ADD or The Hyperactive Child: the Homeopathic Approach
Luc de Schepper MD, Ph.D.,C.HOM., DI.HOM.,Lic.AC.
As a physician who has successfully treated hundreds of ADD/ADHD patients
over the years, and based on my training in different healing modalities
(internal medicine, neurology, acupuncture and homeopathy), I think I am in
a good position to compare the value of different treatments for these
children.
What is normal behavior in a child? I remember when childhood was an
ungraded test. Growing up in Belgium, I built forts and played cowboys and
Indians. The real clock did not start until high school. Now children get
homework in the first grade and parents do anything to help their children
get ahead, like putting three-year-olds in a private school for $9,000 a
year. Is there still a place for childhood in an anxious America? My own
childhood behavior, if I were in elementary school today, would surely
trigger a psychological evaluation, followed by the inevitable prescription
of Ritalin.
So what about that ubiquitous Ritalin? Why does a stimulant sometimes seem
to calm a hyperactive child? Doctors don’t know why. (Ask a homeopath
though, and he will tell you about the homeopathic law “Like Cures Like.”
When it works —for a limited time—it’s because the child’s particular
symptoms match the behavior stimulated by the drug.) It has now been used
for a half century, and one hypothesis of why Ritalin works is that ADHD
stems from inadequate dopamine levels in the brain, but proof of this has
been tough to come by. What are the latest findings?
• Ritalin works for a short time in some children to reduce symptoms of
ADHD, but no studies have proved a lasting effect on academic performance.
• Safety? It causes insomnia, a decrease in appetite, and delayed growth,
disturbing news considering that 50% of children derive no benefit
whatsoever from Ritalin
• A positive response initially to Ritalin does not automatically mean a
child suffers from ADHD. Stimulants will temporarily sharpen almost
anyone’s focus!
• It is not a panacea. It will not boost IQ nor help children whose main
symptoms are not “hyperactivity” but rather “inattention” or “daydreaming,”
a problem that affects more girls with ADHD than boys.
This growing availability of Ritalin (its use has increased 7 fold over the
past 8 years) raises fears of abuse, while in one study Ritalin caused
liver cancer mice (although this was not considered a reason to stop the
drug). Well-meaning teachers pressure parents to put a child on Ritalin
when they feel his behavior disturbs the classroom. This leads to anguish
on the part of the parents, who must decide whether their child’s very
active behavior is abnormal to the point of needing treatment and whether
to use drugs to control that behavior.
Individualization is the key in treating any chronic condition with
homeopathy, but it is particularly important in treating children with
ADHD. Symptoms in these children can vary greatly: some are violent and
aggressive, others are sweet, sensitive and compassionate, trying to
cooperate fully with the physician although unable to concentrate in
school. This diversity explains why no one medication, whether prescription
or homeopathic, will work for all these children.
Let’s have an in-depth look at homeopathy.
Advantages of homeopathy
Homeopathy is a true science based on laws and principles AND the only
scientific way of testing its validity: remedies tested on healthy
individuals, not animals neither sick patients as is done in Western
medicine. Western medicine has no principles or laws, except that “the
Contrary Cures the Contrary.” This is why no therapy in Western medicine
survives the test of time. After some years, at first heralded therapies
are abandoned and new ones are pursued. They call it progress, but true
healing methods have survived centuries of scrutinies. Homeopathy is almost
200 years old while acupuncture survived 5,000 years. What was true and
efficient then still is now! What is left of medicine from 200 years ago?
Thank God nothing, because deaf people were put in asylums, mental patients
got flogged and tortured, while starving, purging and blood letting were
crude methods performed by the “star” physicians of that time. That modern
medicine still changes its opinions on the drop of a hat is demonstrated
daily. AZT, the “miracle” drug for AIDS patients was first advised to be
taken not only by full-blown AIDS patients, but also by anyone who tested
HIV positive without symptoms. Shortly after this it was found that half of
the doses worked as well and cut down on the side-effects. Then a study in
Europe showed that AZT did not provide any benefit in prolonging the
quantity and quality of an AIDS patient, followed recently by advise in the
USA that doctors should not prescribe AZT automatically to AIDS patients.
From riches to rags in a couple of years.
Before I start explaining you what homeopathy can do for your ADD child,
consider the advantages of homeopathy when compared to Western medicine.
•The treatment is individualized-it considers the whole patient himself
through symptoms, rather than the disease as a name. Too often, we
physicians think that our work is finished when we put the patient in a
category of disease. “Yes, you have ADD. Here is the prescription for
Ritalin. Go home and pray that it will work.” Homeopathy does not need a
name of disease. It looks at the person as a whole and tries to find the
contributing factors of disease.
•All remedies recommended in homeopathy have extensive human experiment.
Contrary to what opponents of homeopathy would have you believe, all
remedies are tested in the only scientific way, i.e. on normal, healthy
individuals.
•The homeopathic method of prescribing on a totality of symptoms is
designed to be curative, not just palliative and suppressive as when takes
a sleeping pill for insomnia. Little in allopathic medicine is directed at
reparation.
•Homeopathy has its time-tested usefulness. Medical fads run their course
and disappear rapidly, whereas homeopathy is practiced all over the world.
•There is no drugging effect, and there are no side-effects from
homeopathic remedies. Unwanted effects are homeopathic aggravations,
recognized by the well-trained homeopath and easily managed.
•Its cost is very modest and its application is simple. Practicing
homeopathy by a majority of physicians would turn the health budget around
over night!! This is quite different from the high prices of drugs now
often used in ADD/ADHD like Ritalin, Cylert or Tofranil with all their side
effects. Not one ADD/ADHD patient in this world has to stay sick because
they can’t afford the medications.
•Most of the remedies are prepared from fresh plants and minerals. Properly
stored away from heat or radiation, they keep their strength indefinitely.
Is it not amazing that despite this long list of the benefits of homeopathy
that some not-so-well-intentioned people still label this great science as
quackery?
Practical plan for the ADD/ADHD patient
Time-Line for Order of Treatment and Diagnosis
For a physician, every investigation into an illness starts with a good
inquiry. Getting the facts together, the symptoms with their modalities and
the different factors in the patient’s lifestyle which contribute to the
disease are essential in restoring the patient’s health. Yet most
physicians neglect the all-important question: “What happened in your life
when you became sick or just before you became sick?” I see enough doctor’s
reports from my patient. They are explicit enough in the description of
symptoms and the enumeration of the different illnesses, but they rarely
link the onset of the disease to a meaningful event in the patient’s life.
Yet the onset is most often the clue to the solution. For your ADD child,
identifying the onset will be your first task. Communicate to your
physician the exact circumstances and the first symptoms observed.
Some examples that I have seen in practice will clarify this. Of ten ADD
children I treat, they all may be getting the same prescription medication,
but they may have ten different beginnings or etiologies. They may have
been“never well since” such diverse circumstances as:
• a heartbreak (divorce of parents, death of a pet, moving from the
childhood home)
• a fright (locked in a car trunk, or almost killed in a car accident)
• changing schools
• difficult delivery when being born, sometimes with a trauma to the head
from the use of forceps or suction, sometimes with temporary lack of oxygen
• the longterm effects of an operation, because of sensitivity to anesthesia
• severe diarrhea with dehydration
• recurrent antibiotic intake
• the death of a family member
I have seen all these factors lead to ADHD cases in my practice. Your
pediatrician may not be able to make anything of this information, but a
homeopathic physician will come up with ten different remedies for these
ten different children. Doesn’t it make more sense to treat the root of the
problem, and not merely the little sick branches (the symptoms)? Yet most
doctors, alternative or conventional, do little more than trimming the
twigs (removing the symptoms) because they do not know how to treat the
sick root, the source of the symptoms. Conventional medicine does not have
the tools to repair the beginnings of ADD. So they keep on using the few
medications that cover some of its symptoms. Only holistic modalities like
acupuncture and chiropractic and especially homeopathy are capable of
turning ADD patient’s lives around.
Determine What Kind of ADD Child you have: Help through Hereditary
(Miasmatic) background
The term “miasm” is an old medical term used in Hahnemann’s time (the
1800’s) and by Dr. Hahnemann himself to reflect a certain “predisposition,
a defect” that can be transferred from generation to generation. This
theory so well set-out by Hahnemann corresponds to our genetic work of
today, except that homeopaths are two hundred years ahead of conventional
medicine in applying this theory in practice. For more explanation of
miasms, I can refer you to my book Human Condition Critical. For the
purpose of this article, it is sufficient to classify these ADD/ADHD
children into four major groups, which I will call the Support-Needy, the
Stimulation/Excitement Seekers, the Destructive ones, and the
Changeable/Restless. As we will see, each of these groups has different
symptoms and behavioral expressions, which will reflect the many different
kinds of ADD/ADHD children we have. Don’t we have some that can’t pay
attention, but are the sweetest kids around? Others are restless and seem
to forget the moment you teach them something. Then there are those who
feel the need to be malicious and hurt someone, while some ADHD children
exhibit the constant need to kiss and touch everyone around. Are all these
children alike? Obviously not, so the myth that a drug like Ritalin would
cover all of these children is just that, a myth. Let’s look at the four
major groups.
The Support-Needy
• hypersensitive to environmental factors
• moody (anger and tears) and impressionable
• lazy and apathetic, day dreamers
• inconsistent thoughts, cannot materialize what he thinks (theorizing),
thoughts come too fast, they cannot stay put in one channel
• fictious thoughts, builds castles in the air
• inability to concentrate, weakness of memory
• slow learners, need to “mull” things over; it leads to being perceived as
“dumb”, even by the child himself
• passionate indulgence to achieve unnecessary objects with mental
restlessness
• easily fatigued, mentally and physically with a desire to lie down
• complain they want to do something but they don’t know what
• anxieties and phobias in children: fear of darkness, being alone,
animals, going to school, fear of failure in school, fear of being laughed at
• aversion to be in company of strangers, crowds; likes to be one-on-one,
being with his one “best” friend or would rather play by himself
• chronic worriers: about leaving home, coming too late at school, not
performing well at school, about the welfare of their parents, sensitive
about horrible things they see on TV, in the street (they are greatly
disturbed by them)
• lack of discipline, untidy appearance
• very attached at the home, does not want to leave family to go to summer
camp; cries when having to go to school, hangs on to the mother and looks
for constant reassurance; invites friends to come play at his home, does
not want to play at friend’s home unless it is in the immediate neighborhood
• when family splits (divorce), this child can feel lost and will join a
gang, “just to belong”; or he suddenly changes his behavior from easy going
to very volatile, even aggressive behavior (cursing, inappropriate sexual
behavior, kicking,punching holes in the wall, etc.)
• when sick, is very clingy, wants constant reassurance, wants to be held
or have mother at home
• loves playing in nature, in the woods, camping on an island, loves all
kinds of animals and dogs are often their only friend
• cannot tolerate noise and crowded places
• lots of imagination
• standing in one place tortures him most, but dislikes exercise except
being in the water (pool, ocean)
• very stubborn: can brood for hours, can throw temper tantrums when
refused something
• likes to collect things: cards, memorabilia, “antiques,” toys and
dislikes to share them except with his best friend
• loves food in general, eats or snacks all the time; favorites are rich,
creamy foods, ice cream, milk although it often disagrees, meat; chews on
his pencil or as a baby eats sand at the beach
• timidity: in conversations, at parties, at school: they don’t like the
attention drawn to them, don’t like to be looked at; avoid taking
initiative, are always followers, never a leader even to the point of
cowardice
Over stimulation, looking for Excitement
• suspicious and jealous; quarrelsome with tendency to harm others and
cruelty to animals; sometimes exaggerated, pathological love for animals
(it is the only being they bestow their attention on)
• lack of affection, anger from trifles
• can’t sit still doing his homework, restless legs while sitting, tapping
with his pencil while sitting; sitting still in a classroom is like a bird
being in a cage; they need to interrupt the teacher, calling out answers
when not asked
• rudeness and mischieviousness
• absent minded: loses thread of conversation, loss of short-term memory,
inattention, easily distracted by slightest diversion, is in a constant
brain fag
• best time to do their mental work is the evening (8 p.m. till 3 a.m.),
unfortunately that’s when they come “alive” for other things too: they love
the night life and go to the extreme of switching the day life to the night
life; of course then they are exhausted the next day in school
• tendency to conceal things, lies easily, boasts all the time; conceals
“parts” of the real him: his performances at school, athletic performances,
successes with the opposite sex, etc., he exaggerates the extent of them
• loves and needs company: the more people, the better; has no problems to
get acquainted with strangers, people are very charmed by the sycotic child
who is full of tricks and inventiveness
• loves to hang out with a bunch of his friends, looking for mischievous
things to do, looking for the next short-living thrill; they are
dare-devils, taking risks just to look good with their friends; they incite
others to do the same daring deeds; they love films with high speed,
stunts, guns; they rather live a short life full of excitement than a long
“boring” life
• jealousy can be outspoken: towards friends, younger siblings, the success
other children have at school, towards the “jocks” at school
• children with colic from birth on
• impatient, wants things now, can’t take no for an answer
• will do anything to get the attention of others: bright clothes, orange
hair, tattoos, rings through the nose, flaunting their bodies with tight
jeans, miniskirts, bare midriffs; they love to “shock” people and their
parents
• mind on sexual organs, preoccupation with sexuality
• great physical stamina when excited by things he is doing: sports,
dancing, playing music; otherwise complains about feeling too fatigued to
do his homework upon returning from school; but feels great again in the
evening
• mental and physical restless sleep
• suspicious, mean, selfish
• suicidal tendency in the heat of the passion (“no one understands me,”
two friends committing suicide together
The Destructive Ones
• the child can’t explain and does not realize his symptoms
• mentally dull, ignorant, stupid, sulky, sullen, morose
• he can read but can’t retain, must reread to comprehend; slowness in
comprehension, they forget what they were about to say
• urge for destruction is very characteristic: breaks things, with a
malicious intent; loves to destroy toys, books, your furniture; cruelty
with absence of remorse
• at slightest provocation, and even without, resorts to fighting, cursing,
nasty behavior; everybody “is out there to hurt him;” he hates everything:
his life, school, work, parents, the government
• lack of sense of duty and responsibility, cold blooded, perversion
• aversion to company, introvert; locks himself up in his room and plays on
the computer; asocial, misanthropic
• depression, despair, sulking with suicidal tendencies: “giving up on
life,” rather a lack of passion
• laughs inappropriately (in school, at a funeral, etc.)
• they like to hurt people (emotionally too) and animals: kick their dog
for no reason; they like to hurt their younger sibling out of satisfaction
it gives them
• disrespectful to any authority (teachers, parents, physicians, police,
etc.); they dress to shock people, but not for the thrill, rather to hurt
people, out of meanness, as a show of disrespect for the rest of the world
• they are fascinated with cemeteries, satanic cults, Dracula and have a
morbid interest in skeletons or medical books looking up pictures of
deformed people
•unsuccessful in arithmetical calculations
• great restlessness, driving him out of bed
• no mercy, sympathy or affection, despotic, domineering
• hereditary tendency to alcoholism; consumes alcohol not to belong or for
the excitement, rather to numb the isolated, sad feelings he has; tendency
to take street drugs and medical drugs; addictive personality
• fascination especially with knives, also guns
• tendency to depression; wants to be left alone; indifferent to
pleasurable things, avoids people in general (not because he is timid, but
because he does not like people in general)
• complete aversion to meat
• behavior worse from sunset to sunrise
• depression, suicide, mental disease, alcoholism in the family history
The Dissatisfied and Changeable Ones
• good memory but easily fatigued by mental work, becoming confused and
averse to mental work
• impatient if their wishes are not happening fast enough; or giving up
easily when the desired result is not forthcoming
• easily impressionable, easily enthusiastic, but tiring quickly in their
interest; they change the object/subject of their interest very quickly
• temper tantrums with breaking and throwing things when their little whims
are not satisfied quickly enough
• they crave excitement and new things all the time; they hardly take the
time to explore the new things, settings, places, etc.
• loquacious in the class, frustrated with rigid teachers, easily coming
along with excitable ones
• loves to run around, listening to music
• tend to be allergic to fury animals (dogs, cats)
• argumentative and contrary behavior
• biting, destroying toys, books
• refuses to come into consulting room, shrieks and yells and kicks;
unreasonable terror in a child at a medical examination or with strangers
• loves bacon, smoked foods, milk, salt, chocolate
• fear of thunder, being alone, being in the dark
Conclusion
Many of the ADHD children will fall under the Stimulation/Excitement group.
Yet I have seen ADHD children from all four groups and sometimes symptoms
of different groups in one child. The well-trained homeopathic physician
will recognize which group is mainly represented in that child. Then his
task starts. Each of these groups have numerous remedies. The physician
will tailor the remedy to each child, thereby assuring success in the
outcome. Often the child’s life is changed on every plane: physically,
emotionally, and mentally. Just to give you one example of the hundreds I
have been treating:
An 8 year-old child suffered since age 2 from recurrent ear infections.
Every cold went to the ears. Now at age 8 he had a 30% hearing loss. He was
diagnosed with ADHD because his behavior was asocial, he hated everything,
paid no attention, was labeled dumb, and he threatened to kill his mother
on a daily basis. After a full examination, it was concluded he belonged to
the Destructive group of ADHD. An appropriate remedy was prescribed and
taken once only. Result: from the very next day on, his behavior changed
dramatically. He became sweet and affectionate. This behavior three months
later was still the same, without having to repeat the remedy at all.
During this time, he got a cold. Upon examination by his ENT doctor, no ear
infection was found. Even more astonishing to the physician, a new
audiogram (hearing test) showed a complete normal result. Surprising? Not
to a skilled homeopath. Anecdotal? Not if we can repeat such results, and
we can! I hope that many parents and teachers alike may discover the
wonders of homeopathy: their children’s future is depending on it!
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Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Classical Homeopath
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Sheri Nakken wrote:ADD or The Hyperactive Child: the Homeopathic Approach
Luc de Schepper MD, Ph.D.,C.HOM., DI.HOM.,Lic.AC.
As a physician who has successfully treated hundreds of ADD/ADHD patients
over the years, and based on my training in different healing modalities
(internal medicine, neurology, acupuncture and homeopathy), I think I am in
a good position to compare the value of different treatments for these
children.
What is normal behavior in a child? I remember when childhood was an
ungraded test. Growing up in Belgium, I built forts and played cowboys and
Indians. The real clock did not start until high school. Now children get
homework in the first grade and parents do anything to help their children
get ahead, like putting three-year-olds in a private school for $9,000 a
year. Is there still a place for childhood in an anxious America? My own
childhood behavior, if I were in elementary school today, would surely
trigger a psychological evaluation, followed by the inevitable prescription
of Ritalin.
So what about that ubiquitous Ritalin? Why does a stimulant sometimes seem
to calm a hyperactive child? Doctors don’t know why. (Ask a homeopath
though, and he will tell you about the homeopathic law “Like Cures Like.”
When it works —for a limited time—it’s because the child’s particular
symptoms match the behavior stimulated by the drug.) It has now been used
for a half century, and one hypothesis of why Ritalin works is that ADHD
stems from inadequate dopamine levels in the brain, but proof of this has
been tough to come by. What are the latest findings?
• Ritalin works for a short time in some children to reduce symptoms of
ADHD, but no studies have proved a lasting effect on academic performance.
• Safety? It causes insomnia, a decrease in appetite, and delayed growth,
disturbing news considering that 50% of children derive no benefit
whatsoever from Ritalin
• A positive response initially to Ritalin does not automatically mean a
child suffers from ADHD. Stimulants will temporarily sharpen almost
anyone’s focus!
• It is not a panacea. It will not boost IQ nor help children whose main
symptoms are not “hyperactivity” but rather “inattention” or “daydreaming,”
a problem that affects more girls with ADHD than boys.
This growing availability of Ritalin (its use has increased 7 fold over the
past 8 years) raises fears of abuse, while in one study Ritalin caused
liver cancer mice (although this was not considered a reason to stop the
drug). Well-meaning teachers pressure parents to put a child on Ritalin
when they feel his behavior disturbs the classroom. This leads to anguish
on the part of the parents, who must decide whether their child’s very
active behavior is abnormal to the point of needing treatment and whether
to use drugs to control that behavior.
Individualization is the key in treating any chronic condition with
homeopathy, but it is particularly important in treating children with
ADHD. Symptoms in these children can vary greatly: some are violent and
aggressive, others are sweet, sensitive and compassionate, trying to
cooperate fully with the physician although unable to concentrate in
school. This diversity explains why no one medication, whether prescription
or homeopathic, will work for all these children.
Let’s have an in-depth look at homeopathy.
Advantages of homeopathy
Homeopathy is a true science based on laws and principles AND the only
scientific way of testing its validity: remedies tested on healthy
individuals, not animals neither sick patients as is done in Western
medicine. Western medicine has no principles or laws, except that “the
Contrary Cures the Contrary.” This is why no therapy in Western medicine
survives the test of time. After some years, at first heralded therapies
are abandoned and new ones are pursued. They call it progress, but true
healing methods have survived centuries of scrutinies. Homeopathy is almost
200 years old while acupuncture survived 5,000 years. What was true and
efficient then still is now! What is left of medicine from 200 years ago?
Thank God nothing, because deaf people were put in asylums, mental patients
got flogged and tortured, while starving, purging and blood letting were
crude methods performed by the “star” physicians of that time. That modern
medicine still changes its opinions on the drop of a hat is demonstrated
daily. AZT, the “miracle” drug for AIDS patients was first advised to be
taken not only by full-blown AIDS patients, but also by anyone who tested
HIV positive without symptoms. Shortly after this it was found that half of
the doses worked as well and cut down on the side-effects. Then a study in
Europe showed that AZT did not provide any benefit in prolonging the
quantity and quality of an AIDS patient, followed recently by advise in the
USA that doctors should not prescribe AZT automatically to AIDS patients.
From riches to rags in a couple of years.
Before I start explaining you what homeopathy can do for your ADD child,
consider the advantages of homeopathy when compared to Western medicine.
•The treatment is individualized-it considers the whole patient himself
through symptoms, rather than the disease as a name. Too often, we
physicians think that our work is finished when we put the patient in a
category of disease. “Yes, you have ADD. Here is the prescription for
Ritalin. Go home and pray that it will work.” Homeopathy does not need a
name of disease. It looks at the person as a whole and tries to find the
contributing factors of disease.
•All remedies recommended in homeopathy have extensive human experiment.
Contrary to what opponents of homeopathy would have you believe, all
remedies are tested in the only scientific way, i.e. on normal, healthy
individuals.
•The homeopathic method of prescribing on a totality of symptoms is
designed to be curative, not just palliative and suppressive as when takes
a sleeping pill for insomnia. Little in allopathic medicine is directed at
reparation.
•Homeopathy has its time-tested usefulness. Medical fads run their course
and disappear rapidly, whereas homeopathy is practiced all over the world.
•There is no drugging effect, and there are no side-effects from
homeopathic remedies. Unwanted effects are homeopathic aggravations,
recognized by the well-trained homeopath and easily managed.
•Its cost is very modest and its application is simple. Practicing
homeopathy by a majority of physicians would turn the health budget around
over night!! This is quite different from the high prices of drugs now
often used in ADD/ADHD like Ritalin, Cylert or Tofranil with all their side
effects. Not one ADD/ADHD patient in this world has to stay sick because
they can’t afford the medications.
•Most of the remedies are prepared from fresh plants and minerals. Properly
stored away from heat or radiation, they keep their strength indefinitely.
Is it not amazing that despite this long list of the benefits of homeopathy
that some not-so-well-intentioned people still label this great science as
quackery?
Practical plan for the ADD/ADHD patient
Time-Line for Order of Treatment and Diagnosis
For a physician, every investigation into an illness starts with a good
inquiry. Getting the facts together, the symptoms with their modalities and
the different factors in the patient’s lifestyle which contribute to the
disease are essential in restoring the patient’s health. Yet most
physicians neglect the all-important question: “What happened in your life
when you became sick or just before you became sick?” I see enough doctor’s
reports from my patient. They are explicit enough in the description of
symptoms and the enumeration of the different illnesses, but they rarely
link the onset of the disease to a meaningful event in the patient’s life.
Yet the onset is most often the clue to the solution. For your ADD child,
identifying the onset will be your first task. Communicate to your
physician the exact circumstances and the first symptoms observed.
Some examples that I have seen in practice will clarify this. Of ten ADD
children I treat, they all may be getting the same prescription medication,
but they may have ten different beginnings or etiologies. They may have
been“never well since” such diverse circumstances as:
• a heartbreak (divorce of parents, death of a pet, moving from the
childhood home)
• a fright (locked in a car trunk, or almost killed in a car accident)
• changing schools
• difficult delivery when being born, sometimes with a trauma to the head
from the use of forceps or suction, sometimes with temporary lack of oxygen
• the longterm effects of an operation, because of sensitivity to anesthesia
• severe diarrhea with dehydration
• recurrent antibiotic intake
• the death of a family member
I have seen all these factors lead to ADHD cases in my practice. Your
pediatrician may not be able to make anything of this information, but a
homeopathic physician will come up with ten different remedies for these
ten different children. Doesn’t it make more sense to treat the root of the
problem, and not merely the little sick branches (the symptoms)? Yet most
doctors, alternative or conventional, do little more than trimming the
twigs (removing the symptoms) because they do not know how to treat the
sick root, the source of the symptoms. Conventional medicine does not have
the tools to repair the beginnings of ADD. So they keep on using the few
medications that cover some of its symptoms. Only holistic modalities like
acupuncture and chiropractic and especially homeopathy are capable of
turning ADD patient’s lives around.
Determine What Kind of ADD Child you have: Help through Hereditary
(Miasmatic) background
The term “miasm” is an old medical term used in Hahnemann’s time (the
1800’s) and by Dr. Hahnemann himself to reflect a certain “predisposition,
a defect” that can be transferred from generation to generation. This
theory so well set-out by Hahnemann corresponds to our genetic work of
today, except that homeopaths are two hundred years ahead of conventional
medicine in applying this theory in practice. For more explanation of
miasms, I can refer you to my book Human Condition Critical. For the
purpose of this article, it is sufficient to classify these ADD/ADHD
children into four major groups, which I will call the Support-Needy, the
Stimulation/Excitement Seekers, the Destructive ones, and the
Changeable/Restless. As we will see, each of these groups has different
symptoms and behavioral expressions, which will reflect the many different
kinds of ADD/ADHD children we have. Don’t we have some that can’t pay
attention, but are the sweetest kids around? Others are restless and seem
to forget the moment you teach them something. Then there are those who
feel the need to be malicious and hurt someone, while some ADHD children
exhibit the constant need to kiss and touch everyone around. Are all these
children alike? Obviously not, so the myth that a drug like Ritalin would
cover all of these children is just that, a myth. Let’s look at the four
major groups.
The Support-Needy
• hypersensitive to environmental factors
• moody (anger and tears) and impressionable
• lazy and apathetic, day dreamers
• inconsistent thoughts, cannot materialize what he thinks (theorizing),
thoughts come too fast, they cannot stay put in one channel
• fictious thoughts, builds castles in the air
• inability to concentrate, weakness of memory
• slow learners, need to “mull” things over; it leads to being perceived as
“dumb”, even by the child himself
• passionate indulgence to achieve unnecessary objects with mental
restlessness
• easily fatigued, mentally and physically with a desire to lie down
• complain they want to do something but they don’t know what
• anxieties and phobias in children: fear of darkness, being alone,
animals, going to school, fear of failure in school, fear of being laughed at
• aversion to be in company of strangers, crowds; likes to be one-on-one,
being with his one “best” friend or would rather play by himself
• chronic worriers: about leaving home, coming too late at school, not
performing well at school, about the welfare of their parents, sensitive
about horrible things they see on TV, in the street (they are greatly
disturbed by them)
• lack of discipline, untidy appearance
• very attached at the home, does not want to leave family to go to summer
camp; cries when having to go to school, hangs on to the mother and looks
for constant reassurance; invites friends to come play at his home, does
not want to play at friend’s home unless it is in the immediate neighborhood
• when family splits (divorce), this child can feel lost and will join a
gang, “just to belong”; or he suddenly changes his behavior from easy going
to very volatile, even aggressive behavior (cursing, inappropriate sexual
behavior, kicking,punching holes in the wall, etc.)
• when sick, is very clingy, wants constant reassurance, wants to be held
or have mother at home
• loves playing in nature, in the woods, camping on an island, loves all
kinds of animals and dogs are often their only friend
• cannot tolerate noise and crowded places
• lots of imagination
• standing in one place tortures him most, but dislikes exercise except
being in the water (pool, ocean)
• very stubborn: can brood for hours, can throw temper tantrums when
refused something
• likes to collect things: cards, memorabilia, “antiques,” toys and
dislikes to share them except with his best friend
• loves food in general, eats or snacks all the time; favorites are rich,
creamy foods, ice cream, milk although it often disagrees, meat; chews on
his pencil or as a baby eats sand at the beach
• timidity: in conversations, at parties, at school: they don’t like the
attention drawn to them, don’t like to be looked at; avoid taking
initiative, are always followers, never a leader even to the point of
cowardice
Over stimulation, looking for Excitement
• suspicious and jealous; quarrelsome with tendency to harm others and
cruelty to animals; sometimes exaggerated, pathological love for animals
(it is the only being they bestow their attention on)
• lack of affection, anger from trifles
• can’t sit still doing his homework, restless legs while sitting, tapping
with his pencil while sitting; sitting still in a classroom is like a bird
being in a cage; they need to interrupt the teacher, calling out answers
when not asked
• rudeness and mischieviousness
• absent minded: loses thread of conversation, loss of short-term memory,
inattention, easily distracted by slightest diversion, is in a constant
brain fag
• best time to do their mental work is the evening (8 p.m. till 3 a.m.),
unfortunately that’s when they come “alive” for other things too: they love
the night life and go to the extreme of switching the day life to the night
life; of course then they are exhausted the next day in school
• tendency to conceal things, lies easily, boasts all the time; conceals
“parts” of the real him: his performances at school, athletic performances,
successes with the opposite sex, etc., he exaggerates the extent of them
• loves and needs company: the more people, the better; has no problems to
get acquainted with strangers, people are very charmed by the sycotic child
who is full of tricks and inventiveness
• loves to hang out with a bunch of his friends, looking for mischievous
things to do, looking for the next short-living thrill; they are
dare-devils, taking risks just to look good with their friends; they incite
others to do the same daring deeds; they love films with high speed,
stunts, guns; they rather live a short life full of excitement than a long
“boring” life
• jealousy can be outspoken: towards friends, younger siblings, the success
other children have at school, towards the “jocks” at school
• children with colic from birth on
• impatient, wants things now, can’t take no for an answer
• will do anything to get the attention of others: bright clothes, orange
hair, tattoos, rings through the nose, flaunting their bodies with tight
jeans, miniskirts, bare midriffs; they love to “shock” people and their
parents
• mind on sexual organs, preoccupation with sexuality
• great physical stamina when excited by things he is doing: sports,
dancing, playing music; otherwise complains about feeling too fatigued to
do his homework upon returning from school; but feels great again in the
evening
• mental and physical restless sleep
• suspicious, mean, selfish
• suicidal tendency in the heat of the passion (“no one understands me,”
two friends committing suicide together
The Destructive Ones
• the child can’t explain and does not realize his symptoms
• mentally dull, ignorant, stupid, sulky, sullen, morose
• he can read but can’t retain, must reread to comprehend; slowness in
comprehension, they forget what they were about to say
• urge for destruction is very characteristic: breaks things, with a
malicious intent; loves to destroy toys, books, your furniture; cruelty
with absence of remorse
• at slightest provocation, and even without, resorts to fighting, cursing,
nasty behavior; everybody “is out there to hurt him;” he hates everything:
his life, school, work, parents, the government
• lack of sense of duty and responsibility, cold blooded, perversion
• aversion to company, introvert; locks himself up in his room and plays on
the computer; asocial, misanthropic
• depression, despair, sulking with suicidal tendencies: “giving up on
life,” rather a lack of passion
• laughs inappropriately (in school, at a funeral, etc.)
• they like to hurt people (emotionally too) and animals: kick their dog
for no reason; they like to hurt their younger sibling out of satisfaction
it gives them
• disrespectful to any authority (teachers, parents, physicians, police,
etc.); they dress to shock people, but not for the thrill, rather to hurt
people, out of meanness, as a show of disrespect for the rest of the world
• they are fascinated with cemeteries, satanic cults, Dracula and have a
morbid interest in skeletons or medical books looking up pictures of
deformed people
•unsuccessful in arithmetical calculations
• great restlessness, driving him out of bed
• no mercy, sympathy or affection, despotic, domineering
• hereditary tendency to alcoholism; consumes alcohol not to belong or for
the excitement, rather to numb the isolated, sad feelings he has; tendency
to take street drugs and medical drugs; addictive personality
• fascination especially with knives, also guns
• tendency to depression; wants to be left alone; indifferent to
pleasurable things, avoids people in general (not because he is timid, but
because he does not like people in general)
• complete aversion to meat
• behavior worse from sunset to sunrise
• depression, suicide, mental disease, alcoholism in the family history
The Dissatisfied and Changeable Ones
• good memory but easily fatigued by mental work, becoming confused and
averse to mental work
• impatient if their wishes are not happening fast enough; or giving up
easily when the desired result is not forthcoming
• easily impressionable, easily enthusiastic, but tiring quickly in their
interest; they change the object/subject of their interest very quickly
• temper tantrums with breaking and throwing things when their little whims
are not satisfied quickly enough
• they crave excitement and new things all the time; they hardly take the
time to explore the new things, settings, places, etc.
• loquacious in the class, frustrated with rigid teachers, easily coming
along with excitable ones
• loves to run around, listening to music
• tend to be allergic to fury animals (dogs, cats)
• argumentative and contrary behavior
• biting, destroying toys, books
• refuses to come into consulting room, shrieks and yells and kicks;
unreasonable terror in a child at a medical examination or with strangers
• loves bacon, smoked foods, milk, salt, chocolate
• fear of thunder, being alone, being in the dark
Conclusion
Many of the ADHD children will fall under the Stimulation/Excitement group.
Yet I have seen ADHD children from all four groups and sometimes symptoms
of different groups in one child. The well-trained homeopathic physician
will recognize which group is mainly represented in that child. Then his
task starts. Each of these groups have numerous remedies. The physician
will tailor the remedy to each child, thereby assuring success in the
outcome. Often the child’s life is changed on every plane: physically,
emotionally, and mentally. Just to give you one example of the hundreds I
have been treating:
An 8 year-old child suffered since age 2 from recurrent ear infections.
Every cold went to the ears. Now at age 8 he had a 30% hearing loss. He was
diagnosed with ADHD because his behavior was asocial, he hated everything,
paid no attention, was labeled dumb, and he threatened to kill his mother
on a daily basis. After a full examination, it was concluded he belonged to
the Destructive group of ADHD. An appropriate remedy was prescribed and
taken once only. Result: from the very next day on, his behavior changed
dramatically. He became sweet and affectionate. This behavior three months
later was still the same, without having to repeat the remedy at all.
During this time, he got a cold. Upon examination by his ENT doctor, no ear
infection was found. Even more astonishing to the physician, a new
audiogram (hearing test) showed a complete normal result. Surprising? Not
to a skilled homeopath. Anecdotal? Not if we can repeat such results, and
we can! I hope that many parents and teachers alike may discover the
wonders of homeopathy: their children’s future is depending on it!
http://www.drluc.com/add.html
Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Classical Homeopath
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/homeo.htm
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Sheri Nakken wrote:ADD or The Hyperactive Child: the Homeopathic Approach
Luc de Schepper MD, Ph.D.,C.HOM., DI.HOM.,Lic.AC.
As a physician who has successfully treated hundreds of ADD/ADHD patients
over the years, and based on my training in different healing modalities
(internal medicine, neurology, acupuncture and homeopathy), I think I am in
a good position to compare the value of different treatments for these
children.
What is normal behavior in a child? I remember when childhood was an
ungraded test. Growing up in Belgium, I built forts and played cowboys and
Indians. The real clock did not start until high school. Now children get
homework in the first grade and parents do anything to help their children
get ahead, like putting three-year-olds in a private school for $9,000 a
year. Is there still a place for childhood in an anxious America? My own
childhood behavior, if I were in elementary school today, would surely
trigger a psychological evaluation, followed by the inevitable prescription
of Ritalin.
So what about that ubiquitous Ritalin? Why does a stimulant sometimes seem
to calm a hyperactive child? Doctors don’t know why. (Ask a homeopath
though, and he will tell you about the homeopathic law “Like Cures Like.”
When it works —for a limited time—it’s because the child’s particular
symptoms match the behavior stimulated by the drug.) It has now been used
for a half century, and one hypothesis of why Ritalin works is that ADHD
stems from inadequate dopamine levels in the brain, but proof of this has
been tough to come by. What are the latest findings?
• Ritalin works for a short time in some children to reduce symptoms of
ADHD, but no studies have proved a lasting effect on academic performance.
• Safety? It causes insomnia, a decrease in appetite, and delayed growth,
disturbing news considering that 50% of children derive no benefit
whatsoever from Ritalin
• A positive response initially to Ritalin does not automatically mean a
child suffers from ADHD. Stimulants will temporarily sharpen almost
anyone’s focus!
• It is not a panacea. It will not boost IQ nor help children whose main
symptoms are not “hyperactivity” but rather “inattention” or “daydreaming,”
a problem that affects more girls with ADHD than boys.
This growing availability of Ritalin (its use has increased 7 fold over the
past 8 years) raises fears of abuse, while in one study Ritalin caused
liver cancer mice (although this was not considered a reason to stop the
drug). Well-meaning teachers pressure parents to put a child on Ritalin
when they feel his behavior disturbs the classroom. This leads to anguish
on the part of the parents, who must decide whether their child’s very
active behavior is abnormal to the point of needing treatment and whether
to use drugs to control that behavior.
Individualization is the key in treating any chronic condition with
homeopathy, but it is particularly important in treating children with
ADHD. Symptoms in these children can vary greatly: some are violent and
aggressive, others are sweet, sensitive and compassionate, trying to
cooperate fully with the physician although unable to concentrate in
school. This diversity explains why no one medication, whether prescription
or homeopathic, will work for all these children.
Let’s have an in-depth look at homeopathy.
Advantages of homeopathy
Homeopathy is a true science based on laws and principles AND the only
scientific way of testing its validity: remedies tested on healthy
individuals, not animals neither sick patients as is done in Western
medicine. Western medicine has no principles or laws, except that “the
Contrary Cures the Contrary.” This is why no therapy in Western medicine
survives the test of time. After some years, at first heralded therapies
are abandoned and new ones are pursued. They call it progress, but true
healing methods have survived centuries of scrutinies. Homeopathy is almost
200 years old while acupuncture survived 5,000 years. What was true and
efficient then still is now! What is left of medicine from 200 years ago?
Thank God nothing, because deaf people were put in asylums, mental patients
got flogged and tortured, while starving, purging and blood letting were
crude methods performed by the “star” physicians of that time. That modern
medicine still changes its opinions on the drop of a hat is demonstrated
daily. AZT, the “miracle” drug for AIDS patients was first advised to be
taken not only by full-blown AIDS patients, but also by anyone who tested
HIV positive without symptoms. Shortly after this it was found that half of
the doses worked as well and cut down on the side-effects. Then a study in
Europe showed that AZT did not provide any benefit in prolonging the
quantity and quality of an AIDS patient, followed recently by advise in the
USA that doctors should not prescribe AZT automatically to AIDS patients.
From riches to rags in a couple of years.
Before I start explaining you what homeopathy can do for your ADD child,
consider the advantages of homeopathy when compared to Western medicine.
•The treatment is individualized-it considers the whole patient himself
through symptoms, rather than the disease as a name. Too often, we
physicians think that our work is finished when we put the patient in a
category of disease. “Yes, you have ADD. Here is the prescription for
Ritalin. Go home and pray that it will work.” Homeopathy does not need a
name of disease. It looks at the person as a whole and tries to find the
contributing factors of disease.
•All remedies recommended in homeopathy have extensive human experiment.
Contrary to what opponents of homeopathy would have you believe, all
remedies are tested in the only scientific way, i.e. on normal, healthy
individuals.
•The homeopathic method of prescribing on a totality of symptoms is
designed to be curative, not just palliative and suppressive as when takes
a sleeping pill for insomnia. Little in allopathic medicine is directed at
reparation.
•Homeopathy has its time-tested usefulness. Medical fads run their course
and disappear rapidly, whereas homeopathy is practiced all over the world.
•There is no drugging effect, and there are no side-effects from
homeopathic remedies. Unwanted effects are homeopathic aggravations,
recognized by the well-trained homeopath and easily managed.
•Its cost is very modest and its application is simple. Practicing
homeopathy by a majority of physicians would turn the health budget around
over night!! This is quite different from the high prices of drugs now
often used in ADD/ADHD like Ritalin, Cylert or Tofranil with all their side
effects. Not one ADD/ADHD patient in this world has to stay sick because
they can’t afford the medications.
•Most of the remedies are prepared from fresh plants and minerals. Properly
stored away from heat or radiation, they keep their strength indefinitely.
Is it not amazing that despite this long list of the benefits of homeopathy
that some not-so-well-intentioned people still label this great science as
quackery?
Practical plan for the ADD/ADHD patient
Time-Line for Order of Treatment and Diagnosis
For a physician, every investigation into an illness starts with a good
inquiry. Getting the facts together, the symptoms with their modalities and
the different factors in the patient’s lifestyle which contribute to the
disease are essential in restoring the patient’s health. Yet most
physicians neglect the all-important question: “What happened in your life
when you became sick or just before you became sick?” I see enough doctor’s
reports from my patient. They are explicit enough in the description of
symptoms and the enumeration of the different illnesses, but they rarely
link the onset of the disease to a meaningful event in the patient’s life.
Yet the onset is most often the clue to the solution. For your ADD child,
identifying the onset will be your first task. Communicate to your
physician the exact circumstances and the first symptoms observed.
Some examples that I have seen in practice will clarify this. Of ten ADD
children I treat, they all may be getting the same prescription medication,
but they may have ten different beginnings or etiologies. They may have
been“never well since” such diverse circumstances as:
• a heartbreak (divorce of parents, death of a pet, moving from the
childhood home)
• a fright (locked in a car trunk, or almost killed in a car accident)
• changing schools
• difficult delivery when being born, sometimes with a trauma to the head
from the use of forceps or suction, sometimes with temporary lack of oxygen
• the longterm effects of an operation, because of sensitivity to anesthesia
• severe diarrhea with dehydration
• recurrent antibiotic intake
• the death of a family member
I have seen all these factors lead to ADHD cases in my practice. Your
pediatrician may not be able to make anything of this information, but a
homeopathic physician will come up with ten different remedies for these
ten different children. Doesn’t it make more sense to treat the root of the
problem, and not merely the little sick branches (the symptoms)? Yet most
doctors, alternative or conventional, do little more than trimming the
twigs (removing the symptoms) because they do not know how to treat the
sick root, the source of the symptoms. Conventional medicine does not have
the tools to repair the beginnings of ADD. So they keep on using the few
medications that cover some of its symptoms. Only holistic modalities like
acupuncture and chiropractic and especially homeopathy are capable of
turning ADD patient’s lives around.
Determine What Kind of ADD Child you have: Help through Hereditary
(Miasmatic) background
The term “miasm” is an old medical term used in Hahnemann’s time (the
1800’s) and by Dr. Hahnemann himself to reflect a certain “predisposition,
a defect” that can be transferred from generation to generation. This
theory so well set-out by Hahnemann corresponds to our genetic work of
today, except that homeopaths are two hundred years ahead of conventional
medicine in applying this theory in practice. For more explanation of
miasms, I can refer you to my book Human Condition Critical. For the
purpose of this article, it is sufficient to classify these ADD/ADHD
children into four major groups, which I will call the Support-Needy, the
Stimulation/Excitement Seekers, the Destructive ones, and the
Changeable/Restless. As we will see, each of these groups has different
symptoms and behavioral expressions, which will reflect the many different
kinds of ADD/ADHD children we have. Don’t we have some that can’t pay
attention, but are the sweetest kids around? Others are restless and seem
to forget the moment you teach them something. Then there are those who
feel the need to be malicious and hurt someone, while some ADHD children
exhibit the constant need to kiss and touch everyone around. Are all these
children alike? Obviously not, so the myth that a drug like Ritalin would
cover all of these children is just that, a myth. Let’s look at the four
major groups.
The Support-Needy
• hypersensitive to environmental factors
• moody (anger and tears) and impressionable
• lazy and apathetic, day dreamers
• inconsistent thoughts, cannot materialize what he thinks (theorizing),
thoughts come too fast, they cannot stay put in one channel
• fictious thoughts, builds castles in the air
• inability to concentrate, weakness of memory
• slow learners, need to “mull” things over; it leads to being perceived as
“dumb”, even by the child himself
• passionate indulgence to achieve unnecessary objects with mental
restlessness
• easily fatigued, mentally and physically with a desire to lie down
• complain they want to do something but they don’t know what
• anxieties and phobias in children: fear of darkness, being alone,
animals, going to school, fear of failure in school, fear of being laughed at
• aversion to be in company of strangers, crowds; likes to be one-on-one,
being with his one “best” friend or would rather play by himself
• chronic worriers: about leaving home, coming too late at school, not
performing well at school, about the welfare of their parents, sensitive
about horrible things they see on TV, in the street (they are greatly
disturbed by them)
• lack of discipline, untidy appearance
• very attached at the home, does not want to leave family to go to summer
camp; cries when having to go to school, hangs on to the mother and looks
for constant reassurance; invites friends to come play at his home, does
not want to play at friend’s home unless it is in the immediate neighborhood
• when family splits (divorce), this child can feel lost and will join a
gang, “just to belong”; or he suddenly changes his behavior from easy going
to very volatile, even aggressive behavior (cursing, inappropriate sexual
behavior, kicking,punching holes in the wall, etc.)
• when sick, is very clingy, wants constant reassurance, wants to be held
or have mother at home
• loves playing in nature, in the woods, camping on an island, loves all
kinds of animals and dogs are often their only friend
• cannot tolerate noise and crowded places
• lots of imagination
• standing in one place tortures him most, but dislikes exercise except
being in the water (pool, ocean)
• very stubborn: can brood for hours, can throw temper tantrums when
refused something
• likes to collect things: cards, memorabilia, “antiques,” toys and
dislikes to share them except with his best friend
• loves food in general, eats or snacks all the time; favorites are rich,
creamy foods, ice cream, milk although it often disagrees, meat; chews on
his pencil or as a baby eats sand at the beach
• timidity: in conversations, at parties, at school: they don’t like the
attention drawn to them, don’t like to be looked at; avoid taking
initiative, are always followers, never a leader even to the point of
cowardice
Over stimulation, looking for Excitement
• suspicious and jealous; quarrelsome with tendency to harm others and
cruelty to animals; sometimes exaggerated, pathological love for animals
(it is the only being they bestow their attention on)
• lack of affection, anger from trifles
• can’t sit still doing his homework, restless legs while sitting, tapping
with his pencil while sitting; sitting still in a classroom is like a bird
being in a cage; they need to interrupt the teacher, calling out answers
when not asked
• rudeness and mischieviousness
• absent minded: loses thread of conversation, loss of short-term memory,
inattention, easily distracted by slightest diversion, is in a constant
brain fag
• best time to do their mental work is the evening (8 p.m. till 3 a.m.),
unfortunately that’s when they come “alive” for other things too: they love
the night life and go to the extreme of switching the day life to the night
life; of course then they are exhausted the next day in school
• tendency to conceal things, lies easily, boasts all the time; conceals
“parts” of the real him: his performances at school, athletic performances,
successes with the opposite sex, etc., he exaggerates the extent of them
• loves and needs company: the more people, the better; has no problems to
get acquainted with strangers, people are very charmed by the sycotic child
who is full of tricks and inventiveness
• loves to hang out with a bunch of his friends, looking for mischievous
things to do, looking for the next short-living thrill; they are
dare-devils, taking risks just to look good with their friends; they incite
others to do the same daring deeds; they love films with high speed,
stunts, guns; they rather live a short life full of excitement than a long
“boring” life
• jealousy can be outspoken: towards friends, younger siblings, the success
other children have at school, towards the “jocks” at school
• children with colic from birth on
• impatient, wants things now, can’t take no for an answer
• will do anything to get the attention of others: bright clothes, orange
hair, tattoos, rings through the nose, flaunting their bodies with tight
jeans, miniskirts, bare midriffs; they love to “shock” people and their
parents
• mind on sexual organs, preoccupation with sexuality
• great physical stamina when excited by things he is doing: sports,
dancing, playing music; otherwise complains about feeling too fatigued to
do his homework upon returning from school; but feels great again in the
evening
• mental and physical restless sleep
• suspicious, mean, selfish
• suicidal tendency in the heat of the passion (“no one understands me,”
two friends committing suicide together
The Destructive Ones
• the child can’t explain and does not realize his symptoms
• mentally dull, ignorant, stupid, sulky, sullen, morose
• he can read but can’t retain, must reread to comprehend; slowness in
comprehension, they forget what they were about to say
• urge for destruction is very characteristic: breaks things, with a
malicious intent; loves to destroy toys, books, your furniture; cruelty
with absence of remorse
• at slightest provocation, and even without, resorts to fighting, cursing,
nasty behavior; everybody “is out there to hurt him;” he hates everything:
his life, school, work, parents, the government
• lack of sense of duty and responsibility, cold blooded, perversion
• aversion to company, introvert; locks himself up in his room and plays on
the computer; asocial, misanthropic
• depression, despair, sulking with suicidal tendencies: “giving up on
life,” rather a lack of passion
• laughs inappropriately (in school, at a funeral, etc.)
• they like to hurt people (emotionally too) and animals: kick their dog
for no reason; they like to hurt their younger sibling out of satisfaction
it gives them
• disrespectful to any authority (teachers, parents, physicians, police,
etc.); they dress to shock people, but not for the thrill, rather to hurt
people, out of meanness, as a show of disrespect for the rest of the world
• they are fascinated with cemeteries, satanic cults, Dracula and have a
morbid interest in skeletons or medical books looking up pictures of
deformed people
•unsuccessful in arithmetical calculations
• great restlessness, driving him out of bed
• no mercy, sympathy or affection, despotic, domineering
• hereditary tendency to alcoholism; consumes alcohol not to belong or for
the excitement, rather to numb the isolated, sad feelings he has; tendency
to take street drugs and medical drugs; addictive personality
• fascination especially with knives, also guns
• tendency to depression; wants to be left alone; indifferent to
pleasurable things, avoids people in general (not because he is timid, but
because he does not like people in general)
• complete aversion to meat
• behavior worse from sunset to sunrise
• depression, suicide, mental disease, alcoholism in the family history
The Dissatisfied and Changeable Ones
• good memory but easily fatigued by mental work, becoming confused and
averse to mental work
• impatient if their wishes are not happening fast enough; or giving up
easily when the desired result is not forthcoming
• easily impressionable, easily enthusiastic, but tiring quickly in their
interest; they change the object/subject of their interest very quickly
• temper tantrums with breaking and throwing things when their little whims
are not satisfied quickly enough
• they crave excitement and new things all the time; they hardly take the
time to explore the new things, settings, places, etc.
• loquacious in the class, frustrated with rigid teachers, easily coming
along with excitable ones
• loves to run around, listening to music
• tend to be allergic to fury animals (dogs, cats)
• argumentative and contrary behavior
• biting, destroying toys, books
• refuses to come into consulting room, shrieks and yells and kicks;
unreasonable terror in a child at a medical examination or with strangers
• loves bacon, smoked foods, milk, salt, chocolate
• fear of thunder, being alone, being in the dark
Conclusion
Many of the ADHD children will fall under the Stimulation/Excitement group.
Yet I have seen ADHD children from all four groups and sometimes symptoms
of different groups in one child. The well-trained homeopathic physician
will recognize which group is mainly represented in that child. Then his
task starts. Each of these groups have numerous remedies. The physician
will tailor the remedy to each child, thereby assuring success in the
outcome. Often the child’s life is changed on every plane: physically,
emotionally, and mentally. Just to give you one example of the hundreds I
have been treating:
An 8 year-old child suffered since age 2 from recurrent ear infections.
Every cold went to the ears. Now at age 8 he had a 30% hearing loss. He was
diagnosed with ADHD because his behavior was asocial, he hated everything,
paid no attention, was labeled dumb, and he threatened to kill his mother
on a daily basis. After a full examination, it was concluded he belonged to
the Destructive group of ADHD. An appropriate remedy was prescribed and
taken once only. Result: from the very next day on, his behavior changed
dramatically. He became sweet and affectionate. This behavior three months
later was still the same, without having to repeat the remedy at all.
During this time, he got a cold. Upon examination by his ENT doctor, no ear
infection was found. Even more astonishing to the physician, a new
audiogram (hearing test) showed a complete normal result. Surprising? Not
to a skilled homeopath. Anecdotal? Not if we can repeat such results, and
we can! I hope that many parents and teachers alike may discover the
wonders of homeopathy: their children’s future is depending on it!
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Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Classical Homeopath
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/homeo.htm
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