HEADACHE


Sleepiness during day and sleeplessness at night from heat, he feels as if hot water were pored over him. Feeling of a heavy weight on back part of head, shooting forward to temples, and vertex with sensation as if the top of head were opening and shutting, laterally, begins on waking, lasts all day; worse from noise, flatulency. Great pain in small of back worse during scanty menses. Sensation as if a drop of cold water falls on this or that spot of the skull; sleeplessness from general heat. Headache as if there were a stone pressing upon it. Sensation as if a heavy weight upon vertex.


CANNABIS INDICA.

Pain at mid-day forces her to cry.

Headache accompanied by flatulence continuing until he can pass flatulence up or down.

Throbbing of occiput.

Migraine.

CANNABIS SATIVA.

Type: Nervous.

Location: Forehead. Occiput. One side of head. Temples. Vertex. Brain.

Character of pain: Boring, digging, bursting, cutting, drawing, opening-shutting, pressing, stitching, tearing, throbbing, beating, pulsating.

Aggravation: Daytime; morning; motion; moving head; noise; flatulency.

Amelioration: Open air; while leaning against something.

Attending Symptoms: Cold sensation on head, as of falling of a drop of water.

Great fatigue after slight exertion.

Sleepiness during day and sleeplessness in night.

Great pain in small of back worse during scanty menses.

Cheeks red and hot.

Symptoms: Cold sensation at a small spot on the parietal bone and afterwards on other places as if a drop of 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 pored over him.

Feeling of a heavy weight on back part of head, shooting forward to temples, and vertex with sensation as if the top of head were opening and shutting, laterally, begins on waking, lasts all day; worse from noise, flatulency.

Great pain in small of back worse during scanty menses.

Sensation as if a drop of cold water falls on this or that spot of the skull; sleeplessness from general heat.

Headache as if there were a stone pressing upon it.

Sensation as if a heavy weight upon vertex.

Pressure and tension on the temples.

Compression in the sinciput from the margins of the orbit to the temples.

Congestion in the head with throbbing in the brain, cheeks red and hot.

Sensation as the scalp as if something were creeping on it.

Sensation as if drops of cold water were falling on the head.

CANTHARIS.

Location: Deep in brain. Sides of the head. Neck. Occiput. Bones of the head. Forehead.

Character of pain: Drawing, jerking, gnawing, pulsating, throbbing, pressing, lancinating, burning, sore, bruised.

Aggravation: Morning; forenoon; afternoon; evening; night; night on waking; after bathing; binding up the hair; after eating; during menses; motion; moving head; sitting; standing; stooping; talking; washing head.

Amelioration: After breakfast; lying; rubbing; walking in open air; lying down.

Attending Symptoms: Constant expression of anguish in the face.

Feels hungry after cessation of pain.

Hair feels out when combing.

Drowsiness.

Incapacity of thinking.

Yellow appearance of objects.

Tenesmus and strangury in urinary organs.

Interruption of sleep at night.

Vertigo.

Symptoms: 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; worse moving, afternoon.

Feels hungry after cessation of pains.

Hair falls out when combing.

Soreness and burning in brain.

Heaviness in occiput with drowsiness and incapacity of thinking; worse while standing, sitting, better while walking, lying down.

Headache from washing or bathing.

Yellow appearances of objects.

Tenesmus and strangury in urinary organs.

Burning in brain.

Sensation as if boiling water in brain.

Pressive lancinations in the head which disappear on walking.

Acute drawing pains in the head with vertigo.

Congestion in the head.

Throbbing in brain and heat which ascends to the head.

Drawing, jerking and gnawing in the bones of the head.

Headaches as if hair pulled.

Hair standing on end.

Headache as if coming from the nape of the neck and wishing to escape by the forehead.

Location: Forehead. Over eyes. Occiput. One side of head. Temples.

Character of pain: Bursting, cutting, drawing, pressing, shooting, sore, bruised, stitching, tearing, throbbing, pulsating, aching.

Aggravation: Evening; draft of air; coughing; after eating; from becoming heated; looking upward; motion; moving head; moving eyes; noise; during pregnancy; raising head; lying; upright erect position; stooping; cold weather.

Amelioration: Walking; lying with head high; motion.

Attending Symptoms: Nose bleed in bed.

Nausea.

Vomiting.

Home-sickness.

Loss of memory.

Hot face.

Red cheeks.

Face red though cold.

Symptoms: Morning headache in chubby, children with nosebleed in bed.

Headache as if skull would split when moving head, walking or coughing.

Bursting pain and throbbing in head better lying with head high.

Hemicrania stitching and aching pains in vertex with nausea and vomiting.

Weak memory.

Homesickness.

Brain symptom after measles.

Hysterical headache.

Absence of perspiration.

Attacks of semilateral headache pressive and shooting with nausea, vomiting, and loss of memory, aggravated by movement of eyes.

Pulsative headache.

Bursting headache worse coughing, hot face, red cheeks.

Face red though cold.

Headache in temples and forehead above root of nose with stitches over eyes and in ear.

CARBO ANIMALIS.

Type: Menstrual.

Location: Forehead. Left side of forehead. Over eyes; Over right eye. Occiput. One side of head. Right side of head. Temples. Vertex.

Character of pain: Boring, digging, burning, bursting, cutting drawing, dull, jerking, pressing, stitching, tearing, throbbing, beating, pulsating, darting.

Causes: Menstrual suppression.

Aggravation: Morning; morning in bed; morning on waking; afternoon; evening; night; after midnight; cold air; open air; bending head forward; binding up the hair; becoming cold; darkness; before eating; after eating; pressure of hat; before menses; at the commencement of menses; during menses; after menses; noise; odors of dirty clothes; reading; after sleep; after stool; touch; vaults; cellars; walking; damp cold weather; wine; writing; suppression of menses; debauch; damp weather.

Amelioration: After eating; pressure; hard pressure; lying; walking in open air.

Attending Symptoms: Nervous or scrofulous constitutions.

Vertigo.

Confusion of senses.

Changeable mood; great prostration and debility.

Earthy coloured face with copper coloured spots on both the face and body.

Feeling in the vertex as if pressed asunder; must hold it together.

Sensation as if something lay above the eyes on account of which she could not look up.

Headache from menstrual suppression.

Headache as if the head had been blown to pieces.

Headache at right, has to sit up and hold head with both hands to prevent it from falling to pieces.

Heaviness in cerebellum; worse in cold air; in morning; in forenoon; better after dinner.

Feet weary.

Mind dull and confused as after a debauch.

Sensation of tornado in head, roaring in head, deafness, hearing weak and confused, he cannot tell from which side the sound comes.

Darting pains through head.

Weakening night sweats on thighs.

Headache in morning as after a debauch.

Headache at vertex as if skull torn open.

Headache in the open air and aggravated by damp weather.

Heaviness especially in occiput with bewilderment.

Pressive headache even after a meal, forces the closing of the eyeballs.

Tension of the skin of the forehead and of the crown of the head.

CARBO VEG.

Type: Gastric. Catarrhal. Menstrual. Periodical.

Location: Bones. Forehead. Over eyes. Occiput. One side of head. Right side. Left side of head. Vertex.

Character of pain: Boring, burning, hammering, cutting, cramping, darting, stabbing, drawing, nail-like pressing, shooting, sore, bruised, stitching, stunning, stupefying, tearing.

Causes: Debauchery, loss of sleep.

Extension: Extends from nape of the neck to the brain.

Aggravation: Morning; noon; afternoon; evening; evening in bed; night; cold air; loss of animal fluids; ascending steps; bending head backward; binding up the hair; during climaxis; from becoming cold; getting cold on head; taking cold; combing the hair; suppressed coryza; coughing; darkness; after eating; from fat food; from flatulency; pressure of hat; becoming heated; during inspiration; intoxication; jar; lying on painful side; lying on right side; lying; after measles; before menses; mercury; during menses; on cessation of menses; motion; moving head; noise; sexual excesses; onanism; after sleep; loss of sleep; late hours; night watching; after siesta; sneezing; spirituous liquors; in a small spot; cold weather; damp cold weather; wine; wrapping up head; touch; exposure to sun; summer; straining eyes; stooping; changes of weather; washing head; warm room; walking; touching the hair; any overindulgence.

Amelioration: Open air; pressure; lying; standing.

Attending Symptoms: Great mental confusion.

Disgust for fat food and milk which cause flatulence, belchings, offensive flatus; flatulence, insatiable thirst for cold water.

Trembling of the jaw.

Nausea.

Altered taste in mouth, bitter or sour.

Impaired appetite.

Eructations.

Heart burn.

Constipation.

Wind.

Piles.

Symptoms: Bad effects from debauchery and all kinds of dissipation.

Headache in the morning when the patient awakens from sleep, dull, pains at the back part of the head, with great mental confusion.

Hammering and buzzing in head as if a hornets nest abided there, worse in warm room.

Pains from occiput through base of brain into and over the eyes with dull heavy aching.

N C Das
N C Das
Calcutta