Homeopathy At Home with Melissa
I am a Registered Homeopath and Lactation Consultant who loves Jesus and believes in the power of prayer in healing and restoration. God designed our bodies to heal themselves. We interfere with the body’s abilities by introducing medications which stop the action our bodies were made to do - heal! Homeopathy comes in and stimulates the immune system to help the body remember how to heal itself. ALL people are welcomed here, no matter your beliefs! I discuss mostly homeopathy here, but also I bring an encouraging word from the Lord and touch on the topics of parenting, homeschooling, marriage, and nutrition. Welcome to my world! It’s a beautiful, healthy life!
Homeopathy At Home with Melissa
Navigating Colic and Cradle Cap with Homeopathic Remedies
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Struggling with common baby issues like colic and cradle cap? You're not alone. Join Melissa and Bri as we share powerful homeopathic remedies to help you navigate these challenges for a happier, healthier baby. Discover how gut health is directly linked to these concerns and learn about the importance of maintaining your gut health before having children.
Explore various homeopathic remedies for cradle cap, such as Thuja, Nat mur, Graphites, Kali Sulph, Mezereum, Arsenicum album, Dulcamara, and Petroleum. We'll explain how these remedies can target different symptoms and help you choose the right one for your little one. Don't miss our personal experiences on treating colic with Nux Vomica 200c and Colocynthis 200c, providing relief within minutes.
Lastly, we'll share valuable tips on using homeopathic remedies for baby pain and constipation, with examples of Chamomilla for pain and Mag phos for constipation. Learn how to administer these remedies and when to seek professional help if the issue persists. Tune in to this episode and empower yourself with the knowledge to tackle these common baby issues with confidence.
"Colic is frequent, prolonged and intense crying or fussiness in a healthy infant. Colic can be particularly frustrating for parents because the baby's distress occurs for no apparent reason and no amount of consoling seems to bring any relief. These episodes often occur in the evening, when parents themselves are often tired.
Episodes of colic usually peak when an infant is about 6 weeks old and decline significantly after 3 to 4 months of age. While the excessive crying will resolve with time, managing colic adds significant stress to caring for your newborn child." https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/colic/symptoms-causes/syc-20371074
"Cradle cap causes crusty or oily scaly patches on a baby's scalp. The condition isn't painful or itchy. But it can cause thick white or yellow scales that aren't easy to remove." https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/cradle-cap/symptoms-causes/syc-20350396
Welcome back to homeopathy at home with Melissa Hi, melissa Hey.
Speaker 2:Bree, great to see you.
Speaker 1:Good to see you too, always. I feel, like I can spend a little while, so I'm happy to be back Today. we're going to talk about a couple really common issues in babies colic and cradle cap specifically, and homeopathic remedies for them. We're going to talk about things that can contribute to that. It sounds like we have some good discussion points.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, this is going to be fun. These are all things I wish that I knew. Right, how often do we say that I wish that I knew these things when my kids were little? Mine are teenagers and I've got one that's going to be an adult this year, another one that isn't adult, and so I'm past all that. But, man, i wish I knew.
Speaker 1:I also feel the need to say for this one this just came to mind because it's about babies and things we deal with. I remember with my first especially, but anytime you have a new baby and you're worried about these things, if you're here because you Google the podcast about it or for information, our goal is never to create anxiety or more for your to-do list or something that's going to make you feel overwhelming. I know that you would say this too. Reject that anxiety, any of that overwhelm, and just take it in, learn something and then take something away that feels manageable, but don't feel like you have to go change your whole life or you did everything wrong.
Speaker 2:That's right. That's a really good point because, like I just said, my youngest at this point is 15 and my oldest is 26. It's been 15 years since I've had a baby. Over that much time you forget how much really worry there is when you have babies, or that there can be. I love that. Just try not to try to do everything at the same time. I love what you said. That's perfect. Yeah, i need to remember what it feels like. I remember Google it in the middle of the night. What do I do?
Speaker 1:Then you leave that. I would leave my research sessions with lists of 30 things. I'm going to go spend $400 at the natural food store. I have to set up all these specialist appointments. I have to cut every food out of my diet. It's such a slower process too. There's so much more involved in gut health and healing. Really, the process of homeopathy has opened my eyes to steer away from all those quick fixes and just look ahead for long-term health. And what can I do? Baby steps to long-term, manageable health?
Speaker 2:Absolutely. That is what we believe. Collic and cradle cap stem from gut health, which can absolutely be inherited from the parents, both parents. I've told my children, even my boys, you need to get your gut health straight before you start having children. I say that loosely because right now they don't care. I didn't care either when I was their age. I didn't care even in my 20s, before I got pregnant for the first time. Mamas or women, if you are planning to get pregnant, the best thing you can do for your baby is for you and your husband to get your gut health in the best shape that you can. There's not perfection, just the best that you can. You're going to set your baby up for better long-term health. Let's start with cradle cap. You want to?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that sounds good.
Speaker 2:What is cradle cap?
Speaker 1:Cradle cap is an overproduction Your sebaceous glands. let's start there. Cradle cap is produced by your sebaceous glands. Those are these little microscopic glands on your head that produce sebum, which is an oil that keeps your skin from drying out. In babies, that's an overproduction. It can dry out and still get flaky, but it's usually oily. It can range Anybody who has had a baby or seen a baby with cradle cap. I feel like the range is very wide. That's a very basic overview.
Speaker 2:It can be oily, dry, yellow, white, fraky, thick, crusty, brown. We're going to talk about a lot, if not all of those things. Some of the signs and symptoms of cradle cap are, like we said, the greasy scales, crusts of white, yellow, brown. like we just already said, it's on the scalp of the baby's head, usually right on the top. it can come down to the line of the forehead. Sometimes it can be on the forehead. I believe It can be again scaly, dead skin. It can also be red. There can be redness to it. Sometimes the hair comes out with the crusts or the pieces that come off. Sometimes the hair comes out with it. Then, of course, the hair grows back. Cratal cap can be on the face, eyelids, nose, ears, neck. When we pick those scales off so oftentimes people will put an oil like a coconut oil or some kind of oil on it and kind of smother it off. They'll grow back. The scales usually just grow back. The scaling can be mild to severe and sometimes it can crack and bleed. Then you run the risk of bacterial infection if there's open sores on the head.
Speaker 2:Some remedies for cradle cap Callie sulf is remember anything. sulfur is yellow. Callie sulf is for the yellow scales on the head. These scales can also be really sticky and oozy and yellow. You can feel that sticky. Then Graffiti's has the scales again on the scalp, but also could be on the eyelids and behind the ears. So when the scales are on the eyelids and behind the ears then you're gonna look at graffitis most likely. So there's a lot of scales again, sticky fluid that comes out and the hair gets stuck together. The scales might clear up when you wash them, but then they again. they just grow right back And in graffitis the scalp might be cold to touch. So, mama, when you touch the scalp it feels cold. Graffitis also helps to clear off dirty, crusty, scabby spots on the scalp in the cases of cradle cap. Do you wanna talk about the next two?
Speaker 1:Yeah, i will. The next one we have is napmure. This one is think water and balance. You always have said that in our classes. So either over, overly watery or under, maybe dried out. So this one can be good for greasy or scaly cradle cap, and so this, traditionally I would say, cradle cap is overly greasy, oily and scaly, but the scales are mostly white. With napmure There's again might be some redness over the scalp When you I would assume that's when you take them off, like if you were to scrape it off or whatever. Napmure can also be good if there are scabs on the scalp or the neck or armpits, if it does spread. The next one we have is Thuya, and this is also for white scales. It is. We have Thuya for a lot of things. I didn't realize that it was made from green twigs of the plant. That's so specific, but not the brown twigs. I really did. No, it's so funny how they figured all that out.
Speaker 1:It is a. it's good for white scales. They might go down the neck or the ears. There might be sweat on the scalp that smells honey-like. So those are a couple of keynotes. You're gonna notice overlap, i think, because cradle cap looks so similar.
Speaker 2:So Yeah, so let's differentiate for just a minute. So Thuya is generally a good remedy for vaccinosis. So when you've been vaccine injured, so if there was no cradle cap before a vaccine was introduced, then you might consider Thuya Maybe. if the cradle cap showed up after the vaccine, then I would consider Thuya.
Speaker 1:You know what might. Also, when we talked about this a little before that cradle. We call a lot of things cradle cap dry skin on the head but the true medical term means that it's usually an overproduction of sebum, which is a greasier, flakier, crusty stuff. So I'm wondering if even Thuya, it's a good fungal remedy too. Yeah, and it's. Maybe you're seeing this thing you're calling cradle cap, but it's actually some kind of fungal growth.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That might be something to consider too. Or I did have a mom once who said that it was diagnosed fungal, so maybe that's helpful to think about too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely. I wanna back up and just say if I were going to use Thuya for a baby's cradle cap, i probably would use in the range of the 30C potency, maybe a 12C. Natmure probably the same For NatMure because it's a cell salt I probably would go 6X, 12x, maybe a 30C. Graffiti's I might do a 30C, but probably would go for a 200 first, and KaliSulf also, i would do probably a lower, like a 6X, maybe even a 6C or possibly a 30C. So we're staying pretty low in these potencies, right so far with what we've read off.
Speaker 1:And what do you think, depending on severity, I guess would you start with like twice a week, every other day.
Speaker 2:I would go daily, Yeah, with all of these. I would start with once a day and maybe even go to twice a day, because their babies are generally very healthy. They need more stimulation, their immune system, and we're talking about a physical problem. So I would expect to see it clear up pretty quickly, And when I say that I don't mean days, although that could happen but any of these remedies you choose, you're gonna plan to do eight weeks, at least eight to 12 weeks, and then reassess, take pictures, always take pictures of skin things, so that you can keep up.
Speaker 2:Our next remedy is mesurium, and this has a leather-like crust. So what we're doing here with these remedies is differentiating, So telling you the differentials, what's different between them, that will cause you to choose one over the other, And again, like Brie said, there's gonna be overlap, because there's gonna be several that are yellow or several that are thick and oily and whatever. So mesurium, though, has the leather-like crust and thick leather-like crust or scabs on the scalp. The hair might get glued together from the discharges from the scabs. The scabs on the scalp might look white like chalk and spread to the neck and the eyebrows so it can go down and down the front and down the back And the hair, even from the eyebrows, might fall out.
Speaker 1:Man, this is the stuff that I'm like. if I was experiencing that with my baby, i would be really freaked out If their hair is falling out, you know. Yeah, so those moms that I'm like it's okay, things can be done. your baby is doomed. Yeah, i can find.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Just be patient, i'm fine. Our Cinecom album. I love our Cinecom album. This has the scales that extend to the ears and neck And even to the. These scales are dry, so our Cinecom album generally is an itchy remedy. So you might see the baby scratching, however they can. You know whether that be. I don't know if they can. Actually I don't expect to see baby scratching their head, but you know they might be rubbing their head on the pillow or on you, you know, while you're holding them, and restless I mean even a little baby.
Speaker 1:just restless is our Cinecom album too. but if the baby is not just not content or comfortable, Yeah, because, and so then you might.
Speaker 2:if you think that they're itchy, then I would definitely look at our Cinecom album. And so the scales are dry, rough, they look dirty, and again the hair comes out along with the scabs and the scales. You wanna do the next two?
Speaker 1:Yeah, del Camara, is that how you pronounce that? Yep, i know people say different things, so I was always asked Melissa how she says them and that's what I do. Okay, del Camara is also for thick brown crusts with maybe red borders, so I'm assuming you're probably able to see a little bit in between them. They also might spread over the forehead, the temples and the chin. So those are some good differences. Actually, the borders might be red instead of under only, and then temples, forehead, temples and chin. Yeah, interesting. Okay, petroleum is great for cradle cap with yellow, green crust. Petroleum is typically when there are also cracks or if those things are, if the little scales are stuck and are hard to detach or they bleed and they're maybe red raw scalp. I feel like petroleum is typically a really dry with a tendency to bleed and crack.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so your eczema if you get cracked fingers and toes in the winter because of ultradryanus? yeah, that's petroleum.
Speaker 1:So in here's something else that just came to my mind to consider. If you have a baby who you're also noticing cracks behind their ears, like you're thinking they have eczema or diaper rash, a lot in homeopathy you're looking at all these as a big picture where I think in allopathic medicine you see cradle cap, eczema, asthma or diaper all of these things are separate where a lot of these remedies actually all of them, because their homeopathic remedies can treat all of those things with one or two remedies.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:So you have to treat them all separate? Yes, it'll likely go together anyway.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's good. Phosphorus is the cradle cap, with prominent hair falling out and flakes on the scalp. So this is gonna be more hair falling out than any of the other remedies and a flaky scalp, so also the scalp might feel hot and sweaty. So remember graffitis? the scalp felt cold Right, yes, cold. To touch Phosphorus the scalp feels hot and sweaty.
Speaker 1:And thuia had sweat that smelled like honey.
Speaker 2:Right, mm-hmm, i did wanna say that too. I meant to say that earlier when we were saying thuia. Sometimes people don't understand what I'm saying because they've heard thuia.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Thuia is what we're. If that's how you've heard it, that's what we're saying now, so you don't think we're talking about a whole different remedy. And then, as we started talking about sweat, i started thinking calc carb. Calc carb is a huge remedy for that, especially for the sweaty head on the baby. So calc carb 200 C every three or four days, or even just once a week, for the cradle cap that has thick scabs that bleed, and especially they bleed when they're picked. They're thick and these scabs can spread to the face. The scales might be yellow or white in color And this calc carb is profuse sweating. So there's sweating on the scalp and the neck and calc carb smells sour generally. So the sweat or the baby's head smells sour, or if their breath smells sour, then you're gonna consider calc carb.
Speaker 1:Okay, i do have a question in general because typically with when we're talking immune system support or gut health, we often say to take calc carb anyway. Would that be a situation where, if you're noticing severe cradle cap or colic which we'll get into, or a few different things going on with your baby, you would do calc carb regularly, like with an older child, and a remedy with it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you could. yeah, absolutely Yeah. calc carb, i believe, goes with probably just about any remedy as a base. Right, yeah?
Speaker 1:So it does have some specific keynotes for cradle cap, but you might, even if the cradle cap doesn't look like that, maybe consider doing it alongside another remedy.
Speaker 2:So we were talking about earlier, before we got on here. We were talking about gut health and how poor gut health can contribute to and we did talk about it as we started to with mom and daddy can contribute to colic and cradle cap, and so I did just wanna touch on a couple of balanozodes that you might consider. So let me just say Anthony Bickley writes great balanozode books, and so this is Balanozodes a practice handbook. He writes other Balanozode books, but the one that I'm looking in right now by Anthony Bickley is the Balanozodes a practice handbook, and so if I look at the skin chapter, you know we see cracked, and so we talked about how some of these cradle cap pictures can be cracked, and then it gives you some specific body parts that might be cracked, but also just under cracked skin there's bacillus, number seven disco, morgan Bach, morgan Gartner, morgan Pure and Psychotic Co. We talked about discharges. So discharges that are sticky are disco. What I'm saying is dys-co, disco, and remember that these are all transcribed on my blog so you can go and see the names of the remedies that I'm saying. Then it talks about the colors, so yellow, you know the yellow cradle cap is gonna be Morgan Pure, psychotic Co. Disco Morgan Pure.
Speaker 2:Oh, again, i said that already. Well, i said on there twice. That's weird. Oh, sorry, because I went down to dry, i skipped. The next rubric is dry, so dry skin. The dry cradle cap would be disco Morgan Pure, psychotic Co. And so I'm not saying that you would jump straight to a Valnozo, but you could consider it in your research and read these remedies and see they fit the baby's gut health and the baby's skin really well. I wanted to just oh, cracked Cracked is disco Morgan Pure and Psychotic Co.
Speaker 2:Crusty Crusty is disco Morgan Bock, morgan Gartner and Morgan Pure. We have dry again. We have eczema, which I'm not going to get into eczema, but it's there in this book if you wanted to look at it. We talked about hot, that it might feel hot. Morgan Pure, itchy Morgan Pure, proteus and Psychotic Co. Moist, morgan Bot. Morgan Gartner, morgan Pure. So I'm really just giving you a quick list to really want to spark your interest in the bowel nozzles and go do some more research. One last one then here's Scaly, the list number seven Disco Morgan Gartner, morgan Pure and Psychotic Co.
Speaker 1:You chopped up a little bit right at that last remedy.
Speaker 2:Okay, scaly the list, the list seven Disco, morgan Bot, morgan Gartner, Morgan Pure and Psychotic Co. So this is a great book with that also has a material medical in it. So you see, i have my material medical part marked so that I could turn straight to the material medical of the bowel nozzles and read them.
Speaker 1:That's very cool.
Speaker 2:And it has one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13. Bow, no zodes in here, so that might be something interesting to you. Especially say that again.
Speaker 1:What was the title of?
Speaker 2:that book Bell No Zodes a practice handbook by Anthony Bickley.
Speaker 1:Okay, and he's a homeopath, He doesn't have any letters behind his name.
Speaker 2:So I actually don't know what he is And you know, even in the in the pages of the book, like in the beginning. Well, okay, so his. He does have an introduction here that just says he's been working with Bow no zodes for more than 30 years and has developed enormous respect for their healing properties In that time. This book is designed to be a practice one stop resource for everything to do with these homeopathic remedies. I'm assuming he's a homeopath, but it sounds like he's been doing bow no zodes for a long time, so he's got a lot of of practice, a lot of experience is what I'm trying to say. So also with gut health, you know, or poor gut health, a baby can have colic. So what is colic?
Speaker 1:I actually did look up. Well, i know colic is behavior really or indigestion, but there are several things that could be the causes of colic. So obviously there are instances where your baby has an allergy and you're going to notice those kinds of symptoms. So if there's allergies, it might sometimes be overfeeding or underfeeding. it can be accompanied with tongue ties, a poor latch. It could really be affected by their digestive system. So an imbalance of bacteria. So there are a lot of contributing factors. Before you jump to like allergies and all those things, maybe I mean look at their latches where I would start. So there's a lot of things that can contribute. I won't get into all of those things, but typically colic is very painful. The true definition this is crazy. on Mayo Clinic says colic is defined as crying for three or more hours a day, to be a more days a week or for three or more weeks. Yeah, that's extreme.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is extreme. So so, and that definition is something that has been around for a long time, and so you know they had to have, they had to have. What is the word I'm looking for like a guideline of? is this colic or is this just a fussy baby? because there's a difference. Right, colic is extreme. It is extreme. The baby is screaming, the baby's in pain.
Speaker 1:So let's talk about like what we're talking about. I don't like none of my babies have ever been like that. I feel like if a baby is that upset, that's a bigger problem than just a gut imbalance. That's likely an allergy or something. At least, like with my kids, it would be weird for me if my baby's screaming even the type of cry, the painful cry, the way they were affected That was enough for me to give remedies to help, support like just gas.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So maybe are we talking like true colic, where your baby's been really upset.
Speaker 2:Okay, Yeah, so we're talking about little gassy baby here. This is not just a fussy gassy baby, although these remedies can definitely help a fussy gassy baby.
Speaker 1:I totally use them, so, and they were great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, i would love to hear your experience, because it has been kind of recent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh my word, it was seriously like. So I have three sons. All of them were tongue type and different, very varying degrees, and nursed all very differently. But all of them were gassy And I knew it was because of their latch And I had never had a pretty healthy gut. I didn't have antibiotics And my first was vaccinated partially, my others were not.
Speaker 1:So there were not a lot of outside factors, no allergies, dairy, cutting dairy for my first two I did all the things cut dairy, tried you know a trillion things. I use gas drops, even the homeopathic ones, but every 15 minutes I'd be giving these things and there was no relief. So finally, with my third, i was already taking your courses and working with you and I did Nux. Mama cut 200 mixed with colosynthes 200. I'm talking like 30 seconds after giving that remedy for that combo.
Speaker 1:It was like a miracle. I'm not even exaggerating, it would be within one minute every single time. Then I got to the point where I'm really tough days I just give it. When it was a regular daily thing, i'd go ahead and give it twice a day for a couple of weeks at a time and a couple of times throughout the day, as needed. But what I noticed the biggest difference is he would calm down but he would pass gas Like it would come out almost where it wasn't painful and just stuck there. I never remember that using gas drops or gripe water I didn't really use much gripe water ever.
Speaker 2:I did.
Speaker 1:I mean I think most people do because it's better than they say that it's in the natural aisle.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it did anything, but that is what I used.
Speaker 1:I feel like it does nothing for a really truly gaseous, colicky baby. It doesn't other than make you feel like you're doing something. So, anyway, that was my experience. I seriously recommend it to every mom I know. I know the protocol we're going to talk about today and that a lot of people use is 30. Those remedies and a 30, which would work, while I'm sure I just had 200, so that's what I used.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So. So NUXVOMICA 30C mixed with colosynthes 30C every 15 minutes for severe pain in the belly, especially when it's better from pressure. You know a lot of these mamas they've got the baby up on the shoulder because it puts pressure here or they've got them laying across their lap because of that pressure. The bicycles, oh yeah, doing the pressure. So when it's better from pressure, then this combination is great. And, like Bree said, you know, if you have to order and you don't have anything on hand, then order the 30s And then if you, if you see a little bit of relief but you have to give it very often then you're just playing with it and you need to go up to a 200 and see if you can make it.
Speaker 2:You know, give them some more relief for a longer amount of time. If the baby is no better within several days of less. Let's say, you start with 30C and those two and you do that for several days and the baby's no better, then you try the 200C. The baby's no better, then I would try Natfoss 6X or 3C or 6C, and it's not that 6X equals 3C or 6C, it's just in that those are some of the potencies that I would try, and you could do that before each feeding you know whether it be the breast or the bottle before feeding then then that that would be the next thing, if still no better, you know, in about a week then I would try semi-sophuga, 6c or 200C, in the same fashion as above.
Speaker 1:The same fashion, meaning every 15 minutes or before eating.
Speaker 2:Good question Every 15 minutes in severe pain. So let's say this too Let's add on to the Nuxomag and Colosynthes and the semi-sophuga Every 15 minutes. Of course you're not going to do that for hours on end, you're going to. If the baby's screaming and it's severe, then you can do every 15 minutes for an hour And but then at that point you really need to back off and wait and give the remedy time to act. So every 15 minutes for an hour, fine, but then we're spread out to every. You know, two or three hours, four hours, if you can, or as needed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I really would love to hear people's experiences. I wish there was like this forum, that I could hear from people, because I really felt like it worked. There were only a couple of times where I gave it up for you 15 minutes. Otherwise, like one or two doses would work for a few hours. Sometimes they had to do it more often for sure, but I just was blown away.
Speaker 1:It was seriously a miracle and saved my life with a little baby. That was the hardest part of my babies. They all were gassy. So if you notice that, i would also suggest not homeopathy but a good chiropractor. Yes, i know, if you don't regularly go, i used to be the same way. I didn't grow up going to one and that freaked me out, like seeing people get their next cracks like that. I remember being so afraid of chiropractors And now I see there are such a variety of chiropractors Most of the ones I've gone to don't just do that. They're. They can be much more gentle. Right now we see a nervous system focus. She's very gentle and you can find ones that are certified in working with babies, so they're so gentle. They're not cracking any baby bones.
Speaker 2:I love chiropractic care. Very, very good point.
Speaker 1:They can help with latch, loosening things and their esophagus Like they do, all kinds of stuff that can help with gassiness. So, I would recommend that for sure.
Speaker 2:Well, i want to also just point out to especially those students of mine who really like to dig deep and learn If you wanted to find colic in your repertoire and dig even deeper, it's in the clinical generals, ok. So first of all I'm in Dr Murphy's meta-reparatory, so in his and Dr Murphy's meta-reparatory it's in the clinical generals section. So even if you have an older version, if you have the third edition, it's probably still going to be in the clinical generals section. And if you're in the meta, it's on page 2161 and you see colic pain And then under that you see colic pain, infants. And then in parentheses it says C, intestines chapter. So we could turn over to the intestines chapter. So then you see under there you see in all bold, all caps, kimimela.
Speaker 2:I was going to say, i was going to mention that that some parents have tried Kimimela because Kimimela is great for pain and for that mad screaming baby. So often I'll ask when a baby is crying and whether it's teething or gas or whatever the problem is, i'll ask the mom is the baby mad and screaming or pitiful, like a pitiful, whimpery, crying whiny? you know there's, you can tell the difference. Is the mom. So Kimimela is your angry, angry, that baby is mad. And then we've got colosynthesis, which we already talked about. You see, macphos. Macphos is bold in all caps. So you might read macphos and see no, macphos is a cell salt, so you could use it. It doesn't matter that it's a cell salt as far as potency, but I would probably start with a 30 or maybe 200. That's just been my experience with macphos.
Speaker 2:6x is good for some people. Sometimes I love macphos 200 for constipation. So what I've, what I've helped people with, is they are constipated and they're trying to go, they have the urge and they just can't, and they take macphos and within a minute or two they're starting to have a bowel movement. So that's pretty amazing. Same thing with Nuxvomica. Nuxvomica is great for constipation and stomach pain, so even just generalized belly aches and children, you know. And so we're talking about stomach pain in a baby Nuxvomica. And then you see the sub rubrics under there. You know if, if the baby is drawing their legs up, chemo-milicula synthesis, if they are, goodness, look at that. So grief after taking breast milk of a mother who suffers from grief. Ignatia.
Speaker 1:Are you on now, intestines?
Speaker 2:Nope, I'm still under colic.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, it says the same thing under intestines. I just noticed that too. Okay, so like the baby can take grief And that we were talking about that too, the link between mom and baby, so spartum is so it's huge.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So, Yeah, an angry mother who is breastfeeding her baby, or it might not even be breastfeeding the baby, but just an angry mom. you know that those feelings transferring, or the baby feels that, and then if the baby's colicky, then you might consider a kelp, fosch, chamomila staph and sagria. So those are some some good places to look, if you want. If listen, i would start with the Nuxfamica colosynthes protocol that we gave you. first I would go. if that's not working and this is not, these are not Banerjee protocols, i think, and I feel safe to say these are my protocols.
Speaker 1:Yeah, i mean, i think this, these are from you. They might also be a Banerjee protocol, but you had this before, i think, in your notes prior to when we did class.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so huh, i honestly I don't know. So what I feel like is that most homeopaths would say Nuxfamica or colosynthes. I believe that, after some experience with moms, one by itself wasn't working well, so I started combining them and saw something different. And then I personally love napfos. Anybody who's ever been in a class of mine, especially the CellSaltz class, knows how much I love napfos, and so I think that's why I decided okay, if this combo doesn't work, go to napfos next. So that's Melissa's second line protocol. And then I believe, brie, you probably helped me find semisephuga because of your experience.
Speaker 1:I use that actually for myself sometimes too, for any cramping pain.
Speaker 2:So, melissa, if you got a colosynthes, So if, oh, I wanted to say let's say this last thing before we get off of here that when you're dosing a baby, most people the biggest question is how many pills do I give? because it's just a baby. It doesn't matter if the baby was just born or the person is 118 years old, you're going to use the number of pills that's stated on the bottle is a dose. So then how do you put pills in a baby's mouth? If you have the T, tiny, tiny little ones, you can put them in there and they dissolve so quickly All the saliva in the baby's mouth. They're definitely not gonna choke. If you wanna dissolve them in water, dissolve them in pure water, purified water I use my Berkey filter And then store it in the refrigerator. It's good in the refrigerator for one month. Label it with what's in there and when you made it. And then about a half a teaspoon is a dose. You don't have to measure that exactly.
Speaker 1:I sorry for my newborns. I put it in breast milk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can do that too, yep.
Speaker 1:And then I mean, I probably used maybe a quarter to a half a teaspoon. And it worked, so just keep that in mind. Be flexible. You don't have to like get it perfect, but try some of those things.
Speaker 2:Perfect, wonderful, that's so good. Thank you, yeah, this was great. So I hope you all really got some great information about colic and cradle cap here and babies and how to even just how to dose babies And if you need more help, if you need acute help so maybe your baby is very fussy or gassy you can go to my website and schedule an acute not schedule, but just fill out the form for an acute consult And or maybe your baby has chronic digestive issues, chronic colic, chronic cradle cap schedule a chronic consult And so you start with your free 15 minute phone call and we'll be happy to help get that baby's gut health back in order, if that's the problem, and prevent future chronic issues. So thank you for being with me, bree, and we'll look forward to seeing you all next time.
