Belladonna: Head remedy for convulsions. Head hot with throbbing pain, eyes staring and pupils dilated. Pulse full and bounding. Convulsions during teething. The child becomes rigid suddenly. Convulsions in children which come on suddenly, head hot and feet cold. Give 200 dilution and repeat every fourth day till recovery.
Cocculus: Convulsions after loss of sleep.
Gelsemium: Convulsions associated with fever. Rigidity of the back and neck proceeded by aching and pain in shoulders. The eyes roll from side to side; the patient is restless and intensely hot, but moist.
Cina: Convulsions due to irritation in intestines from worms or from indigestion. The child is cross and has a variable appetite. An unhealthy skin due to intestinal irritation. Twitching of facial muscles.
Hyoscyamus: Falls suddenly to the ground with cries and convulsions. Convulsions of children, especially from fright. Convulsions after eating.
Calcarea Carb: Convulsions due to rickets or convulsions occurring during dentition or pneumonia.
Aethusa: Convulsions especially in children with great weakness and prostration with sleepiness. Dosing of the child after vomiting and after stool with convulsions. Eyes turn downwards instead of up or sidewise. There is appearance of sunkenness in the face with pearly whiteness on the upper lip, bounded by a distinct line from the outer nasal orifice to the angles of the mouth.
Helleborus: Convulsions due to suppressed eruptions such as measles, constant chewing motion, automatic motion of one hand and foot, boring the head in the pillow. Unconscious. Suppression of urine.
Cicuta Virosa: Violent shocks of head, arms and legs. Convulsions with terrible distortions of limbs, head turned back into shoulders, spasms of the muscles, face dark red, lips blue and bloody, froth from the mouth. Convulsions spread from above downwards and from center to circumference. Convulsions caused by slightest touch or jar. After regaining consciousness he remembers nothing of what has occurred.
Zincum Phos: Convulsions due to degeneration processes of the brain
Aurum Mur: cord in businessmen, students, debauches or the victims of epilepsy and of its maltreatment. These should be tried in the given order.
Cuprum Met: Convulsions with blue face and clenched thumbs. Vomiting during convulsions. Puerperal convulsions in cholera. The attack begins with jerking and twitching of the extremities, followed by tolling of the eye-balls which finally become fixed and turned upward. Convulsions due
to suppression of discharge or eruptions. Convulsions spreading from extremities to center. Better by cold drinks which if given in the beginning will alleviate the suffering.
Sulphur: When well selected remedies fail to respond. This may be given as an intercurrent remedy in 200 dilution.
Nux Vomica: Convulsions with consciousness due to bad digestion. Chewing motion of the jaws. After abuse of alcohol.
Chamomilla: Convulsions in children from nursing after a fit of anger of the mother. During dentition, if Belladonna fails.
Opium: Convulsions in children from nursing after sudden fright of the mother. Child wakes frightened, screaming and crying until the spasms set in. Worse from heat and hot application.
Glonoine: Convulsions of children due to heat or from congestion in the head during dentition. To be tried if Belladonna fails. During spasms fingers and toes are spread apart. Difficulty in breathing and audible palpitation.
Veratrum Viride: Uraemic convulsions with dim vision, spasms, dilated pupils, opisthotonos, cold, clammy perspiration.
Gratiola: Convulsive conditions without loss of consciousness.
Arnica:
Hypericum:
Convulsions immediately upon birth in forceps delivery or long impaction of the head. Give in the given order in 1000 every two hours until cured; four doses of each. In Arnica head is hot and the rest of the body cold.
Secale Cor: Convulsions and twitching of muscles of various parts with the fingers spread widely apart. Rigidity of the body which at times alternates with relaxation.
Stramonium: Violent convulsions involving every muscle of the body, opisthotonos, violent distortions, contraction of the limbs, biting of the tongue. Convulsions due to fright or dreadful dreams with consciousness; renewed by exposure to bright light. Sight of water, light or mirror or anything glittering brings on convulsions. Cannot bear solitude or darkness. Convulsions arising from suppression of eruptions.
