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Migraines
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Iris versicolor is one of the best prescriptions for headache due
to stomach or liver problems; always begins with blur in front of the eyes;
this migraine may cause nausea and vomiting, burning of the tongue, throat,
esophagus and stomach; profuse secretion of ropy saliva; or vomiting spells
every month or 6 weeks.
Lachesis treats the violent congestive migraine with vomiting and
loss of sight; throbbing, bursting, sun headache (chronic), better with
pressure on vertex, sleeps into headache (dreads to sleep); better with
any discharge, worse from suppressing discharges (such as using antihistamines).
Usually a left sided migraine.
Mercurius solubilis is for a migraine that makes the head feel full,
with a bursting feeling; as if the head were constricted by a band, as if
in a vice, worse at night; the headache is most painful around the nose
and eyes; worse from cold, damp, draft, cold or warm room; dirty feeling,
offensive taste on tongue and in mouth; offensive sweat.
Natrum muriaticum is one of the best remedies for chronic headache;
dreadful pain, bursting, compressing as if in a vice; may start at 10-11a.m.
until 3p.m. or into the evening; periodic, every day or 3rd or 4th day,
better with sleep (dark and quiet); the patient feels relief from sweating.
Nux vomica has a headache connected with gastric, hepatic, abdominal
or hemorrhoidal troubles; migraine comes on waking, or rising, after eating,
in open air, on moving eyes; headache of sedentary persons, after coffee;
the patient is oversensitive and touchy; better with head wrapped up, covered,
lying down, with warmth and heat.
Phosphorus is the remedy for aa migraine which is congestive and
throbbing, worse from heat, motion, lying down, better with rest. The patient
is chilly and worse from cold but wants cold drinks in the stomach and cold
applications to the head; craves ice; this migraine is particularly voilent
when the patient is hungry; violent neuralgic pain (darting, tearing, shooting
), periodic headache with stiffness of face and jaws; worse from noise and
light.
Psorinum patients are always hungry during the migraine; they may
present with a symptom picture in which the headache alternates with a hacking
cough; if this patient goes without a meal, they may develop a full-blown
migraine which feels full at the vertex as if the brain would burst out;
especially in the morning, it feels as if there is no room in forehead for
brain; better with after washing and eating.
Pulsatilla is the remedy for a throbbing congestive headache; when
the head is hot, and the patient feels better with cold applications or
slowly walking in open air; the onset of the migraine may be connected with
menses and overeating; the patient is thirstless, weeps esaily, has moods
swings, is better with motion, worse from heat.
Rhus toxicodendron (homeopathic poison ivy) is the remedy for the
migraine which makes the patient feel stupefied, intoxicated; as though
there were a weight in head; the patient feels that when stooping a weight
falls forward into forehead drawing the head down; she must hold her head
up straight to relieve this strange feeling; on waking and opening eyes
she gets violent headaches; in children this migraine may come on from being
cold or damp, or wetting their bed.
Sanguinaria is for a sick headache; pain starts the occiput, spreads
over head to right eye, with nausea and vomiting; a migraine comes on every
3rd or 7th day; sun headache; from morning to night, increasing all day,
with nausea, chills, vomiting of bile; better with lying down in the dark,
sleep; the palms and soles feel as though they were on fire. |
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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, 
