Clinical observations of Children´s remedies

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by  Master Farokh J.

Clinical Observations of

Children’s Remedies

Second Fully Revised Edition

Dr. Farokh J. Master M.D. (Hom.)

Associate editor
Dr. Pinky A. Bilimoria B.H.M.S.

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Title: Clinical Observations of Children’s Remedies (Second revised edition)

First Edition: February 1999
Second Fully Revised Edition: Aug 2003

By: Dr. Farokh J. Master M.D. (Hom) and Dr. Pinky A. Bilimoria B.H.M.S.
Homoeopathic Health Center
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India
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Acknowledgements

It was a great pleasure to work together with Pinky Bilimoria who devotedly and
scrupulously helped me create this second edition. Further I want to thank especially Jayesh
Dhingreja and Girish Soni, who worked at odd hours in the night, having strained their neck
and eye muscles, purely for the love they have for homoeopathy and me. I want to thank
Roxanna Mirza for readily accepting my request to correct the manuscripts. I thank René
Otter for all he has done for me and the help he has provided in editing and publishing this
work. Miss Sunita Shah for helping me to do research using the Radar and Encyclopedia
Homeopathica. Peter Wright, who took the responsibility of editing the manuscript with his
Eagle’s eyes.

I am especially grateful to my dear wife Dilnavaz,
my lovely daughters Mahaziver and Rukshin, and my sister Aban.

There are so many people and friends all over the world whom I am grateful to in one way or
the other. Friends who have invited me at their homes or clinics, friends who have learned
from me, friends whom I had fruitful homeopathic discussions with or who have shared their
homeopathic experience with me, I cannot thank them all personally only mention their
names briefly here:

Ajay Jain, Alfons Geukens, Alize Timmerman, Ameet Panchal, André Saine, Anne
Vervarcke, Antoinette van Hees, Asa Hershoff, Benaifer Adajania, Binal Shah, Britta
Gudjons, Carlo Rezzani, Camilla Holmstrom, Cees Baas, Chaim Rosenthal, Chemla
Chantal, Christian Ozanon, Corine Terstegge, Dale Emerson, Denis Laforgue, Didier
Grandgeorge, Edward Mills, Elizabeth Weisz, Erik van Woensel, Erwin Doeuvre, Farhad
Adajania, Farzana Furniturewala, Frederik Schroyens, Guy Kocklenberg, Harsha Sidhu,
Horvath Katalin, Jawahar Shah, Jean-Francois Vermeire, Jean-Pierre Jansen, Jeno Ebert,
Kim Elia, Kuldeep Jain, Manfred Braig, Mansi Gor, Matthias Meder, Marina Afanasieva,
Maurice Gregoire, Mihail Kostadinov, Micki Elia, Mira Dorcsi, Nandkishor Sonawane,
Patricia Leroux, Peter Vint, Phil Edmonds, Philippe Vois, Pooja Bagree, Priya Jani, Rob
Willemse, Reinhard Rosé, Stephen Waters, Saba Khan, Saudamini Suryawanshi, Sigi Kurse,
Sunny Sidhu, Taruna Thakkar, Varsha Vora and all the other friends who I might have
forgotten to list here.

Farokh J. Master

Dedication
Bhagwan Shri Sathya Sai Baba
For teaching me the religion of humanity
so that I can practice for the rest of my life.
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Part III

The Remedies
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AETHUSA CYNAPIUM
(Fool's Parsley)

Aeth closely resembles Ant-c, Calc (in abdominal complaints),
and Cic (in convulsions).

IDENTIFYING FEATURES

MIND
(cid:190) Dotage, dull, and idiotic.
(cid:190) Fond of animal toys (Carc, Lac-leo, Phos) and animals (Calc, Calc-p, Lac-
del, Med, Nat-m); shows a lot of intimacy, affection, and sentiment towards
them; desires to have a pet as a birthday gift (Phos).
(cid:190) Reserved children; don’t actively participate in simple social games;
preferring solitary activities; they live in their own world (could be autistic)
(Helium).
(cid:190) Anxiety accompanies various physical ailments, e.g. colic, dehydration,
diarrhea, epilepsy, and gastritis.
(cid:190) Attention deficit disorder: Inability to think or fix the attention.
(cid:190) Great anguish with weeping (Guernsey).
(cid:190) Impairment of social interaction and communication with family members
and friends; little or no interest in establishing friendships, failure to develop
peer relationships (Cic, Nat-c, Stann).
(cid:190) Talks to himself (Staph) and notices nothing around him (an important
autistic trait).

PHYSICAL
(cid:190) Characteristic language of Aeth: Anxious and pain-stricken face, prominent
alae nasi, prostration, sleepiness, and vomiting of curds. (These are so easily
observed, that even novice homeopaths should be able to identify it).
(cid:190) Dentitional indigestion syndrome; characterized by violent and sudden
vomiting of a frothy, milky substance, followed by curdled milk (Calc, Sil,
Valer) and cheesy matter; OR regurgitation of food an hour or so after
breast-feeding.
(cid:190) Dr. Kent says that the face helps us to identify an Aeth child: “Pale,
hippocratic face with whitish-blue pallor around the lips and sunken eyes.”
(I have not observed the pallor around the lips in my practice.)
(cid:190) Unable to hold up the head (Abrot, Calc-p, Sil) or stand due to excessive
weakness.
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(cid:190) Universal aggravation from milk (Mag-c, Nat-c; also consider one of the
milk remedies, either Lac-c or Lac-d). Cannot bear milk in any form; it is
vomited in large curds as soon as it is taken, followed by weakness and
sleepiness.
(cid:190) Complete absence of thirst (Apis, Gels, Nux-m, Puls).
(cid:190) Hot temperature in summer weather invites multiple illnesses in the child.
(cid:190) Multiple physical illnesses during dentitional period.
(cid:190) Weakness with sleepiness after vomiting (Ars, Bell, Cupr, Ip), passing stool
(Elaps, Sulph), or after convulsions (Cic, Stram).

Other important symptoms
MIND
• Awkward children (Apis, Bov, Ign, Nat-m).
• Babies who cry when nursed (Lac-c, Puls).
• Children who find it very difficult to cry, although sad (Ign, Nat-m).
• Extreme fear of losing the family members (Sacch), displays symptoms of
confusion, convulsions, diarrhea, fainting, vomiting, etc.; extreme fear
before examinations due to anticipatory anxiety; fears failure (Anac, Arg-
n, Cupr, Nux-v, Sil, Thuj).
• Fascination for pets especially cats and dogs (Calc, Carc, Med).
• Jesting and trying to make fun at inappropriate times (Cact) (Rubric -
Jesting, facetious).
• Soft, embarrassed, and slow speech.
• Desire to engage in social service, e.g. seeking donations of blood or
medicine, collecting money for medical causes.
• Desire to nibble on something throughout the day.
• Fear of suffocation in the dark (Chin, Lyc, Puls).
• Witty children (Op).
• Young children who completely engross themselves in academic work by
overtaxing their energy, which in the long run will affect their concentration
(Kali-p, Pic-ac) and invite confusion.

HEAD
• Periodic headaches, accompanied by nausea, vomiting and hiccoughs, with
a nagging pain in the nape of neck.
Examination findings:
- Cannot hold up the head (Calc, Calc-p, Op, Sil) due to weakness of the neck
muscles (Abrot); head keeps falling backwards.
- Heat of head during fever.
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EYES
• Distorted and rolling movements of the eyes during sleep (Apis).
• Photophobia.
Examination findings:
- Blepharitis.
- Conjunctivitis.
- Dilated pupils during epilepsy (Bell, Cina).
- Eyes agglutinated.
- Eyes brilliant (Bell).
- Eyes turned downward during convulsions.
- Glassy appearance of the eyes (Op, Ph-ac).
- Protruding eyes (Nat-m, Stram).
- Pupils non-responsive to light (Hyos, Op).
- Staring eyes with unconsciousness.
- Strabismus.
- Swelling of the meibomian glands.

EARS
Examination findings:
- Yellowish, purulent otorrhea.

NOSE
• Coryza when child goes out in the open air.
• Ineffectual efforts to sneeze.
• Nose blocked in the morning on waking (Calc).
Examination findings:
- Eruptions (Caust: More on the tip of the nose).

FACE
Examination findings:
- Cold perspiration on the face (Camph, Spong, Verat).
- Newborns with a wrinkled, old-looking (Calc, Nat-m, Op), pinched (Cina,
Verat), hippocratic face (Abrot); with an expression as if suffering (Ars,
Kali-c).
- Prominent linea nasalis (an expression of pain and anxiety) (Cina, Phos,
Stram).
- Chapped lips.
- Pale, puffed face; paleness especially around the lips (Cina, Stram).
- Trismus (Cic, Nux-v, Op).
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MOUTH
• Extremely dry mouth (Ars, Bry).
• Difficult dentition.
• Salivation during sleep.
Examination findings:
- Clean or white-coated tongue, with aphthae.
- A whitish, milky froth comes from the mouth during convulsions (Cic,
Cupr, Hyos, Lach).
- Soft palate red and swollen.
- Thrush (Borx, Kali-chl, Merc).

THROAT
• Chronic sore throat, worse in cold air and damp weather, characterized by
hot, uncomfortable feeling; after tonsillectomy.
• Constant disposition to swallow.
Examination findings:
- Cervical glands inflamed and enlarged (Cist).
- Postnasal drip.
- Swollen inflamed uvula.
- Throat is red and inflamed.

STOMACH
• Deathly nausea at the sight of food.
• Increased appetite after vomiting (Cina, Colch, Podo).
• Intolerance to milk, especially in neonates and infants: milk is thrown up
almost as soon as it is swallowed (Ip, Sanic), almost curdled (occasionally
not curdled), with sudden spasmodic force.
• Thirstless with fever (Puls).
• Vomiting of curdled milk (Ant-c, Calc, Nat-m, Sil, Valer) and of cheesy
matter in nurslings, in large quantities, expelled forcibly (Ars, Tab, Verat),
shortly after a feed, then falls into a deep sleep (Ant-t, Bell, Ip).
• Dentitional vomiting (Ant-c, Bry, Ip), with diarrhea (Ant-t, Apis)
• Digestion upset due to frequent nibbling, emotional excitement (Bry, Cham,
Nux-v), and prostration of mind due to over-studying.
• Eructations within an hour after eating (Sulph).
• Spasmodic hiccough.
• Sudden, violent, greenish, frothy vomiting during fever, especially after
taking milk or rich food.
• Aggravation: Milk (Sil, Valer).
• Aversions: Coffee, fat, fruit and milk.
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• Desires: Cheese, delicacies, farinaceous, salty food, and sweets.
Examination findings:
- Gastroscopy: Congenital pyloric stenosis (Dys-co).
- Tympanitis (Carb-v, Chin, Lyc).

ABDOMEN
• Colic in nurslings localized in the umbilical region (Verat).
Examination findings:
- Cold to the touch.
- Dehydration: grade 2 with hyponatremia, and tachycardia with a small,
almost imperceptible pulse.
- Tenderness all over.
- Tympanitis +

RECTUM
• Diarrhea that almost always accompanies dehydration.
• Stools: Thin, and green; violent straining before and during passing,
followed by collapse (Ars, Camph, Verat).
• Diarrhea of infants (Bry, Nux-v, Op) with passing of undigested, thin,
watery (Gamb, Grat), bright yellow (Chel) or green, bilious stools,
especially after midnight; in warm weather, from anticipation, (Gels, Ph-ac),
during dentition.
• Obstinate constipation in children who are nursing.
• Sleepiness after stool (Nux-m).
• Stools like curdled milk, which are forcibly expelled 1-2 hours after a feed.
Examination findings:
- Viral gastroenteritis due to Rotavirus (Ars, Cupr-ar, Verat) or Vibrio
cholera (Calc, Calc-p, Guaj, Sal-ac).
- Spastic colon.
- Stool examination: RBC ++

URINARY
• Chronic bedwetting (Lac-c).
• Deposition of whitish sediment on the diaper.
• Suppression of urine due to dehydration (Ars, Chin).
Examination findings:
- Hematuria in routine urine sample.

LARYNX AND TRACHEA
• Recurrent aphonia.
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RESPIRATION
• Asthma always worse in a dark room, with a strong fear of suffocation;
child wants the doors and windows open (Apis, Arg-n, Lach, Puls, Sulph).
• Asthma and cough renders the child absolutely speechless (Apis).
Examination findings:
- Respiration: Moaning, short, and snoring.

COUGH
• Dry hacking cough at night (Cina, Kali-c) due to irritation in the larynx.
• Short, dry, paroxysmal cough after eating dinner.

CHEST
Examination findings:
- Swelling and tenderness of the axillary glands.

EXTREMITIES
• Awkwardness of limbs (Agar, Hell); keeps dropping things.
• Growing pains in the thighs and calves, better by rubbing or massaging
the part.
Examination findings:
- Clenched fingers (Bell, Cupr, Hyos) with the thumb drawn inwards (Cupr,
Merc).
- Redness of palms (Fl-ac).
- Shriveled skin over the hands.

SLEEP
• Frequent waking from sleep due to hunger (Ant-c, Lyc, Psor).
• Intense or overpowering sleepiness with weakness during and after stools
(Nux-m, Sulph), after vomiting (Ip), or after convulsions (Cic, Cur).
• Sleep prevented by bone pains (Ph-ac, Merc).
• Frightful nightmares that startles him up from his sleep.
• Restless sleep, with muscular jerks (Cham, Cina) and rolling of eyes.
• Sleepiness all day, except in open air.

FEVER
• Chill stage: Violent, shaking chills with external coldness during sleep,
especially of abdomen; red face; absolutely no thirst.
• Heat stage: No thirst, even for a drop of water; shuddering.