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bad cough 1 year old
Hoping you can help me out here quickly. She has never had antibiotics yet, always rely on homeopathics, just can't figure out the right remedy this time.Woke up with fever last week Wednesday around 4pm. Gave her Belledonna. We to bed nicely and slept through night. No fever, no symptoms next morning.
Small cough started Friday evening, more noticable Saturday evening, spit up some food. Runny nose started Monday. Monday even cough very rough, hard time sleeping Monday/Tuesday night. Gave her Hepar Sulph because she seemed in pain and I just didn't know what else to do during the night.
Doesn't want to drink milk, only juice. Eats fine.
The cough is very rough sounding, rattling, sounds painful to the throught, worst at night (plays fine during the day - a bit restless), nasil discharge is clear. One bowel movement per day.
Hope you can help. Thanks.
homeofive on 2005-02-15
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Choice covers ;- Merc, Puls, Sul with poss Nux V .
If you use Puls [ because she is blonde pale and dislikes rich food , as well as woolen garments ] it can be followed by Sil.
If you use Puls [ because she is blonde pale and dislikes rich food , as well as woolen garments ] it can be followed by Sil.
passkey last decade
Thank you Passkey. I took her in to the clinic just to make sure she doesn't already have an infection and thankfully she does not.
The doctor says to keep her nose running because her lungs are very congested that is why she is having such a rattling cough.
Let's keep her nose running - I gave her Pulsatilla today - will this do the trick - to keep her nose running. What is the best remedy for this.
Hoping to get her through this without antibiotics.
Thanks always for all the information and help offered freely.
The doctor says to keep her nose running because her lungs are very congested that is why she is having such a rattling cough.
Let's keep her nose running - I gave her Pulsatilla today - will this do the trick - to keep her nose running. What is the best remedy for this.
Hoping to get her through this without antibiotics.
Thanks always for all the information and help offered freely.
homeofive last decade
It is not advisable to use Pulsatilla when the nose is running.Puls is indicated in the second stage of the problem,when the acute phase is over,and the discharge starts thickening,and the color starts turning to yellow.
Pulsatilla ,if used during acute stage,may drive the problem in,and is generally not advised.
Instead Hepar is a better choice,and continue with it,twice a day,for three days.
Murthy
Pulsatilla ,if used during acute stage,may drive the problem in,and is generally not advised.
Instead Hepar is a better choice,and continue with it,twice a day,for three days.
Murthy
bandarbabu2000 last decade
Murthy, am so supprised you would say homeopathy might drive the problem in.
This is alien to all I understand. Please elaborate. Thanks.
Blessings, Sabra
This is alien to all I understand. Please elaborate. Thanks.
Blessings, Sabra
♡ sabra last decade
Sabra
A wrongly selected homeopathic medicine,given at the wrong time will sometimes do mischief.Particularly, when it is partially indicated.
Kent says somewhere.Fear your medicine.They can do much harm in inept hands.
This is a contreversial subject, I know.I will seriously work on this,and come back with a new thread.
There are so many references,as to how homeopathic medicines too can suppress.I will collect them,and give one by one.
Murthy
A wrongly selected homeopathic medicine,given at the wrong time will sometimes do mischief.Particularly, when it is partially indicated.
Kent says somewhere.Fear your medicine.They can do much harm in inept hands.
This is a contreversial subject, I know.I will seriously work on this,and come back with a new thread.
There are so many references,as to how homeopathic medicines too can suppress.I will collect them,and give one by one.
Murthy
bandarbabu2000 last decade
Here is a quick reference.
"How often it happens in our clinical practice that after giving a medicine, we are not able to judge the direction in which the case is moving. If the patient says he is improving, we become happy. If the presenting complaints disappear, we become certain of our cures. We all learn how to take a case and how to select a similimum, but very few of us work on 'what to do after giving a medicine?'.
Dr. Vijayakar's 'Theory of Suppression' dwells on all these issues and gives much more to think. The book begins with an understanding that homeopathy medicines can suppress and a large number of homeopaths suppress their cases with ill selected similimums or combination medicines."
Murthy
"How often it happens in our clinical practice that after giving a medicine, we are not able to judge the direction in which the case is moving. If the patient says he is improving, we become happy. If the presenting complaints disappear, we become certain of our cures. We all learn how to take a case and how to select a similimum, but very few of us work on 'what to do after giving a medicine?'.
Dr. Vijayakar's 'Theory of Suppression' dwells on all these issues and gives much more to think. The book begins with an understanding that homeopathy medicines can suppress and a large number of homeopaths suppress their cases with ill selected similimums or combination medicines."
Murthy
bandarbabu2000 last decade
The particular reference to Pulsatilla is there in comparative materia medica by Farington.
He says
"Pulsatilla is useful for 'ripe cold.' if given early,it will spoil the case."
There is one more reference in
Encyclopedia of remedy relationships,by Abdur Rehman, which says the same more or less.
We have to understand,the stage of the disease,and the remedies suitable for that stage.
The first stage of a cold normally calls for remedies like aconite,allium cepa,ars.alb,mercurius etc.
The second stage medicines are required when the first stage is passed,and now, the patient suffers with thickened discharge.Remedies indicated here are like pusatilla,kali bich etc.
The third stage is when it reaches the lungs.Medicines like phosphorous,lyco and sulphur come into picture.
A competent homeopath should abort the cold in the first stage itself.If it gets delayed,due to selection of an improper medicine,it may reach the second and third stage also.
A medicine useful for second stage,will be useless for first stage.
The other reference given by Abdur rehman also talks about of developing bronchitis,if you give puls in first stage.Not a good thing to do.Is it not?
As I said earlier many times,I intervene in the prescription of others,only,when I feel it may harm the patient,and I have enough justification to do so.
Murthy
He says
"Pulsatilla is useful for 'ripe cold.' if given early,it will spoil the case."
There is one more reference in
Encyclopedia of remedy relationships,by Abdur Rehman, which says the same more or less.
We have to understand,the stage of the disease,and the remedies suitable for that stage.
The first stage of a cold normally calls for remedies like aconite,allium cepa,ars.alb,mercurius etc.
The second stage medicines are required when the first stage is passed,and now, the patient suffers with thickened discharge.Remedies indicated here are like pusatilla,kali bich etc.
The third stage is when it reaches the lungs.Medicines like phosphorous,lyco and sulphur come into picture.
A competent homeopath should abort the cold in the first stage itself.If it gets delayed,due to selection of an improper medicine,it may reach the second and third stage also.
A medicine useful for second stage,will be useless for first stage.
The other reference given by Abdur rehman also talks about of developing bronchitis,if you give puls in first stage.Not a good thing to do.Is it not?
As I said earlier many times,I intervene in the prescription of others,only,when I feel it may harm the patient,and I have enough justification to do so.
Murthy
bandarbabu2000 last decade
Thank you for the info Murthy, and thankyou for your honosty.
I will give her Hepar Sulph than instead.
I will give her Hepar Sulph than instead.
homeofive last decade
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