MIGRAINE

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MIGRAINE

• Therapeutics

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ANTHRACINUM

• Indescribable pains.
• As if smoke, heat, is going through the head.
• Symmetrical hemorrhages in brain.

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APIUM GRAVEOLENS

• Pain amel. eating.
• Throbbing agg. motion, left amel. rest.

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ARGENTUM METALLICUM

• Sudden vertigo.
• - Cloudy sensation, as from smoke in the brain.
• - Neuralgic pain.

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ARSENICUM ALBUM

• HOT HEAD WITH COLD BODY.
• - Headache Congestive, burning periodical alt.
  with arthritis, stomach pain amel. cold
  applications.
• Headache after eating ice-cream (Puls.).

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BELLADONNA

• - Pain PULSATING, throbbing, hammering
• MADDENING (Gels)
• cold feet during headache
• agg. RIGHT SIDE
• agg. LIGHT, NOISE, JAR, SUN, MOTION, bending
  forward
• amel. cold applications, dark room, pressure,
  sitting
• after cutting hair due to hormonal changes.
• - Pain as if head bursts open in hypertension.
• - Sinusitis sensation of heaviness
• agg. slight touch, stooping amel. hard pressure.

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CALCAREA CARBONICA

• Headache agg. physical exertion, wet weather
  amel. lying in the dark.
• - PERSPIRATION AT NIGHT, DURING SLEEP

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CHINA OFFICINALIS

• Pain, periodical, amel. hard pressure, agg. loss
  of vital fluids.
• - Sensitive to cold air.

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COCCULUS INDICUS

• OCCIPITAL HEADACHE with vertigo, nausea
• agg. Lying on back of head, from riding in a car,
  loss of sleep, coffee, alcohol, eating or
  drinking, cold air
• amel. warm room, warm bed, bending backwards.
• - Sensation of emptiness.
• - Opening and shutting sensation of occiput.
• - Sensation of constriction of brain feels
  rolled up into a small ball.

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GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS

• OCCIPITAL PAIN EXTENDING UPWARDS (Sil).
• - Headache amel. urinating (Fl-ac), lying head
  high
• agg. wine, 10 a.m.
• - DULL, HEAVY with heaviness of eyelids. Can
  hardly lift head.
• - Headache with muscular soreness of neck and
  shoulders.

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GLONOINUM

• CONGESTIVE, PULSATING HEADACHE (Bell, Lach, Meli,
  Puls).
• agg. SUN, heat, wine, during menses, jar, tight
  collars.
• amel. Uncovering, pressure, lying in dark.
• Increases and decreases with the sun, even
  without exposure.
• Instead of menses.
• - Sensation as if brain is expanding, skull is
  too small.

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IRIS VERSICOLOR

• PAIN ABOVE RIGHT EYE RIGHT TEMPLE.
• With nausea, vomiting bile (Chel,Ip,Sang), which
  does not amel..
• Alternating sides (Lac-c).
• Periodical, every week.
• amel. Gentle motion.

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KALIUM IODATUM

• Headache, agg. 5 a.m. , heat amel. open air.
• - Headache associated with sinusitis.
• - Hard, painful nodules on head.

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LACHESIS MUTUS

• Intense left sided throbbing headache in waves
  (Sep).
• agg. Menopause, pregnancy, on waking, before
  menses, sun
• amel. Onset of menses (Meli), discharges
  (coryza), pressure.
• - Falling of hair, agg. during pregnancy (Sep).

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MAGNESIUM PHOSPHORICUM

• Headache agg. from cold and amel. from pressure,
  warmth

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NATRIUM MURIATICUM

• HEADACHE, "like little hammers beating".
• agg. 1000 A.M. (TO 3 P.M. ),
• GRIEF, SUN, on waking,
• light, noise, reading, menses,
• amel. Lying dark and quiet room, perspiration,
• cold application, pressure.
• In schoolgirls (Calc-p, Puls).
• Precede by numbness, tingling in lips, tongue and
  nose.
• - Eruptions at margin of hair. Alopecia.
• - Falling of hair, agg. temples, whiskers.

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NITRICUM ACIDUM

• Headache wit sensation of a band or inward
  pressure, agg. pressure of hat, pressure, noise.

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NUX VOMICA

• Headaches and migraines.
• agg. Cold, alcohol, mental exertion, anger,
  waking, before menses.
• amel. Heat.
• - Sensitive to draft (Chin, Hep, Sil).

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PHOSPHORUS

• Pain agg. fasting, heat amel. cold, sleep,
  eating.
• - Falling of the hair.

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PSORINUM

• Pain agg. exposing head, fasting, suppressed
  eruptions, amel. epistaxis.

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PULSATILLA

• Headache agg. Sun, heat, hormonal changes, ice
  cream amel. cold applications.

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SEPIA

• PAIN LEFT SIDE, OVER LEFT EYE (Spig, Thuj).
• amel. Motion.
• agg. Fasting, menses, menopause.
• - Flushes of heat.

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SILICEA

• PAIN FROM OCCIPUT TO FOREHEAD or right side.
• agg. COLD, DRAFT, uncovering of head, fasting,
  mental exertion, light.
• amel. Wrapping up, warmth, pressure.

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SULPHUR

• Headache Burning headache, agg. vertex.
• agg. WEEKEND, PROLONGED SLEEP.
• agg. Heat. Sun.
• agg. Winter.
• amel. Cold.

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Migraine

• Specific Remedies

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SPIGELIA ANTHELMIA

• Pain occurs periodically of tearing, digging or
  boring character. Semilateral headache,
  involving generally on the left side, but
  occasionally on the right side. Pain beneath
  frontal eminence and temples, extending to the
  eyes. Pain worse by movement and noise.

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SANGUINARIA

• Pain commences in the occiput, spreads over the
  head and settles over the right eye. It is sharp,
  lancinating, and at times throbbing. As the
  height of the attack is reached the patient
  cannot bear neither sounds or odors, and nausea
  and vomiting appear. He selects a quiet, darkened
  room and remains quiet.

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PARIS QUADRIFOLIA

• As from pulling a string from eyes to occiput
  numbness loquacity

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MENYANTHES

• Pressing, cramp-like pains in vertex amel. by
  strong pressure.

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PRUNUS SPINOSA

• Right frontal bone through brain to occiput left
  eye feels as if it would burst.

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Dim Vision with Migrain - Right side

• From Bouko Levy Homoeopathic and Drainage
  Repertory
• Dim before and during burning vomit profuse
  saliva pancreas insufficiency IRIS VERSICOLOR
  7C
• Dim before aching bones and scalp pain in pin
  point, and especially over eyebrows KALIUM
  BICHROMICUM 7C
• Dim during right frontal facial pain and
  paralysis agg. by cold wind CAUSTICUM 9C
• Very frequent migraines with vertigo in the
  morning when getting up, agg. when hungry, and by
  heat, amel. by eating and uncovering the head,
  periodical every weekend LYCOPODIUM 5C

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Left side

• Sight weakness related to menstrual disorders
  pressing outward pains CIMICIFUGA 7C
• Flickering dim very pale face agg. in the
  morning amel. by any discharge LACHESIS 5C
• As from pulling a string from eyes to occiput
  numbness loquacity PARIS QUADRIFOLIA 5C

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No particular side

• Foggy flickering of various colors diplopia
  constant dyspepsia, with sneezing and itching in
  the ear essential for menstrual migraines
  CYCLAMEN 7C
• Diplopia heavy eyelids one pupil dilated, the
  other contracted apathetic GELSEMIUM 5C
• Photophobia pupils dilated vascular, throbbing,
  red, swollen face BELLADONNA 5C
• Nausea, vomiting, blindness and obstinate
  constipation urination during LAC DEFLORATUM
  5C
• Occiput heaviness intense vertigo general sight
  dimness emotional violent anger PETROLEUM 5C
• Flickering, every day at the same hour hepatic
  anemic exhausted CHINA 5C
• Flickering, amel. by pressure and heat scalp
  soreness vertigo glaucoma COLOCYNTHIS 5C

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Migrain with Normal vision - Right side

• Starts on occiput, settles over right eye
  vascular throbbing pains red burning cheeks
  flushes of heat periodical, when menses are
  finished SANGUINARIA 5C
• Main remedy amel. by pressure icy coldness of
  neck and occiput profuse lacrimation radiates
  to right cheek and ear preceded by liver pains
  CHELIDONIUM 7C
• Like a hammer vertigo nose bleeding and
  faintness on rising constipation all symptoms
  are agg. by the least motion BRYONIA 5C

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Left Side

• Violent pain in and around eye, extending into
  socket palpitations parasitism fear of sharp
  things (pins, needles, scissors, like SILICEA)
  SPIGELIA 7C

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No particular side

• Pressing, cramp-like pains in vertex amel. by
  strong pressure torticollis MENYANTHES 5C
• Right frontal bone through brain to occiput left
  eye feels as if it would burst PRUNUS SPINOSA
  5C

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One dose, every week, in the following order

• Hyperactive subject, intellectual, loss of
  self-confidence anger.
• 1st NUX VOMICA 15C
• 2nd SEPIA 15C
• 3rd PSORINUM 15C
• 4th LYCOPODIUM 15C

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One dose, every week, in the following
order Contd

• Depressive loss of memory amel. by eating
• 1st SULFUR FLAVUM 9C
• 2nd ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE 15C
• 3rd AURUM METAL 9C
• 4th ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE 30C

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One dose, every week, in the following
order Contd

• Rigidity nervousness fussiness exhausted
  depressed.
• 1st NATRUM MURIATICUM 15C
• 2nd CYCLAMEN 15C
• 3rd SILICEA 15C
• 4th CYCLAMEN 15C

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One dose, every week, in the following
order Contd

• The most terrible burning migraines, with
  restlessness and various bleedings
• 1st NATRUM MURIATICUM 15C
• 2nd ARSENICUM ALBUM 15C
• 3rd SILICEA 15C
• 4th PHOSPHORUS 9C

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A Study

• No. of patients 53 patients
• Method Patients were asked to complete the SF-36
  questionnaire at the beginning of the treatment
  and after 4-6 months. The homeopathic medicine
  and potency were not pre-defined, but were
  adapted to each single patient according to
  individualised homeopathic prescription. 73.6
  completed the study.
• Result The mean and median scores of all life
  quality dimensions rose. More than 60 of the
  cases experienced an improvement in pain and the
  limitations caused by pain, as well as in
  limitations in social activities and health in
  general. All the differences between pre/post
  post treatment were statistically highly
  significant, with the strongest results in the
  'bodily pain' and 'vitality' parameters (P lt
  0.0001).
• Reference Muscari-Tomaioli G, et. al. Br
  Homeopath J. 2001 Oct90(4)189-97.

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