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Pediatrics-Diseases of Children
Pediatrics is a special branch of Medicine dealing with diseases of Infants and Children. In general, Children may be treated with the same medicines used to treat adults, with a proportionate reduction in dosage (click here for doses used for Children). Nevertheless, there are some special formula used specifically for children and there are some diseases which are peculiar to children, so we will deal with them here.
New Born
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Regimen for the Newborn
‘When the child is first washed at the Birth, wash it in a Decoction of the green bark of Willows: Hereby the children are not only preserved from the Epilepsy, but from any other lingering consumptive Disease. It is a specific in inward weakness of Children’. (Practical Chymistry, John Hartman, 1670) Rubbing the baby with Almond oil or other vegetable oil after bathing is very beneficial. In cold climates, applying warm oil protects from the Cold. Oil also nourishes and strengthens the baby. |
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Umbilical Hernia
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1. 'When a child cries very much, a swelling may form in the groin or navel. This is a hernia. Some advise that it should be rubbed with cardamon (bishop's weed) and sprinkled with egg-white, a thin bandage being applied tightly over the place. Others advise burnt bitter lupin, as an infusion in wine and myrrh, placed over the part. Stronger remedies are: hot styptics (astringents), such as myrrh; cypress bark; cypress fruit; aloes; acacia fruit'. (Avicenna, Canon)
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2. Beat Mastic, mix with Egg white to a paste, spread on cloth and apply to the Navel firmly once it has been reduced. (Gabelhover, 1599)
3. An ointment made from fresh Comfrey root is very useful. 4. Take Aloe ¾ oz., Frankincense ½ oz.; powder, mix with egg white and bind to the rupture. |
Infants
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To Strengthen Children
Aromatic Rose Powder (Aromaticum Rosatum) Balivivan (Ayurveda) Weakness, Wasting, Emaciation, Failure to Thrive Aromatic Rose Powder (Aromaticum Rosatum) Xiao Chai Hu Tang (TCM) Liu Wei Di Huang Wan You Gui Wan You Gui Yin Balivivan (Ayurveda) Asparagus Ghee (Shavatari Ghritam) (Ayurveda) Aid Mental Development You Gui Yin Balivivan (Ayurveda) Medicine for Infants (Pillari Marundu) (Siddha) Regulate Digestion Balivivan (Ayurveda) Medicine for Infants (Pillari Marundu) (Siddha) Prevent Infection Xiao Chai Hu Tang (TCM) Balivivan (Ayurveda) Medicine for Infants (Pillari Marundu) (Siddha) Fever Powder of Crabs Claw (Countess of Kents Powder) Bo Ying Compound Powder for Childrens Fever (Tibetan Medicine) Restlessness, Night Crying, Insomnia Powder of Crabs Claw (Countess of Kents Powder) Bo Ying Compound Colic Medicine for Infants (Pillari Marundu) (Siddha) Cough 1. Almond meal mixed into a paste with Fennel water and a little Sugar, and given to eat. (The Secrets of Alexis, 1615) 2. For severe cough in children, Hyssop and Mother of Thyme, boiled in Wine. (The Secrets of Alexis, 1615) 3. Boil Mint in Goat's Milk. 4. Dissolve Tragacanthand Sugar in Milk. Pectoral Decoction Tragacanth Cooling Powder (Diatragacanth Frigidum) Medicine for Infants (Pillari Marundu) (Siddha) Wheezing, Asthma Pectoral Decoction |
Rickets and Wasting
‘Anoint the Ricketed Child's Limbs, and to recover it in a short time, though the Child be so lame as to go upon Crutches. Take a peck of Garden Snails and bruise them, put them in a coarse Canvas Bag, and hang it up, and set a dish under it to receive the liquor that droppeth from them, therewith anoint the Child in every joynt which you perceive to be weak, before the fire every morning and evening. This I have known make a Child that was extreme weak to go alone, using it only a weeks time’. (The Pearl of Practice, 1684) |