Hi Donna, Luise, everyone,

The lines of demarcation needs to be very clear.

Donna, you seem to need a stop gap palliative that will soothe the kid at this moment. Right. But your methodology seems a bit off track- at least in choosing the symptoms. IMHO the best bet in such situations is Boenninghauusen or Boger's method. There, for you to put the method to work, you need symptoms that we can perceive well and on which a credible prescription could be based. The quartet of location-sensation- modality-concomittant will work both for acute and chronic situations. The concomittant being the clincher in most situations.

But masters like Boger are a different lot. He gave a dying man with anasarca, slightest jar agg, creamy stools, sleepy before a storm all since quinine- formica 10m on the key sx of creamy stools and sleepy before storm and he got well.

In this case there was a good palliative - Arnica which stands high in repping in acute symptoms. But Boger overlooked all these. (This case posted recently by V T Yekkirala)

Regards
Venkat