Headache



Bryonia [Bry]

Vertigo and confusion of head on slightest motion; fulness and heaviness of forehead, as if brain were pressed out; with epistaxis; sticking, JERKING, THROBBING HEADACHE FROM FOREHEAD BACKWARD TO OCCIPUT; blunted sensorium; red, bloated face, (<) when opening or moving eyes, evenings, from stooping or any motion; (>) from closing eyes from external pressure; stitching pain deep in the brain, (<) when coughing; stitches in head, from forehead to occiput, on stepping hard; congestive headaches, as if forehead would split open, with nosebleed, commencing in MORNING, NOT ON WAKING, BUT AFTER OPENING EYES AND LASTING till evening; headache after washing himself with cold water when face was sweating, opening eyelids increases the pain; HEADACHE FORM IRONING; expanding pain in head, (<) from slightest motion, from constipation, after eating, when coughing; (>) by tying up the head, pressure and closing eyes. Gastric, rheumatic and congestive headaches; hemicrania, with nausea, vomiting and desire to lie down, PAIN IN HEAD ALWAYS SHIFTS TO THE SIDE LAIN ON, (<) by emotion, anger, after dinner; anxious, peevish, irritable.

Bufo-sah [Bufo-s]

Headache, (<) by light and noise, with cold feet and palpitations; vertigo as if the house were turned upside down; lancinating pains from interior of brain to eyes; pressure like two iron hands holding temples (constriction around head, heart and chest); hammering from eyebrows to cerebellum; congestive headaches, (<) after breakfast, (>) by nosebleed; profuse sweat on heat.

Cactus-grand [Cact]

Headache commencing in the morning and growing worse as the day advances, with vomiting, (>) by lying quiet; from sanguineous congestion or rheumatism, (<) by eating, any sudden motion or deep inspiration; feeling as if the head or heart were compressed in a vise and that it would burst open from the severity of the pain; heavy pain like a weight on vertex, (>) by pressure and by copious epistaxis, (<) from excitement, from sounds, hearing talking, or strong light, from wine, late dinners, etc.; right-sided headaches and neuralgias; periodic, pulsating and throbbing, with prostration and weariness from its severity; PRESSIVE HEADACHE IN VERTEX DURING MENOPAUSE OR AS A RESULT OF MENORRHAGIA; sadness and inclination to weep.

Cadmium-sulph [Cadm-s]

Vertigo rotary; tingling, digging, hammering pains in head, especially vertex; horror of solitude and of work; great heat of head, coldness of extremities, violent thirst; (<) from any motion.

Calcarea-acet [Calc-acet]

Migraine with feeling of great coldness in head and gastric acidity.

Calcarea-ars [Calc-ar]

Headache commences very slightly and gradually increases to great severity, mostly in forehead, as if it would split the head and tear it to pieces; each beat of the heart is felt in the head as if it were striking against a wedge, (<) by stooping and going out-doors; mental exertion lessens headache at first but makes it much (<) afterwards; pressive heaviness, first on top of head, then in occiput; quick motions produce vertigo; headache goes to the side not lain on.

Calcarea-carb [Calc]

ICY COLDNESS IN AND ON THE HEAD; vertigo on suddenly raising or turning head, even when at rest; stupefying pressive pain in forehead, with confusion of senses and dulness of whole head, (<) from mental exertion, in the morning when awaking, when stooping or walking in the open air, (>) by closing eyes and lying down; migraine, pain centres with such violence on top of head that she thinks herself going crazy; tearing headache above eyes, down to nose, with nausea; headache from suppressed nasal catarrh; brain feels as if squeezed and relaxed alternately; congestion of head, hammering through forehead and base of brain; throbbing pain in middle of brain every morning, lasts all day; menstrual headache; from tuberculosis, from overlifting, (<) by thinking about it, hot sun, looking up or going up stairs, getting wet, in a draught, during dentition; (>) by closing eyes, lying down, tight bandaging, cold applications, vomiting mucus and bile.

Calcarea-phos [Calc-p]

HEADACHE OF SCHOOL-BOYS AND GIRLS, now and then increased to violent attacks, particularly after mental or bodily exertions, sometimes most severe near the sutures, with diarrhoea; headache with gastric symptoms, with uterine ailments or following other sensations, in peevish or fretful children, (<) from change of weather, extending from forehead to nose, or from temples to jaws, with some rheumatic aches from clavicles to wrists, (<) when thinking about it and in mornings, from riding in a railroad car, (>) from cold washing and from mental occupation; crawls run over top of head, as if ice were lying on upper occiput; sensation of coldness and numbness.

Camphora [Camph]

Sensation of constriction in the brain, especially in the cerebellum; the pain ceases when he thinks of it; THROBBING IN CEREBELLUM, SYNCHRONOUS WITH THE BEAT OF THE HEART; AFTER SUNSTROKE throbbing, like beats of a hammer, with pulsation and sensation of constriction in the brain; head turned spasmodically to side or backward; worse from movement or in the cold air; better when lying down, staggers as if drunk; staring eyes, hurried talking, fear; forced celibacy; coldness and prostration.

Cannabis-ind [Cann-i]

Sensation AS IF THE TOP OF THE HEAD WERE OPENING AND SHUTTING, and as if the calvarium were being lifted; violent shocks pass through the brain; dull, heavy, throbbing pain through the head, with a sensation like a heavy blow on back of head and neck; (>) by passing flatus up or downward, the coffee.

Cannabis-sat [Cann-s]

COLD SENSATION AT A SMALL SPOT on the parietal bone and afterwards on other places, as if a drop of cold water had fallen on it; great fatigue after slight exertion; sleepiness during day and sleeplessness at night from heat, he feels as if hot water were poured over him; feeling of a heavy weight on back part of head, shooting forward to temples and vertex, with sensation as if TOP OF HEAD WERE OPENING AND SHUTTING laterally, begins on waking, lasts all day, (<) from noise; flatulency; great pain in small of back, (>) during scanty menses.

Cantharis [Canth]

Pains deep in the brain, with constant expression of anguish in the face, with eyes closed or without expression when opened; burning in sides of head, ascending from neck, with soreness and giddiness; (<) morning and afternoon; FEELS HUNGRY AFTER CESSATION OF PAINS; hair falls out when coming; soreness and burning in brain; heaviness in occiput, with drowsiness and incapacity of thinking; (<) while standing or sitting, (>) while walking or lying down; HEADACHE FORM WASHING OR BATHING; yellow appearance of objects; tenesmus and strangury in urinary organs.

Capsicum [Caps]

Morning headache in clumsy children, with nosebleed in bed; headache as if skull would split, when moving head, walking or coughing; bursting pain and throbbing in head, (>) by lying with head high; hemicrania; stitching and aching pains in vertex, with nausea and vomiting; weak memory; homesickness; brain symptoms after measles; hysterical headaches; absence of perspiration.

Carbo-an [Carb-an]

Headache at night, has to sit up and hold head with both hands to prevent it from falling to pieces; HEAVINESS IN CEREBELLUM, (<) in cold air, in the morning and forenoon, (>) after dinner; feet weary; mind dull and confused as after a debauch; sensation of a tornado in head, roaring in head, deafness, hearing weak and confused, he cannot tell from which side the sound comes; darting pains through head; headache from suppression of menses; weakening night-sweats on the thighs.

Carbo-veg [Carb-v]

BAD EFFECTS FROM DEBAUCHERY AND ALL KINDS OF DISSIPATION; headache in the morning when the patient awakes from sleep, dull pains at the back part of head, with great mental confusion; humming and buzzing in head as if a hornet’s nest bided there, (<) in warm room, pains from occiput through base of brain into and over the eyes, with dull heavy aching; burning pain in epigastrium; disgust for fat food and milk, which cause flatulence; belchings and borborygmi offensive; congestion of head from overheated rooms, heat on top of head during climaxis; insatiable thirst for cold water.

Carbolic-acid [Carb-ac]

Dull heavy pain running from forehead to occiput; general mental and physical lassitude; dull heavy pain through temples, with bandlike constriction over forehead; the whole head feels hot; brain appears compressed, as in a tight bandage, worse by noise, walking across room, better in fresh air; monthly headache before, during or soon after menses.

Caulophyllum [Caul]

Headache with sensation of pressure over left eye, aggravated by stooping, from light, worse from noon till night; severe pains, by spells, in the temples, as if they would be crushed together; occipital headache, with disposition to throw back the head to relieve the tense drawing feeling, (<) before or during menses, especially in nervous women; insomnia; flow scanty.

Samuel Lilienthal
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (1815-1891) was from Germany, and became a pioneer homeopath in America. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Munich in 1838. After he moved to the United States, he was hired as Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York College for Women, and also as Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at the New York Homeopathic College.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.