Evocationer Help. eczema 3 year old _{Page 3 of 4}

I wouldn't think so. Chlorine can be an issue for some people, but on the correct remedy it should not cause any real problem. If it does, we can use that as a sign we need to keep treating.

How is he by the way?

It is possible he has been overdosed. Eczema is very sensitive to aggravation, and the longer and more often it has been suppressed by topical medications or even internal medicines like steroids, the worse and the longer the aggravation will persist.

Apart from the skin, how is he?

Use the list if you could:

Eruptions,elbows
Eruptions, knees
Eruptions, belly
Eruptions, fingers
Eruptions, toes
Eruptions, ears
Eruptions, neck
Eruptions, under eyes
Itching
Scratching till bleeds
Pain from warm water
No fear
Does not draw or discuss thoughts about fantasies
Does not describe dreams or nightmares
Goes easily to strangers
Love of jumping
Anger not getting what he wants
Sleeps on tummy
Sleeplessness from itching
No particular craving or aversion to foods
Crying until he gets milk

I look for any changes of any sort in the behaviour reported. I am not necessarily looking to cure it, but watch how it manifests in his life. Another example would be sleeping on the stomach - not really what most parents would see as a problem, but it is a characteristic of certain remedies. I didn't use all those things to prescribe. However it was actually a symptom of Petroleum - jumping is a symptom in our books.

So nothing has improved and the skin has worsened. I am not sure what to think of that - it is odd.

The history of suppression will definitely be an issue here too though. Always lots of aggravation in the skin when this is the case. Aggravation is usually a sign that the remedy is working, but I would want to see some other kind of positive shift to be confident with that. Direction of Cure tells us that things move from inside out, centre to periphery.

It is strange because the remedy seems very specific and there is so little in the case. With mostly only skin symptoms and nothing else, they seem to be the only guide.

So assuming the remedy isn't going to help, I will reanalyse the information.

If I look at the following rubrics:

Eruptions/eczema, dry
Eruptions/eczema, worse winter
Eruptions/eczema, better summer
Scratching until bleeding
Sleeplessness from itching
Eruptions/eczema, worse dry weather

This quite clearly points to the remedy Psorinum. It is the only remedy to display every one of those symptoms. Next in line is Silicea, then Petroleum.

Petroleum is actually a Psoric remedy alongside Psorinum (belongs to the same disease pattern). Psorinum is the 'nosode' for this miasm (the 'itch' disease). So I think this is still in range of where I was originally looking.

How difficult/expensive was it to get LM1? We could start with 12c if that is easier to get.

Did you give Psorinum at all, or did that improvement happen after the Petroleum?

Ok do this - give him one more dose of Petr 0/1. Hit the bottle 10 times instead of 5, and use 1 drop instead of 3.

We need to be very careful of not moving past the correct remedy, because finding our way back to it could be quite difficult - there are thousands of medicines to try, and the temptation is always to do that rather than go back to previous remedies.

My apologies, weekends are difficult for me to get online to check posts here.

If things are continuing to improve, I would just wait a little longer. When things stall, or begin to relapse, let me know.

Relapse always calls for a repeat of the last remedy that helped. So give him one dose now, exactly as before, and let me know that does. It is possible he may need to go up to the next potency as well, but we never do that until we know for sure the previous potency has run out of steam.

Don't wait a whole week. Let me know what has happened the next day.

Ok repeat again. Repeat a dose every 3 days. Continuing doing this until either there is no improvement, almost everything has improved, or there is an aggravation.

I will be checking posts over the Xmas break.

Are there any new symptoms, or have any of his symptoms changed significantly?