Homoeopathic Therapeutics for Elderly

Agaricus (Paralysis) -

sense of languor as if the body were bruised and the joints dislocated; sense of weariness and weakness all down the spine; paralysis of lower limbs, with slight spasms of arms; palsy of upper and lower limbs from incipient softening of spinal cord; paraplegia from congestion of lumbar cord; violent pains in all paralyzed parts; pain in lumbar region and sacrum, agg. while sitting or during exertion in daytime; formication in upper and lower limbs as if gone to sleep; limbs cold, blue; crosswise affections. senile tremor.

Allium cepa -

gangrena senilis, woman, aged 80 (externally as a salve).

Allium cepa -

woman, aged 80; senile gangrene.

Allium cepa (Ulcers) -

ulcer on heel from friction; gangraena senilis.

Ambra (Asthma) -

asthma senile et siccum; also suitable to children and scrofulous persons, with short, oppressed breathing, paroxysms of spasmodic cough, with expectoration of mucus, wheezing in the air-passages and pressure in the chest, followed by eructations of wind from stomach; asthma accompanied by cardiac symptoms, oppression of breathing and a feeling as of a load or lump in left chest and fluttering in the region of the heart, or palpitations, especially in nervous, thin, scrawny women; oppression in left chest through to the back and between the shoulders, as if emanating from the heart, with palpitations, anguish and loss of breath; asthma while attempting coition

Ambra grisea -

tearing pain in upper half of brain. senile dizziness.

Anacardium orientale -

senile dementia.

Ant-tart (Asthma) -

asthma senile; asthma of children; anxious oppression, difficulty of breathing and shortness of breath, with desire to sit erect; oppression and suffocative fits, coming on suddenly, agg. evening, morning, in bed; mucus and rattling in chest; suffocative cough or congestion of blood to chest and palpitation of heart; gasping inhalation, feeling of fulness and contraction of chest; the cough after having lasted some time becomes loose and relieves the contraction of chest.

Ars-alb. (Asthma) -

periodical asthma; asthma of senility, after suppressed coryza and coexistence of emphysema and cardiac affections; loss of breath immediately on lying down, in the evening, with whistling and constriction in the trachea, agg. from motion; must incline chest forward, must spring out of bed, especially about midnight, in order to breathe; chest feels as if too narrow; throat and chest feel as if bound together; increasing dyspnoea with despair and anxious sweat all over; asthma from fatigue, from emotions, from suppressed itch; agg. after coughing, with sensation of contraction of chest and stomach, abating as soon as he raises frothy saliva, thick mucus or streaked with blood; amel. from warmth, warm food, agg. from cold things.

Ars-alb. (Gangrene) -

senile gangrene; ulcers extremely painful or entirely insensible, with elevated edges, secreting a bad, watery foetid ichor; hard, shining, burning swelling with bluish-black, burning vesicles, filled with acrid ichor, amel. from warmth, agg. from cold; extreme restlessness; gangrene accompanied by foetid diarrhoea; great weakness and emaciation; numbness, stiffness and insensibility of the feet; general coldness with parchment-like dryness of the skin, followed by heat.

Ars-alb. (Pruritus) -

itching with burning or an eruption emitting watery fluid like sweat and attended with much constitutional weakness; chronic cases; senile pruritus in broken-down constitutions, agg. from cold applications, amel. from warmth; itching of genital organs.

Ars-alb. -

gangrena senilis sicca, with coldness, desire for more covering; > from warmth.

Arsenicum iodatum -

arteriosclerosis, myocardial degeneration and senile heart.

Arsenicum iodatum -

senile heart, myocarditis and fatty degeneration.

Asparagus off (Dropsy) -

old people with heart disease; weak action of heart; when urinating the last drops, constricting pain in cardiac region, turns blue in face, urine has an unpleasant odor; must sit up in bed to relieve dyspnoea. hydrothorax in senility on a gouty diathesis.

Bar-c. (Debility) -

suits first childhood and senility (old age) with mental or physical debility; old people, especially when fat or when they suffered from gout; constantly weak and weary, wishes to lean on something, to sit or lie down, and still feels weak and weary; deficient memory, absent-mindedness.

Baryta carb -

emaciation senilis

Baryta carb (Asthma) -

asthma senile (after ant. tart.); suffocative catarrh of fleshy old people, with impending paralysis of lungs; cough and shortness of breath in old phlegmatic persons; night cough with asthmatic breathing, chest full of phlegm, want of clear consciousness; whining mood; circumscribed redness of cheeks; immovable pupils; cold hands and feet. asthma of scrofulous children, with enlargement of tonsils and cervical glands; light hair; agg. from wet weather, warm air, and followed by frequent and copious urination.

Baryta carb (Insanity) -

senile dementia, mental and physical debility; mental weakness and timidity of dwarfish children with undeveloped brain, who learn with difficulty because they cannot remember; forgetful, in the midst of a speech the most familiar words fail him; loss of memory, especially for recent events, groaning and murmuring, pusillanimous; peculiar dread of men, imagines she is laughed at, which frightens her; full of anxiety and evil forebodings about the most trivial affairs; no self-confidence, fears to undertake anything; full of delusions, thinks his legs are cut off, and that he walks on his knees; aversion to strangers, fear of and in the presence of others

Baryta carbonica -

affects glandular structures, and useful in general degenerative changes, especially in coats of arteries, aneurism, and senility.

Baryta carbonica -

senile dementia.

Baryta muriatica -

arterio-sclerosis of the lung, thus in senile asthma, modifies the arterial tension.

Benzoic acid (Heart, diseases of) -

gout or rheumatism affecting the heart and nodular swellings in the joints; pains change place incessantly, but are more constant about heart; awakens after midnight with violent palpitation of heart and temporal arteries; at times tearing rheumatic pains in extremities relieve the heart; palpitation and trembling while sitting, agg. after drinking, at night; undulating or intermitting beats of heart; dysuria senilis; urine dark and of an offensive odor.

Benzoic acid (Kidney/bladder stone) -

nephritic colic; morbid condition of urine in persons with calculous or gouty diathesis; urine containing urates of ammonia and having a strong ammoniacal smell. dysuria senilis from irritability of the bladder and muco-purulent discharge.

Benzoic acid (Prostate gland, diseases of) -

enlargement of prostata; sensibility of bladder with muco-purulent discharge; dysuria senilis; weak loins, when the gravel is trifling; urine of a repulsive odor; formication at anus.

Benzoic acid (Urinary difficulties) -

vesicular catarrh; irritability of the bladder; nocturnal enuresis in children; too frequent desire to evacuate the bladder, urine being normal; decrease of the quantity of urine, which is thick and bloody; urine has strong odor like that of horses and contains excess of hippuric acid (nitr. ac.); urine brownish, cloudy, alkaline or dark-reddish, high specific gravity and acid reaction, sometimes of a putrid, cadaverous smell; morbid condition of urine, as in persons with calculous or gouty diathesis; dysuria senilis, when gravel is trifling and the irritable state of bladder and pains are induced by other causes, with too frequent desire to urinate, though urine appears normal.

Bufo rana -

prematurely senile.

Carbo veg -

gangrene: humid; senile; in cachectic persons; when vital powers have become weakened; great foulness of secretions; great prostration. - sepsis; indifference; fainting after sleep, while yet in bed, morning; no restlessness. - moist skin; hot perspiration; senile gangrene beginning in toes; bed sores; bleed easily.

Cataract (Cataract) -

bar., bell., calc., calc. fluor., cann. sat., caust., chel., colch., con., dig., lyc., magn., magn. mur., natr. m., phos., ruta, seneg., sep., sil., spig., stram., sulph.; for traumatic cataract: amm., arn., con., cupr., puls., ruta, caust., calc. carb. or fluor.; for stony cataract in arthritic patients: phos.; for granular (fatty) cataract with arcus senilis: phos., sil.; in the cataracts of young persons: caust.; constant inclination to touch and rub the eye, in order to relieve pressure: lyc.; after typhoids or suppression of menses, disorders of nutrition in the deep-seated structures of the eyes: sep.; when dependent upon uterine disorders and climaxis or hepatic affections: sil. (epithelial hyperplasia); from suppression of habitual foot-sweats, disordered nutrition and after inflammation of eyes: sulph.; from right to left, after skin affections which were suppressed (psor.), or from general perversion of health: colch.; for rapidly forming capsular cataracts: caust., plumb.; for reticulated cataract.-compare: burnett, curability of cataract.

Causticum -

broken down seniles.

Cocainum hydrochloricum -

chorea; paralysis agitans; alcoholic tremors and senile trembling.

Conium (Apoplexy) -

the senile women's remedy; numbness, with sensation of coldness on one side of head; headache, as if head were too full and would burst, morning when awaking; hemiplegia, sweat as soon as he falls asleep and even with the closing of the eyes.

Conium (Asthma) -

asthma senile; scrofulosis with enlarged and indurated glands; dry, nightly, tickling cough; evening dyspnoea, agg. in wet weather, in the morning when awaking; want of breath from slight exercise; copious mucous expectoration with the cough.

Conium (Insanity) -

senile dementia, ailments of old maids and widows from ungratified sexual desire; folie circulaire, alternate excitement and depression; cannot endure any kind of excitement, it brings on physical and mental depression, weakness; inability to sustain any mental effort, excessive difficulty to recollect things, especially dates; desire for solitude and unsympathizing insensibility from indolence; aversion to company and yet averse to being alone, is inclined to abuse company, scolds and will not bear contradiction; chilliness, frequent spasmodic motions; weak sexual power and frequent pollutions; anaemia of brain.

Conium (Sexual complaints) -

premature senility; atrophy of testicles, bad effects from suppressed sexual desire or from excessive indulgence; painful seminal emission instead of the normal pleasurable thrill; sexual desire without erection or with an insufficient one; pollutions, with subsequent excitement of the sexual desire, even when merely dallying with women; discharge of prostatic juice during every motion, without lascivious thoughts.

Crotalus hor (Insanity) -

incipient stage of senile dementia; mental delusions, such as mistakes in keeping accounts or writing letters, forgetfulness in figures, names and places; awaking at night struggling with imaginary foes; thinks he is the prey of enemies or of hideous animals; dislike to members of his own family; marked indifference and apathy, seems only half alive; fits of drowsiness or coma; apoplexy in broken-down constitutions or inebriates.

Crotalus hor (Melancholia) -

timidity, fear, anxiety; weeping or snappish temper, cross; irritable, infuriated by the least annoyance; sadness; her thoughts dwell on death continually; twitching and nervous agitation; lethargy, loss of co-ordination; incipient stage of senile dementia.

Crotalus hor. -

hd., aged 69, during incipient stage of senile dementia, delusions, etc. - mental delusions, such as mistakes in keeping his accounts and in writing letters, forgetfulness of figures, names and places; awaking in the night struggling with imaginary foes; imagines himself surrounded by enemies or hideous animals; taking antipathies to members of family. ---incipient stage of senile dementia.

Cuprum-met. -

gangrena senilis of foot in a man.

Digitalis (Pneumonia) -

pneumonia senilis, the heart's action failing; respiration irregular and performed by frequent deep sighs; respiratory murmur feeble; cough agg. about midnight or towards morning, from talking, drinking anything cold, bending body forward; passive congestion of lungs, depending on a weakened, dilated heart; cough with profuse, loose, purulent sputa or of a sweetish taste, sometimes with a little dark blood; passive hyperaemia of brain, which feels fatigued and weak.

Digitalis (Prostate gland, diseases of) -

senile hypertrophy of prostate, cardiac symptoms marked; dribbling discharge of urine and continued fulness after micturition or fruitless effort to urinate; throbbing pain in region of neck of bladder during the straining efforts to pass water; increased desire to urinate after a few drops have passed, causing the old man to walk about in distress, though motion increases desire to urinate; frequent desire to defaecate at the same time; very small, soft stool passed without relief; urine pale, slightly cloudy, looking smoky.

Digitalis -

senile pneumonia.

Dolichos -

senile pruritus.

Drosera. -

the attacks of cough are of a spastic character, depending on irritation of the vagus, and affect the bronchi; whooping cough, bronchial catarrh, bronchitis in senility, emphysema and bronchiectasis.

Euphorbium (Gangrene) -

gangrene following gastritis or enteritis, temperature continually falling; inflammation and swelling, followed by cold gangrene; great torpor; insensibility of parts affected; chilliness and shuddering over whole body; gangraena senilis.

Fagopyrum -

pruritus senilis.

Ferr-met (Pneumonia) -

pneumonia senilis; laxity of fibre; pulse soft and quick, or slow and easily compressible; dyspnoea slowly increasing; bloody expectoration; epidemic pneumonia, dyspnoea gradually increasing, no pressure under sternum; pale, stupid face; roof of mouth white; skin neither burning nor cold and damp; pulse never hard and full.

Ferrum pic. -

senile hypertrophy of the prostate. epistaxis.

Hyoscyamus (Pneumonia) -

pneumonia, with cerebral symptoms, delirium, sopor; dry, fatiguing night cough, or rattling in chest; pneumonia complicated with typhoids; hypostatic pneumonia in the course of other chronic affections; pneumonia senilis, with acute oedema of lungs; pneumonia of drunkards.

Ichthyolum -

rectal suppositories for senile prostate.

Ictodes -

spasmodic asthma; senile catarrh.

Iodum (Uraemia) -

uraemia from senile hypertrophy and induration of prostata; urine dark, thick, ammoniacal; chronic congestive headache in old people.

Jaborandi -

contra-indicated in heart failure, and in post-puerperal uraemia, and in senile cases.

Kreosotum -

senile gangrene.

Lachesis -

senile erysipelas. - senile gangrene.

Lobelia inflata -

senile emphysema.

Lycopodium (Bronchitis chronica) -

distressing, fatiguing, tickling cough, agg. afternoon, and evening, and on going to sleep and in the morning; chronic bronchitis, with copious muco-serous or muco-purulent sputa; congestion of liver, flatulency, constipation, cachectic complexion, red gravel, acid dyspepsia; dry cough, day and night, in feeble emaciated boys (florid scrofula); emphysema, dilation of air-tubes and senile catarrh; respiration short before and during cough, ending with loud belching; salty expectoration; emaciation of upper part of body; great fear of solitude.

Mezereum. -

man, aged 74, weak and dyspeptic, a subject of emaciation senilis; pruritus senilis.

Moschus -

premature senility.

Opium (Pneumonia) -

infantile pneumonia, where the pulmonary inflammation is disguised by symptoms of cerebral congestion and oppression; cyanotic color of the upper part of body, with slow, stertorous respiration; pneumonia senilis et potatorum, with similar symptoms; difficult intermitting breathing, as from paralysis of lungs; blood thick, frothy, mixed with mucus; great oppression, burning about heart, tremor, feeble voice; anxious sleep, with starts; chest hot; hot perspiration all over body, except lower limbs; sudamina; bed feels too hot.

Phosphoric acid (Gangrene) -

senile gangrene. - external parts become black.

Phosphorus (Headache) -

irritable weakness of nervous system; exceeding susceptibility to external impressions, can bear neither light, sounds nor odors; pulsating, throbbing headache, agg. from music; brain-fag from mental overwork and constant strain of eyes; sudden shooting pains in head, especially vertex, agg. walking fast, when lying down, amel. fresh air; cold, crampy pain on whole left side of head; sensation of coldness in cerebellum, with sensation of stiffness in the brain; weight and throbbing in forehead on walking, agg. on stooping, amel. by cold washing; hot vertex after grief; senile cerebral atrophy; softening of brain with persistent headache, slow answering questions, vertigo, feet drag, formication and numbness of limbs; in washerwomen fear of washing, as it causes rush of blood to head, red face and eyes, heat in head; weakness of memory and difficulty of thinking; accumulation of much saliva during headache, agg. by thinking, warmth and excitement, amel. by repose, cold and open air, cold washing; bald spots here and there on scalp.

Phosphorus (Headache) -

washerwomen's headache; senile cerebral atrophy; brain-fag from mental overwork and constant strain of eyes; salivation with headache (epiph.).

Pulsatilla (Pruritus) -

itching and burning on inner and upper side of prepuce; itching, agg. at night, from pastry or pork, from delayed menses, amel. from cold water. pruritus senilis.

Rhus aromatica -

enuresis due to vesical atony; senile incontinence.

Rhus tox (Vertigo, dizziness) -

violent vertigo when lying down, with fear that he would die; vertigo, everything turned with her, especially when standing or walking, when sitting, when lying; giddy when walking, as if she would fall forward or backward; when walking, dizziness so that he scarcely sees the men standing before him; vertigo after walking or stooping; swashing feeling in brain when moving about; heavy feeling in legs; senile changes in brain.

Secale -

woman, aged 80; senile gangrene.

Secale (Insanity) -

paralytic mental state; insanity with inclination to bite, with inclination to drown himself; impaired power of thinking; apathy and indifference; treats his family with contempt and sarcasm; wandering talk and hallucinations; great anguish, wild with anxiety; senile dementia, senile gangrene

Secale cornutum -

incipient cataract, senile especially in women.

Strophanthus -

senile vertigo.

Tarentula cubensis -

"senile" ulcers.

Thlaspi bursa pastoris (Urinary difficulties) -

haematuria; dysuria and strangury, amel. after passing a quantity of renal sand; urine turbid, with deep-red sediment (needs proving); dysuria senilis.

Tuberculinum bovinum kent -

as the surgeon before the anaesthetic, so must the physician know the heart before administering this drug, especially to children and seniles-and to young seniles.

Vipera (Dyspepsia, weakness of stomach) -

nausea, vomiting, with vertigo and dyspnoea, syncope, jaundice, colliquative diarrhoea, palpitations; numbness and general lassitude; dyspepsia of old people, or of persons prematurely senile, suffering from spasmodic affections of throat and chest; periodical attacks of dyspepsia.

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PRESENILITY

Bufo rana -

prematurely senile.

Vipera (Dyspepsia, weakness of stomach) -

nausea, vomiting, with vertigo and dyspnoea, syncope, jaundice, colliquative diarrhoea, palpitations; numbness and general lassitude; dyspepsia of old people, or of persons prematurely senile, suffering from spasmodic affections of throat and chest; periodical attacks of dyspepsia.