Paralysis is the partial or full loss of movement, usually in response to an injury or illness.

In the case of spinal cord injuries, two forms of a paralysis are most common:

1. Tetraplegia, also known as quadriplegia, involves the complete loss of movement in the torso, limbs, feet, and hands. Typically, the product of an injury high in the spinal cord, tetraplegia is the most debilitating form of paralysis, and may necessitate artificial respiration assistance, in addition to impeding the ability to use the bathroom, walk, sit up, and perform similar tasks without assistance.
2. Paraplegia is paralysis below the waist, including both legs. It may interfere with excretory and sexual functioning, in addition to eliminating the ability to walk.

Some patients suffer less severe forms of paralysis, particularly when their injuries are very low in their spinal cords. Brain and nerve injuries can also cause localized paralysis, such as when a brain tumor pushing on a nerve paralyzes a portion of the face.

Types of Paralysis

Complete paralysis

When patient can’t move or control his/her paralyzed muscles at all. Patient also may not be able to feel anything in those muscles.

Partial or incomplete paralysis also called paresis

Paresis is when patient still have some feeling in, and possibly control over, his paralyzed muscles.

Localized paralysis

Localized paralysis affects just one specific area, like face, hands, feet, or vocal cords.

Generalized paralysis

When paralysis is more widespread in the body and is grouped by how much of patient’s body is affected. The type usually depends on where the brain or spinal cord is injured.

Monoplegia

It is a kind of generalized paralysis that affects just one limb.

Diplegia

Diplegia affects the same area on both sides, like both arms, both legs, or both sides of the face.

Hemiplegia

It affects just one side of the body and is usually caused by a stroke, which damages one side of the brain.

Quadriplegia (or tetraplegia)

When all four limbs are paralyzed is called quadriplegia or tetraplegia, sometimes along with certain organs.

Paraplegia

It is paralysis from the waist down.

Locked-in syndrome

It is the rarest and most severe form of paralysis, where a person loses control of all their muscles except the ones that control their eye movements.

Paralysis can be stiff, or spastic when patient’s muscles are tight and jerky. Most patients with cerebral palsy have spastic paralysis. It can also be floppy, or flaccid when your muscles sag and eventually shrink.

Causes of Paralysis

Paralysis is most often caused by strokes, usually from a blocked artery in the neck or brain. It also can be caused by damage to the brain or spinal cord, like what can happen in a car accident or sports injury.

Some kinds of paralysis are caused by certain conditions or diseases linked to specific genes for example:

Demyelinating diseases

These happen when the protective coating around the nerve cells, called the myelin sheath, is damaged over time. That makes it harder for neurons to send signals throughout the body. It weakens patient’s muscles and eventually causes paralysis. There are several demyelinating diseases, but the most common is multiple sclerosis.

Motor neuron diseases (MNDs)

Motor neurons are the nerve cells that control the muscles we use to walk, breathe, speak, and move our limbs.

There are two types: upper motor neurons, which send signals from our brain down to our spinal cord; and lower motor neurons, which get those signals and send them to our muscles. MNDs are diseases that damage these cells over time.

Upper motor neuron diseases

Like primary lateral sclerosis (PLS), affect just the upper motor neurons. This makes muscles stiff and spastic.

Lower motor neuron diseases

like spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), affect only the lower motor neurons. This makes muscles floppy or flaccid, which makes them weak and sometimes causes them to twitch uncontrollably.

The most common motor neurons disease is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease), which affects both upper and lower neurons.

Periodic paralysis

This is caused by changes in certain genes. It involves random attacks of paralysis, often triggered by something in the person’s diet. Typically, it is an electrolyte abnormality, like hypo or hyperkalemia.

Sleep paralysis

This happens while a person waking up or falling asleep. Sometimes patients who have sleep paralysis will also has hallucination.

Bell’s palsy

This makes half of the face appear to droop. It could be caused by certain viruses.

Todd’s paralysis

This often happens for a brief period after a person with epilepsy has had a seizure, usually just on one side of their body.

Tick paralysis and Lyme disease. Some ticks have neurotoxins in their spit glands that can cause paralysis, starting in feet and legs and moving upward. Once the tick is removed, the paralysis goes away, but if it’s not treated, it can spread to the face and be very serious.

Ticks sometimes also carry Lyme disease, a bacterial infection that can cause several different symptoms, including facial paralysis and numbness in arms and legs.

HTLV-1 associated myelopathy

Also called tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP). This type of spastic paralysis comes on gradually after an infection with human T-cell leukemia virus type 1. It causes symptoms that are similar to multiple sclerosis, but it happens in less than 3% of people infected with the virus.

Symptoms

Paralysis is an unpredictable illness. Tetraplegia for one person may look quite different from tetraplegia in another person. Symptoms may change over time, and there is no way to fully predict how paralysis will affect a person.

In addition to movement impairments, though, some of the symptoms that commonly accompany paralysis include:

• Joint and muscle pain. When patient can’t move one portion of his/her body, the muscles that are attached to it can become stiff and painful.
• Phantom pain. Patient may feel electrical or tingling sensations in the affected area, even if he can’t move it.
• Difficulties with using the bathroom. Patient may need to use a catheter or ostomy bag.
• Changes in sexual functioning or fertility.
• Difficulty breathing without assistance.
• Changes in weight and body composition, particularly if patient is unable to exercise; this can lead to other complications, such as diabetes or high blood pressure.
• Bedsores, particularly if patient do not regularly stretch or exercise.
• Increased vulnerability to infections, particularly respiratory infections. Patient may suffer from pneumonia, bronchitis, frequent colds, and other medical ailments.

Allopathic treatment for Paralysis

Allopathically, paralysis cannot typically be cured. Instead, treatment endeavors to directly attack symptoms and reduce the impact of paralysis on life.

Some allopathic treatment options include:

• Surgery to address physical barriers to movement. For example, an object lodged in patient’s spinal cord or brain might need to be removed, or portions of patient’s spinal cord might need to be fused together.
• Medications to prevent infection, reduce swelling, and address symptoms such as chronic pain.
• Ongoing monitoring to ensure patient’s condition does not deteriorate.
• Medical devices to improve functioning, such as a wheelchair, artificial respirator, or catheter.
• Psychotherapy and support groups to help patient find ways to cope with his/her condition.
• Ongoing physical, exercise, and occupational therapy to help patient regain some functioning; the more practice patient gets, the more likely he/she will be able to work. Physical therapy can help rewire your brain and may even reverse some symptoms of paralysis.
• Alternative therapies. Studies have proven that Homeopathic medicines can reverse and even treat paralysis of any stage and type.

Homeopathic treatment for paralysis

Depending upon the cause (for example, transient blood loss to the brainstem), rarely, a person may recover. Complete or almost complete recovery is possible with the right therapy and with the help of compassionate family and friends, a person with paralysis can lead to a complete or 98% health and can live a happy life.

Never do experiments on your patients/loved ones. 

Almost all paralysis patients recover completely or almost completely (>90%-98%).

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

Acid Picricum

Acts upon the generative organs probably through the lumbar centers of the spinal cord. Degeneration of the spinal cord, with paralysis. Prostration, weakness and pain of back, pins and needle sensation in extremities. Neurasthenia. Muscular debility. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Myelitis with spasms and prostration. Writer’s palsy. Progressive, pernicious anemia. Uremia with complete anuria.

Lack of will-power; disinclined to work. Cerebral softening. Dementia with prostration, sits still and listless. Burning along spine. Severe spinal weakness. Tired, heavy feeling all over body, especially limbs; worse, exertion. Feet cold. Cannot get warm. Acute descending paralysis.

 Oxalicum Acidum

Gastro-enteritis, motor paralysis, collapse, stupor and death. Influences the spinal cord and produces motor paralysis. Pains very violent, in spots worse, motion, and thinking of them. Periodical remissions. Sense of heat in head. Confusion and vertigo. Headache, before and during stool. Hyperesthesia of retina. 

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

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.

Agaricus Muscarius

Irregular, tumultuous cardiac palpitation. Pulse intermittent and irregular. Cardiac region oppressed. Palpitation with redness of face.

Pain, with sensitiveness of spine to touch; worse in dorsal region. Lumbago; worse in open air. Crick in back. Twitching of cervical muscles. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Stiff all over. Pain over hips. Rheumatism better motion. Weakness in loins. Uncertain gait. Neuralgia in locomotor ataxia. Paralysis of upper and/or lower limbs, with spasmodic condition of arms.

Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching are strong indications. Bone tuberculosis, anemia, chorea, twitching etc. General paralysis. Sensation of needles of ice, pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling. Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg.

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. Paralysis.

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.

Argentum Nitricum

This medicine’s neurotic effects are very marked on many brain and spinal symptoms. Incoordination, loss of control and want of balance everywhere, mentally and physically, trembling in affected parts. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Explosive belching especially in neurotics. Upper abdominal affections brought on by undue mental exertion. Paraplegia Myelitis and disseminated sclerosis of brain and spinal cord. Intolerance of heat. Sensation of a sudden pinch. Anemia.

Spine sensitive with nocturnal pains, paraplegia; posterior spinal sclerosis. Trembling, with general debility. Paralysis, with mental and abdominal symptoms. Rigidity and debility in calves. Walks and stands unsteadily. Numbness of arms. Post-diphtheritic paralysis. Emotional disturbances cause appearance of hemi-cranial attacks – bones of head feel as if separated.

Calcarea Carbonica

Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis – pain as if sprained; can scarcely rise; from over lifting, pain between shoulder-blades, impeding breathing. Rheumatism in lumbar region/spinal cord; weakness in spine. Curvature of dorsal vertebrae. Nape of neck stiff and rigid. Renal colic. Rheumatoid pains, sharp sticking. Weakness of extremities. Swelling of joints. Burning of soles. Sweat of hands. Arthritic nodes. Soles of feet raw. Feet feel cold and dead at night. Old sprains. Tearing in muscles. 

Cocculus Indicus

Within the sphere of action of Cocculus are many spasmodic and paretic affections, notably those affecting one-half of the body. Affects the cerebrum, will not cure convulsive seizures proceeding from the spinal cord. Painful contracture of limbs and trunk; tetanus. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis.

Cracking of vertebrae. Paralytic pain spine. Pain in shoulder and arms. Pressure in scapula and nape. Stiffness on moving shoulders, spine. Lameness. Trembling and pain in limbs. Arms go to sleep. One-sided paralysis. Hands are alternately hot and cold and numbness. Lower limbs very weak. Inflammatory swelling of spine, knee. Intensely painful, paralytic drawing. Limbs straightened out, painful when flexed.

Capricious. Heavy and stupid. Inclination to sing irresistible. Slow of comprehension. Mind benumbed. Profound sadness. Cannot bear contradiction. Speaks hastily. Very anxious about the health of others.

Conium Maculatum

Conium is an excellent medicine for kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis, difficult gait, trembling, sudden loss of strength while walking, painful stiffness of joints of legs. debility, hypochondriasis, urinary troubles, weakened memory, sexual debility. Dorsal pain between shoulders. Ill effects of bruises and shocks to spine. Coccydynia. Dull aching in lumbar and sacral region.

Extremities heavy, weary, paralyzed; trembling; bands unsteady; fingers and toes numb. Muscular weakness, especially of spine and lower extremities. Perspiration of hands.

Causticum

Manifests its action mainly in chronic rheumatic, arthritic and paralytic affections, indicated by the tearing, drawing pains in the muscular and fibrous tissues, with deformities about the joints, progressive loss of muscular strength, tendinous contractures. Broken down senile.

Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Weakness progresses until patient gradually appears paralysis. Local paralysis, vocal cords, muscles of deglutition, of tongue, eyelids, face, urinary bladder and extremities. Stiffness in spine, between shoulders, dull pain.

Sciatica, with numbness. Paralysis of single parts. Heaviness and weakness. Tearing joints. Unsteadiness of muscles of spine, lower extremities, forearm and hand. Numbness; and loss of sensation in hands. Contracted tendons. Burning in joints.

Cina

Dilated pupils; yellow vision. Weak sight. Strabismus. Eyestrain, especially when presbyopia sets in. Pulsation of superciliary muscle. 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.

Cuprum Metallicum

Jerking, twitching of muscles. Coldness of hands. Cramps in palms. Great weariness of limbs. Cramps in calves and soles. Epilepsy: aura begins in knees. Clenched thumbs. Clonic spasms, beginning in fingers and toes. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis.

Angina pectoris. Slow pulse; or hard, full and quick. Palpitation, precordial anxiety and pain. Fatty degeneration. Suffocative attacks, spasmodic asthma.

Curare

Muscular paralysis without impairing sensation and consciousness. Paralysis of respiratory muscles. Reflex action diminished. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Debility of the aged and from loss of fluids. Catalepsy. Nervous debility. Trismus. Glycosuria with motor paralysis.

Paralysis of respiration on falling asleep. Short breath. Short dry cough, distressing dyspnea. Tired pain up and down spine. 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.

Causticum

A best and prominent medicine for paralysis. 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.

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

Gelsemium Sempervirens

Centers its action upon the nervous system, treating various degrees of motor paralysis, general prostration, dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and trembling. Slow pulse, tired feeling, mental apathy. Paralysis of various groups of muscles. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Post-diphtheritic paralysis. Muscular weakness. Complete relaxation and prostration. Lack of muscular co-ordination. General depression from heat of sun. Sensitive to a falling barometer; cold and dampness brings on many complaints.

Desire to be quiet, to be left alone. Dullness, languor, listless. Delirious on falling to sleep. Dull, heavy pain. Complete relaxation of the whole muscular system. Languor: muscles feel bruised. Every little exertion causes fatigue. Pain in neck, especially upper sterno-cleido muscles. Dull aching in lumbar and sacral region, passing upward. Pain in muscles of back, hips, and lower extremities, mostly deep-seated.

Extremities: Loss of power of muscular control. Cramp in spinal muscles. Professional neuroses. Writer’s cramp. Excessive trembling and weakness of all limbs. Hysteric convulsions. Fatigue after slight exercise. Slowness of breathing, with great prostration. Oppression about chest.

Kalium Carbonicum

Great exhaustion. Stitches in spine and scapula. Back feels weak, stiffness and paralytic. Burning in spine. Severe backache during pregnancy, and after miscarriage. Hip-disease. Pain in nates and thighs and hip joint. Lumbago with sudden sharp pains extending up and down back and to thighs. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis.

Backs and legs give out – uneasiness heaviness and tearing in limbs and jerking. Swelling of knee. Tearing in arms, shoulder and spine. Paralysis from dropsical affections. Limbs go to sleep easily. Tips of toes and fingers painful. Soles very sensitive. Itching of great toe, with pain. Pain from hip to knee. Pain in knees. 

Guaco

Acts on nervous system and female organs. Bulbar paralysis. Syphilis. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Spinal irritation. Spinal symptoms most marked and verified. Larynx and trachea constricted, difficult deglutition. Tongue feels heavy, difficult to move.

Urine increased, cloudy, phosphatic. Pain over region of bladder. Pain between scapulae, extending to forearm. Burning in nape of shoulders. Pain along spine; worse, bending. Weariness through hips and lumbar region. Pain in deltoid, shoulders, elbows, arms, and fingers. Pain about hip joint. Legs heavy. Pain in ankle-joints and soles. Paralysis of lower extremities.

Magnesia Phos

For Chorea or Hemiplegia and paralysis 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.

Lathyrus Sativus

Affects the lateral and anterior columns of spinal cord. No pain but reflexes always increased. Paralytic affections of lower extremities; spastic paralysis; lateral sclerosis; Beri-beri. Athetosis. Infantile paralysis. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis.

Depressed; hypochondriacal. Vertigo when standing with eyes closed. Tips of fingers numb. Tremulous, tottering gait. Excessive rigidity of legs; spastic gait. Knees knock against each other when walking. Cramps in legs. 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 or stands bent forward, straightens with difficulty.

Nux Vomica

Backache in lumbar region. Burning in spine. Cervical-brachial neuralgia. Bruised pain below scapulae. Sitting and standing is painful. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Arms and hands go to sleep. Paresis of arms, with shocks. Legs numb; feel paralyzed; cramps in calves and soles. Partial paralysis, from overexertion. Cracking in all joints during motion. Drags his feet when walking. Sensation of sudden loss of power of arms and legs in the morning.

Strychninum Purum

Its primary function is to stimulate the motor centers and the reflex action of the spinal cord. Spasms of muscles, cramps from an undue reflex excitability of the cord, spasms of the bladder, etc. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. 

Stimulates the central nervous system, mental activities, special senses rendered more acute. Respiration increased. All reflexes are made more active. Stiffness in muscles, spine, face and neck. Opisthotonos – tetanic convulsions. Explosive nervousness. The pains and sensations come suddenly and return at intervals.

Spasm of muscles about larynx. Excessive dyspnea. Sharp, contractive pains in muscles of chest. Rigidity of cervical muscles. Sharp pain in nape and down spine. Back stiff, violent jerks in spinal column. Icy sensation down spine. Limbs stiff. Rheumatism with stiff joints. Violent jerking, twitching, and trembling. Shocks in the muscles.

Secale Cornitum

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.

Oxalicum Acidum

Numb, weak, tingling. Pains start from spine and extend through extremities. Motor paralysis. Backache; numb, weak, Myelitis. Spinal cord miss shaped. Muscular prostration. Lower extremities blue, cold, insensible. Sensation of numbness. Multiple cerebral and posterior spinal sclerosis. Lancinating pains in various parts; jerking pains. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Heart symptoms alternate with aphonia, angina pectoris; sharp, lancinating pain in lung coming on suddenly, depriving of breath. Precordial pains which dart to shoulder. Aortic insufficiency.

Plumbum Metallicum

The great drug for general sclerotic conditions. Lead paralysis is chiefly of extensors, forearm or upper limb, from center to periphery with partial anesthesia or excessive hyperesthesia, preceded by pain. Localized neuralgic pains, neuritis. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Hemostasis is interfered with, rapid reduction in number of red corpuscles (hence pallor, icterus, anemia). Constrictive sensation in internal organs. Spinal cord sclerosed. Lightning-like pains; temporarily better by pressure. Paralysis of lower extremities. 

Delirium, coma and convulsions. Hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Progressive muscular atrophy. Infantile paralysis. Locomotor ataxia. Excessive and rapid emaciation. Bulbar paralysis. Important in peripheral affections. Multiple sclerosis, posterior spinal sclerosis. Contractions and boring pain. Nephritis with amaurosis and cerebral symptoms. Gout.  Paralysis of single muscles. Stinging, tearing, numbness and pain in limbs; pain or tremor. Paralysis. Feet swollen. Hands and feet cold.

Oxytropis Lamberti

Marked action on nervous system. Trembling, sensation of emptiness. Walks backwards. Congestion of spine and paralysis. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Pains come and go quickly. Staggering gait. Reflexes lost. Desires to be alone. Disinclined to work or talk. Worse, thinking of symptoms – depression.

Urging to urinate when thinking of it. Profuse flow. Pain in kidneys. Impotency. Pain in testicles and along spermatic cord and down thighs. Pain along ulnar nerve. Numb feeling about spine. Staggering gait. Loss of co-ordination. Patellar tendon reflex lost. Pains come and go quickly, but muscles remain sore and stiff. 

Secale Cornutum

Produces contraction of the unstriped muscular fibers. Anemic condition, coldness, numbness, petechiae, mortification, gangrene. Debility, anxiety, emaciation, though appetite and thirst may be excessive. Facial and abdominal muscles twitch. Passive, congestive pain (rises from back of head), with pale face. Head drawn back. Falling of hair; dry and gray. Nosebleed, dark, oozing.

Deformed spinal cord. Spinal irritation, kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis, tingling of lower extremities; can bear only slightest covering. Locomotor ataxia. Formication and numbness. Myelitis. Cold, dry hands and feet, feeling of fuzziness in fingers. Trembling, staggering gait. Formication, pain and spasmodic movements. Numbness. Fingers and feet bluish, shriveled, spread apart or bent backwards, numb. Violent cramps. Icy coldness of extremities. Violent pain in fingertips, tingling in toes.

Kali Bromatum

Violent cases of paralysis of any type, locked-in syndrome, chorea or Hemiplegia that arises from fright. Great trembling of hands (Legs and arms are affected). 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.

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. Paralysis. Trembling of whole body. Longing and melancholy. 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.

Silieea Tera

Imperfect assimilation and consequent defective nutrition. It goes further and produces neurasthenic states in consequence, and increased susceptibility to nervous stimuli and exaggerated reflexes. Diseases of bones, caries and necrosis. Weak spine; very susceptible to draughts on back. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Pain in coccyx. Spinal irritation after injuries to spine; diseases of bones of spine. Potts’ disease.

Stannum Metallicum

Chief action is centered upon the nervous system and respiratory organs. Debility. Tuberculosis basis. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Pains that come and go gradually, call unmistakably for Stannum. Paralytic weakness; spasms; paralysis. 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. Parkinson’s diseases. Neuritis. Typewriters’ paralysis.

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. Paralysis. 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.

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.

Sepia Officianalis

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. Paralysis. Locked-in syndrome.

Opium

Locked-in syndrome. Emotional chorea: trembling the head, arms and hands. 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. Paralysis. Falls into a heavy stupid sleep. Profound coma. Opisthotonos. Swollen veins of neck. Painless paralysis. Twitching of limbs. Numbness. Jerks as if flexors were overacting. Convulsions; worse from glare of light; coldness of limbs.

Veratrum Viride

Tiegel’s contracture, Thompson’s Disease, athetosis and pseudo-hypertrophic muscular paralysis present a symptomatology. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Difficult breathing. Aching pain in back of neck and shoulders. Severe pain in joints and muscles. Violent electric-like shocks in limbs. Convulsive twitching. Acute rheumatism.

Calcare Flouricum

A powerful tissue remedy for hard, stony glands, varicose and enlarged veins, and malnutrition of bones. Hard knots in breast. Goiter. Congenital hereditary syphilis. Induration threatening suppuration. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Arterio-sclerosis; threatened apoplexy. Tuberculosis.  Chronic lumbago; aggravated on beginning to move and ameliorated on continued motion. Osseous tumors. Rachitic enlargement of femur in infants. Pain lower part of back, with burning. 

Ganglia or encysted tumors at the back of the wrist. Gouty enlargements of the joints of the fingers. Exostoses on fingers. Chronic synovitis of knee joint.

Rhus Toxicodendron

Pain between shoulders on swallowing. Pain and stiffness in small of back. Stiffness of the nape of the neck. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Hot, painful swelling of all joints. Pains tearing in tendons, ligaments, and fasciae. Rheumatic pains spread over a large surface at spine, nape of neck, loins, and extremities. Limbs stiff paralyzed. Pain along ulnar nerve. Tearing down thighs. Sciatica. Numbness and formication, after overwork and exposure. Paralysis; trembling after exertion. Tenderness about joint (s). Loss of power in forearm and fingers; crawling sensation in the tips of fingers. Tingling in feet.

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. Paralysis. 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. Tips of fingers numb. Tremulous, tottering gait. Excessive rigidity of legs; spastic gait. Knees knock against each other when walking.

Oleander

Cramp-like contractions of upper extremities. Hemiplegia. Paralysis. Difficult articulation. Memory weak; slow perception. Melancholy, with obstinate constipation. Vertigo and diplopia, when looking down. Vertigo, when looking fixedly at an object, and on rising in bed. Pain in brain. Numb feeling. Dull, unable to think. Indolence. Eruption on scalp. Humid, fetid spots behind ears and occiput, with red, rough, herpetic spots in front. Corrosive itching on forehead and edge of hair; worse, heat.

Asthmatic when lying down. Palpitation, with weakness and empty feeling in chest. Dyspnea. Obtuse stitches in chest. Weakness of lower limbs. Paralysis of legs and feet. Want of animal heat in limbs. Cold feet. Painless paralysis. Constant cold feet. Swelling, burning stiffness of fingers. Veins and hands swollen. Edema. Stiffness of joints. Skin sensitive and numb. Nocturnal burning. Very sensitive skin.

Cimicifuja Racemosa

Has a wide action upon the cerebrospinal and muscular system, as well as upon the uterus and ovaries. Especially useful in rheumatic, nervous subjects with ovarian irritation, uterine cramps and heavy limbs. Its muscular and crampy pains, primarily of neurotic origin, occurring in nearly every part of the body, are characteristic. Agitation and pain indicate it. Pains like electric shocks here and there. Migraine. Symptoms referable to the pelvic organs prominent. “It lessens the frequency and force of the pulse soothes pain and allays irritability”.

Irregular, slow, trembling pulse. Tremulous action. Angina pectoris. Numbness of left arm; feels as if bound to side. Heart’s action ceases suddenly, impending suffocation. Left-sided infra-mammary pain. Spine very sensitive. Stiffness and contraction in neck and back. Intercostal rheumatism. Rheumatic pains in muscles of back and neck. Pain in lumbar and sacral region, down thighs, and through hips. Crick in back. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis.

Uneasy, restless feeling in limbs. Aching in limbs and muscular soreness. Rheumatism affecting the belly of muscles, especially large muscles. Chorea like movements, accompanied by rheumatism. Jerking of limbs. Stiffness in tendo-Achilles. Heaviness in lower extremities. Heavy, aching, tensive pain.

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. 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. 

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. 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.  Neck tired. Stiffness and pain, aching and drawing in arms and legs. Pain in sacrum.

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.

 Oxytropis Lamberti

Marked action on nervous system. Trembling, sensation of emptiness. Walks backwards. Congestion of spine and paralysis. Pains come and go quickly. Sphincters relaxed. Staggering gait. Reflexes lost. Desires to be alone. Disinclined to work or talk. Worse, thinking of symptoms. Depression. Vertigo. Pain in maxillary bones and masseter muscles. Mouth and nose dry.

Eyesight obscured; pupils contracted; do not respond to light. Paralysis of nerves and muscles of eyes.

Stomach: Eructation with colicky pains. Epigastrium tender. Sphincter seems relaxed. Stools slip from anus, like lumps of jelly, mushy. Urging to urinate when thinking of it. Profuse flow. Pain in kidneys.

Male: No desire or ability. Pain in testicles and along spermatic cord and down thighs.

Pain along ulnar nerve. Numb feeling about spine. Staggering gait. Loss of co-ordination. Patellar tendon reflex lost. Pains come and go quickly, but muscles remain sore and stiff. Sleep restless, dreams of quarrel.

Hecla lava

Marked action upon the jaws. Nodosities, caries of bone, kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis, osteitis, periostitis, osteosarcoma; rachitis etc. Tumors in general. Bone necrosis. Necrosis and sinus after mastoid surgery. Enlargement of maxillary bone. Cervical glands enlarged and indurated.

Arnica Montana

Angina pectoris; pain especially severe in elbow of left arm. Stitches in heart. Pulse feeble and irregular. Cardiac dropsy with distressing dyspnea. Extremities distended, feel bruised and sore. Fatty heart and hypertrophy. Gout. Great fear of being touched or approached. Pain in back and limbs. Sprained and dislocated feeling. Soreness after overexertion. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Deathly coldness of forearm. Cannot walk erect, on account of bruised pain in pelvic region. Rheumatism begins low down and works up.

Ledum Paluster

Gouty pains shoot all through the foot and limb, and in joints, but especially small joints. Swollen, hot, pale. Throbbing in right shoulder. Pressure in shoulder, worse motion. Cracking in joints; worse, warmth of bed. Gouty nodes. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Rheumatism begins in lower limbs and ascends. Ankles swollen. Soles painful, can hardly step on them. Easy spraining of ankle.

Lycopodium Clavatum

Aneurism. Aortic disease. Palpitation at night. Burning between scapulae as of hot coals. Pain in small of back. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Numbness, drawing and tearing in limbs. Heaviness of arms. Tearing in shoulder and elbow joints. One foot hot, the other cold. Chronic gout, with chalky deposits in joints. Profuse sweat of the feet. Pain in heel on treading as from a pebble. Painful callosities on soles; toes and fingers contracted. Sciatica. Cannot lie on painful side. Hands and feet numb. Right foot hot, left cold. Cramps in calves and toes at night in bed. Limbs go to sleep. Twitching and jerking.

Opium

Opisthotonos – Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Swollen veins of neck. Painless paralysis. Twitching of limbs. Numbness. Jerks as if flexors were overacting. Convulsions; worse from glare of light; coldness of limbs.

Tarentula Hispanica

Weakness of legs; chorea like movements. Numbness of legs. Multiple sclerosis, with trembling. Twitching and jerking. Yawning with uneasiness of legs, must move them constantly. Extraordinary contractions and movements. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis.

Phosphorus

Burning in back; pain as if broken. Heat between the shoulder-blades. Weak spine.

Extremities: Ascending sensory and motor paralysis from ends of fingers and toes. Stitches in elbow and shoulder joints. Burning of feet. Weakness and trembling, from every exertion. Can scarcely hold anything with his hands. Tibia inflamed and became necrosed. Arms and hands become numb. Can lie only on right side. Post-diphtheritic paralysis, with formication of hands and feet. Joints suddenly give way.

Ruta Gravenolense

Acts upon the periosteum and cartilages, eyes and uterus. Complaints from straining flexor tendons especially. Tendency to the formation of deposits in the periosteum, tendons, and about joints, especially wrist. Overstrain of ocular muscles. Lameness after sprains. Jaundice. Feeling of intense lassitude, weakness and despair. Injured “bruised” bones.

Pain in nape, back and loins. Backache better pressure. Lumbago worse morning before rising. Spine and limbs feel bruised. Small of back and loins pain. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Legs give out on rising from a chair, hips and thighs so weak. Contraction of fingers. Pain and stiffness in wrists and hands. Ganglia. Sciatica; worse, lying down at night; pain from back down hips and thighs. Hamstrings feel shortened. Tendons sore, aching pain in tendo-Achilles. Thighs pain when stretching the limbs. Pain in bones of feet and ankles. Great restlessness.

Zincum Metallica

Pain in small of back. Kyphoscoliosis and scoliosis. Tension and stinging between shoulders. Spinal irritation. Dull aching about the last dorsal or first lumbar vertebrae; worse sitting. Burning along spine. Nape of neck wearies from writing or any exertion. Tearing in shoulder-blades.

Extremities: Lameness, weakness, trembling and twitching of various muscles. Chilblains. Feet in continued motion; cannot keep still. Large varicose veins on legs. Sweaty. Convulsions, with pale face. Transverse pains, especially in upper extremity. Soles of feet sensitive. Steps with entire sole of foot on floor.

Prognosis

With allopathic treatment, the prognosis of patients with locked-in syndrome varies from fair to poor; On the other hand, with Homeopathic treatment prognosis of locked-in syndrome 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 locked-in syndrome do not recover functionality with allopathic treatment, rarely, the patient may recover some basic functionality.

Paralysis is a completely and easily curable disease, for proper consultation and treatment, please visit our clinic.

P. S: This article is only for doctors and students having good knowledge about Homeopathy and allopathy.

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Dr. Sayyad Qaisar Ahmed (MD {Ukraine}, DHMS), Abdominal Surgeries, Oncological surgeries, Gastroenterologist, Specialist Homeopathic Medicines.

  Senior research officer at Dnepropetrovsk state medical academy Ukraine.

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