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| Hpathy Ezine, Feb., 2005 | ||||
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Homeopathy and Children -- Elaine Lewis, DHom |
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| Kelly writes: Please write an article about homeopathy and children. I've told all my parent-friends about it and I'd like to have something to show them! I was more than happy to oblige Kelly, especially after she promised to loosen the piano wire around my legs! Let me just begin by saying, I don't know what parents do without homeopathy, I really don't! My daughter, Shana, is 12. She's never swallowed a pill or had an injection in her life! It's not that she hasn't had her share of flus, colds, coughs, and even strep throat once. Thank goodness there's always been homeopathy--and for those of you who don't know, homeopathic remedies are little sugar pills that melt in your mouth and seemingly do magic! Even just this morning while getting ready for school, Shana was acting strange--sitting on the "potty" after her shower, which she never does, and finally she admitted to having stomach pains. Knowing there was something "going around" at school, I told her to get back into bed and I gave her Arsenicum 200C, because I suspected a gastro-intestinal flu. I went out to breakfast and told her to call me if she needed me. When I came home, she was at the computer--her favorite seat in the house!--and completely back to normal! While I was in the restaurant, I, myself, had begun to experience a sudden "sinking feeling" and I thought, "Oh no, not me too!" I opened my first aid kit and pulled out our "generic" flu remedy, Gelsemium, and I took a few pellets. I recovered immediately! This is what life is like in the homeopathic household--uneventful! I'll give you another story! The other day I tripped over the recycling bags in the kitchen and fell on my knee, which Shana found to be amusing! I knew I'd be in for swelling and pain, but, I had neither because I immediately took Arnica, our main injury remedy, and kept right on going! Homeopathic remedies taste good and children like them; so do animals. When I think back on Shana's health history, I think back to her being 2 years old and eating pretzels for the first time; a food she wasn't accustomed to. The poor thing, she threw up--I don't know how many times! When she asked for cold water, I knew right away what the remedy was--Phosphorus! ONE DOSE of Phosphorus 30X, and she fell asleep--immediately--like seconds later!. I went to Murphy's Materia Medica and looked up Phosphorus. Aside from it's well-known symptom, "Craves cold drinks", I also found, "Bad effects of eating too much salt." The salt, of course! Salted pretzals, I should have known! I think of when Shana was four years old. God only knows what was wrong with her but she had thrown up 5 times in one morning! I called her doctor. He had absolutely no idea what was going on, saying something like, "Well, I'm sure her body is doing the right thing...." Huh? What? He was no help at all! I went to my homeopathic Repertory (book of symptoms) and the remedy Nux Vomica seemed to be indicated. I gave her one dose and a few minutes later she announced, "Mommy, I'm not throwing off anymore!" Earaches in the middle of the night? A dose of Pulsatilla and it's back to sleep for everyone! And Belladonna; I don't know how many fevers Belladonna has made fast work of! Put simply, there aren't too many emergencies around here. Or maybe I should say that what would be emergencies in other people's houses are dealt with quickly here and then forgotten! I remember the mosquito bite rash from last summer--totally resolved in one day with Caladium. Shana was so grateful that when we saw a Caladium plant in the supermarket, she said we had to buy it to show appreciation! (And when it finally died, she cried, so we had to buy another one!) I have a 2 year old client right now who is recovering--thanks to Sulphur--from the worst case of constipation I've ever heard of in my life! This child screamed whenever she had to sit on the potty, and actually tried NOT to go! If you look in the Homeopathic Medical Repertory under "Rectum, constipation", you'll see the following rubric, or heading: "constipation painful, compels child to desist from effort," with Sulphur being the highest-rated among three remedies, so with that, I recommended Sulphur. Unexpected benefits from Sulphur were: the child no longer cried at bedtime, no longer cried in the car, no longer cried after day care, no longer was afraid of animals or moving toys like toy cars, no longer perspired profusely at night, no longer woke up to drink water, and now plays by herself without insisting that her mother watch her. Well, does anyone know a prescription drug that can accomplish this much? On a more serious note, there are children with serious behavior problems! Yes, homeopathy works for these too! Take a look at a remedy like Tarentula Hispanica; here's what Dr. Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman has to say about it in her book Ritalin-Free Kids: "Tarentula children have rhythm. Their active, climbing, jumping restlessness mimics animal behavior. They love music and rhythmic activities like dancing, tapping or drumming and it soothes them. Cunning and mischievous, they play tricks on their parents and other children, tell lies and love to hide. They are very hurried and impatient. Often destructive, they have to be watched very closely as they are capable of breaking anything they get their hands on. They are very impulsive and distractible. Twitching and jerking of the muscles is a common symptom....They can have tantrums and fits...." Dr. Reichenberg-Ullman describes one two year old Tarentula patient thusly, "She fought for hours against going to sleep...in a frenzy every night...she screamed at the top of her lungs during most of our interview...she had a habit of throwing herself on the floor when unhappy...she had not gotten one good night's sleep since birth." I suspect the parents hadn't either! Five weeks after being given Tarentula Hispanica, the mother reported, "Angela no longer has tantrums and extreme moodiness, just the odd two-year-old stuff." What can standard medicine do for children like these? Some of you will no doubt say, "If homeopathy is so great, how come my doctor doesn't know about it?" In other parts of the world, doctors do know about it, and it's even commonplace in such countries as England, where the Queen and the whole royal family use homeopathy! Prince Charles carries a homeopathic first aid kit with him where ever he goes! It's only in the United States where people are so ignorant of this healing modality--probably because it's too complicated for doctors to understand, it would take a long time for them to learn and at great expense and so the incentive is not there. They can relate to vitamins and nutrition and are happy to incorporate them into the advice they give their patients, but the study of homeopathy would bring diminishing returns as there's no big pay off at the end of the day--just the satisfaction of having healed the whole person in the least harmful way. So, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, Homeopathy and Children. Please take your trash with you on your way out. Kelly, you can untie me now....Kelly? Hello......When did Kelly leave? |
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Elaine Lewis, DHom, CHom takes online cases. Visit her website at: www.hpathy.com/office/ElaineLewis.asp |
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