Do constitutional types tend to run through a family or is it still very much a lottery

Is there any work that is really excellent at helping a lay person recognise constitutional types especially in children

I have a copy of Childrens types but have not seen the match so far

Pat, Murphy's Repertory has a children's chapter that is quite useful. Paul Herscu has a book on children's constitutional types.
RITALIN FREE KIDS by Judyth and Robert Ullman
is a book about children's remedies, and
STRAMONIUM by Paul Herscu discusses the progression of remedy layers, showing how a calc-carb constitution, for instance, can move, through traumas, into more pathological remedy types, like stramonium.

Hope this helps.

Snoopy

Thanks for the info ........only wish i could do the course ......will do one day when i dont have 5 grandchildren and a Thyroid husband to deal with

Children's types (Borland) only gives a few of the remedies out of 1000s that homeopaths have at their fingertips.

Pat - I really think it is about time that you signed up to begin a homeopathic course. If you don't want to do the 4 years do the one year foundation course!!

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We often find that if one parent is a particular remedy, it's more likely that the other parent is something complimentary and the children are different complimentary remedies and vice versa. But it's not real cut and dried.
Shirley

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Shirley Reischman

Hi Pat
With five grandchildren and a husband to care for, you have a full schedule, that is for sure, but you must also do something for yourself. Often you can take a year to complete a basic homeopathic dipolma course and it will give you time for yourself. Since you seem to enjoy the subject so much it will give you some much needed refreshment and help you to cope with all the stress you must have. If it is done by correspondence you do it in your own time and fit it in where you want it to. It will help you to balance your life and do not put off doing something for yourself because of so many other responsiblities. It will in fact, make the other 'have to do things' more pleasant for you. Take care of yourself so you are there for the others. Best wishes.

Hallo
constitutional types are there many,and sofar it remains very vage how to utilize them.Currently no one really knows, what they exactly mean and how to differntiate them from each other.
C.M. boger took a different angle in his article:
Finding the similimum (1924)
utilizing the parential and grandparential disease statusses. He takes the aerea affected+sensation +concommitants of both parents (+4 grandparents) as the start of his diseasepicture (= pool), and then adds the current situation.
This procedure has helped me tremendously in onesided childrens-cases (astma, excema),
and in cases of heavy drugging.
Has anyone tried similar things?
Hans

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The problem is of course is that a person's constitution is NOT the same as a remedy. A person's constitution will change over time and according to various environmental stresses. At any stage a person may need different remedies, so depending what stage of their life you see them in, you may not be able to discern the remedy needed by their children.

What I have noticed though, is that once you have seen a person for a year or so, and have seen them go into a variety of states or acutes, you may see some of those remedies appear in the children also.

What I have also noticed is that miasms are usually shared within the family, so a strongly psoric parent will have children that need psoric remedies etc. Often the children need the Nosode associated with the parent's miasm, and I think if you can get this to them early in their lives, you can help prevent alot of suffering later. Children seem to clearly display miasmatic symptoms better than their parents.

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David Kempson.<br />Dip.Homoeopathic Medicine.<br />Lecturer Australian College of Natural Therapies (Brisbane Campus)<br />Member AHA, AROH, HMA<br />Member Australian Homoeopathic Association. Member#0442.

Thank you David sounds like I had better get the grandkids to a homeopath and work out the miasms PDQ along with their constitutional