HERB - Soothers for children

[Lynette K LaFontaine]

You have the power to educate your health care providers.  Unfortunately,
even though they are aware, there simply is not the time to learn everything
that is needed about alternatives.  Unless you are very fortunate it may be
some time before you will regularly see a provider who is well versed in
this area.  Every little bit we can provides helps.  They do pay attention.
Even those who poo poo tend to take notice when they keep hearing the same
thing from different sources.  Being a nurse I am partial to believe that we
are more open and receptive to non pharmacological means of healing and
health maintenance, than the physician, as this is more in line with
nursing's philosophy.  The Docs are learning a lot from nurses about this.
So if you can't get him/her to listen talk to nurses.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Bjmikita at aol.com>
To: <herbalist at Ansteorra.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: HERB - Soothers for children


> We ended up in Turkey with a 7 week old baby thanks to the infinate wisdom
of
> the United States Air Force.  Luckily a good friend of mine had given me a
> bottle of pure peppermint extract telling me I would need it.  I did.  My
> daughter would have gas so bad her stomach would go rigid and she would
> scream.....Of course when this first happened I was clueless and the base
> clinic didn't have any colic medicine, they were out!  I grabbed the
> peppermint, added enough to a bottle of water to make it taste strongly of
> peppermint, added just enough sugar to make it palatable and shoved it
into
> my baby's mouth.  She gobbled the whole bottle down, belched like a storm
> trooper and tooted out of the other end for sometime.  By the time we left
> Turkey the clinic was recommending peppermint extract to all new mothers.
> As the pedietrician said, whatever works!
>
> Jeanne de La Mer
>
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