Homeopathy First Aid - 3 Top Childhood Remedies

There are 3 homeopathic medicines that are a ‘must’ in households with children.  These are defined for acute home health care.  They are well-known and widely used around the world.  They are easy to find wherever homeopathics are sold and are commonly included in homeopathic remedy kits.  For home health care, potencies commonly used are 30X, 6C, 12C, 30C.  The remedy descriptions are done in a brief listing format for quick access and ready learning.  The modalities are the things or conditions that affect the symptoms, such as <worse from, >better from.
 
Belladonna 
•Restless, red, hot 
•Pupils dilated, eyes bright 
•High fever.  Vomiting 
•Sudden & violent onset 
•Throbbing congested headache 
•Thirsty for small drinks often 
•Sleepiness but unable to sleep.  Restless sleep with muscular twitching 
•Skin dry & hot to the touch  
•Modalities: <motion, <noise, <jarring, <light, <lying down, >standing or sitting erect
•Colds, flu, sore throat, earache, headache, teething in children, sunstroke, febrile diseases (typhoid, dengue, scarlet fever, yellow fever, etc.)
 
Chamomilla                                        
•Sensitive, peevish, irritable children      
•Child asks for things, then flings away 
•Child asks to be carried, but inconsolable
•Intolerance of pain                              
•Painful teething with greenish diarrhea 
•Toothache <after warm drink           
•Earache with severe pain, soreness & swelling                   
•Thirsty and hot                                    
•Painful colic, legs drawn up                   
•One cheek red & hot, the other pale & cold 
 
Pulsatilla
—Sensitive, weepy, desires attention & sympathy
—Changeable symptoms
—Craves cool open fresh air, to be fanned
—Stomach upsets <rich fatty foods
—Discharges are profuse, thick, and yellowish-green
—Loose rattling cough
—Earache with thick yellowish discharge; external ear swollen & red.
—>Cold foods & drinks, >motion, >fresh air
—Helpful in childhood diseases-measles, mumps, chickenpox 
 
 
(Note: these descriptions are not comprehensive.  Refer to a homeopathic Materia Medica for more complete information.  There are many more homeopathic medicines that may be of use, but for this article’s purpose I am focusing on those well-known remedies that have a long history of use and benefit.)