Bid Farewell to Headaches, the Homeopathy way...

Headache is a symptom of a number of different conditions of the head and sometimes neck. Some of the causes are benign while others are medical emergencies. It ranks among the most common pain complaints.


TYPES OF HEADACHES  

 There are

• tension-type headaches
• migraine headaches
• cluster headaches
• organic headaches
• rebound headaches.

Chronic Tension-Type

Chronic tension-type headaches may be the result of

• stress or fatigue
• physical problems
• psychological issues
• depression

Chronic tension-type headaches affect both men and women, but women do have a greater incidence of them. A pattern of chronic tension-type headaches generally begins between the ages of 20 and 40

Migraine

• Migraines deserve the attention they receive; one headache can put your life "on hold" for a few hours or several days
•  Migraine is responsible for more job absenteeism and disrupted family life than any other headache type Women experience migraines at least three times more often than men do, and this may be due to hormonal influences
• While migraines occur in childhood, they generally strike in the twenties or thirties

Cluster Headaches

• They are called cluster headaches because the attacks come in groups.
• The pain arrives with little, if any, warning, and it has been described as the most severe and intense of any headache type.
• It generally lasts from 30 to 45 minutes, although it might persist for several hours before it disappears. Unfortunately, it can reoccur later in the day. Most sufferers experience one to four headaches a day during a cluster period.

Hormone Headaches


Menstrual Migraine:

• Women suffer migraines three times more frequently than men do; and, menstrual migraines affect 70 percent of these women.
• They occur before, during or immediately after the period, or during ovulation
• Menstrual migraines are primarily caused by estrogen, the female sex hormone that specifically regulates the menstrual cycle fluctuations throughout the cycle.
• When the levels of estrogen and progesterone change, women will be more vulnerable to headaches. Because oral contraceptives influence estrogen levels, women on birth control pills may experience more menstrual migraines.

Pre-Menstrual Syndrome Headache:

• The PMS headache occurs before your period and is associated with a variety of symptoms that distinguish it from the typical menstrual headache.
• The symptoms include headache pain accompanied by fatigue, acne, joint pain, decreased urination, constipation and lack of coordination.
• You may also experience an increase in appetite and a craving for chocolate, salt, or alcohol.

Sinus

• Sinuses are located in your forehead bone, the cheek bone on each side, and behind the bridge of your nose.
• When a sinus becomes inflamed, usually as the result of an allergic reaction, a tumor or an infection, the inflammation will cause a localized pain.
• Sinuses are filled with air, and their secretions must be able to drain freely into the nose.
• If your headache is truly caused by a sinus blockage, such as an infection, you will probably have a fever.

CAUSES OF HEADACHES

1. While tension headaches are the most frequently occurring type of headache, their cause is not known.
2. The most likely cause is contraction of the muscles that cover the skull.
3. When the muscles covering the skull are stressed, they may spasm and cause pain.
4. Common sites include the base of the skull where the muscles of the neck inserts, the temple where muscles that assist the jaw to move are located, and the forehead.

DIETARY ADVICE

Eat in moderation- EVERYTHING...

HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES:

1. BRYONIA:

• Bursting, splitting headache, as if everything would be pressed out; as if hit by a hammer from within; worse from motion, stooping, opening eyes.
• Headache becomes seated in occiput.
• Headache; worse on motion, even of eyeballs.
• Frontal headache, frontal sinuses involved.
• Headaches are worse when stooping, from ironing, on coughing, in morning, gradually increases until evening; from constipation

2. BELLADONNA

• Headaches from ill effects, colds ,from having hair cut
• Headache congestive, with red face, throbbing of brain and carotids
• Worse from least noise,jar,motion,lyingSS down, least exertion
• Better pressure, tight bandaging, wrapping up, during menses.
• Headache especially in forehead, also occiput and temples
• The headaches are associated with heat, redness, throbbing and burning.

3. KALI BICH

• Headache over eyebrows, preceded by blurred vision.
• Aching and fullness in glabella.
• Semilateral headache in small spots, and from suppressed catarrh.
• Frontal pain; usually over one eye. Bones and scalp feel sore.

4. SPIGELIA

• Pain beneath frontal eminence and temples, extending to eyes.
• Semi-lateral, involving left eye; pain violent, throbbing; worse, making a false step.
• Pain as if a band around head.
• Vertigo, hearing exalted.

5. SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS

• Worse right side, sun headache.
• Periodical sick headache; pain begins in occiput, spreads upwards, and settles over eyes, especially right. Veins and temples are distended.
• Pain better lying down and sleep. Headaches return at climacteric, every seventh day .
• Pain in small spot over upper left parietal bone.
• Burning in eyes. Pain in the back of head "like a flash of lightning".

DOSAGE- 4 pills 3-6 times a day – depending on the severity.