EATING DISORDERS IN CHILDREN

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EATING DISORDERS IN CHILDREN

• Jenni Tree
• Society of Homeopaths
• Conference and AGM 2007

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Causes of eating disorders

• An emotional state
• Physical pathology
• Environmental factors

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Anorexia / Bulimia

• 1 100/200 teenage girls suffer from anorexia.
• 1-3100 teenage girls suffer from bulimia
• There are 60,000 anorexics or buliminics in UK,
  of whom 10 are male.
• Anorexia starvation, controlled eating regimes
  excessive exercise.
• Bulimia cycles of bingeing and starving
  purging, exercising, excessive water drinking.
• Anorexia has one of the highest death rates for
  any psychiatric disorder with up to 20 of
  patients dying from the disease.

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Chronic Fatigue Syndromeand Starvation symptoms

• chronic tiredness,
• exhaustion on the slightest exertion,
• backache,
• anxiety, depression, listlessness, indifference,
  apathy,
• loss of appetite,
• palpitations,
• cramps, hair loss,
• labile temperature, weak, spotted nails,
• amenorrhoea in girls.

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Kristins case in brief

• She had headaches and nosebleeds sometimes the
  headaches for nosebleeds.
• Her periods had stopped.
• She suffered from anorexia since an acute fever 5
  months before.

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Outward Bound Course

• Chill, then a fever that remained high.
• Muscles sore, aching, stillness.
• She developed measles a rash over her trunk
  spreading to her limbs. She scratched some of the
  spots until they formed lesions with scabs.
• Hospitalised with high fever, dry cough, and
  later the symptoms of pneumonia.
• Delirious, muttering, for much of the time.
• Attempts to run away.
• Slow recovery her glands remained swollen.

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Im fed up with everybody telling me what is best
for me what I should do what I should eat.

I dont like food, its poisonous. I feel
poisoned when I eat it.

Nobody really knows what it is like to be me.
They try hard, but they arent me.

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What does it feel like to be you?

• Poisoned, trapped, controlled, frightened, tired.
  There is something in me that feels strong, as if
  I can know everything all the answers to
  everything. Its like I am living in another
  world and trying to communicate with this one. I
  feel very restless inside, as if I am running and
  running, scrabbling, hiding in dark places.
• Is that what this world is like? Tell me some
  more about this world?
• Its always moving, flowing, thumping, pumping. I
  feel like I am moving all the time, a tremor,
  when I am not moving at all when I look at my
  fingers. Inside there is something seething.

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Whats it like?

• Like I have ants inside. Like poison. Something
  just swishing around.
• Poison?
• Its powerful stuff. You dont need much. I have
  to get rid of the poison food is poison. I dont
  want to eat it.

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Tell me about hiding in dark places.

• It is dark and wet and hot. I feel scabby, dirty.
  In the dark place it is like an engine house,
  like one of those pumps, pumping water, but it is
  hot, not cold water. Its like a cave. In a way
  it feels safe to be in there, like I can just be
  me in there.
• Scabby, dirty?
• Like I feel swollen and fat, like a leech you
  know, those blood-suckers. I hate being fat and
  ugly. All that fat feels like poison. My mum says
  I should eat. You know they put me on a drip in
  hospital. I hated that. The needles.

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What else do you hate?

• Insects. Those scabby bedbugs you get when you
  sleep in other peoples beds. At camp other
  people popped them the fleas, and yuk, the
  blood all came out. It was disgusting. I got
  fleas at that camp. Well we all did.
• Anything else you hate?
• PE at school. Exercise. Im too tired to do PE
  now, so Im excused.
• I hate people telling me what to do all the time.
  What to study, what to eat, what to wear. I dont
  have a life of my own its like Im a part of
  someone elses life. I spose thats what it is
  being in a family.

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Flea
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Analysis

• Poison
• Its me and its not me.
• I dont have a life of my own. Family. Part of
  someone elses life.
• I can just be me in here.
• Living in another world
• Restless, moving, flowing, pumping, thumping,
  swishing tremor
• Ants inside. Leech. Insects. Bedbugs. Fleas.
• Scabby, dirty, disgusting. Swollen, fat.

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I want a remedy that has the following

• Perhaps from the animal kingdom.
• It doesnt have a life of its own, but is part of
  somebody elses life perhaps a parasite or a
  symbiotic remedy.
• It is a remedy that is living in another world.
  What does this mean not on this Earth? Or
  non-human? Or living in a different time-frame?
• It has a connection to insects, or may be an
  insect remedy.
• It is restless in the extreme internally.
• It dislikes external control.
• It has a strong element of disgust.
• It may be a poison.

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Typhus nosode in 30c potency, bought from
Remedia.at in Austria.

• This was initially given once daily for a week,
  in water.
• It brought back the fever for a few days, after
  which the headaches stopped.
• I encouraged Kristin to do some exercise.
  Rickettsia thrives in CO2 which is the state of
  the sluggish cell. Introducing Oxygen threatens
  the bacillus. First of all she did just deep
  breathing exercise, and then simple yoga.

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Plus

• After two weeks some soup every day, no more than
  a cup at a sitting, all the nutrition, vitamins
  and minerals her mother could put in it.
• Avena Sativa 12x three times daily.
• Improves the strength of those who have been on
  an inadequate diet for a long time.
• Old people living alone who cant be bothered to
  cook for themselves, so eat out of tins.
• Helps a sleep pattern re-establish itself, and to
  soothe the nerves.
• Originally used to help drug addicts. So it makes
  sense that it is a good remedy for an anorexic
  too.

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Rickettsia - Typhus nosode

• Typhus - human bacteria carried by fleas, lice,
  ticks.
• Epidemic typhus follows war, famine, poverty,
  overcrowding.
• Has many aliases Rocky Mountain spotted fever,
  Jail fever, Camp fever, Black fever, Black
  measles, Kew Garden fever, Mexican fever, Q
  fever. Irish fever after the Great Famine in
  Ireland of 1845-47.
• See Fran Treuherzs book on Solanum tuberosum.
• Belsen - 50,000 died of typhus.

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Body louse
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Dr. Cécile Jadin

• 3,400 cases of Chronic fatigue syndrome,
  fibromyalgia, RA, depression and MS had started
  with a flu-like state.
• Their symptoms mirror typhus.
• And have become chronic, changing face as they
  work deeper into the body.

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Typhus in the Napoleonic Wars
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Sensation and Themes for Bacteria

• Restless
• Toxic Pathogen
• Fast
• Inflammation
• Co-operative, Social, Democratic.
• Contagious. Migratory.
• Communicative
• Genetically flexible

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Possible Source language for Typhus nosode

• Poison
• Its me and its not me.
• I dont have a life of my own. Family. Part of
  someone elses life.
• I can just be me in here.
• Living in another world
• Restless, moving, flowing, pumping, thumping,
  swishing tremor
• Ants inside. Leech. Insects. Bedbugs. Fleas.
• Scabby, dirty, disgusting. Swollen, fat.

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DAVID

• 5 year old boy.
• Tall, gangly dark-haired dry rough hair.
• Gaps in teeth.
• Pasty faced, dark rings under eyes.
• Presenting complaint Eating Disorders.
• The child will only drink milk and eat sweets.
• Aversion all vegetables and meat.
• Growing pains in the long bones of his legs, night.
• Has grown very fast 6 inches in the last 4
  months on starting school.

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Milk and biscuits
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David - further symptoms

• Skin is dry. It itches, but there are no
  eruptions. Scratching ameliorates.
• He wets the bed at night always has done.
• He lost his milk teeth early since being 4.
  Some were rotting.

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Observations

• Shy.
• Sits on his mothers lap with his arms around her
  neck. Sucks his thumb.
• Dreamy, not focussed, not interested.
• Refuses to talk, answer, interact.
• Maybe stubborn, peevish. Cross?
• Can we go home now?
• I get the feeling he would be very happy
  breast-feeding.

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• Passive except about food.
• Warm milk. Some Weetabix.
• He likes to watch TV.

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Mother

• A struggle to conceive
• Difficult, long birth.
• Exhausted afterwards.
• Slow recovery.
• Breastfed him for 4 months, then weaned him to
  bottles of milk and jars of food.
• I feel she is exhausted by the struggle with the
  child. Anxious. Apologetic.

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Rubrics

• Desires warm milk
• Desires sweets
• Aversion vegetables
• Capriciousness in children
• Holding, desires to be held
• Morose, cross, peevish
• Home, desires to go

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Results on Sacc-alb

• Temper tantrums
• Bananas - first solid food
• Then sandwiches, pasta, yogurt.
• Hair smooth and silky
• Skin - less itching.
• Bedwetting stopped
• Wakes up and becomes interactive.
• Less angry, sulky.

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Weston Price DDS

• Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
• The Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation.

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• Grant Bentley
• Appearance and Circumstance
• Facial Analysis
• Vannier Typology in Homeopathy.
• Melissa Assilem The Mad Hatters Tea Party
• Tinus Smits Inspiring Homeopathy

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GRAMINAE Monocots POALES

• Anatherum muriaticum wrongly called Anantherum
  until now.
• Arundo, the reed.
• Avena sativa oats
• Bambusa unmistakable from its vast number of
  rubrics bamboo.
• Hordeum- Barley
• Lolium - Darnel
• Oryza - Rice
• Secale cereale, -Rye
• Triticum - Wheat
• Zea, corn - maize

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Sugar. Sucrose. Pure. Poison.
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From the Film Super Size Me
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Saccharum officinalis
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Sugar cane saccharum officinarum
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Sugar beet
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Natural sweetness

• Unlike fruit, cane sugar contains no acids and no
  flavouring.
• It is simply sweet.
• Slave trade. Enslavement. Addiction.
• Domination.
• Greed. Exploitation.

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Sugar consumption

• 1700 A.D. 2 kilos per head per year
• 2000 A.D. 50 kilos per head this includes
  every child! per year.
• UNBELIEVABLE??
• ADDICTION IS EASY.

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The biochemistry of sugar

• C12H22O11
• A disaccharide of glucose and fructose Sucrose
• All edible plants contain fibre, protein, fat,
  starch and sugar.
• Fibre starch ? sugar energy
• Refined sugar is almost pure sucrose.

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Sucrose alters the metabolism

• In digesting a fruit, the body has to work to
  make the sugars available.
• By eating chocolate, sweets, cakes and drinking
  coca cola or soft fizzy drinks, the energy is
  available in a rush instead of a drip, and the
  stomach has less work to do.
• The sugar then meets the bodys energy
  requirements and the rest of the food becomes
  simply the vehicle.

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Enzyme inhibition?chemical addiction

• If energy needs are met by sugar, the body stops
  producing starch- and fibre-converting enzymes.
  Then we can no longer digest these.
• So food industries reduce the fibre content in
  prepared foods.
• The addict/victim becomes hooked on a constant
  flow of fast sugar. This is a chemical addiction.

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Sugar or fibre?Feast or famine?

• In the face of high consumption of white sugar,
  the enzymes required to digest wholemeal bread
  are absent, since they are killed by the sugar.
• If you eat enough dietary fibre, you dont crave
  sugar.
• If you eat both sugar and fibre you gain weight.

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No nutrition

• The physical state of Sacc-alb shows the dilemma
• There is dryness everywhere skin, nails, hair,
  vagina, feet, stool, tongue.
• There is weakness after stool, after eating,
  after eating sweets.
• There is emaciation.

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No emotional nutrition

• Delusions deserted, forsaken, neglected by
  parents, unloved.
• Homesickness.
• Yearning for approval. Desire to be fondled.
• Sinking though the bed, falling
• Wants to sleep with parents
• Sensitive to noise, pain, criticism
• Easily startled
• Timid.

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Behaviour is as unstable as blood sugar

• Envious. Jealous.
• Kicking. Rage. Violence. Tantrums. Unapproachable
  when angry.
• Malicious after chocolate or sweets
• Antisocial behaviour
• Morose. Peevish. Quarrelsome
• Restless, running around after sweets
• Impelled to touch things
• Rocking

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Behaviour is as unstable as blood sugar

• Dull, sluggish
• Irresolute
• Irritable before meals, when hungry
• Fears blood, being alone, dark wants mother
  to hold her hand, fears failure.
• Play antics
• Bites.
• Bites nails.

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Differential Diagnosis

• Milk remedies
• Lac humanum
• Lactic acid
• Sac-lac
• Carbon remedies in the Alcohol moiety.
• Other rxs. in this group Kreos David had rotting
  teeth, Menthol, Naphthol, Ol-sant., Sac-l and
  Ur-ac.

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Physicals Dryness/oedema

• Dryness and emaciation of lower limbs.
• Oedema. Dropsy.
• Complaints of nails, ulcers,
• Sensation of water oozing from limbs.
• Sensation of internal dryness
• Gout upper limbs
• Pains stitching

• Diabetes
• Rheumatic swelling of heart
• Irregular weak pulse.
• Scurvy!
• Candida
• Emaciation
• There are strong physical symptoms for the female
  genital system too.

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Syphilitic Miasm

• Anaemia from anger
• Ulceration gangrenous
• Ulcers lower limbs, thighs.
• Heavy built.
• Cancerous heredity
• Diabetes
• Dropsy/Dryness internal
• Emaciation

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Syphilitic Miasm

• Sugar addiction is often considered an adolescent
  problem.
• It is usually replaced by alcohol addiction.
• Saccharum album is as good a support remedy for
  addicts as is Avena sativa.
• Addicts cigarettes, alcohol, sex, sweets,
  sugar, drugs, sweet drinks cola, bread, cakes,
  pastries.

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Graminae Themes

• Feast or Famine. All or nothing.
• Fighting within the family sugar fights
  carbohydrate for dominance. Sugar and cereal
  carbohydrates are all Gramineae
• Nurture or domination
• Enslavement / Addiction
• I am empty, weak and without support, so I must
  cling on, root myself in, take over.

• Sex to excess.
• Formication, itching, crawling, prickling
  sensation.
• Burning pains, consumed by fire. Ardent,
  passionate, intense
• Something alive and moving inside.
• Knotted sensation
• Heaviness, weight

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Saccharum Themes

• Feast or Famine. All or nothing.
• Fighting within the family sugar fights
  carbohydrate for dominance. Sugar and cereal
  carbs are all graminae
• Nurture or domination
• Enslavement / Addiction
• I am empty, weak and without support, so I must
  cling on, root myself in, take over.
• Sex to excess.

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The empty addict

• Saccharum album is as good a support remedy for
  addicts as is Avena sativa.
• Addiction cigarettes, alcohol, sex,
  sweets,coffee, tea, sugar, drugs, sweet drinks
  cola,milk, bread, cakes, pastries.
• Bulimia / anorexia - all or nothing

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Food desires

• Desires fried potatoes, sweet foods, pastries,
  chocolates, warm milk, sweets after dinner.
• Desires acid, salt, mustard
• Averse vegetables, warm food

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Anatherum muriaticum Vetiver

• Monomania for doing the same thing and
  frequenting the same places, OCD.
• Monomania to appear in a public place in a
  grotesque manner. Desire to dress in a bizarre
  fashion?
• This is a remedy of restlessness and suspicion,
  jealousy and haste.

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Hunger

• Morbid hunger in the afternoon and evening, and
  waking to eat in the night.
• Hunger as if he had fasted for a long time empty
  feeling.
• Prefers salted and spicy food.
• Monomaniacal desire for certain kind of food.
  Vithoulkas
• Unquenchable thirst.
• Dreams of feasting.

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Bambusa

• Needs support
• Head feels as heavy as a pumpkin.
• Exhaustion after childbirth.
• Menstrual problems - swollen breasts before
  period irregular periods.

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Carbons and Grasses

• Confusion
• Identity
• Value
• Mental weakness
• Isolation
• Sinking
• Passivity Motivation
• The Past

• Dullness
• Unsupported. Monomanic
• Nutrition. Greed.
• Weak, heavy, clinging.
• Heavy. Fear falling
• Timidity
• Slowness

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Lactic Acid

• Diabetes in pregnancy
• Hypoglycaemia
• Arthritis / Rheumatism
• Sarcastic, sharp language
• Miserable, peevish, morose

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Tarentula case

• Amenorrhoea
• Hypoglycaemia
• Like to feel empty
• Drink lots of water.
• Pick at food
• Dancing, gymnastics, sexual athletics
• Smoking
• Music, parties, speed.

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The Milks

• Lactic acid- eternal child
• Saccharum - spolt child
• Sac-lac - abandoned child
• Lac felinum - dependent independence
• Lac caninum - fearful and aggressive
• Lac caprinum - clinging but sexually promiscuous
• Lac humanum - indifferent, controlled child

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Can this be healthy?
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Diabetes

• Under fives 5x increase in Type 1 over 20 years
• Under 15s doubled in twenty years.
• Finland Sardinia have the highest rates in
  Europe. 40 10,000.
• Well - what is the cause?
• Environmental? Genetic?
• Too much sugar. Too little wholefood
  carbohydrates soft drinks food without energy
  processed foods a dog eat dog society.
• Vaccination

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Lack of good nutrition

• Stroppy behaviour
• Capricious children
• Dull-mindedness
• Lack of ambition
• Anti-social behaviour
• Stubbornness

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Eating Disorders

• Anorexia and or Bulimia
• Diabetes
• Coeliac disease
• Hypoglycaemia
• Allergies