Kali Iodatum - Head symptoms - T.F. Allen

HEAD

Headache

Pain in the upper part of the head, as if it would be forced asunder; that part of the head is hot to touch, though he is generally chilly, and relieved by external warmth, frequently recurring for several days (after twenty-eight days),

Painful screwing together in the head from both sides, disappearing in the open air, in the morning (ninth day),

Pain as from a screwing together in the upper part of the right side of the head, in a small spot, gradually spreading from that place (eighteenth day),

Violent pain on left side of head, like a digging in the brain,

Sense of weight and pain over the frontal sinuses (fourth day),

Painful throbbing in the left temple in the evening,

Tension in the occiput, as if in the bones, with painful stitches (after sixteen days),

Scalp

Sensation of tension, followed by small fissures in the scalp, especially near the nape of the neck,

Sensation as if the scalp were forcibly scraped,

The scalp is painful on scratching, as if ulcerated (after eleven days),

Vertex

Tension and sticking in the top of the head, and tearing in the left temple, extending into the nape of the neck (after thirteen days),

Frequent pinching here and there in the upper part of the head,

Some sharp stitches on the top of the head, in front of the vertex, in the evening (thirteenth day),

Parietals.

Heaviness in both sides of the head in the morning (thirteenth day),

Violent stitches extending from the left upper jaw to the parietal bone in the morning in bed (eighth day),

Sharp stitches in the upper part of the right parietal bone (after fifteen days),

Sensation as from blows on the sides of the head,

Forehead

Burning in the frontal region, eyes, nose, and mouth, with intolerably anxious burning in the throat, extending and very distressing down behind the sternum to the ensiform cartilage (after three hours),

Heaviness in the forehead and vertex, which are also very sensitive to touch, in the evening, and lasting the whole night (after six days),

Heaviness, as from a weight in the left side of the forehead, in the morning after rising (after fourteen days),

Feeling of heaviness in the forehead in the afternoon (seventeenth day),

Dull stitches in the forehead on stooping,

Tearing or jerking stitches above the left eye, in the frontal sinus, lasting a long time,

Violent tearing and sticking in the right side of the forehead, removed for a short time by pressure, in the evening,

Temples

Feeling of heaviness in the right temple (after twelve days),

Extremely violent sticking and tearing in the left temple at 6 P.M.,

Occiput

Pressive heaviness in the occiput towards evening (after five days),

External Head.

Great disposition of the air to change its color and fall out,

Small ulcers, which seem to corrode the flesh beneath the right parietal protuberance and on the sinciput,