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tx
nervous system
headache: nonvascular
botanicals

primary herbs

Anemone pulsatilla (toxic): with weakness, nervousness, irritability, depression; a concomitant with nasal catarrh, gastric upset, suppressed menses (Felter, pp. 585-586; Felter and Lloyd, p. 1591)
Betonica officinalis: headache in neurasthenia (British Herbal Pharmacopoeia, p. 42)
Bryonia alba (toxic): frontal to occiput; sharp pain; tender from pressure; wiry pulse (Felter and Lloyd, p. 370)
Chelidonium majus (toxic) (fresh plant): with impaired hepatic function; full, pale tongue and sallow skin, frontal and occipital aching (Felter, p. 285; Ellingwood, p. 316)
Humulus lupulus: restlessness associated with nervous tension headache and indigestion (British herbal Pharmacopoeia, p. 112)
Hyoscyamus niger (toxic): nervous headache (Felter and Lloyd, p. 1036)
Hypericum perforatum: neuralgia, depressive states (British Herbal Pharmacopoeia, p. 116)
Lavandula officinalis
Melilotus officinalis: idiopathic; neuralgic (Felter, p. 477)
Nepeta cataria: sedative
Passiflora incarnata: nervine
Piscidia erythrina (toxic): pain
Sanguinaria canadensis (toxic): "sick headache" with poor circulation, cold extremities, liver congestion (Felter, p. 616)
Scutellaria lateriflora: nervine
Strychnos ignatii (toxic): congestive neuralgia with facial and ocular twitchings (Felter, p. 425)
Valeriana spp.
Veronicastrum virginicum: with constipation, depression, cold extremities (Felter and Lloyd, p. 1044)

consider: laxatives

see: constipation


complementary herbs

nervous headache: Betonica officinalis + Scutellaria lateriflora (British Herbal Pharmacopoeia, p. 42)


footnotes