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HEADACHES
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-Headaches, Migraines
-Face Neuralgia
Who doesn’t know what headache is? Everybody do! It is such a common symptom! It isn’t much to have a headache now and then but it is a great problem to have such a pain almost every day. Chronic headaches, migraines or face neuralgias can turn a man’s personal, family and professional life upside down. He cannot feel calm, satisfied or happy. His mind is always fixed on the pain he has or will have quite soon.
Common aspect about causes of pain and “pain-killing” treatment
There are of course many illnesses like hypertension, fevers, vision disorders, ear infections and brain tumors that can cause headaches but most of the times we can’t trace any certain illness responsible for chronic headaches. We then come to the conclusion that these headaches are functional; they are usually caused by muscle tension of the neck or disorder of blood circulation to the head. These two factors, of course, are not real causes but are pathogenic mechanisms. Often the real cause is a combination of hereditary predisposition and anxious way of living.
Pain killers often relieve but temporarily. They do what their name implies; they “kill” the pain! They kill the present symptom but another one comes again because they don’t “kill” the real cause, namely, predisposition. It is often a fact that organism gets used to drugs and pain becomes stronger next time and the patient desperately swallows more and more pain killers until he has severe side effects to his blood, liver and kidneys. But nothing seems to take the pain away! Then sedatives and anti-depressive drugs are employed but headaches insist.
Homeopathic treatment: holistic and causative
Homeopathic treatment always acts in a holistic way. It treads the patient as a whole, no matter where the patient has the pain or any other symptom. When the head is in pain it is possible that other organs or systems suffer also and often psychological factors are present. We are not machines! We are psychosomatic wholes. First the patient is disordered and then his head! We function as a whole according to Universal Law of the Whole and from up to down according to Law of Hierarchy.
If we, doctors, consider ourselves as true scientists then we should always apply laws during our scientific actions. Any illness should be examined according to diagnostic laws and any medicine should be given according to strict therapeutic laws and not on the base of simple “experience”. Another law that has to be applied is Law of Individualization. Each patient is but a specific psychosomatic whole and has to be treated as a different case. Homeopathic medicine, in order to be suitable for the phase given, must be similar to the patient’s idiosyncrasy.
What’s idiosyncrasy? What’s it’s relation to disease and treatment?
Idiosyncrasy is but the picture of the patient’s unique and specific physical and psychological characteristics. Idiosyncrasy makes a person and thus a patient, differ in a unique way from another person or patient. What is the relation of idiosyncrasy to Disease?
Let us see two examples of different idiosyncrasies: The first example is an irritable, energetic, active and ambitious woman. Having these idiosyncratic characteristics she tends to choose her profession accordingly. She becomes a businesswoman working day and night. If she has a strong predisposition for headaches then she will soon have nervous headaches due to muscle tension of the neck. Pains will have a sudden onset and be so intense that they “will drive her crazy”. She will be restless, irascible, shouting and cursing. She will take handfuls of several pills and will try to forget her pain by working even more.
Her co-worker is a slow, easily-tired woman. She can’t stand stress and intense work. She is not ambitious at all and works just for survival. If she has a predisposition for headaches then she will develop headaches even from normal work conditions. Her headaches will have a slow onset, long duration and will be mild. She will just have a “heavy” head. But this will make her unsocial and melancholic. She will prefer to lie down alone in the dark.
So we see two women with the same predisposition and the same illness but due to different idiosyncrasies they react in a different way and so have each one of them, unique symptoms. They need different homeopathic medicines that suit their different idiosyncrasies.
Radical and permanent treatment
Homeopathic medicines act radically and permanently by mobilizing the patients’ physical and psychological defense mechanisms. They not only relieve the present headache but they gradually lower the predisposition for headaches. Headaches will gradually become more rare and milder. In the end the patient will have the occasional mild headaches that all other people have at times. Even in adverse conditions there will be none or mild headaches.
Furthermore, the patient will have an improvement to his general physical condition and psychological state. Even his extreme idiosyncratic characteristics will be improved. The irritable woman of our first example will become less irritable and more relaxed and the second woman will be more energetic and less easily tired. All these will be achieved in a mild and natural way and thus without any side effects of any kind.