RSS 2.0 Feed
April 2006. The Phoenix Rises: How Homeopathy Continues to Survive & Thrive (Vol. 11, #1), Featured Articles
The Treatment of Children - Richard Pitt
There are a number of factors to be considered when treating children. These considerations have both practical and philosophical implications for wider general practice. Successful treatment of children (and adults) should be prophylactic as well as initially curative. Included is a discussion of what constitutes constitutional prescribing and indications for the most commonly used nosodes in children.
There are a number of factors to be considered when treating children. These considerations have both practical and philosophical implications for wider general practice. Successful treatment of children (and adults) should be prophylactic as well as initially curative.
Constitution: An understanding of the constitutional typology of the child is vital for successful treatment.
Fundamental Miasms: Miasmatic, inherited tendencies are the next most important thing to consider. These constitute 5 main miasms: Psora, Sycosis, Syphilis, Cancer and Tubercular.
Acquired Miasms: Certain other influences can be defined as a miasm. These are influences; both inherited and/or acquired, that leave a dynamic influence superimposed onto the constitution of the child.
Aetiology: Significant aetiological factors can be of great importance in understanding the remedies that may be needed. These aetiologies may be both physical and psychological and can be inherited and/or acquired.
Acute treatment: Understanding how and when to treat acutely in children is important. Its significance to the underlying constitution also needs to be understood.
The remainder of this article is not available.
To see the rest of the article you may:
- Pay for a Premium subscription to this publication
Richard Pitt | Homeopath and Educator
Richard has been practicing and teaching homeopathy in San Francisco since 1995. He orginally trained in England and has been practicing homeopathy since 1984. He is former Director of the Pacific Academy of Homeopathy in San Francisco and also teaches at many other schools in the United States and Canada. He is a founding board member and past president of the Council for Homeopathic Certification, which has established professional certification for the homeopathic profession in North America. He is in private practice in San Francisco.
More Featured Articles
Re-visioning Homeopathic Education: The Creation of an American Homeopathic Medical School - Todd Rowe
The creation of a homeopathic medical school in the United States is a long held dream of the homeopathic community. The Desert Institute School of Classical Homeopathy (DISCH) envisions the creation of a fouryear full time homeopathic medical school in Phoenix, Arizona. This would be an expansion of services from the three-year, part-time program that DISCH currently offers. The name of this new program would be the American Medical College of Homeopathy (AMCH).
Bacillinum, a Nosode for the 21st Century - Sadhana Thakkar
Bacillinum has been one of the more under-described and under-prescribed homeopathic remedies until recently. Although Farrington and other homeopaths in the past made several references for its efficacy over Tuberculinum, it still remained obscure. In the past few years, having treated many cases successfully with Bacillinum, the clinical presentation of Bacillinum has clearly emerged to me as a distinctly different remedy. Bacillinum is prepared from the macerated lung tissue containing not just bacillus but also lung tissue in all phases including the tubercle phase whereas Tuberculinum is prepared from the glycerin extract of a pure cultivation of tubercular bacillus. Just by the nature of the preparation, one can imagine the difference between the two. While Tuberculinum reflects the perspective of the bacillus, Bacillinum is the manifestation of the intense struggle between the bacillus and the immune response of the host.