Aethusa cyn Aeth
Vertigo, a disposition to coma, obstinate vomiting present from the onset; tearing; lancinating, stinging, and beating pains all over the head and in occiput; eyes staring; pupils dilated and insensible; face pale and collapsed; WEIGHT IN OCCIPUT; tearing, beating, drawing, in nape of neck; epileptiform convulsions.
Agaricus Agar
Great weight in head, especially in forehead and temples, with delirium and coma; drawing pains in occiput; painful sensitiveness of thee scalp; stiffness of the nape of thee neck and back; violent pains all along the spine, with stiffness and soreness; convulsive attack.
Ammonium carb Am-c
Complete prostration from the very start or during second stage, stupor, surface of body cyanotic and cold; pulse week; aversion to water.
Apis mell Apis
STUPOR FROM EFFUSION ( OP FROM CONGESTION); Oedema of face; pupils dilated, cold surface and cold extremities; screaming and crying out with a piercing shriek; no thirst for water but craves milk; which agrees; scanty urine with frequent desire to pass it; tongue red, dry, cracked; brain feels tired a if gone to sleep, burning and throbbing in head, (<) by touch, motion and stooping, (>) by pressing head firmly with hands; stiffness in back of neck; chest oppressed; SENSE OF SUFFOCATION AS IF HE COULD NOT BREATHE AGAIN; stabbing pain in occiput; and obscuration of sight, apathy and indifference, prostration. (Abstain from hot bath or pack)
Argentum nit Arg-n
VIOLENT HEADACHE, VERTIGO, photophobia, could before eyes, double vision; eyeballs floating in mucus; deafness or fulness and ringing in ears. pale and emaciated face; lips and nails blue; white coated tongue or dry, hard and black, sordes on teeth; cannot talk; wants to drink sweet things; stools and urine pass unconsciously; oppressed breathing; wants to be covered and yet wants the windows open for fresh air; cannot move himself. Sopor with constant murmuring, can only be raised with difficulty, and when partially roused the half-opened eyes shut again; the whole left side is weak; emaciation; constant trembling of hands, jerking of single muscles; epileptiform convulsions.
Arnica Arn
Coma somnolentum with delirium and carphologia; cringes when touched anywhere, even during unconsciousness; great soreness all over; sensation like a heavy weight shooting and pressing in both temples; weakness of cervical muscles, do not support the head steadily; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE VERY SENSITIVE TO TOUCH AND PRESSURE; formication in extremities; excessive diuresis; ecchymosis; exhaustion.
Arsenicum Ars
Vertigo and great weight in head, with humming in ears; sensation as if brain were loose and dashed against skull when moving; scalp sensitive and painful; photophobia or amblyopia; roaring in ears; spasmodic grinding of teeth; face pale and ashy; tongue dry, trembling; thirst for little water often; anxious breathing; diarrhoea; tensive stiffness of neck as restless anguish; coma; tetanic spasms.
Baptisia Bapt
Bruised and painful feeling at the base of the brain and upper part of spinal cord; rolling of head from one side to the other; a constant biting on the fingers and constant motion of the feet, unconsciously done by the patient; wandering pains in all limbs; with dizziness; feels stiff and sore all over; pit of the stomach to pressure; constipation; paresis of extremities; livid spots all over the body.
Belladonna Bell
Stupefying stunning headache, from the neck into the head, with heat and pulsation in it, head inclined to been backward, even before spasmodic retraction occurs, as it relieves the pain, convulsive shaking and bending of the head backward; spasmodic distortion of face and lips; grinding of teeth; inclination to bite; retention of urine; or involuntary micturition; heat of the upper part of the body and coldness of extremities general hyperaesthesia of all the senses; renewal of the spasm by touch or light; violent delirium alternating with coma.
Bryonia Bry
Bursting headache; stiffness of neck, great pain in joints and limbs, not allowing with coma.
Cactus Cact
ANGUISH AT THE HEART, and lacerating pains in the nape of the neck; dimness of sight; pulsation and buzzing in ears; faint spells; rigidity of limbs.
Camphora Camph
Constrictive pain at the base of brain, the head bending to one or the other side; throbbing in cerebellum synchronous with pulsations; deathly paleness; lockjaw; oppression of chest; violent cramps in stomach and limbs; chills severe; cold, clammy sweats; pulse small; weak and slow; TETANIC SPASMS; the limbs rigidly extended; head inclined sideways or retracted.
Cannabis ind Cann-i
Vertigo on rising with stunning pain in back part of head; fixed gaze; dilated pupils; sensitive to sounds; cold face with drowsy and stupid look; anguish in chest; with great oppression; pin across shoulders and spine; paralysis of lower extremities and right arm; convulsions; emprosthotonos; with loss of consciousness; stupor, collapse; pale clammy and insensible skin; feeble; irregular pulse.
Cantharis Canth
Second stage, with great restlessness and activity of mind; amorous frenzy, priapism, violent lancinating pains deep in brain, especially occiput; eyes dull, sunken, pale, wretched face with expression of terror, pain and despair, tearing in left cervical muscles, tearing from neck towards vertex; tearing in left limb; squeezing and contraction in front of chest; impending breathing,(>) on lying down; whole body feels as if crushed to pieces; spasmodic constriction of throat and sphincters; dysuria, retention or suppression of urine, universal tetanic spasm, trembling, fainting, coma, general coldness and collapse.
Cicuta vir Cic
Vertigo, with reeling as if things were moving to and from like a pendulum, moaning and howling; disposition to be frightened; grinding of teeth; diplopia; dilated or contracted pupils; dumbness; deafness; dyspnoea; ashy paleness; or bluish puffed face; cramp in cervical muscles, with inability to move the head after it has been turned in any direction; stiffness of neck not permitting the head to be turned; tension and soreness of the muscles, with retracted head; tonic spasms of cervical muscles; trembling of limbs; convulsions with cries; pressing together of the jaws; numbness and distortion of the limbs; opisthotonos; violent sudden jerks through the head, arms and legs, after fits of insensibility and immobility; GASTRALGIA WITH VOMITING, painful distention of abdomen, and spasm of pectoral muscles; perfect deafness; loss of speech.
Cimicifuga Cimic
Pain in every part of the head, especially in vertex and occiput, extending to shoulders and down the spine, with delirium similar to mania a potu; eyes dull and sensitive to pressure, with visions; conjunctiva red; with lachrymation; pupils dilated; foul breath, swollen tongue, fuligo, dryness of throat, with constant desire to swallow; general malaise, with nausea and vomiting, urine pale and copious; colicky pains; muscular twitchings, frequently changing location, profuse clod sweat all over the body, with very quick pulse, excessive muscular soreness, great sensitiveness to touch and motion,(<) from any motion.
Cocculus Cocc
Violent headache, with vomiting, vertigo and semi-consciousness, headache as if the eyes would be torn out, and violent pains in the forehead; INTENSE OCCIPITAL IN LOWER PART OF THE OCCIPUT, IN NAPE OF NECK, (<) by turning head back, sensation as if back of head were alternately opening and shutting; CONVULSIVE TREMBLING OF HEAD, face pale and wallow, but puffy and bloated; spasmodic oppression of chest, respiration heavy and laborious, [painful stiffness of the cervical muscles; weakness of the cervical muscles, he has to lean his head against something; miliary eruptions; fainting fits; epileptiform and hysterical convulsions; paralysis, thick, heavy speech.
Crotalus Crot-h
Pains in all extremities, terrible headache, pain as from a blow on the occiput, paleness of face as in faintness; unquenchable burning thirst; vomiting preceded by faintness; painfulness in pit of stomach; dyspnoea, with anxiety, thirst, nausea, diarrhoea, heartbeat feeble; painful paralytic sensation in extremities.
Cuprum acet Cupr-acet
Affects specially the spinal cord; congestion of brain, with convulsive motions of extremities, cannot hold the head up; eyes dim; lustreless sunken, with blue rings around; sad, depressed features, dry mouth, great thirst for cooling drinks; nausea, vomiting, and torpid stool; nervous trembling; with very great acuteness and sensitiveness of the senses; clonic spasms, beginning at the periphery; sleep or coma, paralysis of all muscles of the back up to the neck.
Digitalis Dig
HEART'S ACTION IRREGULAR AND LABORED; delirium like mania a potu; great pressure and weight in head; violent lancinating pains, especially in vertex and occiput; when sitting or walking the head falls backward, as if ANTERIOR MUSCLES WERE PARALYZED; convulsive efforts to vomit, vomiting, with coldness, prostration and fainting; stiffness in the nape and side of neck; tearing sharp stitches, aching and cutting pains in nape of neck; convulsions, with retraction of the head, syncope and collapse of vital powers,
Gelsemium Gels
At the very onset of the disease severe chill followed by congestion of the brain and spinal cord, livid cheeks, dilated pupils, little or no thirst, Perfect loss of strength and great exhaustion, staggering gait, dullness of speech, icy coldness of hands and feet, pulse very weak or hardly perceptible; laborious and weak respiration, nausea, vomiting, eyelids close involuntarily in spite of all he can do; itching of head, face and neck, SWEATING RELIEVES. Mental faculties retain their activity, though their power over the muscles is lessened or impaired; he cannot direct the movements of the limbs with precision; coma.
Glonoinum Glon
Violent congestion of head, with sense of expansion; pains ascend from chest and neck to occiput; blindness, with faintness and nausea, pale face, pain in whole length of spine; congestion of chest, with labored action of heart.
Helleborus Hell
PATIENT TOO STUPID O BE ROUSED, staring and unconscious, but still screaming out; neck rigid and head held far back; pupils dilated and insensible to light; vacant countenance and eyes wide open; forehead wrinkled, constant grinding of teeth; RETENTION OF URINE; emaciation; moves one arm and one foot unconsciously; great prostration. After Apis.
Hydrocyanic acid Hydr-ac
Sudden and desperate cases; insensibility with protruded half- open eyes; dilated immovable pupils, with blindness; roaring and deafness in ears, distorted, bloated and bluish face; tongue paralyzed and protruded; loss of speech; retention of or involuntary urine and stool; rattling slow respiration; irregular feeble pulse and beating of heart; general coldness, with heat in head.
Hyoscyamus Hyos
Heaviness of head and violent pains, alternating with pains in nape of neck; constricting stupefying headache; undulating sensation in brain, as if from throbbing in the arteries; pressure in vertex and drawing in nape of neck, when turning the head; sensation as if the brain were shaken and loose; dimness of eyes, fearful grinding of teeth, LOCKJAW; palsy of tongue, vomiting; involuntary stool and urine; or retention; spasms of chest; with arrest of breathing; stiffness of cervical muscles, with tension as if too short, on bending back; twisting of neck to one side; stiffness of arms and legs, jerking of hands and feet, epileptiform spasms, hyperaesthesia of skin; brown spots, large pustules; gangrenous vesicles on body; pulse small; intermitting quick.
Hypericum Hyper
TRAUMATIC CEREBRO - SPINAL MENINGITIS; EFFECTS OF NERVOUS SHOCK, concussion of spine; cervical vertebrae very sensitive to touch, great dread of motion; desire for warm drinks; numbness in limbs; nervous disorders arising from falls of hurts.
Ignatia Ign
Hysterical complications or rapid alternation of symptoms.
Lycopodium Lyc
Dread of solitude; active, irritable and melancholy mind; stupefying HEADACHE, EXTENDING DOWN THE NECK, with great weakness, acute hearing; with roaring in ears; acute smell; tongue swollen; bloating of abdomen, with tension as of a hoop, same in chest; much flatus; urine loaded with lithates; burning pains between shoulders; numbness and twitching through body and limbs. Impending cerebral paralysis; somnolence, staring eyes, dropped jaw.
Natrum sulph Nat-s
Pain in back of neck like the gnawing of a dog, or SCREAMING WITH THE PAIN IN OCCIPUT AND NECK; tearing pains in limbs; vomiting of bile; mental irritability and delirium; pain at the base of brain as if crushed by a vise; tetanus of left side; retarded stools; prostration (Kent considers it a grand remedy in this disease).
Nux vomica Nux-v
SHOCKS, starting suddenly from one portion of brain, with numbness and paralytic drawing in the limbs; sensation as from a bruise in back part of head; scalp sensitive to touch; strong reverberation of sounds in ear; oversensitive to odors; neck stiff; with heaviness; stitches through the body in jerks, feels sore all over, OPISTHOTONOS, WITH CONSCIOUSNESS; convulsions renewed by the last touch; fear of sleep; frightful dreams, irritable humour and hypochondriasis.
Opium Op
Stupefaction, with or without pain, delirium, mania, heaviness, with great congestion to head, OCCIPUT FEELS AS HEAVY AS LEAD, the head failing back constantly; eyes fixed and half closed, pupils contracted or dilated, insensible to light, staring and glassy look; face bloated, muscles relaxed, with twitching of lips and flapping of checks; lockjaw; strangulation; intense thirst; vomiting. with colic and convulsions; abdomen hard and bloated; constipation or diarrhoea, urine scanty; snoring rattling, slow respiration; suffocative attacks; ,dyspnoea, opisthotonos followed finally by painless paralysis; spasmodic jerkings and numbness of limbs, pulse variable; heat with sweat, WORSE WHILE PERSPIRING (Gels., better )
Phosphorus Phos
EXTENSIVE PETECHIAE OR HAEMORRHAGES AT EARLY STAGE; congestion to head; burnings stinging pains and pulsations commencing in occiput; contracted pupils; difficult hearing; PNEUMONIC COMPLICATIONS; dyspnoea, with inability to exert herself; back pains as if broken; formication and tearing in limbs; frequent fainting.
Plumbum Plb
PARALYTIC SYMPTOMS AT AN EARLY STAGE: heaviness of head,
especially in cerebellum; the palsied parts soon fall away in flesh, the limbs become painfully contracted; frequent spells of colic, with retraction of abdomen, somnolency.
Rhus tox Rhus-t
Anxiety, restlessness, stupefaction, vertigo, fulness and bruised pain in head extending to ears, bleeding of ears and nose; dry cough, with perhaps bloody sputa, pain in back as if sprained; tearing tensive pains, with stiffness of muscles and joints; vivid dreams, various eruptions.
Solanum Sol-n
Delirious raving, rage, imbecility; horrible headache, as if the head would split, with heavy, staggering, uncertain gait, slow pulse, contracted pupils and weakness in lower limbs, bruised feeling in back and limbs; neck feels stiff and sore, as if bruised; stiffness and convulsions, excited by the least touch; tetanic rigidity of whole body; tremor; violent subsultus tendinum; convulsions with moaning and coma.
Tarentula Tarent
Severe headache, aggravated by touch, with sensation as if COLD WATER WERE POURED UPON HEAD, with great noise internally, deep intense headache, with restlessness, anguish and malaise, the pain files to forehead and occiput, with photophobia; pain in occiput as if striking it with a hammer, extending to temples; burning ,scorching, heat in occiput, extending all over posterior part of head; great pricking and itching over whole body; convulsive trembling of body; convulsions, paralysis, complete retention of urine and faeces.
Tartarus emet Ant-t
Great drowsiness, stupefying headache, nausea, cold sweat, blindness, convulsive twitchings, pain with sweat, cough, with suffocative attacks, pulse full, hard, quick and trembling.
Veratrum alb Verat
Violent headache, with delirium or unconsciousness; copious vomiting, pale, cold and cadaverous face; stiffness of neck; choking in throat; feeling as if head would burst; rolling head violently from side to side, with short screams, bores head in pillows; CONVULSIVE SHOCKS AND VOMITING AS SOON AS HEAD IS RAISED; clonic and tonic spasms, with loss of sense and motion; cramps in limbs; tingling and coldness in limbs; choleric collapse simultaneously with intense congestion.
Veratrum vir Verat-v
Vertigo and headache with loss of sight, dilated pupils and vomiting; trismus, opisthotonos, constant severe pain in neck and shoulders, so that he cannot keep his head erect, distortion of muscles, especially of face, neck fingers and toes, convulsive twitchings, as form electric shocks; sudden spasms, with nausea, vomiting; trembling as if the child were frightened and on the verge of spasms. The pains begins in forehead and run back to occiput and spine.
Zincum Zinc
Convalescence retarded; WEAK MEMORY, with stinging pains in head, blindness, itching, biting, watery eyes; soreness and constriction in throat, ravenous hunger, flatulent colic, constipation; dysuria, priapism, amorous frenzy (Canth., in first stage), spasms and pain in chest, numbness, trembling, twitching, in hands and feet, flushes of heat in head and face, coldness of body; profuse and easy sweat; exhaustion of nerve-force.