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

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Better toward
morning :-

Verat.

Concussion, worse
from every :-

Hep.

Constipation,
with :-

Hydr.

Dissipation,
after :-

NUX-V.

Every morning, better
by micturition :-

Fl-ac.

Face, with flushed,
and heat in vertex :-

Podo.

Early, or at 10
A.M.

(after
suppressed ague) :-
Nat-m.

Forehead, with heat
in :-

NUX-V.

Impatient, makes
him :-

Lyss.

Morning, increasing
from, till noon, decreasing from noon till evening :-

Phos.

Mornings, alternate,
left side, into left cervical region

(asthmatic
cough) :- Chin.

Morning, in, with
palpitation :-

Nat-m.

Nausea, with, until
noon :-

Sep.

Occiput, commence on
right side of, extend over head to left eye :-

Ind.

Restless, after a,
night :-

Bell.

Rising, on :-

Cycl.

Rising, after :-

Bry., Camph.

Rising, after, worse
till noon :-

Nicc.

Rising, on, better
eating, returns an hour afterwards and lasts till noon :-

Ind.

Rising, on, early

(myopia) :-
Arg-n.

Rising, on, with
weakness, he must lie down again, continued all day and night,
better by warm foot bath :-

Asc-t.

Worse towards 11
A.M. :-

Atrop.

Sadness, with, in
morning :-

Nat-m.

Sick headache worse
in forenoon :-

Nat-m.

Slept, as if he had
not :-

Nux-v.

Sunrise, at, at its
height at noon, gradually declines till sunset :-

Spig.

Throbbing :-

Asar.,
Cob., Nat-m.,
Nux-v., Sulph.

Uteri, prolapsus,
in :-

Arg-n.

Vertigo, with, aching
and stitches in occiput, only during motion :-

Kali-c.

Vertigo, with :-

Lyss.,
Tab.

Vomiting, with, of
bile :-

Nicc.

3 A.M. :-

Bov.

5 A.M., better after
rising :-

KALI-I.

9 A.M. till
noon :-

Meli.

9 A.M. to 2
P.M. :-

Ars-met.

Until 10 A.M. :-

Lachn.

At 11.30 A.M. :-

Ars-i.

Motion :-

(See Breathing,
Dancing, Position,
Riding, Rising,
Stooping, Walking.)

Brain, as if, struck
against head :-

Rob.

Dancing, worse
from :-

Arg-n.

Exerts, when he,
himself :-

Valer.,
Zing.

Looking upward and
turning head backward :-

Thuj.

Moving, after, about
and talking much, especially in temples and side of vertex :-

Mez.

Move, on beginning
to :-

Ther.

Motion, better
from :-

Ant-t.,
Com., Con., Dros.,
Hell.,
Indg., Kali-p.,
Merc-i-f., Mur-ac.,
Nux-m., Rhod.,
RHUS-T.,
Spig.

Moving, better, in
open air :-

Asaf.

Motion, better from
continued hard :-

Sep.

Moving, better, head
up and down :-

CHIN.

Moving, worse, arms
and legs :-

Hyper.

Moving, great pain
on, from side to side, or backward, can move it forward without
pain :-

Kali-s.

Motion, worse from
least

(affection
of brain) :- Glon.

Motion, better from,
on pillow

(pneumonia) :-
Arn.

Motion, every,
jars :-

Nat-m.

Pain momentarily
disappears by change of position :-

Ign.

Pillow, cannot raise
head from, better by external pressure :-

Cinnb.

Pillow, could not
bear to have head raised from, it caused deathly sickness :-

Nux-m.

Raising, worse on,
head :-

Bov.

Rising, on :-

Cob.

Romping, after,
overheating, sweat and taking cold :-

Glon.

Shaking, better by,
head :-

Cina.

Shaking, worse
from :-

Glon.,
Hep., Nux-m., Sep.

Slightest, worse by,
of head or eyeballs

(meningitis) :-
Cimic.

Slow, better
from :-

Agar.

Stitches
worse :-

Sep.

Stitches
better :-

Caps.

Turning head
suddenly :-

Ign.

Worse from :-

Apis,
Ars-i., Bell.,
BRY.,
Cact., Calc-p.,
Caps., Chin., Cocc., Coff., Con.,
Gels., GLON.,
Iris, Kreos.,
Lyc., Merc-sul.,
Mez., Mosch.,
Nat-m.,
Nit-ac., Sil., Spig.,
Sulph., Zing.

Worse, with sensation
as if top of head were lifted off and brains were coming
out :-

Lac-d.

Music,
sensitive to

(See
Noise, Talking,
also Hearing
sensitive, Chapter 6 :
Ears.) :- Coff.,
Phos., Podo.

Nail,
as if, were driven into head :-

COFF.,
Ruta.

Clavus
hystericus :-

IGN.,
Sep.

Gastralgia,
in :-

Graph.

Left side :-

Nat-m.

Out through side,
better lying on it :-

IGN.

Temple, in :-

Arn.

Nausea,
with

(See
Gastric, Sick
headache, Vomiting.) :-
Æth.,
Ail., Alumn., Anag., ANT-C.,
Calc., Calc-s.,
Carb-v., Cast-eq.,
Caust., Chin-s.,
Cinnb., COCC.,
Crot-h., Cupr.,
Ferr.,
Fl-ac., Gels.,
Glon., Graph.,
Kali-c., Lac-ac., Lith-c.,
Lyss., Merc.,
Polyp.,
Ptel., Sal-ac.,
Sang., Stram.,
Sulph., Tarax.,
Verat.

Air, especially in
draught of :-

Hipp.

Awaking, on, all
morning :-

Lac-c.

Better by a cup of
green tea :-

Carb-ac.

Chilliness, and,
followed by flushes of heat, extending from head to
stomach :-

Sang.

Faintish :-

Calc-f.

Head, and lightness
of :-

Gels.

Head, and sore pain
in, in afternoon, better in cold air :-

Lyss.

Languor, and, from
noon till 2 P.M., then fever and sweat :-

Cob.

Lie, compelling one
to, down :-

Mosch.

Loathing, with, of
food and drink :-

Coff.

Menses,
during :-

Graph.

Nausea, after :-

Calc-p.

Sitting, worse,
up :-

Cor-r.,
Form.

Sleepiness,
and :-

Ran-b.

Stomach, from bile
in :-

Puls.

Trembling, and, 10
A.M. :-

Bor.

Vomiting, and :-

Form., Glon.,
Nit-ac., Nux-m., Sang.

Vomiting, with nausea
and, beginning in morning :-

Jatr.

Vomiting, and, of
mucus :-

Con.

Vomiting, and, like
seasickness

(climacteric
period) :- Ther.

Vomiting, and
sour :-

Sars.

Neck :-

Nape, from, through
centre of head to forehead :-

Fl-ac.

Nape, arising
from :-

GELS.,
Puls.

Neck, commences in,
suddenly spreads over head, or vice versa :-

Gels.

Neck, going
to :-

Lyss.

Neck, into, and
shoulders :-

Podo.

Pain and stiffness in
nape :-

Myric.

Shooting from nape to
vertex

(eczema
capitis) :- Sil.

Stiffness of
nape :-

Sil.

Stiffness :-

Bell.,
Calc-ar.,
Verat.

Awakens him at 4
A.M. :-

Calc-ar.

Stiff on left
side :-

Zing.

Nerves :-

As if drawn up,
intermitting :-

Camph.

As if drawn up
tightly :-

Cocc.

General
erethism :-

Syph.

Exhaustion,
from :-

Sil.

Nervous

(See Hysteric,
Neuralgic.) :-
Acet-ac.,
Agar., ANAC.,
Apis, Asc-s.,
Carb-an., Coca, Coff-t., Coloc., Croc.,
Cur., Eup-per.,
Form., Hyos.,
Kali-br., Lact.,
Mag-p.,
Naja, NIT-AC.,
Nux-m., Op.,
Phos., Plat.,
Sars., Sil.,
Sulph., Ter., Valer., Verat., Zing.

Abdominal, with,
venous congestion :-

Podo.

Abdominal, from,
plethora :-

Sep.

Amenorrhœa, with :-

Verat.

Anxiety, after, and
grief or mental worry :-

Ign.

Better from free
micturition :-

Ter.

Dysmenorrhœa, with

(prolapsus
uteri and left inguinal hernia) :-
Meli.

Exhaustion, from
nervous :-

Laur.,
Sil.

Gastric, almost
constant :-

Hydr.

Hypochondriasis,
in :-

Anac.

Hysterical :-

ASAF.

Menstrual, from,
derangement :-

Sep.

Menses,
during :-

Kali-p.

Menstrual, at every,
period, in girls and hysterical women :-

Verat.

Menstrual, from,
irregularities in atonic women :-

Ust.

Mydriasis,
causes :-

Bell.

Narcotic, from,
stimulants, coffee, or alcohol, with chronic, gastric
irritation :-

Acet-ac.

Nausea, with, as if
at sea :-

COCC.

Nervous or sanguine
temperament :-

Coff.

Nervous and sensitive
temperaments :-

Ign.

Nervousness, with
extreme :-

Meli.

Noise, excruciating,
with great sensitiveness to, during menses :-

Kali-p.

Periodical :-

Aran.

Periodical, on same
hour and day weekly, lasts 48 hours, come and go at 11 A.M., pain
extends to vertex, pressing and burning, at end of 12 hours,
continue along occiput and eyes :-

Ign.

Periodical, not
exactly :-

Eucal.

Remitting attacks,
in :-

Thuj.

Scrofulous, of,
people :-

ASAF.

Shopping, when she
goes :-

Sep.

Thinking, worse
from :-

Spig.

Vomiting, with, from
error in diet, or depression of mind :-

GUARA.

Water, worse, if he
hears, run out of a hydrant :-

Lyss.

Neuralgic

(See Nervous,
Rending, Shooting,
Tearing, also Hemicrania.) :-
Am-m., Ars.,
Chen-a., Cupr., Gels., Hep., Lac-c.,
Lachn., Phyt.

Afternoon, every,
lasts with great severity through night :-

Kalm.

Albuminuria,
in :-

Atrop.

Anæmia, from :-

Phos.

Backward, going from
before :-

Thuj.

Bed, worse after
being in, a short time :-

Sil.

Cold, better in,
worse in heat :-

Kalm.

Commencing about 4
P.M., worse at from 10 to 11 and ceasing at daylight :-

Syph.

Day, coming and going
all :-

Ter.

Delirium, causing, at
night :-

Syph.

Different parts
coming and going :-

Æsc.

Dyspepsia, in :-

Arg-n.

Evening, worse as,
approached, causing him to jerk head to one side and
scream :-

Sars.

Exostoses, from
scrofulous or tuberculous

(non-syphilitic) :-
Phos.

Eye, comes from deep
in, affecting left, following left supraorbital nerve, morning at
4, worse each succeeding morning

(suppressed
intermittent) :-
Spig.

Front, starting in,
and radiating to neck and face :-

Cur.

Increasing,
gradually, and decreasing :-

Stann.

Indigestion,
with :-

Verat.

Integuments,
in :-

Hydr.

Intermittent,
shifting, or paroxysmal pains, most in young and strong
persons :-

MAG-P.

Intermittent, at
regular hours :-

CHIN-S.

Intermittent, left
side :-

Polyp.

Intermittent, comes
in morning, lasts 4 to 6 hours :-

Sang.

Intermittent, in
rheumatic, gouty or nervous diathesis :-

Coloc.

Left side, in :-

Æsc., Chel.,
Pall.

Left side, in, every
day at 6 P.M., last till 4 A.M. :-

Guai.

Left side, in,
developed from a heavy cold, involves eye :-

Spig.

Left side, of, to
neck :-

Guai.

Left, 1st, then right
side, beginning in teeth and jaw, extending to ear, temples and
vertex, worse from current of air, or taking anything cold or hot
into mouth, better by external warmth, worse at night, during and
after lactation :-

Chin.

Left side, right or,
then forehead, vertex, occiput, spread to face and
shoulder :-

Spig.

Mental, worse from,
or physical exertion :-

Naja.

Mercury, in a
literary man who had taken, and was debilitated, pain, worse from
excitement, worry, mental work, pressure of hat and change of air,
better quiet, solitude, rest, warm room, pain dull and stupefying,
producing, muddled feeling in brain, or as if a hard

substance were
pressing on skull :- Staph.

Middle, around, part
of head, with weight and pressure in vertex :-

Med.

Nausea, preceded or
followed by, or vomiting :-

Naja.

Nasal polypus,
in :-

Alumn.

One side, from, to
other :-

Carb-ac.

Over eating,
from :-

Naja.

Paroxysmal :-

Kalm.

With twitching and
drawing in limbs and cords of neck which were like wires, after
menses :-

Med.

Periodic, affects
greater part of head, coming on about noon every day and lasts
till evening :-

Sulph.

Periodic, following
the sun :-

Kali-fcy.

Right side, pains go
to :-

Ter.

Right side, worse at
night :-

Puls.

Rising, worse when,
better lying down :-

Ars-s-f.

Sensitive persons,
in :-

Plat.

Sleeplessness,
causing :-

Syph.

Spine, beginning in
upper cervical :-

GELS.

Spinal, with
tenderness of, column :-

Ran-s.

Spinal, from,
troubles :-

Caul.

Spots, sometimes
in :-

Kalm.

Temples, particularly
about, worse left side, better rubbing aching spots :-

Chin-ar.

Urination, better
from free :-

Ter.

Uterine, from,
troubles :-

Caul.

Particularly in
delicate, sensitive women :-

SEP.

Warmth, better from
external application of, particularly in young and strong
persons :-

MAG-P.

Wrapped, head has to
be, up night and day, worse in windy weather and in
morning :-

Phos.

Night,
at

(See Evening,
Morning.) :-
Alumn.,
Arg-n., Ars-h., Arum-t., Berb., Bov., Cham., Hep.,
Kali-br., Kali-i., Lac-ac., MERC.,
Merc-c., NIT-AC.,
Sulph.,
Syph., Thuj.

Beginning at night
and continuing all day, mostly on right side of occiput :-

Ind.

Brain, like pressure
in, from below upward :-

Guai.

Crazy, makes him, has
to run up and down, often falls :-

Bell.

Midnight, at, partly
insensible :-

Lach.

Midnight, worse after

(nervous) :-
Thuj.

Motion, worse from
least, in bed :-

Sulph.

Nausea, with, and
vomiting :-

Sil.

Position, as if
caused by a wrong :-

Lyc.

Pressing :-

Phys.

Rheumatic :-

Calc.,
Stram.

Sick headache :-

Sulph.

Sleeplessness,
with :-

Chin.,
Sulph.

Tearing :-

Ars-h.,
Caust., CHIN.,
Cocc.

Tearing after
midnight :-

Chin-ar.

Throbbing :-

Chin.,
Sulph.

Vertigo, with :-

Zinc.

Noise,
aggravates

(See
Music, also Hearing
sensitive, Chapter 6 :
Ears.) :- Acon.,
Ars., BELL.,
Bufo, Cact.,
Cocc.,
Coff., Ign., Lac-c., Lac-d., Lach., Nux-v., Ptel.,
Sil.,
Spig., Zing.,
Ziz.

Especially
music :-

COFF.,
Podo.

Noon

(See Day,
Morning.) :-
Naja.

Disappears suddenly
toward, then ideas clear :-

Aster.

Forces her to
cry :-

Cann-i.

Low, worse, down in
occiput :-

Nat-c.

Midnight, worse
till :-

Caul.

Noon, toward, with
increase of saliva :-

Lyss.

Noon, worse toward,
giddiness :-

Lachn.

Nose :-

(See Catarrhal,
Cold.)

Bleeding :-

Cinnb.

Bleeding, better
by :-

Ham.,
Meli., Petr.

Bleeding in
morning :-

SEP.

Bleeding at
night :-

Mag-s.

Bleeding,
profuse :-

Meli.

Blowing, when, nose,
worse in open air :-

Chel.

Bones, better from
pressure on nasal, and mental labor :-

Bapt.

Discharge, from
suppression of nasal :-

Kali-bi.

Dry, with,
nose :-

Cact.

Extends to
nose :-

Cimic.,
Glon., Guai.,
LACH.,
Lyss.

Extends to right
nostril :-

Brom.

Extends to root of
nose :-

Bism.

Extends into root of
nose, with nosebleed, or mucous discharge :-

AGAR.

Nose, with
stopped :-

Carb-an.

Nosebleed, before,
during sleep :-

Nux-v.

Smells, with
imaginary foul, or increasing sensitiveness to odors :-

Phos.

Numb :-

(See Formication,
Tingling.)

Above and behind
ears :-

Calc-ar.

Pithy, and :-

GRAPH.

Sense, with, as if
left eye were being pulled backward and forward, awakes at 2 A.M.,
continues through night and forenoon :-

Spig.

Sick headache,
in :-

Sulph.

Tired pains

(nervous
debility) :- Cur.

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