Ullman - Homeopathic medicine for children and infants

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DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to those parents who encourage their family doctor to study and use homeopathic medicines ... if he or she doesn't do so already.

Allergies (Respiratory) 38

Anger 41

Anxiety 43

Asthma 46

Backache 48

Bedwetting 49

Birth Trauma 51

Bites and Stings 52

Black Eye (see Eye Injuries) 52

Bladder Infection (Cys^/^w) 52

Bleeding 53

Boils 55

Bone Injuries 55

Bone Pains (see Growing Pains) 56

Bronchitis (see Cough) 56

Bruises 56

Burns 57

Canker Sores 58

Carsickness (see Motion Sickness) 58

Chickenpox 58

Circumcision 59

Cold Sores (Herpes) 59

Colic 60

Common Cold 62

Conjunctivitis (Pinkeye) 66

Constipation 68

Cough 69

Croup (see Cough) 73

Cuts 73

Diaper Rash 74

Diarrhea 74

Earache 78

Eye Injuries 82

Fever 83

Sprains and Strains 126

Stomach Cramps (see Colic) 127

Styes 127

Sunburn (see Burns) 128

Surgery 128

Teething 129

Thrush 130

Toothache 131

X-Ray Exposure 132

Part 4: Essential Homeopathic Medicines 133

Aconitum 137

Allium cepa 140

Anas barbariae 142

Apismellifica 144

Arnica montana 147

Arsenicum album 151

Belladonna 155

Bryonia alba 159

Calcarea carbonica 162

Calendula 165

Cantharis 167

Chamomilla 169

Colocynthis 172

Euphrasia 174

Ferrum phosphorica 177

Gelsemium 179

Heparsulphuricum 181

Hypericum 184

Ignatia 187

Ipecacuahna 190

Kali bichromicum 192

Ledum palustre 194

Magnesia phosphorica 197

Nux vomica 202

Phosphorus 205

Podophyllum 209

Pulsatilla 211

Rhus toxicodendron 214

Ruta 217

Silicea 219

Staphysagria 222

Sulphur 224

Symphytum 228

Part 5: Commercial Homeopathic Medicines 231

Combination Medicines 231

External Applications 235

Appendix 1 : Homeopathic Research 243

Appendix 2: Homeopathic Medicines

and Their Pronunciations 247

Resources 251

Recommended Reading 251

Homeopathic Manufacturers 254

Homeopathic Organizations 255

Homeopathic Study Groups 255

Homeopathic Schools and Training Programs 256

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Writing this book required drawing on the wisdom and experience of two hundred years of homeopaths who built the solid foundation for this natural medicine. My thanks to every man and woman who contributed to this art and science.

Numerous homeopaths reviewed parts of this book, and I thank them for it: Randall Neustaedter, O.M.D., Michael Carlston, M.D., Ted Chapman, M.D., Jacqueline Wilson, M.D., Paul Herscu, N.D., Michael Schmidt, D.C., Louis Klein, R.S.Hom., Peggy Chipkin, F.N.R, Janet Zand, N.D., C.A., Stephen Messer, N.D., and Julian Winston; each contributed important information which was integrated into this book.

The material in this book covering the use of external homeopathic applications required detailed information about how each type of application is made. This information came from several homeopathic pharmacists including Michael Quinn, R.Ph., Mark Phillips, Sabine Hockenjos-Zogg, Forrest. Murphy, and Ron Ingino.

This book also required careful reviewing of the pediatric literature. I thank pediatricians Tom Carlston, M.D., and Richard Solomon, M.D., for their important input.

A special thanks to my editor. Donna Zerner, who helped me to say what I mean and mean what I say. Not only did she edit this book with authority, she helped me to get into my readers' minds and to write with clarity and detail.

Most of all, I thank my own pediatrician, my father. Dr. Sanford UUman. In addition to being a loving father, he encouraged the healer within me by giving me my first medical bag. Although my older brother often used one of the toy instruments to hit me with, my father taught me how to take the little white pills in the kit to help relieve the pain.

Needless to say, I have continued to use those little white pills ever since.

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FOREWORD

More and more families are using homeopathy in America. They are discovering that this 200-year-old, internationally recognized approach to healing is safe, effective, and natural. The person most responsible for bringing homeopathy into the American spotlight is Dana UUman, M.P.H. His first book, cowritten with Stephen Cummings, M.D., Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicines, was a landmark publication. I recommend it (along with a first-aid kit) to my patient's parents as the indispensable first book for understanding the general approach to homeopathic treatment.

Now, I have the privilege of introducing Homeopathic Medicine for Children and Infants as the second indispensable book, specifically for pediatric patients. Once again, UUman shares his remarkable ability to help families understand the inner workings of homeopathy in a simple, charming, and excellent manner.

Conventional pediatrics offers effective treatments for many serious conditions but, as every parent knows, it also has its limitations. These limitations are especially apparent in the office-based, acute care pediatric setting where greater than 90 percent of acute illnesses are viral in nature. Have you noticed your pediatrician hesitating after he or she has diagnosed a viral condition? This hesitation indicates a lack of options. Antibiotics are not effective against upper respiratory infections, influenza, or gastroenteritis. You can purchase a myriad of over-the-counter medicines, but most of them have side effects and merely suppress symptoms rather than heal your child. You could give Tylenol for your child's fever but the suppression of fever with Tylenol has been conclusively shown to hinder the immune system's response to viral infections. You could get Robitussin for your child's cough but a cough is the watchdog of the lung. Runny noses carry away millions of

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infecting viruses. Vomiting and diarrhea purge the system of disease. (Of course, the main side effect is to make drug companies rich at your child's expense.) If your pediatrician doesn't hesitate, maybe he or she shouldand not just for viral infections. Homeopathy works for many other conditions as well.

Families need more options. Homeopathy is a wonderful option because homeopathic remedies are safe, cause no side effects or allergic reactions, and are inexpensive. They are easy to use because they taste good and, above all, they are curative, not suppressive. Rather than hinder the body's response to illness, homeopathy gives your child an immunological boost. This boost is just a little one. In homeopathy, extremely small amounts of natural substances are usedjust enough to get your child over the hill of his or her illness. After that it's smooth sailing as your child's healing powers complete the cure. Some of the hard-headed scientists are skeptical of this microdose medicine. They say it works by placebo. But very young children don't understand the placebo effect and, as an open-minded yet skeptical pediatrician, I have seen homeopathy work decisively and consistently with infants. There is also a growing body of scientific research that confirms such clinical observations. In part 1, Ullman tells why homeopathy makes sense and describes the principles of this wonderful art and science.