Epilepsy

Causticum

Epilepsy at the age of puberty due to menstrual irregularity or suppression of eruptions or to some fright, worse during new moon. Involuntary urination. Better by drinking cold water.

Passiflora Inc

Attacks coming on at the menstrual period. The aura is a tight feeling in the chest.

Oenanthe Crocata

Sudden and complete unconsciousness with terrible convulsions. Non-appearance of menses in young girls which lead to epilepsy and convulsions; worse at the time when menses should have appeared. Special indications :— vomiting, tympanitis and semi-priapism during the attack. Swollen red face with frothing of the mouth.

Plumbum

When due to cerebral sclerosis or tumors. Heaviness and paralytic sensation before the attack and there is often paralysis and prolonged snoring there ­ after. Constipation severe.

Belladonna

In recent cases only. The convulsions begin in the upper extremities and extend to face, eyes and Mouth; fits of short duration several times during the day and passing of suddenly.

Argentum Nitricum

Caused by fright or at the time of menses. Dilation of pupils for days or hours before the attack and restlessness and trembling of hands after the attack. Sharp cry. Violent muscular twitchings, especially of the throat. Complete unconsciousness with frothing at mouth; often bites his tongue, then a deep sleep for about three hours. Fit brought on by taking sweet fruits.

Cuprum Metallicum

The aura begins in the lower extremi­ties and ascends to the hypogastric region when unconsciousness, convulsions and foaming of the mouth supervene. The patient continuously protrudes and retracts tongue during the attack. Worse in a warm room. Oppressive headache preceding he attack.

Natrum Mur

Twitchings of arms and legs before and during the attack; aversion to bread. Dullness, difficulty of thinking, depression and irritability. Aura begins in the arms or may be as if mouse ran up the leg to right side of abdomen. Attacks preceded by vertigo, sleep, gritting of teeth, nausea and vomiting, froth at mouth. Trembling. Body jerks, legs rapidly drawn up, hands clinched, thumbs not drawn in. Coldness of extremities. Worse during menses. Chronic cases of psoric taint, suppressed itch.

Nox Vomica

Convulsions with consciousness, worse with anger, touch, emotion, moving, indigestion. Convulsions with tetanic rigidity, ppisthotonos, red face and closed eyes. Involuntary defecation and urination in fit. Aura from epigastrium. Deep sleep follows the attack. Worse in open air.

Kali Brom

When the fit comes at the new moon and headache follows the fit. Mental dullness, slowness of expression, vertigo, uncertain gait, morose and sleepy.

Luna

Epilepsy worse at full moon.

Bufo

When due to masturbation or sexual excesses. The fit may return during coition. An awful sensation of anxiety in the abdomen and then there is a sudden loss of consciousness. Pupils largely dilated and unaffected by light before the attack. Aura starts from sexual organs or abdomen. Mouth wide open before an attack and dropping of the jaw after the attack. Urine passes involuntarily after the attack.

Baryta Muriaticum

With distension of blood vessels, ema­ciation, fainting spells. Complaints worse in spring. Formication all over the body.

Artemisia V

The fits are caused by violent emotions, the convulsions come close together, and then follows a long interval of rest.

Alumina

The fits come on mostly while passing stools.

Absinthium

When the fit is preceded by trembling, vertigo and giddiness. Loss of memory after the attack. Give in mother tincture or lower dilutions.

Ignatia

Epileptic fits which occur after mortification or great fright from anger with silent grief; from anxiety; unhappy love.

Thuja

Epileptic fits occurring after vaccination when pustules disappear which had appeared as a result of vaccination. Ears feel numbed before attack. Give in 1M dilution.

Stannum

Epilepsy during dentition with symptoms of worms. Pale face with twitching of hands and eyes, with tossing of limbs.

Lycopodium

Obstinate persons with a very logical mind. Contemptuous of those he considers fools, yet personally Jacking in self confidence. Worse in the afternoon.

Silicea

Epilepsy in slender, tall, dark, chilly, arrogant, thirstless persons, constipated with clammy, sweaty palms and unhealthy skin. Nightly attacks occuring. about new and full moon.

Viscum Alb

For epilepsy when vertigo persists after the-attack.

Calcarea Carb

Epilepsy in children with open fontanelles and late dentition; sweating of the head and neck. Dread of an attack and broods over its affliction which makes him melancholic. Epilepsy due to suppression of eruption, onanism or sexual excesses. Sensation of something burning in arms, or from pit of stomach downwards; sudden attack of vertigo; loss of consciousness without convulsions; chewing motion of mouth before the attack. Confusion and loss of memory. Headache, dizziness, thirst and hunger after the attack.

Cicuta Virosa

Sudden rigidity followed by jerks and violent distortions, oppression of breathing, lockjaw, face dark red, frothing at the mouth with opisthotonos; great prostration after the attack. Epileptic fit with swelling of stomach. Thumbs turn inwards during fit. Remembers nothing after the attack. Staring at the same object and if she turns her head away she falls unconscious. The fit is worse by slightest touch or jar.

Thaspium

Hysteria, epilepsy and chorea with suicidal tendency; alternate laughing and weeping; chorea specially during sleep; fidgety lips. Lameness in arms and spasmodic twitchings. In male, lassitude after coition. In female, pain in left ovary with retarded menses.

Hyoscyamus

Twitching and jerking with frothing at the mouth and biting of the tongue. Hunger previous to attack. Epileptic fit due to fright. Before the fit there is vertigo, ringing in the ears, spark before the eyes and gnawing, hunger. During the fit face is purple, eyes projecting; shrieks; grinding of teeth and enuresis followed by sopor and snoring.

Agaricus M

Inepilepsy when after the attack there is great flow of ideas and the patient talks too much. Fit of epilepsy every seven days. Begins with paroxysm of yawning.

Ferrum Phos

For patients who are reverse of Belladonna, viz. anaemic, weak, nervous, face pale, mucus membrane pale.

Glonoine

Most violent, pulsating and pressing headache thirty-six to forty-eight hours before or after the attack. It is worse in warm room and by warm application. Feeling of heart- beat throughout the whole body.

Sulphur

This should be given as an intercurrent remedy, especially when the cause is hereditary. It should be given in IM dilution. It is indicated in tubercular diathesis and in suppression of eruptions.

Zincum Phos

A remedy for mental deterioration caused by epilepsy of any variety where the bromides have been used in large doses.