Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Usnea barbata usn-bar.
General
A tincture is made of the fresh lichen.
▶ Headache, I had to go to the house, I could feel the blood press to the brain, my wife worked over me and I got to sleep, next morning felt well. ▶ At 8 P.M., pair (left head) went down to sacrum, increased all the evening, and bursting headache in front. ▶ 9-12 P.M., sharp, shooting, steady pain in back. ▶ Sleep from after midnight till 8 A.M. ▶ Sore next day all over. ▶ Headache comes and goes slowly.
Clinical
"Cured several cases of headache; the pain is over the entire head, or front head, with feeling as if the temples would burst, or the eyes would burst out of the sockets; I have always used the tincture."