HEADACHE MEDICINE IN HOMEOPATHY
DESCRIPTION
Headache is defined as pain anywhere in the region of head or upper part of neck, there can be various causes of headache or can be associated with various disorders.
Causes of headache
The international headache society classifies headache as primary and secondary. Primary headaches are those in which headache and its features are the disorder itself. As compared with secondary headaches caused by another disorder such as meningitis and subarachnoid haemorrhage.
Common causes of headache
Primary
Tension headache
Migraine
Cluster headache
Secondary
Head injury
Systemic infection
Meningitis
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Temporal artertis
Brain tumor
ď‚ž Homeopathy
is one of the most popular holistic systems of medicine. The selection of remedy is based upon the theory of individualization and symptoms similarity by using holistic approach. This is the only way through which a state of complete health can be regained by removing all the sign and symptoms from which the patient is suffering. The aim of homeopathy is not only to treat headache but to address its underlying cause and individual susceptibility. As far as therapeutic medication is concerned, several remedies are available to treat headache that can be selected on the basis of cause, sensations and modalities of the complaints. For individualized remedy selection and treatment, the patient should consult a qualified homeopathic doctor in person. There are following remedies which are helpful in the treatment of headache
Natrum Mur – throbs, blinding headache, aches as if thousands little hammers were knocking on the brain, in the morning on awakening, after menstruation, from sunrise to sunset; Feels too large; cold. Headache of anaemic people, of school going girls; nervous, discouraged, broken down. Chronic headache, semi lateral, congestive, from sunrise to sunset, with pale face, nausea, vomiting; periodical; from eyestrain; menstrual, before attack, numbness and tingling in lips, tongue and nose, relieved by sleep; Frontal sinus inflammation.
Belladonna – much throbbing and heat, palpitation reverberating in head with labored breathing, pain; fullness, especially in forehead, also occiput, and temples. Headache from suppressed catarrhal flow. Pain worse, light, noise, and jar, lying down and in afternoon; better by pressure and semi erect posture. Boring in head in to pillow; drawn backward and rolls from side to side. Constant moaning. Hair splits; is dry and comes out. Headache worse in right side and when lying down; ill effects, colds, etc; from having hair cut.
Glonine – effects of sunstroke; heat on head, as in type setters and workers under gas and electric light. Head heavy, but cannot lay it on pillow. Cannot bear any heat about head. Better from uncovering head. Throbbing headache; angio-spastic neuralgia of head and face. Very irritable; vertigo on assuming upright position, cerebral congestion; head feels enormously large, as if skull were too small for brain. Sun headaches; increases and decreases with sun. Shocks in head, synchronous with pulse. Headache in
Argentum Nitricum – migraine; headache with sensation as if the head were enormously large; vertigo with debility and trembling as if the head were enormously large; vertigo with debility and trembling from nervous weakness, staggering as if drunk, dim sight, ringing in ears, better after dinner and from wine, worse from coffee; sensation as if the bones of the skull separated as if the body, especially face and head, expanded, amelioration by pressure and tight bandaging, aggravation from mental labor; pressing, digging pain, especially in forehead, with chilliness, often ending with vomiting of bile or sour fluid; disposition to pain to change locality; rapid increase and decrease of pain; morning headache when awaking; head symptoms concomitant of other diseases, brain-fag.
Bryonia Alba – congestive or neuralgic headache, mainly frontal or occipital. Shooting, stitching, bursting and throbbing pains; headache due to exposure to heat of sun or being overheated due to any cause; headache as a concomitant with inflammatory complaints or gastric disturbances; worse from slightest jar or motion even movements of eyelids, talking, even effort of thinking, worse from ironing, in the morning when first opening the eyes, when stooping , better by lying down quietly, hot fomentation.
Sanguinaria can – headache begins in occiput, spreads upwards, and settles over right eye. Periodical sick headache; begins in the morning, increasing during the day, lasts until the evening. Head feels as if it must burst, or as if eyes would pressed out. Throbbing, lancinating pains through brain, worse on right side, especially in forehead and vertex; followed by chills, nausea, vomiting of food or bile; must lie down and remain quiet; relieved by sleep; paroxysmal headache. Headache, with nausea and chilliness, followed by flushes of heat, extending from the head to the stomach; neuralgia in and over right eye.
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