BCT # 12 (HEADACHE)

About half of the adults suffer from a headache in a given year. Tension headaches are the most common, affecting about 1.6 billion people (21.8% of the population) followed by migraine headaches which affect about 848 million (11.7%). Headaches can occur as a result of many conditions. Causes of headache includes fatigue, sleep deprivation, dehydration, stress, viral infections, loud noise, head injury, common cold, sinusitis and dental issues.

Headaches can be primary which usually starts at 20 years of age and includes migraines, cluster headaches, trigeminal neuralgia, cough headache, etc.

Or it can be secondary where it is caused by conditions like meningitis, intracranial haemorrhage, subarachnoid haemorrhage, brain tumour, temporal arteritis, acute closed angle glaucoma, etc. Some gastrointestinal disorders also cause headaches, like H. Pylori infection, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, celiac disease, etc.

Action of Ingredients:

Ferrum phosphoricum: Soreness in head to touch, cold, noise, jar. Rush of blood to the head. Ill effects of sun (sun stroke ). Throbbing sensation. Headache better cold applications.

Natrum muriaticum: Blinding headache. Aches as if a thousand little hammers were knocking on the brain in the morning on awakening, after menstruation, from sunrise to sunset. Anaemic headache in school girls. Chronic headache, semi-lateral, congestive, from sunrise to sunset, with a pale face, nausea, vomiting; periodical; from eye strain; menstrual.

Kali phosphoricum: Occipital headache; better, after rising. Headache in students, and those worn out by fatigue. Headaches are relieved by gentle motion. Headache, with a weary, empty, all gone feeling in the stomach.

Magnesium phosphoricum: Head aches after mental labour, with chilliness; always better by warmth. Sensation as if the contents of the skull were liquid, as if the parts of brain were changing places or as of a cap was on the head.