Malnutrition


Are you suffering from Malnutrition? Dr. Tyler tells us the BEST homeopathic medicines for the treatment of Malnutrition….


Calcarea [Calc]

      Coldness.

Profuse sweats, head ( Silicea) at night ( Silicea).

Cold, damp feet: cold legs with night-sweats.

Milk disagrees. ( Calcarea ph., Nat. carb., Mag. carb., Aethusa, Silicea, Lac caninum).

Big head, with large, hard abdomen. ( Silicea).

Stomach swollen, distended even with the rest of body emaciated.

“A big-bellied child, with emaciated limbs and neck.” ( Silicea) (Opp. of Calcarea ph.)

Malnutrition, glands, bones, and skin.

Faulty bony development: late teething: rickets.

Flat, flabby, deficient bones, deficient teeth.

“Bones stop growing, and child goes into marasmus.”

“Enlarged glands, emaciation of neck and limbs, while the fat and the glands of the belly increase.”

Flabby: feeble: tired.

Sourness of sweat, of sweating head. Sour stool. Sour vomit.

White stools: constipation with white stools.

“Wormy babies”, pass and vomit worms.

Chew and swallow, or grit teeth in sleep (Cina).

Cross and fretful: easily frightened.

Calcarea phos [Calc-p]

      Vomits milk. ( Calcarea, Nat. carb., Mag. carb.)

Stools green, slimy, lienteric, with foetid flatus.

Face pale. White; sallow.

Neck cannot support head.

Marasmus: shrunken, emaciated, and very anaemic.

Tall scrawny, children with dirty, brownish skin.

Peevish, restless, fretful.

Flabby, sunken abdomen (opp. of Calcarea carb.).

Phosphorus [Phos]

      Tall, slender, delicate: grow too rapidly.

“Children emaciating: rapidly: going into marasmus. Tendency to consumption.”

Delicate: waxy: anaemic. Hectic blush.

Bleed easily. bruise easily. Sensitive to cold.

Love to be touched : rubbed.

Fear that something will happen: of thunder: of the dark: of being alone.

Indifferent.

“The sickly, sunken, earthy face of consumption, or of those going into consumption.

Desire for cold water; ices: salt: savouries.

May complain of a hot spine.

Chilly patient, yet stomach and head better for cold: chest and limbs better for heat.

Better for sleep–for short sleep. ( Sepia)

One of the great vertigo medicines. ( Conium).

Tuberculinum [Tub]

      “Deep-acting: long-acting: affects constitutions more deeply than most remedies ( Sulph., Silicea, Drosera, etc.).”

“Tubercular taint: debilitated and anaemic: here give Tuberculinum on a paucity of symptoms.”

Hopelessness: desire to travel: to go some-where.

“Closely related to Calcarea, to Silicea All go deep into life: interchangeable, i.e. one may be indicated for a while, then the other” (Kent).

Sensitive; dissatisfied. Fear of dogs.

Aversion to meat: craves cold milk.

“Gradual emaciation–increasing weakness-fatigue.”

Excessive sweat in chronic diarrhoea.

Driven out of bed with diarrhoea.

Air-hunger: suffocated in a warm room.

Better riding in a cold wind. Worse damp cold.

“When at every coming back of the case, it needs a new remedy.”

Old dingy look.

Very red lips ( Sulph.) and very blue sclerotics suggest Tuberculinum

Sulphur [Sulph]

      Farrington says, of marasmus of children,

“Ravenous, especially at 11 a.m. Heat vertex: with cold feet. With these three symptoms Sulphur will never fail you.”

Wakes screaming.

Great voracity: puts everything into its mouth.

Or, “drinks much and eats little”

Thirsty, wants much water.

Craves fat: will eat raw suet.

“Slow, lazy, hungry, and always tired.”

Red lips, nostrils, eyelids, anus.

Stool offensive, excoriating.

Frequent, slimy diarrhoea, or obstinate constipation. Screams before large stool.

“Sulphur children have the most astonishing tendency to be filthy.”

Fear of bath: hates bath: worse from bath.

Limbs emaciate, with distended abdomen.

Muscles wither, even abdominal, with much distension of abdomen itself.

Emaciates with good appetite. ( Iodium, etc.)

Eruptions: itching: worse at night. Boils.

Psorinum [Psor]

      Pale, sickly, delicate children. Look unwashed ( Sulph.).

Have a filthy smell, even after a bath.

Dread the bath ( Sulph.).

Kent says, “Offensive to sight and smell.”

Very chilly: worse open air: also worse warm bed.

Stools fluid, fetid.

Works miracles in these amazingly offensive (perhaps consumptive) children. One has seen it.

Sepia [Sep]

      “No ability to feel natural love.” Indifference. Absence of joy.

“Never happy unless he is annoying someone.”

Comprehension difficult.

Progressive emaciation. Skin wrinkled.

Child looks like a shrivelled, dried-up old man.

Freckled, esp. across nose and cheeks, “the Sepia saddle”.

Child wets the bed in its first sleep.

Damp cold legs and feet: ( Calcarea).

Silica [Sil]

      Child weak, puny, from defective assimilation.

Big abdomen from (?) mesenteric disease.

“Large head, body small, emaciated, except abdomen which is round and plump.

Face pale, waxy, earthy or yellowish.

Pinched and old-looking. Limbs shrunken.

Bones and muscles poorly developed, for that reason late walking.

Coldness: chilliness.

Head sweats profusely: in sleep ( Calcarea).

Offensive sweat head and face.

Feet sweat: offensive foot sweat ( Barayta carbonica Petroleum).

Little injuries fester: poor healing ( Hepar).

Boils and pustules, and sepsis.

Want of self-confidence.

Natrum mur [Nat-m]

      Nutrition impaired. Eats and emaciates all the time ( Iodium), neck particularly. ( Sarsaparilla)

Emaciation, weakness, nervous prostration, nervous irritability.

Skin shiny, pale, waxy, as if greased; or,

Skin dry, withered, shrunken.

An infant looks like a little old man. (Iodium, Abrotanum, Argentum nit., Sanicula, Sarsaparilla, Opium, Arsenicum).

Collar-bones become prominent and neck scrawny: but hips and lower limbs remain plump and round. (Opp. of Abrotanum Lycopodium also emaciates downwards.)

Children with voracious appetite, yet emaciate. ( Iodium, Sulphur, etc.)

One of the few “mapped-tongue” remedies.

Gets herpes about lips.

Terrible headaches.

Craving for salt. Hates bread and fat.

Weeps easily: but not amenable to sympathy.

Abrotanum [Abrot]

      Emaciation mostly of legs. Ascending (rev. of Nat. mur., Lycopodium, etc.).

Bloated abdomen.

Cross irritable children.

Pale, hollow-eyed, old face ( Iodium, Nat. mur., Sulphur, etc.). Wrinkled.

Appetite very great: ravenous while emaciating. ( Iodium, etc.)

In marasmus: skin flabby; and hangs loose.

Iodine [Iod]

      General emaciation: wants to eat all the time.

While the body withers, the glands enlarge. “Withering throughout the body, muscles shrink, skin wrinkles, and face of child like a little old person, but glands under arms, in groins, and belly, enlarged and hard. (Argentum nit., Abrotanum, Nat. mur.)

Always hungry: eats between meals, and yet is hungry.

Better eating. Emaciates with an enormous appetite.

Excitement: anxiety: impulses. Worse trying to keep still.

Worse heat: better cold. ( Lycopodium) (opp. to Silicea etc.)

Always too hot.

Sanicula [Sanic]

      Child looks old ( Argentum nit., etc.), dirty, greasy, and brownish.

Progressive emaciation.

Kicks off clothing in coldest weather. ( Sulph.)

Sweats on falling asleep, mostly neck. Wets clothing through. ( Calcarea, Silicea)

Cold clammy sweat occiput and neck.

Child craves meat, fat bacon, salt. ( Nat. mur., Argentum nit., Acid nitricum)

Child wants to nurse all the time, yet loses flesh.

After intense straining the stool, nearly evacuated, recedes ( Silicea).

Body smells like old cheese.

Foul footsweat, chafes toes ( Silicea).

Sarsaparilla [Sars]

      Neck emaciates ( Nat. mur.): skin lies in folds ( Abrotanum).

Weakness of mind and tissues.

Marasmus of children from heredity.

Emaciation about the neck. ( Nat. mur.)

Dry, purple copper-like eruptions.

No assimilation.

Children emaciated: face looks old. ( Natrum mur., Argentum nit., etc.).

Big belly: dry, flabby skin.

Screams when about to urinate. Or, at close of urination gives an unearthly yell.

Lycopodium [Lyc]

     . Emaciates from above downwards ( Sanicula, Nat. mur.). Lower limbs fairly nourished.

Flatulent: distended like a drum ( Argentum nit.), can hardly breathe. So full, he cannot eat.

Wakes “ugly”. Worse 4-8 p.m.

No self-confidence ( Silicea): miseries of anticipation (Argentum nit., Arsenicum, Silicea).

Cries when thanked: when receiving a gift.

Withered lads with dry cough; headache.

Better from cold. Worse warm room ( Iodium).

Red sand in urine: “red pepper deposit.”

Craves sweets ( Argentum nit.): hot drinks.

One foot hot, one cold (characteristic).

Sickly wrinkled face with contracted eyebrows.

Argentum nit. Child looks dried up, like a mummy ( Opium, Arsenicum).

Old-looking, pale, bluish face.

Progressive emaciation.

Craves sweets ( Lycopodium) which disagree.

Craves salt ( Phosphorus, Nat. mur.).

Wants cold air ( Lycopodium) cold drinks (opp. of Lycopodium).

A most flatulent remedy ( Lycopodium) distended to bursting ( Lycopodium).

Emotional diarrhoea: from anticipation ( Gelsemium).

Examination funk. Fear of high places.

Opium [Op]

      “Shrivelled little dried up old man.”

Painlessness: inactivity: torpor:–

Or, sleeplessness: inquietude, nervous excitability.

Lack of reaction to well-selected remedy. ( Sul.)

Fear and fright.

Constipation from painless paresis of bowels.

Arsenicum [Ars]

      Atrophy of infants.

Marasmus. “Dried-up mummy” child.

Face pale, anxious, distorted.

Skin harsh, dry, tawny.

Rapid emaciation: sinking of strength.

Least effort exhausting.

Margaret Lucy Tyler
Margaret Lucy Tyler, 1875 – 1943, was an English homeopath who was a student of James Tyler Kent. She qualified in medicine in 1903 at the age of 44 and served on the staff of the London Homeopathic Hospital until her death forty years later. Margaret Tyler became one of the most influential homeopaths of all time. Margaret Tyler wrote - How Not to Practice Homeopathy, Homeopathic Drug Pictures, Repertorising with Sir John Weir, Pointers to some Hayfever remedies, Pointers to Common Remedies.