Apoplexy



Brain tight:eyelids and limbs heavy.

Great weight and tiredness, body and limbs.

Face purple. mottled. “The trembling remedy.”

Speech incoherent, stupid, forgetful.

Pulsatilla [Puls]

      Throbbing, pressive headache, worse pressure. (Better pressure, Bry).

Congestion of blood to head: stinging pulsation in brain, especially when stooping ( Bell).

Puls is worse from heat: craves fresh cool air.

Weeps. Craves sympathy.

Sulphur [Sulph]

      An old Homoeopathic doctor, who had recovered from several cerebral hemorrhages, used to say, “Mind first Arnica and then Sulphur, for apoplexy.” The Sulphur patient is lean, lank, hungry, dyspeptic.

Nux moschata [Nux-m]

      Stupor and insensibility. Comatose condition.

Apoplexy: A case: woman of 80. Comatose condition for nine weeks, after thrombosis. Coma increased till it was almost impossible to feed. her. Nux mosch. 200, promptly brought back consciousness; she went on to complete recovery-and lived another five years, in full possession of her senses.

Zincum [Zinc]

      Followed Nux mosch. in the above case, and seemed to quickly re- establish the reflexes,. and restore motion to the restore motion to the paralyzed limbs.

Kent says: “When reflexes are abolished then Zincum met. comes in.”.

Causticum [Caust]

      “Paralysis from apoplexy: not for immediate results, but for remote symptoms when, after absorption, paralysis persists on opposite side of body.”.

Baryta carb [Bar-c]

      Complaints both ends of life.

Especially adapted to apoplexy of old people, or tendency thereto. Mental and physical weakness. In persons addicted to alcohol.

Serous apoplexy, loss of speech, trembling limbs

Absent minded.

Has no clear perception.

(A tip–one doctor gives Diphtherinum for all paralytic cases).

Margaret Lucy Tyler
Margaret Lucy Tyler, 1875 – 1943, was an English homeopath who was a student of James Tyler Kent. She qualified in medicine in 1903 at the age of 44 and served on the staff of the London Homeopathic Hospital until her death forty years later. Margaret Tyler became one of the most influential homeopaths of all time. Margaret Tyler wrote - How Not to Practice Homeopathy, Homeopathic Drug Pictures, Repertorising with Sir John Weir, Pointers to some Hayfever remedies, Pointers to Common Remedies.