Alzheimer's Disease
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Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Anacardium Orientale | Impaired
memory, depression, and irritability; diminution of senses
Intermittency of symptoms Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and curse Sensation of a plug in various parts-eyes, rectum, bladder, etc; also of a band Fixed ideas Hallucinations; thinks he is possessed of two persons or wills Anxiety when walking, as if pursued Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with tendency to use violent language Absent mindedness Very easily offended Malicious; seems bent on wickedness Lack of confidence in himself or others Suspicious Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead Absence of all moral restraint Apt to choke when eating or drinking Swallows food and drinks hastily Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions without dreams Leucorrhœa, with soreness and itching. Menses scanty Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights. Anxious dreams |
On application of hot water | From eating
When lying on side From rubbing |
| Aurum Iodatum | Feeling of self-condemnation
and utter worthlessness
Profound despondency, with increased blood pressure, with thorough disgust of life, and thoughts of suicide Talks of committing suicide Great fear of death Peevish and vehement at least contradiction Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply Cannot do things fast enough. Over sensitiveness; to noise, excitement, confusion. Anxiety when quiet Present anxiety and depression, no reference to the future Sudden impulse to run and do violence Forgetful Must be busy Fear of people, shuns every one |
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| Baryta Aceticum | Forgetful
Wavering long between opposite resolutions Lack of self confidence Feeling of cobweb in face |
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| Baryta Carbonica | Specially indicated in infancy
and old age
Diseases of old men when degenerative changes begin;-cardiac vascular and cerebral;-who have hypertrophied prostate or indurated testes Very sensitive to cold Offensive foot-sweats Very weak and weary, must sit or lie down or lean on something Very averse to meeting strangers Loss of memory, mental weakness Irresolute Lost confidence in himself Confusion Bashful Childish; grief over trifles Hungry, but refuses food Worse after warm food Urging to urinate Burning in urethra on urinating Diminished desire and premature impotence Before menses, pain in stomach and small of back Menses scanty Talking in sleep; awakens frequently; feels too hot Twitching during sleep |
While
thinking of symptoms
From washing Lying on painful side |
Walking in open air |
| Calcarea Phosphorica | Numbness and crawling
Tendency to perspiration and glandular enlargement Peevish Forgetful Always wants to go somewhere Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats Much flatulence Great hunger with thirst Flatulence temporarily relieved by sour eructations Heartburn Urine increased, with sensation of weakness Leucorrhœa, like white of egg |
Exposure
to damp, cold weather
Melting snow |
In
summer
Warm, dry atmosphere |
| Conium Maculatum | Difficult
gait
Trembling Sudden loss of strength while walking Debility Hypochondriasis Sexual debility found here General feeling as if bruised by blows Great debility in the morning in bed Weakness of body and mind, trembling, and palpitation. Excitement causes mental depression Depressed, timid, averse to society, and afraid of being alone No inclination for business or study; takes no interest in anything Memory weak; unable to sustain 'any mental effort Frequent urging for stools; hard, with tenesmus Tremulous weakness after every stool Much difficulty in voiding urine; it flows and stops again Dribbling urination in old men Sexual desire increased; power decreased Sexual nervousness, with feeble erection Effects of suppressed sexual appetite Menses delayed and scanty; parts sensitive Leucorrhœa after micturition |
Lying down
Turning or rising in bed Celibacy Before and during menses From taking cold Bodily or mental exertion |
While
fasting
In the dark From letting limbs hang down Motion Pressure |
| Natrum Iodatum | Angina pectoris
Vertigo Dyspnœa |
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| Phosphorus | Tall, slender persons, narrow
chested, with thin, transparent skin, weakened by loss of animal fluids,
with great nervous debility, emaciation, amative tendencies
Great susceptibility to external impressions, to light, sound, odors, touch, electrical changes, thunder-storms Suddenness of symptoms, sudden prostration, faints, sweats, shooting pains, etc Ataxia and adynamia Great lowness of spirits Easily vexed Fearfulness, as if something were creeping out of every corner Clairvoyant state Great tendency to start Loss of memory Ecstasy Dread of death when alone Brain feels tired. Excitable, produces heat all over Restless, fidgety Hypo-sensitive, indifferent Hunger soon after eating Sour taste and sour eructations after every meal Belching large quantities of wind, after eating Very fetid stools and flatus; long, narrow, hard, like a dog's; difficult to expel Turbid, brown, with red sediment Lack of sexual power; irresistible desire; involuntary emissions, with lascivious dreams Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but last too long Leucorrhœa profuse, smarting, corrosive, instead of menses Great drowsiness, especially after meals Sleeplessness in old people Vivid dreams of fire; of hæmorrhage Lascivious dreams Goes to sleep late and awakens weak Short naps and frequent wakings |
Touch
Physical or mental exertion Twilight Warm food or drink Change of weather From getting wet in hot weather Evening Lying on left or painful side During a thunder-storm Ascending stairs |
In
dark
Lying on right side Cold food Cold Open air Washing with cold water Sleep |
| Secale Cornutum | Constringent feeling
throughout the whole body
Coldness Numbness, For old people with shriveled skin-thin, scrawny old women Whole body is pervaded by a sense of great heat Debility, anxiety, emaciation, though appetite and thirst may be excessive Unnatural ravenous appetite; craves acids Thirst unquenchable Eructations of bad odor Menses irregular, copious, dark; continuous oozing of watery blood until next period Sleep profound and long |
Heat
Warm covering |
Cold
Uncovering Rubbing Stretching out limbs |