It is very important for parents to provide a very detailed account of what they have observed in their child. What parents have observed (not what you are thinking about them) about their behaviour at home, with their friends, at school, etc. Is there any difference in their behaviour than before?
What are the peculiarities in that child, how your child is different from his siblings or other children?
We also take into account how active is the child? How does he run? Is he very sad, very jumpy, or very dull? Is he dancing, is he dancing with rhythm?
All such minor details are very helpful, which indicates the energy of the child.
The position during sleep, is he sleeping one-sided, or on the abdomen, on back, very restlessness during sleep? Is saliva dribbling during sleep?
Also food craving and aversion are very important.
Imaginations, fantasies, stories he likes, dreams he get at night are very important.
The way the child narrate his complaints, storytelling, poems, drawing, hobbies, making various gestures, making his own stories, various imagined character all these are very important to individualize that child.
Case Study: A 9 yrs old boy visited regarding his complaint of recurrent abdominal infection, headache and bedwetting. After describing his problems he told me spontaneously that he likes to play various games, cartoons, play stations, puzzle games, etc. Amongst all these, he likes obstacle races, the ones like jumping races where you have to run and jump in between. He likes to play hide and seek. He likes one specific game called “scary house” in which he likes to come from behind and scare the other person. On T.V. he likes to see CID and crime files in which he likes to watch kidnapping and murder mystery. He sees scary dreams of ghosts, where ghosts come from behind and take him away. All this information helped me to identify his state thus leading me to his remedy. I had given medicine which is prepared from “jumping spider”. After receiving medicine within a short span not only his recurrent complaints reduced but also his dreams of ghosts and his tendency to see CID and other such programs also reduced. He was much calmer than before and also the destructive ideation and tendency also reduced.
Sometimes, children cannot express themselves comfortably in front of parents since, parents tend to interrupt or correct them constantly, and hence at times, we ask parents to stay outside to give children more freedom and space.
While treating children, it is also very important to understand the mother’s state during pregnancy. It is a well-known fact that a mother’s state during pregnancy influences her child. In most cases, we have seen that the mother’s physical complaints and mental state during pregnancy and a child’s physical and mental state are quite similar to each other.
Case Study: A child aged 2 years with “dandy walker syndrome” consulted us for treatment since there was no other conventional treatment available for this syndrome. He used to be very drowsy. It would take some stimulus to wake him up. At times he would get startled from noise and on other occasions, there was no reaction even with a loud noise. He made no demands, didn’t react much. He presented with global developmental delays. During the case taking process, we found that the mother’s presentation during pregnancy was quite similar. She felt very weak, lethargic and very drowsy. She would want to sleep all the time. She could even sleep through a sense of strong smell and pain during pregnancy. After giving medicine based on symptoms of a child as well as the mother’s state during pregnancy, we can see improvement in the child’s state and in his various complaints.
Homeopathy will help you to maintain your child’s health and development in a more natural and safe way.
