Ruta Graveolens - Head symptoms - T.F. Allen

HEAD

Head

Confusion of the head, a kind of senselessness,

General Head.

Dulness of the head,

Head dull, heavy, with tension in the forehead (fifth day),

In the head and in the body a sensation as though he had not slept enough,

Heaviness of the head (second day),

Persistent heaviness of the head, especially in the forehead, as though a heavy weight were lying upon it (after three-quarters of an hour),

Confused pressure in the whole head,

Oppressive feeling in head (after second dose),

Sense of uneasiness in head (after first dose),

Beating pressive pain in the side of the occiput,

Headache

Tensive pain in the brain (second day),

Rhythmical pressive pain in the head,

Pressive headache over the whole brain, in the morning, after rising (after twenty-four hours),

Headache, like a pressure upon the whole brain, with great activity of the nervous system, and uneasiness in the whole body, that did not permit him to sit still, after dinner,

Headache from reading a little (third day),

Burning-compressing pain on the head externally, stupefying him (after eleven hours),

Dulness in the brain, in the forehead, with throbbing pain, in the evening, before going to sleep, and still worse in the morning, on waking from sleep that was too sound,

Gnawing pressive headache in the forehead (after twelve hours),

Pressive drawing headache in the right side of the forehead,

Pressive stupefying headache, especially in the right side of the forehead, with nausea and a sensation of heat in the face (after four hours and a half),

Pressive sticking pain over the whole forehead, especially when coughing (after two hours),

Sticking pain in the left frontal eminence (second day),

A sticking-drawing pain extending from the frontal to temporal bone,

Pain as from a fall, in the periosteum extending from the temporal bones to the occiput,

(A tearing on the right parietal bone, that disappeared in the evening; on the next morning there was a boil there as large as a Juglans Regia ^walnut, painful to touch, as if suppurating; disappeared after a few days),

Pressive pain in the occiput (fourth day),

Tensive drawing pain, as from a blow or thrust, externally on the side of the head,

Scalp

Two ulcers on the scalp, one on the left side and one towards the nape of the neck, with biting itching, obliging scratching and frequently returning (after thirty-eight hours),

Itching of the scalp just behind the left ear; the spot is painful when touched, like itching, associated with soreness; on scratching the itching and soreness disappeared,

(Violent pain, sticking and tearing, on the scalp, after which there arose a pimple as large as a half dollar, and elevated to the thickness of a finger, at first painful to touch),

Biting itching, as from vermin, over the whole scalp, especially on the left side and on the occiput, only disappearing after scratching a great deal, but always returning (after thirty-eight hours),

On the left side of the scalp biting itching as from lice, that obliged scratching, and frequently returned (after thirty-six hours),

Forehead

Pressure in the forehead above the root of the nose (after two hours and a half),

Sticking and pressure above the left eyebrow (second day),

Stitches in the left frontal bone, only while reading (second day),

Intermittent boring stitches in the right side of the forehead (while sitting), (after three hours and three-quarters),

Temples

Dull tearing in the temporal bones (after one hour),

Parietals.

Occiput

Pressure in the occiput (third day),

Pressure, heaviness, and tension in the occiput (fourth day),

External Head.

Erysipelas on the forehead,

The forehead is thick and swollen; a thick red stripe, like a long swelling, extended from the root of the nose, at the inner margin of the eyebrow, upward to the frontal eminence, on both sides; the swelling was not sore to touch,

Sticking drawing externally in the vertex (after twenty-four hours),