Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a progressive brain disease. Over time it causes parts of the brain to deteriorate and stop working. Depending on where it starts in the brain, this condition affects behavior or ability to speak and understand others.

in other words…

Frontotemporal dementia refers to a group of diseases that involve the deterioration of the brain’s frontal and temporal lobes. As those areas deteriorate, patient lose the abilities those parts controlled commonly control of their behavior or ability to speak and understand spoken language.

Frontotemporal dementia happens unpredictably, so there’s no way to prevent it.

Patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can fall under one of the three common symptom groups. Two of these are subtypes of primary progressive aphasia (PPA).

Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a degenerative brain disease. Despite its name, it’s very different from the condition/symptom aphasia from conditions like stroke, which affects our ability to speak or understand spoken language. The three common symptom groups are:

• Behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD).
• Semantic-variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA).
• Nonfluent/agrammatic primary progressive aphasia (nfvPPA).

Additionally, FTD-related symptoms can occur with these conditions:

• FTD–ALS. When frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is noted along with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
• Parkinsonian-like FTD syndromes. Parkinson’s disease along with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and corticobasal degeneration.

Who does it affect?

Frontotemporal dementia is an age-related condition, but it happens sooner than most age-related conditions that affect our brain. Most people develop frontotemporal dementia (FTD) conditions between the ages of 50 and 80, and the average age when it starts is 58.

Overall, frontotemporal dementia (FTD) appears to affect males and females equally. However, the three conditions under frontotemporal dementia (FTD) don’t affect people assigned male at birth and people assigned female at birth equally. Males are more likely to develop bvFTD and svPPA, and females are more likely to develop nfvPP and corticobasal degeneration.

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD)is also a condition that can run in families, with about 40% of cases happening in people with a family history of frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

Effects frontotemporal dementia (FTD) on body

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) affects your brain’s frontal and temporal lobes in the early and middle stages of the disease. As frontotemporal dementia (FTD) affects those lobes, patient lose certain abilities because neurons in those areas stop working.

Your frontal lobe, located right behind our forehead, is responsible for the following:

• Movement.
• Planning and decision-making.
• Judgment and reasoning.
• Social skills.
• Spoken language.
• Knowing what’s appropriate and inappropriate.
• Self-control over what do you do and what to say.

Our temporal lobes are on the sides of our brain, immediately below and behind our frontal lobe. It handles the following:

• Hearing.
• Understanding spoken language.
• Memory.
• Emotional expression and processing.

Symptoms

The symptoms of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) depend on the affected parts of the brain. Even among identical twins, no two brains are the same, so frontotemporal dementia (FTD) affects everyone differently. Many of the symptoms are similar, but they often happen in different combinations, or they might be more or less severe.

The symptoms of behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) fall under six categories:

• Loss of inhibitions.
• Apathy.
• Loss of empathy.
• Compulsive behaviors.
• Changes in diet or mouth-centered behaviors.
• Loss of executive function.

Loss of inhibitions

Inhibition is when our brain tells us not to do something. Losing our inhibitions because of frontal lobe deterioration can look like any of the following:

• Loss of the “filter” for what we say. When this happens, we might say hurtful, rude or offensive things. For some people, this can seem like a major personality shift.
• Lack of respect for others. This often involves getting too close to people (ignoring their personal space) or touching them in unwelcome ways. Inappropriate sexual comments or actions are also common.
• Impulsive actions and behaviors. These are usually risky behaviors, such as reckless gambling or spending. Criminal behaviors like shoplifting are also possible.

Apathy

Doctors commonly mistake apathy for depression because the two have many similarities. Apathy tends to look like the following:

• Loss of motivation.
• Social isolation.
• Decline in self-care and hygiene.

Loss of empathy

People who have a loss of empathy (sometimes known as “emotional blunting”) may have trouble reading the emotions of others. That may look like they’re behaving in a cold, unfeeling or uncaring way.

Compulsive behaviors

People with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) often behave in noticeably different ways from people without this condition. Sometimes, behavior changes are small and happen in very limited ways. For others, the changes might be more complicated, involving multiple steps or a strict routine. For example:

• Repetitive motions. People with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) often repeat small-scale movements, such as clapping their hands, tapping their feet, pacing, etc.
• Complex or ritual-like behaviors. Compulsively watching the same movies, reading the same books or collecting types of items. Hoarding items also falls under this category.
• Speech repetition. A person with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) may repeat the same sounds, words or phrases.

Changes in diet or mouth-centered behaviors

People with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) often have a symptom known as “hyperorality,” which means they overeat, eat things that aren’t food (this is a condition known as pica), or have mouth-centered compulsive behaviors (like smoking or using their mouth to feel things in a way similar to normal exploring behavior in babies).

Loss of executive function without losing other abilities

Executive function is our ability to plan and solve problems, stay organized and motivate ourselves to carry out tasks. People with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) have trouble with executive function, but other abilities like how he/she processes what he/she sees, and their memory aren’t affected until later stages of the disease.

Primary progressive aphasia

There are three main subtypes of primary progressive aphasia (PPA), two of which can happen with frontotemporal dementia (FTD):

• Nonfluent variant (nfvPPA). This type involves problems with grammar and forming words. Individual words and simple sentences are understandable, but complicated sentences could cause confusion.
• Semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA). This type involves problems with choosing and understanding words. People with this often say things that don’t make sense or can’t understand what other people are saying.

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a degenerative brain disease. That means that the effects on the brain get worse over time. Memory loss isn’t usually a problem until later in the disease, but other symptoms and effects are likely. Depending on the type of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) patient have, Patient’ll likely lose one of the following:

• Control over behavior.
• Ability to speak.
• Ability to understand others when they speak.

Patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) commonly also develop a problem known as anosognosia (this means “lack of insight”) and it causes a problem with how our brain processes symptoms or evidence that a person have a medical condition. That means the patient lose the ability to tell that he/she have a medical condition and to understand what this means for patient in the long run.

Because this condition gradually affects patient’s ability to control his/her actions or communicate, most patients who have it eventually can’t live independently, commonly they need 24/7 skilled medical care, such as in a skilled nursing facility or long-term care setting.

Causes of frontotemporal dementia

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) happens when neurons, a key type of brain cell, deteriorate. This usually happens when there’s a malfunction in how our body creates certain proteins. A key part of how proteins work is their shape. Much like how a key won’t turn or open a lock if it’s not the right shape, our cells can’t use proteins when they’re not the right shape. Our cells often can’t break those faulty proteins down and get rid of them.

With nowhere to go, those misshapen proteins can tangle and clump together. Over time, these faulty proteins accumulate in and around our neurons, damaging those cells until they don’t work at all. Experts have linked misfolded proteins with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and its related conditions, such as Pick’s disease. Misfolded proteins also play a role in conditions like Alzheimer’s disease.

These protein malfunctions happen with certain DNA mutations. Some DNA mutations run in families, which is why about 40% of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) cases involve a family history of the disease. Mutations can also happen spontaneously, meaning a person developed the mutation and didn’t get it from his/her parents.

Two other factors can increase the risk of developing frontotemporal dementia (FTD). One is having a history of head trauma, which more than triples your risk of developing frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Thyroid disease is also linked, making frontotemporal dementia (FTD) 2.5 times more likely to develop.

Diagnosis and Tests

A neurologist can diagnose frontotemporal dementia (FTD) based on patient’s medical history, neurocognitive assessment and a physical and neurological examination. Lab tests and imaging tests are important because they can show areas of patient’s brain where deterioration is happening.

In neurocognitive assessment test, patient do tasks or answer questions. Based on how he/she do on the test, doctor can identify whether or not patient have problems in certain areas of the brain, which can help narrow down (or rule out) whether or not he/she have frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

The most likely tests for frontotemporal dementia (FTD) include:

• Computerized tomography (CT) scans.
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.
• Positron emission tomography (PET) scan.
• Lumbar puncture (spinal tap).
• Blood tests.
• Electroencephalography (less common).

Allopathic treatment for Frontotemporal Dementia

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is not curable in allopathic medical sciences, and there’s no way to allopathically treat it directly even it’s impossible to slow the progress of the disease.

Allopathic doctors may recommend treating some of the symptoms, this treatment can vary from case to case.

Homeopathic treatment for Frontotemporal Dementia

Depending upon the cause, complete or almost complete recovery is surely possible with Homeopathic treatment. With the right therapy and the help of compassionate family and friends, a person with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can lead to a complete or 98% health and can live a happy and normal life.

Never do experiments on your patients/loved ones. 

Here are very few of medicine that are in my (Dr. Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS) opinion are best for frontotemporal dementia (FTD) patients.

1. Phosphorus:

Paralysis, Restless, fidgety. Hypo-sensitive, Vertigo, Heat from spine, Neuralgia, Burning pains. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Chronic congestion of head; Brain-fag, Hippocratic face readings, ascending sensory and motor paralysis from ends of fingers and toes, Weakness and trembling, from every exertion. Locked-in syndrome. Arms and hands become numb, post-diphtheritic paralysis. Fatigue of eyes and head even without much use of eyes. Hearing difficult, especially to human voice. Re-echoing of sounds. Pale, sickly complexion; blue rings under eyes. Hippocratic countenance. Tearing pain in facial bones; circumscribed redness in one or both cheeks.

2. Mygale Lasiodora:

It is quite characteristic of the spider poisons to produce spasmodic diseases. Depressed muscles of the face twitch constantly, The mouth and eye open and close in rapid succession, patient jerks his head to one side, usually the right control over the muscle seems to be lost, If the patient attempts to put his hand to his head it is jerked backwards violently, and words are jerked out in talking, the legs are in motion while sitting, and dragged while attempting to walk. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

Uncontrollable Movements of face, arms, and legs, involuntary head movements, throwing the head backward and then forwards are prominent, constant jerking of the head (mostly to the right side). Locked-in syndrome. Shrugging of shoulders. Difficulty in putting out tongue, grating teeth at night.

All symptoms get better during sleep and are worse in the morning.

3.Agaricus Muscarius:

For Chorea with Uncertain, Unsteady Gait –  Agaricus is well-indicated for cases of chorea where an uncertain, Colic spasms when awake, quiet when asleep, Though jerking when going to sleep; spasmodic motions, from simple involuntary motions and jerks of single muscles to a dancing of the whole body, Attack crosswise ,an upper right and a lower left extremity, or vice versa, Convulsive condition of the muscles of head and neck, constantly, Extreme mobility of lower limbs and the body generally, Frequent nictitating of eyelids; twitching and spasms of eyeballs; redness of inner canthi of eyes; lachrymation. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Locked-in syndrome.

Body convulsed, as if a galvanic battery were applied to the spine. Ravenous appetite, but difficulty of swallowing, Cervical glands swollen; inarticulate speech, itching of eyelids and of different spots on skin, resembling chilblains; weakness and coldness of limbs; unsteady walk. Facial muscles feel stiff; twitch; face itches and burns. Lancinating, tearing pain in cheeks, as of splinters.  Burning and smarting on lips. Tremulous tongue.

4. Cina:

Dilated pupils; yellow vision. Weak sight. Strabismus. Eyestrain, especially when presbyopia sets in. Pulsation of superciliary muscle. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Digging and scratching in ears. Intense, circumscribed redness of cheeks. Pale, hot, with dark rings around eyes. Cold perspiration. White and bluish about the mouth. Grits teeth during sleep. Chorea movements of face and hands. Locked-in syndrome.

Cina is a helpful medicine for paralysis affecting the face and upper limbs. Involuntary movements on the face and around the eyes. Throwing of arms from side to side. The limbs are distorted with jerking and trembling. Weakness of the hands, making it difficult to hold things. Complaints usually appear on one side. Few general symptoms like irritability, screaming, striking and restless sleep may also be present.

5. Causticum:

Causticum is the next prominent medicine for managing locked-in syndrome. Causticum is most indicated when the right side of the body is more affected – the face, tongue, arm, and leg. Marked twisting and jerking of limbs. Locked-in syndrome. An unsteady gait is present with involuntary body movements Weakness of muscles. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

Worsening of symptoms may be noted during the night. locked-in syndrome during pregnancy.

6. Cuprum Metalicum:

Spasmodic affections, cramps, convulsions, beginning in fingers and toes, violent, contractive, and intermittent pain. Locked-in syndrome. The arms and legs also feel weak, weary and lame. Muscle contractions. Jerking of hands. Can hold nothing in hand and the objects fall to the ground. Speech is affected with trembling of the tongue. Distorted, pale bluish, with blue lips. Contraction of jaws, with foam at mouth.

Choreic movements start in the muscles of the fingers and toes and extend to the limbs. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The patient is better or quieter during sleep, but when awake the terrible contortions and awkward movements are excessive. Meningitis.

7. Magnesia Phos:

For Chorea or Hemiplegia when Symptoms are Better During Sleep, Magnesia Phos is an important medicine. Locked-in syndrome. Involuntary shaking of limbs, face, mouth, and head is present. Involuntary movements of limbs along with contortions may also appear.

Sudden forward motion of the head is well-noted, jerking of the mouth and speech is also very defective.

8. Veratrum Viride:

For Chorea, paralysis or Hemiplegia when Symptoms are Worse during Sleep. Locked-in syndrome. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Involuntary motions of facial muscles (face turned into horrible contortions), jerking/continual nodding of the head, jerking of arms and legs, Constant movement of the lower jaw, speech affected, with the dropping of words when speaking.

9. Secale Cor:

Secale Cor is used in cases of paralysis, chorea or Hemiplegia when the chief indication is symptoms beginning in the face and then spreading all over the body. The symptoms may become severe and rise to dance and jumping. Locked-in syndrome. The arms and legs are in constant motion. Head movement from side to side is present, trunk in constant motion, tongue jerks out and speech becomes difficult and indistinct.

10. Kali Bromatum:

Violent cases of locked-in syndrome, chorea or Hemiplegia that arises from fright. Great trembling of hands (Legs and arms are affected). Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The gait is unsteady, irregular, and staggering (similar to a drunk person walking), facial muscles could be affected, the tongue protrudes with a jerk, and the person can barely speak. All the movements are violent.

10. Saccharum Lactis (Lactulose):

Amblyopia. Angina pectoris. Body-odor, offensive. Diabetes. Dyspepsia. Earache. Gout. Headache. Hysteria. Labia, soreness of. Nervousness. Neuralgia. Ovaries, affections of. Over-exertion. Ptosis. Sciatica. Sighing. Stye. Umbilicus, inflammation, fear and trembling of whole body. Longing and melancholy. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Hysteria in evening, laughing and crying, jumping up and lying down, but could not stand. Locked-in syndrome. Left side of head felt all drawn. Inflammation and awful pain in lower limbs extending down.

11. Belladonna and Atropinum:

Atropine is an alkaloid of Belladonna (C17 H23 NO3). Belladonna acts primarily on the brain, great general sensitiveness, sensitiveness of the special senses-sensitive to light, hydrophobia, remarkable quickness of sensation and/or of motion. Locked-in syndrome. Melancholy with grief, hypochondriacal humor, moral dejection, and discouragement, delirium and mania with groaning, disposition to dance, to laugh, to sing, and to whistle.

Mania, with groans, or with involuntary laughter; nocturnal delirium; delirium with murmuring; delirium, during which are seen wolves, dogs, fires, &c; delirium by fits, and sometimes with fixedness of look, Stupefaction, with congestion to the head; pupils enlarged. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

Delirium. Great apathy and indifference, desire for solitude, dread of society and of all noise. Repugnance to conversation. Disinclination to talk, or very fast talking. Ill-humor, disposition irritable and sensitive, with an inclination to be angry and to give offence. Folly, with ridiculous jesting, gesticulations, acts of insanity, impudent manners.

Fury and rage, with desire to strike, to spit, to bite, and to tear everything, and sometimes with growling and barking like a dog. Dejection and weakness of mind and body. Dread of all exertion and motion. Loss of consciousness. Fantastic illusions (when closing the eyes). Dementia to such an extent as no longer to know one’s friends, illusions of the senses and frightful visions. Complete loss of reason, stupidity, inadvertence, and distraction, inaptitude for thought, and great weakness of memory. Memory: quick; weak; lost.

12. Sepia:

Convulsive motions of head and limbs, when talking jerking of facial muscles, General muscular agitation; desire to change constantly place and position, Ringworm like eruptions on skin every spring;  uterine chorea with menstrual irregularities; Amelioration after menses and after a thunderstorm. Locked-in syndrome. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

13. Opium

Locked-in syndrome. Emotional chorea: trembling the head, arms and hands. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Arms are thrown out at right angles with the body and spasmodic jerking of the flexors; convulsive movements of one or other arm to and fro, Twitching continue during sleep.

14. Tarentula Hispanica

Locked-in syndrome, Chorea or Hemiplegia: Tarentula Hispanica indicated when the choreic movements affect the right arm and right leg, and when the movements continue even at night, and are brought on by fright, grief, etc. restless and compelled to keep constantly in motion, the spine is sensitive, and there is trembling.  Frontotemporal dementia (FTD)

The patient can run better than he can walk, It is the remedy when diversion of the mind, especially music, relieves.

15. Zincum met:

Constant motion of the feet, which may continue during sleep, it is especially the remedy when the chorea is brought on by suppressed eruption or by fright, The general health is involved, right side most affected, Much depression and irritability. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Locked-in syndrome.

16. Cimicifuga:

Locked-in syndrome, muscle pain or rheumatic joint ailments, or when reflex from uterine derangements, then Cimicifuga is the remedy. There is sensitiveness of the spine and entire muscular system, if mental depression be present, it is an additional indication, Cimicifuga is especially indicated in chorea in young girls, about the age of puberty, with menstrual disorders, especially suppression of menses. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Fright chorea and chorea with loss of power of swallowing indicate the remedy, Sleeplessness is an important symptom, Difficult speech, patient bites tongue when talking are good indications.

17. Cadmium Sulphuratum

Cadmium Sulphuratum is recommended for paralysis and locked-in syndrome of left side. The mouth gets distorted, with difficulty in swallowing and speaking in such cases. Unconscious. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Vertigo: room and bed seem to spin around. Hammering in head. Heat in head. Distortion of mouth. Trembling of jaw. Facial paralysis. Difficult swallowing. Esophagus constricted. Salty belching. Intense nausea, with pain and cold. Stringy, offensive exudation on mucous membrane. Salty taste.

18. Baptisia Tinctoria

Wild, wandering feeling. Inability to think. Mental confusion. Ideas confused. Illusion of divided personality. Thinks he is broken or double and tosses about the bed trying to get pieces together. Locked-in syndrome. Delirium, wandering, muttering. Perfect indifference. Falls asleep while being spoken to. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Melancholia, with stupor. Confused, swimming feeling. Vertigo; pressure at root of nose. Skin of forehead feels tight; seems drawn to back of head. Feels too large, heavy, numb. Soreness of eyeballs. Brain feels sore. Stupor; falls asleep while spoken to. Early deafness in typhoid conditions. Eyelids heavy.

Besotted look. Dark red. Pain at root of nose. Muscles of jaw rigid. Taste flat, bitter. Teeth and gums sore, ulcerated. Breath fetid. Tongue feels burned; yellowish-brown; edges red and shining. Dry and brown in center, with dry and glistening edges; surface cracked and sore. Can swallow liquids only, least solid food gags.

Dark redness of tonsils and soft palate. Constriction, contraction of esophagus. Great difficulty in swallowing solid food. Painless sore throat, and offensive discharge. Contraction at cardiac orifice.

19. Arnica Montana

Fears touch, or the approach of anyone. Unconscious; when spoken to answers correctly, but relapses. Indifference: inability to perform continuous active work; morose, delirious. Nervous; cannot bear pain; whole body oversensitive. Says there is nothing the matter with him. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Wants to be let alone. Agoraphobia (fear of space). After mental strain or shock. Locked-in syndrome.

Head hot, with cold body; confused; sensitiveness of brain, with sharp, pinching pains. Scalp feels contracted. Cold spot-on forehead. Chronic vertigo; objects whirl about especially when walking. Locked-in syndrome. Diplopia from traumatism, muscular paralysis, retinal hemorrhage. Bruised, sore feeling in eyes. Must keep eyes open, dizzy on closing them. Feel tired and weary after sight-seeing, moving pictures, etc.

Noises in ear caused by rush of blood to the head. Shooting in and around ears. Blood from ears. Dullness of hearing after concussion. Pain in cartilages of ears as if bruised.

Epistaxis after every fit of coughing, dark fluid blood. Nose feels sore; cold. Fetid breath. Dry and thirsty. Bitter taste. Taste as from bad eggs. Soreness of gums after teeth extraction. Empyema of maxillary sinus. Face sunken; very red. Heat in lips. Herpes in face.

20. Conium Maculate

Depressed, timid, averse to society, and afraid of being alone. No inclination for business or study; takes no interest in anything. Memory weak; unable to sustain ‘any mental effort. Vertigo, when lying down, and when turning over in bed, when turning head sidewise, or turning eyes; worse, shaking head, slight noise or conversation of others, especially towards the left. Headache, stupefying, with nausea and vomiting of mucus. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Locked-in syndrome. Tightness as if both temples were compressed, worse after a meal. Bruised, semi lateral pains. Dull occipital pain on rising in morning.

Photophobia and excessive lachrymation. Corneal pustules. Dim-sighted; worse, artificial light. On closing eyes, he sweats. Paralysis of ocular muscles. In superficial inflammations, as in phlyctenule conjunctivitis and keratitis. The slightest ulceration or abrasion will cause the in tensest photophobia. Defective hearing; discharge from ear blood colored.

21. Gelsemium Sempervirens

Desire to be quiet, to be left alone. Dullness, languor, listless. “Discerning are lethargies.” Apathy regarding his illness. Absolute lack of fear. Delirious on falling to sleep. Emotional excitement, fear, etc. lead to bodily ailments. Bad effects from fright, fear, exciting news. Locked-in syndrome. Vertigo, spreading from occiput. Headache, with muscular soreness of neck and shoulders. Headache preceded by blindness; better, profuse urination. Delirious on falling asleep.

Eyes: Ptosis; eyelids heavy; patient can hardly open them. Double vision. Disturbed muscular apparatus. Corrects blurring and discomfort in eyes even after accurately adjusted glasses. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Vision blurred, smoky. Dim-sighted; pupils dilated and insensible to light. Orbital neuralgia, with contraction and twitching of muscles. Bruised pain back of the orbits. One pupil dilated, the other contracted. Deep inflammations, with haziness of vitreous. Serous inflammations. Albuminuric retinitis. Detached retina, glaucoma and descemetitis. Hysterical amblyopia.

Neuralgia of face. Dusky hue of face, with vertigo and dim vision. Facial muscles contracted, especially around the mouth. Chin quivers. Lower jaw dropped. Putrid taste and breath. Tongue numbs, thick, coated, yellowish, tremble, paralyzed. Difficult swallowing, especially of warm food. Itching and tickling in soft palate and Naso-pharynx. Pain in sterno-cleidoic-mastoid, back of parotid.

Post-diphtheritic paralysis. Tonsillitis; shooting pain into ear. Feeling of a lump in throat that cannot be swallowed. Aphonia. Swallowing causes pain in ear. Difficult swallowing. Pain from throat to ear. Loss of power of muscular control. Cramp in muscles of forearm. Professional neuroses. Excessive trembling and weakness of all limbs. Hysteric convulsions. Fatigue after slight exercise.

22. Plumbum Metallicum

Locked-in syndrome is a disorder whereby the immune system attacks the nervous system and causes weakness and tingling sensation in lower limbs which ascends to the upper part of the body, paralysis is chiefly of extensors, forearm or upper limb, from center to periphery with partial anesthesia or excessive hyperesthesia, preceded by pain. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Localized neuralgic pains, neuritis.

The blood, alimentary and nervous systems are the special seats of action of Plumbum. Hematosis is interfered with, rapid reduction in number of red corpuscles, hence pallor, icterus, anemia. Constrictive sensation in internal organs. 

Delirium, coma and convulsions. Hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Progressive muscular atrophy. Infantile paralysis. Locomotor ataxia. Excessive and rapid emaciation. Bulbar paralysis. Important in peripheral affections. The points of attack for Plumbum are the neuraxins and the anterior horns. Symptoms of multiple sclerosis, posterior spinal sclerosis. Contractions and boring pain.

Fear of being assassinated. Depression. Quiet melancholy. Slow perception; loss of memory; amnesic aphasia. Hallucinations and delusions. Intellectual apathy. Memory impaired. Paretic dementia. Delirium alternating with colic. Tinnitus. Pupils contracted. Yellow. Optic nerve inflamed. Intraocular, suppurative inflammation. Glaucoma, especially if secondary to spinal lesion. Optic neuritis, central scotoma. Sudden loss of sight after fainting.

Face pale and cachectic. Yellow, corpse-like; cheeks sunken. Skin of face greasy, shiny. Tremor of Naso-labial muscles. Tongue tremulous, red on margin. Cannot put it out, seems paralyzed. Paralysis of single muscles. Cannot raise or lift anything with the hand. Extension is difficult. Paralysis from overexertion of the extensor muscles in piano players. Pains in muscles of thighs; come in paroxysms. Wrist-drop. Cramps in calves. Stinging and tearing in limbs, also twitching and tingling, numbness, pain or tremor. Paralysis. Feet swollen. Pain in atrophied limbs alternates with colic. Loss of patellar reflex. Hands and feet cold. Pain in right big toe at night, very sensitive to touch.

23. Curare

Muscular paralysis without impairing sensation and consciousness. Paralysis of respiratory muscles. Reflex action diminished. Debility of the aged and from loss of fluids. Catalepsy. Nervous debility. Trismus. Glycosuria with motor paralysis. Curare decreases the output of adrenaline. Vomiting of bile in cirrhosis of liver. Indecision; no longer wishes to think, or act for herself.

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Lancinating pains all over head. Head drawn backward. Falling out of hair. Brain feels full of fluid. Facial and buccal paralysis. Tongue and mouth drawn. Red face. Tongue and mouth drawn to right. Sharp, stitching pains over eye. Black spots before vision. Ptosis.

Noises in ears; unbearable earache. Lancinating pains start from ears, extending down to legs. Swelling of lobes of ear.  Tired pain up and down spine. Locked-in syndrome, arms weak, heavy. Cannot lift the fingers. Weakness of hands and fingers in pianists. Legs tremble; give way in walking. Debility; paralysis. Catalepsy. Favors development of corns. Reflexes lessened or abolished.

24. Oxalicum Acidum

Gastro-enteritis, motor paralysis, collapse, stupor and death. Influences the spinal cord and produces motor paralysis. Locked-in syndrome. Pains very violent, in spots worse, motion, and thinking of them. Periodical remissions. Spasmodic symptoms of throat and chest. Sense of heat in head. Confusion and vertigo. Headache, before and during stool. Severe pain in eyes; feel expanded. Hyperesthesia of retina.

Locked-in syndrome. Nervous aphonia with cardiac derangement. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Burning sensation from throat down. Breathing spasmodic, with constriction of larynx and chest. Hoarseness. Aphonia. Paralysis of the tensors of vocal cord. Dyspnea; short, jerking inspirations. Sharp pain through lower region of left lung, extending down to epigastrium.

Palpitation and dyspnea in organic heart disease; worse, when thinking of it. Pulse feeble. Heart symptoms alternate with aphonia, angina pectoris; sharp, lancinating pain in left lung coming on suddenly, depriving of breath. Precordial pains which dart to the left shoulder. Aortic insufficiency.

Extremities: Numb, weak, tingling. Pains start from spine and extend through extremities. Drawing and lancinating pains shooting down extremities. Backache; numb, weak, Myelitis. Muscular prostration. Wrist painful, as if sprained. Lower extremities blue, cold, insensible. Sensation of numbness. Multiple cerebral and posterior spinal sclerosis. Lancinating pains in various parts; jerking pains.

25. Picric Acid

Degeneration of the spinal cord, with paralysis. Acts upon the generative organs probably through the lumbar centers of the spinal cord, prostration, weakness and pain of back, pins and needle sensation in extremities. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Neurasthenia. Muscular debility. Heavy tired feeling. Myelitis with spasms and prostration. Writer’s palsy. Progressive, pernicious anemia. Uremia with complete anuria. A one per cent solution applied on lint, is the best application for burns until granulations begin to form. Sallow complexion. Locked-in syndrome.

Lack of will-power; disinclined to work. Cerebral softening. Dementia with prostration, sits still and listless. Occipital pain; worse, slightest mental exertion. Vertigo and noises in ear. After prolonged mental strain, with anxiety and dread of failure at examination. Brain fage.

Chronic catarrhal conjunctivitis with copious, thick yellow discharge. Burning along spine. Great weakness. Tired, heavy feeling all over body, especially limbs; worse, exertion. Feet cold. Cannot get warm. Acute descending paralysis.

26. Nux Vomica

Very irritable: sensitive to all impressions. Ugly, malicious. Cannot bear noises, odors, light, etc. Does not want to be touched. Time passes too slowly. Even the least ailment affects her greatly. Disposed to reproach others. Sullen, fault-finding. Headache in occiput or over eyes, with vertigo; brain feels turning in a circle. Over sensitiveness. Vertigo, with momentary loss of consciousness. Photophobia; worse in morning. Smarting dry sensation in inner canthi. Infra-orbital neuralgia, with watering of eyes. Optic nerve atrophy, from habitual use of intoxicants. Paresis of ocular muscles; worse, tobacco and stimulants. Orbital twitching radiating towards the occiput, Optic neuritis. Locked-in syndrome.

Itching in ear through Eustachian tube. Auditory canal dry and sensitive. Otalgia; worse in bed. Hyperesthesia of auditory nerves; loud sounds are painful and anger him. Jaws, contracted. Small aphthous ulcers, with bloody saliva. First half of tongue clean; posterior covered with deep fur; white, yellow, cracked edges. Teeth ache; worse, cold things. Gums swollen, white, and bleeding. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

Throat: Rough, scraped feeling. Tickling after waking in morning. Sensation of roughness, tightness, and tension. Pharynx constricted. Uvula swollen. Stitches into ear.

Backache in lumbar region. Burning in spine; worse, 3 to 4 am. Servico-brachial neuralgia; worse, touch. Must sit-up in order to turn in bed. Bruised pain below scapulae. Sitting is painful. Arms and hands go to sleep. Paresis of arms, with shocks. Legs numb; feel paralyzed; cramps in calves and soles. Partial paralysis, from overexertion or getting soaked. Drags feet when walking. Sensation of sudden loss of power of arms and legs in the morning.

27. Cocculus Indicus

Spasmodic and paretic affections, notably those affecting one-half of the body. Affects the cerebrum but will not cure convulsive seizures proceeding from the spinal cord. Painful contracture of limbs and trunk, tetanus. Sensation of hollowness, or emptiness, as if parts had gone to sleep. Feels too weak to talk loudly.

Mind capricious. Heavy and stupid. Time passes too quickly; absorbed in reveries. Inclination to sing irresistible. Slow of comprehension. Mind benumbed. Profound sadness. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Cannot bear contradiction. Speaks hastily. Vertigo, nausea. Pupils contracted. Opening and shutting sensation, especially in occiput. Trembling of head. Pain in eyes as if torn out of head.

Locked-in syndrome. Paralysis of facial nerve. Cramp-like pain in masseter muscle; worse, opening mouth. Prosoplasia in afternoon, with wide radiations of pain. Cracking of cervical vertebrae when moving head. Paralytic pain in small of the back. Pain in shoulder and arms as if bruised. Pressure in scapula and nape. Stiffness on moving shoulders.

Extremities: Lameness; worse by bending. Trembling and pain in limbs. Arms go to sleep. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). One-sided paralysis; worse after sleep. Hands are alternately hot and cold; numbness and cold sweat now of one, now of the other hand. Numb and unsteady. Knees crack on motion. Lower limbs very weak. Inflammatory swelling of knee. Intensely painful, paralytic drawing. Limbs straightened out, painful when flexed.

28. Stannum Metallicum

Chief action is centered upon the nervous system and respiratory organs. Debility, especially the debility of chronic bronchial and pulmonary conditions. Paralytic weakness; spasms; paralysis. Locked-in syndrome. Sad, anxious. Discouraged. Dread of seeing people. Aching in temples and forehead. Obstinate acute coryza and influenza with cough. Pain worse motion; gradually increasing and decreasing as if constricted by a band; forehead feels pressed inwards. Jarring of walking resounds painfully in head. Drawing pains in malar bones and orbits. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

Throat dry and stings. Paralytic weakness; drops things. Ankles swollen. Limbs suddenly give out when attempting to sit down. Dizziness and weakness when descending. Spasmodic twitching of muscles of forearm and hand. Fingers jerk when holding pen. Neuritis. Typewriters’ paralysis.

29. Lathyrus Sativus

Affects the lateral and anterior columns of the cord. Reflexes always increased. Paralytic affections of lower extremities; spastic paralysis; lateral sclerosis; Beri-Beri. Athetosis. Infantile paralysis. After influenza and wasting, exhaustive diseases where there is much weakness and heaviness, slow recovery of nerve power. Sleepy, constant yawning. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Locked-in syndrome. Depressed. Vertigo when standing with eyes closed.

Burning pain in tip of tongue; with tingling and numbness of tongue and lips, as if scalded. Tips of fingers numb. Tremulous, tottering gait. Excessive rigidity of legs; spastic gait. Knees knock against each other when walking. Rheumatic paralysis. Gluteal muscles and lower limbs emaciated. Legs blue; swollen, if hanging down. Stiffness and lameness of ankles and knees, toe do not leave the floor, heels do not touch floor, Muscles of calves very tense. Patient sits bent forward, straightens with difficulty.

Prognosis

With allopathic treatment, the prognosis of patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is very poor – that is Zero; On the other hand, with Homeopathic treatment prognosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is very good.

Patients with allopathic supportive care (that includes development of ways to communicate with other people usually do better than those diagnosed at a later time) takes sometimes months to years later. The majority of patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) do not recover functionality with allopathic treatment, rarely, the patient may recover some basic functionality.

Frontotemporal dementia is a completely Curable disease, for proper consultation and treatment, please visit our clinic.

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