| POINTS |
AMYL NITRATE |
BELLADONNA |
BRYONIA |
GELSEMIUM |
SANGUINARIA CAN. |
SPIGELIA |
| 1) AETIOLOGY |
(a) Climaxis |
(a) Drafts of cold air à to head (head being uncovered.
(b) Having hair cut. |
(a) Warm weather after cold days (Spring à Summer).
(b) Days are hot, nights are cold (Autumn / Fall weather).
(c) Cold & Chilled drinks in hot weather (suppressed perspiration).
(d) Sun heat.
(e) Anger.
(f) From ironing.
(g) From constipation. |
(a) Sun.
(b) Heat of Summer.
(c) Depressing emotions.
(d) Thunderstorm. |
(a) Climacteric.
(b) After loozing (every seventh day). |
(a) Cold, damp, rainy weather.
(b) Tobacco. |
| 2) SENSATION |
(a) Surging of blood to head & face: very intense.
(b) Congestive+++ headache at climacteric. |
(a) Throbbing+++ (more right sided)
(b) Violent. |
Stitching pain in chest. |
(a) Beginning in the back of neck à extend over head à bursting sensation in forehead & eyeballs.
(b) Sensation of a band around the head, above the eyes.
(c) Scalp sore to touch. |
(a) Bursting.
(b) Eyes should be pressed out. |
(a) Intolerable pressive pain in eye balls à can not turn the eyes without turning the whole body.
(b) Sensation: as if eyes were too large for the orbitis.
(c) As of a band around head. |
| 3) CHARACTER |
(a) Flushing .
(b) Blushing.
(c) Throbbing+++ à bursting in head, ears.
(d) Visible pulsating throbbing in temples. (e) Arterial hyperaemia. |
(a) Dark room with doors & windows closed: suits the patient.
(b) Comes suddenly à lasts indefinitely à goes suddenly.
(c) Headache with red face, throbbing of carotids.
(d) Generally right sided. |
(a) Right sided bursting, stitching headache.
(b) Headache à on rising à when first opening the eyes à gradually increasing until evening. |
(a) 3D & H : Dull, Dizzy, Drowsy & Heavy feeling.
(b) Headache preceded by blindness.
(c) Lack of muscular co-ordination.
(d) Heaviness of eye lids. |
(a) Periodic.
(b) Headache begins in morning à increases during day à lasts until evening à with vomiting any time.
(c) Right sided.
(d) Begins in occiput à spreads over the head à settles over right eye.
(e) Neuralgia of face > by kneeling & pressing the head firmly against floor. |
(a) Headache at sunrise à at its height; at noon à declines till sunset.
(b) Sensitive to touch.
(c) Slicking or stabbing pain through eye balls à back into the head.
(d) Left sided. |
| 4) MODALITIES |
(a) Aggravation: < Warm room. < least excitement. (physical and/or mental).
(b) Ameliorations: > Open air. |
(a) Aggravation : < light, < noise. < out of perpendicular posture. << least jar, motion, lying down, exertion..
(b) Ameliorations: > > pressure, > tight bandaging > during menses > easy chair position. |
(a) Aggravation: < when stooping, < motion, exertion, < warmth, < coughing.
(b) Ameliorations: > from pressure, cold washing. > Rest. |
(a) Aggravation: < from mental exertion, < from smoking, from smoking, heat of sun, lying with head low, < motion light. < 10 a.m.. < Fog.
(b) Ameliorations: > by profuse urination. > from stimulants, > from lying down. > cold open air. |
(a) Aggravation: < from motion, noise, light headache; < by day (sun rise to sun set).
(b) Ameliorations: > by sleep, > Dark room. > by vomiting. > walking in open air. |
(a) Aggravation: < from false step; < after rising; < every jar, step, even straining at stool: < least noise, motion.
(b) Ameliorations: > when lying with head high. > washing head and cold water > Rest. > warmth. |
| 5) CONCOMITANT AND ASSOCIATED SYMPTOMS |
| Menopausal syndrome |
 |
| Anxiety |
Palp-
itation |
|
| Cold |
|
Feve-
rish |
Delir-
ious
|
|
| Constipation |
|
| Cough |
Thirst
+++ |
|
| Sun debility |
|
Appre-
hensive Diarr-
hoea |
Vertigo,
weak-
ness & trem-
bling |
|
Circumscribed red cheeks
|
|
Meno-
pausal Flush |
Burning Oeso-
phagitis |
|
| Prosopalgia |
|
| Palp-itation |
Tooth ache & Neur-
algia |
|
| 6) PRESCRIBING POINTS |
Sensation : Congestive +++. Character : Throbbing+++. Visible pulsation. Modalities :
(a) Aggravation:- < warm room. < least excitement (physical and/or mental)
(b) Amelioration:- > Open air. |
Aetiology : Head being uncovered. Having hair cut. Sensation : Throbbing +++. Character : Dark room with doors and windows closed. Red face, throbbing of carotids. Generally right sided. Modalities :
(a) Aggravation:- < light, < noise;< cold
(b) Amelioration:- > during menses, > easy chair position. |
Aetiology : Chilled drainks in hot weather. Sun heat. From ironing. Sensation : Stitching pain. Character : Right sided bursting stitching headache. Modalities :
(a) Aggravation:- < motion, < warmth.
(b) Amelioration:- > from pressure, cold washing. > Rest. |
Aetiology : Sun. Sensation : Bursting sensation in forehead and eyeballs. Character : 3D & H. Lack of muscular co-ordination. Modalities :
(a) Aggravation:- Heat of sun.
(b) Amelioration:- > by profuse urination. |
Aetiology : Every seventh day. Sensation : Bursting. Character : Periodic. With vomiting. Right sided. Neuralgia of face. Modalities :
(a) Aggravation:- < by day (sun rise to sun set).
(b) Amelioration:- > dark room: > by vomting. |
Aetiology : Tobacco. Sensation : Pressive pain. Character : Its height at noon à declines till sun set. Left sided. Modalities :
(a) Aggravation:- < every jar, step, even straining at stool.
(b) Amelioration:- > when lying with head high. |
| 7) POTENCY |
1x liquid (1 drop in ¼ th cup of luke warm water à 6-8 hourly à SOS as and when required à for emergency headache à stop soon improvement ensues. |
30C |
12C, 30C |
200C |
200C |
1M (especially if neuralgic symptoms are associated) |