Calcarea Carb: Curvature especially of spine or of long bones.
Malformation in scrofulous persons; extremities deformed, crooked, growing imperfectly . The fontanels are late in closing and the teeth are cut late and with difficulty. Potbellied child.
Kali Carb: Atrophy of the bones.
Calcarea Phos: Mal-formation of bones with loss in weight. Best single
remedy for the rickets. The child is thin, emaciated and abdomen is sunken
rather than distended. Large head and fontanelles remain open longer than
in Cal. Carb. child.
Tuberculinum 200: Start treatment with this remedy and repeat it every
three months. No medicine to be given two days before and after its
administration.
Fluoric Acid: An excellent remedy, especially when there is a combination
of syphilitic and rachitic diathesis. Constitution is weak and complexion
sallow; the muscles are softened and flabby and the feet and hands
constantly bathed in perspiration.
Silicea: Open fontanelles, abdomen swollen and bot with profuse sour
sweat on head and body dry. Boils, abscesses, glands that threaten to
suppurate are also covered by this remedy.
Baryta Carb: When there is mental and physical dwarfing. Tonsils and the
glands about the neck and throat are enlarged and indurated.
Calcarea Fluor: Enlargement and swellings of the parietal bones of infants,
deficient enamel of the teeth, cervical glands unusually hard and nodulations of the bones with suppuration.
Kreosote: When the teeth show early decay in the rachitic child, especially the milk teeth, which show dark spots and begin to crumble as
soon as they appear.
Argentum Nit: For intelligent and mentally prematurely developed
children. Bowels loose and the evacuation white. Craving for sweets.
Baryta Mur: Pale, dull and rickety children who cannot even stand without
help. Tonsils enlarged, weak heart and very susceptible to cold.
