Homeopathy for ADHD

My mother in law lives in Switzerland.  She suffers from irritable bowel disease.  As far as I know, she only has one physician, a homeopathic physician, who she swears by.  She claims that he is the only physician who has been able to help her.  Homeopathy works by a law that I call, "killing fire with fire".  Homeopaths believe that if you give someone a little of something that will cause the same mild symptoms as the symptoms that they are having, the body will recognize the tiny irritant and will produce its own cure for that particular problem.

Homeopathy is hugely popular in Europe and in South and Central America.  They Royal family has their very own homeopathic physician and people in Switzerland and in Germany use homeopathy with much more ease, confidence, and frequency than we do here in the U.S.  Homeopathy was started in Germany by a physician who practiced traditional allopathic medicine.

It was a Cholera epidemic in the 1830s which put homeopathy on the map.  Patients treated with the homeopathic cure survived the epidemic at rates that were 50-60 percent higher than those treated with traditional medicine.   Pharmacist, traditional physicians, and homeopathic physicians have been trying to figure out why ever since.

From my research I found that no one knows with 100% certainty exactly why, how, or if  homeopathy works.  There have been published randomized control trials that have shown that it is more effective than placebo in a number of studies.  There have been some studies on the treatment of ADHD symptoms done in Switzerland which have found the treatment to be highly effective provided that the child is placed on the correct homeopathic remedy.  Homeopaths believe that you must treat every individual with the exact medicine that will help that individual and that a 'one medicine fits all' approach does not work for ADHD or for any disease.

A search of the ADHD forums finds some homeopathy advocates who swear that the medicine has helped their hyperactivity, inattentiveness, and focus.  There are as many, if not more, people on these forums who report that the homeopathic medicines are a HUGE waste of money.

Homeopathic physicians argue that one treatment may help one person while another treatment for ADHD will help another and that the treatments have to be tailored to the person.  One study done in Switzerland first identified the medicine that would work for a child with ADHD and then followed them for several months.  The researcher from this study reported that these children, who had tailor made treatments, did very well controlling their symptoms of ADHD with their individual ADHD cures.

There is absolutely no harm in homeopathic medicine. It is considered to be extremely safe.  I do not believe in giving people false hope but I believe that, if the ADHD symptoms are not dangerously impairing, that anything is worth a try.  I tried Vaxa Attend with my 11 year old son and it did not work for him.  Maybe a tailor made cure would have made the difference but I was trained in traditional medicine and do not and did not have enough confidence in homeopathy to pursue this further.

If there is a homeopathic physician reading this who would like to interview me or my un-medicated inattentive son and send us a sample of a homeopathic remedy that I might review on this website,  I would be more than happy to give this remedy a try and report back to all of you.

I noticed recently that Vaxa Attend was advertising on this website.  I am afraid that I cannot give them my endorsement but if this homeopathic medicine happens to help your symptoms of ADHD,  I am very happy for you!