
29/05/2024
Homoeopathic medicines for Pica in children
1. Calcarea carbonica
This medicine is obtained from oyster shells. It is best suited to the people of the leucophlegmatic Constitution. Patients who are fat, fair and flabby. There will be a peculiar craving for indigestible things like chalk, coal, pencils, flour and raw potatoes.Severe pain in the epigastric region during touch. Aggravation while eating. Indicated remedy for hypochlorhydria.
2. Alumina
Best suited for hypochondriac constitution persons of sedentary habits who suffer from chronic ailments. Patients will have abnormal cravings for chalk, charcoal, dry food and tea grounds. Abdominal colic will be present like painter’s colic. Constipation of old people and infant’s due to an inactive re**um. Evacuation of stool is preceded by painful urging long before stool and straining.
3. Cina maritima
Persons who need this medicine have one cheek pale and the other cheek red. Face with a bluish appearance around the mouth and dark rings under the eyes. Another important medicine for desire for indigestible things. It is also a very significant medicine for persons who crave indigestible things. Children smell sour mother tells child has warm breath, Gastric disorders with helminthiasis, Constant digging of nose and boring rubs nose over pillow.
4.Lac Felinum
This medicine is obtained from cat’s milk. Person who needs this medicine particularly will have a strange desire to eat paper after eating, feels swollen and has to take off her dress and loose clothes. They may also complain of the soreness and sensitiveness of the stomach region. Sensation of hot feeling felt in the epigastric region of the stomach. There is a very slight nausea and loss of appetite with these symptoms.
5.Silicea terra
This medicine is useful for persons who have a desire to eat mud. Sensation of hair in tongue. Great aversions to meat. They have a loss of appetite with aversion to eating cooked food. Constipation may be present great difficulty in passing the stool. The stool when partly expelled from the a**s recedes back in the re**um, During deglutition food ascends into nasal fossae.
By
Dr Yashika Arora Malhotra
Delhi