vertex, severe stitches in left temporal region; boring, pressing in head; pulsating in temples; not inclined to speak; dull stupefying headache, > bending head back, < stooping, tea, onions; has cured the most severe and chronic headaches after repeated vaccinations
Veratrum album: head feels as if packed in ice; feels as if ice lay on vertex and occiput; neuralgic headache of great violence; violent pains drive to despair, great prostration, fainting, cold sweat
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