A New Approach: Homeopathic Treatment For Children

Do you have a child that suffers from the following: ear aches, allergies, digestive issues, eczema, or issues with sleep, attention or eating? Homeopathic treatment can be a safe and positive remedy for these issues.

Homeopathic treatment refers to holistic medicine and methods that acknowledge that emotional and mental symptoms act simultaneously with physical symptoms. This type of treatment can effectively reduce childhood anxieties, tantrums, fears, hyperactivity and A.D.D. without resulting side effects. In addition to this, it can help kids more effectively fight colds and the flu.

Homeopathic remedies activate the "self heal" button. Chinese medicine refers to it as the "chi." Naturopathic medicine refers to it as the "vis." The study of Homeopathy refers to it as the "vital force." Each one describes the energy residing in the human body that when activated moves the body's system in the direction of better health and well-being.

Homeopathic treatments are individually chosen based on the different symptoms and composition of a child. They are taken from the animal, plant and mineral kingdoms and are recognized in the following way: A treatment that can create symptoms in a healthy kid can get rid of similar symptoms in an ill child.

A reason to consider this is that children respond extremely well to alternative treatments and medicine. For more information, get in touch with a licensed naturopathic doctor or a professional homeopath for a visit.

Homeopathic Medicine Has Support in the Deep South

A Mississippi woman named Mary Beth Rayborn discovered homeopathy once she learned that her husband had been diagnosed with cancer. Rayborn runs a Vitamins Plus health store in west Hattiesburg, and she now sells a large amount of remedies for those who wish to find a natural method of curing or treating diseases and disorders.

The National Center for Homeopathy's Web site refers to Homeopathy as a type of medicine that works on the law of similars. Homeopathy tries to stimulate one's body to begin healing on its own and the symptoms that a patient experiences are used to treat the ailment or problem.

Depending on which state you are in, the laws in regards to this type of practice may differ. Currently, Mississippi does not have any licensing laws that link homeopathic doctors to the state.

Homeopathic treatments are substances that may be created from various plants including dandelion, aconite, and plantain. These medicines may also come from minerals like arsenic oxide, iron phosphate, and sodium chloride. The substances can even be derived from animals such as poisonous snake venoms, or even ink from the cuttlefish. These materials are diluted with great care until little of the original substance is still present, according to the Web site.

Mary Beth Rayborn's shop has drug products that help treat allergies, insect bites, digestive problems and bronchitis. Rayborn also mentioned that she does not advertise these methods but instead interested customers visit the store by word-of-mouth.
Although there are many people on the opposing side of these methods, homeopathic medicine appears to have a large amount of supporters.

Alternative Medicines Growing in Canada

Every year, more of our Canadian friends in the north embrace alternative medicines such as homeopathy, an interesting and controversial two hundred-year-old system of medicine. In fact, its adherents swear by its unconventional focus on treating symptoms rather than diseases and reliance on all-natural remedies, taking its claims to heal everything from sores to colds as a matter of faith.

What is homeopathy?
Homeopathy is a system of treatment based on a theory of healing called The Law of Similars. In a nutshell, the law says that a condition with a given set of symptoms can be cured by a medicine that is known to produce a similar set of symptoms; for example, a homeopath might prescribe coffea cruda (unroasted coffee) for sleeplessness and allium cepa (red onion) for watery eyes caused by allergies.

"It's a law of physics," says Verspoor. "If you have two similar waves of energy coming at each other, the two cancel each other out." Dr. Heather Boon, an associate professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto, doesn't recommend homeopathy but says that from a scientific point of view, physicists won't dismiss its theories as entirely impossible. They are familiar with other cases of matter and energy interacting in ways that are sometimes counter intuitive. "More research is needed," stresses Boon. Verspoor admits that the theory that disease is energy, and that there are energy signatures in homeopathic remedies, is "complete nonsense" when judged by current medical and scientific knowledge.

Homeopathy Explained

Homeopathy is a form of medicine based on the law of similars, according to the National Center for Homeopathy's Web site. Homeopathy attempts to stimulate the body to recover on its own and uses a person's symptoms to treat an illness. Laws governing the practice of homeopathy vary throughout the USA.

Homeopathic medicines are drug products that may be made from plants such as aconite, dandelion, plantain; from minerals such as iron phosphate, arsenic oxide, sodium chloride; from animals such as the venom of a number of poisonous snakes, or the ink of the cuttlefish; or even from chemical drugs such as penicillin or streptomycin.

"Homeopathy is a very safe and very effective way to choose to work with your body's healing," Sue Smith said. "Its goal is to stimulate the body to heal itself."

Smith of Ridgeland was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000 and choose homeopathy to treat it.

"I didn't know too much about homeopathy before my cancer was diagnosed," she said.
After her doctor diagnosed her and discouraged her from seeking natural healing, she made the decision.

"I was working in the health industry and dealing with supplements and I made the decision myself to go naturally," she said. "I did have help from a friend who's a naturopathic in Arkansas."

She said after nine months on a "full-blown" homeopathic regimen of natural medicines specifically suited for her body, the malignancy was gone.

Her treatment was specific to her body and the natural elements. The selection of any homeopathic remedy is made on the totality of the symptoms presented by a patient.

"It's not a universal treatment," she said.

Smith said now her body is stronger. When people ask her about homeopathy, she tells them her experience.

"People choose different ways of taking care of themselves and some people are not interested in going totally naturally," she said. "I make suggestions according to what they tell me and make referrals if they are open to it."

Homeopathic Medicine Company - Matrixx Initiatives Fends of Lawsuits

Consumers across the USA have alleged in more than four hundred lawsuits filed in courts and complaints logged with federal regulators that Zicam nasal gel, meant to treat cold symptoms, has destroyed or diminished their sense of smell or taste.Some consumers and experts say the controversy shows there hole in the government's oversight of homeopathic products such as Zicam.

Zicam's manufacturer, Phoenix-based Matrixx Initiatives, says its Zicam homeopathic medicine products are safe and that it has research to back it up.

Matrixx settled a batch of almost three hundred fifty lawsuits for twelve million dollars in January 2006, court and SEC documents show. The company did not admit negligence. Since then, Matrixx has fought off more lawsuits using a panel of medical experts and piles of scientific evidence.

Matrixx representatives say the controversy over Zicam boils down to one Colorado doctor, who first publicly linked Zicam to smell loss, and "ambulance chaser" lawyers out to make a quick dollar. Since September 2006, 6 federal courts have tossed out expert testimony from the doctor, Bruce Jafek, a University of Colorado School of Medicine ear, nose and throat specialist.

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