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Dear All
I need a very good advice for my son who is 15 and has been adopted since the age of 2 and half from Africa. He has always been a hyperactive child and since the first years of schooling has shown poor concentration and very disorganized. At the age of ten he has been diagnosed with adhd, but eventually his problem has been identified as a problem of emotional nature, since he was not properly nurtured by his mother or primary caretaker and in fact has shown in the first years of adoption, the signs of an attachment problems for he could not distinguish between strangers and family people. However, it is now three months since we have decided to use homeopathy to treat his problems which as an adolescent have become more urgent. He is very intelligent and friendly, in fact has a lot of friends because he has a charsimatic personality and very funny. For two months he has stopped going to school, this has coincided with the starting of high school, which he obviously cannot face. To cut a long story short, our homeopath prescribed Hyoscyamus 6Lm, 12LM and 18LM at an interval of two weeks from one another. There was a little improvement insofar as he was a bit more affectionate and more in touch with reality, but he was still quite reactive and could not take a telling off, well deserved becasue he is very untidy and never lifts a finger, though cares for his personal appearance and dresses very well through his own creations. But just before the last visit, when he was due for reassessment and a new prescription, I gave him two doses of Gallicum Acidum, a remedy that I found through my search on internet few months ago and which I had kept in my draw until that moment. I could not resist anymore because I found out about it through an article from a homeopath who had two adopted sons and one had similar problems to my son. The description of the remedy which seemed taylor made for my son was the following: The gallic state is caused by the shock of a sudden separation from a primary caretaker. From that moment on the child does everything possible to prevent being left alone. This child feels abandoned and reacts with manipulation and even violence in seeking protection from a further abandonment. The child insists in being watched constantly...This child won't stay alone for a minute and is rude and abusive to those around them, even family.The child can be extremely jealous and even threatening to siblings. Galiic acid children are often hyperactive and cannot concentrate on their tasks or schoolworks.' This described the essence of my son to perfection and one can imagine the evolution of such a child in a young man. Low self-esteem, despite being very intelligent and always seeking reassurance and adoration in others. As for work of any sort, zero. No engagement, even in basket where he is very good. However we gave him Gallicum acidum 10LM in the liquid form (5 drops in water for two days) after these two days our son seems to be a different person. He is not so reactive, seems more aware of reality and other people's feelings, always telling me, the mother, how much he loves me, and seems like has come out of a depressive state. However, there has been no change on the front of work and engagement for he still spends his days sitting on the sofa playing and on the computer looking up his favoorite youtubes. He goes out in the evening for few hours to meet his friends and then comes back home, goes to bed and in the morning wakes up around nine whereas before the gallic acid would wake up very late. I confessed to the homeopath what I had done few days later, and reported the improvement. He was not bothered and said he hoped it is the right remedy for him. He also said that we should now wait for 20-25 days and watch him, before taking further action.
I would like the advice of this forum and I would like to know what happens if the good effects fade and if there is a hope that with this remedy he could also start taking up some responsibility for his work and therefore for his future.
Thank you so much for your help.
 
  richmondpg on 2010-11-09
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
Please could some doctor answer me?
Thank you
 
richmondpg last decade
When you see a relapse of the behavior, you repeat the remedy. Make sure you succuss the bottle before every dose, and only give him enough doses to see a marked improvement.

I only succuss the bottle twice between each dose, but may use more succussions to get a better effect if a medicine appears to be stalling.

The good effect should not fade if it is curative. I actually am quite impressed by this prescription - it is a small and not well-known remedy.

However, you may need to use higher potencies later on, which is a fairly normal state of affairs with chronic problems. Don't move up in potency until the current one clearly has stopped working.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
Dear brisbanehomeopath
I would like to submit you the development of gallicum acidum for my 15 years old son. I gave him, as I wrote in a previos post, two doses of 10 LM at the beginning of november, and the response was immediate and striking: his skin cleared, his terrible body odour disappeared completely and his mood improved dramatically, his tendency to use rude language also disappeared as his mood improved. He also became very, very affectionate and demonstrative towards me, the adoptive mother and more aware of the reality. I took the initiative to give this remedy after reading about it as I said, and the homeopath who follows him was not very impressed by it on the ground that it is a small, not well known remedy. He even hypothesized that the gallicum could have just suppressed his symptoms. After a month, his physical conditions are unchanged, still no terrible body odour and so on. As for the mood is a bit less positive, likewise for the rudeness, but still affectionate. You adviced to repeat it, maybe with higher potencies. However when i went back to the homeopath for a check up after the time he prescribed to watch the evolution of the gallicum, he did not think we should repeat it, despite the fact that so far it was the most effective remedy. He prescribed, instead Sulphur 30Lm, one dose and sulphur 35k for everyday, for another 25 days or so. So last friday we gave him this remedy. I don't understand why he would not repeat the gallicum instead, and see if also the other aspects of the problem would eventually improve, i.e. the fact that he still spends the day sitting on the sofa playing with videogames and is very untidy in his room and does not move a finger in the house. Does not even prepare his breakfast and if he should he says he is not hungry. What is your opinion about this?
Thank you
 
albapapa last decade
You are encountering a very typical problem amongst health professionals - the problem of Ego.

Many homoeopaths are so enamoured with their knowledge and 'special' prescribing skills that they immediately feel threatened when someone else makes a prescription, especially one they do not understand.


What I find really fascinating is that your homoeopath prescribed the remedy in homoeopathy, that is all about EGO. This implies to me that your homoeopath is actually in a Sulphur state themselves, and you are in a difficult situation now.

Any practitioner that will not listen to you, will not admit to fault, and will not pursue any good result to make it better, must be abandoned immediately. I am sorry to say that but it will probably only get worse.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
thank you for your reply. I am also inclined to think that he felt threatened by my initiative, whilst, in fact, I very humbly tried something with my son because it was prescribed for a case which seemed the the exact description of my son. My homeopath had prescribed hyoscyamus for my son's jealosuy problem and repeated it several times, though the results had not been as encouraging as the gallicum acidum which seemed to resonate with my son's constitution and solved part of his problems immediately. I am inclined to repeat the gallicum acidum against the homeopath's advice and I would like to have some instructions from you, please. To visit another homeopath in my town is not a guarantee of better treatment, I have to report the whole story and I don't think I would get a positive response to my conduct, knowing the mentality of professionals in my area.
Thank you for your help.
 
albapapa last decade
Did you repeat Gall-ac LM10 with no results? Or have you not done that yet?
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
I have not done that yet, because I didn't know whether I should use the same potency or else. The first time I gave him 5 drops 10Lm for two days.
As I said, I gave my son the sulphur 30 Lm that the homeopath prescribed last wendsday and I am giving him 35k every day for 20 days; could the two remedies be given together?
 
albapapa last decade
No you should not take them together. Do you wish to leave him on Sulphur? If not then stop, wait a few days before beginning the Gall-ac again.

You can use the same potency until it stops working or aggravates your son's symptoms.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
If your homoeopath isn't willing to supervise the progress on Gall-ac, you can post here and I an try to give you some advice. Ultimately it is always better to have someone who can do this in person.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
Dear Brisbanehomeopath
thank you for your help. I would like to submit to you first of all my thoughts about what has happened in the last month. I gave my son the gallicum on the first and second of november. After the second dose he started improving in many ways which I have mentioned: his terrible smell went away, acne improved a lot, mood improved a lot, much more affectionate and less jealous of siblings, and more aware of reality. And all this has more or less stayed. The most amazing thing was the smell, it really was unbearable and didn't go away not even with a shower or deodorant. He also had a fungus on the back which has gone. As for the other symptoms: unreasonable fears, extreme laziness (but selective because he can dance or football for hours), uncooperative if asked to help, they did not improve at all. My son is not going to school since the beginnig of the year(september) and this coincided with the starting of high school. He has also stopped basket in the afternoon, and he was a natural talent according to the coach. Any challenge he is unable to face it. The school has always been a problem for him, he was diagnosed with adhd for what that means, afterwards this diagnosis has been rejected becasue he does not have the brain patterns of adhd but rather of a childhood trauma, due to early (first months) neglect and abandonment by the primary caretaker. He was adopted at the age of two and half from an orphanage in Ghana. I have to mention that in April last year he was the victim of a racist attack in my hometown, he was insulted and spat in the face by a middle aged man and almost beaten. Since then he started refusing to go to school, it was all too much, given his poor performance , because in that period there were also the exams for the final year of secondary school. Somehow we managed to make him go to sit his exams and he got his licence with the minimum marks to pass. He has the obligation to go to school in Italy until the age of 16 (he is now 14 and half).
However, coming back to our remedies, as I said the only remedy that really made an impact on part of the symptoms, has been the gallicum acidum. I was now thinking that we should probably think of something more specific for those symptoms which have not improved at all. I would like to go a bit more into depth about those. Kojo' has always been scared of being alone, not only in the house but even in a room. Very scared of dark ( but stramonium has not worked), fear of flushing the toilet, fear of contamination, fear of spider, aeroplane. He feels as if there are threatening presences everywhere, even in a cupboard, and this also before the racist attack, now is possibly worst.
How does he spend his day? He is not brain dead. He is very interested in you tube and amenities and monstruosities (bizarre creatures) that he watches and becomes even more scared. I should mention that he has a fascination for the evil stuff, and claims that he does not believe in God. But how can you believe in the devil but not in God? He loves music and listens a lot to rap(dreams of becoming a rapper?), he is a talented dancer and learns new dancing steps just like this( before he used to learn basket moves). He has an extraordinary control of his bodily coordination. He can juggle, with balls, hat, his body responds magically to his mind. Whatever he starts for the first time, roller skters, skateboard, you don't realize he has never done it before. He is a talented drawer since an early age, but does not draw because boring. If I can think of something else I will tell you.
In sum he is not acting on his reality, he is not doing anything useful for his future,(or maybe he is?). He is a a very difficult person to live with. You can have peace for as long has you don't ask him to take any responsibility. He has a lot of success with piers and girls. He is either on the go or cathatonic.
Remedies he has taken but not worked: Carcinosin, Licpodium, Lachesis, Tarentula, Hyoscyamus(some little change, not mucj).
Now the suplhur 30LM which was given last week to move him has not really made any difference to those symptoms that the gallicum did not touch at all. I was thinking that we should consider some different remedy because probably the gallicum has done what it could have done. KOjo' has a complex and multiple layers problem whcih is not going to be addressed by one remedy maybe. I am even worried about repeating the gallicum in case we alter a good equilibrium that has been reached.
What do you think?
 
albapapa last decade
i should also add that he is always been full of jokes and mischiefs, he doesn't like to be touched, though he touches others a lot. He will tap his siblings for fun, but they must not dare to tap hom. He sleeps completely covered, also the head, because of his fears, loves Sprite, and chocolate. Dislikes hot drinks, broccoli and anything green. Likes jelly chewey sweets.
 
albapapa last decade
Well, if you were a mother bringing such a child into my clinic, I would be advising to repeat the remedy. Just make sure that you succuss the bottle firmly twice, but otherwise do the dose exactly as before.

A remedy that is curative, cannot cure itself, if you know what I mean. Cure is an absence of symptoms, it cannot be 'undone'.

A remedy that is only palliating can indeed undo itself, since the palliation is artificial and only hiding the symptoms.

Palliation usually is quite unstable, but if that is what is happening, it is usually my view that it is better to know that sooner rather than later.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
Dear Brisbanehomeopath
thanks for your reply. To be honest with you, I am scared to repeat the gallicum, because we have waited for so long to find a cure, and though it is only a partial one, I dread to go back to what it was before. The smell of his sweat in itslef was quite unbeliavable and very unpleasant. I have heard that a remedy that is abused can cause 'proving'. Do you think this could happen if we repeat Gallicum? I would like to repeat it to see if there is more improvement, but I am scared of having too much of a good thing, if you see what I mean. I need some reassurance that a second dose of gallicum will not bring kojo' back to his original state. As I said the effects achieved in the beginning are still there, if it was a palliative, shouldn't they have gone after more than a month?
 
albapapa last decade
I will give my son the gallicum tomorrow morning just like the first time and I will let you know if there is any effect.
 
albapapa last decade
Do not be scared of a remedy that can cure your son! The right remedy will work to cure him and then will become ineffective, so as long as you are cautious with the dosage there should be no problem.

I agree, if the remedy was simply palliating, it most likley would have collapsed by now.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
Dear dr
I gave my son the gallicum two days ago but so far we have not noticed any further change. I have no faith anymore in the homeopath who is following him becaue of the way he dismissed the gallicum simply because he didn't know about it. Indeed the gallicum has been a breakthrough for his problems, at least the emotional ones, though the mental problems have not been touched. I would like to share your experience about a remedy that I have been thinking about for a long time because the materia medica describes many symptoms which are similar to the state of mind of my son. Hilarious, mischievous, giggling, clownesque, obsessive, loquacious, ludicrous, hallucinations, terrified, nightmares in falling asleep, insomnia, forgets what he is about to say or write, spaced out, inattentive, disconnected, desires sweets, lemonade, desires to lie down during the day, etc.. We don't know if his mother who abandoned him at the age of one year used drugs, she has been described as a woman who could not stand still, always moving and unyielding. Dear doctor, please, help me with your invaluable insight to understand if this could be a remedy good for him. Ask me some questions that could fill in a picture for you.
Thank you
 
albapapa last decade
Sorry I forgot to say what the remedy is: cannabis indica.
 
albapapa last decade
There is something else which myght be relevant, at times he is telepathic. For example once I went to the cinema and thought, I wish I could go away from here because there is too much noise and is too cold. When I went home and told my son I had been to the cinema, he said: din't you think: it is too cold and too noisy, I would like to go away. Though there had been no such instances before. I hardly ever go to the cinema. There are so many similar occurrences. He is also extremely intuitive. As a child he was able to play with two toys, similating a battle, making the same repetitive noise and looked lost in dreams. This could go on for a long time and you could imagine that he was seeing the battle in his head very vividly because he would not get bored. If I think of something else I will tell you.
 
albapapa last decade
he also forgets names, or says one name instaead of another. He is confused about relationships, will call someone the daughter when she is the mother, and also with me or the father. He is also unable to read the watch
 
albapapa last decade
he is charismatic, irresponsible, likes partying, and totally disengaged from practical aspects of life. For example he will be invited to a party or to play football, but not ask when and where the thing takes place.
 
albapapa last decade
Logging in to observe progress
 
Joe De Livera last decade
very insecure, easily offended, must retaliate if he can, that is if the person is not bigger than him, he will not let the offense pass, but double it. Very charming with public, even when angry or crying as a child (now is the same), if a stranger went buy, and said hello to him he would immediately change expression and became very friendly and charming to the person from whom he wanted to be liked. He wants to be liked and exists only insofar as he is liked. Dresses in a very personal way and to impress, he will not wear a coat or a jacket in winter if he has to show some new outfit or just to show off. Has an obsession for shoes which he would like to buy all the time, and whilst can go out without washing,(and does sometime) will make sure his shoes are spotless.
 
albapapa last decade
tendency to slander. When angry or upset talks nonsense. Always reproaches others for his mistakes. Lies through his teeth, to avoid trouble. But feels also compelled to come out with the truth eventually, even is not asked. Very naive liar, I must say. Learns and repeats lines from movies or cartoons he likes. He watches the same sequence over and over again, if he likes it, almost obsessively. Has abandoned school and basket a sport at which he was very good. Dependent on tv and computer. Likes to watch gruesome stuff, injured animals, abnormal people and so on. Finds horrible animals like bats very cute and tender. In general feels moved by little ones. Seems to be ambivalent all the time. One momet he is drawn to you, the next he pushes you away. Very manipulative, that seems to be the prevalent form of love in him. Likes to embrace, but especially lean on you for support and physical warmth, but does not like to be embraced or that you lean on him physically. Does not like touch or pressure.
 
albapapa last decade
Dear brisbanehomoeopath,

Please help me understand the following statement.

'A remedy that is curative, cannot cure itself, if you know what I mean.'

Regards
Nawaz
 
nawazkhan last decade
I mean true cure cannot be cured - only disease can. So if someone has genuinely been cured by a remedy, then this cannot be undone by the same remedy or another one.

Palliation on the other hand can easily be undone, either by repetition of the remedy or by using other remedies, or even by taking coffee or other kinds of powerful stimulants.

Albapapa - remedies take longer than a few days to work in chronic cases. You are using an LM, so it is quite suitable for daily dosing until you see a response, although I would still reassess everyday rather than mechanically repeating it.

You may also need to go up to the next potency, if this one has done its work.

You are remembering to hit the bottle firmly against the palm of the hand aren't you?
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade

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