Nervous temperament; plethoric, florid, sensitive women; persons readily affected.

Bad effects of mental excitement, fright, fear, mechanical injuries and their later consequences; from having the hair cut. ( Acon. , Bell. ).

Head troubles: from working under gas-light, when heat falls on head; cannot bear heat about the head, heat of stove or walking in the sun ( Lach. , Nat. c. ).

Cerebral congestion, or alternate congestion of the head and heart.

Head: feels enormously large; as if skull were too small for brain; sunstroke and sun headache; increases and decreases every day with the sun ( Kal. , Nat. c. ).

Terrific shock in the head, synchronous with the pulse. Throbbing, pulsating headache; holds head with both hands; could not lie down, “the pillow would beat.”

Brain feels too large, full, bursting; blood seems to be pumped upwards; throbs at every jar, step, pulse.

Intense congestion of brain from delayed or suppressed menses; headache in place of menses.

Headache: occurring after profuse uterine haemorrhage; rush of blood to head, in pregnant women.

Violent palpitation, with throbbing in carotids; heart’s action labored, oppressed; blood seems to rush to heart, and rapidly to head.

Convulsions of children from cerebral congestion; meningitis, during dentition, cases that seem to call for Belladonna.

Children get sick in the evening when sitting before and open coal fire, or falling asleep there.

Flushes of heat; at the climacteric ( Amyl. , Bell. , Lach. ); with the catamenia ( Fer. , Sang. ).

Relations. – Compare: Amyl. , Bell. , Ferr. , Gels. , Melil. , Stram.

Aggravation. – In the sun, exposure to sun’s rays; gas-light; overheating; jar; stooping; ascending; touch of hat; having the hair cut.