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Confusional States Homeopathy Remedy
Definition:
A state of cerebral confusion in the elderly (pre-senile dementia). Alzheimer's disease is a progressive degenerative disease of the cerebral cortex.
Causes:
Senile, degenerative, infective, confusion occurs when there is a high temperature, toxic or organic disease of the brain, a raised blood pressure or trauma may predispose or aggravate.
Symptoms:
Mental confusion. Amnesia. Behavioural disorders.
Treatment:
Baryta carbonica; Belladonna atropa; Cannabis indica; Opium; Stramonium.
Baryta carbonica: For the slowly progressive senile confusional states.
Belladonna atropa: Useful when the delusional state is associated with infection and a flushed face with a high temperature and a bounding pulse. Patients are usually extremely restless.
Cannabis indica: When there is a flight of ideas, delusions and confusional states.
Opium: Useful in mild states of confusion, often with a flushed face, headache, drowsiness and impending cerebral catastrophy.
Stramonium: Indicated if there is violence associated with confusion, restlessness, running about and inability to be at rest.