American Institute of Homeopathy Handbook for Parents: A Guide to Healthy Treatment for Everything From Colds and Allergies to ADHD, Obesity, and Depression by Edward Shalts M. D. & D.ht

Author:Edward Shalts M. D. & D.ht.
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780787980337
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2005-08-31T21:00:00+00:00

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are provided. The remedy is placed in capsules that can be swallowed like a conventional medication. This preparation is becoming popular among plastic surgeons and is appropriate for anyone undergoing serious surgical procedures that require Arnica. It’s especially good for nihilistic teenagers, who don’t want to take “weird pills.”

• Gelsemium sempervirens. This works well for severe anxiety before surgery. The child could be trembling with fear and feel weak. (Compare with the Aconitum state, where the reaction is very strong and includes terror and a strong fear of death.)

• Phosphorus. This remedy helps relieve bad effects of anesthesia, like disorientation, anxiety, nausea, and vomiting. It’s helpful for nausea and vomiting after abdominal surgery.

Common Problems Easily Treated with Homeopathy

Homeopathy is extremely effective in treating common childhood infections, some of which all children experience at one time or another. This section discusses the childhood infections chicken pox, measles, rubella, mumps, parvovirous, and mononucleosis.

These illnesses are becoming more and more uncommon due to vaccinations. Although it’s a rare occurrence, they may cause significant distress in your child. The beginning of these illnesses looks like a common cold or a flu and should be treated with remedies described in the next section (“Colds and Flu”). When the correctly chosen remedies work right away, you might not even know that your child had chicken pox or measles. The specific remedies listed here are also very helpful. You should always get in touch with your physician right away. All of these diseases are viral, and antibiotics don’t help in the initial stages of the illness. However, the homeopathic remedies listed here provide effective relief for specific symptoms of each childhood disease. As with any other illness, you should not try many various remedies. Allow a homeopath to deal with the situation if your initial efforts fail. If, despite your best efforts, bacterial infection complicates the situation,

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allow your pediatrician or a family physician to use his or her skills to improve your child’s condition.

There are a few remedies that are considered to be specific for particular complaints associated with these diseases. I will list the ones that I have found helpful in my practice, including specific characteristics for the remedies used in the treatment of colds and fever.

Chicken Pox

The discomfort is caused by eruptions that look like little pimples (blisters) and appear on the trunk first, than face and head in crops.

The illness lasts for about ten days, but the incubation period (time between the exposure and the appearance of first symptoms) is the longest of all childhood infections: two to three weeks. This disease is highly contagious, from a few days before the appearance of eruptions until the last blister scabs over. It is caused by the varicella virus, which belongs to the herpes family of viruses. These viruses can remain in the body for many years and become reactivated with stress in adults causing shingles (herpes zoster).

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