+ Hemicrania
Aconite Acon
Burning in forehead, as if everything could be pushed out; pulsation in left side of forehead, as from severe blows in right side of forehead, (<) motion, drinking, talking, sunlight; (>) lying with head high.
Aranea diad Aran
Headache at regular intervals, with flickering before eyes, vertigo, and a feeling as if head and hands were bloated and swollen; coldness of hands and feet, (>) in open air.
Argentum nit Arg-n
BORING PAIN IN HEAD, (<) LEFT FRONTAL EMINENCE, (>) by tight bandaging; caused by mental emotions; depreciation of nervous force; bones of the head feel as if they were separating or head feels as if IT WERE ENORMOUSLY LARGE, ending in vomiting of bile or sour fluid.
Arsenicum Ars
Throbbing stupefying headache OVER LEFT EYE of such severity as to render him angry and irritable, temporarily (>) BY COLD WATER ON HEAD, (<) from wrapping up head warm; intermitting, tearing, boring, burning pain in right supra-orbital region, extending over eye and into upper teeth, (>) by walking about; periodical pain above left eyebrow and temple, followed by vomiting of a yellow, bitter of tenacious mass.
Belladonna Bell
VIOLENT HYPERAEMIA, with throbbing carotids, red face, intolerance of least jar, noise or light; hemiopia, retinal blindness, slight paralysis of tongue, even transitory hemiplegia. Attacks more afternoon or evening; before or during menses, with dysmenorrhoea, globus hystericus, titillating cough; all (>) in bed in a dark room, far removed from light and noise.
Bromium Brom
Hemicrania affecting LEFT SIDE ONLY, of a heavy pressing character, (<) from stooping, in the sun and after drinking milk, (>) in shade and by pressing the neck.
Calcarea carb Calc
Nausea, eructations, ICY COLDNESS IN HEAD; pains begin in the morning, often of the side on which patient rested; pressing pain from within outward, as if head would split; tearing headache above eyes down to nose, with nausea; hemicrania, left side, stitches in temples and downward into teeth, (<) on awaking, from motion, noise and talking, (>) in evening, especially in chlorotic girls, with much empty eructations and inclination to vomit; headache from occiput to vertex, with fullness and heaviness in head; (<) from any stimulant, as liquors, or excess in venery, (>) by rest, quiet and darkness.
Capsicum Caps
Flushes at the start, then face pale and sunken; stitching, tearing, drawing pains with sensation as if the skull would burst, at height of attack nausea, vomiting, anguish, (<) from motion, stooping, light, (>) in fresh air, from cold, patient feels lazy and shuns all motion, wants to remain indoors.
Causticum Caust
Hemicrania with nausea and vomiting; pain mornings when awaking, by motion of head and rapid walking, increasing progressively and then suddenly diminishing; constant succession of SHOCKS OR JERKS IN HEAD; rheumatic pains in head cause nausea.
Cocculus Cocc
Migraine with vertigo and nausea, pain especially in frontal protuberance and left orbit, (<) eating, drinking, starting up, walking in fresh air; sick-headache from RIDING IN A CARRIAGE, BOAT, TRAIN OR CARS; headache at each menstrual period, with nausea and inclination to vomit.
Colocynthis Coloc
Hemicrania from anger with indignation, after suppression of menses, pains extending towards forehead and left side of head, with nausea, vomiting or diarrhoea, especially towards evening; violent periodical or intermittent headache; bilious, gouty or nervous migraine of great severity.
Conium Con
SICK- HEADACHES WITH INABILITY TO URINATE; great giddiness, (<) lying in bed, when everything in room seems to go round; numbness, with sensation of coldness, on one side of head.
Cyclamen Cycl
Irregular menses with migraine and blindness; semilateral headaches, stitches in left temple, with nausea vertigo, pale and sunken eyes, (<) at night and at rest, (>) when moving.
Digitalis Dig
Violent migraine with hot head, cold extremities and copious, bilious vomiting, REPORT IN HEAD, LIKE THE FIRING OF A PISTOL; amaurosis for three days, diplopia, hemiopia, etc.
Gelsemium Gels
Hemicrania with DIM SIGHT OR DOUBLE VISION, or preceded great sensitiveness to notice, coming on suddenly with vertigo and great heaviness of head, semi-stupor; settled dull, heavy pain in occiput, mastoid process and upper cervical region down to shoulders, (>) when sitting, by reclining head high on pillow, (<) by exertion or study; paroxysm ends with profuse urination (Sang., Sil., Veratr.alb.).
Glonoinum Glon
Hemicrania from excessive use of wine; nausea ,is obliged to sit down, dimness before eyes, like a cloud, following by most violent headache, (>) by vomiting.
Ipecacuanha Ip
Sick-headache, brain feels bruised and as if it were drawn down to the root of the tongue and into teeth; nausea, vomiting outdoors.
Iris vers Iris
Attack BEGINS WITH BLURRING OF SIGHT or speck before the eye of the affected side, a stupid, stunning headache, neuralgia of infraorbital or dental nerves, attended with sour, watery vomiting, from mental exhaustion, (<) towards evening from cold air; (>) from moderate motion.
Kali bichrom Kali-bi
Blindness followed by violent headache, must lie down; aversion to light and noise, SIGHT RETURNS WITH THE INCREASING HEADACHE; frontal headache over one eye, shooting at intervals in right temple; semilateral headaches in small spots; nausea with feeling of heat over body and bitter, sour, glairy vomiting.
Kali mur Kali-m
Migraine with white-coated tongue and vomiting of white phlegm, arising from sluggish liver.
Kali phos Kali-p
Hemicrania with hyperaesthesia to sound or light, feeling of weariness and exhaustion, goneness at pit of stomach, sometimes followed by bilious vomiting.
Lac caninum Lac-c
Pain especially OVER LEFT EYE (Ars.), (<) noise and talking, (>) rest and cold water; pain as from knife-thrust from under left zygoma up to vertex; neuralgic pain in left side of head, followed by a film over right eye, with inclination to rub it off; intense darting pain around left eye; empty weak feeling in pit of stomach.
Lac defloratum Lac-d
Frontal migraine in anaemic women with nausea; vomiting and obstinate constipation; some spots on scalp very sensitive, pale face, great weakness and prostration; hyperaesthesia of sight and hearing; ICY COLDNESS OF BODY EVEN NEAR THE STOVE; deathly sickness of stomach, sometimes vomiting; (<) during menses.
Melilotus Meli
Intense frontal headache, preceded by hot flushed face, (<) forenoon, with some fever, periodically recurring every few days, (>) by epistaxis or menstrual flow.
Mercurius Merc
Migraine from cold; drawing tearing pains in head, stitches in ears and teeth, fulness and heaviness in head; chilliness, cold hands with hot cheeks, without heat in head and without thirst; sweat does not relieve, (<) in bed, by noise or touch, (>) by rest and external application of heat.
Natrum mur Nat-m
Attack begins in the MORNING IN BED, DIMINISHES AFTER RISING and moderate exercise, but becomes worse from rapid motion, accompanied by nausea and vomiting of transparent phlegm or water; dull, heavy headache with profusion of tears and drowsiness, sleep not refreshing; headache before, during and after menses; PAIN AS IF HEAD WOULD BURST, (<) COUGHING; loss of consciousness; twitching of limbs.
Natrum sulph Nat-s
Sick-headache with bilious diarrhoea or vomiting of bile; bitter taste in mouth; congestion of blood to head, with fulness; heat in vertex as if it would split; vomiting, (<) motion and reading, (>) quiet. Menstrual migraine; attacks recurring EVERY SPRING AND SUDDEN IN THEIR ONSET; boring pain in right temple, preceded by burning in stomach, bitter taste, languor.
Nux vomica Nux-v
Gouty and haemorrhoidal patients. Attack sets in the morning when awaking, getting worse during the day; nausea and vomiting during attack; becoming often most severe in occiput; drawing, aching feeling as of a NAIL DRIVEN INTO THE HEAD; or as if the brain were dashed to pieces; face pale, or sallow on a red ground; (<) from mental exercise, by motion and by rest, from stimulants; patient irritable with his abdominal plethora.
Oleum an Ol-an
Migraine with POLYURIA, URINE PERFECTLY CLEAR; face suffused, red; eyes heavy and bloodshot, can hardly lift the upper lids; speech thick and unwieldy; patient makes impression of one under influence of liquor; pulse full and round.
Phosphorus Phos
Headache over left eye (Ars., Lac can.) with black spots which dance before eyes; transient blindness, headache with vomiting; unilateral, pulsating, pressing, boring pain in one or other temple, radiating into forehead, eyes and vertex, with sensation of painful nodes on scalp, (<) morning and evening, with yawning, turgor of face and watery urine, from talking, in warm room or after eating, (>) in fresh air, when resting or sleeping; exhausting after attack and tendency to catch cold.
Pulsatilla Puls
General chilliness, scanty menses; bursting, throbbing or boring, stitching pains on one side of head, obscuration of sight, white tongue, nausea and vomiting, thickly furred tongue with clammy mouth and relief from cold air; shifting pains (<) evenings.
Rhus tox Rhus-t
Catching cold from dampness, tearing, stitching pain in one temple radiating to ear, cheek and teeth as well as towards occiput, with heat, fulness and heaviness of head and sensation of looseness of brain, (<) after midnight and after eating, by moving head, cold air or emotions, (>) by rest in bed and warmth.
Sanguinaria Sang
Migraine in women who menstruate freely; excessive pains with bilious vomiting, ELECTRIC STITCHES THROUGH HEAD, toothache, earache, pains in extremities, chills, preceded by scanty and followed by copious clear urination; attacks begin in the morning and get worse during the day, reaching their acme at noon; pains are more RIGHT SIDED; ATTACK EVERY SEVENTH DAY; the veins of the suffering temple full of blood and sensitive to touch.
Sepia Sep
Pains over one eye of a throbbing character, deep stitching pains in the membranes of the brain, SHOOTING UPWARD OR FROM WITHIN OUTWARD; JERKING OF HEAD BACKWARD AND FORWARD; pains set in suddenly, especially in the morning, accompanied by hot flashes, stiff neck, nausea, by going into the fresh air, (<) light noise, motion; arthritic headaches with hepatic affections, urine loaded with uric acid, and hysterical headaches in women with uterine mal-positions, leucorrhoea and menstrual disturbances.
Silicea Sil
Rush of blood to head, GREAT SENSITIVENESS OF HAIR failing out of hair, perspiration on head, pains running from neck up into head, paroxysms end with profuse urination; headache every seventh day; VIOLENT PERIODIC HEMICRANIA, vertex, occiput or forehead, often with nausea to fainting and obscuration of sight; (<) from mental exertion, motion, even jarring of room by footstep, stooping, talking, light, cold air, touch; (>) heat, lying down in dark.
Spigelia Spig
Terribly pain in GLOBE OF EYE AS IF IT WERE TORN OUT; dilatation and immobility of the pupil; temporary blindness; boring, tearing, stitching pains in forehead, temples, vertex or occiput, especially left side, following the course of the trifacial nerve and producing there paretic sensations; dull stitches from within outward, on top of head, (<) from touch or after washing, but (>) while washing it; ( higher potencies work best).
Stannum Stann
Neuralgic headache every morning OVER ONE OR THE OTHER EYE; mostly left, gradually spreading over whole forehead, gradually increasing and decreasing; painful jerks through left temple, forehead and cerebellum, leaving a dull pressure, (<) during rest,, (>) from motion; vomiting of bile and mucus mornings.
Theridion Ther
Flickering before eyes, nausea (<) by closing eyes and by noise; EXTREME HYPERAESTHESIA OF ACOUSTIC NERVE; throbbing over left eye and across forehead, sick stomach, (<) on rising from lying; desire for stimulants.
Veratrum alb Verat
Neuralgia of head, with indigestion; features sunken, fainting, with cold sweat and great thirst; pains drive to despair.