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What Foods Have Vitamin C And Why Do We Need It?

Sailors Died Of Scurvy In The Old Days: Scurvy is a Vitamin C deficiency. A diet completely devoid of Vitamin C will kill you in the end. Lack of Vitamin C causes a breakdown in the connective tissues of the body, as well as the capillary blood vessels. This l0ng term effects of eating foods which are deficient in Vitamin C are: loose teeth, bleeding gums, and sore and weak joints. The small capillary blood vessels begin to bleed under the skin, resulting in patches of small red dots. Haemorrhages can occur in serious cases, causing strokes and damage to the heart muscle and the brain.

Vitamin C kills bacteria in the blood stream, which means that it acts as an antibiotic. Large doses of Vitamin C have cured many infectious diseases, including cases of viral pneumonia and meningitis. More about Vitamin C in curing infectious disease later – back now to symptoms of deficiency of Vitamin C, as presented in scurvy:

According to Dr Rudolph Ballentine, M.D., scurvy killed more than half the sea men on a ship which set out from England in 1739, heading for the Pacific. Out of 961 men on board, 626 died on the journey, mostly from scurvy, or Vitamin C deficiency.

Citrus juice had been known, since 1616, to prevent and reverse scurvy disease: Sir Richard Hawkins saved his men from the scourges of scurvy by using oranges and lemons in the daily diet. But it was several hundred years before controlled experiments were done which proved conclusively that vitamin C prevented and cured scurvy. This proof of Vitamin C being effective as a prophylactic and as a remedy for scurvy was the work of James Lind, who worked at the English Naval Hospital. There, he observed around 300 to 400 cases of scurvy each day. His experiment was to give two oranges and one lemon daily to two of the sailors in his study who had scurvy. The other men in the experiment were given other treatments, including cider vinegar, and sea water, as a remedy for their scurvy. The two men given the Vitamin C treatment via the citrus fruits recovered quickly from their scurvy and became well enough to nurse the other men, who did not respond from the other treatments.

Eventually, the Royal Navy began using citrus juice, ascorbic acid, on board all their ships. The cheapest source of citrus was from India, and this was a small green lime. This green lime citrus fruit became part and parcel of being at sea, which is how the term for a sailor, ‘limey’, got coined. The result of the lime treatment was that scurvy was eradicated from the British navy ships within a couple of years of its use, giving the British the physical power to dominate the French coast during the Napoleonic wars, and annihilate the French navy.

Vitamin C has a history of being shunned by the medical profession and the authorities: Citrus juice was known, way back in 1616, to cure and prevent scurvy. Meanwhile, thousands of sailors still died of scurvy, because citrus juice was not adopted as a preventative measure on board ships. It was a few hundred years later that James Lind did controlled experiments on citrus, and even then it was fifty years after James Lind’s experiment, which proved conclusively that citrus cured and prevented scurvy, before citrus fruit was to become mandatory on British navy ships. Even when the proof is there, these easy solutions to health problems are not so easily taken up by the authorities.

It is the same story today, with Vitamin C: Vitamin C is a natural antibiotic and therefore negates the need for vaccinations of various kinds. Hundreds of doctors, naturopaths and alternative therapists all over the world swear by Vitamin C therapy for the prevention and cure of cancer, arthritis, swine flu, scarlet fever, and many other infectious diseases, yet the authorities still refrain from using Vitamin C in hospitals, or as a regular treatment in medical practice.

What Foods Have Vitamin C? All fruits and Vegetables contain vitamin C.

The highest sources of Vitamin C are citrus fruits of all kinds: lemons, grapefruit, oranges, tangelos, mandarins, limes. Cranberries, strawberries, grapes, blackcurrants, raspberries, mango, paw paw, pineapple, pomegranate, persimmons, and kiwifruit, are all high in Vitamin C. Capsicums, green and red peppers, tomatoes, tamarind, dates, raisins, sultanas, peaches, apricots, plums, nectarines, pears, apples, all contain Vitamin C. Spinach, silver beet, broccoli, brussels sprouts, lettuce, mung bean sprouts, alfalfa sprouts, lettuce, raw cabbage, raw parsley, raw coriander, basil, comfrey, potatoes, raw carrots, and rhubarb, are all rich sources of Vitamin C.

A lot of Vitamin C is destroyed in cooking, which is why those daily salads, and the eating of fresh fruit, are very important. However, cooked broccoli, potatoes with their skins left on, spinach, and many other Vitamin C rich foods still retain some of their Vitamin C after cooking if they are not cooked for too hard or too long.

Resource Books: “Diet and Nutrition – A Holistic Approach”, by Rudolph Ballentine, M.D., published by The Himalayan International Institute, Honesdale, Pennsylvania, USA, 1978.

“New Choices in Natural Healing”, edited by Bill Gottlieb, editor of ‘Prevention’ magazine, published by Rodale Publishing Inc., Pennsylvania, USA, 1995.

“Your Health – Vitamins and Minerals”, by Russell Frank Atkinson, published by Doubleday Press, NSW, Australia, 1982.

Minimum Dose In Homeopathy Has Been Proven As Effective

Homeopathy Works: Opponents of Homeopathy love to spout emotive words which will induce the public to ignore Homeopathy, such as ‘quackery’ and ‘nonsense’. ‘Totally crazy’, is a favourite term of one New Zealand doctor right now, who is trying to get his medical colleagues banned from using homeopathic medicines in their surgeries. This sentiment is driven by the drug companies who fear Homeopathy as a competitor for their prescription drugs.

Homeopathy has never been allowed to ‘take off’ – the drug companies and medical authorities in the USA have seen to that.

We expect that all doctors are well-educated honest individuals who have the interest of the patient first and foremost. We, the public, do not see any of these people as having ulterior motives in prescribing all those vaccinations, blood thinners, and the like. Sadly, this is not the case, although I think that many doctors themselves are conditioned by the drug companies into thinking that there is nothing better than prescription medicine.

Meanwhile, the drug companies have banned comfrey from our herbal gardens and household usage, and many other valuable herbs besides. Now, they are trying to get herbal medicine restricted, if not banned, and Vitamins and homeopathic medicine restricted or banned as well.

Their main argument against homeopathy is that ‘there is nothing in it’, and that homeopathy is nothing more than a placebo. Well – I have an argument for these doctors, which I will share with you presently.

Many doctors who should know better, stand on the band rotunda claiming that there is no proof that Homeopathy works, and that there is no power in ‘the minimum dose’. This is simply untrue: For a start, these doctors resist gaining any knowledge about using homeopathy, and they resist learning about the many success of homeopathic medicine.

The opponents of homeopathy also manipulate statistics by not publishing vital information about homeopathic medicine. There is a wealth of documented provings, and research into minimum-dose-homeopathic medicine, which go back almost 200 years. But these research findings are never divulged to the public. In fact, in the USA in the 1920’s, it was illegal for homeopathic physicians to publish any findings or information on the effect of homeopathic medicine. This marked the official beginning of the movement to keep homeopathy out of the public domain, under wraps, and discourage doctors from using it.

The drug companies began to gain great wealth in the 1920’s, and this wealth manifested an influence and certain prestige amongst the learned medical circles. Governments always like big companies who generate big tax dollars and foreign revenue for them. So the drug companies were given an influence and a pride of place which over-rode any strivings of the humble homeopath to practice his healing art: Homeopathy is not a money-making concern, as there is no dependency built upon homeopathy, which there is in allopathic medicine. This means that there is not a lot of money to be made in homeopathic medicine, because people do not need life-long prescriptions of homeopathic medicines. It is the dependency upon drugs, and their on-going use, which the makers of prescription drugs feed and thrive upon.

So of course, these drug giants do not want to let Homeopathic medicine gain a hold. If given a chance, it could very quickly over-ride the popularity of allopathic medicine.

Well – here is the experiment which I read about, and which proves that a minimum dose DOES COUNT, and IS EFFECTIVE.

This research was outlined in the New Zealand Herald last year: Research scientists found a cause of ‘Bee colony collapse disorder”: The main reason they discovered that bees were dying in their droves was that they were exposed to VERY small amounts of a nicotinoid poison which was being used as an insecticide. Nicotinoid toxins are common in insecticides at the present moment, because they are very effective.

Now the interesting thing was that the bees were dying, though this nicotinoid poison could not be detected in their systems.
But the scientists had previously deliberately exposed these bees to a certain amount of nicotinoid toxins: They KNEW that the bees had been exposed to this poison. All the bees who had come into contact with a minimum dose of nicotinoid poison caught viruses which killed them. But the bees who did not come into contact with minimum amounts of poison, did not get sick from a virus, and did not die from either infection or poison.

This experiment should be a warning against using toxic herbicides and pesticides, as it shows that even tiny amounts of poison can cause a myriad of health disfunctions: If chemicals do this in insects, then there is a liklihood that humans and other animals will be affected by the same poisons as well, although just how – who knows? We should not be waiting to find out. All toxic chemicals should be banned from being sprayed into the environment, anywhere at all.

This shows how miniscule amounts of certain substances CAN and DO have an effect on the living organism.

Homeopathy uses the power of the minimum dose to effect healing: Certain substances will produce a certain effect on the body if they are used in the natural state. Digitalis is one remedy which will cause you to die of heart failure if you eat a leaf or two from the plant. But when digitalis is used homeopathically, it becomes a strengthener of the heart, and will help many heart conditions.

There are many, many, homeopathic remedies, each one having very specific properties which negate those very same symptoms of illness which the primary product will induce in a healthy person.

There are, and always have been, alternatives to allopathic medicine. Prescription medicines have their place, of course, and we would not be without surgery, which saves many lives. But for many complaints, Homeopathy would cure them, thus removing any need to stay on prescription medicine for the duration of the life.

If you wish to avoid risk-laden vaccinations, then Homeopathic medicine is a fine alternative. There are no permanent side effects to homeopathy, which there very often are with antibiotics, vaccinations and many other prescription medicines. Go see your Homeopathic physician for advice about those vaccination alternatives, for a start.

Antibiotics Weaken Immune System/Flu Vaccine Linked to Alzheimer’s

Vaccinations and Antibiotics Weaken The Immune System

I published two wee books on health issues in the early 1980’s. I included an article about the dangers of antibiotics in these health books. Even then, many of us were concerned about the dangers posed to the immune system by the overuse of antibiotics. And even then, many of us were adamant that we would not use vaccinations or antibiotics for ourselves or for our children, unless it was absolutely necessary.

Antibiotics and Vaccinations, I believe, are still some of the most widely misused and misunderstood drugs of our modern age, despite there being much evidence to support the fact that their use can cause such serious diseases as cancer, and alzheimer’s, and autism in children.

There is an alzheimer’s epidemic on at the moment, and people die every week in hospital from cancer. Many people, and many DOCTORS, attribute the escalating incidences of these diseases to vaccinations such as the widely used flu vaccine, and other antibiotics. Dr Brian Abelson, Dr Brighthope, and Dr Levy are just three of the many doctors who have written about the adverse effects of antibiotics on the immune system.

Of course, there are other poisons widely used in the environment which also cause cancer, and alzheimer’s, autism in children, parkinson’s disease, and other conditions: Herbicides and pesticides are two categories of poison which are known to affect the immune system, and to cause many diseases. And plastics are also very deleterious to the health.

But we have a choice as to whether or not we want to be vaccinated, or have our children vaccinated. Personally, I decided NOT to use vaccinations of any kind after my first born suffered adverse effects from having two of the three ‘measles mumps and whooping cough’ vaccine. I did not even use tetanus shots for my children after that: I found Homeopathic Ledum was a prophylactic for tetanus, and so I used that if ever there was a risk of tetanus. I discovered that Homeopathic Drosera worked more quickly than it took to get to the hospital, if my children had what I thought might be Whooping cough, or Croup.

Antibiotics are often referred to as ‘wonder drugs’, and many people owe their lives to the use of anti-biotics, and perhaps to the use of Vaccinations. However, there are very bad side effects from using these antibiotic medicines, because they DO weaken the immune system. More evidence is stacking up to support the idea that antibiotics, and vaccinations, may pre-dispose you to many serious conditions later in life.

Vaccinations weaken the immune system just as regular antibiotics do: A Vaccination still is an antibiotic, only that they are given beforehand, hopefully to prevent the illness occurring, though this is not the effect for some people: Some people get the illness for which they were vaccinated pretty soon after getting the shot. This instance, where people GET the infection for which they are vaccinated, frequently happens with the ‘flu-shot’. Which leads you to wonder just why there is such a push for vaccinations, including the vaccination of children’s illnesses, such as mumps, measles, and chicken pox, and with the flu vaccine for older people. The answer is that the drug companies monopolize the medicine market. They have the money to promote their vaccines on television and in the papers. They also actively discourage any competition, such as in the alternative medicines, Homeopathy, Herbal Medicine, and Vitamin Therapy.

In New Zealand right at this moment, there are some doctors who are pushing to deprive other alternative doctors from using homeopathy in their clinics. They want Homeopathy banned from the doctor’s repertoire of available medicines, basically, because it is a threat to their medicine empire. This attempt to discredit Homeopathy, and to get it banned, is not a random happening. This is a drive from the powers that be behind the scenes – the drug companies, who basically control when and where and how mass vaccinations will be done. And all they need to do to get the public to trot along dutifully to the doctor’s to get their ‘shots’, is to put an article in the paper saying that there is a ‘scare’ that some illness, some strange flu or other, might strike here soon. And the scary epidemic never happens. Why? Not because the vaccines have worked – many of us do not bother and do not believe in vaccines, and many cannot afford to go to the doctor for the vaccine anyway. – No, these strange and frightening epidemics which they have threatened us with probably never even existed. But billions of dollars will have been generated for the drug companies by promoting the scare of an epidemic. And many doctors will also have done good business.

Antibiotics and Vaccinations do have a purpose, but they should only be used as a last resort, when other treatments have failed, or when one’s life is at stake. Giving vaccinations for the common childhood infectious diseases, such as Chicken pox, Measles, Mumps, and Whooping Cough is an invasion and an abuse of children, in my opinion, especially when there are safe alternatives available, like Vitamin C therapy, and Homeopathy.

Of course there is a problem right now in promoting these alternatives, because the public does not know how to use these therapies. This is something many of us want changed: Education as to the alternatives in preventative medicine, such as Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Ayurvedic Medicine, Chinese Medicine, Vitamin C, and herbal remedies, should be available to all.

Giving drugs such as vaccinations to children is very irresponsible, and very sad: Children who are immunized are literally bombarded with a virus which will undermine their immune systems, probably for life. Children really should be being protected against being given these antibiotic vaccinations, as it is not known how their bodies will react later on.

Children are generally made stronger by having the common childhood illnesses when they are young, and they can be helped through these illnesses quite comfortably in most cases by the use of the alternative medicines Vitamin C, Herbal Medicine, and Homeopathy.

Homeopathy does not tamper with the immune system in the way that antibiotics and vaccinations do:

Foreign germs are introduced to the body via the antibiotic or vaccination. One immediate and proven effect is that they destroy the beneficial bacteria which live in the bowel, and one bad side effect of this is Candida Albicans, an organism which causes many troubles. The beneficial flora in the bowel helps us to digest our food, and to process essential vitamins and enzymes for our good health. Antibiotics upset the natural balance of the flora in the bowel, and this often results in ANOTHER illness occurring, after the course of antibiotics have been taken.

Too often, antibiotics are used for little minor ills which could have been treated by some other more healthful means: Vitamin supplements, fasting, removal of preservatives, colourants, artificial flavourings, and other irritating chemicals from the diet, removing wheat and gluten, removing sugar, removing dairy foods.

Using alternatives such as homeopathic medicine, acupuncture, colour therapy, a new dietary regime, counselling, etc, can very often be more effective than using an antibiotic, because the whole being, and the causes of illness are treated, rather than just the illness and its symptoms.

Homeopathy offers a safe alternative to vaccinations and antibiotics. Vitamin Therapy and Herbal Medicine are other options.

List Of Common Childhood Illnesses and Vaccination Alternatives

Common Childhood Infectious Diseases

These listed childhood illnesses are common amongst children under the age of ten. In fact, the earlier that children get these infectious diseases, the less likely they are to suffer complications and adverse side effects. My mother always thought that it was best if we were exposed to these illnesses at an early age, and she made no effort to protect us against getting them, as we were never so sick if we had them young. And, once you had the virus, your immune system was made strong naturally, through combatting the disease, and so we never had a recurrence.

The common childhood illnesses came just once. We welcomed getting the common infections such as Mumps, Chicken Pox and Measles as a child, because if you escaped getting these diseases as a youngster, then you could expect to have an incredibly strong and debilitating dose of the disease if you got it when you were an adult.

Should I Vaccinate My Child Or Not? This is a serious question, and it should be carefully considered before charging ahead with vaccination. One good alternative is Homeopathy. Consult your Doctor, your Homeopath, your Ayurvedic medicine practitioner, or another health professional to help you decide.

These days, vaccinations, or immunisations, have complicated things. Children’s immune systems are weakened by having these innoculations, and immune systems become lazy when they are repeatedly bombarded with vaccination bugs. Also, having the vaccination does not necessarily mean that your child will be protected from the disease. I have heard of many instances, where the child has had a severe infection straight after having the vaccination for it: The vaccination actually brings on the condition in some people.

The List of Common Childhood Diseases is as Follows. I have listed some Homeopathic alternatives which are worth consideration in the treatment of these illnesses. Homeopathy is a safe, more natural method of combatting these illness than vaccination. Homeopathic Treatment will not cause long-lasting damage to the immune system.

Chicken Pox: This has red spots which turn to blisters. The ‘pox’ begins on the trunk, like Scarlet Fever, and then spreads to the face and limbs. Its incubation period is between 17-21 days after coming into contact with the virus. Isolation is recommended for around two or three weeks after the onset of the infection, which is when you can expect the scabs to come off the sores, and the skin to heal. The Chicken Pox is an itchy infection, and children should be discouraged from scratching themselves, as this will make things worse.

Diphtheria: This is characterized by a sore throat, like Scarlet Fever. It also has a coated tongue, like Scarlet Fever in its early development. Bad breath, sickness and choking, and difficulty breathing are symptoms of Diphtheria. Its incubation period is between 1-5 days after contact. The isolation period recommended in the old household medical books is about 6 weeks. Your doctor will advise you on this.

‘German’ Measles: This is characterized initially by a cold in the nose with a sore throat. After two days of these symptoms, an irregular rash appears over the body. Swollen glands, sore neck, and conjunctivitis may be present. The incubation period for German measles is anything between 2 to 4 weeks. The isolation period for German Measles is given as 3 weeks in the old text books. It is important to prevent expectant mothers from coming into contact with the German Measles, as it could have serious consequences.

‘English’ Measles: This type of Measles was more mild than the German variety. It is characterized by a rash which appears in small areas of pink patches, after about the 4th or 5th day of being exposed to the disease. The pink patches grow gradually larger and spread over the body. Other characteristics are a feverish cold with a runny nose, which usually develops after the rash has appeared. The eyes become irritated and red. Small white spots appear inside the mouth on the cheeks. Isolation should be for about two weeks after the onset of Measles.

Mumps: This condition also affects the throat to begin with. The throat is sore and there will be difficulty in chewing and swallowing, resulting in loss of appetite. Other symptoms are likely to be: Swollen neck glands, pain under the ear, and sore inner ear. The Incubation Period may be between two to four weeks after coming into contact with the disease. A period of around 4 weeks isolation for Mumps is recommended

Scarlet Fever: Of course you should see your doctor. But Homeopathic Belladonna has been proven to be effective in preventing Scarlet Fever in times of an epidemic. It can also help alleviate the symptoms, and quicken the recovery, if your child should succumb to this disease. This illness is characterized by a sore throat in the initial stages. The tongue starts off white and furry, but changes to a bright red after a couple of days. Temperature, fever, vomiting, pains in the stomach are symptoms of this disease. The red rash, which appears within 24 hours of the onset of the disease, appears first on the trunk of the body, then spreads to the limbs, and finally, to the face. This rash is made up of tiny red spots. The Incubation period is between 2 to 5 days. Isolation is recommended for around 2 weeks after the rash first appears.

Whooping Cough: This is another of the Childhood infectious diseases. It often begins like flu, with a head cold and running nose with the eyes red and streaming. Loss of appetite and vomiting may accompany the condition However, the condition is much more serious than simple flu. Young children, and babies especially, can ‘go down’ very quickly with whooping cough. Babies can easily die of Whooping Cough, so it is important to have treatment handy, and to head for the doctor if you suspect Whooping Cough. Whooping Cough can come on very suddenly, in the wee small hours of the night when most doctors surgeries are closed. Your child suddenly finds it difficult to breathe, and makes a wheezing, whooping sound as he or she fights to breath in, and this frightens the life out of you. Of course, you MUST see a doctor, or another health professional such as a homeopathic doctor, or get to the hospital immediately. But as soon as the alarm has been set off, and you realize that your child has whooping cough, then you can immediately start giving them Homeopathic Drosera. By the time you get to the hospital, you might find that the Drosera has already worked, and that there is no need for further medication. The disease often ends as quickly as it began, with Drosera. I used the Homeopathic Remedy Drosera for these occasions, and it never failed me. Drosera is one of those magic Prophylactic remedies for Whooping Cough, which means that it is a preventative of the disease. Because it is a Prophylactic, you can give your child several doses of this, over several days, the minute that you realize there is a Whooping Cough epidemic around. Taking Homeopathic Drosera as a preventative can mean that your children may avoid getting Whooping Cough in times of an epidemic. Keep it in your medicine cupboard, to use in times of emergency, and for the periods when the Whooping Cough virus is going around the schools.

Scarlet Fever Outbreak in Hong Kong/Homeopathic Alternatives

Homeopathic Belladonna is the classic remedy for Scarlet Fever. It will help prevent it if given at the first sign of an outbreak. It is also one of the best remedies to help to cure it if you get the illness. More about this later on:

Who Is Susceptible to Scarlet Fever: Children under the age of five are usually more susceptible to Scarlet Fever, but children up to the age of 15 can succumb to this childhood illness. Scarlet Fever is not usually life threatening these days. Scarlet Fever has not been so much of a problem illness since antibiotics such as penicillin were invented. Penicillin and other antibiotics have been effective in bringing Scarlet Fever outbreaks under control, because they kill off the germs which cause Scarlet Fever. But there is a down-side to using antibiotics, or vaccines, for the common childhood illnesses:

Scarlet Fever In Hong Kong: The trouble with this new Scarlet Fever outbreak in Hong Kong is that it seems to be a particularly virulent strain which might have mutated, or immunized itself somehow against the common antibiotics which are used to treat the illness. It does not seem to be responding to antibiotics.

Now this IS a worry, because it suggests that the Scarlet Fever bacterium may have gotten so strong BECAUSE of our use of antibiotics to manage the common childhood diseases. Bugs find other ways to survive if they are bombarded with antibiotics. They become stronger, and more resilient.

And this is always the concern which people have about child immunization, because the more vaccines, or immunizations, or innoculations that your child is given, the weaker your child’s immune system becomes. This means that your child’s immune system might be weakened to such a large degree that it cannot naturally fight off any unknown diseases, such as new strains of the common illnesses.

Vaccinations Weaken The Immune System: If a child is continually being vaccinated for this or that, then that child’s system will expect the help of a vaccine for anything and everything which comes along. Their systems will not be able to tackle these new diseases. When the day comes that there is not a vaccine to protect your child, because the disease has suddenly mutated and formed a new strain of bacteria, then there will be serious cause for concern.

Alternatives To Antibiotics: Of course, if your child is sick, then you must see a Doctor. But in the meanwhile, you might be interested in finding out more about the natural remedies and treatments for scarlet fever which are listed below.

Natural Remedies For Scarlet Fever/Vitamin C and Homelopathy

Vitamin C Therapy: Remember that large quantities of Vitamin C, especially Calcium Ascorbate, or Ester C, have an antibacterial and antiviral effect: This treatment has been proven to be effective in the treatment of Swine Flu, and many other disease. But you could go to a Homeopathic doctor, or an Ayurvedic medicine practitioner, BEFORE your child gets sick, to investigate the alternatives of treatment for these childhood illnesses.

How To Prevent Scarlet Fever:

Hahnemann, who discovered Homeopathy, discovered that Homeopathic Belladonna is a prophylactic in Scarlet Fever. This is an incredibly useful piece of knowledge in the case of a Scarlet Fever outbreak, as a prophylactic is a PREVENTATIVE.

Belladonna is a preventative of scarlet fever. So, you would begin taking the Homeopathic Belladonna as soon as there was a warning about an outbreak, BEFORE your child got the infection.

More On Belladonna as a Natural Remedy For Scarlet Fever: W.A. Dewey says in his book “Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics“, that Belladonna for preventing Scarlet Fever “has been abundantly verified in practice.” We do not know for sure that this new strain will also respond to Belladonna, but it is quite likely that Belladonna will be just as effective.

Homeopathic Sulphur is reputed to be the next best thing for the treatment of Scarlet Fever. (see W.A. Dewey)

I found Homeopathy to be a wonderful alternative to allopathic medicine and antibiotics. It seemed to be especially effective in treating my children, I think, because children generally are quite sensitive, and so they respond well to Homeopathy. People who have used mountains of antibiotics and other medications do not respond so well to Homeopathic treatment, because their systems have become hardened through long term use of medications.

Homeopathic Remedies: So here are some Homeopathic remedies which have been used to treat Scarlet Fever. Again, I urge you to go to a Homeopathic practitioner, or an Ayurvedic professional, before your child gets sick.

If your child is sick, then do not hesitate – go to the doctor.

Generally speaking, only one remedy should be used at a time. You can buy an Aconite, Belladonna, Chamomilla mixture at most health shops, called ABC. This is a good general remedy for many children’s ailments, and it might still be good for treating or preventing Scarlet Fever. However, for a serious disease, the remedy needs to be chosen carefully. Each remedy has a specific action, and so the ‘case’ needs to be examined thoroughly before deciding on a remedy.

List of The Most Common Remedies for Scarlet Fever: Belladonna; Gelsemium; Bryonia; Ailanthus; Rhus toxicodendron; Lachesis; Ammonium carbonicum; Zincum. These remedies are outlined in the book “Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics” by W.A. Dewey, B. Jain Publishers PVT. Ltd. New Delhi. He also states that Homeopathic Belladonna was discovered by Hahnemann to be a prophylactic of Scarlet Fever: It prevents Scarlet Fever.

Other Homeopathic remedies which W.A. Dewey indicates could be useful for different stages of the disease are: Cuprum; Calcarea carbonica; Kali sulphuricum; Rhus tox; Arsenicum; Sulphur. Of course, only one remedy would be chosen out of this list, perhaps to follow up the treatment which might have begun with Belladonna, or Gelsemium. Get some professional advice, unless you know your Homeopathic medicines.