| A Charismatic Boy Named Ori a story of Spinal Muscular Atrophy |
This is the story of a very charming little boy named Ori. He is the youngest child and the delight and joy of his entire family.
At birth, he appeared quite healthy and continued to develop normally until his mother noticed at the age of a year and a half
he began showing signs of delayed development from the waist down. He didn't crawl and stand like his older siblings and
was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a genetic disease causing degeneration of motor neurons in the spinal
cord. Motor neurons are nerve cells that carry information from our brain to the muscle resulting in muscle movement. In
patients with SMA these motor neurons are not fully functional resulting in muscle weakness and wasting. Weakness is often
more severe in the legs than in the arms.
I had recently treated his older brother for allergies and eczema, so his mother considered homeopathic treatment for facial
tics that Ori developed after a recent vaccination.
At our first session on January 7, 2007, I met a very bright, charismatic, independent and strong willed five year old little boy.
Ori was crawling on the floor using his upper extremities to drag his little body from place to place. He eagerly showed me how
he walks using the support of leg braces.
As I do when working with young children, I began the session by asking Ori to draw a picture. He drew a picture of Sponge
Bob, the television cartoon character. "Sponge Bob feeds Gary and Gary is a snail. Sponge Bob and Gary live in a pineapple
under the sea. It (the pineapple) is orange and has green lettuce on the pineapple, and it has a circle thing on the door so
that we can open the door." At this point, Ori began clapping his hands and shaking his head and playing with his hands.
These energetic movements lead me to understand that Ori is excited about Sponge Bob, so I asked him to tell me more.
"Patrick is a star. They call him Patrick Star because that's his last name and his first name is Patrick but I don't know his
middle name. They (Patrick and Sponge Bob) were copying each other, and Sponge Bob told him to stop copying him
because Patrick wanted to get an award, a trophy." I asked "What would happen to Sponge Bob if Patrick got a trophy?"... to
which he replied... "I don't know. Patrick would feel happy - both of them would feel happy because Patrick got a trophy and
he wanted a trophy. When Patrick was happy, Sponge Bob was happy. And that's the end of Sponge Bob. I only watch a
million cartoons of Sponge Bob."
Ori then suddenly started playing with the coloring markers. "All the colors except for the black and the brown were destroying
them and they had guns. When the other colors were shooting at the black and the brown, the black and the brown ran away.
The green and the yellow took their guns. All the colors except the green and the yellow are in charge, but the brown and the
black were the boss of the pink and were killing the (other) colors. The black and the brown only killed the pink one."
Wow... a battle scene as described through the eyes of a child. He described destruction, guns, killing, domination, fleeing.
Definitely the language of survival and, in the understanding of modern homeopathic methodology, the animal kingdom.
Combining this nature with the intensity of his underwater story of Sponge Bob and his friends, I began to suspect that his
remedy should be a sea animal.
To determine the most homeopathic remedy, I focused on his physical attributes. Ori was coughing - a moist cough that
brought up a lot of phlegm. A month ago, he was hospitalized with pneumonia and this seemed to be what still lingered. His
teeth were very small and pointed with a lot of space between them; his gums were very soft and not healthy. When he sat, his
body twisted like a pretzel. He folded his legs using his hands, one on top of the other. He had sores by each fold of his
mouth and on the inside of his lips. And as the session continued, he was hiccuping - spitting as he hiccuped.
Ori quickly became impatient and wanted to play. So I continued the session with his mother discussing her pregnancy, birth
and his development. It was a "beautiful pregnancy" and an easy birth. Though she initially wasn't ready for another child so
quickly after the last, she resolved her worries and became very happy with the idea of her pregnancy.
Ori was very verbal and the brightest child in the nursery. He developed normally up to the point when he was expected to
walk. He always used something to support himself, but he never walked by himself. He crawled up the stairs but this took a
lot of his energy.
Ori is a child that needed a lot of physical touch. He slept with his parents but didn't sleep well. He had eczema on his hands,
face and behind his knees which was itchy and often disturbed his sleep.
Facial tics were the chief complaint and the initial reason for this consultation. Ori's tongue would slide out of the side of his
mouth and he would uncontrollably move his mouth to either side. The first time these facial tics appeared was a year and a
half ago and they lasted a week. Six months later and on the evening after receiving 5 vaccinations in one day, the facial tics
reappeared.
His eating habits were less than desirable for a child with such delayed physical development. In fact, he really didn't like too
many foods - Chinese chicken, chocolate milk, and chocolate ice cream were his favorites. He absolutely disliked hot dogs,
regular chicken, rice, tomatoes, and beef. His hands became raw and swollen when he touched raw eggs or pickles. He was
also allergic to dust.
Ori was always hot especially his head. He often asked for a cool pillow at night and removed his hat in the winter. This
seemed strange, rare and peculiar.
It seemed to me that Ori's overall state required a remedy from the sea animals, however after consultation with Robert
Tennenbaum, it was decided that Ori's treatment should begin with a miasmatic remedy to counteract the reaction of the
vaccination. Facial tics were the chief complaint that initiated the consultation and this condition appeared immediately
following a vaccine. Since Ori was born a healthy child that developed normally until the age of 1 ½ years, there was a strong
suspicion that his spinal muscular atrophy may have been induced by earlier vaccines. Carcinosin is a remedy which has
been clinically successful in treating facial tics, ailments after vaccines and muscle disorders which were Ori's most prominent
symptoms. So his first treatment was one dose of Carcinosin 200C.
A week later Ori's mother phoned me with concern about his cough which didn't seem to be better. He was, however, eating
foods he would not otherwise eat and his sleep was generally better. The treatment was slightly changed to Carcinosin 1M,
again one dose.
The next day, Ori developed a fever which never got too high and disappeared quickly. He was vomiting phlegm, his coughing
seemed worse and his facial tics started again. This appeared to be a normal aggravation following a higher potency, so we
waited a few days to see how he progressed. The facial tics disappeared 2 or 3 days later and, a couple weeks later, his
cough improved significantly. Though, he had a runny nose in the morning and sneezed periodically, his eating habits
continued to improve as he now began eating fruits.
In the middle of February, Ori began to cough again and his eczema on his hand was bothering him. It was time for a follow up
consultation. I had just begun using picture cards as a tool in analyzing cases, so Ori was asked to select pictures from a
deck of cards. The first two pictures he picked were of fish and a star of David. The energy of this child once again lead me
in the direction of the sea animals. Ori can not walk without his braces and his natural movement is to drag his body using his
upper extremities. I had to find a sea animal that had this strange, rare and unusual characteristic and was known to have
the prominent characteristics of the remedy Carcinosin.
My search lead me to Asterias rubens, the remedy from the starfish. In nature starfish, rather than using muscles to move
their hundreds of tiny legs, use a complex hydraulic system to move around or cling to rocks. Some species of starfish even
have the ability to regenerate lost arms and can regrow an entire new arm in time. And, if you remember in the initial
consultation, Ori described in detail Patrick Star who wanted a trophy in the story of Sponge Bob.
Following traditional classical homeopathic methodology, I searched the following symptoms to confirm this remedy:
Stomach; RETCHING, gagging; Cough; with (m, 100) (100)
Extremities; CONTRACTION of muscles and tendons; General; lower limbs; legs (l, 57, 10-53) (57)
Extremities; WALK, late learning to (p, 30) (30)
Mind; ANXIETY; Sleep; during (51)
Head; HEAT; Air, as if surrounded by hot (p, 1) (1) *
Ori's new treatment began with one dose of Asterias ruben 1M (liquid) on February 15th.
A month and a half later, Ori's mother advised me that he was eating better with a much wider selection of foods, though she
was still concerned about his weight. His body temperature seemed to shift as he didn't like to swim in a cold pool. And most
recently, his physical therapist began walking exercises (with braces) outside on the grass and, surprisingly, he was relatively
stable during these exercises. His sleeping habits and his energy level had also improved.
I expected more progress especially with his muscles, so I prescribed another single dose of Asterias ruben 1M and added a
daily dose of Asterias ruben LM/Q1.
One month later, Ori developed pus like eruptions all over his legs, feet and hands. It was itchy, red and hot. We stopped the
daily remedy and waited for the discomfort to ease. His mother was instructed to keep the area clean, use Calendula ointment
to ward off infection and apply warm compresses which were similar to reduce the heat on his legs. He also developed a mild
case of strep throat without fever during this month which was treated with antibiotics as a precaution.
At the end of May, he repeated the remedy with another dose of Asterias rubens 1M and resumed the daily dose of Asterias
rubens LM/Q1, double diluting the remedy to avoid unnecessary sensitivity.
On June 7th, Ori's physical therapist noticed a dramatic change in his legs. Ori could for the first time lift his legs using the
strength of his leg muscles. He could flex his ankles. And most importantly, Ori stood on his feet without braces for 27
seconds. What a thrill for all of us...
A few weeks later, Ori's pediatrician confirmed that he has a strong reflex in his left leg.
And then on July 15th, Ori peddled his bicycle without wearing his braces... something he could never to do before.
This story is not over - it's probably just begun. So I invite you to visit this page again and follow the story of this charismatic
little boy as he continues to develop the muscles in his legs. I look forward to the day when Ori separates the "A" in atrophy to
win a trophy for health, happiness and a productive future.
All the names and non-pertinent details of all the cases presented in this website have been slightly modified to protect the privacy of those treated.
At birth, he appeared quite healthy and continued to develop normally until his mother noticed at the age of a year and a half
he began showing signs of delayed development from the waist down. He didn't crawl and stand like his older siblings and
was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a genetic disease causing degeneration of motor neurons in the spinal
cord. Motor neurons are nerve cells that carry information from our brain to the muscle resulting in muscle movement. In
patients with SMA these motor neurons are not fully functional resulting in muscle weakness and wasting. Weakness is often
more severe in the legs than in the arms.
I had recently treated his older brother for allergies and eczema, so his mother considered homeopathic treatment for facial
tics that Ori developed after a recent vaccination.
At our first session on January 7, 2007, I met a very bright, charismatic, independent and strong willed five year old little boy.
Ori was crawling on the floor using his upper extremities to drag his little body from place to place. He eagerly showed me how
he walks using the support of leg braces.
As I do when working with young children, I began the session by asking Ori to draw a picture. He drew a picture of Sponge
Bob, the television cartoon character. "Sponge Bob feeds Gary and Gary is a snail. Sponge Bob and Gary live in a pineapple
under the sea. It (the pineapple) is orange and has green lettuce on the pineapple, and it has a circle thing on the door so
that we can open the door." At this point, Ori began clapping his hands and shaking his head and playing with his hands.
These energetic movements lead me to understand that Ori is excited about Sponge Bob, so I asked him to tell me more.
"Patrick is a star. They call him Patrick Star because that's his last name and his first name is Patrick but I don't know his
middle name. They (Patrick and Sponge Bob) were copying each other, and Sponge Bob told him to stop copying him
because Patrick wanted to get an award, a trophy." I asked "What would happen to Sponge Bob if Patrick got a trophy?"... to
which he replied... "I don't know. Patrick would feel happy - both of them would feel happy because Patrick got a trophy and
he wanted a trophy. When Patrick was happy, Sponge Bob was happy. And that's the end of Sponge Bob. I only watch a
million cartoons of Sponge Bob."
Ori then suddenly started playing with the coloring markers. "All the colors except for the black and the brown were destroying
them and they had guns. When the other colors were shooting at the black and the brown, the black and the brown ran away.
The green and the yellow took their guns. All the colors except the green and the yellow are in charge, but the brown and the
black were the boss of the pink and were killing the (other) colors. The black and the brown only killed the pink one."
Wow... a battle scene as described through the eyes of a child. He described destruction, guns, killing, domination, fleeing.
Definitely the language of survival and, in the understanding of modern homeopathic methodology, the animal kingdom.
Combining this nature with the intensity of his underwater story of Sponge Bob and his friends, I began to suspect that his
remedy should be a sea animal.
To determine the most homeopathic remedy, I focused on his physical attributes. Ori was coughing - a moist cough that
brought up a lot of phlegm. A month ago, he was hospitalized with pneumonia and this seemed to be what still lingered. His
teeth were very small and pointed with a lot of space between them; his gums were very soft and not healthy. When he sat, his
body twisted like a pretzel. He folded his legs using his hands, one on top of the other. He had sores by each fold of his
mouth and on the inside of his lips. And as the session continued, he was hiccuping - spitting as he hiccuped.
Ori quickly became impatient and wanted to play. So I continued the session with his mother discussing her pregnancy, birth
and his development. It was a "beautiful pregnancy" and an easy birth. Though she initially wasn't ready for another child so
quickly after the last, she resolved her worries and became very happy with the idea of her pregnancy.
Ori was very verbal and the brightest child in the nursery. He developed normally up to the point when he was expected to
walk. He always used something to support himself, but he never walked by himself. He crawled up the stairs but this took a
lot of his energy.
Ori is a child that needed a lot of physical touch. He slept with his parents but didn't sleep well. He had eczema on his hands,
face and behind his knees which was itchy and often disturbed his sleep.
Facial tics were the chief complaint and the initial reason for this consultation. Ori's tongue would slide out of the side of his
mouth and he would uncontrollably move his mouth to either side. The first time these facial tics appeared was a year and a
half ago and they lasted a week. Six months later and on the evening after receiving 5 vaccinations in one day, the facial tics
reappeared.
His eating habits were less than desirable for a child with such delayed physical development. In fact, he really didn't like too
many foods - Chinese chicken, chocolate milk, and chocolate ice cream were his favorites. He absolutely disliked hot dogs,
regular chicken, rice, tomatoes, and beef. His hands became raw and swollen when he touched raw eggs or pickles. He was
also allergic to dust.
Ori was always hot especially his head. He often asked for a cool pillow at night and removed his hat in the winter. This
seemed strange, rare and peculiar.
It seemed to me that Ori's overall state required a remedy from the sea animals, however after consultation with Robert
Tennenbaum, it was decided that Ori's treatment should begin with a miasmatic remedy to counteract the reaction of the
vaccination. Facial tics were the chief complaint that initiated the consultation and this condition appeared immediately
following a vaccine. Since Ori was born a healthy child that developed normally until the age of 1 ½ years, there was a strong
suspicion that his spinal muscular atrophy may have been induced by earlier vaccines. Carcinosin is a remedy which has
been clinically successful in treating facial tics, ailments after vaccines and muscle disorders which were Ori's most prominent
symptoms. So his first treatment was one dose of Carcinosin 200C.
A week later Ori's mother phoned me with concern about his cough which didn't seem to be better. He was, however, eating
foods he would not otherwise eat and his sleep was generally better. The treatment was slightly changed to Carcinosin 1M,
again one dose.
The next day, Ori developed a fever which never got too high and disappeared quickly. He was vomiting phlegm, his coughing
seemed worse and his facial tics started again. This appeared to be a normal aggravation following a higher potency, so we
waited a few days to see how he progressed. The facial tics disappeared 2 or 3 days later and, a couple weeks later, his
cough improved significantly. Though, he had a runny nose in the morning and sneezed periodically, his eating habits
continued to improve as he now began eating fruits.
In the middle of February, Ori began to cough again and his eczema on his hand was bothering him. It was time for a follow up
consultation. I had just begun using picture cards as a tool in analyzing cases, so Ori was asked to select pictures from a
deck of cards. The first two pictures he picked were of fish and a star of David. The energy of this child once again lead me
in the direction of the sea animals. Ori can not walk without his braces and his natural movement is to drag his body using his
upper extremities. I had to find a sea animal that had this strange, rare and unusual characteristic and was known to have
the prominent characteristics of the remedy Carcinosin.
My search lead me to Asterias rubens, the remedy from the starfish. In nature starfish, rather than using muscles to move
their hundreds of tiny legs, use a complex hydraulic system to move around or cling to rocks. Some species of starfish even
have the ability to regenerate lost arms and can regrow an entire new arm in time. And, if you remember in the initial
consultation, Ori described in detail Patrick Star who wanted a trophy in the story of Sponge Bob.
Following traditional classical homeopathic methodology, I searched the following symptoms to confirm this remedy:
Stomach; RETCHING, gagging; Cough; with (m, 100) (100)
Extremities; CONTRACTION of muscles and tendons; General; lower limbs; legs (l, 57, 10-53) (57)
Extremities; WALK, late learning to (p, 30) (30)
Mind; ANXIETY; Sleep; during (51)
Head; HEAT; Air, as if surrounded by hot (p, 1) (1) *
Ori's new treatment began with one dose of Asterias ruben 1M (liquid) on February 15th.
A month and a half later, Ori's mother advised me that he was eating better with a much wider selection of foods, though she
was still concerned about his weight. His body temperature seemed to shift as he didn't like to swim in a cold pool. And most
recently, his physical therapist began walking exercises (with braces) outside on the grass and, surprisingly, he was relatively
stable during these exercises. His sleeping habits and his energy level had also improved.
I expected more progress especially with his muscles, so I prescribed another single dose of Asterias ruben 1M and added a
daily dose of Asterias ruben LM/Q1.
One month later, Ori developed pus like eruptions all over his legs, feet and hands. It was itchy, red and hot. We stopped the
daily remedy and waited for the discomfort to ease. His mother was instructed to keep the area clean, use Calendula ointment
to ward off infection and apply warm compresses which were similar to reduce the heat on his legs. He also developed a mild
case of strep throat without fever during this month which was treated with antibiotics as a precaution.
At the end of May, he repeated the remedy with another dose of Asterias rubens 1M and resumed the daily dose of Asterias
rubens LM/Q1, double diluting the remedy to avoid unnecessary sensitivity.
On June 7th, Ori's physical therapist noticed a dramatic change in his legs. Ori could for the first time lift his legs using the
strength of his leg muscles. He could flex his ankles. And most importantly, Ori stood on his feet without braces for 27
seconds. What a thrill for all of us...
A few weeks later, Ori's pediatrician confirmed that he has a strong reflex in his left leg.
And then on July 15th, Ori peddled his bicycle without wearing his braces... something he could never to do before.
This story is not over - it's probably just begun. So I invite you to visit this page again and follow the story of this charismatic
little boy as he continues to develop the muscles in his legs. I look forward to the day when Ori separates the "A" in atrophy to
win a trophy for health, happiness and a productive future.
All the names and non-pertinent details of all the cases presented in this website have been slightly modified to protect the privacy of those treated.
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| Francine Bork Nadav, Classical Homeopath tel. 516-510-7880 email. francine22@optonline.net Long Island Office: 421 Oakland Avenue * Cedarhurst, New York 11516 Queens: 144-37 68th Drive, Suite 1, Kew Garden Hills, New York Manhattan: 8 Gramercy Park South, New York City, New York |