Neurology Homeopathy

Question 1

Tension Headache

Answer 1

Anacardium - HA with sensation of band around or plug in head; amel: eating; agg: heat

Gelsemium - HA with full swollen sensation and purple congested face; feels dizzy, dull, drowsy, droopy, and weak; amel: urination, sleep

Platina - Bland-like HA with alternating anxiety; associated with numbness and coldness; agg: sittt=ing, standing; amel : walking

Sanguinaria : HA in occiput, extending to R side; sharp pain associated with N/V; agg: motion, in afternoon but improve by night

Syphilinum : HA with pain felt in bone; agg: night

Question 2

Migraine Headache

Answer 2

Glonoinum : Migraines or headache with throbbing; feels like head will explode; agg: sun, stopping, shaking head

Natrum mur : throbbing, bliding migraine; starts with numbness or tingling in lips, tongue, or nose; dry lips and mouth; craves salt; agg: warmth, movement

Question 3

Cluster Headache

Answer 3

Belladonna : Throbbing/drumming headache with hot and flushed face; dilated

Bryonia : H/a with bruised sharp stabbing pain; agg: eyes moving; very thirsty for cold drinks but amel with warm drinks

Question 4

Neuralgia

Answer 4

Hypericum : neuralgic shoot pains; agg: cold, touch/pressure

Mag Phos : R sided neuralgic pains that are darting and intermittent; amel: heat and pressure; agg: cold

Question 5

Tremors

Answer 5

Anacardium : Neurasthenics, trembling, epilespy, and paralytic weakness; amel: eating; agg: heat

Hyoscyamus : Rhythmic tics, spasms, convulsions; agg: evening and night, eating, sleep, menses

Mercurius Vivus : Involuntary tremors that move nearby muscles; oily skin and hair and excessive perspiratioin; agg; cold, damp, at night

Question 6

Anacardium

Answer 6

GI, Rheumatic

Acute : Nervous dyspepsia or reflux that is > eating, may see nausea and eructations. Acutely it can help with headaches.

Constitutional : For people with delusions, hallucinations, hearing voices. They feel as if they have two wills, a lack of confidence, and poor memory. Prone to itchy skin conditions with yellow vesicles and swelling (rhus-t) that are > eating. For neurasthenics, trembling, epilepsy, and paralytic weakness. With rheumatic disease feels ‘stuck, as if a band were around it.’

Sensation of band around body part, sensation of a plug in body part.

> eating, lying on side, afternoon to evening
< fasting, hot water, abuse or mortification

Eating relieves all discomforts

Question 7

Mag Phos

Answer 7

GI

Acute : cramping pains/spasms, neuralgia, writers cramp (Dros), toothache, teething, spasmodic dysmenorrhea, chills w/o fever, spasmodic cough

Constitutional : Oversensitive and irritable; ailments from perceived lack of maternal love; mentally similar to Phosphorus; neuralgia, cramps and colic are the main physical sxs

> heat, pressure (but < light touch)
< cold

R sided complaints (Lyc); Neuralgia + colic

Question 8

Belladonna

Answer 8

fever / URTI

Acute : bright red face, thirstless, dilated pupils, raw red throat, high fever radiating heat, head doesn’t sweat, violent (Stram), expressive, obstinate (Calc, Sil), delirious. For complaints with rapid onset and inflammation : otitis media (esp R sided), mumps, HTN, heatstroke, throbbing headache.

Constitutional : Violent and obstinate; sensitive to light, touch, mvmt, noise when ill. Healthy types are strong, energetic and upbeat. Obstinate, strong identify, hard working, violent, loyal (Apis), express their emomtions

eyes< light
< jarring (Bry), lying down

Etc : Bruxism (Cina), desire for lemonade

Blind as a bat, red as a beet, dry as a bone, hot as a hare, mad as a hatter

Question 9

Gelsemium

Answer 9

Fever / URTI

Acute : Weakness, HA, fever - main flu remedy for dull, drowsy, droopy, dizzy, thirstless pt; stage fright, trembling, diarrhea from a fright or bad news

Constitutional : weakness, dull, drowsy, dumb, droopy, and dizzy; trembling after fright; apathetic, sluggish circulation, unable to do work

> EtOH, leaning forward, continued motion, alone
< bad news, damp

Thirstless, fever and shaking, chills up the spine, face hot, heavy, flushed and besotted; thirstless; serous inflammation

Lump in throat which can’t be swallowed (Ign), feels must stay in motion or HT will stop

Question 10

Epilepsy

Answer 10

Stramonium

Question 11

Herpes Zoster

Answer 11

Rhus Tox, Sulphur

Question 12

Bell Palsy

Answer 12

Causticum - Bell’s palsy started after being exposed to cold, dry air

Question 13

Glonoidum

Answer 13

sunstroke / burn

Acute : Migraines that wax and wane with the sun (Nat-m), throbbing HAs, L-sided headache, heatstroke, angina, HTN, vertigo, hot flashes

Constitutional : Confusion, feels lost in known locations, lassitude, irritability from sl opposition, sudden violent circulatory changes or surges

<sun, light, open fire

< heat around head, feeling head will explode, skull feels too small for brain, flushing

Question 14

Natrum Muriaticum

Answer 14

Grief

Acute : grief, watery discharge (urethritis, URTI, vaginitis), migraines, cold sores

Constitutional : emotional vulnerability, repressed feelings, perfectionist, reserved, romantic, non-suicidal depression, thirsty for cold drinks, depression after loss, unable to cry, passionate about trifles. Ailments from grief of disappointed love

< sun, heat, consolation, talking
> open air

Sensitive, hates fat, craves salt, fears robbers, difficulty urinating in public

Question 15

Platina

Answer 15

GU

Acute : Pains that increase and dcrease gradually (Stan) with character of cramp-like, squeezing

Constitutional : Filled with much pride and show contempt for others. Tend to vacillate between sadness and happiness. A sexual picture of early development, lightest touch of genital arouses and high sex drive. Mental sxs alternate w/ physical sxs. Local numbness and coldness to area of body. Stools are sticky and lead to constipation, always genital involvement and may show as itchy genital, sensitive genitals, genital cancer.

< sitting and standing, evening
> walking

Complaint of constriction feeling ‘like a bandage or band’ (anac), HAs that alternate with anxiety

Question 16

Sanguinaria

Answer 16

cough

Acute : Acute HAs esp. R sided, migrains and bursitis, resp. problems

< light and noise
> lying down, profuse urination, belching, vomiting

easy flushing, R sided complaints, red flushed face, rust colored sputum, hacking cough, substernal tickling sensation, problems start in am, worsen in afternoon and improve by pm; burning chest pain that extends to R shoulder

Question 17

Syphilinum

Answer 17

bone

Acute : profuse thin, watery, green, acrid leukorrhea in women. Bone pain < night

Constitutional : Ulceration and necrosis of tissues (mucus membrane, skin). There may also be congenital malformation of bones or neuralgias. HAs where feel pain in bone, < night. General physical erosion paired with nihilism. Tendency towards destructive behaviors like alcoholism and gambling. There is a strong fear of infection and OCD tendencies as a reaction (constant hand washing). Fears being paralyzed, going insane, never recovering.

< night, 2-4am
> during the day

Pains from darkness to daylight, craves EtOH, everything worse during thte night, excessive salivation while sleeping

Question 18

Hyoscyamus

Answer 18

Nerves

Acute : Mania (restlessness, delirium, raving), or conditioins with tics, spasms, convulsions. For epilespy (with shrieks), petite mal seizures

Constitutional : For people whoh are loquacious, desire to expose self. Symptoms of muscle or tendon twitching, spasms, delirium, obscene gestures. All uncontrolled nerve movements have a rhythm to them. Ten towards jealousy, aggression, suspecion.

< night, during menses, fright, mental affection, lying down

Convulsions, twitching, spasms, everything < evening/night, < after eating, < sleep, < menses, involunatry urine or stools, increased sexual expression

Question 19

Hypericum

Answer 19

Injury

Acute : Nerve injuries, injuries to fingers/toes, coccygeal injuries, shooting pains, puncture or lacerating wounds esp. in nerve-rich areas, radiating pains, spasms or convulsion after cuts, post-op incisions, amputations, toothaches

< cold, touch, or pressure

May ameliorate any condition with shooting pains

Question 20

Mercurius Vivus

Answer 20

Glandular

Acute : Tonsillitis with glandular swelling with profuse suppuration (sil), bone cancers or bone disease where pain < night, diarrhea with watery, slimy, bloody and offensive smell

Constitutional : Extreme weakness with no relief from excessive oily perspiration (opposite Nat. M). Involunatry tremors and trembling that moves to nearby muscles. They may stutter, be obese, have offensive discharge, oily face and hair, have offensive breath, and exemplify constriction and destruction in various ways. Very quarrelsome, aversion to everything, and have delusions that they are surrounded by enemies.

< damp, cold, night
> sugar

Sweating with every complaint, excessive salivation in sleep, sensitive to cold or hot temperatures, < warmth of bed, so uncovers then cools off and becomes uncomfortable.

Question 21

Stramonium

Answer 21

fever / URTI

Acute : Intense fever with delirium and fear; night terrors, febrile seizures (Calc, Bell), sunstroke (Glon)

Constitutional : all sxs violent; fearful; temper problems, murderous rage, impulsive problems after being frightened; fear of death, dark, water, being alone; sexual abuse hx (Staph)

< fright, darkness, alone, during sleep, swallowing, bright shiny objects (Canth)
> bright light, company, warmth

Stammering, ailments from fright (Gels), complaints after meningitis, encephalitis, head injury (Nat-S)

Fears water yet thirsty

Question 22

Rhus Toxicodendron

Answer 22

Rheumatic

Acute : Ligament and joint injuries, restlessness, dry teasing cough, chicken pox, herpetic eruptions, poison ivy

Constitutional : Cheeruly and friendly, but shin in healthy state; inner agitation and restlessness leads to frustration and even malicious behavior; rigidity of mind worsens, leading to depression or OCD in worse cases. Often physical complaints such as joint and muscle stiffness occur in the absence of mental sx. Prone to nerve, mucous, serous membrane, and skin disorders, with some element of restlessness.

> warm, lying on hard surface
< cold, damp, pain, after rest

**Arthritis pain, <cold, pain worse when motion starts than impoves (‘rusty hing’ effect); low back pain. Skin afflictions with itchy, red skin. Stiffness after resting improved by movement. V superstitious.

Question 23

Sulfur

Answer 23

Skin

Acute : Skin conditions, blood sugar problems, neglected pneumonia, end of colds, diarrhea

Constitutional : Intellectual with social and emotional ineptness; egotistical, lazy, craves fame, critical of others, innovative, averse to bathing, disorganized, fears contagious dx and heights, thirsty for cold drinks, offensive sweat, smelly discharges; bright and busy children with many colds, skin conditions, or diarrhea. Psoric remedy.

< heat, wool, 11am, standing, heat of the bed, bathing

Question 24

Causticum

Answer 24

Grief, sunstroke/burn

Acute : Burns, neurological problems and paralysis; ailments after rape (Acon, Staph); warts near the fingernails

Constitutional : sympathetic, activist types who cannot stand injustice of any kind; weakness or paralysis, grief (esp. after failure), raw chest and throat from dry cough. Tendency to rheumatic, skin, and mucous membrain ailments

> damp
< cold

Must swallow scanty expectorations, craves salt (Nat-m) and smoke meat (Tub), urinary incontinence from cough or sneeze.