May Flowers...

Welcome to a belated May's issue of Homeopathy Seattle. 

There is something calling me to write about children this month.  Perhaps my own children drive me there.  Or perhaps it's just that many parents come to my office for help with their children.  Either way, I have seen many children lately with outstanding results. 

This issue of Homeopathy Seattle is dedicated to children.

Homeopathy for children

I had a recent discussion with my partner about our children and what she and I would do differently about raising them. We both screamed out that in the next life we're putting in for no children. After a few laughs, I thought more about children, and how they have altered my life. The thoughts that came forth were quite profound. There are few truths that I have observed as a parent and as a homeopath. Here is one:

All children are completely unique. How they talk, walk, scream, cry, eat, breath, sleep, pee, poop and fart can be completely different from one another. Those who have more than one child understand this. No two children are the same. Children can be alike, but there are always differences. This is an important understanding as it is vital to understanding homeopathy.

Homeopathy isn't a "this for that" medicine. If one has an ear infection I don't just give the remedy that is for ear infections. There are 67 remedies that cover otitis media. Ear infection is just the tip of the iceberg in regards to gathering information. Which ear is it? Is this an acute situation, or has it been going on for a while? Is there fluid, pain, sensation? Is the behavior different? The combinations can be endless. But there comes an end where all the important symptoms are gathered and analyzed. A remedy is then selected that fits the picture of what is happening for that person.

There is another truth I have discovered as well:

Apples don’t fall far from trees . Children resemble their parents or primary caregivers from an energetic standpoint, especially the mother. A child has been living inside its mother for 9 months, any chance the baby is feeling what the mother is feeling? You bet. Not only are there DNA attributes, there are emotional attributes. Recently, I asked a mother who brought in her child for fears and separation anxiety what her pregnancy was like. She went into a story about how scared she felt to lose the baby. Is it no wonder that the child feels this way? Another mother described how she felt abused emotionally by the father during her pregnancy. He was telling her that she was fat. This impacted the mother and her ability to feel good about her pregnancy. Now her child has a fear of being left out and a forsaken feeling. Could this have been how the mother felt? Could this feeling have been passed on to fetus from mother? I see this everyday in practice. When I treat children with a homeopathic remedy I am looking for what is vitally important now for that child and for the mother during pregnancy, and then finding a homeopathic remedy that fits the child.  I am essential taking the mother's case as well as the child's case.

A prominent Indian homeopath named Farokh Masters discusses remedies in his book “Clinical Observations of Children’s Remedies” often from a standpoint of how the mother was feeling during pregnancy.

Below are 8 remedies that illustrate a mothers emotions during pregnancy being transfered to child: 

Aurum Metalicum (gold) – “Children whose mother suffered from a disappointment in love during pregnancy.”

Lac Caninum (dog’s milk) – “Children born to mothers who suffered from great hopelessness and despondency during pregnancy.”

Lachesis (bushmaster snake) – “Children who are born with feelings of hostility toward the world; their mothers also had similar mental states during their pregnancies, due to severe abuse by family, friends, or society.”

Magnesium Carbonicum – “Children who are orphaned, illegitimate, and neglected.”

Opium – “Children who are born during a period of war frequently require this remedy.”

Staphysagria (delphinium) – “Maternal history of arguments, broken relationships, disappointments in love, and suppressed anger during pregnancy.”

Stramonium (thorn apple) – “Mother was injured, either physically or emotionally, e.g. disappointment in love, fright, grief, marital tortures, reproaches.”

Tarantula – “Children who are born out of wedlock, where unrequited love was a strong emotion in the mother.” 

And one final truth:

Children are like sponges. Children absorb so much from their environment: energy, attitudes, behaviors - both positive and negative and everything in between. When does it become a problem? The key is susceptibility. In homeopathy susceptibility is everything. Why one is susceptible isn’t as important as how they are affected. This is what interests me as a homeopath.  How does it manifest for this person? Perhaps mother and father are fighting and how might a child react to this?  Maybe the child is fearful and hides, or maybe they run out and join in the fighting, or maybe screaming and crying is their method of coping. The reaction is tell tale and will lead me to a remedy that is specific to the child, how they act and react. It is their strategy to get by in life. Everyone had to develop a strategy or they wouldn’t be alive. My job as homeopath is to find out what the persons strategy has been.  And then find a remedy that corresponds to that type of behavior.  Homeopathy is a complete system of medicine encompassing mental, emotional, behavioral and physical.

The comments I hear from parents after successful homeopathic treatment  is often spectacular.  I urge you to make an appointment for your children, it is truly
one of the best gifts you could give.

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