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May 24th, 2010 | 
Author: Question for anyone who knows… my son (2 years old) has a bad cold (in his chest). The doc told me to give him delsym (12-hour), which I did at 11:15 AM today. It hasn’t helped at all. I just bought some homeopathic cough syrup (Children’s Chestal Honey from Boiron). Can I give it to him now, or do I have to wait until 11:15 tonight? (He’s had nothing else in terms of meds.)
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Firstly no homeopathic remedies have any effect on anyone with any condition, above and beyond that of placebo. Secondly, it would be a truism to say that there is no such thing as a useful cough mixture either.
If this is a one off cough, with no wheeze or breathlessness, give plenty of fluids and treat fever or discomfort with paracetamol. If your son is wheezy or breathless, and especially if this is a recurrent problem, it may be asthma and you should seek medical advice.
Ok…i’m no doctor but in the interest of fairness i’d like to just mention that although i’ve been quite sceptical in the past about some holistic approaches to medicine, i have experienced hay-fever relief from certain homoeopathic remedies.
However, Dr Frank is kinda justified in saying that homoeopathy cannot cure anyone ‘with’ any condition as homoeopathy is best used well in advance to build the body’s immune system.
A combination of herbal medicine and dietary considerations/alterations on the other hand can be much more fast acting to treat an ongoing issue such as suspected asthma. As children, both me and my brother were diagnosed my ‘mainstream’ medical doctors to have Bronchitis and Asthma (respectively) and mainstream medicine did nothing to treat either of us. Finally a local herbalist recommended that we go off dairy products and prescribed his own specially made concoction(s). To the best of my memory both of us were fully cured within about 6months.
To answer your question though, from my years of casual learning about holistic therapies i can advise that homoeopathic medicine is certainly not something that one should worry about overdosing on or using in conjunction with ‘mainstream’ medicine, however, any potential benefits of homoeopathic medicines can be nullified by strong acting products like mainstream medicine, alcohol, and coffee, (and even strong flavoured products like garlic and mint), so it’s probably pointless to give homoeopathic medicine while the Delsym is still in his system….but hey…i’m not a herbalist…nor do i practise homoeopathy so if you want to pursue this line of thinking i’d suggest consulting a relevant professional
(N.B i am not trying to discredit anything Dr Frank has said in relation to finding the appropriate medicine for your son…with short-term coughs i’ve always found a steady course of paracetamol and plenty of sleep to be the fastest cure!!!)
Homeopathic remedies do not work against allopathic ones. It is safe to take the two in combination. As homeopathy works on the patients own vitality and not on a disease.