Magnesia Carb: Children who have a tendency to sinking in of the
occipital bone or the back of the head and jutting out over it of the
parietal bones creating a depression. This condition is generally found
amongst illegitimate of legs; skin flabby and hangs loose in folds. Head
weak, cannot hold it up.
Calcarea Phos: An excellent remedy for marasmus. It should be given
in 6X trituration. Skin dry and wrinkled.
Natrum Mur: Marasmus of neck in children. Utterly dehydrated. Sad
and wistful. Child looks like a tiny hairless monkey.
Picric Acid: Wasting with great appetite.
Sanicula: Child looks old, dirty and greasy. Progressive emaciation.
Skin wrinkled about neck and hands in folds. Mentally obstinate and
head-strong, constantly changing. Sweating of head at night which wets
the pillow. Offensive foot sweat.
Baryta Carb: Is indicated in muscular atrophy at the age of puberty.
Gradual dwindling in persons who had been fat and well-nourished.
Emaciation of children with large glands and enlarged abdomen.
Iodum: Is useful when there is a tendency to marasmus. Irritability,
child does not want to be approached. Eats ravenously yet emaciated.
Deformed and swollen joints.
Tuberculinum: This should be given as an inter-current remedy every
week in 200 dilution.
