EATING DISORDERS IN CHILDREN

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EATING DISORDERS IN CHILDREN

• Jenni Tree
• BEd, MA, FRSA, FIL, Dip. Hom.
• Churchill Fellow 1983.
• Inner Health
• September 2007

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• A look at an unusual nosode
• and the Graminae family.

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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 brief14 year old girl

• Headaches and nosebleeds
• Headaches gt for nosebleeds.
• No periods.
• Anorexic.
• Hard-working perfectionist.
• Mild. Pleasing nature.

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Outward Bound Course

• Chill, followed by high fever.
• Muscles sore, aching, gt stillness.
• Measles a rash on trunk spreading to limbs.
  Scratching Lesions Scabs.
• Hospitalised high fever, dry cough, and later
  the symptoms of pneumonia.
• Delirious, muttering.
• Attempts to run away.
• Slow recovery her glands remained swollen.

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lt control. Food poison

• 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.
  
• Strong. Know everything all the answers to
  everything.
• 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,
• Tremor.
• 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.

• Dark, wet, hot.
• Scabby, dirty.
• Like an engine house, like one of those pumps,
  pumping water, but it is hot, not cold water.
• Cave. Safe to be in there I can just be me in
  there.
• Scabby, dirty?
• Swollen, fat, like a leech blood-sucker.
• Fat and ugly. Fat feels like poison.
• Hated 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?
• Exercise. Im too tired
• 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, seething.
• Ants inside. Leech. Insects. Bedbugs. Fleas.
• Scabby, dirty, disgusting. Swollen, fat.

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I want a remedy that has the following

• Animal Kingdom
• Parasite or symbiont
• Living in another world
• Connection with Insects
• It is restless in the extreme internally.
• Dislikes external control.
• Disgust.
• It may be a poison.

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

• Rx Rickettsia prowazekii Typhus nosode 30c
  once daily for a week, in water.
• ROS fever, after which the headaches stopped.
• Exercise - breathing yoga.
• Rickettsia thrives in CO2 which is the state of
  the sluggish cell. Introducing Oxygen threatens
  the bacillus.

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Plus

• Soup every day, no more than a cup at a sitting,
  vitamins and minerals.
• 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 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 Frances Treuherzs book on Solanum tuberosum.
• Belsen - 50,000 died of typhus.

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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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Sensation and Themes for Bacteria

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

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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. Seething.
• 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, lt
  night.
• Has grown very fast 6 inches in the last 4
  months on starting school.

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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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Repertorization
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Results on Sac-alb Complete Sacch -
Synthesis, Sacc -Kent

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

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Saccharum officinalis
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Weston Price DDS

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

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GRAMINAE Monocots POALES

• Anatherum muricatum wrongly called
  Anantherum- Vetiver
• Arundo - Reed
• Avena sativa Oats
• Bambusa unmistakable from its vast number of
  rubrics Bamboo.
• Hordeum- Barley
• Lolium - Darnel
• Oryza - Rice
• Saccharum - Sugar
• Secale cereale, -Rye
• Triticum - Wheat
• Zea - Maize/Corn

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Sugar. Sucrose. Pure. Poison. Preservative
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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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Sugar beet
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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?

• 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 gt

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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

• Syphilitic miasm
• Diabetes
• Anaemia from anger
• Ulceration gangrenous
• Ulcers lower limbs, thighs.
• Rheumatic swelling of heart
• Scurvy!
• Candida
• 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.
• Bulimia/anorexia - all or nothing

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Grains and allergens

• Gluten intolerance - Coeliacs
• Crohns.
• Tourettes
• Schizophrenia
• ADD, Hyperactivity, OCD, ritualistic behaviour
• Tension, anxiety, phobia, depression

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Anatherum muricatum 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?
• Restlessness, 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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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.
  Anorexia/bulimina.
• Fighting within the family striking, biting
  nails, scolding. Disobedient. A/f anger.
• Demanding. Insolent. Capricious. Bored.
• Sad, forsaken, jealous. Timid.
• Irritable when hungry. gt after eating.
• Fear dark, alone, parents will leave
• Hyper. Excessive.
• Dryness.
• PMS. Painful ovulation.

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Carbons and Sugar

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

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Lactic Acid

• Diabetes/ great nausea in pregnancy
• Hypoglycaemia
• Arthritis / Rheumatism
• Sarcastic, sharp language Sac-lac
• Miserable, peevish, morose
• Crave milk products, sweets.
• Starving, whining, floppy, sad baby, constantly
  breast-feeding.

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The Milks

• Lactic acid- eternal child
• Saccharum - spoilt 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 20 years.
• Finland Sardinia have the highest rates in
  Europe. 40 10,000.
• Well - what is the cause?
• Environmental? Genetic?
• Too much sugar. Too little whole food
  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, apathy
• Lack of ambition or motivation
• Anti-social behaviour
• Stubbornness

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