For babies, tablets should be crushed between two clean teaspoons and dissolved in 2fl oz of warm water, giving a teaspoon full as a dose. For young children, the tablets should be given crushed. Chamomilla is available in drop form.
Coughing is a reflex action to rid the air passages of unwanted debris, usually mucus. Recurrent coughs should be treated by a practitioner. Hot honey and lemon drinks can help soothe the throat. Dry, centrally heated atmospheres can aggravate coughs.
Remedy every four hours up to six doses in acute attack.
Homeopathic
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When to use |
| Aconite | Dry irritating cough that comes on suddenly, especially after exposure to dry cold wind. |
| Belladonna | Dry barking cough with a headache. Child is flushed and hot, pupils dilated. |
| Bryonia | Hard dry cough, causing child to hold chest or head. Child is thirsty for cold drinks, soothed by hot ones, and worse for any movement. |
| Ipecac | Breathlessness, wheezing. Rigid in coughing spasms. Nausea. Rattling in chest. |
| Chamomilla | Dry irritating cough with wheezing. Worse at night. Child irritable. |
| Kali bic | Cough with stringy phlegm, can’t bring it up. |
| Pulsatilla | Cough dry at night but wet in the morning, with yellow or green phlegm. Child tearful. Not thirsty. Better sitting up. |
| Ant tart | Cough rattles from the chest. |
| Causticum | Cough dry, throat raw, no phlegm. Hoarseness. Child finds cold drinks soothing. |
| Kali carb | Dry cough is hard and dry. Phlegm is lumpy. Wheezes. Worse in the early hours of the morning. Child feels weak and chilly. Worse eating, better in the warmth. |
| Nux Vom | Tickling, dry cough. Worse for exertion, eating, cold winds and in mornings. Better for warm drinks. |
Remedies should be discontinued as soon as symptoms improve or if symptoms worsen.
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