Magnesia Phosphorica

Illusions of the senses; sobbing, crying, lamenting all the time about pain in affected parts. Mental depression and anxiety. Drowsiness on every attempt to study. Very forgetful. Dullness and inability to think clearly.

Headache: pains shooting, darting, stabbing, shifting; intermittent and paroxysmal. Headache: excruciating; spasmodic; neuralgic or rheumatic; aggravates by external application of warmth. Nervous headache, with sparks before eyes; diplopia.

Severe headache began in occiput on waking, extending overhead, located over both eyes, with severe nausea, and terminated 5 p.m. in a pronounced chill. Severe pricking overhead and forehead.

Double vision (horizontal); sparks; rainbow colors; photophobia. Pupils contracted. Dark spots before eyes. Dull vision from weakness of optic nerve. Nystagmus; strabismus, spasmodic; ptosis. Twitching of lids. Neuralgia: supra-orbital or orbital; intermittent, darting, lightning-like pains aggravates by warmth, exquisitely sensitive to touch; with increased lachrymation. 

Nervous otalgia, intermittent and spasmodic; aggravates by heat. Sharp intermittent pains behind ear. Neuralgia: supra- and infra-orbital, intermittent, spasmodic, lightning-like pains.

Face distorted from pains and weakness; cramping colic. Lockjaw. Hydroa on upper lip. Convulsive twitching of angles of mouth. Neuralgia from washing or standing in cold water. Sensation of painful contraction of jaw-joint for several days, with a nervous backward jerking.

Toothache; teeth sensitive to touch or cold air. Severe pinching, stabbing, neuralgic pain over root of bicuspid; can be covered with point of finger. Complaints of teething children; spasms during dentition, without febrile symptoms.

Spasmodic constriction of throat on attempting to swallow liquids, with sensation of choking. Flow of mucus through posterior nares into throat; with sneezing and tingling in nose and on tongue. Sensation of a cornhusk lodged in upper part of throat, with constant inclination to swallow.

Kalium Phosphoricum

One of the greatest nerve remedies. Conditions arising from want of nerve power, neurasthenia, mental and physical depression. States of dynamic and decay, gangrenous conditions. Malignant tumors. Anxiety, nervous dread, lethargy. Indisposition to meet people. Extreme lassitude and depression. Very nervous, starts easily, irritable. Brain-fag; hysteria; night terrors. Somnambulance. Loss of memory.

Occipital headache; better, after rising. Vertigo, from lying or on standing up, from sitting, and when looking upward. Cerebral anemia. Headache of students, and those worn out by fatigue. Headaches are relieved by gentle motion. Headache, with weary, empty, gone feeling at stomach.

Weakness of eyesight; loss of perceptive power; after diphtheria; from exhaustion. Drooping of eyelids. Humming and buzzing in the ears.

Nose: Nasal disease, with offensive odor; fetid discharge. Facial neuralgia relieved by cold applications. Toothache, with easily-bleeding gums. Gums spongy and receding.

Capsicum Annum

Sensation of constriction. Inflammation of petrous bone. Burning pains and general chilliness. Older people who have exhausted their vitality, especially by mental work, and poor living; blear-eyed appearance; who do not react. Marked tendency to suppuration in every inflammatory process. Myalgia, aching and jerking of muscles.

Excessive peevishness. Homesickness. Sleeplessness and disposition to suicide. Wants to be let alone. Delirium tremens. Bursting headache; worse, coughing. Hot face. Red cheeks. Face red, though cold. Burning and stinging in ears. Inflammation of mastoid. Tenderness over the petrous bone; extremely sore and tender to touch. Otorrhea and mastoid disease before suppuration. 

Colocynthis

Most of its symptoms are in the abdomen and head (intense neuralgias). It is especially suitable for irritable patients easily angered, and ill effects therefrom. The neuralgic pains are nearly always relieved by pressure. Cramps and twitching and shortening of muscles. Constrictions and contractions. Cystospasm following surgeries on orifices.

Extremely irritable. Mortification caused by offense. Anger, with indignation. Vertigo when turning head to the left. Lateral cutting headache, with nausea, vomiting. Burning pains, digging, rending, and tearing. Frontal headache; worse, stooping, lying on back, and moving eyelids.

Eyes: pains sharp, boring, better pressure. Sensation on stooping, as if eye would fall out. Gouty affections of eyes. Violent pain in eyeballs which precede the development of glaucoma.

Tearing, shooting, and swelling of face; left side great soreness. Get relief from pressure. Neuralgia, with chilliness; teeth seem too long. Sounds re-echo in ears. Pain in stomach, always with pain of teeth or head.

Hecla Lava

Vertigo. Chronic headache. Destructive (syphilitic) ulceration of nasal bones. Facial neuralgia or headache. Polypoid growth, deforming face, forcing eyeball upward and everting lid, obstructing nostrils; extending downward into mouth, impeding breathing and mastication; epistaxis; headache.

Toothache, teeth are very sensitive to pressure, with swelling about jaws. Neuralgia. Abscess; or enlargement of bone remaining after tooth extraction. Right cuspid of upper jaw very sensitive to slight pressure on crown; swelling and indurated tumor under ala nasi, very sensitive to touch; conjunctivitis.

Lachesis Mutus

Trifacial neuralgia, heat running up into head. Tearing pain in jawbones. Purple, mottled, puffed, swollen, bloated, jaundiced, chlorotic. Pain through head on awaking. Pain at root of nose. Pressure and burning on vertex. Waves of pain; worse after moving. Sun headaches. With headache, flickering, dim vision, very pale face. Vertigo. Relieved by onset of a discharge (menses or nasal catarrh). Defective vision after diphtheria, extrinsic muscles too weak to maintain focus. Tearing pain from zygoma into ear. Coryza, preceded by headache.

Spigelia Anthelmia

A best medicine for eye, heart, and nervous system. Trigeminal neuralgia (fifth nerve is very prominent in its effects). Is especially adapted to anemic, debilitated, rheumatic, and scrofulous patients. Stabbing pains. Heart affections and neuralgia. Pain beneath frontal eminence and temples, extending to eyes. Semi-lateral, involving left eye; pain violent, throbbing; worse, making a false step. Pain as if a band around head. Vertigo, hearing exalted. 

Tongue fissured, painful. Tearing toothache; worse, after eating and cold. Foul odor from mouth. Offensive taste. Prosoplasia, involving eye, zygoma, cheek, teeth, temple, worse, stooping, touch, from morning until sunset.

Nux Moschata

Vertigo when walking in open air; aches from eating a little too much. Pulsating in head. Cracking sensation in head. Sensitive to slightest touch in a draught of air. Bursting headache; better hard pressure. Objects look larger, very distant, or vanish. Motes before eyes. Mydriasis. Nose oversensitive to smell. Tongue numbed, paralyzed. Dryness of throat.

Carbolicum Acidum

Stupor, paralysis of sensation and motion, feeble pulse and depressed breathing, death due to paralysis of respiratory centers. Acts primarily on the central nervous system. Increased olfactory sensibility. Orbital neuralgia over right eye.

Cactus Grandiflora

Headache, sensation as of a weight on vertex. Right-sided pulsating pain. Congestive headaches, periodical, threatening apoplexy. Blood-vessels to the head distended. Pulsation in ears. Dim sight. Right sided prosoplasia, constricting pains, returns at same hour daily. Constriction of esophagus. Suffocative constriction at throat, with full, throbbing carotids in angina pectoris.

Gelsemium Sempervirens

Headache, with muscular soreness of neck and shoulders. Headache preceded by blindness; better, profuse urination. Scalp sore to touch. Delirious on falling asleep. Wants to have head raised on pillow.

Verbascum Thapsus

Neuralgia affecting zygoma, temporal maxillary joint, and ear (Menyanth), particularly of left side, with lachrymation, coryza, and sensation as if parts were crushed with tongs. Talking, sneezing, and change of temperature aggravate the pains; also, pressing teeth together. Pains seem to come in flashes, excited by least movement, occurring periodically at same hour in morning and afternoon each day.

Arsenic Album

Headaches relieve by cold, other symptoms worse. Periodical burning pains, with restlessness; with cold skin. Hemicrania, with icy feeling of scalp and great weakness. Sensitive head in open air. Delirium tremens; cursing and raving; vicious. Scalp itches intolerably; circular patches of bare spots; rough, dirty, sensitive, and covered with dry scales; nightly burning and itching; dandruff. Scalp very sensitive; cannot brush hair. Burning in eyes. Intense photophobia; better external warmth. Ciliary neuralgia, with fine burning pain.

Phosphorus

Vertigo of the aged, after rising. Heat comes from spine. Neuralgia: parts must be kept warm. Burning pains. Chronic congestion of head. Brain-fag, with coldness of occiput. Vertigo, with faintness. Skin of forehead feels too tight. Itching of scalp, dandruff, falling out of hair in large bunches.

China Officianalis

As if skull would burst. Sensation as if brain were balancing to and fro, and striking against skull, receiving great pain. Intense throbbing of head and carotids. Spasmodic headache in vertex, with subsequent pain, relieved from pressure and warm room. Scalp sensitive; worse combing hair. Aches worse in open air, from temple to temple. Worse by contact, current of air, stepping. Dizzy when walking.

Blue color around eyes. Hollow eyes. Yellowish sclerotia. Black specks, bright dazzling illusions; night blindness in anemic retina. Spots before eyes. Photophobia. Distortion of eyeballs. Intermittent ciliary neuralgia. Pressure in eyes. Amaurosis; scalding lachrymation. 

Sulphur

Constant heat on top of head. Heaviness and fullness, pressure in temples. Beating headache; worse, stooping, and with vertigo. Sick headache recurring periodically. Tinea capitis, dry form. Halo around light. Heat and burning in eyes. Black motes before eyes. Chronic ophthalmia, with much burning and itching. Parenchymatous keratitis. Cornea like ground glass.

Sulphuricum Acidium

Right-sided neuralgia; painful shocks; skin feels pinched. Sensation as if brain was loose in forehead and falling from side to side. Compressive pain inside of occiput; relieved by holding the hands near the head. Pain of outer parts, as if there were subcutaneous ulceration; painful to touch. Thrust in right temple as if plug were pressed in. Intra-ocular hemorrhage following traumatism. Great chemosis of conjunctiva, with aching and sharp pain.

Kalmia Latifolia

Vertigo; worse stooping. Confusion of brain. Pain in front and temporal region from head to nape and to teeth; from cardiac origin. Vision impaired. Stiff, drawing sensation when moving eyes. Rheumatic iritis. Scleritis, pain increased by moving the eye.

Plantego Major

Ciliary neuralgia. Twinges of pain indifferent parts of head, now through r. temple, extending backward; then through occiput from ear to ear; then in other parts of head more or less severe. Severe, lightning-like stitches over eye, disappearing suddenly, involving whole forehead, and accompanied at the height with nausea at pit of stomach; increases with hard pressure, with cold hand, decreases with warmth. Intermittent pulsative pain in vertex and in small spot beneath scalp. Headache with toothache.

Ciliary neuralgia from decayed teeth; dull, heavy ache in eye, with exquisite tenderness of ball. Aching deep in orbit. Lids sore, swollen.

Arnica Montana

Head hot, with cold body; confused; sensitiveness of brain, with sharp, pinching pains. Scalp feels contracted. Cold spot-on forehead. Chronic vertigo: objects whirl about especially when walking. Diplopia from traumatism, muscular paralysis, retinal hemorrhage. Darting, pulling, and shootings in the head, principally in the temples.

Hypericum Perforatum

Heavy; feels as if touched by an icy cold hand. Throbbing in vertex; worse in close room. Brain seems compressed. Right side of face aches. Brain-fag and neurasthenia. Facial neuralgia and toothache of a pulling, tearing character, with sadness. Head feels longer elongated to a point. In fractured skull, bone splinters. Brain feels alive. Pains in eyes and ears. Falling out of hair.

Symphytum Officinale

Pain in occiput, top and forehead; changing places. Pain comes down bone of nose. Inflammation of inferior maxillary bone, hard, red, swelling.

Belladonna

Vertigo, with falling to left side or backwards. Sensitive to least contact. Throbbing and heat. Palpitation reverberating in head with labored breathing. Pain; fullness, especially in forehead, occiput, and temples. Boring of head into pillow; drawn backward and rolls from side to side. Constant moaning.

Face red, bluish-red, hot, swollen, shining; convulsive motion of muscles of face. Swelling of upper lip. Facial neuralgia with twitching muscles and flushed face. Throbbing deep in eyes on lying down. Pupils dilated. Eyes feel swollen and protruding, staring, brilliant; conjunctiva red; dry, burn; photophobia; shooting in eyes. Exophthalmos. Ocular illusions; fiery appearance. Diplopia, squinting, spasms of lids. Sensation as if eyes were half closed. Eyelids swollen. Fundus congested.

Silica Tera

Headache every morning. Tension and pressure in the head. Tearing pains in the head, often semi lateral, with shootings which seem to pass out through the eyes, and into the bones of the face and the teeth, or which manifest themselves every morning, with heat in the head, principally in the forehead, great restlessness.

Zinc Metallicum

It corresponds to nerve-poisoning of various kinds. Rolls head from side to side. Bores head into pillow: occipital pain, with weight on vertex. Alzheimer’s disease. Brain-fag; headaches of hard office work/students. Forehead cool; base of brain hot. Roaring in head. Starting in fright.

Pterygium; smarting, lachrymation, itching. Pressure as if pressed into head. Itching and soreness of lids and inner angles. Ptosis. Rolling of eyes. Blurring of one-half of vision; worse with allopathic stimulants or supplements. Squinting. Amaurosis, with severe headache. Red and inflamed conjunctiva; worse, inner canthus.

Ignatia Ammara

Head feels hollow, heavy; worse, stooping. Headache as if a nail were driven out through the side. Cramp-like pain over root of nose. Congestive headaches following anger or grief; worse, smoking or smelling tobacco, inclines head forward. Asthenopia, with spasms of lids and neuralgic pain about eyes. Flickering zigzags.

Sepia Officianalis

Vertigo, with sensation of something rolling round in head. Prodromal symptoms of apoplexy. Stinging pain from within outward and upward mostly left, or in forehead, with nausea, vomiting; worse indoors and when lying on painful side. Jerking of head backwards and forwards. Coldness of vertex. Headache in terrible shocks at menstrual nisus, with scanty flow. Hair falls out. Open fontanelles. Roots of hair sensitive. Pimples on forehead near hair.

Onosmodium Virginianum

Loss of memory. Nose feels dry. Confused. Dull, heavy, dizzy, pressing upward in occiput. Occipital-frontal pain in morning on waking, chiefly left side. Pain in temples and mastoid. Dull headache over eye, extending around to back of head and neck.