TRADITIONAL INTERNAL MEDICINE – DISEASES & FORMULAS
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
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.
Umbilical Hernia
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)
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
Special medicines for Pediatric Diseases
Balacaturbhadrika (Ayurveda)
Balivivan (Ayurveda)
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
Balacaturbhadrika (Ayurveda)
Balivivan (Ayurveda)
Asparagus Ghee (Shavatari Ghritam) (Ayurveda)
Aid Mental Development
You Gui Yin
Balivivan (Ayurveda)
Medicine for Infants (Pillari Marundu) (Siddha)
Increase Awareness Pills (Tibetan Medicine)
Delayed Development
Increase Awareness Pills (Tibetan Medicine)
Slow to Speak
Honey 1 oz., Rock Salt 1 dram; mix together and rub their tongue, “it will profit much”. (Salmon)
Regulate Digestion
Balivivan (Ayurveda)
Balacaturbhadrika (Ayurveda)
Medicine for Infants (Pillari Marundu) (Siddha)
Constipation:
1. In Breast feeding infants, mix Castor oil and Mothers Milk in equal doses, give 1 teaspoonful followed by warm water 15 minutes later. (Siddha)
Prevent Infection
Xiao Chai Hu Tang (TCM)
Balivivan (Ayurveda)
Medicine for Infants (Pillari Marundu) (Siddha)
Fever
Antispasmodic Infusion
Powder of Crabs Claw (Countess of Kents Powder)
Bo Ying Compound
Balacaturbhadrika (Ayurveda)
Minister 3 (Tibetan Medicine)
Minister 9 (Tibetan Medicine)
Restlessness, Night Crying, Insomnia
Antispasmodic Infusion
Powder of Crabs Claw (Countess of Kents Powder)
Bo Ying Compound
Hui Chun Dan
Seizures, Convulsions
Powder of Crabs Claw (Countess of Kents Powder)
Hui Chun Dan
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)
Balacaturbhadrika (Ayurveda)
Medicine for Infants (Pillari Marundu) (Siddha)
Minister 3 (Tibetan Medicine)
Minister 9 (Tibetan Medicine)
Whooping Cough
1. Calamus powder, 2 pinches three times daily in egg white (Siddha Medicine)
2. Poppy seed, Gum Arabic, Starch, powder, mix with water to form small pills. (Unani)
3. Elecampane with Thyme
4. Elecampane, Thyme, Hyssop, Plantain, Raisins
5. Horehound, Thyme, Licorice
6. Horehound with Aniseed, Coltsfoot, Blessed Thistle
7. Ivy leaf, Thyme, Licorice
8. Thyme with Raisin, Licorice
9. Thyme with Fennel, Elder flower and Agrimony (German monastic formula)
10. Plantain with Thyme, Camomile, Cowslip root
11. Borax (100mg doses) taken with Honey is very effective to stops the Cough. (Don’t give more than 3 times per day and don’t give on an extended basis)
Decoction for Cold Coughs (Nicolas Myrepsus)
Lavangadi Churna
Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang
Zhi Sou San
Qing Qi Hua Tan Wan
Tabasheer 25 (Cu gang nyer lnga)
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)
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