Dementia traumatica. Kader Kochi.

Memory is the process of perception, storage and recall by which the nervous system retains past experience and uses it to generate or modify future behavior. Dementia is a permanent decline in cognitive functions and memory from a previous level.  

Alzheimer’s disease is a slowly progressive disease of the brain that is characterized by dementia and eventfully by disturbance in reasoning, language, planning and perception. Other symptoms associated with these groups include problems with judgment, changes in personality, mood and behavior; anxiety, depression disorientation to time and place; and wandering etc.

 Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia and occurs world wide now. It is rare in people younger than 40 years of age, but its prevalence grows rapidly between the age of 65 and 85. The other common causes of dementia are advancing age, brain injury, alcoholism, drug toxicity, cerebral arteriosclerosis, hypertension, hypothyroidism, multiple sclerosis, pick’s disease, various infective encephalitis, HIV infection, compression from hydrocephalus and brain tumors.

Alzheimer's disease is due to accumulation of a waste protein (beta-amyloid protein) in the brain. Common features  are memory loss, difficulty performing familiar tasks , problems with language, disorientation to time and place, poor or decreased judgment, problems with abstract thinking, misplacing things, changes in mood or behavior, changes in personality, loss of initiative etc.

Normal individuals at 50 years of age will recall only about 60%. Alzheimer is seen more in females due to choline deficiency, low consumption of eggs. The cholinesterase inhibitors (phosphoric acid, Hydrocotyle) can block the excessive breakdown of acetylcholine.

Reduce common salt, alcohol, caffeine, tobacco, sugar, and foods that are processed, or filled with chemicals and artificial color dyes. Avoid the use of one food item more than 4 days per week. Thus we can eliminate the food allergens to which we are generally addicted. Avoid food with bitter taste and exposure to extreme cold Use non caffeinated herbal teas. Prefer items promoting perspiration.

Instill mustard oil drops into the nostril. Inhale powder of mustard or piper longum.

TREATMENT

Prophylaxis 

Avoid high animal fat, high sucrose consumption, drinking hard water, stomach surgery. 

Avoid exposure to insecticides and heavy metals (Aluminum, Lead, Antimny, Cadmium, Manganese and mercury) as much as possible.

Homoeopathic tinctures-A

Physostigma venenosum 3C	Hydrocotlye 3C	Aconitum 3C
Curcuma longa 3C	Berberis vulgaris 3C	Sanguinaria 3C
Fucus vesiculosus 3C	Salvia officianilis 3C	Medicago sativa 3C
Damiana 3C	Ginkgo biloba 3C	Ginseng 3C
Phyllanthus officinalis 3C	Piper nigrium 3C	Black nightshade 3C
Podophyllum 3C	Trigonella 3C	Zingiber officinalis 3C
China 3C	Glycyrrhisa  glabra 3C	Sulphuric acid 3C

Above tinctures in sufficient quantities are helpful to arrest and cure the premature neuro-degeneration .

Homoeopathic tinctures-B

Acorus calamus, Brahmi, Cinnamon, Evolvulus alsinoides, Ginkgo biloba, Ginseng, Glycyrrhiza, Hypericum perfoliatum, Hydrocotle asiatica, Thuja orientalis, Valeriana, Withania somnifera, Zingiber officinale, and Phosphoric acid

Homoeopathic triturations

Selenium 3X (Mercury-antidote)and Alumina silicata (12X) have a major role in this treatment. 

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Traumatic dementia

 

It usually results from multiple head trauma in childhood, road accidents, and sports.

Common changes occur in nervous system

Reduction in weight of brain.

Narrowness of convolutions.

Reduction in numbers of neurons. 

Formation of plaques outside the neurons.

Twisted fibrils inside the neurons.

Increase in neuroglia.

Changes in lipid/protein ratio.

Decrease in colloidity.

Increase in condensation. 

Increase in coagulation.

Prognosis 

Good.

Prime medicine

Arnica 2x, Yohimbinum 2x (Post traumatic stress, Remote memory).

 Medicines

Homeopathic medicines are helpful to correct the dementia, cognitive dysfunctions and the various degenerative changes occurred in nervous system.

Children
	Middle age	Old age
Susceptible to treatment	Susceptible	Partly susceptible
Cold items	Cold	Warm items
Bitter and Astringent	Bitter and Astringent	Pungent
Glycyrrhiza 3C.	Alcoholic dilution.	Honey, brandy
Brahmi 3C, Hydrocotyle 3C.	Arsenic album 3 C	Cannabis Indica 3C.
Acorus calamus 3C.	Nux vomica 2C, Thuja 2C.	Achyranthes aspera 2C.
Belladonna 3C, Stramonium 3C, Hyoscyamus 3C.	Withania somnifera 2C.	Physostigma 2C, Trigonella 2C.
Tabacum 3C, Ephedra 3C.	Viscum album 2C.	***Allium sativa 2C.
Secale cor 3C.	Secale cor 3C.	Secale cor 3C.
Ginkgo biloba 3C.	Ginkgo biloba Q Ginseng Q	Ginkgo biloba 2C.
Cow ghee.	Cow ghee*	Buffalo ghee.
Source of  arsenicum          Sinapis alba, Sinapis nigra, Tabacum, Taraxacum,  Rice milk,  Chicken, Smoke of human hair (infrequently) .
Head injury, and space occupying lesion     Arnica hair oil, Podophyllum 2C, Rauwolfia 2C (Indian snake root).
Bleeding diathesis        Sulphuric acid, Salix nigra, China, Aloes socotrina.
Nutritional items         Alfalfa malt, Egg yolk (choline), Cheese, Banana, Walnut,  Pineapple, Animal soup, Protein powder. Metal (Yang) items          Aurum cyanide, Alfalfa, Grape. Supporting measures          Massage at tip of both thumb and great toes Medicine for Aphasia               Stramonium, Tabacum, Withania somnifera. Yohimbinum.