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I’m posting this series of articles on Homeopathy with children in order to help you understand more clearly how Homeopathy approaches treating children and what the particular challenges are.  If you understand more clearly what is going on, it will facilitate more rapid understanding of treating your child as well as keep you focused on the long term goal of a life time of health and creativity.  It may also be helpful for you to understand the difference between true health vs. approved behavior so you can adjust some parenting techniques so as not the make the problem more complicated than it needs to be.

In a previous blog on Homeopathic treatment of children part 1 I gave a little background on how Homeopathy views the origins of disease and what the unique challenges are when treating children who are too young to talk.  In this article I want to explain how I view children when they come to my practice as well as how I approach understanding them when they often cannot speak or are heavily compensated depending on their stage of development .

The way that I view children is that they are minds incarnating into bodies and that the mind aspect comes with a disposition to see life in a certain way and that it will encounter the DNA, body, and environment which reinforces these predispositions.  Every mind which comes into this world, when it encounters the trauma of this life, will often automatically make a conclusion about this trauma and itself based on this predisposition, which is often not really true at the time and definantly not true as it grows older in the world.  This is done in order to do what the mind identifying with it’s body, thinks it needs to do in order to survive the stress.  In children this manifests as the way they cry, the noises they make, gestures, and their behavior when under stress.  For us as adults, this becomes our life challenge which manifest as the events and befallments of our lives including disease.  I see this view as merely a different way of looking at Homeopthy’s view of inherited miasm.

This process goes through developmental stages which must be understood for a Homeopathic practitioner to know how to get to the case in order to find the best Homeopathic remedy.

Stage 1: This is when the child has not yet learned to speak and has not yet been socialized.  The mind does not know how to control it’s outward behavior and does not yet have any knowledge of what it’s parents or the world expects in order to fit in.  At this stage the child is clearly expressing his predisposed state which the Homeopath must recognize in a way which fits remedies in our materia medica.  We have rubrics in our references which identify certain cries, certain sounding coughs, specific reactions to stress and environmental conditions.  For example, an infant with a pitiable sounding cry, who needs to be held, which is better from giving and receiving lots of affection, is happy out in the cool open air, and catches flues with yellow green mucus, might need the remedy pulsitlla.

Stage 2: Right at the time they are learning the language and the concepts behind the words they encounter reward and punishment in order to compel proper social behavior.  This brings on a time of great confusion for many children because how they must behave in order to avoid punishment and receive the reward is usually contrary to their predisposed state.  When the mind, identified with the body, fears punishment and alters it’s behavior, this does not cure the inner state or mistunement.  At this point the little human begins to suppress and compensate.  Some children are better at this than others.  At this time the case taking becomes a unique challenge because the Homeopathic practitioner must carefully uncover what is underneath the compensated behavior in order to find the best remedy.  Fortunately at this time, most children can’t maintain this coping to any great degree and at some point during the interview the child will feel stressed about something and the state will crack forth and show.  This then brings on the behavioral correction commands from the sitting parent to whom I must encourage not to interfere so I can see what is going on.

Stage 3: This is when a child starts to think and make judgments about itself based on the standards of behavior it has been taught and then punishes or rewards it’s own self.  Depending on what this young mind thinks, it will generally take one of two routs in order to get along in life.  Choice one is to perform and please in life for approval and rewards.  Choice two is to retaliate because it just can’t meet the demand or it is trying to defend it’s identity.  At this time the retaliators will have more behavioral problems like ADHD, while the performers will have more physical ailments like allergies.  The retaliators will generally rebel against the practitioner.  The practitioner must remain calm, firm, steady, and patient with this child while he carefully works his way around all the child’s defenses in order to see the root mistumement.   The challenge of the performers is that they want the practitioner’s approval so bad that they are acting and behaving in a way which makes you happy with them instead of expressing what really stresses them.  In this case I have to be careful to discern the difference between performance coping from the real inner mistunement.  Often this can be aquired by getting a child to talk about their night dreams, fears, and fantasies in the form of play, drawing, and entertainment because this is where they go to express their uncompensated inner misturnement.

In conclusion I want to tell you what health is as opposed to coped and learned behavior from the Homeopathic perspective.  A healthy mind is free to choose how to respond to any given situation and it will choose the appropriate response to deal with that situation quite naturally and then move on.  An unhealthy mind is one which reacts unconsciously without thinking, to every stress in exactly the same way until those reactions are completely inappropriate to the situations.  This healthy response may or may not be what is considered acceptable normal behavior depending on the agreed upon belief system of the local environment.  When the unhealthy mistuned response is uncompensated, there is bad behavior with little or no physical illness, and when the mistunement is suppressed and compensated for fear of punishment, then there is more physical illness.

This is a vast subject and I’m sure that after reading this more questions might come up.  There will be more articles to come I hope will address these.  You are also welcome to email me at sfreedomsoul@aol.com with any questions you may have.

All statements here are not claims to cure or treat any disease, provide any health benefit, are for educational and thoughtful purposes only, and are not medical advice.  If you need medical advice, please seek a qualified health care provider.

Homeopathic Treatment | David Shapley, CCH Classical Homeopathy | 727 S. Floyd Richardson TX 75080 | 214-587-4560

Names have been changed to protect client confidentiality but the story is real example of how Homeopathic Treatment turned around a little girl’s life.

I got a call from a mother who was beside herself trying to get her 9 year old daughter, Jenny,  to behave.  Mom told me that Jenny was always in trouble in school for violence, fighting, and she wouldn’t sit still to do her school work.  She was belligerent with her teachers and with her mom.  Jenny was having nightmares every singe night and had to get in bed with her parents.

I had Mom and Jenny come in for a consultation and encountered a very rambunctious young girl who behaved in a loud, violent, confrontational manner.  She was very dramatic and took a shameless pleasure in trying to shock me and her mother through out the consultation.  So mustering all the case taking skills I had been taught by my all wise teachers, I patiently worked my way through getting information from Mom and daughter.  What came out in essence was that since she was born, she could not bear to be alone and had to cling to her mother constantly.  She was terrified of the dark, of strangers, of ghosts, of sharp teeth.  Yet, she has a morbid fascination with sharks, vampires, mummies, murder mysteries, ghosts, and gore.

Almost every night she dreamed that an evil dark man was in her room watching her or that ghosts were in the house.  She was convinced that she could see this man and she described him in some detail.  She also claimed that she could see evil men hiding in bushes or behind walls when ever she was walking alone somewhere.  This entire theme culminated in the delusion that she was split between and angel and a devil and that there was a war going on in her between God and the Devil.

These symptoms had been progressively getting worse over her entire life until she had become unmanageable and the teachers told Mom that she could not come back to school until she was medicated for ADHD.  Fortunately she came to Homeopathy first and I was able to select the remedy hyosciamus which mirrors the symptoms of this type of fear and behavior.

Within days her nightmares abated and she was able to stay in her own room.  Over the next few weeks she stopped fighting with her class mates and started doing her school work.  She started to be ok with being alone and acknowledged that she didn’t see bad dark men in the bushes anymore.  Over several more weeks, her social life improved with being invited to her friends homes and she eventually became an honor student.  Her last remedy was more that a year ago and she continues to do well, with no complaints.

There is hope for children suffering from symptoms of ADHD and in this particular case, Homeopathic treatment turned this little girl’s life around.  If you would like to try a safe, drug free, alternative, natural remedy for ADHD, I invite you to contact my office at 214-587-4560 for a free 15 minute consultation to see if Homeopathic Treatment could be right in your case.  You may also visit my web site for more information on my Homeopathic Practice in the Dallas area.

All statements here are not claims to cure or treat any disease, provide any health benefit,  are for educational and thoughtful purposes only, and are not medical advice.  If you need medical advice, please seek a qualified health care provider.

Homeopathic Treatment | David Shapley, CCH Classical Homeopathy | 727 S. Floyd Richardson TX 75080 | 214-587-4560

As an expert in providing Homeopathic treatment for people suffering for symptoms of ADHD, I recommend the following sites as a good source of education information and natural treatment and natural remedies.

1.  Healing Arts – provides some clinical evidence that Homeopathic treatments have showed measurable improvement in children suffering for ADD and ADHD.  It also presents Homeopathy in accordance the the principles of Classical Homeopathy as well as giving a brief review of many remedies indicated in ADD, ADHD cases.  Always remember not to indulge the temptation to treat yourself or family member because understanding which remedy fits the individual characteristics of the patient requires tremendous skill and long term case management.

2.  ADHD News – ADHD, ADD  and homeopathy, as a safe, effective and natural alternative to stimulants,You will find  homeopathy explained by world famous authors, and licensed naturopathic physicians, Dr. Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman and Dr. Robert Ullman, in an article written especially for the ezine. They give you the  resources to  use this natural, drug free method with the ADD and ADHD person in your life.

3.  Ezine Articles- Here’s a nice simple over view and natural treatments available for people suffering from ADD, ADHD.  I really like the plug on Homeopathy!

4.  Progressive Health – A good site for nonhomeopathic natural treatments for ADD, ADHD.

5.  Homeopathy in Dallas – Yes this is my shameless self promotion but you will love Homeopathy as a natural treatment option for ADD, ADHD if you are seeking a Homeopathic practitioner in the Dallas Texas Area.

All statements here are not claims to cure or treat any disease, provide any health benefit,  are for educational and thoughtful purposes only, and are not medical advice.  If you need medical advice, please seek a qualified health care provider.

Homeopathic Treatment | David Shapley, CCH Classical Homeopathy | 727 S. Floyd Richardson TX 75080 | 214-587-4560

There are currently a limited number of natural, alternative , holistic treatments for children suffering from symptoms of ADD, ADHD. Here is a list of these options as well as the Homeopathy view to treatment of children with symptoms of ADHD, ADD.

1. Diet – Though bad diet can aggravate any chronic disease, it cannot get to the real root of the issue unless malnutrition is the root.  If a person is eating a normal diet but still has symptoms of ADD and ADHD, then they have not found a real or lasting solution to their health problem but merely a means to palliate some symptoms.

2. Exercise – Exercise produces hormones and burns up energy which calms the symptoms for a while, but again these symptoms return as they recover their energy and the hormones dissipate.

3. Environmental control – you can remove the ADD, ADHD person to a peaceful environment with low sensory input to get relief of symptoms, but this is not reality and a healthy person must be able to adjust to different environments and sensory stimulation in order to live a healthy productive life.   People weren’t created to live in a bubble.

4. Vitamins – If there is truly nutritional problem where something is lacking in the diet, then vitamins can help, but if there is chronic issue of improper digestion and assimilation, adding supplements doesn’t work because the metabolism cannot assimilate them.

5. Biofeedback – This looks like a promising form of treatment because it teaches the person with ADD and ADHD to be aware of their thought and emotional processes in relationship to the triggering stimuli. This results in them learning to have control over their choices in how to react to things which is the goal of any cure.  However, it is very expensive and results will depend on how deeply seated the chronic issue is with each individual. From the Homeopathic perspective, we have to be careful to know the difference between a true cure and suppression of behavior as well. Homeopathic treatment along with biofeedback could be ideal.

6. Herbal – All plants have some medicinal qualities which can effect the organism. Because of this, when certain herbs are applied to ADD and ADHD they can bring relief to symptoms. However, in this case the herbs are being applied allopathically and in crude doses which lose their effect once they were off. This means that the ADD, ADHD person must keep taking them and spending money on them. Along with this the law of suppression applies in that larger amounts will be required to get the same effect as the vital force rebounds back against the effects of the herbal substances. This is not a cure from the Homeopathic perspective.

7. Homeopathic Treatment – When providing Homeopathic consultation to children with ADD and ADHD, we often find there is a deep subconscious post traumatic loop driving the child to be in constant state of fight or flight.  All their sensory input if filtering through this state. This is often seen in the types of nightmares children suffering from the disorder seem to have, which seem to center around being attacked, chased, eaten, killed, strangled, monsters, and ghosts. Often we can trace the exciting event to a very early childhood trauma such as abuse, or allopathic interference which suddenly traumatized the organism.   We also find that something happened like this prenatally such as the umbilical chord around the neck, or the mother having perceived a trauma situation during her pregnancy.

Homeopathy treatment of the person or child with ADHD, ADD is done with Homeopathic remedies which cause symptoms which are similar in nature, mentally, emotionally, and physically, to the symptoms of the ADD, ADHD child. The result is that the natural vital force of the child turns it’s attention to the similar symptoms of the remedy and rises up to over come the entire disease pattern to heal the whole person on every level, restoring health and freedom so the child can grow to be a happy, creative, productive adult. Because the remedies are Homeopathic and are administered in subatomic micro doses, there are no side effects, toxic damage, and no dependence developed. Usually only a few doses of the correct remedy is all that is needed to resolve the case.

If you are seeking natural, holistic, Homeopathy treatment for your child or yourself you can contact David Shapley ,CHC Classical Homeopath, at 214-587-4560.  David will spend 2 or more hours investigating his clients characteristic symptoms in order to find the best remedy.

All statements here are not claims to cure or treat any disease, are for educational and thoughtful purposes only, and are not medical advice.  If you need medical advice, please seek a qualified health care provider

Homeopathic Treatment | David Shapley, CCH Classical Homeopathy | 727 S. Floyd Richardson TX 75080 | 214-587-4560