Dr J D Daryani MD (Hom.)

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What Homoeopathy Can Offer For
Geriatrics ?

• Dr J D Daryani MD (Hom.)
• Principal Medical Superintendent
• Dr. MPK Homoeopathic Medical College,
• Hospital Research Centre, JAIPUR (India)

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• Old age does not necessarily mean
• any earmark demarcation of
• chronological age,
• but an age from where
• the actual retrogressive changes
• both in body and mind commence

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• .While the ageing of the population is
  essentially a simple phenomenon, its
  consequences are multiple and not always
  well recognized.
• WHO
  report 548, 1974

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• There are mainly following complaints,
• where aged people need medical aid
• Anxiety
• Forgetfulness
• Depression
• Insomnia
• General debility
• Nervous disorders
• Vertigo Menieres disease
• Arteriosclerosis

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Common complaints contd

• Eye visual problems, cataract
• Osteoarthritis
• BPH
• Menopausal syndrome
• Senile pruritis

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• HOMOEOPATHY ENSURES THE
• COMPLETE CARE FOR GERIATRICS

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• BARYTA CARB.
• A remedy indicated,
• when degenerative changes occur
• in the old people begins in the
• brain and vascular system

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Bartya Carb. Contd

• There is a significant regression in the
• personality and behavior
• due to degenerative process

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Bartya Carb. Contd

• Dejected feeling
• Mental physical weakness
• Forgetfulness
• Anxiety
• Lack of self confidence
• Childish behavior
• Depression

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• AURUM MET.
• Useful in cases of
• sclerosis of the arteries
• especially of the brain in people
• who are low spirited weak memory

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Aurum met contd

• Hence, it is indicated in
• Dementia - vascular Alzheimers.
• Precipited due to bad effects of
• grief, fright, anger or contradiction

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Aurum met.contd

• It is also useful in
• depressive state of mind with
• reserved displeasure
• prolonged anxiety
• disgust of life.

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• G E N E R A L D E B I L I T Y

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General debility contd

• ALFALFA
• stimulates sympathetic system
• improves appetite and digestion
• resulting - improvement in
• mental and physical status

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General debility contd

• Alfalfa also corrects tissue waste

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General debility contd

• GINKGO BILOBA
• works as a circulatory stimulant
• causes relaxation of blood vessels
• improves the contractile action
• of the abnormally relaxed vessels
• by increasing their tone

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General debility contd

• Ginkgo Biloba -
• improves circulation
• improves memory
• useful in cases of senile dementia
• vascular dementia and
• Alzheimers disease etc.,

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KALI PHOS.
General debility contd

• A nervine tonic,
• useful in neurasthenia,
• extreme lassitude depression,
• anxiety,
• sleeplessness,
• weak memory

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ACID PHOS.
General debility contd

• A remedy for nervous exhaustion
• mental debility appears first
• followed by physical debility
• resulting from
• - Acute illness
• - Grief
• - Loss of vital
  fluids

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MUSCULO SKELETAL SYSTEM
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Musculo skeletal system contd

• CALCARIA PHOS.
• Increasing Bone density
• Helps in callus formation or
• unification of bones

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Musculo skeletal system contd

• CALCAREA FLOUR.
• It reduces osseous growths and enlargement of
  bone
• with or without caries,
• Therefore, a wonderful medicine
• for osteoarthritis
• reduces the pain and osteophytes
•  

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• V E R T I G O

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Vertigo contd

• CONIUM MAC.
• Vertigo - postural
• Especially on lying down
• turning head sidewise

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Vertigo contd

• PHOSPHORUS
• Vertigo - postural
• especially after rising

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• MENIERES DISEASE

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Menieres disease contd

• Commonly used medicines
• Phosphorus
• Chininum Sulph.
• Natrum Salicylicum
• Salicylicum Acidum

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• PROSTATIC TROUBLES / BPH

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Prostatic Troubles / BPH contd

• Frequent urination
• Difficult urination interrupt flow
• Dribbling
• Cystitis from prostate hypertrophy
• Sub-acute and chronic prostatitis

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Prostatic Troubles / BPH contd

• Commonly used medicines
• Conium Meculatum
• Sabal Serrulata

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• E Y E C O M P L A I N T S

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CINERARIA MARITIMA

• Effective in prevention and
• treatment of cataract

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• S E N I L E P R U R I T I S

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Senile Pruritis contd

• Commonly used medicines
• Dolichos Puriens
• Fagopyrum Esculentum

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• MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME

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Menopausal syndrome contd

• Hot flushes
• Night sweats
• Palpitations
• Emotional instability
• Sadness
• Depressed
• Irritability
• Pigmentation of skin

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Menopausal syndrome contd

• Commonly used medicines
• Lachesis
• Sepia
• Sulphur

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THANKS