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Migraines
(4 of 9)
Arsenicum album for periodic headache every other day, every 4th
day, 7th, l4th; very congestive headache; chilly; the patient desires the
body warm and the head cold; the head throbs, the patient complains of a
burning feeling accompanied by restlessness and anxiety; has a slight thirst
but drinks often, in sips and is worse after midnight.
Belladonna for a migraine that presents with great violence, comes
and departs suddenly, lasts indefinitely; congestion; throbbing in brain,
violent throbbing and cutting stabs; worse from jerking motion (walking,
going upstairs), stooping; bursting pain as if brain was pressed out; worse
from noise, light, lying; better with pressure, drawing head back.
Bryonia is the remedy to treat the patient who is worse from from
any motion, cannot bear any disturbance, mental or physical; bursting or
splitting or heavy crushing headache; fronto-occipital headache; irritable,
thirsty; dry lips and mouth; worse from straining at stool.
Calcarea carbonica has a headache picture of icy coldness in and
on head, on vertex; heaviness in forehead; tearing headache above eyes down
to nose; head numb as if wearing a cap; cold, damp feet; worse from milk.
Cedronis is the remedy for attacks of headache which occur with clockwork
regularity; sick headache every other day at 11a.m.
Chamomilla for the congestive migraine with pressing, bursting pain,
worse from thinking about it; the patient is irritable, capricious, oversensitive
to pain; one side of the face is red, the other pale.
Cinchona is also for congestive headache; the patient's extremities
are covered with cold sweat; feels a stitching pain from temple to temple;
fluid loss, such as hemorrhages bring on this migraine; worse from draft,
open air, sun, touch; better with hard pressure.
Cocculus indicus has a headache which feels as if the skull would
burst; the headache makes them feel unwell, and presents with vertigo;
thought or smell of food nauseates; pulsating pains, vertex, temples, occiput
or nape; worse from eating, drinking, sleeping; better with rest indoors;
the least jarring movement is unbearable.
Crotalus cascavella for the feeling that the skull compresses brain
like an iron helmet; that something alive walks in a circle in the head;
that a red-hot iron is stuck into vertex; pain lancinating to the right
temple; this patient wakes up with a migraine; great excitement causes
a migraine with nosebleed; icy feet and great coldness; has peculiar hallucinations.
Epiphegus for the headache which presents when you are"tired
out"; better with good sleep; constantly wants to spit.
Eupatorium perfoliatum for a terrible sick headache on waking which
lasts all day; pain in occiput; must use hands to raise head; pain is throbbing,
shooting, darting, thumping.
Gelsemium is another remedy for a congestive headache; most violent
in occiput; headache due to nervous tension, presents with nausea in the
temples and over eyes; worse from vomiting; better with copious urination;
the patient want to lie bolstered up in bed.
Glonoinum (which is homeopathic nitroglycerine) is for the migraine
that feels like an upward rush of blood; waves of terrible bursting, pulsating
head pain; worse from bending head backward and from sunstroke, worse from
having haircut; the patient holds head with both hands.
Heloderma is the remedy for a very violent headache, pressure as
if the skull too full, as if a tumor is forming and pressing inside skull;
burning in brain, or sensation of a cold band around the head; intense arctic
coldness, as if being frozen to death from within outwards. |
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A graduate of Bastyr University in Seattle, she completed both the Naturopathic and Acupuncture/Oriental Medicine programs. Her preceptor work (similar to residencies) took place in Seattle, West Virginia and China, 
