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Forehead – 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

Forehead.

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* F-I * J-Q
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Forehead :-

Aching

(See Dull
pain
, Heavy
pain
.) :- Æsc.,
Ammc., Ant-c., Asar., Atrop-s., Calc-s., Camph.,
Cann-i.,
Cocc., Eup-per., Ind., Ip.,
Lach.,
Petr.,
Sars.,
Sulph.

Anguish, with, and
restlessness, obliging one to leave bed :-

Coloc.

Cold hand, better
pressing with :-

Carb-ac.

Cough, with :-

Apis,
Form.

Day, severe during,
awaking, on :-

Nat-ar.

Depression, with, and
sour stomach :-

Ptel.

Dull :-

Apis,
Com., OL-J.,
Rumx.,
Sep.

Eating, after :-

Con.,
Kali-bi.

Followed by rending in
bones of right or left side of face :-

Kalm.

Giddy :-

Acet-ac.

Increasing, with pain
in sides

(remittent
neuralgia of chest) :-
Sulph.

Intermittent :-

Ant-c.

Motion, worse by,
better lying down :-

Asc-t.

Motion, worse from,
causing eyes to be closed :-

Bell.

Odor, from bad

(typhus) :-
Apis.

Outer, in, head,
especially forehead :-

Euphr.

Ozæna, in :-

Elaps.

Pressure, better
by :-

Cimic.

Sometimes coming up
from back of head, better in morning, worse towards evening

(indigestion) :-
Puls.

Temples, through, to
occiput, commencing in morning, worse afternoon :-

Arn.

Worse bending
forward :-

Coloc.

Worse, motion,
from :-

Arn.,
Chlol.

Worse by cold and
pressure

(headache
after a blow on head) :-
Merl.

Ball, sensation of a
round, sitting, firmly even when shaking head :-

Staph.

Of pain in
morning :-

Lac-d.

Band,
as of a

(See
Constriction, Tension.) :-
Ant-t.,
Bapt., CARB-AC.,
Carb-v.

Eyebrows, below, worse
from exercise, with throbbing of temporal arteries :-

Sang.

Head, worse leaning,
forward :-

Med.

Hot band drawn across,
from temple to temple, directly over eyes :-

Chlol.

Inch, about an, wide,
from temple to temple :-

Helon.

Rheumatism, acute,
in :-

Chel.

Tight cord, as if bound
by a :-

Merc-i-r.

Beating

(See Hammering,
Knocking,
Pounding.) :-
Nux-m.

Air, better in
open :-

Kali-i.

Better after
rising :-

Eup-per.

Burst, as if it would,
worse after eating, walking in open air, better pressure, in warm
room :-

Am-c.

Dinner, after :-

Am-c.

Evenings, in, worse
before and after eating, also when riding, especially in cold air,
from talking, better indoors :-

Cocc.

Hammers, as from, with
sputum in morning, of yellow or blood-stained mucus :-

Nat-m.

Hunger, with, after
fever

(ague) :-
Puls.

Left side, from, of
head :-

Kreos.

Nose, towards :-

Gamb.

Painful :-

Bapt.,
Lyss.

Pressing, when, upon
it, with compressive sensation in head, from both sides, with a hot
feeling :-

Mag-m.

With violent glowing,
from upper part to vertex, as if head would burst from inward
blows, worse from noise, daily paroxysms :-

Stann.


Side, in one,
of :-

Aur.


Blinding pain, worse
evening, into back of head and down neck :-

Lil-t.

Blow :-

Pain as from severe, in
right side :-

Acon.

As from a heavy, awakes
him in morning :-

Psor.


Board, as of a,
strapped across :-

Rhus-t.

With rush of blood to
head and flushing of face

(typical
fever) :- RHUS-T.

Boring :-

Arg-n.

Left side, in :-

Aur.


Bone :-

Aching, periodical
paroxysms of, under :-

Laur.

Burning with
swelling :-

KALI-I.

Burning in left
side :-

Spig.

Drawing in right
side :-

Caps.

Drawing during rest and
motion :-

Bell.

Drawing toward root of
nose :-

Agar.

Fall out, as if it
would :-

Colch.

Gurgling behind upper
part of :-

Asaf.

Headache below :-

Cupr.

Pressing in left,
better from pressure, tight bandaging, worse from exhaustive mental
labor :-

Arg-n.

Pressure on upper
part :-

Camph.

Pressing inward in left
side, violent benumbing :-

Verb.

Pressure,
drawing :-

Zing.

Shooting over left
eye :-

Chel.

Sticking drawing
extends to temporal bone :-

Ruta.

Stitches in left while
reading :-

Ruta.

Tearing, left side in
evening :-

Puls.

Right, in :-

Caps.

Boring

(See Burrowing.) :-
Apis,
Calad., Cycl., Dros., Nit-s-d.

Acute, in one side
generally left, or passing from left to right, with nausea :-

Iris.

Digging, with, in brain
worse from motion, even talking :-

Dulc.

Dull over left brow 10
A.M. :-

Cimic.

In or out, morning and
evening, worse in open air, from pressure and stooping, better by
touch :-

Calc.

Loose, as if, and
falling from side to side, worse walking in open air, better sitting
quiet in room :-

Sul-ac.

Numbness, momentary

(affection
of sympathetic nervous system) :-
Phos.

Right side, in :-

Coloc.,
Puls.

Within, from :-

Spig.

Within outward, worse
before midnight and lying quiet :-

Dulc.

Within, from, worse
afternoon, and after eating, better from motion, cold drinks and
bathing :-

Bism.


Broad, as if, and
high :-

Cund.

Bruised
sensation :-

PULS.

Midnight till
morning :-

Hep.

Rubbing, better
by :-

Ars.

Bubble, as of a,
bursting, running around left side of head :-

Form.

Burning

(See Heat.) :-
Aur-m.,
Bry., Caust.,
Cham., Lyss.,
Meny., Ox-ac.,
Stront-c., Zinc.

Awaking, on, and after
eating :-

NUX-V.

Ball of fire, as of
a :-

Caust.

Cold, better from
pressure of, hand :-

Carb-ac.

Digging, with, in
brain :-

Dulc.

Headache worse right
side :-

Anan.

Heat, during

(intermittent) :-
Ars.

Jaundice, in :-

Acon.

Nausea, with, better in
air :-

Stann.

Lasts 24 hours, if very
severe ends in vomiting, worse from overexcitement or walking

(bilious
headache) :- Podo.

Right side, burning
in :-

Coloc.

Eye :-

Spig.

Sweat, with hot :-

CHIN.

Stinging, with feeling
of rubber band stretched over it, with confusion of mind :-

Lil-t.

Shooting, tearing, from
left side to temple, especially left supraorbital ridge, with ptosis
of upper lid :-

Spig.

Walking, when :-

Rhus-t.

Worse at night, better
after riding :-

Merc.

Burrowing

(See Boring.) :-
Coc-c.

Motion, worse from,
loud noise, speaking loud, opening mouth, better lying down :-

Spig.

As if an abscess were
forming :-

Hep.


Bursting
pain

(See Pressure
outward
, Splitting.) :-
AM-C.,
Calad., Graph.,
PULS.,
Spong.,
Ust.

Accumulated, as if,
blood were pressing out :-

Spong.

Bandaging, better, head
tightly, worse light and noise, with blindness

(hemicrania) :-
Lac-d.

Coughing, when :-

NAT-M.

Mucus, with sputum of
yellow or blood-stained, in morning :-

Nat-m.

Nose, to bridge
of :-

Dulc.

Sinus, catarrh of
frontal, in :-

Ant-c.

Stomach, with chill and
burning in :-

Sang.

Temples, and, to
occiput and nape of neck :-

Ars.

Beclouded
feeling :-

Graph.

Cold sensation :-

Cold thumb, as from a,
in a small spot :-

Arn.

Draft, as from a, of
air :-

Laur.

Heat, changing to,
worse from shock, motion, etc. :-

Arn.

Icy, as if touched by
an, hand, afternoon :-

Hyper.

Right protuberance,
on :-

Anag.

Right side :-

Agar.

Warm room, a,
in :-

Cist.

Wind, as if a cold,
were blowing on it from neck to back, worse in room, better in open
air :-

Laur.


Concentrations, bump
of, dull pains with corresponding symptoms of mind :-

Bar-c.

Confusion

(See Dulness,
Stupefaction.) :-
Ail.,
Ammc., Bry.,
Nit-s-d.

Eyebrows, region of,
and root of nose, in :-

Con.

Pinching, with, in
epigastrium :-

Coloc.

Pressure, with, in
orbits :-

Coloc.

Vertigo, with :-

Psor.

Congestion

(See Fulness,
Heaviness,
Pressure,
Throbbing.) :-
Fl-ac., Sil.

Awaking, on, worse
stooping :-

Tell.

Prickling,
causes :-

Viol-o.

Feeling of :-

CINNB.

Constriction

(contraction)
(See Band,
Pressing,
Tension.) :-
Asc-s., Carbn-s.,
Cham.,
Cycl., Grat.,
Iris.

Distension, with
alternate :-

Bism.

Dull, heavy across

(chronic
headache) :- Naja.

Headache in upper
part :-

Hyos.

Middle, in :-

Gels.

Muscles, as if, were
contracted :-

Bell.

Painful :-

Plat.

Pressure, better from
strong :-

Anac.

Pain, as if spot size
of a dime was daily contracting and getting smaller, thinks he will
be crazy as soon as it is drawn together

(hypochondriasis) :-
Arg-n.

Pain worse afternoon,
better sitting and washing :-

Asar.

Skin, of :-

Æsc.,
Arn., Caul.


Crackling :-

Acon.

Cramping pain :-

Plat.

As if screwed
in :-

Plat.

Crawling, during
supper :-

Zinc.

Creeping :-

Colch.

Crushed, as if
being :-

Nausea, with :-

Ip.

As if brain were
crushed :-

Sep.


Cutting :-

Calc.,
Cinnb.

Bones, in :-

Arg-n.

Coughing, when :-

Ziz.

Epilepsy, in :-

Caust.

Nose, with discharge of
yellow matter from

(catarrh) :-
Sep.

Right side, in, to
ears, remittent pain, worse by pressure :-

Dios.


Darting

(See Flying,
Lancinating,
Shooting,
etc.) :- Con.,
Cycl.

Eyes, especially
moving :-

Chin.

Left side, in :-

Mang.

Momentary, obliging one
to shut eyes :-

Podo.

Motion, worse from,
shocks, etc. :-

Arn.

Part, from upper, down
to centre of head, as if knives were thrust into brow, worse in
motion :-

Lach.

Right, from, to left,
followed by flying pains in epigastrium :-

Æsc.


Deadness, feeling
of :-

Mur-ac.

Digging :-

Psor.

Disagreeable
pain :-

Apis.

Dragging :-

Nat-m.

Drawing :-

Atrop.,
Aur., Graph.,
Guai., Nux-v.,
Ter.,
Zinc.

Eyes, especially
over :-

Cann-i.

Eyes, extending to,
toward end of chill, worse on opening eyes and motion

(intermittent) :-
Ars.

Forenoon and at
midnight, in :-

Kali-c.

Heat, with
oppressive :-

Zinc.

Hips, extends to

(hæmaturia) :-
Ter.

Intermittent neuralgic
pains :-

Lyc.

Left half, on :-

Asaf.,
Clem.

Left side, in,
intermittent :-

Thuj.

Middle, in :-

Ars-s-f.

Nose, extends down half
of, and to middle of vertex, morning, worse till afternoon then
better till evening :-

Ign.

Nose, especially over
root of, at 6 A.M. :-

Zing.

Periosteum, in, wakened
from sleep in morning :-

Am-c.

Pressing more on left
side at noon :-

Zing.

Protuberances, in 2
lines from, to glabella, where it draws outward as from a
magnet :-

Ictod.

Right side, in :-

Ars.,
Coloc.

Thinking, from :-

Calc.

Seems to be external,
to occiput :-

Sep.

Skin, as if, were drawn
into folds :-

Graph.

Something, as of,
lightly drawn over :-

Bar-c.

Tensive above orbits,
worse raising eyes :-

Puls.

Vertigo, with :-

Psor.

Dulness

(See Confusion.) :-
Act-sp., Arg-m.,
Arg-n.,
Bapt., Cahin., Cham.,
Cund., Gels.,
Nux-m.

Behind :-

Asc-t.

Board, as of a :-

Cocc.

Brain, as if a weight
were lying in, each expiration accompanied by sensation as if this
load were pushed from direction of occiput to forehead :-

Pall.

Chilliness,
with :-

Aloe.

Chloroform, as after
inhaling :-

All-c.

Epigastrium, with
sinking in :-

Nat-ar.

Headache, with :-

Par.

Left, dull sensation
in :-

Cocc.

Middle, in :-

Staph.

Morning, in, in a small
spot as large as tip of finger :-

Ox-ac.

Muddled :-

Carbn-s.

Precedes nose
bleed :-

Sabin.

Right side, more
to :-

Lyss.


Dull
pain

(See Aching,
Stupefying
pain
.) :- Æsc.,
Aur-m., Canth.,
Chel., Chim-m.,
Chin-ar., Coc-c., Crot-h., Dios.,
Eucal.,
Euphor., Euphr.,
Form., Ham.,
Ind.,
Lyc.,
Merc-sul., Mygal.,
Ox-ac., Phyt.,
Ptel.,
Vib., Zinc.

Abortion, in :-

Ust.

Angina faucium,
in :-

Lach.

Awaking, on :-

Ant-c.,
Calc., Erig.,
Myric.

Band, as if a rubber,
were stretched tightly from temple to temple :-

CARB-AC.

Better walking in open
air, stupefying :-

Ant-c.

Better at sunset,
followed by mental exhilaration :-

Coca.

Better, with bruised
feeling, worse motion :-

Rumx.

Centre, in :-

Carb-ac.

Chilliness,
with :-

Carb-ac.

Cold, forehead, better
by heat :-

Cinnb.

Confusing, extends to
temporal regions, as after night watching or loss of sleep :-

Vib.

Confused

(nervous
cephalalgia) :- Acet-ac.

Conjunctivitis,
in :-

Sep.

Constipation,
with :-

BRY.

Coryza, with :-

Æsc.,
ALL-C.,
Sin-a.,
Sin-n.

Coryza, followed by
semi fluent :-

Fl-ac.

Dyspepsia, in :-

Lyc.

Dysentery, in :-

Arn.

Eye, worse over left,
or alternating from side to side :-

Lil-t.

Eyes, into :-

Lac-ac.

Eye, commencing at
outer angle of each, worse around edges of orbits and across bridge
of nose :-

Sin-a.,
Sin-n.

Face, with soreness of
entire, especially of bones :-

Merc-i-f.

Fever, pain
with :-

Polyp.

Feet, with heaviness
of :-

Pic-ac.

Head, causing, to move
to and fro and close eyes :-

Agar.

Labor, premature,
in :-

Sec.

Lassitude, with, and
desire to sleep

(hæmorrhoids) :-
Coll.

Left, generally, in one
side, or passing from left to right, with nausea :-

Iris.

Left side, on, with
stupefaction, pain morning and evening :-

Lyss.

Lids, and upper, with
vertigo, worse turning head or any violent motion, better in open
air :-

Phos.

Limbs, with heaviness
of, soreness, with :-

Merc-i-f.

Morning, in, acute
neuralgia :-

Lac-c.

Motion, worse
from :-

Chlol.

Neuralgic pains, with,
in temples :-

Rob.

Nausea, with, with cool
sweat on forehead and feeling of weakness :-

Phyt.

Occiput, to :-

Carb-ac.

Outward, from within,
in right :-

Cast.

Pain, with, at root of
nose :-

Merc-i-f.

Pressing :-

Astac.

Right half, in,
involving eye :-

Ign.

Right to left :-

Æsc.

Right temple, worse
in :-

Cupr-ar.

Sharp, becoming,
throbbing and shooting in right extends to occiput, worse motion and
stooping :-

Ars-s-r.

Spine, may extend down,
worse from slightest attempt at using mind :-

Pic-ac.

Stupid feeling, with,
from morning to evening :-

Lyss.

Sweat, with
warm :-

Glon.

Sweat, with, and
anxiety, better in open air :-

Ant-c.

Temple, with neuralgic
pain in right, close to eye :-

Verat-v.

Temples, worse in, with
aching in umbilicus :-

Lept.

Temple, near right,
shifting to other side and then disappearing :-

Jac-c.

Throbbing, becomes dull
and, settles right side and over temporal bone :-

Cupr-ar.

Upper part, in :-

Ferr-s.

Worse ascending
stairs :-

Ant-c.

Worse descending
stairs :-

Iodof.

Eminences,
frontal

(protuberances) :-

Aching, left to right,
worse left :-

Lycps.

Aching, dull :-

Acet-ac.

Beating, intermittent,
near left :-

Verb.

Blood, in left, as if
extravasation of, had taken place :-

Arn.

Boring in left :-

Ol-an.

Worse night, warm
bed :-

Arg-n.


Boring under right,
early, soon after waking :-

Bell.

Clawing in left :-

Arg-n.

Crampy pain extends to
zygoma and lower jaw :-

Bell.

Digging in left :-

Arg-n.

Drawing in head :-

Viol-o.

Drawing, benumbing, in
left in a draft of air :-

Verb.

Drawing from left to
root of nose, causes confusion of head :-

Cina.

Formication over
right :-

Cocc.

Gnawing :-

Bell.

Hammering, slow, in
left :-

Verb.

Headache in left,
deep :-

Lach.

Headache over
right :-

Cocc.

Headache over :-

Lycps.

Headache in region of
left after dinner :-

Zinc.

Headache in
right :-

Kali-br.

Headache with
ulceration of frontal sinuses when discharge stops :-

Kali-bi.

Lancinating pain over
right :-

Cocc.

Pressure, disappears
on, sensation in right as if a nail were driven in :-

Thuj.

Pain in left :-

Chim.

Pain in left to left
lower occiput :-

Nat-c.

Pressure below, deep
through brain to occiput :-

Cann-s.

Pressure, dull :-

Asaf.

Pressing

(jaundice
before attack) :-
Arg-n.

Pressure, intermittent,
near left :-

Verb.

Pressing pain in
right :-

Caust.

Pressing in
right :-

Zinc.

From within outward,
worse sitting, on entering warm room after walking in open air,
and looking at anything sharply, better lying in horizontal
position, especially on back :-

Spong.

Pressure after rising
or dressing in morning, after 1/4 of an hour over whole forehead to
vertex and becoming worse after 20 minutes, pressive pain from
within outward :-

Ferr.

Pressure, violent
stupefying, deep in right, on going into cold from warmth :-

Verb.

Pressive pain worse
going down stairs, better pressing palm against, and in open
air :-

Ferr.

Pain, screwing :-

Arg-n.

Shocks, lancinating, in
left :-

Cahin.

Shooting in left to
left lower occiput :-

Nat-c.

Shooting in right,
worse bending forward, better by pressure :-

Bell.

Sharp sticking behind
and above :-

Spig.

Stitch, dull boring,
above right :-

Zinc.

Stitches,
pulsating :-

Spig.

Stitches, rapid, in
left :-

Arn.

Stitches, sudden deep
penetrating, under left, like shocks followed by
sensitiveness :-

Asaf.

Stitches, deep, sharp
intermittent, between left side and parietal eminence :-

Verb.

Subacute pain, 1st in
left then right, in right molar, then right temple, then left
temple, again to right molar, then to loins, with frontal
oppression :-

Lycps.

Violent, slowly
appearing and disappearing stitch from within outward in
left :-

Verb.

Tearing :-

Right, in :-

Ambr.

Left, in :-

Sep.


Tearing, pressing,
after dinner :-

Zinc.

Tension on going into
open air, and in a draft :-

Verb.

Throbbing :-

Arg-n.

Over right :-

Cocc.


Throbbing on either
side, worse evening, and after exertion :-

Iris.

Thrust, sudden broad,
above left, extending deep into brain :-

Croc.

Empty :-

When stooping :-

Act-sp.

As of space between
forehead and brain, worse in evening and cold, better from
warmth :-

Caust.

Expansion :-

Nux-m.

Eyes, over :-

(See
Supraorbital, Chapter
5 : Eyes
.)

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