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Because homeopathic medicines are very dilute, classical homeopathy for kids is little different to the equivalent treatments for adults. However, there are some differences, and homeopaths sometimes lament the lack of attention given to pediatric homeopathy in the various schools of classical homeopathy. This gap is now being filled by Adventures in Medicine, which offers a postgraduate course for licensed homeopaths in pediatric homeopathy. Whilst there is no space in this article to go into as much detail as Adventures in Medicine’s course, we can look at how classical homeopathy can treat kids’ common ailments.
Classical Homeopathy for Kids’ Behavioral Disorders
The use of classical homeopathy to treat behavioral disorders is the subject of the book Rage Free Kids by Robert and Judith Ullman. The Ullmans give three case studies from their homeopathic practice to show how they successfully used homeopathic principles to treat such disorders as ADHD and autism. They see the rise of such diseases as part of a general trend towards violence in society, and share their experience in treating over 3000 children to show that it doesn’t have to be that way. The authors are strongly critical of the tendency to pump children full of drugs in order to control them, and point the way towards achieving the same results without Ritalin and other such drugs.
Classical Homeopathy for Kids’ Minor Ailments
Classical homeopathy can also be used to treat the usual ailments found in childhood, such as chicken pox and mumps. A tincture of the white bryonia root, at a dilution of 30X (meaning it is diluted at a factor of 10-60) is a common homeopathic remedy for chicken pox. Apis Mell, made from honey bees, is used to treat mumps and belladonna for measles.
Classical Homeopathy for Kids and the Vaccination Debate
One area in which classical homeopathy for kids has come in for criticism is in its opposition to the use of vaccines. Instead, homeopaths advocate the use of nosodes, homeopathic remedies made from diseased tissue, which work in a similar way to vaccines. They tout them as being completely safe, with none of the side effects associated with vaccines.
Skeptics criticize nosodes for the same reason that they criticize all homeopathic remedies. They regard them as too dilute to be any use to the patient. Nosodes are dismissed as “magic water”, with barely detectable traces of the pathological tissue that is supposed to inoculate against disease. When deciding whether or not to vaccinate your children, it is worth arming yourself with all the facts about homeopathy in order to make an informed choice.