Chamomilla: Head remedy for ailments of dentition. Child is peevish
and fretful with greenish and offensive diarrhoea. The gums are red and
tender. Screams with pain and refuses food, drink and toys when
offered. Wants to be covered.
Calcarea Carb: Slowness in teething or where the teething is too rapid.
In backward dentition where the gums are pale and shiny. Sweat on
fore-head is the leading indication.
Calcarea Phos: Suitable in emaciated children with open fontanelles
and who are slow in teething and whose teeth decay rapidly owing to
deficiency of bone tissues. Diarrhoea during dentition.
Colocynth: When a baby bolts his food too rapidly or else seems to
dislike it. Windy, tummy pains.
Pulsatilla: When the child is gentle, fair type, fearful and only
comforted by patting.
Tuberculinum: For emaciated children where development is arrested
mentally and physically. Non-appearance of teeth as a result of
weakness.
Phytolacca: When the child bites the teeth and gums together.
Kreosote: An excellent remedy where dentition is painful and difficult,
the gums are spongy and painful, the teeth when come out show marks
of decay on them. Restlessness and tossing about is also present.
Constipation and undigested diarrhoeic stools.
Zincum Met: Tendency to press the gums together or gnashing of the
teeth during difficult dentition; loosening of the teeth and bleeding
gums.
