Please forgive my ignorance, but after reading some posts I feel compelled to ask some questions. I never realized that mixtures were dangerous or non homeopathic (until recently). I have in the past given my baby (not my older son mentioned in another thread) Hyland's Teething Tablets which include:
Calcarea Phosphorica 3x HPUS
Chamomilla 3x HPUS
Coffea Cruda 3x HPUS
Belladonna 3x HPUS (alkaloids 0.0003%)
in lactose base

This doesn't sound good to me now! Is this dangerous? What harm could this mix have done to my son, if any? He hasn't taken one in a very long time as he has most of his teeth (except molars) in. He is going to be 2 in 2 weeks.

My second question is, is all coffee related products bad for you, or is it the caffeine that is bad? (don't think i want to hear the answer to this question!)

Also, a friend from Australia is sending me something called "nervatona" which includes:
phosphoric acid
anamirta cocculus
chamaelirium lutem
strychnos ignatii
passiflora incarnata
sepia
nux vomica
zincum metallicum
ethanol
potassium sorbate
sucrose

I will absolutely not use this now that I realize that mixes are dangerous. But wanted your input please as I am totally ignorant to any of this.

Thank you very much for your time.

I just now received the nervatona and here is the ingredients:
each 10ml dose contains:
phosphoric acid 6nl; tinctures of anamirta cocculus equiv.dry fruit 5pg., Chamaelirium luteum (falst unicorn root) equiv. dry root and rhiz. 5pg., Strychnos ignatii (ignatius bean) equiv.dry seed 5pg., Passiflora incarnata (passion flower) equiv. dry herb 5mg. Sepia (cuttlefish) equiv. 5pg and the following homeopathic ingredients: nux vomica 6C, 16.7 ul: Zincum metallicum (zinc) 8X, 500nL.
non active ingredients: includes ethanol (alcohol), potassium sorbate, sucrose

Dear Now-Faith - Don't be worried over this combination. In general you will get from this board that one shouldn't take combination remedies and I also agree with this. But not because it is going to hurt your child! Its rather a system to give one remedy and see how it works without confusing things. However if it hurt people to take multiple remedies all the Homeopaths on this board would be dead since I never met a HOmeopath who didn't take most every remedy in the world when they were starting out. So theres a lot of information you could use as far as Homeopathy goes but don't worry needlessly! Give a single remedy and wait awhile. Thats generally the best. I have been treating patients for 20 years with only Homeopathy and have seen very little trouble with it! Especially children who are inherently strong, resililant and healthy! Peace - Govi

Combination remedies are not dangerous. They are just unlikely to work and if they do you don't know which one of the ingredients has done the trick!! hat Nervatona seems to be more herbal than homeopathic. I have no idea what measurement a pg or an nl is. Does anyone else? Did you mistype it and it should read mg and ml or the "mu" sign? If they are herbal I wouldn't want to take some of those ingredients as they are poisoness!!!

Dont agree on that they are not dangeourus, it depend if its high potences, or how often used, and som is dangeourus as mothertincture, raw, as it can produce a poisoning, as with herbs misused.
If you think, vit a can kill you, what cant then sutch things do, esp when mixed, and in unknown potences and qualities.
This mix talkend about her, i dont know, but i would never recomend it, any how.

Ricky,
The Nervatona came to me from a friend in Australia, I am just as clueless about those amounts!!
In closer look at the label it is an unfamiliar letter/symbol that looks like a u but with the "tail" being on the left side and long. so it is like ul and ug

The remedies in the first prescription nearly all antidote eachother. Coffea antidotes chamomilla and Belladonna and Chamomilla antidotes coffea. So you are left with calc phos, which will, because of the tumult of these remedies antidoting each other do little or nothing. However repeated dosing can cause provings, which with mixtures are bearly always complicated and difficult to antidote. No homoeopathic medicine is harmless, witness the materia medica.

That u with the tail is "mu" and is a very small part of a gram or litre possibly a thousandth part. But is this mixopathy and what I said before goes. Ben is quite correct in his assessment and also GM about the mother tinctures. What that substance is is a mixture of homeopathic and herbal ingredients.

I believe, if memory serves me correct, that the u (with the long tail) refers to micro, as in micro litres, micro grams.

It has been a long time since I dealt with such measurements in Oz, but I'm sure there is someone out there who can confirm.

Indeed it is.