Dementia
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Clinic
- Dementia is a an Umbrella which contains Progressive impairments in memory, thinking, and behavior, if it negatively affects everyday functional abilities.
- Along with intellectual inabilities, the most common symptoms are
- Emotional problems
- Difficulties with language
- Decreased motivation.
- Consciousness is not affected
Causative subtypes
- Alzheimer's disease (60–70% of cases)
- Vascular dementia (Stroke) (20% of cases)
- Huntington's disease
- HIV
- Prion diseases (CJD, NVCJD)
- Frontotemporal lobar degeneration
Related diseses
- Behçet's disease
- MS
- Sarcoidosis
- Sjögren's syndrome
- SLE
- Celiac disease
- Non-celiac gluten sensitivity. A 2019 review found no association between celiac disease and dementia overall but a potential association with vascular dementia. A 2018 review found a link between celiac disease or non-celiac gluten sensitivity and cognitive impairment and that celiac disease may be associated with Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, and frontotemporal dementia.
- Reversible dementia include:
- Hypothyroidism
- Vitamin B12 deficiency
- Lyme disease
- Neurosyphilis
Sign / Symptoms
Behavioral symptoms | Psychological symptoms | Cognitive symptoms |
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Remedies in brief
- Anac: Manic, Depressed, Unsociable , Abusive
- Alum: The most depressed/ Depersonalization/ Identity confusion /DE realization, Submissive /Naïve
- Nux-m: The most confused (Spatial), Sleepy + No thirst + Chilly + Thoughts vanish suddenly. Using of wrong words. Comatose state
- Bar-c, Bar-m: The most Stupid / Childish + High blood pressure + Atherosclerosis + Feel suffering
- Plb: The most paranoid + Heaviness / Paralysis due to degenerative brain diseases
- Con: Impaired understanding of content + Apathy
- Hell: Emotional and Neurological Apathy
- Kali-br: The most restless esp Hand restlessness
- Op: Deep indifference and conflicting alternative situations
- Crot-h: Mistakes in Calculating/ Speaking / Writing
- Cann-i: He cannot finish his sentences. Misconception of time and space
- Aur: Severe acute Depression/ Hopelessness
Key points |
Alum | Ambr | Anac | Bar-c
Bar-m |
Con | Hell | Hyos | Kali-br | Nux-m | Op | Plb |
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Top remedies | +++ | +++ | + | ||||||||
Alone desire / Company aversion | +++ | +++ | |||||||||
Apathy / Paralysis / Slowness | + | +++ | +++ | ++ | |||||||
Company desire | +++ | +++ | |||||||||
Constipation | +++ | +++ | |||||||||
Disgusting | +++ | +++ | +++ | ||||||||
Disorientation | +++ | +++ | +++ | ||||||||
Guilty sensation | +++ | +++ | |||||||||
Identity Confusion | +++ | +++ | +++ | ||||||||
Knowing anyone | +++ | +++ | +++ | +++ | +++ | +++ | |||||
Nausea | +++ | +++ | +++ | ||||||||
Strange seems | +++ | +++ | +++ | ||||||||
Timid | + | +++ | |||||||||
Depersonalization / DE realization | +++ | ||||||||||
Suffereing | +++ | ||||||||||
Arteriosclerosis/ High blood pressure | +++ | + | |||||||||
Aphasia | +++ | ||||||||||
Male impotence | +++ |
Important rubrics
- Mind - ACCOUNTING, makes mistakes, in senile dementia, incipient stage
- MIND - MISTAKES; making
Calculating mistakes
- MIND - MISTAKES; making - calculating, in: Con, Crot-h, Plb
Speaking mistakes
- MIND - MISTAKES; making - speaking, in
- MIND - MISTAKES; making - speaking, in - spelling, in: Crot-h, Lach, Nux-m
- MIND - MISTAKES; making - speaking, in - words - misplacing words: Alum, Con, Crot-h, Hyos, Kali-br, Lach, Nux-m
- MIND - MISTAKES; making - speaking, in - words - wrong words; using
- Mind - MEMORY, general, active - forgetful - words while speaking, of, word hunting: Kali-br
- Mind - MEMORY, general, active - loss, of - aphasia, in : Cann-i , Hyper, Kali-br
Writing mistakes
- MIND - MISTAKES; making - writing, in
- MIND - MISTAKES; making - writing, in - old people; in: Crot-h
General rubrics
- Mind - CONFUSION, mental - old age, in: Bar-c, Con, Kali-br
- Mind - ABSENT-minded, preoccupied - old age, in: Am-c, Con, Lyc
- Mind - MEMORY, general, active - forgetful - names – own: Kali-br
- Mind - CONFUSION, mental - identity, as to his : ALUM, Kali-br
- Mind - CONFUSION, mental - old age, in Bar-c ,Con, Kali-br
- MIND - DEMENTIA - senilis
- MIND - DEMENTIA - senilis - talking, with foolish: bar-c, con, op, plb
- MIND - DEMENTIA - senilis - talking, with foolish - night: puls
Etiology
- MIND - DEMENTIA - cares about business; from: lil-t
- MIND - DEMENTIA - senilis - premature: Ambr, bufo, Lyc, med
- MIND - DEMENTIA - sexual excesses; from: lil-t.
- MIND - DEMENTIA - syphilitics, of: aur-i, Kali-c, Kali-i, merc, nit-ac, sulph
- Mind - MEMORY, general, active - forgetful - sexual excesses, after: Calad, Kali-br, Nat-p, Ph-ac ,Sec Staph
Accompanied by
- MIND - DEMENTIA - epileptics, of: acon, Bell, cimic, Cupr-act, cupr, Ferr-i, laur, Oena, Sil, stram, verat-v.
- MIND - DEMENTIA - masturbation, with: Agn, calc-p, canth, caust, nux-v, op, Ph-ac, phos, pic-ac, staph
- MIND - DEMENTIA - paretic: Acon, Aesc, agar, ars, bell, cann-i, cimic, cupr,hyos, ign, merc, Phos, Plb, stram, verat-v, verat, zinc
- MIND - DEMENTIA - sadness, with: tarent
- MIND - DEMENTIA - weakness; with: pic-ac
First class remedies
Banerji protocols | |
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Anac
- Top Dementia remedy
- Marked forgetfulness: Names, Those around her, What she has seen
- Manic – Depressed or profound Depression
- Progressive memory losing
- Brain fatigue: Mental and physical lack of power.
- They are unsociable, Great irritability / Anxiety/ Angry /Abusive
- Jealous and suspicious.
Alum
- Polycrest of dementia (Alum ₳ Nux-m) esp in depressed ones (Never laughs)
- Marked forgetfulness: Memory is weak or completely lost.
- The person’s consciousness of reality and judgment is disturbed. Absentminded, Mistakes in writing and speaking
- Body self-awareness problems such as Depersonalization, Identity confusion DE realization
- Weakness / Laziness (Sep, Ph-ac, Op), Paralysis / Slowness (Alum ₳ Hell), Heaviness (Alum ₳ Plb)
- Because his nerves and muscles are not able to speed things up.
- They aware of this slowness and they may gradually get fed up with themselves.
- He knows that he cannot do two things at the same time, and when he is asked to do so, he panics and haste leads to confusion and mistakes.
- He is in hurry but does his job slowly, as if the neuromuscular system is defying his brain
- Submissive and Naïve
- GI autonomic difficulties: Dysphagia & Constipation
- Time passes slowly for him, that means he is in a hurry.
- His Face / Affect / Speech is blunted
- Alternating moods/ Impulsive behavior
Mind - IMPULSE, morbid: alum. anac. Arg-n. ars. caust. hep. iod. lach. lyc. merc
Nux-m
- Second polycrest of Dementia (Very similar to Alum)
- Confusion (Similar to Cann-i) / Impaired memory. Difficulty in reading/ Writing.
- Thought vanishing, when he is Writing / Reading / Talking. It causes Using wrong words.
- Objects seem changes or grow larger.
- Absent-minded: Drowsiness and indifferent behavior
- Confusion esp in spatial situations. He gets lost even in well-known streets. (Glon ₳ Nux-m)
- Comatose state:
- He has many degrees of laziness of mind and soul.
- Drowsiness + Indifference
- Narcolepsy (Nux-m ₳ Op)
Cann-i
- Excellent for sudden loss of memory
- Absentminded: Sudden loss of speech, begins a sentence but cannot finish it.
- Sudden loss of thoughts.
- Inability to recall ideas even after exerting the mind to do so
- Anxiety, anguish, better in open air
- Misconception of time and space. Time passes too long, seconds seem ages, a few miles an immense distance.
Bar-c
- Passive patient
- Childish behavior. He is always Behind his caregiver / Under his umbrella.
- Lack of self-confidence/ Shyness / Constant need to be guided even in minor matters
- Extreme fear of exposure (Lyc): When entering a room, they enter cautiously.
- Slow and lazy (Ambr, Hyos, Nux-m, Op)
- Bar-c / Bar-m is more shier than Alum. (Alum ₳ Bar-c)
- Disorientation (Alum, Nux-m)
- Strangeness Feeling (Bar-c ₳ Nux-m)
- Arteriosclerosis + High blood pressure esp Bar-m
- He always feel suffering (Caust)
- Fear of what is about to happen (Caust) / Possible future problems (Ars)
- Full of ideas and imaginations
Plb
- Paranoia: Repulsive and disgusting morals. (Ambr, Con)
- Agitation + Dementia: Delusion that everyone around him might be a murderer or that he will be caught soon.
- Core theme: Cold + Weak + Heavy + Paralysis
- Dementia caused by degenerative brain diseases such as ALS, MS and Parkinson.
- Along with progressive weakness, his mood also moves towards depression and cognitive problems.
- Progressive confusion ends in mistaking about his identity. (Alum, Kali-br)
- Like Barims, he does not like to be alone.
- GI autonomic difficulties: Insufficient Constipation: He even takes help from his hand to defecate. (Constipation + Dementia)
- Extreme weakness, Heaviness (Paralysis / Progressive atrophy / Trembling of paralyzed limbs+ Dementia)
Con
- Reading / Comprehension problems
- Indifference (Hell)/ Slow motion (Plb)
- Several problems that lead to progressive weakness and Alzheimer's disease
- Premature aging
- Con is good follow well of Bar-c since both have Arteriosclerosis (Bar-c ₳ Con)
- Con caused by Deep emotional problems or Sexual suppression
- Constipation (Con ₳ Plb)
- Dementia due to
- Dizziness in the elderly
- Grumpy and easily suffering, having problems with superiors, fighting, resenting him, not tolerating opposition (Aur)
- He is afraid of being alone, at the same time he avoids society (Kali-c, Lyc)
Kali-br
- Reversal of cognitive abilities (Bar-c, Bar-m)
- A feeling of ill-will, Demonization (Hyos, Op have milder degrees of this condition.)
- Feeling of being chased (similar to Anac, Hyos, Plb)
- Insomnia has overtaken him
- Extremely sensitive to pain. (Opposite to Op)
- With the progress of dementia, Kali-br may not recognize his friends and relatives (Alum, Anac, Hyos, Op, Plb and barium salts).
- He even forgets his own name
- Aphasia (Word-hunting) + Dementia (Ph-ac)
- Dementia due to
- Male impotence + dementia
Male - IMPOTENCY, male - memory, with loss of
- Sudden or periodic dementia
Mind - MEMORY, general, active - weakness, of - sudden and periodical
- Key point: He moves his hands regularly and is constantly doing something with his hands
Second class remedies
Sel
- Osteoporosis + dementia
- Premature aging (Lyc ₳ Sel, Con ₳ Sel) and premature impotence (Lyc, Kali-br)
- Fear of people and inability to continue working
- Weakness caused by heat is a specific characteristic of this remedy.
Aur
- Alzheimer’s disease with severe acute depression. Hopelessness + Grief.
- Disgust of life and thoughts of suicide.
- He talks of committing suicide, but great fear of death.
Lac-c
- Severe loss of memory. Difficulty / Mistakes in Reading / Writing.
- Very restless, Cannot concentrate to read. Wants to leave everything as soon as it is commenced.
- Highly despondent, thinks her disease is incurable and recovery is impossible.
Kali-p
- Anxiety / Depression / Gloomy
- Angry / Irritable / Nervousness
- Brain-fag: He forgets every thing, Great loss of memory
- Marked exhaustion / Fatigue. Slightest task seems heavy.
Med
- Severe weakness of memory.
- He loses the thread of conversation . Forgets names, words, and places.
- He forgets his own name, names of his close friends / Family members.
- He is hurried and anxious cannot speak without weeping, tells it over and over again.
- Time passes too slowly
Nux-v
- Extremely sensitive to the words and actions of others
- He is always seeking others attention.
- Extreme irritation, vindictive and quarrelsome
- Suicidal tendency, But does not have the courage to perform the act.
- Inclined towards killing his friends
Merc
- He lost all sense of decency.
- He become Dirty and develop a groveling mentality.
- Memory weakens to a great extent and the patient has problems with vision
- Unpleasant breath odor and a heavily coated tongue.
Ign
- Extreme sensitivity of the mind
- Depression/ Grief due to failure in love relationships.
Calc
- In cases of dementia where the brain and other organs do not develop properly.
- Forgetful and very slow in learning something.
Lyc
- They experience great depression, become despondent
- Constantly worry about themselves and their activities.
- They become fearful, irritable and angry.
- Constipation
Staph
- Sleeplessness
- They becomes cowardly and is full of shamefulness, disgust, humiliation and shyness
- He would rather be alone than have company.
Cham
- Dementia with acute sensitiveness.
- Irritation and peevishness are common, and the patient tends to get angry very easily.
Ambr
- Ambr, like Con, has lost its natural reactions.
- He is shy to the point of suspicion.
- He thinks a lot about the bitter memories of the past (Nat-m)
- Disgusted: Can't stand people,
- He focused on his guts. He feels bad during defecation.
- Like Alum and Nux-m, he has a lot of stress during defecation.
- Ineffectual desire to defecate causes anxiety.
Crot-h
- Crot-h is a restless remedy
- Suspicions (Hyos), (Crot-h ₳ Hyos)
- His mind is too busy with dying
- Talkativeness and tendency to run away (Hyos)
- Sleep disorder/ Incoherent speech are signs of moving towards insanity.
- They may be inclined to gather or refuse to see some of their family members.