I was wondering if there is a good source of information to specifically read up on the constitutional types of children. All i've seen out there is either hard to relate to children or is only concerned with acute symptoms.

My son is on the shy side , with strangers or family/ friends that he doesn't see very often. He is also very "silly" with those he is comfortable with, sometimes getting carried away with his own funny-ness, and is hard to stop.
He will try to make people laugh when he isn't comfortable, by talking "baby talk" or if he discovers that an action will amuse people , he will run it into the ground.

When he with other people, and parents aren't around, he remains quiet (last year in pre-school his teacher told me that he didn't even speak during the day for almost the whole year, and when he did, it was "nonsense talk")

He gets attatched to one friend at a time, likes one on one. Doesn't approach a group of children.

Will sometimes bother another child , crowding their space until they have to get away from him- as if he can't stop the cycle of annoying them.

Will sometimes get violent when it is time to go, or make some other transition that he doesn't like. ex/ he throws rocks at people/ cars, or throws his food on the ground, or tries to hit his mother, yelling "bad" words

Gets very sad sometimes , using the word NEVER ex/ " I will never see my Pop again"
or "you will give my toys away and i will never play with them again" then he starts to cry silent sad tears.

Tries to make everyone happy, always asking if that "made me happy? "

Is somewhat of a jeckle and hyde alternating between "angelic" behavoir and "devilish" behavoir extreme goods and bads.

He tends to be cold alot, likes to be clothed most of the time, although he sweats at night. I notice that his head seems to sweat in the early part of the night, and he is cold in the morning.

He tends to be constipated and complains most every day of a tummyache, which is usually relieved by a bowel movement. Sometimes his BMs are small, dark and hard, and sometimes they start that way and become soft diarheah like and smell acrid or putrid.

He is hard to feed, doesn't like vegetables. Likes apples(not the peel) and oranges(no peel). He will eat dulse sometimes, and salted sunflower seeds. He loves butter and sour creme and cheese. Doesn't drink cows milk, only rice milk. Doesn't like to drink much at all( or eat much for that matter)

Likes sweets, would eat anything sweet, though we don't let him overindulge in refined sweets, he loves date roll candy.

He has only had the DT vaccination, and one round of HEP c vaccine(they automatically did it when he was newborn assuming i would want it for him)
He has a few moles (I, his mother have many protruding moles) I know nothing about our family health history.
He was born by ceasarean .

In July i posted about him in the childrens forum"extreme shyness" i gave him one dose Lycopodium, and he has had nothing since then. He is more confident now, possibly due to the fact that he is now the oldest kid in his class, and he has a cool new haircut (which really perked him up)

Any insights into which remedies i could look into for him

Thanks, K stClaire

Try Paul Hercu's book, The Homeopathic Treatment of Children - its a good basic starting point. There are other books that go into more the psychological profiles, such as Catherine Coulter and Philip Bailey, but these are not specifically related to children.

I will leave others to decipher your son's symptoms.

I Have P Herscus book, find it to be worthless!
Even a trained homeopat will scoff at this pictureprocedure, as all today is a mix of types, and you cant find it by reading a book, the only road to the constitiution is individuality, and that is done by repertorizing, and knowning what symptomes to choose for the repertorizion, even a homeopat cant find out, if he do not use the rigth symptomes,so for a ordinary person to try to figure out after the writings in a poulistic book, its really not a hercules job,( the hercules job is the homeopaths) its useless, insane.
Your son seems to fit lycopodium, but i am not certain of it, its to little info here, if this is all info you have, i would have tried, lycopodium first,then maybe sulfur, but it could also be a disturbance from caesarean procedure, form either the minerals that is given, or other medicaments used at that time, and that involves NATR MUR, CALC CARB, KALIUM CARB, Nux v, etc.If from vaxines sulp, it depend on when signs of disturbance first occured.Somthing must be related to his condition.
None of this you find in Herscus book, only nice fiction.( seems to me that this book is assigned as a nice bedtime story for caring housewifes, and mothers, as so many of todays populistic homeopatic books are)


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Homeopat MNNH Geir E.T. Marcussen
email: getm@eunet.no
http://www.homeopati.no

I would repeat the Lycopodium, when the last time it did him good. Stick with what works. Personally I like Paul Herscu's book, because it shows us the value of observation.

If you dissolve one pellet or put one drop in a glass of water and stir it firmly, then take one teaspoon of that and discard the rest. Wait and see.

Dear St. Claire and GM,

Looking for causation???

St. Claire is pregnant and also seeking treatment. Look at St. Claire's other post .The 2 cases (her and her son) are intertwined.

My son seems to have a "psychic barometer" picking up on the tensions in the home and acting them out.
This may explain why our cases are so intertwined, as well as the fact that he and i are very similar in temperament.
What other information would help?

He is a good sleeper, and rarely wakes for long at night, even when sick. He has always loved to spent large amounts of time alone, playing in his room- i encourage him in imaginative play.

Worst time of day is usually after his nap/quiet time at 4:00- 6:00 or so.

He had a hard time potty training, resistant to any change, but now at age 4 1/2 he even stays dry most nights.

He is uncircumsized and his penis will not retract all the way yet (i'm concerned about this)

He likes a sour taste and LOVES eggs, he would eat them every day if i would let him.

I can't think of anything else right now.

K stClaire

Its calcium carb, try one dose c200 and wait.

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Homeopat MNNH Geir E.T. Marcussen
email: getm@eunet.no
http://www.homeopati.no

Second opinion, as for you, as for your son, start with sulp, then we shall see, in a week. Here seem to be intertwinins, a common cause.

From what I see here, the time modality also fits Lycopodium, but I will also look at the other post. If the cases are so intertwined, you may have to reassess if stClaire is not also Lycopodium. But let me read the post first.

My son had sulp 30c about a week ago, and there have been no noticeable changes that i can determine. He has been in a great, loving "angelic" mood as long as things go his way. This is normal. He has been saying things like "oh mommy, you are sooo beautifull today, I love your sweater"
"i'm so lucky to have a mommy like you"
Get the picture?
He is obstinate when he doesn't get his way, and says things rude and mean when for instance he isn't the center of attention when he wants to be , or either when he is being looked at when he wants to be ignored. He seems to be emmbarrased easily, esp. when reprimanded in front of others, and he says aggressively mean things or throws his toys on the floor, or hits me.

He still complains every day of having a tummyache. sometimes it hurts when he starts to eat. He wants me to put my hands on it. He says it sometimes feels better after a BM other times he says it still hurts.

I've taken him to the emergency room once because it hurt him so intensely, and it turned out to be constipation. He had to have an enema to relieve. This occured because he was reluctant (stubborn) to stop wearing diapers. He would just hold it in .

Occasoionally he gets a headache over his eyes , and he is very sensitive to light.

He is fair skinned, fair haired with blue eyes.

He is less shy ever since he had the LYCO 1m , one dose this summer, but his feelings are hurt easily, and he gets very indignant when telling me about mistreatment of him. ex/ when another child won't stop hitting him.