Nervous temperament; plethoric, florid, sensitive women; persons
readily affected.
Bad effects of mental excitement, fright, fear, mechanical injuries
and their later consequences; from having the hair cut. ( Acon.
, Bell. ).
Head troubles: from working under gas-light, when heat falls on
head; cannot bear heat about the head, heat of stove or walking
in the sun ( Lach. , Nat. c. ).
Cerebral congestion, or alternate congestion of the head and heart.
Head: feels enormously large; as if skull were too small for brain;
sunstroke and sun headache; increases and decreases every day with
the sun ( Kal. , Nat. c. ).
Terrific shock in the head, synchronous with the pulse. Throbbing,
pulsating headache; holds head with both hands; could not lie down,
"the pillow would beat."
Brain feels too large, full, bursting; blood seems to be pumped
upwards; throbs at every jar, step, pulse.
Intense congestion of brain from delayed or suppressed menses;
headache in place of menses.
Headache: occurring after profuse uterine haemorrhage; rush of
blood to head, in pregnant women.
Violent palpitation, with throbbing in carotids; heart's action
labored, oppressed; blood seems to rush to heart, and rapidly to
head.
Convulsions of children from cerebral congestion; meningitis, during
dentition, cases that seem to call for Belladonna.
Children get sick in the evening when sitting before and open coal
fire, or falling asleep there.
Flushes of heat; at the climacteric ( Amyl. , Bell. , Lach. );
with the catamenia ( Fer. , Sang. ).
Relations. - Compare: Amyl. , Bell. , Ferr. , Gels. , Melil. ,
Stram.
Aggravation. - In the sun, exposure to sun's rays; gas-light; overheating;
jar; stooping; ascending; touch of hat; having the hair cut.
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