Treating Children with Homeopathy

Homeopathy uses highly dilute substances from nature, in a matching process where a medicine is chosen according to the symptoms of your child. It is thought to work by stimulating your child’s immune system to function more efficiently and it gently rebalances emotional dysfunction.

You can safely use homeopathy at home for everyday problems. To get you started, you will probably need the following remedies at some time in your child’s development:

Teething Chamomilla 30C inconsolable and angry child

Trapped wind Magnesium phos 30C baby doubles up in pain

Nappy rash Calendula 30C and calendula cream, soothing & antiseptic

Earache Pulsatilla30C clingy, weepy with greenish discharge from ear

Fever Aconite 30C sudden fevers after getting chilled

Belladonna30C high temperature, red face

Gelsemium 30C slow onset fevers with chills, bone pain & fatigue

Coughs Bryonia 30C miserable, irritable, better keeping still

Pulsatilla 30C clingy, weepy copious yellow/green mucous

Vomiting Nux vomica 30C bilious and bad tempered

Arsenicum album 30C after bad food, with diarrhoea & restlessness

Bumps Arnica 30C for bruises, also for shock & exhaustion

When to visit a Homeopath

While it safe to use homeopathy for everyday complaints, some symptoms are early warning signs of a deeper underlying problem such as increased irritability, sleeplessness, feelings of dread guilt or depression. These can indicate a need for attention from a registered homeopath, who will treat constitutionally and get to the source of the underlying problem.

This will involve an initial consultation lasting up to two hours with several follow up sessions lasting approximately 1 hour.

The duration of treatment will depend on the chronicity of the problem being treated, and can be discussed with the homeopath before starting treatment.

I have a clinic in Aberfeldy every 6 weeks and I treat children at a reduced rate, I charge £20 for the initial consultation and £10 for follow up sessions.

If you have any queries or concerns or would like more information about homeopathy please contact me on 01695 633381 or email cherry@creative-block.co.uk

by Cherry Spencer

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(3) Jacobs J, Springer DA Crothers D, Homeopathic treatment of acute otitis media in children: a preliminary randomized placebo-controlled trial. Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal 2001 Feb 20 (2):177-83

(4) Randomized Controlled trials(RCTs) of homeopathy in hyperactive children: treatment procedure leads to an unconventional study design. Experience with open label homeopathic treatment preceeding to the Swiss ADHD RCT crossover trial. H Frei et al.Homeopathy 2007 Vol 96 issue 1:pp 35-41.