MIND
|
: |
-Child very cross, ugly, does not want to be
touched, caressed or carried, wants to be rocked.
-Indifferent to caresses.
-Very touchy, petulant, dissatisfied.
-Irritability > rocking fast.
-Cannot bear to be looked at [Ant-c]. Children stiffen when looked at.
-Cannot be quieted.
-Desires many things, but rejects everything offered [Ant-c, Bry, Cham,
Staph].
-Throws things away.
-Striking in children.
-Violent screaming attacks at night, child lying on back, striking and
kicking with hands and feet.
-Starting from sleep.
-Frightened easily on waking
-Picks at bedclothes.
-Indisposition to play in children.
-Causeless weeping.
|
GUIDING INDICATIONS
|
: |
-A children's remedy for big, fat, rosy, scrofulous
children.
-C.N.S.-Convulsions-from being scolded or disciplined.
-epileptiform, lying on back, violent screams and motion of hands and
feet.
-child becomes suddenly stiff, there is a gurgling noise as through
water were poured out of a bottle [Cup-m, Laur, Hydrocy-ac] from throat
to abdomen.
-Spasms-due to worms, unilateral, children throw arms from side to
side.
-Pupils dilated.
-Face-Dark rings around the eyes with pale, hot face.
-White and bluish around the mouth.
-One cheek red, the other pale.
-Nose-Wants to rub the nose, pick at it, rubs nose on pillow or on the
shoulder of the nurse [Mar-v.]
-Bores nose until it bleeds.
-G.I.T.-Clean tongue. Whitish sore place on margin of tongue, very
painful to touch.
-Children hungry, the greater the hunger, the greater the emaciation.
-Hunger; voracious [Iod, Phos, Lyc, Nat-m, Petr, Psor].
-Hunger even after eating, after vomiting, alternating with loss of
appetite, before chill or following sweat, in paraplegia.
-Canine hunger, during or before intermittent fever.
-Craving for sweets, bread, dainties, refuses ordinary food.
-Aversion to mother's milk.
-Frequent hiccough.
-Twisting pain about navel [Spigelia] > pressure.
-Itching of rectum and anus [Teucrium].
-Urinary system-Urine involuntary at night < every full moon.
-Urine becomes turbid, immediately white, turns milky on standing
[Aurum-mur, Lyc, Phos-ac]
-Respiratory system-Cough-with sneezing, spasmodic, gagging in the
morning.
-periodic, returning every spring and fall.
-hacking cough in morning, after rising from irritation, as of dust.
-Gurgling from throat to stomach after coughing.
-Child raises herself suddenly before coughing, looks wildly about,
becomes stiff, loses consciousness, as if she would have epilepsy, then
coughs.
-Child is afraid to speak or move for fear of bringing on a paroxysm of
coughing.
-Short, interrupted breathing, omission of some inspirations.
-Extremities-Twitching and jerking, distortion of limbs.
-Sleep-Cannot sleep until rocked, or kept in constant motion.
-Child gets on hands and knees in sleep or on abdomen, child flops over
on its belly, sleeps better that way, wakes when turns over.
-Grinds teeth in sleep
-Starting in sleep.
-Frightened easily on waking.
-Fever-In fever, burning heat of face, glowing redness of cheeks,
thirst for cold drinks.
|
KEYNOTES
|
: |
1. Child very cross and ugly, does not want to be
touched or carried or caressed, wants to be rocked.
2. Desires many things but rejects everything offered.
3. Dark rings around eyes; white and bluish around mouth, one cheek red
and the other pale.
4. White mucus like pieces like popped corn, preceded by pinching
colic.
5. Urine turns milky on standing, immediately white.
6. Child gets on hands and knees on sleep, on abdomen, child flops over
on its belly, sleep better that way, wakes when turns over.
7. Yellow vision.
|
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
|
: |
-Symptoms reflex from worms.
-Irritation and sensitiveness; child, ugly, does not want to be touched
or caressed or carried, wants to be rocked.
-Sickly aspect - Dark rings around eyes. While and bluish around mouth;
one cheek red, one cheek pale.
-Jerkiness, spasms, rigidity.
-Abnormal hunger, hungry even after eating, before or during
intermittent fever.
-Alternating symptoms-Headache<-> Pain in abdomen
> stooping
-Hunger <-> Loss of appetite.
|
CLINICAL
|
: |
-Behaviour disorders, Bruxism, Colic, Convulsions,
Diarrhoea, Fever, Otitis media, Pertussis, Spasms, Worms (especially
Pin worms).
-In pertussis, after Drosera has relieved the severe symptoms.
-Has cured aphonia from exposure, when Acon, Phos, Spong have failed.
-Santonine sometimes cures in worm affections when Cina seems indicated
but fails [Mar-v, Spig].
|