Ten years ago, a few days before I was preparing to leave for my first silent retreat with Gangaji, my spiritual teacher at the time, I received a call from my father. My mother’s gnawing abdominal pain, which had started two days earlier and was presumed by the emergency room doctor to be of gallbladder origin, had turned out to be a heart attack. A few hours later I received a call from David Rosenberg, the cardiologist who was treating her. As fate would have it, he and I had been medical school classmates.

One of the great joys of being a Family Doctor is that I see patients of all ages with a variety of common and rare conditions. My day gets brighter and my heart opens a little wider when a child comes in to see me. Don’t get me wrong—not all kids have halos hovering over them—some carry pitchforks. But by and large, kids spice up my day with their spontaneity, intelligence, unbounded energy and endearing nature.

There are hundreds of remedies in homeopathy which can help violent or antisocial behavior, as well as eliminate childhood fears, but only 35 which treat the fear of being poisoned, and Stramonium is one of them. The key is to find what makes each patient uniquely themselves, and to find a remedy that completely matches their uniqueness. I havent seen Jacob in 16 months. An apple a day does indeed keep the doctor away!

The 
following
 is 
taken
 verbatim 
from 
Alan’s 
chart 
one 
month 
after
 starting 
Damselfly: 

Irritability
 and
 fatigue 
completely 
resolved. “I’m no longer mean like I used to be.” A lot less fearful. Bed wetting down to five nights per week. No longer obsessed. Has started taking an interest in girls, and isn’t so shy around them. “He’s getting a lot better.” “This medicine is really helping me.”