Title: EATING DISORDERS IN CHILDREN
1EATING DISORDERS IN CHILDREN
- Jenni Tree
- Society of Homeopaths
- Conference and AGM 2007
2Causes of eating disorders
- An emotional state
- Physical pathology
- Environmental factors
3Anorexia / 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.
4Chronic 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.
5Kristins 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.
6Outward 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.
7Im 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. 8What 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.
9Whats 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.
10Tell 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.
11What 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.
12Flea
13Analysis
- 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.
14I 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.
15Typhus 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.
16Plus
- 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.
17Rickettsia - 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.
18Body louse
19Dr. 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.
20Typhus in the Napoleonic Wars
21Sensation and Themes for Bacteria
- Restless
- Toxic Pathogen
- Fast
- Inflammation
- Co-operative, Social, Democratic.
- Contagious. Migratory.
- Communicative
- Genetically flexible
22Possible 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.
23DAVID
- 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.
24Milk and biscuits
25David - 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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27Observations
- 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.
28- Passive except about food.
- Warm milk. Some Weetabix.
- He likes to watch TV.
29Mother
- 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.
30Rubrics
- 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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32Results 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.
33Weston Price DDS
- Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
- The Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation.
34- Grant Bentley
- Appearance and Circumstance
- Facial Analysis
- Vannier Typology in Homeopathy.
- Melissa Assilem The Mad Hatters Tea Party
- Tinus Smits Inspiring Homeopathy
35GRAMINAE 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
36Sugar. Sucrose. Pure. Poison.
37From the Film Super Size Me
38Saccharum officinalis
39Sugar cane saccharum officinarum
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41Sugar beet
42Natural 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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44Sugar 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.
45The 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.
46Sucrose 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.
47Enzyme 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.
48Sugar 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.
49No 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.
50No 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.
51Behaviour 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
52Behaviour 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.
53Differential 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.
54Physicals 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.
55Syphilitic Miasm
- Anaemia from anger
- Ulceration gangrenous
- Ulcers lower limbs, thighs.
- Heavy built.
- Cancerous heredity
- Diabetes
- Dropsy/Dryness internal
- Emaciation
56Syphilitic 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.
57Graminae 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
58Saccharum 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.
59The 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
60Food 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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62Anatherum 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.
63Hunger
- 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.
64Bambusa
- Needs support
- Head feels as heavy as a pumpkin.
- Exhaustion after childbirth.
- Menstrual problems - swollen breasts before
period irregular periods.
65Carbons 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
66Lactic Acid
- Diabetes in pregnancy
- Hypoglycaemia
- Arthritis / Rheumatism
- Sarcastic, sharp language
- Miserable, peevish, morose
67Tarentula case
- Amenorrhoea
- Hypoglycaemia
- Like to feel empty
- Drink lots of water.
- Pick at food
- Dancing, gymnastics, sexual athletics
- Smoking
- Music, parties, speed.
68The 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
69Can this be healthy?
70Diabetes
- 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
71Lack of good nutrition
- Stroppy behaviour
- Capricious children
- Dull-mindedness
- Lack of ambition
- Anti-social behaviour
- Stubbornness
72Eating Disorders
- Anorexia and or Bulimia
- Diabetes
- Coeliac disease
- Hypoglycaemia
- Allergies