PEDIATRIC
SYMPTOM
CONDITION
SUB-CONDITION
HERB
COLIC
 
with flatulence
Anisum, Asarum, Carum, Foeniculum, Nepeta
 
 
with crying, agitated, hysterical
Matricaria, Nepeta, Passiflora
 
 
with moderate pain, sour breath, nausea
Lavandula
 
General intestinal antispasmodic
 
Dioscorea
COUGH
 
with acute laryngitis and wheezing
Lobelia
 
 
with spasms
Cannabis, Lobelia, Prunus, Valeriana, Verbascum
 
Emotional, neurotic
 
Passiflora, Verbascum
CYSTITIS and URETHRITIS
 
 Althea, Zea
 
Healing bath
 
Rubus
DIARRHEA
 
 Epilobium with Mentha piperita, blackberry juice concentrate
ERUPTION
Measles
 
Asarum, Carthamus
 
 
with imperfect or tardy eruptions, dry irritable cough
Lobelia
 
Cradle cap
 
Anthemis, Cupressus, Peganum (all externally)
FEVERS
Suppressed sweating
 
Asarum, Hedeoma, Mentha arvensis, Mentha piperita, Nepeta
 
 
with dry bronchitis, moist skin
Asclepias tuberosa
 
Agitated and hysterical with pain on palpation of hypochondrium or epigastric region
 
Matricaria, Passiflora, Verbena
HEADACHE
Digestive
 
Asclepias tuberosa
 
General
 
Gaultheria tea
 
 
with moist skin, hot head
Matricaria, Nepeta
INCONTINENCE
Small quantity of urine while sleeping
 
Piper cubeba
 
Large quantity from relaxed bladder or trigone
 
Plantago major, Verbascum root
PAIN
Eyes and nose, sharp itching pain, hay fever
 
Ambrosia, Encelia, Euphrasia
 
Ears
 
Allium, Eugenia, Verbascum flowers, all as steeped (NOT essential) oils
 
Joints, muscles
 
Heterotheca externally, Pedicularis internally
POST-NASAL DRIP
 
 
Populus candicans
TEETHING
In the otherwise nervous fretful child
 
Cypripedium, Epipactis
 
 
with usual agitation and G.I. disturbance of teething
Echinacea
 
 
with cold sores or stomatitis
Anemopsis rubbed on gums
THRUSH
Coptis, Ligustrum, Malva, Tabebuia (all externally)
 
 
VOMITING
General treatment
 
Spirit of Peppermint, Neutralizing Cordial, Mentha piperita (tea), Nepeta
 
 
with green diarrhea
Amygdalus cold infusion, Epilobium, Matricaria
 
 
with acidic vomit
Lavandula
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