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| Hpathy Ezine - April, 2005 | ||||
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DANA ULLMANTreating Children with Homeopathic Medicines by Elaine Lewis, DHom |
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| If homeopathy here in the United States has a leader at all, it has to be Dana Ullman! Chances are the first book you bought on homeopathy was by Dana Ullman. Chances are the first introductory course you bought on tape was by Dana Ullman, and chances are the first time you ordered books from a homeopathy catalog was from Dana Ullman's Homeopathic Educational Services! The books Dana has written include, Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicines, Homeopathic Medicines for Children and Infants, and Homeopathy A-Z. There are 7 books in all. As a matter of fact, Dana created the curriculum in homeopathy for Andrew Weil's Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona! Unfortunately, Dana couldn't be with us today. Ha! Just kidding! Dana, you've written a book about treating children with homeopathy. I find it hard to convince parents that their children aren't being as well-served by their pediatrician as they might think! Do you have any suggestions on how to talk to parents about homeopathy? "First, do no harm" was Hippocrates’ most famous words, and they are particularly important in the care and treatment of infants and children. Most people don’t know it, but most conventional drugs are tested on adults, and then, doctors estimate (or guess-timate) the appropriate dosage for children on such crude measures as a child’s weight. Worst still, in the United States, approximately 20% of pediatric visits leads to a prescription of more than one drug at a time. Once a second drug is given to a child, the doctor is not prescribing based on any research at all because the original research was not conducted with multiple drugs. Further, the doctor doesn’t know the interactions of the drugs together. The fact that so many conventional doctors are experimenting on our children is truly horrifying, and yet, few people and few doctors are sounding the alarm. It is quite fascinating that so many children are fearful of their doctor, and I believe that these children are more sensitive and aware of the problems that doctors are creating than we adults realize. It is quite rare for children to experience this same degree of fear when they enter the office of a homeopath. The number one reason that parents bring their children to a homeopath is because homeopathic medicines are so much safer than conventional medicines. The second main reason that parents bring their children to homeopaths is that children respond so well to homeopathic medicines. You can really change a child’s life, both physical and psychologically, with the correct homeopathic remedy. And you can help make a parent’s life much easier and much better. I should also mention that I have a special place in my heart for pediatric care. My father is a pediatrician, and I am a father myself. In preparation for fatherhood, I wrote Homeopathic Medicines for Children and Infants, which is the most popular guidebook in America for teaching parents how to treat their children with homeopathic medicines. How do children respond to homeopathic remedies? Children respond extremely well to homeopathic remedies, even when the perfect medicine is not always prescribed. It is as though the intelligence in their body is so high that their internal radar is scanning for any energetic medicine that is even close to being the best one. Famed astronomer Johann Kepler once said, "Nature uses as little as possible of anything." The fact that children respond so well to homeopathic medicines is one further example of this. I wish I had known that before consuming an entire bowl full of chocolate mousse. What was I thinking? Anyway Dana, the homeopathic interview with children, what is that like? I call homeopathy "Dragnet medicine," named after the popular American detective television show from the 50's: Who, what, why, where, when?—these are the questions that chief detective Sgt. Joe Friday continually asked. "Just the facts, ‘mam" is what he insisted upon—he didn’t want any theories, only facts. I talk to the child as much as possible, and only later do I talk with the parent. I watch the child, both in the waiting room, as she or he approaches me, and throughout the interview. I have a lot of respect for children, and I try to show them this respect by talking directly to them, and usually in a quite adult fashion. If they are at least four years of age, I can carry on some type of interview with them. If so, I ask them:
The following questions help me understand the child him or herself. I ask them:
For children who can’t talk, I observe them and ask many of these same questions to the child’s parents. I also ask them:
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