Treating the "Hyperkinetic" Child: Causally Oriented Biological Therapy

by Thomas Rau, MD, Switzerland
©Copyright by Semmelweis-Verlag, Germany
(Explore Issue: Volume 9, Number 3)

The number of children, including school-age children, who, driven by inner compulsion, exhibit "hyperkinetic" behavior, is not small and seems to be on the rise. This pathological behavior is stressful not just for the children, but also for parents, teachers, siblings and of course anyone in their vicinity. Factors such as poor dietary habits have long been under suspicion as the cause of this symptomatology, in which artificial ingredients, such as are found in many "refreshing" soft drinks, are being viewed critically. In addition, other triggering factors have been discussed, such as watching TV for hours every day, which is (no doubt justifiably) considered to be "jointly responsible".

Defining the Hyperkinetic Syndrome

Unfortunately, the diagnosis to this symptomatology often is still applied to children whose behavior does not fully match up with the actual prerequisites or characteristics of this symptomatology. These prerequisites or characteristics are:

• Early onset of behavioral disorder before the age of five;
• Overactive immoderate behavior appears in conjunction with marked inattentiveness and lack of perseverance in performing assigned tasks;
• Behavioral disorder is situation-dependent but consistent over the longer term;
• Behavioral disorder includes disturbed social behavior;
• Learning disorders can also be present as well; on the other hand, intelligence disorders tend to be the exception.

Treating the hyperkinetic child by means of regulative medicine promises good results, because the causes of the disorder are thereby addressed. These causes should be viewed above all as an internal "milieu displacement", and "inner state of disturbance". Contributory factors can include elevated histamine production, trace element and/or vitamin deficiency and heavy metal intoxication -- factors capable of lowering the stimulus threshold of nerve cells or the ganglia of the autonomic system.

Thus, there is generally an organic illness associated with any "hyperkinetic syndrome". It is important to make this clear to the young patient and the parents, since the disorder has usually already been "psychologized". Nevertheless, treatment has to include the entire family, for example with regard to the requirement of a regulated daily activity flow, avoidance of harmful substances and electromagnetic radiation effects (such as the TV set), which can otherwise stress the children. A key part of family-involved therapy likewise includes a dietary plan attuned to the clinical picture.

 

Therapizing the Hyperkinetic Child

Treatment of hyperkinetic children is long-term and demands a lot of patience, especially from the parents. It is a multifactorial treatment that must be strictly adhered to. The complete therapy of the hyperkinetic syndrome includes -- in addition to diet -- intestinal cleansing, diversion (especially in cases involving heavy metal intoxication), orthomolecular therapy, isopathic and immunobiological therapy, and compound homeopathic therapy. Regarding the individual components of the overall therapy, there are some important tips listed below under their keywords. Each therapist will surely incorporate additional treatment steps into the necessary overall therapy, which, for example, can affect the -- by no means to be underestimated -- elimination and diversion of harmful substances, heavy metals above all.

Intestinal Cleansing

Dietary readjustment to a natural-foods diet as outlined by Dr. Werthmann:

• No eggs or milk or their derivatives, no pork or ham, no anchovies or sardines;
  
  
• No canned foods;
  
  
• No refined sugar nor products containing refined sugar, especially no carbonated soft drinks such as Coca-Cola, etc.;
  
  
• No citrus fruits.
  
  Eating can be spread out over five daily meals, and the atmosphere at mealtimes needs to be calm and relaxed. Foods should also not be heated for too long nor cooked too long in the microwave.
  
  Restoration of the intestinal flora by means of milieu therapy, intestinal mucous membrane cleansing and, if needs be, immune-system stimulation:
  
  
• Milieu therapy with PleoAlkala N and minerals or Alen.
  
  
• For intestinal mucous membrane cleansing (besides the Werthmann diet), Mucosa compositum (Heel): drink 1 sip 2x daily or apply at [acupuncture] point M25.
  
  
• To promote intestinal flora, begin with PleoFort 5X (1 tablet 3x daily for two weeks), continue with PleoPef 4X (1 capsule 1x daily for two weeks), then PleoSancom or PleoMuc 5X with PleoNig 5X (10 drops 2x daily for several months).

 

Compound Homeopathic Therapy

The following agents are indicated for this therapy over the course of several weeks:

• Catalysts of the citric acid cycle (Heel): 1 sip inhaled through the nose every other day, sequence 1 to 10, then a 10-day break, then start over in the same manner;
• On the off days: apply 1 sip of Cerebrum compositum (Heel) alternating with Coenzym compositum (Heel);
• Magnesium phosphoricum 6X or 12X (Schüssler): 3 tablets daily.

  With the total therapy outlined here, there is a chance of successfully therapizing even the more difficult cases of hyperkinetic syndrome in children, and at least of achieving distinct improvement. u

Resource

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