Brief Description on EpilepsyBrief Description on Epilepsy• A disorder characterized by excessive
hyper synchronous discharge of impulses from the cerebral neurons
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
IMBALANCE
EXCITATORY TRANSMITTORS INHIBITORY TRANSMITTORS
EPILEPSY
• CAUSES:
Idiopathic1.Increased intracranial
pressure2.Infections3.Trauma4.Cerebrovascular
disease5.Congenital
abnormalities6.Degenerations7.Anoxia8.Exogenous &
endogenous toxins
• PRECIPITATING FACTORS
o Paino Emotional disturbanceo Shocko Noise, music,
flickering lighto Sleep deprivation, o Starvationo Extreme fatigueo Premenstrual stateo Fevero Alcoholo Drugs
TONIC CLONIC
CLASSIFICATION
PARTIAL
GENERALIZED
UNCLASSIFIED
STATUSEPILEPTICUS
SECONDARY
PRIMARY
EPILEPSY
SIMPLE
COMPLEX
MOTOR
PSYCHOMOTOR
VERSIVE
SENSORY
VISUAL
CLASSICAL ABSENCE
ATYPICAL ABSENCE
• Epilepsy from suppressed Eruptions -ASTERIAS [PSOR, SULPH, AGAR]
• Epilepsies, from valvular diseases of the heart- CALC-ARS
• Epilepsy at puberty, during establishment of menstrual functions
–CAULOPHYLUM [ACTAEA]• Epilepsy, or Petit mal, after head injuries
–NATRUM SULPH• Epilepsy from worms
–INDIGO & CINA• Convulsions: acute, sudden, severe. prevail over trembling.
Epilepsy: petit or grand mal aggravated night of stone cutters
–CURARE
• Convulsions from teething in children, heat & jerks with twitches of single muscles
-ACONITE• Epileptic spasms with clenched thumbs, red face,
eyes turned downwards, pupils fixed, foaming in mouth
–AETHUSA• Epileptic spasms while awake, ceases during sleep
–AGARICUS• Convulsions in children from nursing, after a fit of
anger in mother –CHAMOMILLA. [NUX-VOM]
• Convulsions in children from nursing, after a fright in mother
– OPIUM
• Convulsions without consciousness –BELL, CIC, HYOS, OP
• Convulsions during dentition with pale face, no heat, except perhaps in occiput, no increase in temperature
–ZINC.MET• Convulsions from teething in children without fever
–MAG.PHOS• Convulsions from teething in children with fever
–BELL• Convulsions with consciousness < emotion, touch,
moving – NUX.VOM
[STRYCH]• Clonic, tonic spasms or epileptiform convulsions
from cerebral sclerosis or tumour –PLUMB
• Convulsions from dazzling or reflected light from water or mirror; from even thinking of fluids of any kind or from slightest touch or current of air
–LYSSIN• Convulsions with extreme coldness of the body,
except head or occiput which may be hot –
HELLEBORUS [ARN]• Is possibly the best remedy, but always seek
basic causes. Worms and parasites are a frequent cause; also marked endocrine imbalance and contraction in vital organs
- PILOCARPUS
WITH AURAo Kali bromo Cup meto Cup aceto Calc arso Cimico Amm
bromo Bufo ranao Nicotinumo Siliceao Ononis
WITHOUT AURAo Zinc valo Artem vulgo Oenan croco Plumb meto Aster rub
GRANDMALo Kalibromo Bufoo Merco Solanum carolo Hydrocyan
acid
PETIT MALo Artem
Vulgo Visc albo Zinc cyano Nat silo Mag silo Sil meto Kali Silo Ferrum silo Causto Phospho Cic viro Silicea
CUPRUM METALLICUMCUPRUM METALLICUM
• Aura begins at knees, ascends to hypogastrium; then unconsciousness, foaming, and falling.
• Spasmodic affections, cramps, convulsions, violent, contractive, and intermittent pain, are some of the more marked expressions of the action of Cuprum;
• Its curative range therefore includes tonic and clonic spasms, convulsions, and epileptic attacks.
• Chorea brought on by fright. • Nausea greater than in any other remedy. • Face.-Distorted, pale bluish, with blue lips.
Contraction of jaws, with foam at mouth.
SILICEA TERRASILICEA TERRA• The aura starts from the solar plexus, as in Bufo and
Nux vom.• Nocturnal epilepsy, feeling of coldness before an
attack and the fit is followed by warm perspiration• The attacks occur about the time of the new moon
Bufo ranaBufo rana• Epilepsy arising from fright, or self-abuse, or sexual
excesses• The aura starts from the genital organs, solar
plexus, even during coitus the patient may be seized with violent convulsions
• Previous to attacks, the patient is very irritable, often talks incoherently and is easily angered
Indigo• Has epileptiform convulsions from the irritation of
worms, but the patient must be low-spirited and sad• It is the bluest medicine in the Materia Medica
Cicuta virosaCicuta virosa• Sudden rigidity followed by jerks and violent distortions, and
these followed by utter prostration• Loss of consciousness, great oppression of breathing • lockjaw, face dark red, frothing at the mouth and
opisthotonos• Fixed staring eyes; others are trembling before and after the
spasm and strange feeling in the head preceding the attack.
Artemisia vulgarisArtemisia vulgaris• Convulsive diseases of childhood and girls at puberty.• Petit mal. Epilepsy without aura• After fright and other violent emotions and after
masturbation. • Several convulsions close together. Colored light produces
dizziness
ABSINTHIUMABSINTHIUM• Nervous tremors precede attacks. • Sudden and severe giddiness, delirium with
hallucinations and loss of consciousness. • Nervous excitement and sleeplessness. • Cerebral irritation, hysterical and infantile spasms
come within range of this remedy. • Poisoning by mushrooms. Nervousness, excitement,
and sleeplessness in children. Spasmodic facial twitching
OENANTHE CROCATAOENANTHE CROCATA• Epileptiform convulsions; worse, during menstruation
and pregnancy. Puerperal eclampsia; uraemic convulsions. Convulsive facial twitching.
• Countenance livid, eyes fixed, pupils dilated, convulsive twitching of facial muscles, trismus, foaming at mouth, locked jaws.
• Extremities - Convulsions; opisthotonos. Cold hands and feet. Numbness of hand and foot.
HYDROCYANICUM ACIDUMHYDROCYANICUM ACIDUM• One of the most toxic agents known. Convulsions
and paralysis express the action of this remedy. • Spasmodic constriction in larynx, feeling of
suffocation, pain and tightness in chest• Palpitation; pulse weak, irregular. • Hysterical and epileptic convulsions. Cyanosis.• Collapse, due to some pulmonary condition not a
cardiac collapse.• Catalepsy. Cholera. Stage of collapse. [Ars.;
Verat.]• Coldness. Tetanus narcolepsy.
KALI BROM• A palliative in true epilepsy• Congenital epilepsy, syphilitic, tubercular• A day or two before menses, new moon• Headache follows attack
Hyoscyamus• There is much twitching and jerking and hunger
previous to the attack• Frothing at the mouth and biting of the tongue.• The convulsions seem to have more of a
hysterical nature and there are illusions of sight and hearing
• Epilepsy from fright, sudden loss of consciousness and jerking of the head to the right, with rotary motion of the left arm
Kali cyan• Most frightful epilepsy repeated several times,
the day after an attack. Motionless (soon). Sphincters paralyzed. Lazy and sleepy, and disinclined to work, in the morning
SOLANUM CAROLINENSESOLANUM CAROLINENSE
•convulsions and epilepsy•Is of great value in grand mal of idiopathic type, where the disease has begun beyond age of childhood;•Hystero-epilepsy
EPILEPSYPilocarpus 30, Absinth. 30, Cicuta 30, Passiflora 30, Ol. Cade 30, Lobelia E. 30, Arg. N. 30, Fucus 30, K.Brom. 30, Cuprum 30. K.P. 30, M.P. 30. P. 3,P. 49, P. 59