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ABDOMINAL CRAMPS (Colic)
Cramping abdominal pains (“bellyaches”) that arise suddenly, but come and go intermittently, with pain-free periods in between.

COLUBRINA 6 CH NUX VOMICA 6 CH
Basic medication, to be used in all instances of stomach cramps.

CHAMOMELLA 6 CH
Cramps due to teething; nervous tension. These lessen when infant is being rocked.

NUX VOMICA 6 C
Basic medication, to be used in all instances of stomach cramps.

CUPRUM METALLICUM 6 C
Intermittent cramps with diarrhea; relieved by drinking cold liquids.

MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA 6 C
Abdominal cramps that decrease when patient puts pressure on abdomen by bending over and applies heat (hot water bottle)

COLOCYNTHIS 6 C
Cramps accompanied by rage; lessen when patient bends over.

DOSAGE
Combine NUX VOMICA 6 C with the other selected medication. 3 granules of each 3 to 4 times per day until cramping stops.

ACONITUM NAPELLUS 6 C
Medication for suddenly occurring high fevers, with red, hot and dry skin (no sweating).

BELLADONNA 6 C
Medication for suddenly occurring high fevers, with red skin radiating heat, and profuse sweating.

FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM 6 C
Medication for a moderate fever that appears gradually, with sweating, thirst: occasional nose bleeds: face alternately red or pale.

RHUS TOXICODENDRON 6 C
Medication for skin: when small blisters form on red skin; much itching and consequent scratching.

CANTHARIS 6 C
Medication for skin: for large blisters that tend to become infected.

MEZEREUM 6 C
Medication for skin; for blisters producing whitish secretions, eventually covered by whitish crusts; itching.

SULFUR IODATUM 6 C
Medication for the skin, to be used after an eruption.

DOSAGE
3 granules (each) of selected medication(s) 3 times per day.

CHAMOMILLA 6 C
Diarrheas associated with teething; after a temper tantrum; accompanied by abdominal cramps and intestinal gas [bloating]. Infant irritable, moody; demands to be cuddled.

PODOPHYLLUM 6 C
Watery stools, painless, but expelled explosively. Gums inflamed: teething. Lying on stomach alleviates discomfort.

MAGNESIA CARBONICA 30 C
Greenish, frothy stools with sour smell; sweating: intolerance to milk.

DOSAGE
3 to 4 granules of selected medication per day. Lengthen interval when improvement begins.

CINA 6 C
Temporary bed-wetting while child is suffering from verminosis [infestation with worms] (see that category)

LACHESIS 30 C
Signs of jealousy; general weakness on arising; sensitive skin.

HYPOSCYAMUS 30 C
Jealous, quarrelsome, excited, distrustful child. Incontinent of both urine and feces.

IGNATIA 30 C
Transitory bed-wetting following an upset or a change in routine.

CAUSTICUM 6 C
Bed-wetting during first sleep; reduced urinating reflex; vesicular paresis [slight or minor paralysis of bladder]; (e.g. when coughing or laughing).

SEPIA 6 C
Bed-wetting during first sleep; ill-smelling urine with residues that stain sheets; child is thin, liverish [peevish], sad.

BELLADONNA 6 C
Bed-wetting during middle or towards end of night; very deep but restless sleep - child talks, moans, jerks while sleeping. Tenderness in region of kidneys.

EQUISETUM 6 C
Repeated bed-wetting episodes during night; no specific signs or symptoms; micturition [voiding of urine] sometimes accompanies defecation [voiding of feces]. Child is demineralized [lacks adequate amounts of minerals and salts], complains of feeling chilly.

DOSAGE
3 granules of selected medication. 3 times per day.

MEDORRHINUM 30 C
Basic medication, to be used in all cases.

BELLADONNA 6 C
Skin red, painful, hot, moist.

SULFUR 6 C
Skin around anus and on buttocks red; associated with other skin problems: redness of ears, cheeks, bends of joints.

RHUS TOXICODENDRON 6 C
Skin red [erythematous; accumulation of blood], covered with small blisters containing a clear fluid: itching.

CANTHARIS 6 C
Large blisters, which easily become infected.

DOSAGE
Combine MEDORRHINUM 6 C with medication selected for specific symptomatology. 3 granules (each) of selected medication(s) twice per day.

FEVER (Pediatrics)
Fever is the predominant sign in all viral and microbial infections of the child. Fever involves other manifestations (how high is temperature? Does patient sweat? Complain of thirst? Cough? What is color of patient’s face?). Which must be carefully observed to select most suitable medication.

when Origin of fever is known:

CHAMOMILLA 6 C
Fever during teething; one cheek red and hot, the other pale; sometimes accompanied by diarrhea and abdominal cramps; irritability; infant improves when cuddled. 3 granules 3 times per day.

CINA 6 C
Fever resulting from infestation with worms: child is capricious, ill-humored, and angry. 3 granules 3 times per day.

when High fever:
Temperature exceeds l0l°F.

ACONITUM NAPELLUS 6 C
High fever occurs suddenly: skin red, hot, dry (no sweating); fever increases towards midnight; terrors and anxiety.

BELLADONNA 6 C
High fever occurs suddenly; skin red, body radiates heat: sweating: sleep fitful, child talks while sleeping; child sensitive to light and movements (which aggravate condition); rest brings on improvement.

APIS 6 C
Sudden high fever; inflammation, throat red, burning, sore: uvula [small projection from end of soft palate or roof of mouth] swollen; child is not thirsty.

when Moderate fever
Temperature below l01°F.

FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM 6 C
Moderate fever, developing gradually; sweating, thirst, sometimes nose-bleeds, colour of face alternately red, then pale. Child continues to play. Medication for inflammatory illness (otitis ear infection). Child appears sickly.

EUPATORIUM 30 C
Fever higher in morning; overall stiffness: pain around eyes; headaches.

BRYONIA 6 C
Fever develops slowly; dry mouth: child thirsts for cold water; headaches of forehead: dry, painful cough; patient does not move; improves with rest. Occurs primarily in active and lean children.

GELSEMIUM 6 C
Fever with shaking; child not thirsty; stuporous [partly unconscious].

RHUS TOXICODENDRON 6 C
Patient agitated, sleepy, aching during febrile [feverish] episodes and constantly moving about. Rash may accompany the condition.

DOSAGE
3 granules (each) of selected medkation(s)
every half hour at beginning of treatment;
later, 4 to 5 times per day.

CUPRUM METALLICUM 6 C
Medication for abdominal cramps and other spasms [sudden, involuntary contractions]. Persistent hiccoughs, temporarily alleviated by sips of cold water.

IGNATIA 30 C
Hiccoughs resulting from emotional [affective] shock.

NUX VOMICA 6 C
Hiccoughs due to overeating; liver problems, nausea.

DOSAGE
3 granules of selected medication whenever necessary.

TARENTULA 30 C
Violent and disorganized behaviour; child is tireless, overly sensitive [hypersensitive]; displays changeable and often contradictory behaviours; quieted by music.

CHAMOMILLA 30 C
Irascible child; violent rages during which child becomes red in face, hits floor, breaks toys and attacks anyone nearby. Tantrums abate when child is cuddled and rocked.

NUX VOMICA 30 C
Depressed child, overcome by its own personality problems, its violence, irritability, general dissatisfaction. Restless sleep; nightly waking periods.

STRAMONIUM 30 C
Mental and physical agitation. Weird movements of arm, leg and face muscles. Tics [involuntary compulsive movements]. Sleeplessness [insomnia] in the (lark, so that child wants light when sleeping; night terrors.

DOSAGE
3 granules of selected medication
twice per day.

CHAMOMILLA 30 C
Insomnia due to teething.

MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA 6 C
Sleeplessness due to abdominal cramps.

IGNATIA 30 C
Insomnia due to emotional stress or change in routine.

DOSAGE
3 granules (each) of selected medications 3 times per day.

CALCAREA CARBONICA 6 C
Large infant, with sweaty head and sour smell; whitish, crust-like deposits on head.

ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM 6 C
Large, over-fed and greedy infant, with very thick, yellowish, weeping crusts, mainly on face (nose and lips).

MEZEREUM 30 C
Small blisters [vesicles] with whitish secretion, white crusts; bad smell; itching of affected areas; hair plastered to scalp.)

DOSAGE
3 granules of selected medication 2 to 3 times per day.

OTITIS (EAR INFLAMMATION)
Otitis is an acute or chronic inflammation of the middle ear, characterized by pain, discharge and hearing problems.

Because condition requires an otoscopic (looking into earl examination a health professional should be consulted. While waiting to health professional, consider:

ARSENICUM ALBUM 6 C
Burning pains, lessened by heat. Agitation, anxiety; patientworsens towards evening. Deterioration of overall condition; thirst, fever.
Use in association with:

FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM 6 C
Fever; inflammation, pain, redness of ear-drum, outer ear and cheek on affected side.
or
ACONITUM NAPELLUS 6 C
Fever, sharp pains after sudden exposure to dry cold. or

BELLADONNA 6 C
Fever with sweating, congestion, redness of face, intense pains

DOSAGE
3 granules of ARSENICUM ALBUM 6 C every hour, together with one of the other three medications for fever.

CHAMOMILLA 6 C
For ear inflammation accompanying teething. Child tolerates the pain poorly; quietens when cuddled.

PYROGENIUM 30 C
To be taken, in addition to any other medication, in all instances when there is pus present.

SILICEA 30 C
Medication for pus producing conditions that tend to recur.

PREVENTION CONSIDERATION
1 dose of THYMULINE. 9 C weekly for 5 weeks, at onset of winter.

AETHUSA CYNAPIUM 6 C
Acute milk intolerance; vomiting immediately after drinking milk; child refuses to drink.

ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM 6 C
Over-fed, greedy baby with coated, whitish tongue.

CUPRUM METALLICUM 6 C
Spastic regurgitations, often associated with hiccoughs.

DOSAGE
3 granules of selected medication 3 times per day.

NATRUM CARBONICUM 30 CH
Mental lassitude, poor academic results; “laziness”, poor memory [lack of concentration because of too much studying]. Child is overemotional: timid, trembling, sad; distances self from fellow-students. Headaches accompany even the least mental effort.

NUX VOMICA 30 C
Child is overworked, depressed and has a “difficult” personality: violent, irritable, generally dissatisfied. Sleep is agitated and often interrupted throughout the night; various digestive troubles: anorexia [loss of appetite], stomach cramps.

PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM 30 C
Nervous depression due to excessive mental activity; prostration [total exhaustion]: physical and mental fatigue; child isolates self in “shell of silence”, refuses to see anyone. Mentally deficient: has ceased to understand, assimilate, or remember.

DOSAGE
3 granules of selected medication 3 times per day.

COFFEA 12C
Sleeplessness accompanied by nervousness and excitation.

ARNICA 30 CH
Over-tired after too much playing.

BELLADONNA 30 CH
When child has fever, talks while sleeping, is agitated.

STRAMONIUM 30 CH
Fear of dark; wants lights left on; night tenors.

KALIUM BROMATUM 30 CH
Night terrors, somnambulism sleep walking].

DOSAGE
3 granules (each) selected medication(s) 3 limes per day.

CHAMOMILLA 6 CH
Teething pains with fever; one cheek red and hot, the other pale; abdominal cramps and diarrhea. Infant is irritable, but soothed by rocking.

PHYFOLACCA 6 CH
For painful gums, infant needs to bite down on something to relieve pain; red throat.

PODOPHYLLUM 6 C
Inflammed gums; needs to bite down on something; much diarrhea.

DOSAGE
3 granules of the selected medication 3 to 4 times per day. Lengthen interval as soon as condition Improves.

CANDIDA ALBICANS 6 C
3 granules 3 times per day. To be taken regularly together with

MERCURIUS CYANATUS 6 C
3 granules 3 times per day.

LARYDOLT
Topical use as throat and mouth spray.

TABACUM 30 C
3 granules one half hour before departure; take hourly while travelling.

IPECALUANHA 6 C
Vomiting and hypersalivation [excessive production of saliva]; tongue clean [uncoated].

NUX VOMICA 6 C
Vomiting associated with abdominal cramps; tongue coated.

PULSATILLA 6 C
Vomiting after ingesting fats.

ARSENICUM ALBUM 6 C
Vomit has bad smell; vomiting accompanied by diarrhea, fatigue, dehydration.

DOSAGE
3 granules of selected medication 3 to 4 limes per day. Increase interval as soon as condition improves.

...adapted from "Living Healthy with Homeopathy" by Pascal Frochisse, Pharmacist, Ph.D., Les Editions Du Detail Inc, Canada
...courtesy of DolisosUSA

...note: this information describes the most common illnesses treatable by self-medication and in no way replaces the medical consultation needed whenever symptoms persist or worsen.