Gelsemium. [Gels]
Gelsemium is another remedy which has a headache commencing with blindness, and especially is it a remedy for headaches due to eye strain. Onosmodium is another; here we have dull aching extending down back of neck or over on one side, generally the left; there is a strained stiff sensation in the corresponding eye. The ache under Gelsemium commences in the occiput or nape of the neck, comes up over the head settles in the eye as in Sanguinaria. There is a feeling as if a band were about the head, the patient is dull and apathetic, and there is great soreness in the eye when moving them. Occipital headaches, which are dull and dragging, often find their remedy in Gelsemium. Cocculus is another remedy for these conditions. Dr. Henser, in the Allgemeine Homoeopatische Zeitung, December, 1887, recommends Gelsemium 30 in nervous headaches, saying that three doses will usually relieve. Remember the copious urination which relieves the headache, and that the headaches are accompanied with visual troubles, such as double vision, squinting and dim sight, and Gelsemium will be easily recognized. Gelsemium headaches are also relieved by sleep, and dizziness may accompany. A characteristic of Gelsemium is a sensation of a band around the head just above the ears. It also suits “tobacco headaches.” Kali bichromicum has a headache commencing with blindness; the pain settles in a small spot, is very intense, then the blindness disappears.