HOMOEOPATHY AND CHILDREN

YOUR CHILD’S HEALTH IS IMPORTANT. KEEP IT IN SAFE HANDS WITH HOMOEOPATHY

Homoeopathy is safe, natural, holistic, and has no side effects. 
 
Homeopathy is considered to be the ideal treatment option for infants, toddlers and older kids.

Children easily take the medicine since it is not bitter. 

o  TEETHING – WITH COMPLAINTS

o  CALCIUM SUPPLEMENT

o  IRON SUPPLEMENT

o  APPETITE AND GROWTH TONIC

o  WORMS

oABDOMEN COLIC 

o  ALLERGY RELIEF: RESPIRATORY AND SKIN

o  SKIN: RASHES, ALLERGIES, INFECTIONS

oRECURRENT TONSILLITIS

oENLARGED ADENOIDS

oBEDWETTING

oALLERGIES

oASTHMA

oBRONCHITIS

oDIARRHOEA

oCONSTIPATION

oEMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS

o  IMMUNITY: FROM RECURRENT ILLNESS AND INFECTION

AND MANY MORE CONDITIONS.

 

GUIDELINES FOR PATIENTS ON HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT

GUIDELINES FOR PATIENTS ON HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT

The source of all homoeopathic medicines is from nature and when taken under medical guidance will not give any side-effects. There are NO steroids in homoeopathy. Homeopathy stimulates the body’s inbuilt healing process to cure your illness. The aim is to cure safely and gently and not suppress the disease.

Homoeopathy has no chemical action like allopathy to cause side-effects. Homeopathy does not cause dependency or withdrawal effects. You can safely take homeopathy for years if the case demands long-term treatment, without any worry of side-effects.

Homeopathy can be safely given to all age groups including babies, children, and even during pregnancy and lactation.

Homeopathy can be taken for all types of acute and chronic diseases. Please make use of homeopathy for all your medical problems and not just for skin diseases, tonsillitis, acidity, hair-fall, and arthritis. The scope of homoeopathy is much wider and deeper covering the entire individual holistically for all your mental and physical complaints.

During a homoeopathic consultation, please give an account of all your medical problems, however mild or irrelevant they may feel to you. You may think you need treatment only for your headache, but your acidity and constipation may be the supporting cause for the headache. Therefore mention about all your complaints and let the physician decide what is important and how to treat it. Also mention about any mental stress or psychological symptoms you may be experiencing with your illness.

Homoeopathy can be taken along with allopathy if the medication is going on for a long time. Certain medications like anti-hypertensive, anti-diabetic, steroids, antibiotics, etc., should not be stopped abruptly unless directed by the treating physician. The dose needs to be gradually tapered off as the condition improves. You can take supplements like calcium, vitamin-D, multivitamins, aloe-vera, wheatgrass, spirulina, etc. along with the homeopathic treatment. Consult your physician about its appropriate use.

Homoeopathic treatment should be continued regularly as advised by the physician. The homeopathic physician, after taking your case, plans out the treatment for the acute and chronic phase of the disease. Please discuss with your physician about it. Do not abruptly stop treatment.

Please visit the physician at regular intervals as discussed in the consultation. Do not give gaps between follow-ups. Take your medicines as directed by the physician. Do not miss the doses. You are also responsible for your health. You will not get good results if you are not regular with your treatment. Give correct feedback about the changes you notice in your health during follow-up. Please visit the clinic for follow-up and avoid phone follow-ups as far as possible.

It is better that you consult your homeopathic physician for any other problem that comes up during the ongoing treatment of your present illness. E.g.: Person may suffer from diarrhea from eating outside food during the treatment going on for chronic headache. The homeopathic physician will give you a suitable remedy to overcome the acute problem. Consult an allopathic doctor only if the homeopathic physician is not available or he advises you to take allopathy depending on the severity and progress of your disease. Revert back to your homoeopathic physician on completing the allopathic course.

Homeopathy can be used as a preventive mode of treatment. At the outbreak of contagious diseases and fevers, homeopathy can be used to prevent the disease. Even if one gets the illness during the outbreak, it will be in a milder form.

Request your homeopathic doctor for a home-kit of homeopathic medicines to cover any acute episodes during holidays or during vacations and journeys. The physician can prepare a set of most likely needed medicines according to your individual case requirements. It is advisable to consult your doctor immediately if no improvement sets in few doses. Discuss with your doctor the method of application of this kit before starting any medicine from the kit at the time of purchase.

Do not eat or drink anything 20-30 minutes before and after the homeopathic dose. The action of the medicine starts in the mouth. Therefore no other food or drink should interfere with the effect of the dose. Do not swallow the medicine with water. It has to be chewed till the pills dissolve in the mouth. Do not drink water immediately after taking the dose. Do not touch the pills while taking the dose. Take the pills in the cap of the bottle and put it directly in the mouth.

Keep the medicine away from direct heat, light, dampness, and strong smelling substances like camphor, perfume, and scented products.

I use original seal-packed medicines made by homoeopathic manufacturers who have collaboration with Indian, French, German, and Swiss manufacturers. Utmost care is taken to maintain the quality of medicines used for treatment. Certain medicines are made by special order from the manufacturer according to patient requirements. I also update myself by attending seminars, conferences and clinical meetings. I use the latest homoeopathic software for case analysis and references. The professional and medication fees charged are in proportion to the above standards of treatment provided.

HOMOEOPATHIC DILUTION OR PILLS – WHICH IS BETTER?

One question that is often asked by patients is whether the homoeopathic liquid dilution taken directly acts better and faster than the pills. The answer is NO. 

The reason is that homoeopathy works by stimulus. So it does not matter whether you take liquid or tablet or pills. Once it goes in the mouth, it starts acting.

But please keep in mind, occasionally medicine is also administered in water in certain conditions. But again, water is a vehicle of administration. Ultimately it makes no difference whether you put pills or drops in water.

The only exception is homoeopathic mother tincture which is always taken in liquid form.

Homoeopathic Wet Pills vs. Dry pills – Which are better?

Many times it has been observed that after a few days the pills become dry; there is no taste of the medicine dilution on taking the pills in the mouth. Many feel that the medicine has evaporated and thereby intake of the dry pills will not help them.

Let’s get a bit technical………. According to the instructions laid down in the pharmacy book for dispensing medication, it has been mentioned that after medicating the globules with the medicinal dilution the vial of pills has to be emptied on a blotting paper so as to absorb the extra dilution. After thus ‘drying’ the pills, the vial is refilled and dispensed to the patient. 

Now the above pharmacy procedure is not practical since it is time-consuming. Also it is commonly observed that the pills get dry due to natural evaporation. So it really does not matter whether you intake wet pills or dry pills. Psychologically we feel better when the taste of the dilution is felt in the mouth. 

It is not possible to exactly medicate the pills with the exact quantity of dilution; so to be on the safer side, always an extra amount of dilution is added to ensure uniform medication of all globules. So in the initial few days the pills are always wet.

PLEASE IMPRINT ON YOUR MIND – the pills once medicated with the dilution will ALWAYS remain medicated no matter whether they are dry or wet. There is no need of any concern or worry regarding the medicinal effect. The right medicine will always have the right effect.

THE IMPORTANCE OF “NEVER WELL SINCE” (NWS) IN HOMOEOPATHY.

It is a well-known fact that Homoeopathy treats the person holistically. The homoeopathic physician takes a number of factors into consideration before prescribing any medicine or suggesting any lifestyle changes to restore you back to health.

One of the most important data in case-taking is the “NEVER WELL SINCE” symptom. This is nothing but the causative factor that was operating in the person’s life before the onset of his symptom. It is one of the most decisive and fundamental aspect of the entire case and if found can help in solving the case speedily.  Many times the person is not aware to link the NWS with the symptoms that are troubling him and thus not revealing vital information to the physician. In allopathic practice too causative factor are recognized, but only common ones are grouped together as risk factors for such-and-such disease. E.g.: cholesterol and heart disease. Even if it does recognize certain environmental factors, it has no solutions for it other than giving symptomatic or suppressive measures for it. E.g: Diarrhea in allopathy is treated by an anti-diarrheal, maybe with ORS powder and a prebiotic/probiotic; an antibiotic may be given if the cause is thought to be infective. But in homeopathy we have medicines for multiple causative factors of diarrhea – Is it by eating contaminated food? Is it by eating fish? Is it due to drinking milk? Is it due to some acute stress like appearing for an exam? The remedies change according to the cause. There is no fixed anti-diarrheal, we always treat the cause and effect.

Carrying this idea forward, I am presenting some hints and examples to the reader of NWS to sensitize him/her to this important aspect of case-taking. It will help to give better information to the doctor while case-taking so as to derive better results. It is also important to note that this is not the only method of case taking; there are many other factors which are taken into consideration before selecting the medicine. Even if you are not able to give this data, do not worry. The homeopathic physician has many methods to select the correct medicine for you.

The NWS list given below is not exhaustive, but only a means to attract your attention to such factors. You may find some are applicable in your case which you have not reported to your homoeopathic physician. The causative incident which has recently occurred and followed by the problem is easy to correlate, but events happened long back may be difficult to trace to the onset of symptoms. One way is to write down all the diseases you have suffered in the past and also the major events in your life happened so far. Only then you might strike some clue about the cause-effect correlation with the event and disease. Again it is not always possible to do so, but whenever this data is available it should be always brought to the attention of the treating homoeopathic physician.

MIND

Anger

Anxiety

Bad News

Business Failure

Death of family Member

Disappointed Love

Argument between boss and employee

Fear

Excessive joy (Yes, even an excess of happiness can be bad)

Sudden shock

Suppressed anger, grief.

Worry

Examples:

Diarrhea due to fear of exam.

Hypertension after death of husband.

Diabetes after loss in business.

ENVIRONMENT

Weather – wet, dry, cold, hot, snow, wind

Heat/sun stroke

Seashore

Sun

Living in marshy area, damp places.

Examples:

Headache from sunlight.

Cough from sudden cold weather.

Itching skin from seawater.

Joint pains in Mumbai, but no complaints in Pune or Surat.

Cold cough in Mumbai, but no complaints in Delhi.

INJURY

Bleeding

Head injury

Cut, laceration

Fractures

Electric shock

Insect-bite

Over-lifting, overstraining

Examples:

Headache after head injury.

Neck pain after carrying heavy bag.

DIET

Coffee

Milk

Tea

Tobacco

Alcohol

Fried food

Any food or drink

Example:

Diarrhea after fried food.

Acidity from tea.

Skin rash from milk.

Abdomen pain from eating prawns.

MISCELLANEOUS

Loss of sleep

Antibiotics, drugs

Childhood diseases

Acute diseases

Vaccination

Surgery

Herpes Zoster

Liver disease.

Steroids

Childbirth

Suppressed sweat

Examples:

Migraine after loss of sleep due caring for sick relative.

Digestive problems after hepatitis.

Continuous weakness after fever, even when fever subsided many weeks back.

Repeated respiratory infections after recovering from attack of pneumonia.

Abdomen pain after surgery, but nothing seen on ultrasonography or urine or blood tests.