Subject: HYPERACTIVITY and Homeopathic Medicine



HYPERACTIVITY

It's estimated that 10% of American children have some form of behavioral or
learning disability. For these unfortunate children the routine answer is
Ritalin or Dexedrine, a kind of biochemical straightjacket that is now taken
by hundreds of thousands of children.

But homeopathy has an alternative treatment for kids who bounce off the
walls and act up in class, says homeopath Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, N.D.,
M.S.W, director of the Northwest Center for Homeopathic Medicine in Edmonds,
Washington.


Ben, age 5, was worse than rambunctious. He was disobedient and defiant; he
often got hysterical and would shout, cry, yell, throw things, hit children,
push them around, get suddenly violent, and he always had to be in charge.
His bones ached, he had painful warts, he often had ear infections and had
taken a lot of antiobiotics by the time his homeopath treated him.


A single dose of homeopathic Cina, made from the flower wormseed, completely
turned Ben around. Almost overnight he became a model boy: "He is terrific,
as perfect as a boy can be," declared his mother.


Jimmy, age 9, was an abused boy. His parents were alcoholics who either beat
him or ignored him; most of the time he lived in a foster home. In school,
his teachers described him as a disruptive trouble-maker. He constantly
hummed, sang, and twiddled; at night, he tossed and turned; he was always
impatient, over-active, and restless.


Yet a single dose of homeopathic Veratrum album, made from the flower white
hellebore, changed all this in 2 days. It was as if he were a completely new
boy.


-SOURCE: Mothering, Spring 1995, pp. 97-101.