Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Ammonium Carbonicum |
Suitable for stout women who are always tired and
weary, take cold easily and lead a sedentary life
Too frequent and profuse menses
Very sensitive to cold air
Great aversion to cold water; can not bear to touch it
Heaviness in all organs
Uncleanness of bodily habits
Prostration form trifles
Pulsating forehead; better pressure and in warm room. Shocks through
head
Pressing teeth together send shocks through head, eyes and ears
Stools difficult, hard and knotty
Burning, acrid, watery leucorrhoea
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Evenings
From cold
Wet weather
Wet applications
Washing
During 3 to 4 pm
During menses |
Lying on painful side and on stomach
In dry weather |
| Ammonium Valerianicum |
Suitable for nervous hysterical people
Great nervous irritability
Headaches
Sleeplessness
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| Anacardium |
Impaired memory, depression, irritability
Diminution of senses
Aversion to work
Lacks self confidence
Irresistible desire to swear and curse
Pressing pain in head, as from a plug; worse after mental exertion;
better during a meal
Menses scanty
Anxious dreams |
On application of hot water |
From eating
When lying on side
From rubbing |
| Anhalonium |
Head aches with disturbed vision; fantastic,
brilliant, moving colored objects
Pupils dilated
Vertigo
Brain tired
Exaggerated reverberation of ordinary sounds |
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| Argentum Nitricum |
Inco-ordination, want of balance and loss of
control
Trembling
Great desire for sweets; desire for cheese and salt
Splinter like pains; pains increase and decrease gradually
Sensation as if a part were expanding
Withered up and dried constitution
Intolerance to heat
Sensation of sudden pinch
Headache with coldness and trembling
Headache from mental exertion, dancing
Aching in frontal eminence, with enlarged feeling in corresponding eye
Boring pains in head; better on tight bandaging and pressure
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Warmth in any form
At night
from cold food
Sweets
After eating
During menses
From emotions
Left side |
From eructations
Fresh air
Cold
Pressure |
| Asparagus Officinalis |
Aching in forehead and root of nose
Migrainous morning headaches with scotoma
Peculiar odor of urine |
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| Avena Sativa |
Nervous headache at menstrual period, with burning
at top of head
Occipital headache, with phosphatic urine
Nervous exhaustion
Sexual debility
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| Belladonna |
Pain in head with fullness, especially in forehead,
also occiput and temples
Headaches from suppressed catarrhal flows
Headache worse light, noise, jar, lying down and in afternoon; better
by pressure and semi erect posture
Bores head into pillow
Draws head backwards and rolls from side to side
Headaches worse on right side and when lying down; from colds, having
hair cut
Hot, red skin
Flushed face
Glaring eyes
Throbbing carotids
Excited mental state
Hyperasthesia of all senses
Restless sleep
Dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water
Great children's remedy
Violent and sudden attacks
Averse to meat and milk
Urine dark, turbid and loaded with phosphates
Menses bright red, too early and profuse |
Touch
Jar
Noise
Draught
Afternoon
Lying down |
Semi erect |
| Bryonia |
Stitching, tearing pains; worse by motion, better
rest
Irritable
Pressive headaches
Bursting, splitting headaches, as if everything would be pressed out;
as if hit by a hammer from within; worse motion, stooping and opening eyes
Headaches becomes seated in occiput
Headache; worse motion, even of eyeballs
Frontal headache with frontal sinuses involved
Dry, parched lips and mouth
Excessive thirst; thirst for large draughts
Stools large, dry and hard
Suitable for a robust, firm fiber and dark complexion, with tendency to
leanness
Slowly developing complaints
Urine red, brown, like beer; scanty and hot
Menses too early and profuse
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Right side
Evening
Open air
Warm weather after cold days
Warmth
Any motion
Morning
Eating
Exertion
Touch
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Lying on painful side
Pressure
Rest
Cold things |
| Caff Citr |
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| Calcarea Acetica |
Migraine with great coldness in head and sour taste
Senses obscure while reading
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| Calcarea Carbonica |
Sense of weight on top of head
Headache with cold hands and feet
Headache from over lifting, from mental exertion, with nausea
Headache; better sneezing
Increased perspiration
Gets out of breath easily
A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork
Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence
Takes colds easily
Fat, fair, flabby, cold, damp and sour
Aversion to meat, boiled things, fat
Craving for indigestible things like chalk, coal, pencils; eggs, salt
and sweets
Milk disagree
Thirst; longing for cold drinks
Urine dark, brown, fetid, profuse, with white sediments
Menses too early, profuse and too long
Milky leucorrhoea
Dreams of dead
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From exertion, mental or physical
Ascending
Cold in every form
Water
Washing
Moist air
Wet weather
During full moon
Standing |
Dry climate and weather
Lying on painful side |
| Cannabis Indica |
Feels as if top of head were opening and shutting
and as if calvarium were being lifted
Shocks though brain
Throbbing and weight at occiput
Headache with flatulence
Migraine attack preceded by unusual excitement and loquacity
Urine loaded with slimy mucus
Menses profuse, dark, painful, without clots
Dreams of dead bodies; prophetic
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Morning
From coffee
Liquor
Tobacco
Lying on right side |
From fresh air
Cold water
Rest |
| Carbolicum Acidum |
Headache like a band; tight feeling as if
compressed by a rubber band
Orbital neuralgia over right eye
Headache, better by green tea; while smoking
Terrible pains; come and go suddenly
Feeble pulse
Depressed breathing
Increased olfactory sensibility
Mental and bodily languor
Disinclination to study
Desire for stimulants and tobacco
Urine almost black, containing sugar
Menses offensive
Leucorrhoea irritating causing burning and itching
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| Cedron |
Useful in tropical or damp, warm, marshy countries
Adapted to persons of a voluptuous disposition, excitement, nervous temperament
Pain from temple to temple across eyes
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| Chionanthus |
Headaches; neurasthenic, periodical sick, menstrual
and bilious
Pain in forehead, chiefly over eyes
Dull frontal headache, over root of nose, over eyes, through temples,
worse stooping, motion, jar
Large amount of high specific gravity of urine; bile and sugar in
urine; very dark |
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| Cimicifuga Racemosa |
Useful in rheumatic, nervous patients
Muscular and crampy pains of neurotic origin
Pains like electric shocks here and there
Wild feeling in brain
Shooting and throbbing pains in head after mental worry, over study, or
reflex of uterine disease
Waving sensation or opening and shutting sensation in brain.
Brain feels too large
Pressing out pains in head
Menses profuse, dark, coagulated, offensive; always irregular |
Morning
Cold
During menses
The more profuse the flow, the greater the suffering
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Warmth
Eating |
| Cocculus |
Esp suitable for light haired females, unmarried
and childless women, sensitive and romantic girls
Feels too weak to talk loud
Sense of emptiness in head
Headache in occiput and nape; worse lying on back of head
Sick headache from carriage riding, can not lie on back part of head
Opening and shutting sensation, especially in occiput
Trembling in head
Pain in eyes as if torn out of head
Desire for cold drinks; esp beer
Smell of food disgusts
Menses too early, clotted
Purulent, gushing leucorrhoea, between menses; very weakening, can
scarcely speak
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Riding in a carriage or shipboard
Eating
After loss of sleep
Open air
Smoking
Swimming
Touch
Noise
Jar
Afternoon
During menses
After emotional disturbances
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| Coffea Cruda |
Great nervous agitation and restlessness
Intolerance of pain, driving to despair
Unusual activity of body and mind
Especially suited to tall, lean, stooping persons with dark complexions
Tight pain in head. worse from noise, smell, narcotics
Seems as if brain were torn to pieces, as if nail were driven in head
Menses too early and long lasting
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Open air
Excessive emotions; joy
Narcotics
Strong odors
Noise
Cold
Night |
Warmth
From lying down
Holding ice in mouth |
| Crotalus Cascavella |
Frequent lancinating pains; worse cold washing
Headache after sleep
Entire skull compresses the brain like an iron band
Sensation as if something alive were walking inside the head in a
circle
Shocks in head which almost throw her off her balance
Acute lancinations in right temple
Sensation as if a red hot iron was stuck into vertex
Great desire for snow, without wanting either water or wine
Dreams of corpses and ghosts
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At night |
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| Cyclamen |
Salty Salivation
Sleepiness, moroseness and lassitude
Aching in head in morning with flickering before eyes
One sided headaches
Disgust for meat, esp pork
Desire for lemonade
No thirst all day
Menses profuse, black, membranous, clotted, too early with labor like
pains from back to pubes; flows less when moving about |
Open air
Evening
Sitting
Standing
Cold water |
During menstrual flow
By moving about
Rubbing parts
In warm room
Lemonade |
| Epiphegus |
Sick, neurasthenic and nervous headaches , esp in
women, brought on or made worse by exertion, shopping etc
Pressing pains in temples from without inwards; worse left side
Sick headaches coming on when deviating from ordinary pursuits
Headaches from nerve tire caused by mental or physical exhaustion;
preceded by hunger
Drowsy after meals
Loose stools |
From working in open air |
Sleep |
| Gelsemium |
General prostration
Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness and trembling
Slow pulse, tired feeling and mental apathy
Sluggish circulation
Heaviness in head; band like feeling around and occipital headaches
Dull, heavy pain in head with heaviness of eyelids; bruised sensation;
better compression and lying with head high
Pain in temple, extending to ear and wing of nose and chin
Headache with muscular soreness of neck and shoulders
Headache preceded by blindness; better profuse urination
No thirst
Urine profuse, clear and watery
Menses retarded |
Heat of sun
Cold and dampness
Fog
Before a thunderstorm
Emotions or excitement
Bad news
Tobacco smoking
When thinking of his ailments
At 10 am
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Bending forward
By profuse urination
Open air
Continued motion
Stimulants |
| Guarea |
Sensation as if brain were falling forwards; as
from a blow on head
Objects appear gray, upside down |
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| Ignatia |
Esp adapted to women of sensitive, easily excited
nature, dark, mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in execution
Great contradictions
Alert, nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling patients who suffer
acutely in body or mind
Can not bear tobacco
Pain in small, circumscribed spots
Head feels hollow, heavy; worse stooping
Headache as if a nail were driven out through the side
Cramps like pain over root of nose
Congestive headaches following anger or grief; worse smoking or
smelling tobacco, inclines the head forward
Averse to ordinary diet; longs for a great variety of indigestible
articles
Craving for acid things
Profuse, water urine
Menses too early, black
Dreams continue for a long time; troubling him |
Drinking coffee
In the morning
Open air
After meals
Smoking
Liquids
External warmth |
While eating
Change of position |
| Indigo |
Sensation of a band around forehead
Undulating sensation through whole head
Sensation as if brain were frozen
Excited mood and desire to be busy
Turbid urine |
During rest
Sitting |
Pressure
Rubbing
Motion |
| Iris Versicolor |
Sick headache; worse rest; begins with a blur
before the eyes, after relaxing from a mental strain
Frontal headache with nausea
Profuse flow of saliva; ropy
Deficient appetite |
In evening
At night
From rest |
From continued motion |
| Kali Bichromicum |
Indicated for fleshy, fat, light complexioned
persons
Pains migrate quickly
More useful in sub acute than violent acute stage
Headache over eyebrows, preceded by blurred vision
Aching and fullness in glabella
Semi lateral headaches in small spots and from suppressed catarrh
Frontal pain in head; usually over one eye
Bones of head and scalp feels sore
Feeling of hair on tongue
Dislikes water
Can not digest meat
Desire for beer and acids
Ropy mucus in urine
Yellow, tenacious leucorrhoea |
In the morning
Beer
Hot weather
Undressing
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Heat |
| Kali Carboniucm |
Headache from riding in cold wind
Headache come on with yawning
Stitches in temples, aching in occiput, one sided, with nausea, on
riding in carriage
Loose feeling in head
Soft pulse
Coldness
General depression
Stitches in any part of the body
Sharp and cutting pains; better by motion
Sensitive to every atmospheric change
Intolerance to cold weather
Indicated for fleshy, aged people
Throbbing pains
Tubercular diathesis
Pain from within out and stinging character
Giving out sensations
Desire for sweets
Large, difficult stools
Wakes about two o' clock and can not sleep again
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After coition
In cold weather
From soup and coffee
In morning at 3 o' clock
Lying on left and painful side |
Warm weather, though moist
During day
Moving about |
| Lac Defloratum |
Sick headaches, with profuse flow of urine during
pain.
Pain begins in forehead to occiput, in morning on rising
Intense, throbbing pain in head, with nausea, vomiting, blindness
Obstinate constipation
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Noise
Light
Motion
During menses
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Pressure
Bandaging the head tightly |
| Lachesis |
Pain through on awaking
Pain at root of nose
Pressure and burning on vertex
Waves of pain; worse after moving
Sun headaches
Headache with flickering, dim vision and pale face
Sensation of tension in various parts
Can not bear anything tight anywhere
Craving for alcohol, oysters
Constipated, offensive stools
Menses too short, too feeble
Breathing almost stops on falling asleep
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After sleep
Left side
In spring
Warm bath
Pressure or constriction
Hot drinks |
Appearance of discharges
Warm applications |
| Melilotus |
Violent congestive and nervous headaches
Headache with retching, vomiting, sense of pressure over orbits,
pallor, cold hand and feet and black spots before eyes
Head heavy, oppresses; throbbing in frontal part with undulating
sensation in brain
Sick headaches; relieved by epistaxis or menstrual flow
Fullness all over the head
Neuralgia around and over right side of head and neck
Scalp sore and tender to touch
Stools difficult, painful, constipated
Menses scanty, intermittent
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Rainy, changeable weather
An approach of storm
Motion
4 pm |
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| Menispermum |
Migraines associated with restlessness and dreams
Pressure in head from within outward, with stretching and yawning and
pain down the back
Sick headache; pain in forehead and temples, moving to occiput |
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| Natrum Muriaticum |
Throbbing in head
Blinding headache
Head aches as if a thousand little hammers were knocking on the brain;
in the morning on awaking, after menstruation, from sunrise to sunset
Anaemic headache of school girls; nervous, discouraged, broken down
Chronic headache, semi lateral, congestive, from sunrise to sunset,
periodical, from eye strain, menstrual
Immoderate thirst
Craving for salt
Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like oysters, fats
Has to wait for long time to urinate in presence of others
Menses irregular, usually profuse
Acrid, water leucorrhoea
Dreams of robbers
Great debility, most weakness felt in the morning in bed
Coldness
Emaciation most notable in neck
Great liability to take cold
Dry mucus membranes
Constrictive sensation throughout the body
Great weakness and weariness
Sensitive to all sorts of influences
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Noise
Music
Warm room
Lying down
About 10 am
At seashore
Mental exertion
Consolation
Heat
Talking
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Open air
Cold bathing
Going without regular meals
Lying on right side
Pressure against back
Tight clothing |
| Niccolum |
Periodical nervous sick headaches, with asthenopia,
weak digestion, constipation
Suits debilitated literary patients
Pain at the top of head as from a nail
Pressure on vertex , in morning; worse till noon and in warm room
Migraine beginning on left side
Thirst
Menses late and scanty
Profuse leucorrhoea; worse after urinating, after menses
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Periodically
Every two weeks
Yearly
Forenoon |
In evening |
| Nux Vomica |
For rather thin, spare, quick, active, nervous and
irritable patients
Zealous fiery temperament
Easily chilled; avoids open air
Head in occiput or over eyes; brain feels turning in a circle
Pressive pain in vertex, as if a nail driven in
Frontal headaches with desire to press the head against something
Congestive headaches, associated with Haemorrhoids
Headache in the sunshine
Desire for stimulants
Loves fats and tolerates them well
Frequent urination; little and often
Menses too early, lasts too long; always irregular, blood black
Sexual desire too strong
Can not sleep after 3 am until towards mroning, awakes feeling wretchedly
Dreams full of bustle and hurry
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Morning
Mental exertion
After eating
Touch
Spices
Stimulants
Narcotics
Dry weather
Cold |
From a nap, if allowed to finish
In evening
While at rest
In damp, wet weather
Strong pressure |
| Onosmodium |
A remedy for migraine
Want of power of concentration and coordination
Muscular tiredness
Headaches from eyestrain and sexual weakness
Sexual desire weakened
Neuralgic pains
Acts as if born tired
Head dull, heavy, dizzy, pressing upwards in occiput
Occipito-frontal pain in morning on waking, chiefly on left side
Pain in temples and mastoid
Craving for ice water and cold drinks; wants to drink often
Menses too early and prolonged
Leucorrhoea yellow, acrid and profuse |
Motion
Jar
Tight clothing
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When undressed
When lying down on back
From cold drinks
Eating |
| Paullinia Sorbilis |
Sick headaches in patients who have used tea and
coffee in excess
Throbbing headache after use of liquor
Uncontrollable sleepiness and heaviness of head |
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| Platinum Muriaticum |
Violent occipital headache |
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| Pulsatilla |
Wandering stitches about head; pains extends to
face and teeth
Frontal and supra orbital pains
Neuralgic pains, commencing in right temporal region, with scalding
lachrymation of the affected side
Headache from overwork
Pressure on vertex
Desire for tonics
Averse to butter, fat food, warm food and drink
Two or three normal stools daily; no two stools alike
Menses too late, scanty, thick, dark, clotted, changeable, intermittent
Acrid, burning, creamy leucorrhoea
Mild, gentle, yielding disposition
Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking
Changeable, contradictory
Seeks open air; always feels better there, even though he is chilly
Symptoms ever changing
Thirstless, peevish, chilly
Great sensitiveness
Wants the head high; feels uncomfortable with only one pillow
Lies with hands above head
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From heat
Rich fat food
After eating
Towards evening
Warm room
Lying on left or painless side
When allowing feet to hang down |
Open air
Motion
Cold applications
Cold food and drink |
| Sangunaria |
Circumscribed redness of cheeks
Flashes of heat
Burning in palms and soles
Burning sensations, like from hot water
Sun headaches; worse right side
Periodical sick headaches; pain begins in occiput, spreads upwards and
settles over eyes, esp right
Headaches better lying down and sleep
Headaches return at climacteric; every seventh day
Pain in small spot over upper left parietal bone
Pain in back of head like " a flash of lightening"
Aversion to butter
Desire for piquant things
Unquenchable thirst
Fetid, corrosive leucorrhoea
Menses offensive, profuse
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Sweets
Right side
Motion
Touch |
Acids
Sleep
Darkness |
| Saponaria |
Stitching pains in head, supra orbital; worse left
side, evening, motion
Throbbing over orbits
Congestion to head; tired feeling in nape
Left sided trigeminal neuralgia, esp supra orbital |
Night
Mental exertion
Left side
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| Scutellaria |
Nervous fear
Dull frontal headache
Migraine; worse over right eye; aching in eye balls
Explosive headaches in school teachers with frequent urination;
headaches in front and base of brain
Nervous sick headaches; worse noise, odor, light; better night,
rest
Restless sleep and frightful dreams
Must move about
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| Sepia |
Pulsating headache in cerebellum
Stinging pain from within outward and upward mostly left or in
forehead; worse indoors and lying on painful side
Headache in terrible shocks at menses with scanty flow
Weakness, yellow complexion, bearing down sensation, esp in women
Easy fainting
Acts best on brunettes
Feels cold even in warm room
Everything tastes too salty
Longing for vinegar, acids and pickles
Large and hard stools
Red, adhesive sand in urine
Greenish yellow leucorrhoea
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Worse after milk, esp boiled
Forenoons and evenings
Washing
Laundry work
Dampness
left side
After sweat
Cold air
After thunderstorms |
By exercise
Pressure
Warmth of bed
Hot applications
Drawing up limbs
Cold bathing
After sleep |
| Silicea |
Headaches from fasting
Headache begins at occiput and spreads over the head and settles over
eyes
Patient is cold, chilly. hugs the fire
Wants plenty warm clothings
Hates drafts
Hand and feet cold
Lack of vital heat
Prostration of body and mind
Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants
Want of grit, moral or physical
Roaring in ears
Sensation of hair on tongue
Disgust for meat and warm food
Milky, acrid leucorrhoea
Increased menses
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Winter
New moon
In morning
From washing
During menses
Uncovering
Lying down
Damp
Lying on left side
Cold |
Warmth
Wrapping up head
Summer
In wet or humid weather
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| Spigelia |
Pains beneath frontal eminence and temples
extending to eyes
Headaches semi lateral, involving left eye; pains violent, throbbing;
worse making a false step
Pain as if a band around head
Esp adapted to anemic, debilitated, rheumatic, and scrofulous patients
Stabbing pains
Very sensitive to touch
Parts feel chilly and send shudder through the frame
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Touch
Motion
Noise
Turning
Washing
Concussion |
Lying on right side with head high
Inspiring |
| Stannum |
Aching in temples and forehead
Headache worse motion; gradually increasing and decreasing as if
constricted by a band; forehead feels pressed inwards
Jarring of walking painfully resounds in head
Talking causes a very weak feeling in the throat and chest
Pains come and go gradually
Smell of cooking causes vomiting
Menses early and profuse
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Using voice i.e. laughing, talking, singing
Lying on right side
Warm drinks |
Coughing or expectorating
Hard pressure |
| Sulphur |
Ebullitions of heat
Dislike of water
Dry and hard hair and skin
Red orifices
Sinking feeling in stomach about 11 am
Cat nap sleep
Aversion to being washed
Relapsing complaints
Offensive discharges and exhalations
Beating headache; worse stooping and with vertigo
Sick headache recurring periodically
Whizzing in ears
Bitter taste in morning
Food tastes too salty
Milk disagrees
Great desire for sweets
Great quantity of colorless urine
Menses too late, scanty, short and difficult
Burning, excoriating leucorrhoea
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Standing
At rest
Warmth of bed
Washing
Bathing
In morning
11 am
Night
From alcoholic drinks
Periodically |
Dry. warm weather
Lying on right side
From drawing affected limbs |
| Tabacum |
Sick headache, with deathly nausea, periodical
Tight feeling as from a band in head
Sudden pain in head; as if struck by a hammer
Complete prostration of muscular system
Wants abdomen uncovered
Constriction of throat, chest, bladder, rectum
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Opening eyes
Evening
Extremes of heat and cold |
Uncovering
Open fresh air |
| Thea |
Sick headaches, radiating from one point
Faint gone feeling in stomach
Craves acids
Horrible dreams cause no horror |
Night
On walking in open air
After meals |
Warmth
Warm bath |
| Theridion |
Headache worse anyone walking over floor
Sensitive to noise; in penetrates the body, esp teeth
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Touch
Pressure
On shipboard
Riding in a carriage
Closing eyes
Jar
Noise
Coitus
Left side |
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| Verbascum |
Pains affecting zygoma, temporo maxillary joint and
inferior maxillary branch of the fifth pain of cranial nerves
Sensation as if parts were crushed with tongs
Pains seem to come in flashes, excited by least movement, occurring
periodically at same hour in morning and afternoon each day
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Change of temperature
Talking
Sneezing
biting hard
From 9 am to 4 pm |
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| Xanthoxylum |
Patients of spare habits and nervous, delicate organization
Occipital headaches
Weight and pain on vertex
Pain over eyes, throbbing pressure over nose, pressure in forehead
Head seems divided
Sick headaches with dizziness and flatulence
Menses too early and painful
Leucorrhoea at time of menses |
In bed
Afternoon
Evening and night
Open air |
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| Zincum S |
Nervous headaches
Burning, acute pain in head
Sensation as if a painful electric shock had gone through his head
Intolerable thirst
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| Zincum V |
Violent, neuralgic, intermittent headaches
Becomes almost insane with pain, which is piercing and stabbing
Uncontrollable sleeplessness from pain in head with melancholy
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