Causes of forgetfulness are difficult to pinpoint. People often forget the things which are not so interesting. Forgetfulness in old age is the result of a degeneration of brain-cells. Forgetting (retention loss) refers to apparent loss of information already encoded and stored in an individual`s long term memory. It is a spontaneous or gradual process in which old memories are unable to be recalled. Forgetting can be reduced by repetition or more elaborate cognitive processing of information.

Treatment of weak memory in Homeopathy
The following medicines are there in homeopathy. So when the patient is suffering from the mentioned symptoms, he or she can use the medicine.

Anacardium 30: Extreme forgetfulness, the person sometimes forgetting even his own name, paradoxical nature, the person laughing at serious matters and becoming serious over laughable matters, highly suspicious and malicious, with an irresistible desire to swear and curse. In all these cases the medicine can be taken.

Lac caninum 30: Absent-minded and forgetful, makes purchases and walks away without paying, makes mistakes while writing, omitting final letters of words, feeling of loneliness and despair, and visions of snakes. These are the symptoms for which the consumption of the medicine Lac Caninum 30 is necessary.

Nux moschata 30: Great forgetfulness in which the victim cannot recognize friends, objects or places, indifference to everything, highly changeable mood i.e. happy, laughing at one moment and sad, weeping at the very next. The symptoms demand the consumption of the medicine. Some other symptoms include drowsiness, sleepiness, and dryness all over and inside the body.

Sulphur 30: The person who is very forgetful, cannot remember names of people, cannot find the proper word during conversation should consume the medicine named Sulphur 30. Some other symptoms include unbearable hunger at 11.00 a.m., burning in the body and discomfiture while standing

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