Characteristics of the child

1. Characteristics of the child • He is a very playful child and loves to play on the cold grass. • He loves outdoors and prefers the countryside. • He does not like to be with people and wants to go to the countryside away from people. • He loves climbing mountains. • He enjoys playing with fire and loves the looks of the wild mountains. • He likes flowers, small animals, insects and spiders. • He loves to run and play in the garden, mowing the lawn. • He loves to eat sweets, cakes, juicy and sour fruits and ice-cream. • He loves to drink cold buttermilk. • During acute pain attacks walking on the cold lawn helps him. • He is observed to play hide and seek with oscillatory movements of the head.

2. Characteristics of the father • He had many allergies as a child and he used to suffer from septic tonsillitis and ear infections. • He loved the sea, walking in the mountains, going into the countryside. • He loves curries, fruits and cold juices. • He has a sensation of the fluid traveling down the stomach when he drinks cold juices. • He dislikes buttermilk and feels nauseated from even the smell of butter milk. He would have vomiting whenever he drank it. • He has a history of earache with discharge. He also had rashes on his body when he was bitten by a wasp. • He also feels shy in a group.

3. Clincher to the remedy • The striking similarities between the characteristic of the father and the child. • The drawing of the snake with the special emphasis on the fork. • The game of hide and seek with the oscillatory movement of the head.

4. Remedy • He was administered the remedy ElapsCorallinus in homeopathic dilutions and within a period of one year he could tolerate all the foods that were not previously tolerated.