School's Back: What About My Child?

 

My child’s misbehaving in school: what can I do?

Yes, homeopathy can cover ADD, too! ADD, ADHD, call it whatever you want - your child has difficulty concentrating, he's acting out in class, the teacher is worried and wants you to give him Ritalin? Fear no more! 

Individualization is the key in treating any chronic condition with homeopathy, but it is particularly important in treating children with ADHD. Symptoms in these children can vary greatly: some are violent and aggressive, others are sweet, sensitive and compassionate, trying to cooperate fully with the physician although unable to concentrate in school. This diversity explains why no one medication, whether prescription or homeopathic, will work for all these children.

Advantages of Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a true science based on laws and principles AND the only scientific way of testing its validity: remedies tested on healthy individuals, not animals neither sick patients as is done in Western medicine. Western medicine has no principles or laws, except that “the Contrary Cures the Contrary.” This is why no therapy in Western medicine survives the test of time. After some years, at first heralded therapies are abandoned and new ones are pursued. They call it progress, but true healing methods have survived centuries of scrutinies. Homeopathy is almost 200 years old while acupuncture survived 5,000 years. What was true and efficient then still is now!

Before we start explaining what homeopathy can do for your ADD child, consider the advantages of homeopathy when compared to Western medicine.

• The treatment is individualized-it considers the whole patient himself through symptoms, rather than the disease as a name. Too often, we physicians think that our work is finished when we put the patient in a category of disease. “Yes, you have ADD. Here is the prescription for Ritalin. Go home and pray that it will work.” Homeopathy does not need a name of disease. It looks at the person as a whole and tries to find the contributing factors of disease.
• All remedies recommended in homeopathy have extensive human experiment. Contrary to what opponents of homeopathy would have you believe, all remedies are tested in the only scientific way, i.e. on normal, healthy individuals.
• The homeopathic method of prescribing on a totality of symptoms is designed to be curative, not just palliative and suppressive as when takes a sleeping pill for insomnia. Little in allopathic medicine is directed at reparation.
• Homeopathy has its time-tested usefulness. Medical fads run their course and disappear rapidly, whereas homeopathy is practiced all over the world.
• There is no drugging effect, and there are no side-effects from homeopathic remedies. Unwanted effects are homeopathic aggravations, recognized by the well-trained homeopath and easily managed.

• Its cost is very modest and its application is simple. Practicing homeopathy by a majority of physicians would turn the health budget around over night!! This is quite different from the high prices of drugs now often used in ADD/ADHD like Ritalin, Cylert or Tofranil with all their side effects. Not one ADD/ADHD patient in this world has to stay sick because they can’t afford the medications.

• Most of the remedies are prepared from fresh plants and minerals. Properly stored away from heat or radiation, they keep their strength indefinitely.

Is it not amazing that despite this long list of the benefits of homeopathy that some not-so-well-intentioned people still label this great science as quackery?

Treatment Plan

For a physician, every investigation into an illness starts with a good inquiry. Getting the facts together, the symptoms with their modalities and the different factors in the patient’s lifestyle which contribute to the disease are essential in restoring the patient’s health. Yet most physicians neglect the all-important question: “What happened in your life when you became sick or just before you became sick?” They are explicit enough in the description of symptoms and the enumeration of the different illnesses, but they rarely link the onset of the disease to a meaningful event in the patient’s life. Yet the onset is most often the clue to the solution. For your ADD child, identifying the onset will be your first task. Communicate to your physician the exact circumstances and the first symptoms observed.

The patient may have been“never well since” such diverse circumstances as:

• a heartbreak (divorce of parents, death of a pet, moving from the childhood home)
• a fright (locked in a car trunk, or almost killed in a car accident)
• changing schools
• difficult delivery when being born, sometimes with a trauma to the head from the use of forceps or suction, sometimes with temporary lack of oxygen
• the longterm effects of an operation, because of sensitivity to anesthesia
• severe diarrhea with dehydration
• recurrent antibiotic intake
• the death of a family member

Your pediatrician may not be able to make anything of this information, but a homeopathic physician will come up with ten different remedies for these ten different children. Doesn’t it make more sense to treat the root of the problem, and not merely the little sick branches (the symptoms)? Yet most doctors, alternative or conventional, do little more than trimming the twigs (removing the symptoms) because they do not know how to treat the sick root, the source of the symptoms. Conventional medicine does not have the tools to repair the beginnings of ADD. So they keep on using the few medications that cover some of its symptoms. Only holistic modalities like acupuncture and chiropractic and especially homeopathy are capable of turning ADD patient’s lives around.

Some of Ritalin’s side effect include (the full list is on drugs.com, which I strongly advise to visit for any medicine you’re using):
*heart problems (chest pain, trouble breathing, feeling like you might pass out); 
*psychosis (hallucinations, new behavior problems, aggression, hostility, paranoia); 
*circulation problems (numbness, pain, cold feeling, unexplained wounds, or skin color changes in your fingers or toes);

Swiss parents in a study, because they felt uneasy about giving allopathic medication to their children (such as Methylphenidate MPD also called Ritalin), decided to take part in a homeopathic study conducted by Heiner Frei in 2009. Five years after the study, the conclusion confirmed significant proof that homeopathic remedies gave optimal results to the majority of children participating. 75% treated with homeopathy did not require any other medication and were well integrated in their families and schools.

Law of Similars

If there’s any one point in using homeopathy, it’s that we follow a law by which we’re able to cure without drug effects, often more serious than the original disease.

Homeopathy is a science, as well as an art, but first it follows scientific laws. One of them is that whatever is causing your health issue can and will cure it, if you give it to the body in very diluted form (aka Law of Similars). Let's take an ADHD example, Medorrhinum:

-easily bored, 

- hates to read, 

- hates to study, 

- can't concentrate, 

- can't sit still, 

- feet/legs constantly moving, 

- and needs constant stimulation.  

- Thrill seekers.

How does the Law of Similars work in this case? The provers (healthy) who took Medorrhinum naturally (without a lot of dilutions that is) they exhibited the symptoms listed (and a lot more actually). Once the same substance is diluted many many times in homeopathic form, you get the reverse effect: all those symptoms disappear!  It's not magic: it's science! Because the same experience has been repeated over and over again (since almost 250 years ago when the founder Hahnemann discovered this rule by experimenting on himself!)
But you have more than one remedy in homeopathy and for ADHD about 30 could fit any profile at any time, it all depends on the specificity of the child. That's when you need a homeopath to analyse the case properly and give the patient what he or she needs according to her specific symptom picture.
Consistently, when the right remedy is chosen, the behavior changes (sometimes overnight!) and the new child starts to assume his real identity. Also, his system becomes more in harmony, more aligned and in balance, so there's less chance of being sick. You're really giving your child a nice start and chance to grow healthy in life, both physically and emotionally, when you help him with homeopathy. 

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