Pushing the Child to Play!
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2003 Jan / Feb VOL V NO 1.
Dr Manoj Patel
'Merc-i-f

Master AM is a 3 ½ yrs old, male child from well to do Marwadi family presenting with recurrent tonsillitis, hyperactive syndrome and poor weight gain

Mother’s history of pregnancy - pre-eclamptia, odema, hypertension in the last 3 mths of pregnancy with vomiting.
Full term forceps delivery. Breast feed for 2-3 months.
Personality
Normal milestones.
Appetite: Eats too often.
Craving-spicy, salty.
Perspiration-scalp profuse. Thermal-Hot.

Life Story
Mother comes from a joint family. She faces usual stresses along with suppressed emotions. Child started reacting to attending the play school. Since 3yrs of age mother insisted on sending the child to play school which became a relieving factor for her. Child is extremely hyperactive with destructive tendency. Breaks things so. He reacts sharply to his younger sibling and is aggressive to the point of injury to the newborn. Parents concerned with this behavior of the child. He was quite impulsive and headstrong (obstinate).

Mother frequently resorts to beating. Another peculiarity was that the child was very thin and not growing well, in spite of eating well. He had no fear of darkness or being alone.

Discussion
The four columns of the above case demonstrate totality of Merc-i-f (location ,side, pathology, concomitant tongue) in its tonsillitis.
Now it is interesting to co-relate child’s destructiveness to aggression of mercury. As well, as we are able to see shades of Iodine in form of glandular affection and concomitants of appetite (hunger++ still loosing flesh poor wt gain at growing age).

Result
Merc-i-f 200 for 3 days relieved tonsillitis. And subsequently later in the following week after proper understanding of the case MIF 200 infrequently helped to reduced relapse ,letter after 1 month.

Merc-i-f 1M was administered, this improved behavior and reduced the destructive tendency of the child. Last he was given Tub 1m to deal with miasmatic lode. Child is doing well since then.