Headache


Homeopathy treatment for Headache from the Homeopathic Therapeutics by Lilienthal. Homeopathic remedies for the treatment of Headache…


Cephalalgia

Acetic-acid [Acet-ac]

Nervous cephalalgia; heaviness of head, with sense of drunkenness; confused, dull aching over frontal region and vertex; shooting through temples; headache from abuse of narcotics, tobacco, opium, coffee, alcohol or by chronic gastric irritation.

Aconite [Acon]

SUNSTROKE, especially from sleeping in the sun’s rays; burning headache, as if brain we re agitated by boiling water, fulness and heavy feeling as if everything would push out of forehead; CONGESTIVE HEADACHE, vision obscured, pressing and contracting pains in the upper part of forehead, face swollen, pale, (<) by light, noise, motion, (>) by lying quietly in a dark room, by nosebleed, by copious urination.

Aesculus-hip [Aesc]

Gastric and HAEMORRHOIDAL headaches; feeling as if a board were on the head, (<) rising from a seat; severe lancinating headache at the base of brain, as if too full; dull stupefying pain all over head, neuralgic pains in different parts of head, temples, forehead, occiput, going and coming; headache with drowsiness; too weak to walk; tympany; tongue coated.

AEthusa-cyn [Aeth]

Violent pain, as if the BRAIN WERE DASHED TO PIECES; pressing pain in the forehead as if it would split, at its acme vomiting, and finally diarrhoea; headache ceases with discharge of flatus downward; stitches and pulsation in the head; distressing pain in the occiput, nape and down the spine, better from bending stiffly backward; sensation as if she were constantly pulled by the hair; hemicrania, driving her into the open air, which relieved; desire to have a band fastened tightly around the head (Argentumnit.).

Agaricus [Agar]

NERVOUS HEADACHES, from overwork at the desk, etc.; pain as if HARP ICE TOUCHED THE HEAD OR COLD NEEDLES PIERCED IT; pain run from occiput through the eyes or remain confined to some small spot, as left temple; pain as if fine splinters were driven into the brain, into cheeks, which feel hot and burning; head constantly falls backward, as if a weight were attached to occiput; headache of those subject to chorea, who readily become delirious in fever or with pain; headaches from spine affections; hysteria; muscular twitchings and grimaces of lids, face, extremities; itching and burning in various parts of body; sensation of constriction of chest; (<) sitting quietly; (>) moving slowly about, after stool.

Agnus-castus [Agn]

Probably most suitable to headache of persons with derangement of womb, ovaries, testicles, or sexual organs in general; headaches of persons given to sexual excesses or subject to seminal emissions, or of those of unmarried persons suffering from nervous debility; melancholia and hypochondriac mood, keeps repeating that she will die; tearing pains above the right eye and temple, as if one had received a blow upon the eye, attended with soreness of touch, worse by motion and in the evening; CONTRACTING HEADACHE from reading; pain in upper part of head, as from staying in a close, damp room, (>) by looking at one point.

Ailanthus-glan [Ail]

PASSIVE CONGESTIVE HEADACHE and dizziness, face red and hot, (>) by nosebleed (Arnica,); head burning hot with piercing pains, followed by drowsiness the whole day, with no inclination to think or to act; low-spirited.

Allium-cepa [All-c]

CATARRHAL HEADACHES, oppressive over eyes and going through head like an electric shocks, with sensation as if whole head were wrapped in hot moist compresses; excessive sneezing and lachrymation: profuse fluent coryza; frequent cold shivers down back.

Aloe [Aloe]

Headache across forehead, with heaviness of eyes and nausea with feeling as if a WEIGHT WERE PRESSING THE EYELIDS DOWN, (>) from partial closure of eyelids and from cold applications, (<) from heat. HEADACHE ALTERNATING WITH LUMBAGO; stitches in temples (<) by every footstep; headache from insufficient defaecation, with abdominal pains, rendering him unfit for all mental labor, with perfect relief after a complete stool; hair falls our or gets gray in patches; HEADACHES (<) IN WINTER AND DIARRHOEA IN SUMMER.

Alumen [Alumn]

Headache from constipation, from chronic catarrhs of head, (>) by lying quiet in bed or resting head upon a cushion, pale, languid face; pain n vertex (<) on moving head or stooping, (>) by pressure; shooting in vertex on coughing.

Aluminium [Alum]

Suitable to scrofulous persons suffering from chronic catarrhs; headache, attended with nausea, oppression in forehead, rush of blood to eyes and nose, epistaxis, pale face and languor; lacerating pain in head and nape of neck, INCREASING WHEN GOING TO BED, AND ONLY CEASING IN THE MORNING ON RISING; head giddy as soon as she opens her eyes, (<) from walking in open air, going up stairs, or stepping, on alternate days; inability to recollect things or to follow up a train of thoughts; no desire to do anything, especially anything serious.

Ambra [Ambr]

Pressure in forehead, WITH FEAR OF BECOMING CRAZY; EXTREMELY PAINFUL TEARING on top of the head, and apparently in the whole upper part of the brain, with paleness of the face and coldness of the left hand; pressive drawing ascending from the nape of the neck and extending through the head towards the forehead, considerable oppression remaining in the lower part of the occiput.

Ammonium-brom [Am-br]

Frontal headache; tinnitus aurium from congestion of labyrinth; sensation as if a band were tied around head above ears; eyes red, sore, with white mucus in the corners; scrofulosis; obesity.

Ammonium-carb [Am-c]

NERVOUS HEADACHES, (<) by pressing teeth together; feeling of looseness of brain, as if the brain fell to the side towards which he leaned; sense of oppressive fulness, pushing as if forehead would burst, (<) after eating, while walking in the open air, (>) from pressure, in warm room; pulsating, pressing pains in forehead and temples, with nausea mornings and (<) afternoons; great aversion to water; suits fat women leading a sedentary life.

Ammonium-mur [Am-m]

RHEUMATIC NEURALGIC headaches in temple and occiput, causing nausea, burning of ears and deafness, with sensation as if head would split.

Amyl-nitrite [Aml-n]

 

CONGESTIVE HEADACHE; giddiness, mental confusion and a dreamlike state; protruding, staring eyes, flushing of face, heaviness and pressure outward in forehead and temples, and when pain in forehead was worse, pain in occiput was better; hemicrania, where the affected side looks paler than the sound one, most violent on left side; stupid, drowsy sensation and burning in stomach and up the throat.

Anacardium-orient [Anac]

NERVOUS HEADACHE FROM MENTAL OVERWORK AND FATIGUE; tearing pains in forehead and back part of forehead; sensation as if a plug were in some part of the head or a constrictive sensation as if a band were tied about the head, with great mental irritability even to profanity, momentarily (>) by strong pressure and lying down and falling asleep, also by eating, (<) during motion and work; headache in occiput, (<) from a misstep or from loud noise and strong odors; gastric headache from weak digestion, with fulness and distension of abdomen and pain around navel, as if a blunt plug were pressed into the intestines.

Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]

SABURRA; stupefying dull headache in the forehead, so violent that sweat broke out form anxiety when walking in the fresh air; VIOLENT HEADACHE AFTER BATHING IN THE RIVER, with weakness in the limbs and aversion to food; dull headache and vertigo, increased by ascending stairs; falling off of the hair; nausea, loathing, no appetite, vomiting, bad effects of wine, especially sour wine; headache over one eye in one spot, worse at noon, decreases at night, not relieved by vomiting; headache as if the forehead would burst, from catarrh of the frontal sinus, with stoppage of nose; weakness of limbs; great sleepiness in forenoon; feeling of intolerable heat in sunshine.

Antimonium-tart [Ant-t]

Dull headache from gastric derangement, with nausea, vertigo, weakness, trembling and pressive pains in head, (<) by walking; pains as if brain were pressed together, restless and apprehensive, stupid and sleepy, more when resting, in the evening and at night; (>) when moving about in cool air or after washing head; tensive pain in forehead and on one side of head, as if the brain were in one lump, with drowsiness, (<) evening, after eating, and sitting bent (>) sitting up, lying high and in the cold; rheumatic tearing pain from right temple down into jaw- bone; vertigo alternating with drowsiness.

Apis-mell [Apis]

BRAIN FEELS TIRED, AS IF GOING TO SLEEP; dull, heavy, tensive headache over eyes, extending over vertex down to occiput, with pain through the orbits, photophobia, lids moving with difficulty, pupils contracted; violent drawing from back of neck, spreading over left half of head, burning and throbbing in head, (>) by motion and stooping, temporarily (<) by pressing head firmly with hands; integuments of head and face feel stiff, oedema about eyes; headache with vertigo, affecting forehead, temples and eyes, with nausea and vomiting, (<) in warm room and when lying down; urticaria; great desire to sleep; suppressed micturition in children; PERIODICAL HEADACHE.

Samuel Lilienthal
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (1815-1891) was from Germany, and became a pioneer homeopath in America. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Munich in 1838. After he moved to the United States, he was hired as Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York College for Women, and also as Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at the New York Homeopathic College.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.