BELLADONNA



Determination of blood to the head; red cheeks.

Rush of blood to the head; pulsation of the cerebral arteries, and a throbbing in the interior of the head (after five minutes).

Strong rush of blood to the head, with beating in the temples, and burning in the eyes.

Congestion of blood to the head, with danger of apoplexy.

Congestion of blood to the head, with bleeding of the nose and extreme dulness.

A shepherd died comatose twelve hours after eating the berries.

At the autopsy the blood vessels of the head were gorged.

Ebullition of the blood towards the head, without internal heat of the head; when he leaned the head backwards it appeared to him as if the blood rushed into it.

Confusion as if intoxicated.

Confusion of the head as though from much brandy and tobacco.

Confused head and intoxication, as from wine-drinking, with bloated, red countenance.

During a sudden rigor, great confusion of the head and sight, red eyes and swollen face, which is covered with very small, irregularly shaped, dark-red spots, especially on the forehead, (Case 19).

Constant confusion of the head and drowsiness (after four hours).

Confusion of the head, with swelling of the glands in the nape of the neck (after six hours).

Dull, uneasy sensation all over the head (after half an hour).

Sense of dulness and turning in the head; she felt better in the open air, worse in a room (after quarter of an hour).

Dulness of the head, with fatigued, torpid, besotted feeling.

Weariness of the head; inability to raise and head after stooping Head heavy (second day).

Heavy, pressing feeling in whole head (after five and a half hours).

Head heavy all day (first day).

He feels his whole head heavy, as if from intoxication.

His whole head feels so heavy that he seems about to fall asleep; he is not disposed to do anything.

Head felt heavy on rising in morning (after eight and a half hours).

On stooping, the blood mounts to the head, which becomes heavy as if giddy.

Feeling of heaviness and fluctuation in the head, as if there was a vessel of water in it.

Heaviness of the head and vertigo.

Weight in the head as though he would fall.

Weight on the head, with dull shootings (after fourteen hours).

Inclination to lean the head against something hard and cold.

Headache.

Headache all day (second day).

Slight headache.

Violent headache, (in several cases).

Very intense headache.

Pain in the head shifting to the scapulae, (Case 8).

The pains in the eyes are correspondingly felt in the head, and often even in the heart.

Violent dull headache (soon after).

Headache as if the brain were numb.

Complains of intense pain in the head, and says that it feels enormously large.

Headache, with confusion and dulness of the sense.

Headache, with dizziness, aggravated by stooping, and, if relieved, immediately reproduced on motion.

Violent headache, chiefly in the orbital region, with redness of the eyes and face (after one hour).

Violent headache, and feeling of pressure in the eyes, which were much injected.

Pain in the head and eyeballs, which felt as if starting from their sockets.

Headache, with transient blindness.

Violent pains in the head, with swelling of the lids, heat in the face and lachrymation (after three-quarter of an hour).

Headache and weariness, the face red.

Headache and great lassitude on awaking.

Stupefying headache, with painful lassitude, bad temper, and inclination to lie down.

Headache, with burning miliary eruption over the whole body.

The headache is worse after dinner and in the evening.

The pains in the head are aggravated by noise, motion, when moving the eyes, by shocks; contact, the least exertion, and in the open air.

Continuous distension of the whole brain.

Sensation of swelling and extra-ordinary expansion in the brain.

The feeling in the head was that of violent congestion, a full, tense, and throbbing state of the cerebral vessels, identically in the same sensation as would be produced by a ligature thrown round the neck, and impeding the return of the venous circulation.

Violent pressing in the whole head from within outwards, as if it would burst (after three hours).

Headache as if the sutures of the skull were being torn open, and as if a level were being applied, whereby the head was forced asunder.

In the open air, the sensation of bursting in the head is very violent, and he is afraid to cough on account of the increase of pain it causes (after three and a half to four hours).

Headache, as if the head were screwed together on both sides, and thereby rendered narrower.

Feeling of burning and swelling in the cranial bones.

Burning in the brain, with sensation as if the bones of the head had become soft, and fallen apart.

Burning, pressive, lancinating, painful, or crampy pains in the head, chiefly in the forehead, along the orbital vault, at the nape of the neck, and on the right side of the head.

Boring and pressing headache during the day, in different places; in the evening, shooting.

Incessant drawing and expansive pain in the head, as if something in it rocked or swayed in a jerking manner.

Oppressive pain in the head (mother and child, third day).

Sensation of hard pressure over the whole head.

Pressure in the head, now here, now there, which occupies each time large areas.

Drawing pressive headache.

Pressive headache, especially in the forehead (after two days).

Pressive deep in the brain over the whole head, during and after walking in the open air.

Painful pressure in the head, especially in the lower part of the forehead directly above the nose, intolerable on stepping or treading.

Pressure and pulsation in the head, felt mostly in the forehead and eyebrows.

Lancinating headache, causing vertigo, and extending to the eyes.

Cutting-tearing pain in the head, which moves about from one part of another.

Stabbing through the head, as if with a double-edged knife, in the evening.

Three violent severe stabs through the head, from the forehead to the occiput, whereupon all previous headache suddenly disappears.

Painful shooting in the whole head, especially in the forehead.

Terrible headache, made up of dull or pressive shootings, which dart through the brain from all sides.

Throbbings in the head.

Violent throbbing of the brain.

Violent throbbing in the brain from behind forwards, and towards both sides; the throbbing ends on the surface in painful shootings.

Throbbing sensation, which for a short time alternated between the head and chest.

He compared it to the movement of a pendulum (after half an hour).

Pulsating headache, with pressure at vertex.

Jerking headache, which becomes extremely violent on walking quickly or on going rapidly upstairs, and where at every step there is a jolt downwards, as if a weight were in the occiput (after forty-eight hours).

Shocks and balancing sensation in the head, mostly when walking fast and going upstairs.

Feeling in the brain as of the swashing of water.

Forehead. Confusion of the head about the forehead, and at times a reminder of vertigo (after half an hour).

Cloudiness in the forehead, as if an oppressive cloud moved to and fro, especially under the frontal bone.

A sensation externally, as of contraction of the muscles of the forehead and eyes.

Cold sensation in the brain, at the middle of the forehead.

He was frequently obliged to stand still in walking, from the violence of the pain in the forehead; at every step it seemed as if the brain rose and fell in the forehead; the pain was ameliorated by pressing strongly on the part (after six days).

Dull, frontal headache on the left side.

Headache above the orbits, as if the brain were compressed, so that he was obliged to close the eyes.

Violent crampy pain in the frontal eminence, which extends down over the zygoma to the lower jaw.

Early in the morning, headache, as if something in the forehead over the eyebrows sank down and hinder the opening of the eyes (after four hours).

Boring pain under the right frontal eminence, early in the morning, soon after waking.

Drawing in the head towards the forehead, as if the brain would dilate.

Drawing pain in the frontal bone and in the nape of the neck, both when at rest and during motion.

Gnawing pain externally in the frontal eminences.

Oppressive frontal headache.

Pain in stooping forwards, as if everything would issue at the forehead.

A weight at the top of the forehead, which cause vertigo, and a sense as if intoxicated (after fourteen days).

Pressive pain behind and above the eyebrows in the forehead.

Headache, as if the brain would be pressed out, in the forehead, just above the orbits, which prevents the eyes being opened, and obliges him to lie down (when excessive contraction of the pupils and very weak voice), (after five and twenty-four hours).

Violent pressive pain in the left frontal eminence, from within outwards.

Tensive pressure in the right side of the forehead.

Pressive pain below the right frontal eminence, which soon occupies the entire forehead (after ten minutes), decreases at intervals, but only to return with greater violence.

Pressive pain under the frontal eminences, soon after waking, on rising.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.