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Child wakes from sleep with screaming and
trembling after being reprimanded before bedtime.
[Farokh Master]
IDEALISM
Ignatia children get their idealistic views
from parents or society. When they go to school, they know what their parents
expect out of them and hence they work hard.
They remain sincere and always pass exams with
flying colours. This is reinforced by their parents who comment that their
son/daughter is one day going to be a big
Doctor/Engineer.
Young boys and girls have to deal with all
these fantasies of who they will become and what is expected out of them.
"My son Karan is going to become an eminent
Homoeopath". Karan has heard that since he
was five years old. He goes out to pursue his career and starts getting
successful, so the hopes and dreams of his parents
become fixed.
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Mind:
Cannot tolerate even the slightest of reprimand
or scolding; immediately develops symptoms like bedwetting, cough, fever,
convulsions, etc. (Carc. Staph).
Children who are being pushed academically at
school for better performance will often present Ign symptomatology; these
children are pushed because they are
right, clever, precocious, and successful. They
often come from poor families and have to survive on scholarships; when they
fail, they blame themselves and become thoroughly
depressed or melancholic.
Children who are reserved, aloof; find it very
difficult to express their feelings; often + silly laughter or forced
cheerfulness.
Emotional instability (Nat-m): Emotions change
very quickly from joy to sorrow, or from laughter to weeping (Coff. Croc.
Nux-m).
Great grief after losing what is most dear
(death of parents/family members/pet/loss of favorite toy).
Habitual brooding in solitude over imaginary
problems, vexations, and emotional injuries that they have received.
High goals, high ambitions, and high ideals;
burning desire to fulfill them, and hence cautious, conscientious, fastidious,
and perfect.
Mild and sensitive children who are quick to
perceive and rapid in execution. (Compare Puls: Mild and sensitive, yet slow
and indecisive).
One of the commonest remedies used in practice,
where the mother was vexed, mortified, or experienced marital torture during
her pregnancy with
the child.
Refined and delicate children.
Romantic young children who become extremely
sentimental, and develop a taste for hearing romantic songs, seeing romantic
films, and reading romantic novels.
Child begins to develop headaches, usually
coming by the end of the day, or worse before exams.
Emotionally, the child becomes excitable; any
contradiction at this stage will make him fly into a rage or lapse into tears;
or he tends to go into absolute depression.
Slowly, the child becomes quite incapable of
working at that intense pace. The nervous system cannot take it anymore. This
leads to examination funk
and lapses of memory.
Strange expressions, grimaces, and finally
problems with the speech like stammering and stuttering develop.
The handwriting deteriorates and becomes
shakier; the finer movements begin to suffer.
Unusual tendency to be frightened.
Physical:
Chilly children with strong aversion to open
air.
Frequently bite the cheek when talking or
chewing.
Perspiration on the face while eating (Nat-m.
Sulph).
Spotty pains (Kali-bi. Ox-ac).
Tendency to prolapse of rectum from slightest
straining at stool or from having a loose stool.
Twitching and jerking of muscles when falling
asleep.
Universal remedy for contradictory symptoms
(sensitivity to noise yet > music; sore throat > swallowing, empty
sensation in the stomach not >
eating, coughing
< the more he coughs, spasmodic laughter
from grief, thirsty during chill and thirstless during fever, color of face
changes during rest and not on rising.
Other important symptoms
Mind:
Ailments from being offended, punished, or
reproached; being sexually abused; confronting the death of near/dear ones
(grandparents/parents/friends); contradiction;
deceived friendship (Nat-m. Ph-ac);
disappointment (Aur. Merc. Puls); emotions like fright,
indignation, jealousy, or mortification; failure.
Alternating symptoms (Nat-m. Puls. Thuj);
changeability of moods, alternation of contrasting mental symptoms, or of
mental with physical
symptoms, etc.
Awkwardness (Apis. Nux-v); keeps dropping
things all the time.
Cannot tolerate being consoled (Calc-p. Sil),
makes him worse.
Daydreaming and absentmindedness; finds it
difficult to fix his attention in class.
Desires to be carried, but hates being caressed
(Cina).
Fear of birds (Bufo)/chickens/doctors (Stram.
Thuj), going on stage/narrow places/robbers/spiders.
Fear of rejection (Caps. Nat-m); forsaken
feeling.
Involuntary sighing (Calc-p) with a sad look on
the face.
Jealousy with disappointment (Hyos. Lach) after
the birth of a new sibling who receives a great deal of attention from the
family.
Loves to dance (Bell. Cic. Ph-ac), ameliorating
most mental symptoms.
Reserved displeasure (Ip. Staph) towards those
who offend him.
Sentimental (Cupr. Psor).
Silent grief with inability to cry (Cycl.
Mur-ac. Puls).
Very conscientious, with a strong sense of duty
Audacity.
Capricious and full of desires, but rejects
what was desired when it is offered.
Child has a strong dislike for dull and dark
shades (black/gray/dark brown/orange); likes to have all clothes and toys in
colors like lemon yellow/light green/light blue/pink.
Defiant children who get angry suddenly from
trifles (when contradicted) but are otherwise very cheerful.
Destructiveness (tearing clothes) from
suppressed emotions like anger or disappointment.
Dyslexie child; makes many mistakes when speaking
and writing (from hurry).
Feigns sickness.
Homesickness.
Laughs immoderately, and at odd moments.
Likes to travel.
Precocious, restless and hyperactive child;
must be busy and constantly on the move at all times.
Secretive.
Self-depreciating.
Sensitive to music, odors, opinions of others,
pain, reprimands, and the slightest of noise.
Timid, bashful, and mild children, who easily
feel embarrassed.
Weeps easily with loud sobbing in small
children from admonition, or when refused anything.
Head:
Migraines that are accompanied by artificial
hunger (a feeling of emptiness in the stomach). The headaches are better
temporarily from eating food (Sep), but return with increased severity within a
short time after eating. The child points to his forehead as the most painful
part (Bry).
Periodic headaches (occipital and right frontal
region, with dim vision and lachrymation; worse during dentition, emotional
excitement, exposure to cold air or wind, from
fright, grief, on waking in the morning,
stooping, strong odors, sun, touch, vexation (Mez); > binding the
head/closing the eyes (Bry. Sil) and keeping absolutely quiet/passing copious
urine/warm wrappings/warm applications.
Hair loss after grief (Ph-ac).
Headache after weeping due to severe
disappointment.
Examination findings:
- Cannot hold up the head.
- Hydrocephalus.
- Involuntary nodding or motions of head;
jerking from one side to the other.
- Kernig’s sign +
- Meningitis.
Eyes:
Dimness of vision with lachrymation while
reading.
Inflamed of the eyes in infants.
Lachrymation on yawning (Nux-v. Sabad).
Photophobia with lachrymation in sunlight.
Examination findings:
- Pendulum-like movement of eyeballs from side
to side.
- Congested cornea.
- Eyes half open.
- Involuntary winking.
- Pupils alternately contracted and dilated in
the same light.
- Sunken or protruded eyes.
- Trembling of eyelids on closing them (Merc).
Ears:
Ears look red and feel hot internally, but are
cold to touch.
Eustachian catarrh.
Impaired hearing after mortification.
Otitis media in children.
Examination findings:
- One ear cold, the other hot.
Nose:
Cold nose (Camph. Carb-v), sensitive to
inspired air.
Acuteness of smell for strong odors.
Catarrh extending to the frontal sinuses.
Excoriating, purulent discharge.
Liquids come out through the nose on attempting
to swallow.
One-sided nasal obstruction.
Examination findings:
- Epistaxis of dark clotted blood.
Face:
Cold perspiration (upper lip) (Med), while
eating.
Twitching at the corners of the mouth (Bry.
Op).
Easy dislocation of jaws.
Examination findings:
- Increased facial hair growth in small girls
(Sep. Thuj).
- Sunken appearance with bluish circles around
the eyes.
- Dry, cracked lips with scurfy eruptions at
the corners of the mouth.
- Face gets distorted when speaking.
- Induration and swelling of the parotid and
submaxillary glands (r.)
- One-sided heat and redness of cheek, the
other pale.
- Redness around the mouth.
Mouth:
Tendency to bite his tongue when masticating or
talking.
Difficult dentition with early caries and black
discoloration of teeth.
Salivation during headache (Merc).
Toothache after having a cold; < immediately
after lying/in the morning on waking/during winter/masticating; > lying on
the painful side.
Very sensitive teeth (Mag-c. Sil); child cannot
bear a dental procedure; cries and howls before even entering the dentist’s
clinic.
Examination findings:
- Erect, red papillae on a clean, dry, and
teeth-indented tongue, which trembles on protrusion.
- Halitosis.
Throat:
Dysphagia, where the child finds it more
difficult and painful to swallow liquids than solids.
Sensation of constriction or choking from a
foreign body or lump in the throat (Nat-m. Psor); < in the evening,
necessitating constant swallowing, which ameliorates.
Cannot tolerate clothing around the neck due to
a sensation of choking (Apis. Lach. Spong).
Liquids taken are expelled through the nose.
Pain in the throat, extending to the ear on
swallowing.
Examination findings:
- Follicular tonsillitis with suppuration.
- Painful cervical glands.
- Red throat
- Torticollis.
Stomach:
Bulimia when sad, or anorexia nervosa due to
grief (Aur-met.).
Indigestion with gurgling, ineffectual
retching, and cramping pains in the abdomen; < from emotions (anger/fright/grief/vexation),
taking warm food, or the slightest touch to the abdomen; > after eating
something, after sour eructations, or when lying on the back.
Nausea and vomiting after eating, during
dentition, and from emotions (anger, fright, grief, vexation).
Paroxysmal hiccoughs in babies after eating or
drinking, or after emotions like anger or fright.
Capricious appetite; ravenous at odd hours (11
h./at night), and diminished at mealtimes.
Slow digestion.
Stomach complaints are < around 11 h.
increased appetite, nausea, etc.
<: Cold food and drinks/coffee (Caust.
Cham)/cucumbers (Sul-ac)/dry food/eggs/fruit/hot or warm drinks/milk/onions
(Lyc. Puls)/rice (Bry. Sulph)/spices/sweets (Arg-n. Nat-p).
>: Hot food/raw food/vinegar;
Aversions: Bread/cheese/cooked food/fruit
(Chin. Phos)/meat (Calc. Graph)/milk (Nat-c)/sour food/warm food;
Desires: bread (and butter)/butter/coffee
(Bry)/cold food and drinks/fat/indigestible things
(chalk/charcoal/clay/earth/lime/coal/pencil lead)/pickles/raw food/rye bread/
sour food (fruit)/strong cheese/sweets/tomatoes
(cooked or raw);
Abdomen:
Cramping and griping abdominal pains in nursing
infants and small children; < after excitement/after sugar (Ox-ac)/at
night/during stool; > pressure/sitting in a slightly
Stooped position/with passage of a quantity of
offensive flatus;
Irritable bowel syndrome or ulcerative colitis
after grief.
Jaundice after anger (Nat-s).
Painful distention of the abdomen, from
obstructed flatulence, with rumbling after eating.
Examination findings:
- Inguinal hernia (Nux-v).
- Enlarged, hard, and palpable liver and
spleen.
- Gurgling sounds from the abdomen.
Rectum:
Constipated when travelling (Alum. Op) with
ineffectual urging and straining to pass even a soft stool.
Painless, sudden, gushing diarrhea from
dentition and emotions (anger/fright/grief/nervousness) (Gels. Coloc); <
standing (Aloe).
Prolapse of rectum during and after stool.
Constant or frequent urging for stool,
immediately after just satisfying the urge.
Involuntary stools while passing flatus (Ph-ac.
Verat).
Itching around the anus, < at night when
child becomes warm in bed.
Rectal fissure with bleeding after passing
stools.
Examination findings:
- Eczema around the anus (Nit-ac).
- Excoriated perineum.
- Open anus with slight edema and moisture
around it.
- Spasms of the rectum (Crot-t).
- Stool: Pinworms, roundworm, and segments of
tapeworm.
Urinary organs:
Frequent and copious urination with headache.
Involuntary urination during cough.
Spasmodic nocturnal enuresis.
Suppression of urine from fright (Op)
Examination findings:
- Urine: Sugar +
- Urine leaves whitish or clay-colored sediment
on the diaper.
Sex organs:
Copious perspiration in the genital area.
Larynx and Trachea:
Irritation and tickling sensation in the larynx
as from dust; becomes < coughing, so the child tends to suppress the urge to
cough.
Nervous aphonia.
Examination findings:
- Edema of the glottis (Crot-h).
- Laryngismus stridulus.
- Low, weak, tremulous voice.
- Rattling of mucus in the trachea.
Respiratory organs:
Breathing is arrested and the infant gasps for
breath when coughing or crying (Cina).
Dysponea or asthma from emotional excitement
(anger/grief/mortification); < in the evening around 17 h./coughing or lying
on the side; > lying on the back (Psor).
Examination findings:
- Cheyne-Stokes respiration.
- Irregular, unequal, and stridulous breathing;
with a loud inspiration and forcible, slow expiration; slow at one time and
fast at another.
- Moaning, rattling, and sighing respiration.
Cough:
Dry, hacking, hollow, suffocative, violent
cough, in short and frequent paroxysms that seem to occur day and night, with
nausea and retching;
< after measles, or from emotions (like
anger/fright/mortification/vexation); > changing the infant’s or child’s position
in bed.
The cough seems to be triggered by an
irritating tickling sensation in the larynx, as from dust, which increases the
more he coughs, thus making the
coughing bouts worse.
Chest:
Heart palpitation from grief or vexation, <
after eating/during pains/in the morning in bed; > lying on the left side.
Examination findings:
- Chest X-ray: Pneumonic
consolidation.
Back:
Useful in cases of backache resulting from
sports injuries (Symph); > lying on the back.
Limbs:
Awkwardness with a tendency to stumble and fall
when walking.
Chorea from fright (Caust. Kali-br).
Hysterical paralysis resulting from grief or
vexation.
Jerking and twitching of limbs after vexation.
Painful chilblains of feet.
Sore, burning corns.
Wandering rheumatic pains with heat of joints
(Kali-s. Lac-c).
Examination findings:
- Boils on thighs (Hep).
- Clenched thumbs.
- Gooseflesh on the forearm and thighs.
- Hot knees (Bar-m).
- Spasmodic involuntary drawing up of the
limbs.
- Sweaty palms.
- Trembling of hands when holding them out straight
or when writing.
- Yellow nails.
Sleep:
During sleep: Chewing motion of the jaw (Calc);
cold face and hands; grinding of teeth; grunting; hiccoughs; increased
salivation; jerking limbs; loquacity (Ambr); moaning; open mouth; perspiration;
short, irregular, and stertorous respiration; shrieking (Hyos); snoring;
stamping of feet (Kali-c); sudden starting; talking; twitching
of hands; and whimpering (Cham).
Sleepless from a constant flow of saliva.
Babies with marked acuity of hearing, wake up
from the slightest of noise.
Can sleep only when lying on the back with
hands under the head (Nux-v).
Constant, spasmodic yawning, even after a good
sleep.
Falls asleep from the least mental exertion (Ars)
(trying to concentrate on studying or solving problems, or when reading).
Insomnia from fright, grief, mortification,
worries, etc.
Restless, unsatisfactory sleep, from prolonged
dreaming, even during siesta.
Fever:
Ailments from: Emotional excitement (anger/fright/grief/mortification/vexation)/measles/pain,
and worms.
During chill: - Chills + chattering of teeth
(Caps. Sulph)/cold feet and hands/dilated pupils/gooseflesh/headache
(one-sided)/indifference (Phos. Sep), nausea, pain in the
limbs, red face with spasms, sadness (Ars,
Puls), thirst for large quantities of cold water (Bry. Caps. Carb-v. Eup-per.),
vomiting and weeping (Bell).
- Complete coldness of body (nape of the
neck/back/buttocks; > keeping the temperature of the room warm or by covering.
- Hands and feet are cold to the touch (Carc.
Cupr).
- Violent, shaking chills, beginning in the
abdomen (Apis. Bell. Camph) or arms (Bell. Hell).
- < evening/open air/in the autumn.
- > external warmth.
During heat: - The heat stage + anxiety and
easy fright, aversion to food, bilious vomiting, changeability of moods
(dullness # excitement), clean tongue,
constant
dry cough (Ip), delirium (Bapt), dyspnea, eructations, eruptions on the lips,
fainting, headache, numbness or pain in the lower limbs, impatience,
lachrymation,
moaning (Mur-ac), pain in the abdomen, palpable and tender spleen, red ears
(Caps) and face (Stram), restless and tossing about in bed, sad and
taciturn
affect, salivation, sighing (Cham), snoring (Op), sweat on the face, thirstlessness
with aversion to liquids, weakness, weeping, and stupefying sleep.
- Dry heat of the anterior aspect of
the body, with cold hands and feet.
- Internal heat with external
chilliness and redness.
- Unequal distribution of body heat:
Either on one ear, one cheek, or one side of the face.
- < from coughing/external warmth
(Puls)/in the afternoon/from taking any warm covers.
- Better by uncovering.
During perspiration: - Cold sweat on single
parts (upper part of body)/< uncovering; copious, pale urine; nausea; and
thirstlessness
- All symptoms are worse during
perspiration.
Hunger after fever.
Useful in cases of the fever after abuse of
quinine, where the paroxysms keep changing frequently and irregularly.
Fever usually starts late in the afternoon or
evening and usually remains all night.
The child must be uncovered as soon as the
fever starts (Acon, Sec).
Skin:
Vitiligo after grief.
Itching of skin from warmth or heat, better by
scratching.
Examination findings:
- Decubitus of small children.
- Gooseflesh.
- Icterus.
- Intertrigo.
- Skin is cold to touch though the child
complains of internal hot flushes.
Convulsions:
Ailments from:
Anger, coughing fits, drugs, during dentition,
excitement, fever, fright, grief, haemorrhage, noise, pain, punishment,
reproaches, vexation, and worms.
During convulsions: Bloody foam from mouth,
clenched thumbs, falling backwards, head is drawn back, laughing, moaning,
shrieking, staring eyes, weeping.
After convulsions:
Falls into a deep sleep, fever, increased
thirst, laughing, and perspiration.
Changeability of convulsions, which recur
periodically.
Chorea:
Ailments from: Emotional excitement, fright,
grief, or punishment.
< after eating/from light or noise; >
lying on the back.
Generals:
Acrid, copious, corrosive, offensive, purulent,
or watery discharges from the mucous membranes.
Chilly child with a tendency to catch cold
easily and develop sinusitis;
< cold air/cold bathing/drafts/dry cold
weather/autumn/open air;
> becoming warm, remaining indoors, warm
air, and warmth of stove.
Constant alternation or change ability of
symptoms is noticed
Aversion to motion.
Children are oversensitive to allopathic
medicine.
Intolerance of clothing or covers (external
throat/abdomen).
Most of the complaints < light/noise/lying
on the side; > eating/lying on the back.
Painless swelling and induration of glands.
Right-sided complaints.
Sensitivity to pain.