Headache

Three main types

• Tension headache
• Migraine Headache
• Cluster headache

First class remedies

Calc-p

• Headache in school children (Nat-m, Psor) (Calc-p ₳ Nat-m)
• Headache with mental activity (Pic-ac) (Calc-p ₳ Pic-ac)

Nat-m

Quality

• Severe pressure headaches like staples or throbbing (small hammers)
• He is extremely nervous during headache
• Anemic school girls (Calc-p) (Calc-p ₳ Nat-m)

Modality

• Especially in the morning (wakes him up).
• Between 10 am til 3 pm is very significant.

• The more the headache increases, the more sweating. Sweating does not help him
• Caused by eye work (Ruta) (Nat-m ₳ Ruta)
• Caused by emotional problems (Ign) (Ign ₳ Nat-m) (Nat-m ₳ Phos)

• Left-sided headache (Spig). It looks like it's going to explode
• Sunlight headache
• Emotional problems (Ign ₳ Nat-m) ( Nat-m ₳ Phos)

Accompanied by

• Red face (Bell)
• Headache starts with blurred vision (Iris, Kali-bi, Cycl)
• Retinitis: seeing zigzag images or flashes of light with or before headache: Psor, Sul, Nat-m
• Headache extending to the chest (Con ₳ Nat-m)

• Eye pain at the same time (Onos, Arg-n)

Nux-v

• King remedy of headache esp in Irritable, Nervous, Drug/ Alcohol abusers
• Brain looseness (Chin, Spig)

Psor

• Headache amel with eating

Others

Anac

• Pain Quality
  • Fatigue headache due to Mental over work (Anac ₳ Sil)
  • Tearing pain: As if a thick and slow nail is being driven into his scalp
  • Constrictive headache: As if his head was put on a stapler.
  • Gastric headache: Indigestion + Abdominal bloating and swelling around the navel
  • Nervous headache: High irritability + Abusive + Blasphemy
• Agg with
  • Too much noise
  • Pungent smells
  • Working / Moving / Misstep

• Amel with
  • Hard pressure
  • Lying down / Going to sleep
  • Eating

Lach

• Quality
  • Explosive as if the all of his blood has flushed to his head + Whole body throbbing
  • Pulsating / Hammer-like(Bell ₳ Lach) (Glon ₳ Lach)
  • Extending to Nasal root (Kali-bi)
  • Start from Occiput
• Amel with
  • Discharge / Bleeding
  • Belching
• Agg with
  • Cloths around neck / Head (Bell ₳ Lach) (Glon ₳ Lach)
  • Menopause (Lach ₳ Sep)

Chin

• Modality
  • Agg Cold/ Open air
  • Amel in warm weather (Mang, Sul)
  • Sexual excesses (Chin ₳ Phos)
  • Amel with hard external pressure
  • Walking / Movement Agg

• Quality
  • Head bones bruised (Chin ₳ Sil)

• Sharp / Stinging Cutting pain
  • From one temple to other
  • Extending to eyes (Bell ₳ Chin)
  • Jerking headache (Bell ₳ Chin)

• Brain as if
  • Throbbing inside his head / Hitting the skull
  • Loose (Chin ₳ Nux-v) (Chin ₳ Spig)
  • Waving
  • Rotating around an axis
  • Enlarged

• Periodic headache (Once a week)

• Headache lasts for 7 days

• Tearing pain radiating to teeth or back of neck or forehead
• Terrible dreams

• Locality
  • Start in Occiput then whole head (Chin ₳ Stram) , (Chin ₳ Sil)

• Throbbing temples headache especially agg by movement
• Occiput headache (Chin, Gels, Sil) extends to
  • Whole head
  • Forehead: Sil
  • Shoulders: Gels
  • Eyes: Gels, Sil

• Anemia (Loss of fluids / Uterine bleeding) (Glon)

Ferr

• Quality
  • Pressive / Congestive / Bursting / Throbbing / Hammer-like (Ferr ₳ Lyc)
  • Sharp and stinging pain
  • Continuous headache even for 2 to 3 days

• Locality
  • Forehead eminence
  • Temples

• Modality
  • Agg with walking in Open / Cold air
  • Amel by washing the face
  • Profuse bleeding (Chin ₳ Ferr)

• Accompanied by
  • Cold feet
  • Thirst but hate to drink

Coff

• Quality
  • Pressing on his head with nails
  • Feels like his brain is falling apart
  • One-sided headache with acute smell and hearing
  • Nervous headache
• Modality
  • Motion / Walking agg
  • Any sound agg

Kali-p

• Food
  • Increased appetite with headache
  • Eating amel
  • Stomach emptiness during headache (Kali-p ₳ Sep)
  • Amel when eating or with food (Kali-p ₳ Phos), (Kalip ₳ Psor)
  • Headache due to fasting
  • Headache with nausea

• Quality
  • Sharp pain
  • Shooting pain above the eyes
  • Pressive pain As if a band was tied around his head
  • Burning headache esp in forehead

• Unilateral headache Esp behind the left ea
• Frontal headache spreading to Occiput / Temples
• Pressure headache

• Modalities
  • Pressure / Rubbing amel
  • Eye-Strain agg (Kali-c, Lyc, Nat-m, Ph-ac, Rhod, Ruta, Sil
  • Nocturnal occiput headache
  • Gentle movement amel
  • Premenstrual tearing pain

• Headache with
  • Photophobia (Nat-s)
  • Hearing sensitivity

Aloe

• Alternating Hemorrhoid and Headache +Anal Insecurity

Tissue Salt Remedies

FP:

• General headache remedy
• Cold agg
• Sunlight agg

• Throbbing / Congestion headache
• Headache with fever

KP:

• Headache of school children
• Headache of nervous, irritable, frustrated and sad people

KS: Agg in hot, crowded room

MP: Severe / Neuralgic pain

NS: Gastric headache (Nausea / Vomiting, Bilious headache, Sick headache

NP:

• Frontal headache
• Vertex headache

CP: Patient especially feels cold along with headache

CS: Headache + Dizziness

SIL: Warm amel