Headache Flashcards

1
Q

Vertigo, falling to left of backwards

  • sensitive to least contact
  • throbbing and heat
  • palpitations reverberate through the head
  • fullness in forehead
  • sudden onset
  • pain worse light noise, lying down
  • boring head into pillow
  • constant moaning
  • h/a from having hair cut
  • worse motion of eyelids
A

Belladonna

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2
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worse coffee, alcohol, cold

  • worse touching hair
  • better dark room
  • opening eyes aggravate
  • better perspiration, headache due to suppressed perspiration
  • better pressure, worse stooping and sitting, sneezing
  • h/a from straining at stool, better after stool
  • headache from thunderstorm
A

Bryonia

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3
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Headache with confusion and dizziness

  • effect of sunstroke
  • heavy head but can’t lay on a pillow
  • cant bear any heat on heard
  • throbbing headache
  • neuralgia in head and face
  • irritable
  • vertigo in upright position
  • cerebral congestion, as if skull is too small for brain
  • vicarious headache (instead of menses)
  • headache increases and decreases with sun
  • puslating synchronous with heart rate
A

Glonoine

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4
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Frontal headache with nausea

  • scalp feels constricted
  • Right side
  • feels like an electric current from temple to occiput
  • headache after relaxing from mental strain
  • blurred vision at the beginning of h/a
  • h/a with stomach disorders
  • better gentle motion
A

Iris

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5
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H/A with retching, vomiting, pressure over orbits, black spots before eyes

  • cold hands and feet
  • heavy, oppressed frontal throbbing
  • headache relieved by nose bleed or menstrual flow
  • fullness of head
  • worse lying down
  • neuralgia over right side of head
  • heavy eyes, blurred vision, needs to close eyes
A

Meli

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6
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Throbbing, blinding headache

  • as if a thousand little hammers were knocking the brain
  • worse slightest motion
A

Nat-Mur

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7
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  • Occipital headache, with vertigo
  • over-sensitive, vertigo with momentary loss of consciousness
  • feels intoxicated
  • pressure on vertex
  • worse mental exertion, tobacco, alcohol, coffee, open air
  • desire to press head against something
  • headache with hemorrhoids
  • pain with constipation
A

Nux-Vom

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8
Q
Wandering pain
vertigo
-better open air
-neuralgic pain
-worse fatty food
A

Pulsatilla

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9
Q

Right sided headache

  • pain starts at occiput then moves to eyes
  • distended temple veins
  • burining in eyes
  • like a flash of lightening
  • h/a comes and goes with the sun
  • worse overeating
A

Sanguinaria

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10
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  • violent, sharp, cutting eye pain
  • sensation of eyeballs too large
  • string drawing eyes back into head
  • pains that accompany glaucoma
  • fears sharp things
  • pain from frontal eminence and temples, extending to eyes
  • violent, throbbing pain
  • pain as if band around head
  • vertigo
A

Spigelia

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11
Q

-H/A aches
-vertigo from looking up, from fasting
-profuse sweating of head
-pain starts at occiput and spreads over head to eyes
-swelling in glabella
better wrapping warmly, when lying on L side

A

Silica

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