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Brain – Inner Head – Chapter 3 – REPERTORY OF HERING’S GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By Calvin B. Knerr, M.D.

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CHAPTER 3.
INNER HEAD.

Apoplexy
* Brain
* Cerebro-spinal * Forehead
* Head * Headache
* Hemicrania * Mastoid
process
* Mastoid region
* Occiput * Parietal
* Sunstroke * Temples
* Vertex

Brain.

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Brain :-

Dashed
to pieces, as if :-

Æth.,
Nux-v.

Depression, cerebral

(chlorosis) :-

Chlorosis :-

Zinc.

Diabetes, in :-

Cupr.

Melancholy :-

Zinc.

Detached and loose, as
if :-

Guai.

Digging :-

Dulc.

Right hemisphere,
in :-

Arg-n.

Worse moving upper
eyelid :-

Coloc.

Dissolving, as if, with
headache in vertex :-

Calc.

Distended,
as if

(See Bursting,
Pressing.) :-
Cocc-s.

Forcibly :-

Bell.

Centre, at :-

Indg.


Drawing, worse moving
eyebrows :-

Coloc.

Dreams, racked
by :-

Kalm.

Dropsy

(See Apoplexy
serous
, and Hydrocephalus.) :-
# Amyg.,
Kali-i., Lyss.,
Zinc.

Post-scarlatinal acute
or chronic, mostly in scrofulous subjects :-

Hell.

Drunken feeling, with
fulness :-

Ail.

Dull
feeling :-

(See
Confused, Stupid.)

Anterior lobes, in,
afternoon :-

Bapt.

Constipation,
with :-

Sulph.

Frontal portion,
in :-

Ery-a.

Front, in, of, worse
from exerting intellect :-

Crot-h.

Heavy clouded :-

Syph.

Heavy pain :-

Æsc.

Measles, when,
recede :-

Gels.

Middle of where it
surges, in :-

Lyss.

Stupid, impatient,
restless :-

Plan.

Undulating pain, in
middle :-

Glon.

Dura mater :-

Tubercles :-

Hippoz.

Idiopathic
fungus :-

Calc-p.

Gorged :-

Amyg.


Effusion :-

(See
Dropsy, Hydrocephalus,
also Apoplexy.)

Electric thrill, to
extremities :-

Ail.

Embarrassment of, brain
fag :-

Nat-m.

Embolism of middle
cerebral artery, causes aphasia :-

Kali-br.

Encephaloid :-

Cocc.,
Phos.

Enlarged,
as if :-

(See
Large.)

Erethism, with
nervousness, palpitation of heart

(cardiac
hyperæsthesia) :-
Coff.

Exaltation :-

Paroxysms, in :-

Bell.

Followed by
prostration :-

Atrop-s.


Exertion :-

(See
Mental Exertion,
Chapter 1 : Mind
and Disposition
.)

Excitement :-

Alternating with
melancholy :-

Aster.

Delirium, such as
precedes :-

Bapt.

Typhoid fever,
in :-

Sumb.

Tea, after :-

Hyper.


Exhaustion

(See Anæmia,
Atrophy, Paralysis,
Softening, also Mental
Exertion
, Chapter 1
: Mind and Disposition
.) :-
Apis, Calc-p.,
Kali-br., Nux-v., Ph-ac., PIC-AC.,
Zinc.

Coma after
disappearance of old eruptions, causes :-

Zinc.

Debauch, after :-

Cann-i.

Genital weakness,
with :-

STAPH.

Grief and anxiety,
with :-

Kali-br.

Headache :-

Calc.

Head congested :-

PHOS.

Heart does not
stimulate sufficiently, vertigo :-

Dig.

Literary or business
people, of :-

Pic-ac.

Mental overwork and
constant strain on eyes, from :-

Phos.

Overwork :-

Kali-p.

Schoolteacher, of
a :-

Pic-ac.

Sleeplessness,
with :-

Nat-m.

Vertigo and disposition
to fall down, with, better in cool air :-

Phos.

Expand
and press against frontal bone, seems to

(See
Bursting, Distended,
Enlarged.) :-
Cupr-ar.

Extravasation or an
exostosis, symptoms seem to indicate that it was being pressed upon
either by

(syphilis) :-
Mez.

Exudation :-

(See Hydrocephalus
and Apoplexy.)

Fall forward, as if it
would :-

Carb-an.

With stoppage of
nose :-

Grat.

As if it fell to and
fro toward side where he stoops, sometimes stinging :-

Am-c.


Fever :-

(See
Meningitis.)

Fluid,
as if it were

(See
Liquid, Loose,
Splashing, Swashing,
Waving, also Head
water
.) :- Cur.

As if head were filled
with :-

Coff.

Fog, as if wrapped in
a :-

Petr.

Foreign substance were
inside, as though a, worse from fatigue :-

Iod.

Fulness
of

(See Bursting,
Congestion, Heaviness,
Hyperæmia.) :-
Asaf., Bry.,
Caps.

Amenorrhœa, with :-

Ham.

At base of :-

Æsc.

As if head would
burst :-

Merc.

With tendency to
sleep :-

Corn.


Grinding in right half,
walking :-

Clem.

Heat,
feels burning

(typhoid)
(See Burning,
Congestion.) :-
Calc.

With pressing in
occiput in morning, momentarily better by pressure of hands :-

NUX-V.

Heaviness :-

(See Congestion,
Fulness, Hyperæmia.)

Middle, in :-

Arn.,
Pall.

Heavy pain at
base :-

Bapt.

In front of, worse from
exerting intellect :-

Crot-h.

And as if too
large :-

Form.,
Glon.

Hæmorrhage :-

(See
Exudation, also Apoplexy.)

Of embolic origin

(after
death from anthrax) :-
Anthraci.

Causes paralysis of
feet :-

Zinc.

Hydrocephaloid :-

Carb-ac.,
Chin., Cina,
Crot-h.,
Ign., Ip.,
Merc., Phos.,
Puls.,
Tub.,
Verat.

Acute, in cholera
infantum :-

Calc-p.,
Crot-t., Kali-br., Sulph.

Cholera infantum,
after :-

Podo.

Convulsions,
with :-

Zinc.

Cholera morbus,
in :-

Zinc.

Chronic

(cholera
infantum) :- Calc-p.

Incipient :-

Chin.,
Kreos.

Indications of :-

Merc.

Scarlatina, in :-

Apis.

Softening of stomach in
children, with :-

Verat.

Summer complaint, from
exhaustion in :-

Phos.

Summer complaint of
children, condition after :-

Apis.


Hydrocephalus

(See Exudation.) :-
APIS,
Apoc., Art., BRY.,
CALC-P., Carb-ac.,
Cina, Cupr., Dig., Glon., Grat., HELL.,
Kali-br.,
Kali-i.,
Kali-p.,
Lyc.,
Merc., Nat-m.,
Puls.,
Sal-ac., Sil.,
Stram., Zinc.

Acute :-

APIS,
Apoc.,
Atrop-s., Carb-ac., Cic.,
Cupr-a.,
Dig., Hell., Phos.,
Ter.

Cholera infantum,
in :-

Calc-p.

Early and late
stages, in :-

Op.

Exudation, before
stage of :-

APIS.

Pillows, boring head
into :-

Bell.

Paralysis of right
side, with :-

Kali-i.

Respiration, with
labored, strabismus, convulsions :-

Kali-i.

Scarlet fever,
after :-

Merc.

Scrofulous children,
acute of :-

Iod.

Second stage :-

Art.

Chronic :-

Ars.,
CALC.,
Op., Ter.

Chronic in cholera
infantum :-

Calc-p.

Congenital :-

Calc-p.

Convulsions,
with :-

Art.,
Nat-m.

Dentition,
during :-

Podo.

Eruption, exanthema,
after :-

Hell.

Eruptions, developing
slowly after psoric :-

Sulph.

Eruption, after
suppressed :-

APIS.

Eyes, blindness, with
dilated pupils, staring watery :-

Kali-i.

Fever has abated, when,
difficult breathing :-

Hell.

Fever, metastasis
during attack of catarrhal or exanthematic, stage of
exudation :-

Cupr-a.

Fontanelles and
anæmia, with open :-

Ferr.

Gastro-enteritis,
following :-

Zinc.

Incipient :-

Apis,
Bism., Calc-p., Cham.

Lie with head low,
likes to :-

Sulph.

Pains worse when
awaking, after eating, in open air, better by external pressure,
lying down, and closing eyes :-

Con.

Skin, coldness of, yet
will not be covered :-

Camph.

Sopor :-

Hyos.,
Nat-m., Op.

Subacute and chronic in
scrofulous children where effusion has not progressed too
far :-

Sulph.

Threatening :-

Verat-v.

Urine, with
scanty :-

Dig.

Vomiting, with :-

Glon.,
Kali-i.

Hyperæmia

(See Congestion
and Fulness.) :-
Art., Aur.,
BELL.,
Calc., Gels.,
Hyos., PHOS.,
Verat-v.

Belladonna, after abuse
of :-

Coff.

Cold or heat, caused by
influence of :-

Glon.

Cough, from
whooping :-

Verat.

Extravasation and
exudation, with :-

Œna.,
Tab.

Inflammation :-

(See
Meningitis.)

Injuries :-

(See
Concussion.)

Irritation

(See Meningitis,
Sensitive.) :-
Cupr-a.,
Par.,
Verat-v.

Children, in,
convulsions :-

Cypr.

Cholera infantum,
during :-

Kali-br.,
Verat.

Dentition, due
to :-

Cupr-a.,
Cypr., Ter.

Gastric
symptoms :-

Tab.

Head, after lesions
of :-

Nat-s.

Insanity, in :-

Kali-br.,
Meli.

Leucorrhœa, chronic :-

Ziz.

Mania, causing
hysterical, congestion of womb and metrorrhagia :-

Croc.

Muscles, causes
rigidity of :-

Phys.

Otorrhœa, after
suppression of :-

Puls.

Reflex, from disorders
of bowels :-

Podo.

Reflex in children
during teething, cholera infantum, or scarlet fever :-

Kali-br.

Jarring :-

Rhus-t.

Motion, from :-

Mang.


Jerking :-

In left hemisphere,
extending toward parietal bone and occiput, soon after
eating :-

Nux-v.

Sharp pains in anterior
lobe above orbit :-

Stann.

Painful thrust through
right hemisphere, on motion :-

Prun.


Knives
went tearing around, as if

(in
headache) (See
Lancinating, nail,
stitches.) :-
Thuj.

Lacerated soon after
waking, as if

(See
Tearing.) :-
Puls.

Lancinating :-

(See Knives,
Nail, Stitches.)

Base, in :-

Æsc.

Deep in :-

Ign.

Deep, especially in
occiput

(cerebro-spinal
meningitis) :- Canth.

Forepart, in, worse
moving eyes, better supporting head on hands :-

Dros.

Right, worse, side,
especially forehead and vertex :-

SANG.

Large,
feels too

(See
Bursting, Congestion,
Distended, Expand,
Fulness, Hyperæmia.) :-
Ars-met., Cimic.,
Cocc-s.,
Hell.

Congestive headache,
in :-

Glon.

Pressing
outward :-

CIMIC.

In right half, as of a
foreign body :-

Con.

Passive
hypertrophy :-

Dig.

Liquid
fluctuating, as of a, in chronic cephalalgia

(See
Loose, Splashing,
Swashing.) :-
Arn.

Lobes, frontal :-

Deep-seated
pain :-

Arund.

Headache in left, at
under surface :-

Crot-h.

Feel light :-

Æsc.


Loose,
feels :-

Dig.,
Hyos., Lact.,
Mur-ac., Nux-m.

Bed, better lying in,
and from warmth, worse during motion, after eating, and in cold, and
from warmth :-

Carb-an.

Fell, as if it, to side
toward which he leaned :-

Am-c.

Falling, as if, into
forehead when stooping, without pain :-

Laur.

Head, when
moving :-

Caust.,
Croc.

Head, when moving, or
walking, better during cold weather, and when sitting still, worse
during hot weather :-

Nux-m.

Head, on shaking,
followed by dizziness :-

Xan.

Head, suddenly turning,
worse every jar, step or straining at stool :-

Spig.

Head, when stepping or
shaking :-

RHUS-T.

Stooping, on :-

Bry.

Temple, as if it fell
to left :-

Nat-s.

Lump, sensation of a
large, heavy in :-

Con.

As if rolled
into :-

Arn.


Medulla :-

Aching with subjective
tenderness of spine from cerebellum to kidneys :-

Med.

Acute atrophy with
uræmia :-

Phos.

Depressing, rapid and
direct, influence on :-

Crot-h.

Exhausted feeling of,
with subjective tenderness of spine from cerebellum to
kidneys :-

Med.

Fulness and pain in
region of, also before spasms :-

Gels.

Heat in, for a
week :-

Med.

Hyperæmia :-

Art.

Inflammation from
exposure to sun, after having hair cut :-

BELL.

Lesions, urine contains
sugar :-

Lyss.

Sharp pain on
motion :-

Med.

Paralyzed :-

Eucal.

Reduced to a soft,
pulpy mass, dark brown in color and loaded with shining greasy
particles :-

Pic-ac.

Paralytic affection
with general anæmia and venous stasis :-

Lach.

Membranes :-

(See
Arachnoid.)

Increased adherence to
convolutions :-

Lyss.

Affected :-

Atrop-s.

Meningitis

(See Congestion,
Hyperæmia.) :-
ACON.,
Æsc-g., ANAC.,
Ant-t., APIS,
Arg-n., Arn., BELL.,
Bry., Bufo,
Cadm-s.,
Calc.,
Canth., Carb-ac.,
Chin.,
Chr-ac.,
Cimic., Cina, Cocc.,
Crot-h.,
Cupr-a., Dor.,
FERR-P.,
Gels., GLON.,
Grat., HELL.,
Hippoz., HYOS.,
Kali-br., LACH.,
Merc.,
Nux-v.,
Ox-ac.,
Puls.,
Rhus-t., Sep., Sil., STRAM.,
Sulph.,
Verat-v.

Albuminuric, or
alcoholic :-

Crot-h.

Basilar :-

Carb-ac.,
CIC.,
Tub., Verat-v.

Children, of

(infantum) :-
ACON.,
APIS,
Apoc.,
Arn.,
Con.,
Gels.

Child calls for parents
who are present :-

Stram.

Changes color
frequently :-

Sulph.

Chronic :-

PHOS.,
Plb., Sep.

Chronic with effusion
of serum into cavity of arachnoid :-

APIS.

Chronic, paralyzed
parts soon fall away in flesh :-

Plb.

Convulsions, bright
light and glistening things cause :-

Stram.

Delirium, with :-

Stram.

Dentition,
during :-

Calc.

Dysphagia :-

Stram.

Ear disease, from
extension of :-

Crot-h.

Ear disease,
complicated with otitis :-

SULPH.

Eyes inflamed, wild,
staring, pupils dilated, shrinking look as if from fear :-

Stram.

Eruption, after
suppressed :-

APIS,
Stram.

External portion were
inflamed and beating painfully against skull, as if :-

Daph.

Erysipelas, with
facial, one-sided, spasmodic symptoms alternate with
paralytic :-

Stram.

Exanthematous
fevers :-

RHUS-T.

Fevers, with :-

Verat-v.

Fever, in
yellow :-

Glon.

Especially in
children :-

Cor-r.


Head, with convulsive
movements of :-

Stram.

Head, hoop-like feeling
in, worse at night, better after riding :-

Merc.

Head from pillow,
frequently lifts :-

Stram.

Head, pain in :-

Stram.

Head forward,
thrusts :-

Stram.

Heat, from, insolation,
or when child has slept near hot stove :-

Op.

Incipient :-

Kali-br.

Inclination to
vomit :-

Arn.

Irritability,
with :-

Stram.

Leucorrhœa by cold,
after suppression of :-

Puls.

Light, with desire
for :-

Stram.

Mental deficiency,
with :-

Crot-h.

Mercury, after abuse
of :-

Kali-i.

Metastasis of
erysipelas, from :-

Verat-v.

Metastasis of miasmatic
or exanthematous diseases, from :-

Bry.

Mouth, with dryness
of :-

Stram.

Nausea, with :-

Stram.

Paralytic symptoms,
with :-

Crot-h.

Pleading for
help :-

Stram.

Raving, with :-

Stram.

Rheumatic, children
under 7 years of age, epidemic during winter :-

Stram.

Scarlatina, in :-

Crot-h.

Screaming, with :-

Stram.

Scrofulous subjects, in

(dentition) :-
Calc., Spong.

Serous membranes,
of :-

Bry.,
Kali-m.

Spine, involving bony
structures of :-

Calc-p.

Stammering,
with :-

Stram.

Striking with hands and
feet :-

Stram.

Stupor, with :-

Ant-t.,
Apis,
Glon., Hell.,
Merc.,
Sulph., Verat.

Sopor, with

(child) :-
Bor.

Sun, from exposure to,
after having hair cut :-

BELL.

Sycotic or syphilitic
taint, children of, rather lean than fat, prone to eruptions which
on healing leave purple spots :-

Thuj.

Strabismus, with
intense :-

Tub.

Sunstroke,
after :-

Camph.

Stage, 1st :-

Bell.,
Gels., Glon., Verat-v., Zinc.

Stage, second, after
fully developed effusion :-

Apis.

Stage, exudation is
completed, reaction almost nil, paralysis more or less complete

(incipient
measles) :- Hell.

Threatens :-

Euphor.


Torpid
condition :-

Sep.

Torsions of trunk,
frequent :-

Stram.

Toxæmic :-

Crot-h.

Traumatic :-

ARN.,
Hyper., Op.

Traumatic, in infants
and children :-

Hep.

Trembling and
convulsive movements of limbs, with :-

Stram.

Tubercular :-

APIS,
Atrop-s.,
Calc., Calc-p., Lyc., Spong., Tub.

Urine,
suppressed :-

Stram.

Violent disposition to
strike, bite, or injure others :-

Stram.

Visions,
frightful :-

Stram.

Wet, after
getting :-

RHUS-T.

Metastasis :-

Dropsy, threatening
paralysis or, from other organs :-

Cupr.

Erysipelas, of

(meningitis) :-
Verat-v.

Miasmatic or
exanthematous disease, of :-

Bry.

Milk, of

(epilepsy) :-
Agar.

Variola, during
suppuration :-

Sulph.

Mind, sensation in
front part, like inability to fix, on any subject :-

Con.

Morning, symptoms come
on in, go off during day, and come on again in evening :-

Aster.

Motion :-

(See Loose,
Oscillation, Shaking,
Waving.)

Moved, as if, or
raised :-

Acon.

Moving, as if, within
cranium, or as if in motion when leaning against something :-

Cycl.

Moved, as if it, and
beat against skull, during motion :-

Ars.

Move, seems to, to and
fro, as if loose when moving body :-

Bar-c.

Moved, as if it, when
standing :-

Rheum.

Moving, as if, in
waves :-

Glon.

Rising, as if, and
falling, in forehead, at every step, better from pressure :-

Bell.

Stepping, painful
when :-

Dros.


Muddled, feels

(See
Confused, Dull.) :-
Sil.

In neuralgia of
scalp :-

Staph.

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