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

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Buzzing at night as if
something were in brain :-

Hyper.

Coldness :-

Breadth, about, of 2
fingers across, in a line with forepart of ears :-

Sil.

Chills begin :-

Arum-t.

Cool sensation :-

Aur-m.

Cold sensation :-

Bry.,
Nat-m., Sep.

Cold, a spot
continually :-

Sulph.

Ice, sense of a lump
of :-

VERAT.

Ice, unbearable feeling
as from, after breakfast :-

Arn.

Icy, when pressing
firmly with hand or covering it with hat :-

Valer.

Open, as if, and
without covering :-

Arum-t.

Rheumatism, in

(uterine
cancer) :- Calc.

Shuddering :-

Cast.

Shuddering, to
chest :-

Ol-an.

Spot, a small,
in :-

Mang.

Warmth, painful,
changing to feeling of, when moving head :-

Grat.

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

Laur.

Confused
sensation :-

Hyper.

Congestion

(See Bursting,
Fulness, Heat,
Heaviness, Throbbing.) :-
CHAM.,
SULPH.

Heat, with
burning :-

Glon.

Mental, in,
disturbance :-

Staph.

Consciousness, as if he
momentarily lost, but only in that place, causes a vacillating
motion of head, in evening :-

Lyss.

Contraction

(See Crushing,
Pressing.) :-
Ust.

Cramp-like, worse by
slightest motion :-

Chin.

Paroxysms, in
frequent :-

Kali-bi.

Cracking, feels and
hears a, when sitting quietly :-

Coff.

Crawling :-

Calc-p.,
Cann-i., Cupr.,
Lil-t.

Dull, as if going to
sleep :-

Cupr-s.

Something moving, as
of :-

Cupr.

Crazy feeling :-

Lil-t.

Crushing
feeling :-

(See
Contraction, Pressing.)

With burning of eyes
and lachrymation :-

Phel.

As if brain were
crushed, after long-continued grief :-

Ph-ac.

Curling
sensation :-

Hyper.

Cutting :-

(See Darting,
Lancinating, Stitches.)

Bones, in :-

Arg-n.

With distended veins on
temples :-

Calc.

Darting :-

Con., Cycl.

From within outward to
scalp, on right side, followed by itching :-

Lyss.

Sharp, through, with
dull head :-

Stict.

Deep
seated pains

(See
Cutting, Lancinating,
Shooting, Stitches.) :-
Corn., Dios.

Distress :-

Eup-per.,
Phys.

Digging,
worse from pressure

(See
Burrowing, Nail.) :-
Bell.

Dizzy pain

(See
Vertigo.) :-
Ars.

Drawing

(See
Neuralgia, Tearing.) :-
ARN.,
Calc-p., Zinc.

Nape, to, is forced to
draw up shoulders, close eyes and tread lightly :-

Chel.

Pressive, in right
side :-

Spig.

Skin, in :-

Zinc.

Dulness :-

Cimic., Gels.,
Lyss.,
Zinc.

Empty, as if :-

Sin-a.,
Sin-n.

Dull
pain

(See Aching,
Bruised, Headache,
Pain undefined.) :-
Caust.,
Mill., Ox-ac.,
Still., Ter.,
Zinc.

Increases as if whole
brain would be pressed asunder, with inability to perform
labor :-

Hyper.

Congestive :-

Æsc.

In bump of firmness,
with corresponding symptoms of mind :-

Bar-c.

With pain in urethra,
after urinating :-

Caust.

Fly
off, as if it would

(See
Bursting, Pressing,
Outward.) :- Bapt.,
Cimic.

Fulness

(See Bursting,
Congestion, Pressing.) :-
Æsc.,
Apis, Cimic.

Awakes 5 A.M. :-

Chr-ac.

Brain, as if, would
burst, with formication in head, followed by heavy sleep :-

Psor.

Bursting, worse
afternoon and into left eye :-

Lac-ac.

Constant, increasing
all the time, as if something were pumped in :-

Glon.

Painful :-

Glon.

Pressure, and, worse or
renewed when thinking thereof :-

Helon.

Gnawing :-

(See Burrowing,
Digging.)

Externally :-

Meny.,
Spong.

Periosteum, as if
in :-

Ant-c.

On a small spot :-

Ran-s.

Hair :-

(See
Hair Chapter 4 :
Outer Head.)

Pulled, as if it
were :-

Acon.,
Mag-c.

Pulling, as if someone
were, a lock :-

Canth.

Pulled, bunch of hair
were, from, as if a :-

Indg.

Sensitiveness, great,
as if hair were raised by pulling, with stitches and tearing in
temples :-

Mag-m.

Standing, as if, on
end, during chill :-

Spong.

Violent headache in
evening, as if hair would be torn out, it bristles most on painful
spots :-

Sulph.

Hammering

(See Throbbing.) :-
Brom.

As if hit with a
hammer :-

Sars.

Headache

(undefined)
(See Aching,
Dull pain, Pain
undefined, Sharp pain.) :-
Cur.,
Merc-i-f., Sep.,
Vario.

Awaking, on :-

Nat-p.

Brain, deep
into :-

Syph.

Brain, thinks, is
dissolving, she will go crazy

(megrim) :-
Calc.

Deep, with
palpitation :-

BROM.

Dreamy, toward
morning :-

Pall.

Ear, across top from
one, to the other :-

Pall.

Began near vertex,
descended to region of left side, then went gradually over vertex to
right side of head but remained worse on left :-

Nit-ac.

Epilepsy, in :-

Caust.

About 5 P.M. :-

Verat.

Fever, convalescence
from yellow, in :-

Calc.

Forehead, extending to
left side of, and nose

(apoplexy) :-
Cocc.

Head, commencing on top
or in back of, running down sterno-mastoid which is tender to touch

(more
right side) :- Sal-ac.

Heat, with dry :-

Graph.

Lasted 6 weeks, begins
in vertex, extends over right side of head and face, with prickling,
as from needles, in limbs of right side, worse afternoon :-

Lach.

Nausea, with :-

Hyper.

Night, all :-

Eug.

Night, worse at, after
sleeping and in morning, particularly after breakfast :-

Bad.

Paralysis, in :-

Cur.

Paroxysms, in, every
other day, commencing about 11 A.M. :-

Hydr.

Periodic,
violent :-

Sil.

Pneumonia, in :-

Chel.

Prolapsus uteri,
in :-

Lil-t.

Rising, on :-

Kali-n.

Semilateral, over
vertex :-

# Carb-ac.

Shoulders, down
into :-

Dios.

Vertex, began near,
descended to region of left side, then went gradually over vertex to
right side of head, but remained worse on left :-

Nit-ac.

Vertex, more outside
near, better by gentle scratching, or by rubbing, but must be done
by hands of others, thus by a kind of mesmerizing :-

Lyss.

Heat

(See Burning,
Congestion.) :-
Aur.,
Camph., Glon.,
Hyper., Med., Mur-ac., Nat-p.,
Nat-s.,
Nux-m., SULPH.

Back, on, part :-

Daph.

Brain, hyperæmia of,
in :-

Phos.

Brain, with soreness
of, extending to inner ear :-

Sulph.

Burning

(intermittent
after quinine) :-
Sulph.

Dull, with, pressure,
as if skull were too full :-

Helon.

Dry, with
headache :-

Graph.

Ears, with buzzing
in :-

Eup-per.

Firmness, region of,
in :-

Benz-ac.

Forehead, with pressure
in, and coronal region, after sunset, better by pressure, during
quiet and while lying down, worse while thinking :-

Nat-s.

Giddiness, with :-

Sabad.

Grief, after :-

Calc.,
Phos.

Headache, with
sick :-

Crot-h.

Hot flushes :-

Ptel.

Menopause, at :-

LACH.

Menses, during :-

Nat-s.

Morning, with,
headache :-

Podo.

Place, on a small,
sensation of

(prosopalgia) :-
Mez.

Pneumonia, in :-

Sulph.

Pressure, better from,
pain, with :-

Eup-per.

Prolapsus, in, uteri,
during climaxis :-

LACH.

Region of reverence,
in :-

Benz-ac.

Rheumatism, in :-

Sulph.

Spots, in

(prolapsus
ani) :- Arn.

Slight, with,
pulsation, at 11 P.M. :-

Merc-i-r.

Touch, hot to :-

Acon.

Touch, hot to, though
he is generally chilly, and better from external warmth :-

Kali-i.

Heaviness

(See Confused,
Dulness, Pressing.) :-
All-c.,
Apis, Camph., Hipp., Ox-ac.,
Sin-a.,
Sin-n., Xan., Zinc.

Coryza, with :-

Jac-c.

Dull pain :-

Æsc.,
Chim-m.

Dull pain in left at 11
A.M. :-

Zing.

Dull pain during
profuse menses :-

Ferr-p.

From 6 A.M. till
evening :-

Crot-h.

Dull, 1st on left
side :-

Lyss.

Feet, with cold, and
flushes of face :-

Naja.

Mind, seems to
affect :-

Med.

Pain, like a weight,
better pressing, worse sounds, hearing talking or from strong
light :-

CACT.

Pain like a heavy
weight, stone or lump of lead :-

Phel.

Pressing :-

Bry.,
Calc-ar.,
Lyss.

Weight :-

Agar.,
Aloe, Alumn.,
Amyg., Brach., Cact., Calc.,
Glon., LACH.,
Lith-c., Zinc.

Weight, in
rheumatism :-

Sulph.

Weight, worse after
sleep :-

Ambr.

Weight with neuralgic
headache in left temple and around cranium :-

Med.

Weight with
vertigo :-

Ambr.

Humming,
singing :-

Calc.

Itching :-

Anag.

Lasting several days,
worse in morning :-

Ind.

Lancinating

(See Cutting,
Darting, Stitches.) :-
Cupr-a.

Large, feels enlarged
and extended upwards :-

Lachn.

Loose, sensation of
something, when turning, diagonally across top, with external
headache :-

Kalm.

Nail :-

(See Boring,
Burrowing, Piercing,
Stitches.)

Driven, as if,
in :-

Hell.,
Nux-v.

Jerk, with a :-

Thuj.

Outward, from
within :-

Thuj.

Pressing :-

Form.

Sticking, as if,
in :-

Nicc.

Noise :-

Clicking in left, on
walking, and during stool :-

Con.

Like ticking of a
watch :-

Graph.

Numbness :-

Carbn-s., Mez.,
Phys.

Blow, after a :-

Merl.

Contraction, preceded
by a sensation of, of brain and scalp, worse in evening and while
sitting, better from motion in open air :-

Plat.

Left, on,
evening :-

Ars-met.

Scalp, as if, would be
contracted and as if a heavy weight were lying upon it :-

Plat.

Spot, on a small, on
right, rather anteriorly, as if in bone :-

Fil.

Streak, in a, backward,
more to left :-

Ars-met.

Top, as if, were
gone :-

Mez.

Opening, as if :-

CANN-I.

As if brain were
open :-

Carb-an.

And letting in cold air

(climaxis) :-
Cimic.

And shutting :-

CANN-I.,
Cann-s.

Oppression

(See Fulness,
Heaviness, Pressing.) :-
Amyg., Graph.,
Laur.

Pain

(undefined)
(See Headache.) :-
Bor.,
Cadm-s., Crot-h.,
Daph., Gels.,
Glon., Lach.,
Ptel., Rheum,
Ust.

Afternoon, in :-

Elaps.

Air, worse in
open :-

Con.

Awaking, begins on,
lasts all day, worse noise

(post-partum
hæmorrhage) :- Cann-s.

Awaking, on, extends to
occiput :-

Kali-bi.

Awaking, after, worse
lying on left side and back, better when turning on right side and
after rising :-

Cinnb.

Cough, caused
by :-

Alumn.

Downward

(incipient
paralysis) :- Lach.

Excitability,
nervous :-

Phys.

Fall, after a, upon
head :-

Sul-ac.

Firmness, region of,
in :-

Benz-ac.

Forehead,
toward :-

Daph.

Headache, sick,
in :-

Sang.

Hyperæsthesia of
retina, in :-

Nux-v.

Left, to, of :-

Pall.

Menses, during
profuse :-

Ferr-p.

Morning, in :-

Bar-c.,
Carb-ac., Pall.

Moving, worse, or
stooping, better from pressure :-

Alumn.

Movement, worse by, or
exertion :-

Ox-ac.

Nausea, with :-

Form.

Palpitation, with

(coryza) :-
Cact.

Pressure, and, with
sensation as if heart were grasped

(coryza) :-
Cact.

Pressure, and, after
attack

(epilepsy) :-
Bufo.

Pressure, better from,
and fresh air :-

Tarent.

Region of reverence,
in :-

Benz-ac.

Running, caused by, up
stairs :-

Ferr-i.

Scalp, pain, with
sore :-

Bry.,
Chel.

Shifting from
epigastrium :-

Form.

Shooting down to
zygoma :-

Phos.

Spot painful to
touch :-

Lact.

Spot, confined to one,
near middle line, inclining to left side, from cold, better
temporarily by quinine, pain at its acme about 5 or 6 P.M.,
continues to be violent until 2 A.M., when it quits him
instantaneously, worse in winter and whenever weather is unusually
cold, pain appears to be in brain, drives him mad :-

Sulph.

Stepping, when, from a
high step to ground :-

Phyt.

Suture, under coronal,
in morning on awaking :-

Merc-sul.

Sweat, with flying heat
and, in morning :-

Ox-ac.

Teeth, merging with
pain in :-

Lyss.

Tender to touch, worse
evening :-

Bufo.

Urine, if, is
retained :-

# Fl-ac.

Vertigo, with, and
nausea, could not sit up, worse from raising head :-

Pic-ac.

Piercing

(See Boring,
Nail, Pricking,
Stitches.) :-
Mill.

Awoke 2 A.M. :-

Dios.

Midnight, after

(typhoid
pneumonia) :- Lac-c.

Transient, as if bone
were repeatedly pierced with a needle near sagittal suture :-

Thuj.

As if pin points were
inserted :-

Æsc.

Pithy, as if

(See
Numbness.) :-
Mez.

Pressive pinching (See
Contraction, Pressing.) :-
Eug.

Pressing
(See Contraction,
Dull pain, Heaviness.) :-
Acon.,
Act-sp., Agar., Alumn.,
Ambr.,
Ant-t., Bell.,
Calc-p., # Carb-ac.,
Carb-v., Cedr.,
Chen-v., Cycl., Euphr., Graph.,
Hyper., Iod.,
LACH.,
Med., Nicc.,
Nux-m., Phys.,
Puls., Rhod., Spong.,
Syph., Thuj.,
Verat., Verb.,
Zinc.

Pricking

(See Numbness,
Stitches.) :-
Arund.

Centre, in, for 2
hours :-

Cimx.

Racking pain, to
eyebrow, with despair :-

Act-sp.

Reverberation, when
coughing :-

Sulph.

Rheumatic
pain, for several years

(See
Tearing.) :-
Stram.

Rushing upward, as
of :-

Aml-ns.

Scalding
feeling

(See
Burning, Heat.) :-
Sil.

Scorching,
better in open air, and by cold water, worse from excitement

(uterine
disorder) :- Con.

Sensitive :-

(See Touch.)

Air, to cold, noise,
and jar :-

Ferr-p.

Dry, to, cold
air :-

Carb-an.

Painful in
mornings :-

Squil.

Scalp :-

Thuj.

Separated, as if, from
rest of head, as if she could lift it off, felt she would like to
remove it :-

Ther.

Sharp
pain

(See
Neuralgia.) :- Merc-i-f.

In back part, worse
morning and in warm weather :-

Thuj.

Extends to eyes, better
from warmth, scalp tender :-

Sulph.

Coming from nape of
neck, then stretching across head forward, presses top of head in
hands, 9 A.M. :-

Lac-c.

Terrific, into eye

(acute
neuralgia) :- Arg-n.

Shocks,
vertiginous :-

Lyss.

Shooting

(See Cutting,
Darting, Lancinating.) :-
Cimic., Ter.

Coughing, on :-

Alumn.

Forehead, to, since
midnight

(dysmenorrhœa) :-
Nicc.

Pressing :-

Lyss.

Soreness :-

(See Aching,
Bruised, Dull
pain.)

Hair, cannot comb her,
when eyes are sore :-

Merc.

Headache, with :-

Ferr-p.

Irritation of meninges
in cervical portion :-

Par.

Left side sore, worse
on touching :-

Zing.

Periosteum, of, with
swelling :-

Ant-c.

Spreads over right side
of head and face :-

Lach.

Ulceration, as from,
worse evening, in bed, and after eating, better after
scratching :-

Zinc.

Sparks, as of fine
electric, changing to prickling itching, better rubbing :-

Carb-ac.

Splitting
pain

(See Bursting,
Pressing outward.) :-
Nat-s.

As if skull were split,
worse wet weather and night :-

Carb-an.

Sticking

(See Pricking,
Stinging.) :-
Lach.

Through whole head,
when standing in sun :-

Bar-c.

In left side, before or
during early menses :-

Ol-an.

Stinging :-

(See Pricking,
Stinging.)

Upper part, in :-

Caust.

In right side :-

Lyss.

Stitches

(See Boring,
Cutting, Darting,
Lancinating, Nail,
Pricking, Stabbing, Sticking.) :-
Bor., Caust.,
Con., Cycl.,
Ip., Lith-c.,
Nit-s-d.,
Raph.

Brain, inflammation of,
in :-

Puls.

Coughing, on

(epidemic
influenza) :- Sabad.

Deep :-

Caps.

Dull, deep :-

Rat.

Dull, from within,
worse from touch and after washing, better while washing :-

Spig.

Evening, towards,
jerking, worse washing and during wet weather, better in dry air,
also from scratching and rubbing :-

Calc.

Frequent, better lying
down and by pressure

(hysteria) :-
Lyc.

Fine, burning, in
middle :-

Zinc.

Instrument, like a
stitch from dull, as from a pressing nail :-

Form.

Needles, like, in
middle :-

Cimx.

Needle, a fine burning,
externally :-

Staph.

Periodical :-

Chel.

Stooping, on :-

Am-m.

Thrusts :-

Mill.

Thrusts from within
out :-

Calc.

Vertigo, with :-

Caust.,
Nat-c.

Stupefying pain :-

Bov., Lyss.

Going to neck :-

Arund.

Surging,
burning :-

Lyss.

Swashing, as if brains
were, about

(See
Waves.) :-
Carb-ac.

Swollen, as if :-

All-c.

Bones, worse from
warmth, better in cool open air :-

Ant-c.

Tearing

(See Drawing,
Neuralgic, Rheumatic.) :-
Anac.,
Ant-c., Benz-ac., Canth.,
Con.,
Indg., Lachn., Zinc.

Air, better in
open :-

Aur.

As if torn asunder,
worse wet weather and night :-

Carb-an.

Brain, as if, were torn
to pieces :-

Carb-an.

Brain, inflammation of,
in :-

Puls.

Eating, after :-

Inul.

Evening, fine,
towards :-

Calc.

Evening, worse, and
night :-

Merc.

Feeling, with, as if a
hammer were beating from within outward :-

Vinc.

Left side, in, worse
from motion, loud noise, speaking loud, opening mouth, better by
lying down :-

Spig.

Lying, better, down and
by pressure

(hysteria) :-
Lyc.

Night, at :-

Laur.

Night, worse at :-

Thuj.

Pressing, near right
side :-

Zinc.

Pressure, worse
from :-

Bell.

Right, in :-

Bell.

Throbbing :-

Zinc.

Vertigo, with :-

Mur-ac.

Vertigo, with,
melancholy and prostration :-

Nat-c.

Within, from :-

Lach.

Tenderness :-

(See
Touch.)

Tension

(See Bursting,
Pressure.) :-
Lyss.

Painful :-

Cact.,
Zinc.

To upper jaw, as if
head were expanded from within, worse in evening, when lying with
head low, slowly increasing and decreasing, better from heat :-

Stront-c.

Scalp, of :-

Carb-an.

In left side, gradually
becomes a sharp pressure, better on sitting up :-

Verb.

Throbbing

(beating,
pulsating) (See
Congestion, Fulness,
Hammering.) :-
Agar.,
Alumn., Aml-ns., Anac., Bry., Glon.,
Helon., Hyper.,
Lyc., Lyss.,
Puls., Stram.,
Sulph., Ter.

Awaking, when :-

Bry.

Awaking, on, with heat
in face :-

Kreos.

Chilliness,
with :-

Sil.

Chin, moves to cheeks
and, where it changes to tingling, drawing pains :-

Hyper.

Driving out of bed

(gastralgia) :-
Cham.

Eating, after :-

Inul.

Eyes, worse by motion
of, and touch of fingers :-

Cocc.

Feeling, aching, with
flashes of throb-like pain, about upper part, as if top of head were
about to be taken off :-

Xan.

Fulness, with :-

Bry.

Fulness, with, in
forehead :-

Nat-ar.

Intermittent,
painful :-

Plan.

Meal, worse after, or
at night :-

Cham.

Menses, during :-

Lach.

Mind, from fixed
attention of :-

Nux-v.

Morning, every,
painful :-

Nat-c.

Morning, painful, soon
after rising :-

Sep.

Movement, with
every :-

Bry.,
Lach.

Moving, painful, when,
suddenly :-

Ferr.

Nausea, painful
with :-

Nat-m.

Neck, down to :-

Lyss.

Pain, intense :-

Lac-d.

Painful

(nocturnal
headache) :- Sulph.

Painful, proceeding
from vertex

(melancholia) :-
Puls.

Pressing :-

Lyss.

Quiet, must lie :-

Calc.

Side, right, painful,
worse by rising :-

Zing.

Scarlatina, in :-

Chin-s.

Strange :-

Lyss.

Temple, painful over
right, early on awaking :-

Alumn.

Vertigo, with,
melancholy, and prostration :-

Nat-c.

Walking, worse
from :-

Sars.

Tingling :-

(See Numbness,
Pricking.)

Painful :-

Sulph.

With lightheadedness
after inhaling diphtheritic breath :-

Lac-c.

Painful, menses
omit :-

Cupr.

Touch :-

(See Pressing,
Sensitive.)

Painful :-

Alumn.,
Mez.

Sensitive :-

# Carb-ac.,
Par.

Sore :-

Arum-t.

Suture, in region of
coronal :-

Sil.

Tender :-

Arg-n.

Twisting pain, worse by
pressure :-

Bell.

Vertigo,
several times during day, with danger of falling

(See
Vertigo, Head.) :-
Med.

Vise, as if in a, and
chin

(See Pressing.) :-
Daph.

Waves,
like, rise and fall, pain increases and diminishes :-

Glon.

Weariness, with coryza :-

Jac-c.

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