Dwarfishness

(See also "Backward")

Tuberculinum

This should be given in high dilution not lower than 200. Should not be repeated frequently. Start treatment with this remedy.

Syphilinum

To be given in alternation with Tuberculinum. (TubercuHnum and Syphilinum in 200 or 1000 dilution given alternately every week or fortnight according to the strength of the dilution, will cure the dwarfishness).

Baryta Mur

In retarded physical and mental growths. Give 200 dilution. To be started one week after the administration of Tuberculinum.

Argentum Nitricum

Rickets with diarrhoea-yellowish green. Give 200 dilution.

Sulphur

and

Calcarea Phos

If babies die during infancy, give to the mother during pregnancy Sulphur 6 and Calcarea Phos 6 alternately daily one dose.

Xerophyllum

Dull, cannot concentrate much on study; forgets names, writes last letter of words first; mis-spells common words.

Baryta Carb

Dwarfishness of the body and mind. Mental backwardness or of organs. Children are late learning to walk, although their limbs are fairly strong, late learning to talk or understand. Single organ fails to mature whereas the other develops or over-develops. Child is timid and bashful with fear of strangers. Wants to hide himself as soon as he sees a stranger. Keeps the hand up over the face and peeps out through the fingers owing to bashfulness. Girls at the age of puberty doing things as a child would do and behave like children and play with dolls.

Natrum Mur

Children late learning to talk.

Calcarea Carb

Children late learning to walk and talk owing to weakness of limbs. Late teething, fontanelles slow in closing; rickets and caries.

Agaricus M

Children late learning to talk and walk.

Alfalfa

Children or grown up boys who are otherwise robust dying at the age of 18 by wasting out. Give in mother tincture two drops a dose for about six months.

Calcarea Phos

Is indicated in dwarfishness in children who are small, weak, pale, very large head, fontanelles large, open and bulging out; bones of skull thin and crackling under pressure like thin tissue paper.

Secale Cor

Deformity due to structural changes in spinal cord. The hands and legs do not grow. They also drop out as in senile gangrene.