This boy besides the regular features of a spastic child had severe lack of co-ordination. But what was very characteristic was that to keep him busy while the interview was going on,the mother gave him a coin to play with. In contrast to the poor co-ordination at all levels I was surprised to see him spinning the coin with comparative ease repeatedly. Also the boy had no concept of danger. One on the attendants would always be by his side at all times. The reason being that he had run out in the past on the road oblivious of the fact that he may get run over. Based on these two main observations I gave him Agaricus 1M which was repeated frequently keeping the advanced pathology in mind. (children have very good vitality and depending on the case and requirement,in my experience do well on repeated high doses when needed) and he responded very well.

The rubrics chosen after a search were-
Gesture makes,involuntary motions of the hands,winding a ball as if
Runs about in most dangerous places

This girl was busy playing with a game that required her to fit blocks of different shapes. This was happening and being observed while her mother was narrating the child's symptoms to me. After playing the game the way it was meant to be played,she got restless and created her own version of the game by turning the board around and creating one pattern of design after the other with those blocks. Soon she graduated into assembling and reassembling at a very rapid speed a completely new design. Based on these I chose for her Coffea 1M based on the rubrics-

Activity,creative
Quick to act
The pregnancy history later confirmed that the mother too must have been in the state of Coffea when she described her intense fear of death due to the pains of labor.This is a known symptom of the remedy.This only further confirmed the remedy to me. Her septic tonsils cured very rapidly.

 This six year old girl walked into my clinic and was transfixed by a picture of a boy weeping put up inside my chamber. She kept asking in a very childish speech as to why this boy was crying. On further enquiry,the mother related that she was very sensitive to stories that have anything sad in them like the three little pigs. She was also very interested in the paper weight or the stethoscope rather than the regular toys that were available in the clinic. Moreover the child had skin eruptions which were quite extensive but hardly any itching. Based on this information she was given Cicuta Virosa 1M. Besides an improvement in her asthma and eczema,her teachers confirmed that she was learning and concentrating very well as compared to before.
Rubrics and indications-
Sensitive to sad stories
Delusion objects are as attractive as toys
Eczema without itching( Phatak's Mat.Med)

This boy had been on Merc Sol with partial relief. What was very evident was the aggression as he invariably came to the clinic with a toy machine gun. His father who was an aquaintance collected piranha fish at home in their aquarium and loved watching the smaller fish being eaten by the predator fishes. So it was obvious to me where the state of violence was passed on to the boy from. But at one point the remedy stopped helping. The parents were very anxious as the boy had come to me with pus points,high fever and a toxic look but the gun was still an accompaniment! I was a bit perplexed by the remedy not helping him though indicated.So I decided to speak to him directly and requested the parents not to interrupt him. When asked about the type of pain,he said in a sure but aggressive manner that it was someone was inside his throat and stabbing him with a sharp knife. He now was given Merc.I.F 1M,single dose and by the next day he had settled and subsequently the repeated attacks also came down.

The main rubric chosen was-
Delusion,man in the room intending to perforate his throat with a gimlet( a sharp spear like weapon. Till that point the only gimlet I was aware of was the alcoholic drink!)

 This infant was a very subdued and somewhat anxious child. Besides the watery eyes which would get worse during corya she had a lactose intolerance which had developed when her mother had to stop nursing her and start the child on formula milk due to acute mastitis and sore nipples. She was also very acutely constipated which had resulted in fissures and very painful and hard stools. The mother had a very sad story. Though her husband was supportive, he was hardly around due to work and she had to tolerate the taunts and abuse of her mother-in law who was a very dominating lady and would be very rough with her and make her do all the house-hold chores. The mother was a very religious and pious lady who was very timid and tolerated this abuse as she felt it was her duty. She had a claustrophobic tendency in closed spaces and also would get migraine like headaches from milk. While she was relating her sufferings the child even though too young to comprehend what she was saying, seemed to notice her mother sobbing silently and became very agitated herself and started wailing too. During this time the father who was present started talking soothingly to the child and at once the child stopped crying, started smiling and sort of talking back in childish garble.In their own way the two were carrying on their own sweet conversation.This phenomena was observed by me repeatedly. The father would talk to the child whenever she seemed upset and the child would attempt to talk back and instantly calm down. This observtion along with the history of the mother made me give the child a dose of Lac- deflor 200 to which she responded very well. The surgical probe was not required and she even started tolerating milk over a period of time.

This boy was severely asthmatic. As he was on high doses of steroids which had suppressed the asthma he had come out with eczema. During an acute he would get very talkative and his entire body would start trembling. He had to be restricted from a lot of food items that he craved like cold drinks,chocolates and fruit juices. The thing that he kept saying was that the routine foods that he was given were so boring. The mother realizing this would give him healthy foods by creating a hype like wrapping up dates in a cellophane colored paper to make it look attractive. These things would really excite the child. It would sort of take away the monotony of a routine life style that he was resigned to due to his asthma. This was the mother's second marriage. She had left her first husband because there was no excitement and moreover he had a low sperm count due to which they could not have a child of their own. In her second marriage, she got all the things that she lacked in the first one, except that her husband was a very busy builder. While he was around life would be a lot of fun, but when he was away,it would get very boring for her and spending time with her son became the most exciting thing for her. She had learnt to accept this fact by now. During the pregnancy she had developed an acute distaste and nausea from strong smelling and tasting things like mint tooth paste. The child on the other hand loved mint in any form like Polo or Menthos which again had to be restricted much to his displeasure. The state of excitement seen during the acute as well as at other times as part of his state or as Rajan Sankaran terms the Vital Sensation is seen as a confluence point. When the sensation in the physical and the emotional emerge as one and the same it can be termed the confluence point and indicates deep probing and clarity in case taking. In this case,one can see the use of Subjective Homeopathy while retaining the recent method of Vital Sensations.He was given Teucrium 1M and very soon he was weaned off his steroids and could also tolerate over a period of time all the foods that he was restricted from.

Teucrium belongs to the Labiatae or the Mint family, the sensation of which is excitement. The intensity of the complaints denotes the miasm, here it is trying alternate with resignation i.e. the Ringworm miasm. So the complete feeling of the sensation corresponding to the miasm would be "There is an effort to try and get excitement alternating with a resignation- a fixed feeling that they must put up with having no excitement."

The indications and rubrics for the remedy were-
Conversation ameliorates
The mother and child's intolerance to milk
Closed room aggravates( in the mother)
Their constipation which is again typical of the remedy was also a pointer.