Group III – Skin Diseases in Children



In cold weather the skin of their hands tends to crack, particularly on the finger tips, and these cracks are very sensitive, very painful to touch, with deep fissures which split open and bleed easily.

All these children have the typical PETROLEUM aggravation from motion that is to say, they get train-sick and sea-sick. If the child is pressed it is very liable to develop a severe occipital headache. That occipital headache is rather rare from mental effort, and it is a little difficult to cover, but PETROLEUM sometimes meets the case.

In cases of sea-sickness where there is doubt between PETROLEUM and TABACUM, which is the other common drug for sea- sickness, there is almost always that occipital headache as well as the sea-sickness in PETROLEUM, and the TABACUM types do not have it at all.

Sea-sickness with occipital headache calls for PETROLEUM every time. In prophylactic treatment against sea-sickness it is very difficult to decide between TABACUM or PETROLEUM, but the occipital headache of PETROLEUM children indicates PETROLEUM.

There are various other drugs for skin conditions in children but these are much the commonest. There is the possibility of SULPHUR because it is almost automatic in skin affections, but it is better to take SULPHUR under the next group.

Douglas Borland
Douglas Borland M.D. was a leading British homeopath in the early 1900s. In 1908, he studied with Kent in Chicago, and was known to be one of those from England who brought Kentian homeopathy back to his motherland.
He wrote a number of books: Children's Types, Digestive Drugs, Pneumonias
Douglas Borland died November 29, 1960.