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Mama’s Holistic Rescue List: Tips for Common Child Ailments

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Most childhood ailments and complaints are benign and can be dealt with at home with a few homeopathic remedies and some basic essential oils and tinctures. I’ve compiled a go-to list for all you mamas in one of your desperate moments of need– when you want to help your babies or children and going to the doctor is either not an option, should not be an option,  or you’d rather just deal at home holistically and naturally. It is a short list of acute self-limiting ailments that I expect I will be updating regularly.  The list is based on my experience as both a mama and a homeopath and also collected from various sources in my work as a homeopath.

The general rule of thumb for dosing is to continue repeating the remedy until symptoms are eliminated unless otherwise indicated here.  Unlike conventional medicine, quantity is not what counts, it is the frequency of dosing that is key.

The basic format is ‘fill in the blank’ and is as follows….

When you see___________________ try this  __________________________ first.

Colic:  Lycopodium 6c , Colocynthis 6c, Carbo-Veg 6c (try in this order, give up to 4 doses 5-10 minutes apart before moving to next remedy)
Teething: Chamomilia 6c
Pink Eye: Euphrasia 6c (sipping in a bottle or sippy cup all day and until infection is gone) , AND Euphrasia Tincture diluted Nature’s Answer makes a great one without alcohol!) and applied to eye with a warm or cold compress.
Styes: Pulsatilla 6c. If Pulsatilla fails give, Staphysagria 6c if on lower lid and Graphites 6c if on upper lid.
Open cuts and scrapes,: Calendula 6c (higher if serious or infected) internally, and diluted calendula tincture, lavender oil, and/or tea tree oil topically.
Mouth sores: Mercurius Solubilus 6c
Pus or suppuration: Combine Hepar Sulph 6c, Silica 6c, and Mercurius Solubilus 6c
Colds and Flus:
        At Onset: Oscillococcinum, aconite 6c, propolis, vitamin c, echinacea, zinc
        Once it hits: An awesome British radical mama and doula living and working in Greece shared this with us once in Egypt– *The Snot Blaster– Pulsatilla 30c, Hydrastis 30c,  and Kali-Bichronium 30c  four times a day. 
Fever achy body: Gelsemium 30c
Blows, Bruises, physical trauma: Arnica (the stronger the blow the higher the potency, re-dose every minute for serious trauma until emergency help as arrived)
Blows to head: Combine Symphytum, Natrium-Sulphuricum, Arnica (the stronger the blow the higher the potency, re-dose every minute for serious trauma until emergency help as arrived)
Emotional Shock: Aconite (any potency– seek professional help)
Grief or Loss: Ignatia (any potency– seek professional help)
Puncture wounds: Ledum 30c (Can also be given before or after shots and jabs to reduce inflammation and/or irritation)
And moms this one’s for you! For fatigue headaches that result from lack of sleep especially during the breastfeeding phase take cocculus 30c.
Finally if you are getting more familiar with homeopathy and using it more often at home with your you will sometimes find sticky situations where the remedy picture is not clear. Giving one dose of Sulphur 30c should help clarify the symptom picture for you.
**For chronic illnesses or ailments in you or your baby it is important to consult with a trained homeopath.
***Remember to always listen to your instincts as a mother and seek emergency care or professional help when necessary.
***These are just the musings of a radical mama and are in no way meant to treat or diagnose disease.
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Suppressive Therapies, Homeopathy, and the State of Mankind

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Allopathy– a popular term in alternative medicine for the type of medicine practiced by the medical industry yet coined by Samuel Hahnemann the founder of Homeopathy a couple centuries ago– is largely a suppressive type of therapy. Why? Because it reduces the human organism to a machine, made of separate and disconnected parts (organs and tissues) that is too weak, too ignorant, and too fragmented to intuitively understand and/or fight ‘disease’ on its own. This spiritless body that only holds disease in the physical realm must surrender all of its evolutionary wisdom in the art and science of survival to a foreign chemical substance that will quiet the pain or the symptoms, because lest our poor precious fragile modern bodies feel any sort of pain. When viewed with such a materialist and limiting lens, the body can only be treated with similar medicines– reductionist, materialist, limited, and contrived substances that will attack and subdue the symptoms but not heal the body. These come in the many plentiful forms of chemical or biological drugs i.e. vaccines, antibiotics, pain medications, stimulants, depressants, mood regulaters, steroids, hormones, and, and, and…

What happens with the suppression?

The disease moves deeper into the organism, to more important organs or functions. Allopathy with no driving scientific principles guiding its course ultimately deepens disease; and thus, we arrive at ‘the modern human’– struggling with a lack of a spiritual center, living longer perhaps (though the human lifespan is predicted to get shorter with my children’s generation) but sicker, suffering from an unprecedented number of chronic diseases, sick now too in the mind (as mental illness is at an all time high in human history). It is as Dr Richard Palmquist ‏tweeted a few days ago: “It is basic science. What we suppress becomes stronger…. http://fb.me/2J1eSjTTN“. We have seen this truth in all natural and human systems– that which we suppress becomes stronger. It is true also in our human organism.

So how is homeopathy different?

Well, homeopathy sees the human organism as an entire or WHOLE being functioning on several interconnected and interdependent plains of existence– the mental, emotional, and physical realms. All of these realms are powered, animated, or given life through an energetic body that expresses a disruption to its own system by manifesting ‘dis-ease’ or symptoms. Thus, a homeopath will approach symptoms very differently from that of an allopathic physician. The homeopath learns to read symptoms in sets and patterns and finds a natural substance with a ‘like’ symptom picture that will speak or resonate with the person’s energetic body, thereby stimulating the whole into healing itself.

It must be duly noted however that because homeopathy is too a medicine it too can act suppressively. An incorrect but close remedy may cause a suppression in sensitive individuals. A homeopathic suppression however will not be as a detrimental to the human organism as that of an allopathic one because: 1) homeopathy provides us with a method to antidote the action of remedies; and, 2) symptoms are to the homeopath like torches lighting an individuals unique ‘disease’ path, the symptoms that will be brought forth should ultimately lead the homeopath to the person’s correct remedy(ies) and a subsequent and permanent resolution to the person’s symptomology. Allopathic chemical drugging however can leave permanent or irreversible damage on the mental, emotional, and/or physical spheres and there is generally no allopathic method for antidoting the negative unwanted effects of chemical drugs except to introduce more chemical substances to the body.

The mental sphere being the most crucial to our function and survival is most at risk in our over-drugged and toxin-exposed societies.  It is no wonder that we now have societies that can leave billions in dire hunger, millions in cultures of fear and violence, and mothers and babies without homes or access to water.  Human history has always been stained with the madness of a few pathological tyrants, but pathology, suffering, and disease run excessively beyond the norm. The global injustice of 1% of the human species exploiting and abusing the planet and human life whilst vast amounts of ‘ordinary’ people gaze only at the atrocities from the view of spectators is just as much a pathology of mind in the collective human body as it is in illness in the mind of the individuals who make up this body. It is time we begin to discuss issues of health and disease as phenomena of the individual and of the collective(s), as well as of systems and of structures. Homeopathy, among many other alternative systems for health, offers deep and long lasting solutions to the suffering of our persons and to the suffering of our peoples– and ultimately their manifest systems.