Usnea barbata
Fungus · Parmeliaceae
Usnea Barbata is a remedy for congestive headaches and sunstroke, particularly where the sensation is of blood pressing into the brain with pulsating vessels.
Key symptoms
- Bursting feeling in head and temples
- Sensation as if eyes would burst out of sockets
- Throbbing carotids
- Severe congestive headache compelling to rest in bed
- Pain over entire head or front head
Tree-moss
Is a remedy in some forms of congestive headache; sunstroke.
Head
Bursting feeling, as if temples would burst, or the eyes burst out of the sockets. Throbbing carotids.
Relationship
Compare: Glonoine; Bellad.
Dose
Tincture, drop doses.
Usnea barbata. Tree-hair. Tree-moss. N. O. Lichenes. Tincture.
Clinical
Headache, congestive.
Characteristics
An article by M. B. in U.S. Med. Invest. (quoted New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies) gives an observation by the writer, who ate a little of the "moss" and had in consequence a severe congestive headache which compelled him to give up his work and go to bed. He got to sleep and woke very well next morning. Two young ladies out picking cranberries had headache from riding in the hot sun and were compelled to lie down. Usn. b. Ø, one drop in a tumbler of water, a teaspoonful to be taken at once and repeated in fifteen minutes. The second dose stopped the pain. A young married lady subject to headache for five years; was almost frantic with the pain. Usn. b., as above, cured in one or two doses.
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