Summer Complaints and Homoeopathy.
The summer season is in full swing and with it comes the various diseases related to summer weather, like heat stroke, water borne diseases , headache, etc.
Heat stroke is caused by excessive exposure of the body to sun, when body absorbs more heat that it can regulate by the normal thermo regulation mechanism of our body.
Severe Headaches during summers.
It is most common complaint which is there when one goes out in heat. People suffering from Migraine have a very tough time during summer as the heat of the sun acts as the triggering factor for their headache. In homoeopathy we have some very efficacious medicines for summer headache. These medicines may act as a preventive also when a person suffering from migraine has to go out in sun.
In my practice I have found the following remedies quite helpful in dealing with headaches:
1. A patient suffering from severe headache extending from eyes to the nape of the neck, patient face goes red, the headache is of throbbing and burning character and gets better when pressure is applied on the head, with these symptoms Belladonna is the best remedy.
2. Patients with bad effects of sunstroke, very irritable patient. Head heavy but cannot lay it down. Better by uncovering the head cannot bear any heat around the head. Throbbing headache increases and decreases with sun Glonoine is best prescribed.
3. Patient with dull tired headache, patients lie still. The headache is better by compression and lying with head high. Scalp is sore to touch Gelseminum is best advised.
4. Patients suffering from throbbing, blinding headaches as if thousands of little hammers were knocking on the brain. The headache is from sunrise to sun set with pale face. The headache is better by sleep, Natrum Mur is best for such type of patients.
5. Patients suffering with pain in forehead, as if there is a band around the head, incurring the left side and setting over the left eye for such type of patients Spigelia is very effective.
6. Patients with chronic effects of sunstroke, headache from slightest mental labour or working under gas light. Vertigo from exposure to sun, for such patients Natrum Carb is prescribed.
7. Sangunaria is prescribed to patients with chronic headache which begins in the occiput and settles over right eye.
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