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Hemicrania – 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

Hemicrania.


Hemicrania

(megrim,
migraine, semilateral headache)
(See Headache,
Nervous, Neuralgic,
Sick.) :-
Æth.,
Agn.,
Ant-c., Apis,
Arg-n., Arn., Ars.,
Arum-m.,
Asar., Aur.,
Bar-c., Bell.,
Bry., Calc.,
Cann-i., Caps.,
CHAM.,
Chen-a.,
Chin-ar., Coca,
Coff-t.,
Corn.,
Eup-per., Ferr., Gels., Graph., Guai., Guara., Indg., Kali-bi.,
Kreos., Lac-d., Lach.,
Mill.,
Petr., Phos.,
Rhus-t.,
Rob., SIL.,
Sin-a.,
Sin-n., Syph.,
Tarent.,
Ust., Verat.,
Zing.

Alternates with, colic
or liver complaint :-

Ars.

Beaten, as if :-

Sil.

Belching, with, in
convalescence from yellow fever :-

Calc.

Brain, as if, would
burst and fall out of head :-

Puls.

Bruised, gradually
increasing, as if head had been, and as if a load were pressing down
on it, worse by moving head towards affected side :-

Con.

Coffee, from excessive
use of :-

Nux-v.

Cold, after
catching :-

Sep.

Coldness, with, all
over :-

Ign.

Combativeness,
especially in region of

(indigestion) :-
Elat.

Congestion, as from, or
pressure, better sitting erect :-

Cic.

Deep seated :-

Arund.

Drawing :-

CHAM.

As from a draught of
air :-

Valer.

Half of eyeball to
occiput, in :-

Colch.

Tensive, from neck to
eyes :-

Lach.

Into shoulders, and
one-sided convulsive throwing about and rotation of arm of same side

(tapeworm) :-
Sabad.


Eating, after :-

Arn.

Worse after
dinner :-

Zinc.

With empty eructations
or inclination to vomit :-

Calc.

Eyes :-

Affects eye, eyebrow,
or side of head, with general chilliness :-

Ign.

Dim or double vision
preceded by great sensibility to noise :-

Gels.

Eyebrows, just above,
with sickness of stomach :-

Phyt.

Eyes, as if, would be
forced out, worse right, with menses :-

Sang.

Supraorbital region,
during cold, rainy weather, throbbing or tearing, stitching, with
redness and lachrymation of eye of affected side :-

Spig.

Face :-

Flushed, throbbing
temples, eyes injected, photophobia, congested brain :-

Kali-br.

Neuralgia :-

Puls.

Turgescent, mostly
evening and morning, with frequent yawning and watery urine :-

Phos.

Forehead :-

Pains extending
particularly toward, and left side, with nausea and vomiting,
attacks come towards evening :-

Coloc.

Forepart, in :-

Cocc-s.


Hysterical :-

Ign.,
Plat., Sep., Stict.

Intermittent :-

In those of rheumatic,
gouty or nervous diathesis :-

Coloc.

Without premonitory
symptoms :-

Coff-t.

Left side :-

Æsc.,
Aml-ns., Apis,
Arg-n., Arum-d.,
Asaf., Asc-s., Brom., Calc.,
Camph., Carb-an., Chel.,
Chin-s.,
Clem., Ferr.,
Hydr., Iod.,
Lyss.,
Pall., Sang., Sec., Sulph.,
Verat., Vib.,
Xan.

Bones, more in :-

Clem.

Cut, as if, off at
septum and middle forehead prosopalgia) :-

Chel.

Dulness, with :-

Asc-s.

Earlier every
day :-

Form.

Electric, an, current,
as of :-

Ail.

Episclera, in :-

Ter.

Evening, violent
in :-

Chin-s.,
Ind.

Evening, better in, in
open air, worse shaking head :-

Sep.

Extending to ear, eye
and nose :-

Ars-met.

Eyes, extending to

(intermitting) :-
Asaf.

Eye, affecting, and
neck :-

Chin.

Eye, through, into back
of head, with nausea :-

Phos.

Eye, worse over

(mercurio-syphilitic
affections) :- Aur-m-n.

Earlier every
day :-

Form.

Fright, from :-

Chin-ar.

Hypochondriasis,
in :-

Arg-n.

Lean, cannot, on left
side :-

Ars.

Lie, wants to,
down :-

Chlor.

Light, worse by, or
noise :-

Ziz.

Morning, each, burning
and pulsating :-

Chin.

Morning, in

(hypochondriasis) :-
Arg-n.

Motion, worse from,
noise, talking, better evening

(chlorosis) :-
Calc.

Night, worse at :-

Kali-bi.

Puerperal eclampsia,
in :-

Cocc.

Sickening, worse from
pressure or movement :-

Sil.

Stinging from within,
with nausea, vomiting and contraction of pupils, worse indoors and
walking fast, better open air and lying on painful side :-

Sep.

Tearing :-

Lach.,
Tell.

Vertex, passing up
through :-

Ferr-i.

Vomiting, with :-

Glon.

Vomiting during menses,
worse at noon, lasting till evening :-

Aml-ns.

Walking, worse, in open
air :-

Alumn.

Whimpering,
with :-

Chel.


Menses :-

During :-

Sep.

When menses should have
appeared, with severe pain in left side of forehead which became
throbbing, particularly when working, and caused tears to
flow :-

Kali-c.

Suppression,
with :-

PULS.

Mental, from,
exertion :-

Persons who do not use
coffee, in :-

Coff.

Worse by mental and
bodily exercise :-

Chin-ar.

Morning :-

Comes on, shortly after
awaking and increases little by little :-

Coff-t.

Lasts till 5 P.M.,
worse after 3, better walking rapidly in open air, paroxysms every
week :-

Rhus-t.

Early in bed, with
inclination to vomit :-

Graph.


Motion, imagines he
gets relief from moving head and limbs to and fro :-

Ars.

Nail, as from pressing
a into head :-

Nux-v.

Worse in open
air :-

COFF.

Nausea, with :-

Con.,
Kali-c.

And vomiting :-

Ip.,
PULS.

Nerves, along course of
a few :-

Kali-bi.

Nose, extends into
bones of, and orbits :-

Bell.

Painful, as if there
were, nodes, with pulsating, pressing, boring and burning in one or
the other temple, radiating to forehead, eyes and vertex :-

Phos.

Pale, affected
side :-

Aml-ns.

Paroxysms, excessive
in :-

Ars.

Periodical :-

Amenorrhœa, in :-

GRAPH.

On small spots that
could be covered with point of finger :-

Kali-bi.

Pityriasis versicolor,
in :-

Mez.

Pressing :-

Verat.

From pressure always
day after a party, where she usually wore a heavy diadem :-

Ol-an.


Rheumatic, with
children :-

Calc.

Right side :-

Ars-h.,
Cann-i., Cean.,
Cist.,
Cit-v.,
Euphr.,
Iber., Iris,
Lachn., Merc-i-f., Mez., NIT-AC.,
Ox-ac., PIC-AC.,
Puls.,
Sulph.,
Ziz.

Back of orbit, severe

(after-pains) :-
Cimic.

Boundary, on, of brain,
burning or cooling sensation, and pressure as from finger
tips :-

Pall.

Cautiousness, in, a
fluttering pain between a stinging and pressing, disappears when
touching or fixing mind upon it :-

Pall.

Cold, after exposure
to, with numbness or succeeded by numbness :-

Kalm.

Deep, as if a heavy
board were lying there :-

Eug.

Diarrhœa, with :-

Ind.

Dimness, with, or loss
of vision :-

Chen-a.

Ears, with roaring
in :-

Chen-a.

Eyes, after using

(hyperæmia
of retina) :- Puls.

Intermittent,
in :-

Carb-v.,
Puls.

Intervals, at, of from
1 to 5 weeks :-

Chen-a.

Jaw, extends over, and
to top of head, comes on evening, lasts all night, better towards
evening :-

Sulph.

Lachrymation, with
profuse :-

Stram.

Lancinations from
foramen infraorbital to occiput and mandibular :-

Zinc.

Lie, unable to, on that
side :-

Merc.

Lower, in, part, worse
walking :-

Card-m.

Morning, worse, and
evening :-

Sep.

Myopia, in :-

Arg-n.

Neck, to, and
shoulders, with tension in muscles :-

Lach.

Nosebleed, by :-

Bufo.

Oppressive down side of
neck, worse during menses :-

Lach.

Ovarian tumor,
in :-

Apis.

Periodical :-

CACT.

Rest, worse in, better
constant motion, with nausea, vomiting and low spirits :-

Iris.

Tearing :-

Bry.

Temple, above,
severe :-

Æsc.

Throat, extending into,
near larynx, toward evening :-

Ars-h.

Throbbing, extends down
side of neck, worse during menses :-

Lach.

Vertigo, after :-

PHOS.

Vertigo, comes on at 10
A.M. with, and dull, heavy pains, glimmering before eyes, fainting
and sinking at epigastrium, slight fever and thirst, better in open
air and during sweat :-

Nat-m.

Screwed, as if, in,
better in open air :-

KALI-I.

Sides :-

Changing :-

Lac-c.

One side, ceases on,
continues more violent on other :-

Nat-m.

One, now in, then in
other side of head, worse opening eyes wide :-

Coch.

Right, either, or left
side :-

Colch.

Right, left, from,
to :-

Nux-m.

Right, from, to
left :-

Inul.

Right side, in, creeps
around to left until it goes around head

(cephalalgia) :-
Lach.

Right in morning, left
in evening :-

Bov.


Spots, in small :-

Kali-bi.

Stinging :-

Zinc.

Stitching :-

Am-m.,
Canth.

Commencing early in
morning and increasing in severity until patient becomes unconscious
or half delirious :-

Nux-v.

Generally in one temple
or in back part, with vertigo, ringing in ears and vanishing of
sight :-

Puls.

Stupefying :-

Anac.

Sycotic, worse soon
after midnight :-

Thuj.

Tænia, with :-

Sabad.

Tearing :-

Graph.,
Zinc.

Especially in bones and
left jaw :-

Cocc.

Worse over eye and in
bulbus :-

Kalm.

Must lie down :-

Con.

Throbbing :-

Verat.

Trigeminus
affected :-

Coloc.

Vertigo, with :-

Lach.

Pale face, general
stiffness and pain in left side of abdomen :-

Lach.

Vomiting :-

Of mucus with violent
attacks :-

Coff.

Better after mucus or
bile :-

Calc.

Sour and
eructations :-

Nat-m.

Walking, when :-

In open air, worse
talking and reflecting :-

Ign.

Shattered or confused
feeling at every step :-

Lyc.

Wine, from excessive
use of :-

Glon.

Working early in
morning brings on an attack :-

Arn.

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