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Introduction To Homeopathy: Common Remedies For Babies and Children
Introduction To Homeopathy: Common Remedies For Babies and Children
Introduction To Homeopathy: Common Remedies For Babies and Children
Dioscorea - child will throw its head backwards and arch like a bow
- opposite modalities to Colocynthis
- great flatulence with rumbling
Esophageal reflux : - Nat phos ( tissue salt) -2 or 3
times/day
- Acidity
An overly acidic system. Indigestion or heartburn.
Lactic acid build-up. Rheumatism – painful muscles and
connective tissue. Sciatica. Complaints from fatty food.
Acne with greasy skin
Teething
Chamomilla - no 1 remedy to help children to go through the teething process
(adults also)
-angry and demanding baby/child
Pulsatilla - gentle, weepy children, love consolation
- pulls mommy’s dress all the time wanting to be held
- thirstlessness/ loves outside
Rheum Palmatum - sour diarrhoea during dentition
- difFicult dentition
- characteristic sour smelling (all discharges and exhalations)
Tissue salts mix - Calc fluor + Calc phos + Silica ( + Mag phos)
-2 or 3 times/day during the acute phase
Constipation – Nux Vomica - frequent innefectual urging or passing
small quanities of stool at each eattempt
- may be nausea and bitter taste in the mouth
- indigestion caused by over-eating
-also too much toxicity (used successfully to detox allopathic
drugs)
Opium - no urging/ no activity on the bowels( could be even weeks) due
to paresis of the intestines
- stool is hard, round, black balls like sheep dung.
Pulsatilla - usually called for the “ripe” cold, when there is a lot of
yellow/yellowish-green thick discharge
- copious flow in the morning
- loss of smell, stuffed nose at night
- lips chapped and peel, child has a tendency to moisten them
- thirstlessness/ better in open air
FIRST AID REMEDIES
ACONITE - any type of shock - physical, mental + “ARNICA” for the eye (any
trauma to the eye ball)
ARNICA - any trauma on the muscles( falls, bruises, tooth extractions, after-
birth pains, after surgery pains…)
BELLIS PERENIS – trauma to soft tissue -breast, testicles( deeper than arnica’s
action)