WHAT WORKS FOR POISON IVY?

poison ivyI was outside gardening today, pulling out strings of poison ivy vines, and I thought about how I had a nasty rash of poison ivy a few years ago.

It was all over me, and it was spreading.  I was also going through a very stressful time dealing with my son’s worsening Sensory Processing Disorder, and I believe the stress was making it worse.  [Read more…]

ADHD AND HOMEOPATHY

homeopathy“Medicating children for ADHD with stimulants has become an epidemic”, writes Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, author of Ritalin-Free Kids: Homeopathy for ADHD.

She also writes that these medications have harmful side effects, such as “obesity, hypothyrodisim, elevated cholesterol, and liver problems”.

Instead of using harmful medications, Dr. Reichenberg-Ullman uses homeopathy to counter the symptoms of ADHD.

For those of you who are not familiar with homeopathy, it’s based on the principle of “like cures like”.  It’s similar to the concept of “the hair of the dog that bit you is the cure for what ails you”.

Homeopathy uses an infinitesimal amount of a substance to stimulate the body’s immune response. It gives the body just the right amount of information to counter an unwanted symptom.

You may remember that I discovered homeopathy a few years ago when I had the worst case of poison ivy, ever,

I had gone to my internist, who gave me a pack of steroids.  I didn’t want to take them because I know how harmful they are to the immune system, the liver and the GI system, but I was desperate.

The steroids worked for the 6 days I was taking them.  When I was done, the rash came back with a vengeance.

I didn’t want to take any more steroids, so I researched what else I could do.

That’s when I discovered Rhus toxiconderon, the homeopathic preparation of poison ivy.

And voila, it worked!  You can get the remedy at Whole Foods for just a few dollars AND there aren’t harmful side effects.

In any case, check out this article to read more about how homeopathy can be used to treat ADHD safely.

SOURCE:  Townsend Letter

 

HOW MY SON’S SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER LED TO MY SEVERE HEALTH DECLINE

Having a son with a developmental delay was very hard on me.  He didn’t walk until he was 20 months old.  This was extremely hard for me because he didn’t walk until 3 weeks before his little brother was born, and I was having to carry him everywhere.

I suppose the bright side is that he didn’t weigh a whole lot, given that he was also a failure-to-thrive baby.

His sensory processing disorder turned him into a barnacle.  I felt as if he were permanently physically attached to me.  It wasn’t so bad when he was younger, but after his brother was born, it was extremely difficult to deal with two small, crying children at the same time, who both wanted to be picked up and held at the same time.

And then when our nanny left to have her own baby when my older son had just turned 3, his sensory processing and anxiety went full tilt.  He was used to having someone always there immediately to meet his needs; now he had to share me with his baby brother. [Read more…]