Children and homeopathy: the 10 most common medicines

The efficacy and safety of homeopathy has made today more and more parents consider it as the first option to treat their children. Due to their pharmacological characteristics, homeopathic medicines they are not associated with harmful adverse effects.

On the contrary, they are soft, stimulate the great self-healing capacity of the child and they take into account both their physical and mental aspects.

homeopathy in children works especially fast, especially in acute illnesses. Infant colic, discomfort due to the appearance of the first tooth or sleep disorders within weeks of birth can disappear in a short time with the appropriate homeopathic medicine.

Homeopathy improves chronic or recurring disorders

The greatest contribution of homeopathy to children’s health is that it prevents or improves chronic or recurrent disorders. Children who come to the emergency services are frequent because they present cyclically otitis, bronchitis or tonsillitis that require antibiotics or anti-inflammatories to correct the situation.

In successive outbreaks, the initial allopathic treatment may be insufficient and the child will require increasingly aggressive drugs. Instead, homeopathic treatment strengthens the homeostatic physiology of the child and activates the cascade of natural reactions that any organism presents when faced with aggression.

Avoid unnecessary medications

Thanks to homeopathic treatment, repeated crises are milder and are spaced out over time until disappearing on many occasions. In this way, we prevent this small body from continuously receiving unnecessary or aggressive medication.

The child is treated, not the disease. For this reason, two children with the same initial diagnosis can be treated with different medicines, since the homeopathic doctor decides based on their individual characteristics.

Finding the Constitutional Medicine

To the characteristics of the child corresponds a constitutional medication that will help you in every alteration, but throughout the process it will be able to change, because life is dynamic and the being adapts to its environment based on its characteristics, but also on what happens around it.

It is not advisable for parents to replicate with their child a treatment that has been effective with another child, allowing themselves to be guided by the advice of other parents, nor for them to assume full responsibility for the health process of their children.

Deciding on the appropriate treatment requires an arduous and painstaking knowledge of classical homeopathic medicine. Also, if we don’t let the process be supervised by a health professional a diagnosis that requires another type of therapeutic intervention can be masked.

What does usually happen is that, after a while of seeing how the acute pictures are resolved, the parents learn to give their child the medication they need at all times. If the evolution is not as expected, then they contact their homeopath who prescribes another medicine based on the symptoms that the child shows.

Homeopathy stimulates healing

We will always attend to the laws of nature. In a case of fever, for example, the function of homeopathy will not be to bring it down quickly as it would be done with an antipyretic, but rather modulate the process physiologically and naturally so that it is the child’s self-healing system that finally resolves the situation.

How is it taken?

The drugs are found in different presentations (granules, globules, drops…) and dilutions (CH, K, LM…). The indications and dosage will be described by the doctor, but when faced with an acute condition, low dilutions (7 or 9CH) and they should be taken frequently until the condition improves.

Instead, in constitutional medication a single dose is usually indicated or several spaced at least a week or even a month. It is important that the granule or solution come into contact with the sublingual mucosa, and that its intake be separated by at least half an hour from meals or other stimuli –infusions, tooth brushing and rinsing…– that may interfere with good drug absorption.

The most frequent constitutional remedies

These are the most frequent constitutional remedies among children.

Calcarea carbonica. He is cold and his head sweats a lot. very fearful Large in size, but with flaccid tissues.Sulphur. Very sociable child while independent. Warm. Unhealthy skin (itchy dermatoses).Lycopodium clavatum. Intransigent and authoritarian despite his young age (as a consequence of his great insecurity).Nux vomica. Restless, irritable, very meticulous. Great sense of justice, he does not tolerate breaking the rules.Pulsatilla. Very sweet, attached to his mother, and an easy and soft cry. Contradictory and alternating states.Phosphorus. Affectionate, slim and with long eyelashes. Repeated pharyngeal or pulmonary affections.Arsenicum album. Very nervous. He hates mess. Very chilly and always tired but can not be still.Chamomilla. Very restless, with a great sensitivity to pain, being able to have outbursts of fury and screams.Silica. Shy and lacking in self-confidence, thin and of a fragile constitution. Sick on exposure to cold.Baryta carbonica. Shy, short in stature, which presents a delay in all processes (grow, speak, walk…).