Pulsatilla [Puls]
General chilliness, scanty menses; bursting, throbbing or boring, stitching pains on one side of head, obscuration of sight, white tongue, nausea and vomiting, thickly furred tongue with clammy mouth and relief from cold air; shifting pains (<) evenings.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Catching cold from dampness, tearing, stitching pain in one temple radiating to ear, cheek and teeth as well as towards occiput, with heat, fulness and heaviness of head and sensation of looseness of brain, (<) after midnight and after eating, by moving head, cold air or emotions, (>) by rest in bed and warmth.
Sanguinaria [Sang]
Migraine in women who menstruate freely; excessive pains with bilious vomiting, ELECTRIC STITCHES THROUGH HEAD, toothache, earache, pains in extremities, chills, preceded by scanty and followed by copious clear urination; attacks begin in the morning and get worse during the day, reaching their acme at noon; pains are more RIGHT SIDED; ATTACK EVERY SEVENTH DAY; the veins of the suffering temple full of blood and sensitive to touch.
Sepia [Sep]
Pains over one eye of a throbbing character, deep stitching pains in the membranes of the brain, SHOOTING UPWARD OR FROM WITHIN OUTWARD; JERKING OF HEAD BACKWARD AND FORWARD; pains set in suddenly, especially in the morning, accompanied by hot flashes, stiff neck, nausea, by going into the fresh air, (<)
light noise, motion; arthritic headaches with hepatic affections, urine loaded with uric acid, and hysterical headaches in women with uterine malpositions, leucorrhoea and menstrual disturbances.
Silicea [Sil]
Rush of blood to head, GREAT SENSITIVENESS OF HAIR failing out of hair, perspiration on head, pains running from neck up into head, paroxysms end with profuse urination; headache every seventh day; VIOLENT PERIODIC HEMICRANIA, vertex, occiput or forehead, often with nausea to fainting and obscuration of sight; (<) from mental exertion, motion, even jarring of room by footstep, stooping, talking, light, cold air, touch; (>) heat, lying down in dark.
Spigelia [Spig]
Terribly pain in GLOBE OF EYE AS IF IT WERE TORN OUT; dilatation and immobility of the pupil; temporary blindness; boring, tearing, stitching pains in forehead, temples, vertex or occiput, especially left side, following the course of the trifacial nerve and producing there paretic sensations; dull stitches from within outward, on top of head, (<) from touch or after washing, but (>) while washing it; ( higher potencies work best).
Stannum [Stann]
Neuralgic headache every morning OVER ONE OR THE OTHER EYE; mostly left, gradually spreading over whole forehead, gradually increasing and decreasing; painful jerks through left temple, forehead and cerebellum, leaving a dull pressure, (<) during rest,, (>) from motion; vomiting of bile and mucus mornings.
Theridion [Ther]
Flickering before eyes, nausea (<) by closing eyes and by noise; EXTREME HYPERAESTHESIA OF ACOUSTIC NERVE; throbbing over left eye and across forehead, sick stomach, (<) on rising from lying; desire for stimulants.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Neuralgia of head, with indigestion; features sunken, fainting, with cold sweat and great thirst; pains drive to despair.
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.