Dear Members

I have to speak out loud against careless advice given here!!
A member of this board advised in an earlier post:
Quote:
>>So, if there's whooping cough in the school, give your child
the whooping cough nosode, which is Pertussin;
Pertussin 30C two or three doses a day for one day.<<

This is a dangerous procedure!
I have come across cases, where by this procedure perfectly healthy children were made artificially sick, and stayed so for a considerably length of time.

Taking the Pertussinum Nosode does NOT protect against getting the whoopingcough.

Quote:
>> If a week or so later the child seems ill and you think he may have contracted the disease, give again Pertussin 30C two or three times.<<

This is a gross misinterpretation on this practitioners side!

This situation is a involuntary proving of the product and does not mean that the child has contracted the whooping-cough at all.

The Member must be aware of this when writing:
>> If actual symptoms of Whooping Cough are discernable, you have to give the indicated remedy, which is most often, but not always,
Drosera.<<

I would ask this member to give us her real name, so that we know who we are dealing with.

I condemn in the strongest possible way this ill-fated advice and want to point out, that this procedure is in breach of all basic homeopathic principles and rules.

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Hans Weitbrecht
Consultant Homeopath