Welcome back to homeopathy at home with Melissa. Hi, Melissa.
Speaker 2:Hi Bri, I'm excited to talk to you or with you tonight about migraines. So that sounds weird to say I'm excited to talk about that, But because it's such a terrible thing. But I'm excited to help people who have migraines.
Speaker 1:I think, more people that I don't struggle with migraines for many reasons, so I'm really looking forward to this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're. They're so common And and so they're really much more common in women than even in men, and probably because of the menstrual cycles and the changes in mood chemistry, blood sugars, the endocrine system, the adrenal shifts that come around that time. And so that's not to say that men don't have migraines, because they absolutely do have several in our practice that have migraines, but women are more, have more migraines, and so migraines are essentially headaches, but they're headaches that are extreme and severe and they stop you from functioning. You just can't even, you know, do what you have to do. So the common there are different types of migraines.
Speaker 2:The common migraine accounts for 80% of all migraines and it's a headache that's elevated to migraine status for a couple of reasons. It usually occurs on one side of the head. Some people always have it on the same side, other people the side can change. There It's a very severe headache. Again, on just one, like on the side of the head, not the back, not the front. There's usually a digestive aspect, so they might have nausea and vomiting. It might just be a horrible nauseous feeling, but it could even be a severe, like serious vomiting. Sometimes the eyes are sensitive to light in the common migraine and they can have horrible nausea. Sometimes vomiting may last for a few hours, could even last for days. You want to talk about the classic migraine.
Speaker 1:Yes, so the one you just mentioned with the common migraine, which I think is interesting, that this one's named the classic migraine. This kind of migraine accounts for 12% or so, maybe up to 25%. This type can be described as an aura where you feel it coming on. I think that. I mean, i've heard people describe that. They just know it's coming.
Speaker 1:That typical time is about a half hour before it could be a couple hours before or just before, but on average is about 30 minutes before the migraine begins And they just start to have an awareness that they're going to get one. They might have strange lights in their vision, maybe they see a pattern over everything or get zigzags and their periphery vision So it's also known as a migraine aura. Sometimes at the same time they have an altered sense of taste or smell. So migraine is often accompanied by an altered oh, i guess I you just said that So it can alter the perception of or sense of taste and smell. And then there's the complicated migraine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so the complicated migraine accounts for less than 8% of all migraines. They may be accompanied by various neurological problems like numbness, blindness, paralysis, especially paralysis of the tongue can be a really common one, sometimes called the migraines stroke because it's it mimics a stroke.
Speaker 1:So scary.
Speaker 2:So scary? Yeah, really. So migraines can be tricky. They can be mild to really severe with bad symptoms, can be mild in terms of levels of pain, where people just about function through them. Modern research seems to suggest that a lot of migraines come with adrenaline release, which is a vasoconstrictor for the deeper vessels. It will dilate some of them and make some of them close. So when they start to open they go into spasms And that's what causes the migraine. So if you can stop the initial closing then there isn't going to be a problem, right? And drugs tend to either try to reclose the vessel and the hope that the next time it will open smoothly, or force the vessel to open. So again, allopathic medicine always trying to force things and make things happen and do the opposite of what the body's trying to do.
Speaker 1:And this is a hard one to not want to just go to allopathic medicine, to through a migraine, when homeopathy doesn't always work. I mean, it doesn't usually take it away the first time, especially if you have chronic migraines. So no judgment, but we're just being real with you that it's not going to solve the deep problem.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. Yeah. So common migraine triggers are oranges, red wine, chocolate. Those are the three highest adrenal stimulating foods. And then cheese is another migraine trigger for a lot of people. And your adrenal stimulants like orange juice, tea, coffee, cheese, red wine and chocolate are going to be your if you suffer from migraines, are going to be foods that you want to stay away from until homeopathy uproots the chronic condition right The tendency to get those. And so your endocrine system likes harmony, it likes smoothness and patterns. So eating at the same time every day, not going a long time without eating, and sleeping roughly the same hours every day, not oversleeping a lot on the weekend or going to bed really late, you know, do those things within reason, but try not to change routines too much If you have a migraine or if you have a tendency to migraines. And then migraine remedies and simple headache remedies are the same remedies. So some are more useful as an acute and some may be useful not only as acute but as a on a constitutional level, really more of a general that that were constitutional, really meaning to uproot the condition.
Speaker 2:So if somebody has a, let me just back up. So I get this question a lot, so a lot of. So people ask me what is? how do you figure out your constitutional remedy? Your constitutional remedy is the remedy that fits your personality, your food cravings, all of your things, when you're in your healthy state. So you're healthy, there's no symptoms. Okay, it's almost like who you were when you were born, at your healthiest state, before things started coming in and happening to your body.
Speaker 2:So if somebody has a cracking migraine before their period and you give them right on the end, it works well, then you've dealt with that really effectively on an acute level. But the next time they're on their period, if they get another one, you haven't done anything to the underlying predisposition. So here's what I've experienced in my practice. So for a lot of people you can treat, you can use remedies for each thing. So allergies you can use remedies to every time you have an allergy attack or every time you have a migraine, and over time it is going to operate that tendency if those remedies are working every time. The thing with that is it is going to take longer if you do it that way. So you want to uproot the, you want to take a chronic remedy to uproot the tendency to get migraines, while you treat them acutely when they come up.
Speaker 1:I feel like that's almost always the case, at least in what I've seen and my experience personally with people in my life, that there's an etiology, a reason why you're getting these migraines. So treating that with a general remedy while acute, or using other ones acutely to manage the pain but not uproot it necessarily as quickly Yeah, which I think that's about it, to put it.
Speaker 2:So you want to look at the symptoms of the migraine as well as the symptoms of the person. So for the headache itself, you're looking at etiology. So what is the trigger for this person? What seems to be the problem? Did these headaches start when a loved one died or after you had, like a heat stroke or a sun stroke? Did they start? do they come every time you're or do they start when you were very stressed, like a very stressful period in your life? A history of migraines or headaches in the family? So maybe is there a family history and location? where are they? Is it very specific? Is it always the back of the head? Is it always moving the back of the head, moving forward to the eyes? Is it always the right, is it always the left? What's the context there around the location? And or is it different every time?
Speaker 2:You want to ask the sensation. Is it throbbing, burning, like the little hammer, banging like a needle, going in sharp stinging? ask the person about the sensation And then how long does it last? usually Is it short lived or does it go on for days and days? And then modalities we always want to know what makes it better, what makes it worse. So does it feel better when you wake up in the morning after sleeping or do you feel worse when you wake up in the morning after sleeping? Is the person better if they can vomit? Do they feel better? Does the headache go away? Sometimes it's the headache can get better after they take a shower or after they pass urine, and so those can be weird little symptoms that people can tell you. So is it worse for light or noise, better for drinking or eating all those things?
Speaker 2:And then you want to know how often people get these migraines. Is there a pattern? Do they get them weekly, monthly, annually, at a certain time of the year? Is it around allergy season? Is it around your period? Is it around the anniversary of the death of your loved one? There's things like that that you want to know. Is it always on Sunday night? So one of my children used to get a headache every Tuesday morning and it would be a pretty bad headache. So that's not totally foreign to me. Are they always, like I said, premenstrual? Do they always come at times of stress? And then, what are the triggers? Ask the person what happens. Are they eating or drinking something that triggers it, or is there a stress or an event. And then are there any concomitants? So what symptoms? concomitants are symptoms that go along with the migraine. What happens also at the same time as the migraine? Is there numbness anywhere? Is there blindness in one eye or reduction in hearing or seeing or anything? What are the concomitants? And then, often afterwards, people feel particularly thirsty or drowsy or elated, and so you want to know that. And is there anything, once the migraine is gone, that you want to eat or drink or do So when I get I honestly so I do get headaches, they're really bad headaches.
Speaker 2:I've never felt like I earned the right to say migraine, not that I really want to, but when I have these really bad headaches, i want to eat all day long And it doesn't make me feel better, just want to eat. So that would be something to consider when you're helping somebody. You want to take a really good case around these migraines, so you want to ask all those questions that I just went through and just specifics about the person. You might see layers of things that might need to be addressed at some point. So often painkillers, when it's an actual migraine headache, don't work, and because of the digestive aspect of a migraine before the pain comes, usually your digestive system has already shut down, so the painkillers just sit in your stomach and, unabsorbed, the headache is passed, unless you catch it really, really early. So let's talk about some migraine remedies. Do you want to do the first one?
Speaker 1:Yeah, i'll do the first one. If you've taken any of Melissa's courses you know it's. Bryonia is number one for migraines, one of our best headache remedies. So not just migraines, headaches of any kind. Bryonia is always worse for movement And we also call bryonia dryonia. So these people are often very thirsty or have dryness anywhere but dry mouth. Most bryonia headaches are frontal headaches. They might be described as bursting or splitting headaches. They can be very powerful. They may have an etiology of dehydration So that dryonia again also could be a hangover headache And I'm sure we'll talk about other ones for that. But this is one of them. Bryonia is hops, which is what beer is made from. I did not know that.
Speaker 1:The biggest modality of bryonia is how sensitive these people are to motion. Bryonia is extremely sensitive to motion. Turning your head even slightly will make it worse. Sometimes even just moving their eyes will make their head hurt much worse. So the slightest motion makes the pain much worse. A lot of people with the migraine already don't wanna move around much. They want to lie down. But if they can't bear even the slightest motion, that's really a keynote of bryonia. So really like even eye movement, littlest movements bother bryonia people, even maybe lying completely, still reduced breathing, not taking big, deep breaths. They just wanna be super, super still. So bryonia is really thirsty. They may have allowed themselves to get dehydrated, so that could have been a trigger of the migraine.
Speaker 1:Some say if they know they have a headache coming on and they drink a pint of water, maybe that halts the progression of the headache And maybe when they drink they will gulp their drinks Again. Worse for anything that causes sudden movement or motion. So coughing, sneezing, stooping or bending downwards Better for pressure. So wrapping like.
Speaker 1:I know this one. They'll go like this and squeeze And some people might wanna tie a scarf around their head. Always better for rest, coolness or lying on the sore part. They might be irritable. They don't want to talk when they're not feeling well. They're not great talkers at their best anyway. So when they're in this state they really don't want to talk, just basic communication. So when they're sick they do not want to communicate other than basic words. They want peace, quiet, stillness, no noise, no light. They like lying in the dark so they don't have to use their eyes or see anything And there's no temptation to even try to move or look anywhere. So that is very much a bryonia picture for a migraine. The next one is jelsymium. Do you want to do jelsymium?
Speaker 2:I love jelsymium. It is one of my favorite remedies, really really love it. So the jelsymium migraine it feels like a band around the head This is the head like, like a tight squeezing band, you know And they can feel heavy. The head can feel heavy. They feel like their head's too heavy for their neck to hold up. They might be paralyzed, especially the tongue paralysis that we talked about earlier is one of the symptoms. It might begin in the neck, might start off slightly dull and then feels like a tight band or a hat, something too tight compressing their head that they'd like to take off. So this sounds opposite of bryonia.
Speaker 1:I was just gonna say that. So bryonia is like better for that pressure. Jelsymium wants to take it all off their head, like even glasses. you think Like does that bother?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but so maybe. So what they're? because they can't. There's nothing actually there, but it feels like it and they want to take it off just because it would make them feel better. So they might have droopy eyes and their eyes look half closed. They can have sudden heaviness that is felt, so they might feel it in the head, their eyelids, they just really have that sleepy look. There could be a lot of yawning because they're drowsy or they're. It's like in.
Speaker 2:Jelsymium is a direct relative of Ignatia And so Ignatia is a big yawner and sire. Out of all the remedies of headaches that are likely to yawn, ignatia would probably be number one, but it's a close relative of jelsymium, it's in the same plant family. So it's possible that jelsymium might yawn because they're sort of drowsy and it's one of the remedies who can yawn and be a bit like Ignatia. And so etiologies or the triggers of the jelsymium migraine are worse when anticipating an event or a deal. So we know that jelsymium is a great anticipatory anxiety remedy And so migraines that come on from overstudy they just did too much work with their eyes and their mind and they're worse after studying.
Speaker 2:They can have visual distortion, they might have a headache with visual problems. They can only see one side of things, they might have double vision, be dizzy and weak, trembling. Sometimes they get jelly legs when they're unwell and they can be shaky. So symptoms are better after profuse urination. That's what I was saying earlier that after they urinate and this is actually profuse urination, so they might feel better after sleep They're often very drowsy, not just drowsy looking, but they really feel like they wanna sleep and sleep will help them. And then speech can be difficult due to the heaviness of the tongue. You wanna do Nuxvamica?
Speaker 1:Do Nuxvamica. This is the one that is number one for a hangover. So that's what I mentioned before. Bryonia might be Nuxvamica. That's great for a hangover headache, hangover from intoxication or over indulgence of any kind, so not just alcohol, maybe sugar, overeating, staying out too late So those can be triggers.
Speaker 1:Nuxvamica. People are often irritable, very short tempered When it's a migraine. They often feel toxic. They're nauseous, may actually vomit. Big issues with digestion, so nausea. They just have an unsettled feeling in their stomach. Maybe they don't wanna eat.
Speaker 1:Pain for this migraine is often frontal. Worse from bright light, worse from noise. Could have acidity, like in digestion. They may be impatient and intolerant. They could be very family oriented and sympathetic, especially with vulnerable people or children. They might be constipated. That backup of not going so you might have a headache with constipation. So that backup may make them feel a bit toxic and more prone to a headache. Coffee might be a trigger for this type of headache, but sometimes coffee might stop the headache. For a Nuxvamica headache, caffeine makes that vessel close down again that we mentioned before and that's in the hopes that when it does open again it won't spasm. So this is one where caffeine can make or break the headache. It's better for leaning their head against something or better from pressure. When they have a headache they'll feel cold and want to wrap up, could be an acute remedy, like we mentioned, or a good general remedy for headaches. So this may be one that you're taking regularly and then acutely you might use it as well or more often or have different acute remedies that you're using.
Speaker 1:So bryonia and Nuxvamica can look very similar in a lot of ways. They can both have the hangover headache like we mentioned. both are irritable. Both may be worse if constipated. Both have a lot of digestion. In Nux we don't see the movement issue the same as we do in bryonia. It's very, very strong in bryonia. In Nuxvamica we're gonna see them being chilly. They'll be cold when they're unwell, more cold than we'd see with bryonia. Nuxvamica people are usually so very sociable and people-centered. They like to listen to. People might wanna be more chatty. Where we mentioned the bryonia people are not. They don't wanna talk. They're much drier in personality or they can be too and want to be alone more. And then Nuxvamica people are much more sensitive to coffee. So I know Melissa and your headache protocol or your trio. This is one of the ones for headache. Headache in general or specifically headache with constipation, is Nux and bryonia.
Speaker 2:That's right, and NatMure, which is the next remedy we're gonna talk about. That's in my headache with constipation, yep protocol.
Speaker 1:You're getting your favorite remedies here.
Speaker 2:Right, i know That's when I saw NatMure was next. I was like, look at that. Natmure's another one of my favorite remedies And it's one of the most common remedies for migraine. So it's less for acute but more for the chronic. So this is one you might choose NatMure 6X or 6C twice a day for eight to 12 weeks, or you might need to take it longer. If you don't get migraines more than once a month. You might have to take it longer than eight weeks to really see. You might do 16 weeks or so to see if it's helping. And so some of the old books warn against giving NatMure during a migraine for fear of aggravation. But you give it as the chronic.
Speaker 2:Like I said, to uproot the tendency. It often starts in the morning and increases and diminishes with the sun. As the sun is rising in the sky it's said to be worse. As the sun is starting to fall it starts to get better Sensitive to the sun, like sitting in the sun. But the sun is the thing that's going to trigger the migraine Light light going into the eyes, light strobing sensitive to light and dark, and shafts of light piercing into their vision. Sharp sunlight may cause them to have.
Speaker 2:All those things might cause them to have migraines. There might be an etiology of grief, like I was saying earlier. So a loved one dies and then ever since then you've got, you've had migraines. This is one of our biggest remedies for grief and strengthening the grieving person. So the migraine may have started, like I said, after someone died And then the emotions that have been suppressed or grief that hasn't been adequately worked through then causes you to have migraines. So, like Gelsymium, it's worse for reading and ice-dream Bright pages, small print, bright light to try and help them to read all of those things. Speak of Natmir. So it might also kind of like like Briania worse for coughing and laughing, better for cold applications. They might say their pain is like a small hammer banging away at their head. They tend to have a strong periodicity, so they come periodically. So it might be daily, weekly, monthly. At the same time, right, Like routinely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, routinely, yep People. Disturbance might be strong so they might see zigzags or flashes in their vision before migraine comes on. There might be vomiting and nausea, numbness down one side of their face, tingling pins and needles, or just totally numb. They can be better for closing their eyes and lying down in the dark. So with migraines, because, as humans, sometimes when things get better we forget how bad they were right. So it's nice that we do forget how bad it was. But because of that, it's quite useful for to ask people to chart. So when you're helping someone, even yourself chart when you have a migraine and then put a number on it one to 10, 10 being the worst that it could be. And so what you're looking for over the period of your eight to 16 weeks of using the remedies is less severe, shorter in duration and less frequent occurrences. So each where your first few migraines might be a 10, then they start to go down to an eight, seven, five, four, and there could be the back and forth.
Speaker 2:Also, you also want to have them chart if they have nausea, vomiting, their concomitance, what are the symptoms that come along with it, so that you can reassess when you get finished. You reassess the whole thing and you can help them see, hey, look six. Because when they come to you and when you follow up with them in six months and they say I've had 17 migraines now in the last whatever month, you can say hey, but look at this and look at your chart And six months ago you would have had 35 migraines in six weeks or something like that. So you can really help people see that it is getting better, because it can be such a slow process. I often say that homeopathy is like watching paint dry. It can be such a slow process that you don't see it, you don't notice that it's actually happened. So have people chart because they can forget. You want to do Belladonna?
Speaker 1:Yeah, i'll do Belladonna. So Belladonna keynotes are red, hot and high. So these migraines are red in the face, maybe they're hot and flushed. They're throbbing. That's a big Belladonna keynote. So it's a very intense headache. Might be described in violent terms or terms of that nature. They might use words like my head is going to burst open just very strong terminology. So we call a Belladonna headache a congestive headache. It just feels like there's too much blood in their head, like they want to open up a valve and let steam out. So you'll hear words like throbbing, exploding, bursting, as if their eyes are going to pop out of their head. So there's just a big sense of pressure for a Belladonna headache. They're most often right-sided. They might begin right around the occipital. I always mispronounce that. Was that correct?
Speaker 1:That was occipital area at the back of the head. Red, red face, maybe bloodshot eyes. They may have dilation of the pupil. Belladonna is worse for jarring, so they want to have smooth movements. They don't like even walking. The steps might jar and make their head throb If they sit down in a chair when they first sit down, so jarring is just when any movement comes to a stop it makes their head throb. So, belladonna, people are worse for light and sun. Sun meaning the heat of the sun. This might be headaches that have come on or headaches worse from sunstroke or heatstroke. Or maybe after the beach or you're out somewhere all day long in the sun, or gardening One of the remedies to consider if a migraine has come on from any of those things.
Speaker 1:It's worse for washing their hair, for stooping. They tend to be better lying in the cool or in the dark and like a cool application, their hands and feet might feel very cold, even though their face and head are hot and red. Belladonna can be sudden So suddenly this comes on it At 4pm. They're planning by evening and 10 minutes later they suddenly have this horrible headache that came out of the blue, very violent, so there's always intensity with Belladonna. They might not last very long, but they're very fierce and very severe. So the really violent ones might almost they use the term burn themselves out. Similar to in my experience of Belladonna fever. It's high, intense, but it goes away more quickly than other types of migraines. This one may be a better acute remedy rather than like a chronic remedy. Doesn't mean that it can't be used that way. It's just more likely to be used acutely And in fact there's the Banerjee Protocol is Belladonna, jypsy and Pickroot Acid 200. Like for acutely for that type of headache.
Speaker 2:I was just gonna say that Belladonna 3 is a really great potency to take for a migraine.
Speaker 1:I have also added that in without the Pickrich Acid, like if there's an illness I have with, like a colder sinus infection that is accompanied acutely by that kind of headache. Adding in Belladonna is wonderful.
Speaker 2:Okay, i was going. I'm looking at my Materia Medica because I wanted to see what this next remedy is, but it's not in the Materia Medica. It's not in Dr Murphy's Materia Medica.
Speaker 1:I can look this up.
Speaker 2:Look it up, oh, it is here. I found it. It's just not where I thought it would be. Let's see what it is. So lack that defloratum, lack vaccininum, which is that's why it's so weird to me. Defloratum is skimmed cow's milk.
Speaker 1:So lack vaccinum? just that is cow's milk. So this specific defloratum is made from skimmed cow's milk.
Speaker 2:I think it's so weird that vaccinum is the chosen that just you know. It's so like vaccine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2:So we're talking about skimmed cow's milk Interesting, and this is not a huge remedy, like I said, it's just. It's not a very popular remedy, but it's a fabulous migraine remedy. So of course it's in the lack family of remedies. It comes from skimmed cow's milk, and why is it skimmed? We don't know. So maybe because it's commonly consumed that way. A lot of people drink skim milk, right, maybe not so much anymore, but there probably still are a lot of, especially older people, who still drink skim milk. So this is a very severe headache with really horrible, deathly nausea. They feel like they might die, or they wish they would die. They might actually vomit Migraines. These are for migraines. That goes on for days and days might wake up and say thank goodness it's gone. They'll get up and go and oh no, it hasn't, and it comes back and they have to get back in the bed again And so it might be lingering for two, three days on end. Worse for noise, worse for light, worse for sitting up, better for cold. Yet they feel very cold when they have a migraine And this is a big remedy for constipation also. So they might also play a part, because there are people who, when they feel constipated, they think they'll be more likely to get a migraine And so they just feel a bit more toxic, their liver gets a bit more backed up. If people allow constipation to get out of hand it might aggravate a migraine sufferer. So, like I said, my protocol for migraines with constipation has. It doesn't have this remedy in it, but it might be worth adding Very stubborn, hard to shift constipation.
Speaker 2:Think of being a bottle of milk, happy in the fridge, cold, dark, quiet, and then somebody opens the fridge and there's noise and there's light And they're taken out and they're not cold anymore And so they don't like it. They're unhappy about that. On a constitutional level probably you're gonna see a picture that looks a bit like pulsatilla. So all the lack family have that slight abandoned aspect to them. They lack foundation, lack mothering, nurturing And, because it's quite a soft remedy, cows tend to be quite passive animals, so they can be passive people and they never really make a big stand for themselves.
Speaker 2:It's said to have a very strong fear of death. This, worse if constipated, goes on for days and days better for keeping cool and quite commonly do not want to have any light or noise, might be better or worse from drinking milk. Lack canineum is a more common remedy and it can look a lot like this one with the constipation and milk issues. But the keynote of Lack canineum is always moving from one side of the head to the other and maybe even back again, and then the sides alternate quite quickly. You know, iris, there.
Speaker 1:Is Iris there? This is, excuse me, the blue flag. It's a pretty spring flower. They grow in wet watery ground.
Speaker 1:So Iris will often have a classic migraine, like we had mentioned, with a pretty strong aura, So they kind of sense it coming on and a lot of vomiting. So vomiting is one of the keynotes of this remedy, Not so much as the one Lack Vex canineum It doesn't sound like where they just want to die. It's horrible but a consistent. The consistency of the vomit is actually one of the markers as well. So ropey, watery, slightly bitter or sour, It's a big digestive remedy. So Iris is a stomach, pancreas and liver remedy. When you have an Iris picture there's that slightly bilious, distorted digestion.
Speaker 1:So these people often vomit. They vomit food that's not in their stomach but either bile, so that sore when they vomit, or watery and ropey, maybe even mouthfuls of really horrible tasting sour saliva. They tend to be weekly. They are particularly likely to get migraines on the weekend. So when they relax after doing a lot of brain work, maybe during the week. So maybe these people are their brains are. they're very busy or really focused during the week They try to switch off So they get a migraine or get these headaches. They tend to be worse on the right side of the forehead, worse for cold air, worse resting. So interesting, right, You go into your weekend and then they're like oh, here's my migraine when I'm trying to take time off Iris.
Speaker 1:People are often restless. They're one of the few remedies who don't like to go to bed, so that's probably a big marker. Most people with migraines want to be in bed. They like to busy themselves, but not exertion, just kind of putts around, maybe have a slow walk, sit on a bench for a while, another little walk. They don't want to lie down and rest because it makes them focus on their head and feel worse. So they like to be distracted, not to read or like focus that way necessarily, but maybe out in nature, see what's going on, move slowly. They may have blindness with their migraines and then obviously in that case they probably don't want to walk around and get up and do things They. I mean, typically you won't use iris there as a constitutional or general remedy, but it is a big remedy for acute migraines.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so low potency, you know, because it's a physical condition, start with a 6C, maybe even a 30C. You could do 200C, but you know, with migraines being physical, i would probably start lower. So our next remedy is Spagalia, and this is also an acute remedy, not a general chronic remedy. This is a severe migraine with neuralgia of the eyeball and the muscles around the edge of the eyeball. There's a lot of pain that's actually felt in the eye itself, starts in the left forehead above the eye, and might even go through and extend to the back of the head, but tends to focus on the eye. This pain is stitching, needling, sharp and sharp pain easily covered by one finger when it's in the forehead. So they're also worse for jarring touch and smoky atmospheres. They're better for warm bathing and having their eyes closed. This is usually left sided remedy and Sanguinaria is actually, i believe is more of a right sided remedy And you want to talk about Sanguinaria?
Speaker 1:Yes, this is one of my favorite remedies. It's changed my life. It's a big headache remedy, a big shoulder remedy side note for arthritis specifically in the right shoulder, like you said, Also good for menopausal hot flashes. So this can be for a migraine that starts in the shoulder or in the shoulder blade And if they feel like, if they can get their fingers into that area, they can stop the headache from coming. It's strongly at one point in one shoulder but then moves across up into the neck, up in the forehead, over to the eye. It can look a little bit like Belladonna because it does have that throbbing. It can occasionally burn, but it often has that throbbing like Belladonna does, Like Natmurit said, to go with the sun, so increases as the sun rises and then decreases as the sun sets. It's worse for jarring, worse for menses and worse for light. Better for sleep after vomiting or even after belching. Like Belladonna they may have that congested look with a flushed, pulsing face. It might look like Belladonna too, but you're not going to get the suddenness or the violence of Belladonna.
Speaker 1:The sanguinaria migraines don't come on suddenly. They come from the shoulder and gradually creep up, So it has that definitive pathway. That's a very typical sanguinaria that it has some type of shoulder connection. May also be weekly. Do you want to do? I think glenoinum is next.
Speaker 2:I love glenoinum too. Glenoinum is nitroglycerin. It looks a lot like Belladonna. It's very easily confused with Belladonna. This is a congestive headache with intense pounding, as if the head would burst. It's explosive, may come on suddenly and intensely and be spoken about in violent terms. just like Belladonna, they can have pounding carotids, throbbing, pounding in the head. worse for sun, worse since sunstroke Sitting in the sun, having sunstroke, having heat stroke, may trigger these migraines If it's never been well since the sunstroke. unless there's something very clear for you to give Belladonna, start with glenoinum. If it doesn't shift, then consider Belladonna. So worse from the heat around the menses and jarring, and better for lying in the dark, wearing a hat or keeping cool. This is like all the blood in your body has gone to the head. So the head is red, hot, throbbing, congested. You can see how it would be very easily confused with Belladonna.
Speaker 2:Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1:Like a podium is next. Like a podium is more often a constitutional remedy, also a right-sided remedy and a liver remedy. These headaches are more likely to come between 4 and 8 pm, often accompanied by digestive disturbances like bloating, belching, maybe nausea. You may feel that there's stagnation in your digestive system or just the liver, like you just sense that your liver's off or have liver symptoms accompanying it. You may have a migraine if you go without eating. That keeps the or helps with eating, keeps the endocrine system balanced. So when you don't eat regularly enough and your blood sugar drops, that may be one of the triggers for a lecopodium migraine. I mean they may crave sugar, they have a very sweet tooth but don't have the greatest blood sugar balance, so when their blood sugar drops, that's again can be a trigger. They're worse when they overheat, so better for cool air.
Speaker 1:There may be excitement, that is, it's the flip side of the nerves, like the adrenal response, so that excitement can trigger a migraine. For that, for anticipatory people, it may come from exams that you're studying for and you're anxious about. They may come from other stresses and pressure, so things just think anticipatory, similar to a gel semium, it sounds like, but more stressful situations coming up. It might also come from pleasurable anticipation, but way too many words together. So things you're looking forward to that you're happy about. Like I said before, like a podium is a big constitutional remedy, so similar to nap mirror, where you may use this more long-term and it can be used acutely but less often Awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, silica. Silica is another big one, big big remedy And usually this, the person who needs silica, has longstanding migraines. So they've they've just been around for a long time. They're continuous, they'll say they tend to have a headache at least, if not a migraine, for some part of every single day And they tend to have a real headachey picture. They would take medicine every day for their headache if they, you know if they could or they wanted to, and they say they don't usually, but they could And they don't take it unless they really really really need to, which maybe you know is a few times a month that it gets that bad. They need to.
Speaker 2:So there's a general tendency to be a person who's rarely without some level of a headache. This headache starts in the occiput and moves to the eyes, might be sinus congestion, could be from too much reading, too much mental exertion, anticipatory, like like Gelsimium, slightly less anticipatory than Lycopodium. It tends to be more anticipatory when they themselves are the focus of attention. So if they have to perform, this headache can be worse for cold air on the head. They like hats. They don't like their head to get cold. They don't want their ears to be cold. They might get headaches if their head gets cold And this is worse for mental exertion and noise better by wrapping the head or wearing a hat, better for sleep, and they sometimes feel a bit clammy, especially around the forehead, when they have a migraine, and that is migraine remedies.
Speaker 1:So helpful, we hope.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:I know I had some more things cemented into my mind, some more differentials, which are always really great, thank you.
Speaker 2:Very good Thanks for being here with me. If you want to learn more about case taking, headaches is part of my mentorship program, so it's one of the live calls that we do in my mentorship program And so you can sign up for my mentorship. You can see all the details on my website and jump in And, like I said, headaches is one of the six live calls, so we could you know, you could learn how to take the case and how to choose remedies for headaches in that one. So have a great night. Thank you for being here with me, bree. I'll see you guys next time.