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Homeopathic Remedies for Headache
Severe headache that is one sided and typically present around one eye (periorbital headache) and appears in clusters (in a group) lasting for weeks or months is referred to as cluster headache. A person experiences frequent headache, which is followed by a period of rest when there is no headache. The headache during the cluster period is mostly noticed at precisely the same hour each day for several weeks or even months. The duration of each episode of headache lasts from 15 minutes to about 3 hours .There are cases in which episodes of cluster headache show a seasonal occurrence in which the cluster appears in a specific season. Cluster headache, thus, has two phases. The first phase refers to the period during which bouts of headache appear frequently, and then there is the second phase of pain-free period during which there is no headache.
Homeopathic remedies are very beneficial for cluster headaches that provide natural, outstanding treatment for this complaint. They provide complete relief from cluster headaches. Homeopathic remedies for cluster headache provide relief from acute pain and work to remove the disorder from its root so there is no recurrence. Conventional mode offers help in cases of cluster headache with medicines like steroids, some nasal sprays, and certain medicines given as injection. To prevent effects of these anti allergic medicines, anti-seizure medicines, medicines used for high blood pressure treatment and antidepressants are recommended. They extend temporary relief and have many side effects when used for extended time periods. However, homeopathic medicines are made of completely safe natural substances with zero side effects.
Biphasic treatment for complete recovery
The homeopathic treatment for cluster headache is done in two phases. In the first phase, medicines are prescribed to provide relief from acute pain. Homeopathy has very effective medicines for relieving bouts of cluster headache. Once acute pain resolves, the second phase of treatment is started. In the second phase, treatment is aimed at treating chronic tendency to remove the condition from its root with the most beneficial natural homeopathic remedies. With the use of Homeopathic medicines, the intensity and frequency of cluster headache gradually reduces and with the long-term use of appropriate homeopathic remedies, cluster headache is extricated from its roots.
Individual prescription as per case details
In every case of cluster headache, a precise note is made of all the symptom details. This is followed by proper case evaluation to choose the best medicine. When selecting the remedies for cluster headache, the side of pain, location of pain, type of pain, time of the recurrence of pain (any particular time of day — it may be every day, every alternate day, every week, or every month) to note periodicity and the modalities of increase or decrease of pain are all taken note of to select the most suitable homeopathic remedy as per the case. Individualised medication is the key to get the best results.
Safe, herbal medicines
Homeopathy uses natural medicines to treat cluster headache. These medicines contain no chemicals or toxins in it so they never cause any harmful effects. These work gently, in a harmless way thus are 100% safe to use. Another advantage of using these medicines is that these medicines do not create any dependency on them and can be easily stopped once there is good recovery.
Top 5 Homeopathic Remedies for Cluster Headache
The top recommended homeopathic medicines for cluster headache are Spigelia, Sanguinaria Can, Belladonna, Cedron and Glonoine.
1. Spigelia – Top medicine for left-side Cluster Headache
Spigelia is a natural homeopathic medicine to treat left-side cluster headache. Its use is recommended when there is a severe violent pain around / above the eye or in the eye socket specifically on the left side. The eyeballs too appear large. Pain is felt at regular intervals. The pain can be of varying nature like digging, boring, shooting, violent, throbbing or stitching pain, with a feeling of needles pricking in the eye on the left side. The main worsening factor for pain in the eye is moving or turning the eye. A few persons may also describe noise or touching the eye as the most aggravating factors. Rest in most cases seems to relieve pain. Along with pain, redness of eyes with sensitivity to light and dropping of eyes are also seen.
When to use Spigelia?
Spigelia is very beneficial medicine to manage left sided cluster headache with pain above / around / in the eye worse from eye movement, touching eye or noise.
How to use Spigelia?
It is mostly recommended in 30C potency twice or thrice a day as per severity of the problem. Its higher potencies like 200C, 1M are also available but they should not be used without a doctor’s prescription.
2. Sanguinaria Can – For right-side Cluster Headache
For treating right-side cluster headache, Sanguinaria Can is an ideal remedy. Its use should be considered when the pain settles over or around the right eye. A bursting sensation with a feeling as if the eyes will be pressed out is very marked. Periodicity of pain is noted mostly with the beginning of pain in the morning continuing till the evening. Relief is noted from lying perfectly still. Along with pain over the right eye, there is profuse watering of eyes. The eyes are also very congested, and red with burning sensations. The face, especially cheeks, shows flushing. In a few persons, nasal congestion is a prominent feature.
When to use Sanguinaria Can?
This medicine is effective to manage right sided cluster headache with pain over / around right eye with redness and watering from the eye on the right side.
How to use Sanguinaria Can?
This medicine can be used in both low and high potencies. In the beginning of the treatment, its 30C potency is usually selected to start with the treatment that can be taken one to two times a day.
3. Belladonna – For Pain Around Eyes With Redness Of Eyes And Face
Belladonna is wonderful medicine for cluster headache with pain located around the eye attended with redness of eyes and red, flushed face. Pain may also occur in the eyes, mostly throbbing or shooting in nature, with congestion and redness of eyes. Photophobia i.e. intolerance to light or worsening of pain from light may also be noted. In most cases, lying down worsens the pain. The sudden onset of a violent headache is also a marked feature. Belladonna is also best medicine for one sided pain in head worse from movement of head and eyes and exposure to noise. There is relief in this headache from pressure and tightly binding head.
When to use Belladonna?
Belladonna is of great use in cluster headache with pain around or in eyes with marked redness of eyes and face. It also offers help for one sided headache that increases from head / eye movement and from noise and gets better from pressure and tight binding of head.
How to use Belladonna?
This medicine is frequently prescribed in 30C potency that can be administered three to four times per day as per case requirement.
4. Cedron – For Eye Pain With Eye Watering And Burning
Cedron is considered the top natural medicine that helps provide from cluster headaches with severe pain in eye that radiates around the eye. With this a prominent characteristic accompanying feature is watering from eyes with burning sensation. Periodicity in occurrence of periorbital pain is essentially marked and pain may occur at a particular hour every time. Although the pain may appear on any side, the pain over the left side of eye is felt more often for prescribing homeopathic remedy Cedron.
When to use Cedron?
Its use should be done in cases of cluster headache presented with pain in the eyes radiating all around the eye with watering from eyes and burning feeling.
How to use Cedron?
Cedron can be used once or twice a day in 30C potency.
5. Glonoine – For Pain In Side of Head and Above The Eyes Better By Pressure
Glonoine is an important medicine for managing pain on one side of head and above the eyes that gets relieved from pressure application over it. It also gets better from lying down or sitting still. The nature of pain is throbbing type. A very common attending complaint is heated sensation in the head.
When to use Glonoine?
This medicine is apt to manage one-sided throbbing pain in the head and above the eyes relieved by pressure on it.
How to use Glonoine?
One may take this medicine in 30C potency once or twice a day. For using its high potencies like 200C one needs to consult a homeopathic physician.
Symptoms of Cluster Headache
The typical and foremost symptom of cluster headache is one sided headache in which pain may be located around / above / behind the eye or temple region (side of head)
It can be attended with symptoms like eye discharge, swelling or redness of eyes, drooping of eyelids, nasal discharge or congestion, change in skin color of face on affected side and sweating of face. The accompanying symptoms are always present on the same side on which the headache appears. Restlessness is also experienced by patients.
Cause
The exact cause of cluster headache is not known yet. However as per certain researches it is estimated that this could be happening from improper functioning of the hypothalamus area of brain. There are certain well-known trigger factors linked with cluster headache. These includes smoking, excessive alcohol use, exposure to bright lights, and strong smells like perfume. Having a family history of cluster headache increases risk of it. Men are at more risk of cluster headache as compared to women.
Hello Dr.
My father is facing right side cluster headache..
Right eye gets fully red in color nd water comes continuesly from the eye.. the pain is so severe dar he unable to bear the pain nd cries.. Pls suggest my father a better medicine in homeo.. he’s facing dis problem since 3 yrs the pain will be periodically 4 days continues nd severe.. Pls reply doctor…
Th q
hi dr vikas sharma
can you please guide me with a homeopathic response to right eye cluster headache for my partner. i am studying homeopathy and would appriciate your thoughts.
kind regards
nicole
Dr. my right side cluster pain also starts at the top part of my upper teeth . What do I take for that??? Please help
I have constant headaches that began on only the right side of my face and head all over along with a bad ear ache, runny nose and watering eyes. Although at the time the time I had the runny nose et al, I had recently gotten over the flu. After about a week the pain in my head and ear and eyes (mostly ear) was so severe I went to ER. I was given something by IV that calmed it down and was there until 3:20 AM doing a eKg and a cat scan and determined I had no stroke or bleeding vessels. Felt better but pain was still present but no so badly. The day after the pain in the same area became so severe I went to ER again and given IV and it calmed down. They took another CT scan. Dr. told me that I had cluster headaches and there was a tear of a nerve in my neck. He referred me back to my GP.
The GP told me she thought I had an impinged nerve after reading all the reports from ER. Then I got an MRI and found out that I indeed had a pinged nerve somewhere in neck area, as well as, some bulging vertebra that is mild. Going to begin physical therapy and shot of some kind at a. neurologist office soon. My doctor gave me gabperpentin which did help but pain still there and so now I have this and tramadol. Much much better but still there is pressure and my ear was not infected at the time I was in ER even thought it hurt very much at the time. Can’t turn my neck to the right although now with the meds from GP I can turn it but not liberally.
So, what I want to know is what natural meds do you recommend and what Homeopathic doctor you can refer me to in Alaska? I live in Anchorage. I can’t go to a chiropractor said the GP until the neurologist looks at the problem, because the neck has a tear and it could get worse with a chiropractor although she thought chiropractors were good guys and said she has gone to them before for backaches.
WHAT HERBS DO YOU RECOMMEND. THEY THINK THEY ARE CLUSTER HEADACHES AND SUPER PAINFUL, AND SHE DOES NOT WANT TO SUGGEST SURGERY UNTIL ALL NON-INVASIVE APPROACHES. What makes me afraid is that a neurologist is also a neurosurgeon. I am afraid of shots and wonder if there is a homeopath that can give me shots that are not steroids?
There are bulging in-between the bones and osteoporosis arthritis showing up in spine. My back actually doesn’t both me that much, just when I am in the garden and bending down too much. I am 200 lbs and she said I need to loose some weight and referred me to a nutritionist so my knee doesn’t ache from time to time when I squat. What is your opinion and I am sorry I rambled on and on but I am 63 and taking care of my sister’s grandchildren and cannot afford to die or be ill on them. They are 8 and 11. They have no one else but me and my husband and he has skin cancer. Pls advise.
Elaine Bales
907 338 4414. If you have a referral for me
Hello Dr,
As mentioned above, are below medicines for prevention or pain relief medicines??
1. Sanguinaria can.
2. Magnesium phosphate
3. Chelidonium
4. Silicea
5. Iris versicolor
Please confirm.
Thanks,
Anil Kharat
7050001001
Hello Dr. Sharma
I have been experiencing cluster headaches since more than 10 years. I get them every other year, sometimes every year. Sharp pain behind the right eyebrow and right eye with eye turning red and watering. It’s always on the right side. I also have kerotoconus on my right eye, not sure if it’s related to my headache.
Medrol dose pack steroid helped last few times in breaking the cycle, but this time it’s not effective. I had medrol dose (starts with 6 tablets and tapers down) 3 times already but headaches keep coming back.
Could you suggest how homeopathy could help in both immediate relief as well as long term preventive medication.
Thanks
Srini
Hi sir, i’m getting headache from last 1 year very painful and continue headache and eyes pain and burning sensation on forhead and eyes. I’m not able to concentrate on my work, what i need to do please suggest some thing or what is the cause of my headache why It’s happening
Thanku so much sir
Vandana
Hi Sir,
I have been suffering from cluster headaches for the last 15 years. It happens on the right side of the temple on the side of the right eye. Happens once a year and then lasts for one month. Happens either on alternate days of that month or daily. Pain is excruciating and getting worse with time. Also last for 2~3 hours every time. Water comes from right eye and also right side of nose but not that much. I tried to press it really hard . Light does not bother me. It does not let me sit or lie at one point. Also for few days it will happen at the same time but then change the time for another few days. Also happens many times when I am sleep during night. Month also changes. Earlier it used to start around Sept/Oct not it happened in March. Did not happen last year. I have taken Sangunaria , Cedron and other medicines over the years. They work some times and at other times they don’t work at all. Sangunaria worked last time. This time it is not working. Please suggest some remedy.
Dear Dr Sharma:
I am suffering from left sided cluster headaches since last 2 years. I am on Lithium Carbonate, Calaptan. There is relief, but lately the headaches have started reappearing despite regular medications. As the CH have become chronic allopathic medicines cannot be taken forever.
I am looking for options in homeopathy to control the CH and lead a normal life.
I had cluster headaches already so many years I even cant count it. Last 2 or 3 years it become more aggressive, more periodic and more painful. It can last two-three days while I cant do anything at all. I am totally out of life. Only ambulance can bring me help during these periods.
It begins during night, approx 3 AM. Swelling right eye.
Second version of pain is more soft and lasting week or three weeks. It starts 2 or 3 PM. Right side headache. I can eat and work etc. But it kills softly and make me nervous. It worsens from a cold air exposure. No swelling on eyes.
Appreciate your help.
I suffer with cluster headche since December 2015. In 8 december 2015 I meet a neurologist & he gave me stroids(medrol) & topamac 50mg so I hve relif now & totaly normal after 20 days.. but 2 year later now 8 December 2017 I have again this pain & I wil go to same doctor this time he gave me steroids(wysolone) & topamac 50mg but after 25 days the pain is not gone permanent it will gap 3,4 days & then come again. Pain during is 30 to 40 minute is vry vry trouble please healp me.
Dear Doctor,
I am having this cluster headache issue from quite some time, to be precise last 8 years. Earlier duration and intensity were shorter and less. However it grew over period of time. I have taken all possible medicines including allopathy, Ayurvedic and homeopathy. It occurs once in a year. The only break I got when I took homeopathy medicine in India and was mostly out of India (Middle East) for 1 year. I saw Dr. KPS Dhama in Delhi at that time. The only bad change in my lifestyle was addition of smoking habit. However, in recent past I have controlled it and curbing it. I started running and increased exercise to improve respiratory immunity as well. This time it occurred after 1.5 years however the intensity is same as old extreme one. It happens mostly in weather change when mucus formation increases. Sudden stoppage in smoking also increase the choking of nose and increase the problem. I am struggling this extreme situation. All the symptoms are exact match as described in initial paragraphs of this article. Soliciting your advice on this matter. Appreciate your help.
My son has been suffering from severe cluster headache right side, with pain so severe that his jaw starts hurting
Pl advice medicine.
Hello Dr. Sharma,
My father is suffering from cluster headache from 2010 and it’s occuring when climate change mainly March ,April,October and November.He has unbareable pain on the left side specially eye and around/behind. We somehow figured out that breathing exercise helped and try to reduce it with breathing and ginger tea naturally.
We will be extremely thankful to you if you could please help us with a long term and possibly permanent relief from the pain. Eagerly waiting to hear from you.
Thanks.
Dear Dr. Sharma:
I am writing to you with a very low spirit seeing my husband in severe pain every day caused due to cluster headaches which launch themselves every 3rd-4th hour of the day for about 4-6 weeks cycle. I do not know how to help him out. He was initially prescribed verapamil but that wasn’t a permanent solution at all. I found your promising article here over the internet and therefore wanted to contact you for help.
Kindly let me know of how we cud go about treating his condition through homeopathy which you practice and about what your insights are on the possible treatment outcomes.
Thanking you
Hello Dr. Sharma,
My husband is suffering from cluster headache from 2005 and has been getting it once in 3 years for about 4-5 weeks straight with headaches occuring at night around 2 am. He has unbareable pain on the left side specially eye and around/behind. We somehow firgured out that breathing exercise helped and try to reduce it with breathing and ginger tea naturally.
We will be extremely thankful to you if you could please help us with a long term and possibly permanent relief from the pain. Eagerly waiting to hear from you.
Thanks.
I have been experiencing what I believe are cluster headaches for a while now. Headaches are always overnight ad wake me up every 2-3 hours. Very rare do I experience them during the day. Always on right side of my head. Any suggestions for relief?
My husband has been suffering from cluster headaches for the last six years and they occur anytime of day or night lately. He used to be symptom free during work hours but this is not the case anymore. The pain is so unbearable and sometimes lasts for up to 12 hours he used to take sumatriptin nasal spray but we no longer have insurance to cover it and the results were unreliable. I need some dosages and directions for the listed homeopathic remedies soon. My husband is tired of being in pain and has recently started talking about suicide to be rid of the pain. Any help you could provide as soon as possible would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Dear Dr.sharma
First of all lots of thanks for your advices and remedial suggestions.I am seeing lots of questions and request to you but none are replied from your side. Whats the use of this. I request you to kindly reply to few rest will be automatically answered.
With apology
Sir my self Salman sir previous year I had pain around right side in July and also in this July the same pain begin sir please tell me appropriate remedy
Hello Dr,i m rashi zalani.sir i have whole day pain in my eyes and eyebrow region since 10 years.activities increases it.please tell me its solution
I have been suffering from cluster headache since 2008. It occurs every 13/14 months and remains for 15/20 days. Its intensity makes me helpless. The headache is mainly around right eyes. Headache remains for about 20 minutes. In the beginning I have attack once a day but after ten days 2 to 3 attacks and then suddenly disappears. Can you find remedy for this acute pain?
Hi doctor my mother is 43 years old and is suffering from severe headache throughout the day and it lasts to many days. She used to feel pain on the backside of head .She used to have a drooping right eye and has pain and is a watery eyes.It’s for the second time my mom is having this kind of headache. But this time intensity of pain had lowered. It’s been noticed that eye droops not only the day having pain. Doctor so what will be the cause of such a pain? Please kindly give me a remedy. I am waiting for your reply.