(Includes Cerebral Haemorrhage, Embolism and Thrombosis)
A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or
occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain. A
sudden effusion of blood into any organ or tissue can also be termed
apoplexy.
#Opium [Op]
The remedy undoubtedly most similar to the general symptoms of apoplexy
is opium. It has a dark red flushed face, and the darker the better
the indication. It has rattling stertorous breathing and unconsciousness,
with sometimes a tetanic rigidity of the body and paralysis. The
pulse is exceedingly slow and full, and there is drooping of the
lower jaw; apoplexy in drunkards suggests this remedy, Nux vomica
or Sepia. Marked venous congestion is a mores valuable symptom than
profoundness of stupor. Ferrum phosphoricum. Dr.E.G.Jones uses this
remedy in the 3x trituration in hot water when called during an
apoplectic seizure, stating that it will usually restore the patient
to consciousness in a short time and also control the haemorrhage.
Here Aconite may be a better remedy if the mental anxiety is very
prominent. Kali muriaticum. The same author uses this remedy to
absorb the exudate and believes that many lives may be saved by
its use.
#Arnica [Arn]
Is the remedy where there is soreness and aching all over the body,
paralysis, especially of left side, full, strong pulse and stertorous
breathing. Bed sores form rapidly. It is a remedy to prevent threatened
apoplexy. Often attacks of apoplexy can be prevented by restoring
the circulation to its equilibrium by means of such remedies as
Aconite, Belladonna, Glonoine and Arnica. Bayes attributes many
cases of apoplexy in old people to the habit of taking medicines
to keep their bowels open. This should lead us to treat carefully
the constipation,and here opium may perform a double action. Apoplexy
due to external violence calls for Arnica. It should be administered
after acute symptoms have subsided to promote absorption of the
clot, and here the 30th potency has acted very promptly. Dr.Wm.Morris
Butler believes that we haves in Arnica30 a sheet anchor for dissolving
blood clots in our own hands it has worked most favorably in a number
of cases.
#Belladonna [Bell]
Here we have red face, loss of consciousness, convulsive symptoms,
dilated pupils, difficult deglutition, involuntary emission of urine,
coma and sopor. Hyoscyamus is similar, patients fall suddenly with
a shriek and pass into a condition of sopor, with involuntary faeces.
Glonoine is indicated buy high arterial tension and co-existing
kidney disease. Severe and sudden congestion.
#Laurocerasus [Laur]
Hartmann claims that this is one of the most important remedies
in treating apoplexy when it occurs suddenly without prodrome; the
patient falls suddenly into a comatose state out of which he cannot
be aroused; palpitation of heart, cold moist skin, convulsions of
the muscles of the face are symptoms which should be present. The
ensuing paralyses due to cerebral haemorrhage call for Baryta carbonica
as the most useful medicine. |
