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Brain – Inner Head – Chapter 3 – REPERTORY OF HERING’S GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By Calvin B. Knerr, M.D.

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CHAPTER 3.
INNER HEAD.

Apoplexy
* Brain
* Cerebro-spinal * Forehead
* Head * Headache
* Hemicrania * Mastoid
process
* Mastoid region
* Occiput * Parietal
* Sunstroke * Temples
* Vertex

Brain.

A-C
* D-M * N-Z
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Brain :-

Nail
driven into, pain as of

(See
Boring, Knives,
Lancinating, Needles,
Plug, Stitches.) :-
Asaf.

Worse morning on
rising :-

Ptel.

Pressure :-

HEP.

Needles :-

(See Prickling,
Sticking, Stitches.)

Pain as if a needle
were pushed through into, comes on 9 A.M. ,stops at 2 P.M., worse
noise, washing hands in cold water, dropping head forward, stepping
heavily, better from soft pressure, lying on back and heat :-

Ign.

Said they were running
needles into it :-

Lyss.


Nerves :-

Acute irritation

(laryngo-tracheitis) :-
Glon.

Neuroses, with
convulsions :-

Kali-br.

Neuralgia :-

(See Tearing.)

As if cats were tearing
it to pieces

(cancerous
inoculation) :- Ars.

Worse at menstrual
period, must lie with head hanging over side of bed, body
prone :-

Zinc.

Nausea and
vomiting :-

Iris.

Noise :-

Affected painfully by,
especially male voices :-

Bar-c.

Sensitive to :-

Con.


Numb :-

Kali-br.,
Plat.

Asleep, as if :-

Apis,
Con.

Before attacks of
apoplexy :-

Bufo.

Leucorrhœa, with :-

Ign.

Pain with stupefied
feeling from above eyes across base :-

Cact.


Œdema :-

Phos.

Oppression, as if
intoxicated by carbonic acid, or by degraded or non-oxygenated
blood :-

Crot-h.

Followed by pain an
inch below and to outer side of left nipple :-

Lycps.

Scarlatina, in :-

Crot-h.


Oscillations :-

(See Loose,
Motion, Shaking,
Waving.)

Painful :-

Cur.

When walking, going up
stairs, or rising from stooping :-

LYC.

Pain

(undefined) :-
Hyos.

Base, in :-

Gels.,
Vario.

Base to occiput,
extending through :-

NUX-V.

Cerebro-spinal
meningitis, in :-

Canth.

Centre, in :-

Med.

Deep in :-

Atrop.

Driving, almost, one
mad, followed by excessive vomiting of bile and trembling :-

Zinc.

Eyes, to :-

Arg-n.

Intense, causing
continual rubbing of head on pillow, rolling from side to
side :-

Med.

Severe continued, deep
into in right frontal region, worse stooping, exercise, better
application of cold :-

Ars-s-r.

Shaking, deep, is
without influence :-

Glon.

Shaking head,
on :-

Spig.

Sit or walk, must,
cannot lie, deep :-

Ther.

Thinking, caused by
effort of :-

Daph.

Transient :-

Chel.

Uterine cancer, severe
and obstinate with, intermitting :-

Zinc.


Paralysis

(See Anæmia,
Atrophy, Exhaustion,
Sclerosis, Softening.) :-
Cupr., Nux-m.,
Op.

Beginning

(typhoid) :-
Lyc.

Collapse, with symptoms
of :-

Cupr.

Cerebral congestion,
from, with typhoid fever :-

Op.

Cerebral congestion,
from impending :-

Lyc.,
Phos.

Cerebro-spinal
meningitis, in :-

LYC.

Paralytic, diseases of
a, nature :-

Sil.

Scarlatina, in :-

AM-C.,
Phos., Zinc.

Symptoms of,
general :-

Op.

Talking, as if it would
be paralyzed from effort of :-

Calc.

Trouble, paralytic
feeling in arms caused by brain :-

Zinc.

Typhoid, in :-

Hyos.,
Zinc.

Peculiar
feeling :-

Bapt.

Pia mater, distended
with serum :-

Crot-h.

Plug,
pain as of, driven into :-

Asaf.,
HEP.

Poisoned by unexcreted
urea

(inaction
of kidneys) :- Ter.

Pressure

(See Bursting,
Distending, Heaviness.) :-
Carb-an.,
Chel.,
Chlf., Olnd.

Anterior lobes, on,
extending below eyes

(so
severe that she fell forward and remained unconscious for several
minutes epilepsy) :-
Art.

Base, at, compared to
the bruised headache of :-

Ip.,
Ptel.

Burst skull, as if
attempting to :-

GLON.

Centre, in, after
vertigo :-

PHOS.

Deep in :-

Cic.

Awaking, on :-

Arg-n.

Worse opening eyes
widely :-

Coch.


During delivery causes
traumatic convulsions :-

Hep.

Dull, gloomy :-

Caust.

Forcing itself out
front, as if

(congestive
headache) :- Glon.

Force through forehead,
as if it would, with heaviness and pressure in various parts of
head :-

Kreos.

Forced forward, as
if :-

Bry.,
Sil.

Forepart, pain in,
worse walking :-

Clem.

Forehead, as if pressed
to, better bending head backward

(fungus
of cranium) :- Bell.

Forehead, as if pressed
against skull :-

Calc-p.

Insanity, in :-

Meli.

Left half, in :-

Agar.

Left half, jerking
in :-

Verb.

Left, painful in, from
6 to 8 P.M. :-

Merc-i-r.

Load, as from a, worse
rising in bed, motion, better cold washing, walking in open
air :-

Ars.

Nose, as if forcing
itself out just above :-

Am-c.

Outward :-

Asar.

Outward with
headache :-

Bry.

Painful in one half, as
from a plug or nail :-

HEP.

Sagittal suture,
along :-

Aur-m.

Severe

(parenchymatous
metritis) :- # Lac-c.

Stoop, forcing him to,
heavy :-

Cann-i.

Tearing in right
half :-

Verb.

Temples, toward :-

Bell.

Together, sensation
of :-

Agar.

Top, upon :-

Ziz.

Washing head, worse
evening and night, at rest, better moving, or :-

Ant-t.

Violent, but transient
pain extending from within outward in right half, gradually
diminishing :-

Verb.

Vertex, under, toward
occiput on waking :-

BAR-C.

Vertigo, with :-

Nit-ac.

Prickling :-

Ferr.

Pulsation :-

(See
Beating, Throbbing.)

Quivering on shaking
head, feeling of, followed by dizziness :-

Xan.

Revolving,
as if :-

(See
Oscillating, Rolled,
Vertigo.)

Rapidly on axis :-

Nux-v.

Especially when
lying :-

Rob.


Riding,
as when, in wagon with closed eyes

(See
Vertigo.) :-
Cycl.

Roaring :-

Ferr.

When stepping hard, or
knocking foot :-

Sil.


Rolled :-

Around, sensation as
if :-

Chin.

Up, as if, or
compressed into small bulk :-

Cocc.

Rushing, through, like
lightning and down right side of neck into arm

(epileptiform
spasms) :- Chin-ar.

Sclerosis :-

(See Anæmia,
Atrophy, Exhaustion,
Paralysis, Softening.)

Wrist-drop, alternating
with colic and constipation :-

PLB.

Spasms from :-

Plb.

Symptoms
suggest :-

Bar-c.


Screwed in, sensation,
with toothache

(See
Pressure.) :-
Euphor.

Sensitive

(See Irritation,
Tender.) :-
Crot-h.

Megrim, in :-

Arn.

To motion and
walking :-

Nux-v.

Phrenitis, in :-

Chr-ac.

Shaken,
as if :-

(See
Loose, Motion,
Oscillating, Waving.)

Being, as if :-

Pall.

Moving, worse, head, or
stepping hard :-

Spig.

Nausea, with, cannot
keep quiet :-

Elaps.

Night, by electric
shocks at :-

Aster.

Painfully, by slight
noise or conversation :-

Con.

Skull, in :-

Bell.

Urticaria, in :-

Bell.

Walking or running in
open air, when :-

Nux-v.

Shattering :-

When stepping hard or
knocking foot :-

Sil.

Walking, when :-

Nux-v.

Shock :-

(See
Concussion.)

Consciousness, on
regaining :-

Cann-i.

Electricity, as from,
passes through, then spasms

(puerperal
convulsions) :- Hell.

Forward, from
behind :-

Clem.

Momentary, with
giddiness :-

Ferr.

Painful, bruised, in
right anterior side, in walking :-

Nuph.

Part, in upper, after
lying down in bed :-

Lyss.

Sudden

(cerebro-spinal
meningitis) :- Nux-v.

Synchronous with
pulsation of arteries :-

Glon.

Shooting :-

Deep in :-

Ant-t.

With transient flushes
of heat :-

Corn.


Sleep, as if gone
to :-

(See
Numb.)

Softening

(See Anæmia,
Atrophy, Exhaustion,
paralysis, also Mental
exhaustion
, Chapter 1 :
Mind and Disposition
.) :-
Am-c.,
Ambr., Bufo,
CALC.,
Caust.,
Crot-h.,
Nux-m., PHOS.

Early stage :-

Kali-p.

Epilepsy, in :-

Caust.

Excitement, preceded by
over-, causing paralysis :-

PHOS.

Feet, causes paralysis
of :-

Zinc.

Head, blood to :-

Glon.

Headache, wearied,
tired feeling, slow at answering questions, vertigo, feet drag,
formication, numbness in limbs :-

PHOS.

Incipient :-

Kali-br.

Threatened :-

Overwork,
from :-

Lyc.

From sedentary
habits, mental effort, intemperance, disease, especially in
persons who have been living too high :-

Nux-v.

Soreness :-

Arn.,
Camph.,
Canth.

Bruised, as if,
particularly walking in wind, or making mental effort :-

Chin.

Deep in :-

Phyt.

Extending to inner ear,
with heat and heavy pressure on top of head :-

Sulph.

Worse on shaking
head :-

Glon.

From least jar when
walking :-

Raph.


Sound, as if striking a
piece of silver, early in morning, on waking, gradually going
off :-

Phel.

Splashing,
sense of, in left hemisphere when walking fast

(See
Liquid, Loose,
Swashing.) :-
Carb-an.

Squeezed and relaxed
alternately :-

Calc.

Sticking
in it, as if pin were :-

Nux-v.

Stiffness, with
sensation of coldness in cerebellum :-

Phos.

Stirred with a spoon,
felt as if, must keep in motion day and night :-

Iod.

Stitches :-

Alumn., Euphr.,
Hyper.

Base, in :-

Atrop-s.

Commences in centre,
passes through centre of left eye :-

Thuj.

Coughing, when :-

Bry.

Coughing, in
pertussis :-

Anac.

Dinner, as if extending
through, after, until going to sleep in evening, with shivering
attacks of faintness :-

Puls.

Left, in, side,
extending toward vertex :-

Meny.

Left, in, dull,
extending toward parietal bone and occiput soon after eating :-

Nux-v.

Nausea, with :-

Alumn.

Pressing, long drawn,
from behind forward through left :-

VERB.

Sharp :-

Guai.

Single, in right
half :-

Camph.


Stupid
feeling :-

Leucorrhœa, with :-

Ign.

Prosopalgia, in :-

Cocc.

Surging, is felt
deep :-

Lyss.

Swashing

(See Fluid,
Loose, Splashing.) :-
Ars.,
Asaf.,
Bell., Hep.,
Hyos., Rhus-t.

When walking, feels
every step :-

Spig.


Syphilitic
affections :-

Mez.

Tearing

(See Neuralgia.) :-
Ars., Hyper.,
Zinc.

Burning, fine :-

Spig.

Deep in :-

Ant-t.

Air, better
in :-

Aur.


Dull :-

Calc.

Half, left, in :-

Agar.

Half, upper, in :-

Ambr.

Morning on rising,
worse motion, better rest and warmth :-

Staph.

Motion, worse
from :-

Agn.

Moving, worse,
eye :-

Rhus-t.

Moving, worse,
eyelid :-

Coloc.

Rising, worse
after :-

Am-m.


Tender

(See Irritation,
Sensitive.) :-
Arn.,
Med.

From least jar when
walking :-

Raph.


Tense :-

Asaf.,
Cham., Gels.,
Par.

Centre of each
hemisphere and cerebellum, as if large cords were drawn to each from
every part of lobes and cerebellum, causing a disposition to run
wildly through streets, tearing hair, seemed as if tensive pains
would break, when suddenly they relaxed to a bubbling sensation
passed from centre to circumference, when reached the tensive pains
began again, causes momentary loss of though :-

Med.

Head, as if, were
tightly bound :-

Spig.

Membranes, in, feeling
in region of eye, as if skin were thick and could not be drawn into
wrinkles :-

Par.

Motion, worse from,
excitement, or using eyes :-

Par.

Pain in forepart, worse
walking than sitting :-

Clem.

Thick, feels :-

Sil.

Throbbing :-

(See Beating.)

Arteries, of :-

BELL.,
GLON.

Base, in :-

Calc.

Behind, from, and
toward sides, ends on surface in shootings :-

Bell.

Deep in right
side :-

Sars.

Head backward, on
leaning, during day :-

LYC.

Mental labor,
from :-

Psor.

Middle, in, every
morning, continuing all day :-

Calc.

Right side, worse,
especially forehead and vertex :-

SANG.

Stinging, worse
stooping :-

Puls.

Transient attacks in
one half :-

CHAM.

Vertigo, with :-

Cact.

Tingling :-

Apis.

Tired
sensation :-

Med.

With physical and
nervous prostration :-

Con.

Restless, in upper,
with mental exertion, like limbs after muscular exertion :-

Aster.

As from a powerful,
all-pervading disease :-

Ptel.


Traumatic :-

(See
Concussion, Wounds.)

Tubercles

(See
Meningitis
tubercular
.) :-
CAUST.

In plexus
choroides :-

Hyper.


Tumor :-

Spasms from :-

Plb.

Blood to head :-

Glon.

Syphilitic :-

Merc-c.,
Merc-i-r.

Tumult, restless,
distressed :-

Aster.

Twitches, when blowing
nose during 1st 1/2 of night :-

Aster.

Undulating, as if from
throbbing in arteries

(See
Oscillating.) :-
Hyos.

Vacillating :-

(See
Oscillating.)

Vertigo :-

(See Oscillating,
Revolving, Riding.)

Deep in, as if it would
cave in, or would lose consciousness :-

Brom.

Especially in occiput,
as if he would fall :-

Zinc.

Voice, sound of one’s,
resounds like a bell :-

Spig.

Wabbling

(See Liquid,
Loose, Splashing,
Swashing.) :-
Ars.

As of water :-

Hep.

Walking, while :-

Cycl.

Water, increased
quantity of, in acute diseases, manifested by sopor, convulsions,
etc.

(typhus,
scarlet fever, smallpox)
(See Exudation,
Hydrocephalus.) :-
Nat-m.

Wavering, when walking,
with vertigo

(See
Wabbling, Waving.) :-
Phys.

Waving
sensation

(See
Fluid, Liquid,
Loose, Splashing,
Swashing.) :-
Cimic., Glon.

Weakness

(See
Exhaustion.) :-
Chlf., Form.,
Phos.

All excitement
forbidden :-

Lob-c.

Heart does not
stimulate sufficiently, vertigo :-

Dig.

Left side :-

Abrot.


Weary :-

(See
Tired.)

Weight :-

(See
Heaviness.)

Whirling :-

(See
Revolving, Vertigo.)

Around in, attack early
in morning :-

Eup-per.

Seems to go round and
round

(giddiness) :-
Sabad.


Wounds,
lacerated, or punctured

(See
Concussion.) :-
Calen., Hyper.

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