Healing Complex Children with Homeopathy

ASD, PANDAS/PANS, Lyme, AHDH, and More

This book is for EVERY homeopath who provides treatment for children…and this book is for the educated parent who is compelled to find tangible solutions for their child’s physical and psychological health.

This book provides real, practical insights into many of the leading classic homeopathic medicines, including nosodes and sarcodes, and it provides deep insights into the cutting edge of plant, mineral, and animal-based medicines. The homeopathic materia medica that Dr Angelica Lemke provides in this book will provide you with specific ways that practicing homeopaths can utilize both new and classic medicines used in homeopathy.

Book Features

How to tap into your intuition and find healing for your family with ease and grace.

Extensive materia medica on homeopathic remedies specific to children who have special needs, immune system challenges, and behavioural issues.

Remedies are organized by group and also by symptoms, making it easier to narrow in on the ones that will help your family the most.

Provides detailed information on selecting remedies, choosing potencies, dosing, and case management.

INTRODUCTION – Healing with Homeopathy
I wrote this book to empower parents, homeopaths, and healers to use their intuition, along with homeopathic remedies, to heal the growing number of today’s children who suffer from a wide range of complex conditions. These children are experiencing deep levels of unresolved pain, trauma, and toxicity. Some of these “blocks” to healing are ancestrally inherited, and some are created during the gestation and lifetime of the child via exposure to environmental toxins and medically induced traumas. Homeopathy is a safe and effective system of medicine to unblock these layers of toxicity and trauma, and this book will be a roadmap that you can follow to create the highest expression of health for the next generation.
I am a naturopathic doctor and homeopath and have been treating complex children and adults for over a decade. Families come to me to assist in the healing of those who have constellations of symptoms that defy simple conventional diagnosis and a one-medication-one-disease approach such as developmental delays, autism, Lyme disease, learning disorders, attention deficit disorder, autoimmune and neuro-immune conditions such as PANDAS and PANS (Paediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections and Paediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome), oppositional defiant behaviours, genetic immunodeficiency disease, methylation issues, mould and chemical sensitivities, allergies, cancer, birth trauma, and more. After seeing thou- sands of cases, my passion is to teach parents and healers how to find the right remedies for these truly complex kids. Finding the right remedy isn’t always easy; sometimes you can give many remedies and see little impact. But when you find the right remedy or group of remedies, the healing can be so miraculous that it will change your entire outlook on life! There are so many fad therapies out there offering palliative solutions that will come and go. What I hope to direct you to are solutions that spring from your own intuition and will fundamentally accelerate your whole healing journey.
While my educational background is in Western medicine and classical homeopathy, I have found that an inclusive and open-minded approach to all systems of medicine is needed for these complex cases. For example, when I first started to practice, I would prescribe a single remedy to be dosed only once per month. While the remedy was usually a wonderful fit for the child, this classical practice of giving only one remedy once a month took these multi-layered cases only so far and I soon learned that I could individualize my approach to greater effect. Some of the mothers I worked with would muscle test potencies and how frequently to dose the remedies to their children, and they experienced quicker progress with less aggravations. As a result, I began to incorporate intuitive practices and a more inclusive mindset recognizing that this new era of complex cases requires a creative mindset. Being inclusive means that we invite in many possibilities of treatment, however, we can focus our approach by trusting our intuition as well as incorporating new classification concepts from contemporary homeopathy, which I will be sharing in this book.
An intuitive homeopathic approach relies upon a connection to your inner knowing guiding the homeopathic remedies given and having faith in the natural healing process. Due to the sheer complexity in the cases these days, an intuitive approach, as opposed to a purely rational one, has the capacity to capture what needs to be healed in your child with breadth and depth and to gently assist your families’ healing. Albert Einstein said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” The rational scientific approach in medicine has turned into dogma that has forgotten the soul of the individual to detrimental effect. To fully embrace the power of homeopathic medicine is to let go of the requirement that all disease can be scientifically explained and diagnosed and to look instead at what is presenting on all levels, also known as an empiric approach. Instead of believing that Western medicine has all the answers, and perhaps giving away our power in the process, it’s time to start trusting our innate wisdom and that the body can heal itself with the right energetic shifts.
Each child is unique and needs specific answers to unlock their healing. To aid this process, it will help to awaken your inner healer. As parents, this is not as daunting as it seems, because connecting to our loving heart is all we need, followed by surrendering to the great unknown with faith that there is a better way. As you connect inwards, to your heart and your inner GPS, that better way will unfold before you, step by step.
This book is designed to inspire and guide people at all levels of homeopathic knowledge, understand the various energetic expressions of children, and find remedies that fit them.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Healing with Homeopathy
Expectations for Recovery in Complex Children
Working in Conjunction with Other Modes of Healing
Working with a Homeopath
Case taking
Prioritizing and Expanding Your Intuition
The Process of Choosing a Remedy

Chapter 2: The History and Practice of Homeopathy
How a Homeopathic Remedy is Made
Homeopathic Methodologies
The Practice of Homeopathy
Materia Medica and Repertories Choosing Potencies and Dosing Purchasing Remedies
Case Management
Is Homeopathy Not the Right Modality in My Case?
Moving Forward

Chapter 3: Miasms
Carcinosin
Tuberculinum
Medorrhinum
Syphilinum
Psorinum

Chapter 4: Animal Remedies
Mammal Remedies
Spider Remedies
Insect Remedies
Bird Remedies
Mollusc Remedies
Fish Remedies
Reptile and Amphibian Remedies

Chapter 5: Plant Remedies
Buttercup Family
Cactus Family
Chocolate/Malvales Order
Citrus Family
Club Moss Family/Lycopodium
Coffee Family
Cucumber Family
Daisy Family
Fern Family
Figwort Family
Fungi Family
Gentian Family
Hardwood Trees
Heather Family
Hemp Family/Cannabis Indica
Lily Family
Magnolia/Lauraceae Family
Mint Family
Nightshade Family
Orchid Family
Pea/Legume Family
Pine Family
Poison Ivy Family
Poppy Family
Rose Family
Spurge Family
Wild Yam Family/Dioscorea

Chapter 6: Mineral and Periodic Table Remedies
Hydrogen Series
Carbon Series
Silica Series
Ferrum/Iron Series
Argentum/Silver Series
Baryta/Barium Remedies
Lanthanide Series
Aurum/Gold Series
Uranium/Actinide Series
Other Minerals and Substances

Chapter 7: Nosodes
Physical Symptoms That Indicate Nosodes
Gastrointestinal Symptoms That Indicate Nosodes
How to Combine Nosodes with Constitutionals
Dosing Nosodes
Bacterial Nosdes
Bowel Nosodes
Viruses
Fungus
Parasites
Lyme Nosodes: Borrelia, Bartonella, and Babesia
Homeoprophylaxis
The Lessons of Fighting Infection

Chapter 8: Sarcodes
Matridonal Remedies
Sarcodes of Hormones, Glands, and Neurotransmitters

Chapter 9: Tautopathy
Indications for Prescription
The Use of Homeopathic Vaccine Clears
Remedies for Vaccinosis
The Use of Homeopathic Pharmaceutical Preparations
Homeopathic Heavy Metal Clearing
Electromagnetic Field Sensitivity

Chapter 10: Remedies by Categories of Complex Kids
Children with Acute Rage and Panic
Highly Anxious Children
Angry Children
Insecure Children with Weak Immune Systems
Negative, Antisocial Children with Poor Self-Esteem
Sad, Serious Children
Precocious, Advanced Children/Sycotic and Tubercular Miasms Suppressed Children
Angelic Children
Physically Depleted Children Due to Chronic Viral Infections
Miserable Gut/Sensory Children
Tics, Twitches, and Seizures in Children
Hyperactive Children
Children with Birth or Head Trauma
Mentally Slow Children
Common Remedies for Parents

• Author: Angelica Lemke
• ISBN: 9781734394603
• 454 pages
• Paperback
• Published in 2021
• Printed in United States

Reprinted with the permission of The Alliance of Registered Homeopaths, from the 'Homeopathy in Practice' Journal, Winter 2021/2022 edition. Reviewed by Elizabeth Adalian.

The title of this book interested me as I explored what was meant by 'complex children'. I was already familiar with terms such as 'indigo' or 'special needs' children, and wondered if that was what she meant (in fact she does refer to 'special needs' children in the book). However, the subtitle, which lists several disease states, confirms that the book covers everything on the spectrum from autism through to Lyme disease.

Of course, Lyme disease is more commonly seen in the USA, where the author is based, than here in the UK. This means she has had considerable exposure to this disease and, from her practice, knows how to recognise the way it affects children. This is of benefit to readers who practise homeopathy outside the USA as there appears to be limited information available beyond those shores about it.

The author is a naturopath as well as a homeopath, which means she brings a wealth of information to it which would probably otherwise elude the reader. She places emphasis on involving the child's parents in their homeopathic treatment, and encouraging them to recognise how to proceed in tackling the case. This means that the book is not just targeted at the homeopathic practitioner and student, but also at the parent or care-giver of the child. Supporting and enhancing the intuitive approach of the parent is also encouraged in this discussion.

I wrestled with this approach at first, but soon realised that the homeopath would be able to offer plentiful support to the parent by pursuing this route. At the same time, I speculate that we all perceive our children through filters which, by their very nature, cannot be neutral in assessing the individual case. After all, so often it is the parent who is pivotal in the reactions of the child.

The work is based on a synthesis of concepts put forward by many modern-day homeopathic luminaries. Among these are the late Melissa Assilem with her matridonal remedies and Ulrich Welte with his remedies from the periodic table. Rajan Sankaran's Schema proved a guiding light for the author as well as homeoprophylaxis originally promoted by Isaac Golden. Another inspiration for the author has been Tinus Smits and his CEASE therapy for autism, which has gained a following in recent years among the homeopathic community.

It was an ambitious task to set out on a work of this nature and, at the same time, expose how illnesses such as PANDAS, based on physical pathology, could have such a powerful effect on the behaviour of children. The author often carries out testing to establish the offending influence in the case. Streptococcal infections which are at the root of PANDAS seem to run through different generations and, if suppressed in one, can so easily manifest in the next. Behavioural changes are often the first noticeable symptom and can be a great eye-opener to the reader who may not previously have been aware of these possibilities.

Although this book is cutting-edge in many ways, at first glance it may look overwhelming because of the extent of the material covered. However, as a straightforward reference textbook, it could prove invaluable for those grappling with the effects of the postmodern world on children growing up today. I would even say that this is a book about the treatment of children growing up in a complex world, rather than the treatment of complex children. This is at the heart of the ethos of this very specialised book.

PANDAS - Paediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections

PANS - Paediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome