Make a Homeopathic case for your kids

Are you tired of running to the doctor’s everytime your baby or child has a little fever or a runny nose ? Tired of using pharmaceutical products that could potentially contain harmful ingredients, all the while not knowing if they really need them ?

Well, let’s not don’t be annoyed anymore and make your own little emergency case of homeopathy remedies !

This little bag of 10 common homeopathic substances will allow you to treat the everyday aches and pains of a family with small children. I’m talking about colds, coughs, anxiety, agitated nights, “owies” and little bouts of fever.

Of course, it goes without saying, but I will say it as I am annoyed mama, that you are the judge and you know what your child needs. If his/her condition requires to go to a doctor’s office : then go !

Confession : I have been to the doctor’s one too many times. I even have a customer reward card from my pediatrician’s office ! I probably bought his Tesla for him. In France, you have a notebook called “Child health record booklet”, which helps you keep tracks of your child’s visits to the doctor’s, weight, size etc. My son’s booklet now resembles a dictionary.

Although homeopathy was not a method that was used by my parents for my brothers and sister and me, I chose to give it a try as I was looking for something natural that could help my kids boost their immune system. Thus, sometimes, avoiding “real hard” medication. In the end, I believe that, for us, it works pretty well. I have wholeheartedly adopted it.

My daughter Lily had ear infections after ear infections when she was about 1. She spent 2 months going on and off antiobiotics. After a long term treatment with homeopathy, her ears were fine ! Same story with my son and his agitated nights (when he was 4 he decided that sleep was for the weak and started waking up several times at night, every night). I also took homeopathy to relieve myself from breastfeeding issues.

Another bonus not to be neglected for stressed annoyed mamas : it can help evaluate the seriousness of a “booboo”. Indeed, with Soso, when she hurts herself for whatever reason, she just screams and cries until your ears bleed. Before my brain starts delivering horrible scenarios, I simply ask her where she is hurt and if she needs granules. She will immediately answer yes, to which I will say she needs to stop crying in order for her to have them. In 9 cases out of 10, she will insistantly stop. That way I know her booboo is not as serious as my annoying brain is trying to make me think.

A few words on homeopathy

Homeopathy is a way to cure an ache with the ache (a tiny bit of it). A mineral, plant or animal based substance more or less watered down will be admnistered. It will provoke similar symptoms to those you wish to cure. In other terms, we will simply try to stimulate the sick person’s organism’s defense mecanism so that he can fight against his illness all by himself.

Each substance will have a different dilution (CH) depending on the type of ache. Whatever the dilution, the medicine will always be effective but will work differently. Basically, the lower the dilution, the more accurate the symptom to cure is.

For the case hereunder described, I usually use 7 or 9 CH.

Until my kids were 18 months old, the granules were dissolved in water, in a very tiny amount of water. It takes forever to dissolve, and for clumsy people, it can get sticky if you spill it…Not that I am clumsy.

After they turned 18 months old, the granules were taken directly ie in their mouth, with a careful supervision.

So, this case !?

We’re getting there. In your case, it would be useful to find tubes of :

• Arnica montana ! Your kids are going to eat that one ! I have tubes of arnica everywhere : in my purse, my coat, upstairs, in the kitchen…I give between 3 and 10 granules every time there is a bump, renewing every couple hours if necessary.
• Passiflora compose : for kids that have a hard time falling asleep, or just sleeping. We love those…
• Stramonium : for nightmares, nocturnal terrors. Because who likes to be woken up in the middle of the night by the delicate sounds of screams ?
• Gelsemium : for stress, anxiety. Since annoyed mamas sometimes make little anxious people (also works for the annoyed mama who needs to “chill”).
• Belladonna : in case of a sudden high fever,
• Ferrum phosphoricum : in case of a little fever,
• Apis Mellifica : for insects bites or edemas,
• Drosera and/or Coccus Cacti : in case of a dry cough with a cold,
• Ipeca and/or Antimonium Tartaricum : in case of a loose cough (with vomiting for the former),
• Allium Cepa : in case of a cold (clear nasal flow).

I regularly renew the entirety of these tubes all year long. Of course, there are other substances ; however the ones I mention are the ones that (too) frequently end up in my kids’ mouths.

Have fun at the pharmacy !

Editor’s note : This article is purely informative. It is not meant to be taken as a substitute to a medical consultation or a pharmacist’s advice. It is entirely based on my personal experience as a mother of 3 small children, with the help of the book “La Bible de l’Homéopathie” (Homeopathy Bible) by Albert-Claude QUEMOUN – Quotidien Malin publishing.