Constitutional Homeopathic Remedies for Children

(Editor: This work is a compiled work of Dr. Nahida M. Mulla and Dr. B. S. Suvarna on the same subject. We are presenting them under the same heading but maintaining the originality of their work)

Children's Constitution & Homoeopathic Remedies -Dr.B.S.Suvarna

Attractive children - Arsenicum-alb.

Big abdomen, spindly legs - Abrot, Sulphur

Big belly due to bad digestion - Carbo-veg, Graphitis (constipated)

Big head - Baryta- carb , Calc-carb, Sulphur .

Big head, big abdomen - Baryta-carb, Calc-carb Lycopodium.

Big head, spindly legs, biggish abdomen poorly developed chest, pale rough skin, sweats easily - Sulphur.

Big head, coarse hair, heavily built, red lips and ear - Sulphur.

Cheeks red - Capsicum.

Clumsy - Baryta- carb (awkward movements - Causticum)

Clumsy, awkward due to hurry - Natrum-mur .

Clumsy movements - Calc-carb, Capsicum, Sulphur .

Coarse hair - Sulphur .

Cheerful - Brom .

Dark hair, dark skinned - Iodum.

Delicate - Arsenicum-alb, Phosphorus.

Dirty - Psorinum, Sulphur

Dwarfish mentally and physically (wanting in high) - Baryta- carb

Emaciation - Abrot

Face flushed - Capsicum

Face occasionally flushed - Graphitis.

Face circumscribed patch on cheeks, flushing and pallor about mouth - Cina

Fair - Calc-carb.

Fair hair, fine skin - Brom, Aconite, Pulsatilla

Fat - Calc-carb,Capsicum, Graphitis.

Fat and heavy - Graphitis.

Fat heavy and pale - Antim-crud, Capsicum, Graphitis.

Fat and over weight - Antim-crud , Brom, Calc-carb, Causticum, Capsicum, Sulphur .

Lordosis(bent back) - Baryta- carb.

Lethargic - Calc-carb

Lifeless - Aurum-met.

Over fat, soft, lethargic, big head, big belly, with tendency to rickets - Calc-carb

Over weight - Calc-carb

Pale - Antim-crud, Graphitis, Silicea.

Pendulous abdomen - Thuja

Redness (general) high color (ear lips face) - Iodum , Sulphur .

Redness about eyes - Antim-crud.

Red patches on cheeks with pallor about mouth and nose - Cina.

Sallow complexion - Baryta-carb , Carbo-veg., Causticum, Lyopodium, Sepia.

Sickly - Kali-sulph, Psorinum.

Sluggishness (physical) - Carbo-veg, Graphitis, Pulsatill , Sulphur .

Sluggishness (mental & physical), though well nourished - Calc-carb.

Small baby (under weight & undersized) - Natrum-mur.

Thickened upper lip - Brom ,

Thin upper lip - Fluor-acid. Lycopodium, Psorinum.

Remedies for Children -Dr. Nahida M. Mulla

Shy and receding children - Mimosa pudica

Aversion to write in children - Squilla maritima

Lazy children slow in eating, writing ,bathing slow in all activities ,slow mind - Helix tosta

Stammering in children - Lac-can

Tendency to fall in children - Lac-can

Child cannot remember what has been taught - Aeth ,Calc-carb ,Baryta-carb, Phos

Fear of approaching vehicles - Phosphorus.

Child weeps until it gets something to eat - Bell

Child pretends weeping without tears - Staphy

Child weeps from oversensitiveness - Kali-phos

Sucks thumb - Cal -phos

Bites nail - Amm-brom ,Arsenicum-alb ,Sanic ,Hyos

Child doesn’t drink water unless sweetened - Sulph.

Child doesn’t want to play - Baryta-carb

Child craves meat - Calc-p ,Mag-carb.

Cruel habits in children - Anac

Child doesn’t want to talk or to be touched or to be looked at - Ant-tart, Ant carb Silicia , Staph ,Ars, Cham

Child wants this or that but rejects when offered - Bry ,Cina, Cham

Child wants amusements - Chamomilla ,Puls ,Lach

Child averse to amusements - Bary- carb ,Sulph ,Staph

Child enjoys cold water bath - Puls ,Nat m, Apis

Bright objects makes the child gay and lively - Stram

Child carries things from place to place and back again - Mag phos,Opuntia.

Child wants to carry slowly about - Puls

Child kicks off clothing even in the coldest weather - Sanic, Hep sulph,Sulph

Child cries from slightest cause - Nat mur

Child good all day ,cries all night - Jalapa ,Syph

Child cries day and night - Ipecac,Stram,Mag phos

Child weeps before stools - Aeth,Cina,Cham,Phos,Sulph,Borax

Child cries towards evening - Zincum met

Child cries when eating - Carb an,Staph

Children cross after sleep pushing every one away - Lyco

Child likes dancing - Phos, Sep,Tarent-h

Examination fear, urging to urinate - Copai

Ill humor in children early morning - Staph

Child craves ice cream - Calc phos, Puls, Tuber, Verat-alb

Impatience in children - Acon, Kali phos, Nat mur.

Child is in claimed to laugh at serious matter - Nat mur, Graph

Child laughs involuntarily - Nat mur.

Complaining children - Cina.

Comprehension difficult in children - Aeth, Bary carb

Child cries and scream as if in great pain just before passing urine - Lyco, Sanic, Sars, Lach, Nux vom.

Child awakes from sleep with piercing cries and trembling all over - Ign.

Child demands different things with vehemce and cries - Rheum

Fear of heights, high places, - Arg nit, Puls, Staph, Sulph.

Child is not inclined to study. Study brings on sleep - Mag phos.

Child learns with difficulty - Calc phos, Nat mur , Bary carb

Fear of rain in children - Naja; Elaps

Child rubs his face while coughing - Caust, Puls

Child sleeps better on abdomen - Cina , Cal phos , Medorr

Child sleeps in knee chest position - Tuber ,Phos, Lyco, Cina, Medorr

Unreasonable terror of child at a medical examination or wit strangers - Tuber

Child is slow in learning to talk & walk - Nat mur

Child is slow in learning to talk - Nat mur

Child is slow in learning to walk - Calc c ,Baryta carb, Calc phos

Uncivilized children cannot give a civil answer - Cham

Diarrhea of a children during bathing - Podo

Child continuously picks & rubs the nose - Cina

Child is fond of sugar which leads to diarrhea - Argentinum nit.

Child will not allow you to feel the pulse - Antim tart.

Child quiet only when carried - Chammomila

Child suffer from dentitional diarrhea - Cham, Podophyllum, Belladonna

Child cries all day , sleeps all night - Lyco

Child fears to go bed alone - Causticum.

Child is very irritable , gets angry with everything - Baryta

Child dreads downward motion, clings to nurse - Borax,Gels,Saniquila.

Child wakes from sleep, piercing cries & trembling all over - Ign

Irritability in children - Calc phos, Cham, Cina, Iod, Sil

Ill temper of children - Cham, Lyco , Stram.

While nursing child must let go off nipple, nose blocked up, cannot breathe - Sambucus

Restlessness in children - Ant tart, Borax, Cham, Jalapa , Rheum.

Child does not want to go to school - Calc phos,Nat mur ,Mag phos.

Difficult concentration of mind, children cannot learn their lesson - Kali sil.

Child shrieks during stools - Kreosote.

Child has a great aversion to strangers - Baryta carb , Ambra gr, Kali-phos,Tuberculinum.

Temper tantrum of children - Stramonium, Lyco.

Weeping after rage - Arnica, Belladona.

Fear of tunnels or closed places - Nat mur.

Child wants to think but cannot - Sil.

Anxiety while reading - Mag mur,Sepia.

School children are worried about their lessons - Lyco; Sil; Kali phos.

Child gets fussy about examinations in school - Gels.

When the child begins to learn the alphabet, headache comes & returns with every repeated effort, often with dilated pupils. After every examination at school come these violent headaches - Picr acid.

Child desires light & company, cannot bear to be alone, < in the dark room & solitude - Puls; Stram.

Child morose in day time - Cina.

Child afraid of being alone, wants mother to hold her hand - Stram; Bism; Lyco; Kali carb; Lil tig.

After nursing child vomits its milk in curds & refuses to nurse afterwards & is very cross. Nausea & persistent vomiting as soon as the child eats or drinks - Ant-crud.

Child is obstinate to the extreme. Even if she wants a certain thing she will oppose it if proposed by someone else - Caps.

Child cannot be punished because it goes into convulsions - Cina ; Ign ; Op.

When trying to comfort him the child becomes enraged - Nat-m.

Fear of rats - Absinth; Bell ; Calc-carb; Cimic; Op; Phos.

Child repeats all questions before answering - Zinc-met.

Fear of being late at school - Arg-nit.

Children get sick from being reprimanded or scolded or sent to bed - Ign; Medorrh; Carc.

Weeping at every nursing - Puls; Calc-phos.

Fear of thieves on waking after mid-night - Ign; Ars; Lach; Kali-mur.

Child sympathetic to others - Puls; Nat-mur ; Caust ; Phos; Carls.

Child weeps with drawing up of knees & in pain - Psor.

Child tosses from side to side. Kicks off clothes, never sleeps long at a time - Cina.