Pain in the head area due to a variety of intracranial disorders or due to psychogenic causes is termed as a headache. There are twelve categories of headache including tension headaches, migraine headaches, cluster headaches, sinus headaches and headaches due to raised intranial pressure.
About 70/80 percent of all headaches are classified as muscle contractions or more commonly tension headaches which are not always caused by emotional tension but can also be caused by muscle strain, poor posture and from too much of eye strain. The pain is usually constant and generlized but often radiates forward from the occipital region and is described as a dull, tight or band like sensation around the head. They rarely cause serious long term problems unlike migraine and cluster headaches.
Migraine and cluster headaches are called vascular headaches. In this type of headache there is initially an intense spasm or constriction of the blood vessels in the brain that reduce the blood flow to the brain resulting in the migraine aura nausea dizziness and altered vision which precedes the attacks of migraine. This is then followed by vasodilation of the same arteries resulting in an excessive blood flow to the head, causing the throbbing headache. Seventy of the migraine sufferers are females. Cluster headaches are short lived, lasting less than an hour, unlike migraines. They occur in predictable clusters, three to eight week Periods during they may strike several times a day.
Many food items can trigger off migraines it is known that chocolate or the food additive monosodium glutamate (MSG) stimulates an attack. MSG is found not only in Chinese food but also in frozen foods.canned foods, and dry soups and many other processed foods as well. Chemicals like nitrites which are used to preserve meat and smoked fish can also trigger migraines even if present in small amounts. Foods such as cheddar cheese pickled herring and red wine contain tyramine, which is a chemical compound that cause headache.
Ask the patient to avoid exposure to excessive to heat, cold or rain. Avoid washing head in cold water.
The person should be kept free from emotional factors like anxiety anger and worry.
Homoeopathic medicines
Headache of anaemic girls
Anaemic school girlsafter school hrs Calc phos compare Nat Mur.
Headache bursting as skull would burst and face flushed China
Headache bursting from motion and coughing and splitting stopping and coughing relived by lying still patients holds head and chest while coughing worse by moving the eyes walking about and relieved by lying still Bryonia
Headache at the base of brain with full Pain heaviness of eye lids aggravated by mental work, lying with head low or heat of room or sun relived by pressure by hand profuse flow of urine patient wants to lie the head resting upon the high pillow and lie perfectly still Gels.
Headache boring pain in right temple sclap sensitive and sore Hep
Headache at climacteric nausea
Drowsiness vertigo blurred vision and prostration, palpation of the heart pale face complaints worse after sleep. The distress is removed by profuse menstruation.Lachesis.
Headache between scalp and brain. Sensation of opening and shuttering of occuiput ( bach part of the head) pain as if head would burst Cocclus
Headache before menses with constipation.on vertex throbbing as with little hammers headache comes before menses chronic constipation no urging for stool for three four days or week, then a painful difficult stool Sepia.
Headache starting from both temples, drawing and tearing in the head to and fro, shooting through the head lancinating cutting pains worse on exertion better from quite lying. Headache When blowing nose pressing pain in the left frontal eminence and in the eyelids Ambra grs.
Headache from mental exertion with nausea head feels hot and heavy Calc carb
Headache from mental strain loss of sleep, worry aching of vertex occuiput and eye balls Act rac.
Headache after exertion physical round about 10 am aches as if thousands of hammer's were knocking on brain in the morning, on awaking after menstruation from sunrise to sunset nausea vomiting malaria headache Nat Mur.
Headache due exposure to sun heat patients sleeps in to the headache. The patient is distreesed with a headache every time he is exposed to the sun heat for some time. Lach.
Headache extending to eyes
Beginning in the nape of neck and running forward over the head to the eyes. Better by covering the head and lying on left side or washing it with warn water Sil
Over left eye with acidity Carbo veg
Headache over right eye Kali bich
Headache frontal worse stooping lying on back and moving eyelids Coloc
Headache gastric back part of the head headache more walking in the morning abdominal and haemorrhoids affection Nux vom.
Headache half sided of women Sep.temperment and who are suffering from uterine troubles stinging Pain from within outward and upwards mostly on left or in forehead nausea vomiting worse indoos and when lying on painful side during menstrual periods Sepia.
Headache migraine nervous sick headache caused by excitement and over exertion Scutellaria.
Migraine due to acidity sluggish ness of liver Chionanthus
Periodical nervous patient vomits a bitter bilious substance which gives relief migraine of the eye with Constipation Iris Ver if this fails Cyclamen
Damiana is Excellent remedy for migraine Q in 15/20 drops four times daily.
Pressive Pain intolerance of light Kali carb.
Headache of different types
Glonoine 30 five pills and Passiflora Q may be given alternative every 30 minutes and they will work marvellously in relieving pain like allopathic medicines.
Nape drawn back relieved from cold washing Act rac
Headache with nausea Ipeca
Headache nausea vomiting diarrhoea Verat
Periodical increasing with sun begins in morning increases during the day lasts until evening headache returns every seventh day Sang
Periodical Pulsatilla compare Niccolum Sul
Pains from right to left dull frontal shooting in left parietal bone ( one of the bones of skull) later in right Aesculus hip.
Headache during small pox Bell Bryonia and Rhus tox
Headache old syphilitic bone Pain in the head. These pains in the head are sometimes very distressing. These bone Pains of the head usually called Nervous headache are either syphilitic hysterical or scrotulous. They aggravate at night and pains extend from within out, Asaf
Headache due to not urinating due to not attending the desire to urinate Agar.
Headache wandering stitches about head, pains extend to face and teeth. Frontal and forehead pains Neuralgic pains commencing in right temporal region. The headache is better in cold air and from cold washing of head. The patient is worse in warm and closed room and feels relieved from cold application tying up head tightly with a band relieves the headache Pulsatilla.
Headache after eating beef
Headache after dog bite Lyss, Bell.
Headache from brain diseases Nat Mur
Headache after dancing Arg nit
Headache from ironing Bry, Sepia
Headache from lemonade Sel
Headache from looking at moving objects Con
Headache from tapping on spine Cina
Headache in high altitudes Coca.
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