Agrimony: despite cheerful and easy going appearance, this child is often filled with inner torment; experiences great difficulty reading in a group.
Aspen: anxiety with no apparent cause.
California Wild Rose: low vitality, poor appetite, and a lack of interest in food.
Calendula: argumentative; a poor listener who has communication problems in relationships, with a special difficulty being receptive to what others are saying.
Chamomile: contrary, fussy and agitated children; often suffer from tension-created digestive disturbances in the stomach area and emotional tension that interferes with learning and concentration.
Chestnut Bud:; often lag behind others, experience difficulty with learning situations, repeat mistakes, and have difficulty focusing on and retaining what they study.
Chicory: demand excessive attention by negative behavior such as throwing temper tantrums, being overly fussy, and becoming easily irritated when they do nor get the desired attention; will then tend to cling or feel sorry for themselves.
Clematis: daydreamer who escapes from the present by spacing out and fantasizing about the future.
Cosmos: overly active minds flooded by too many ideas, so overwhelmed that they are unable to focus, especially evident when they try to think and talk at the same time and feel overwhelmed by too much information and are unable to articulate.
Dill: easily overwhelmed with new projects or when life moves too fast for them; can feel "over-amped."
Elm: feelings of being overwhelmed, over-extended and isolated.
Filaree: lost in details and worries, these children lose sight of the broad perspective when they are overcome by anxieties and over-focus on details.
Gentian: lacking perseverance and prone to discouragement, some children cannot rebound easily from difficulties and setbacks; Gentian helps overcome discouragement after rejection or failure and strengthens the ability to recoup and move on.
Golden Yarrow: helps overcome performance anxietyand instill confidence to perform well.
Goldenrod: unsure of their own values, some children become overly reliant on social approval and/or create barriers to others by anti-social or obnoxious behavior.
Holly: specific for jealousy, envy and sibling rivalry when a child feels there is not enough love to go around.
Impatiens: children who are restless and impulsive; hasty and eat too fast; often become frustrated easily, and can be impatient, angry and intolerant, with fiery temperaments, may even become abusive or violent.
Indian Pink: especially valuable for children with frazzled nerves who have to live with and/or have difficulty staying calm and focused in the midst of intense or frantic situations.
Iris: for those who feel frustrated in their creativity; hyperactivity with hypoglycemic tendencies and craving for sweets.
Larch: symptoms centered around a lack of self-confidence, fear of ridicule by others, fear of failure, anxiety, self-blame; helps instill confidence in self-expression or public performance.
Lavender: high strung, light sleepers with frayed and over-stimulated nerves.
Madia: easily distracted, unable to focus, scattered thinking, and inability to manage details; Madia enahnces the ability to concentrate.
Mallow: finding it difficult to make social contact and maintain friendships, these children often suffer from feelings of isolation and abandonment; aids development of self-esteem,; warmth and trust.
Mimulus: fearful of death, dark, cold, damp, illness, losing friends, people, animals and unable to face challenges of daily life, these children exhibit an often severe lack of confidence in themselves.
Morning Glory: addictive behavior, irregular habits and an erratic lifestyle typify these children who crave junk food and stimulants, engage in late-night bingeing, and suffer from nervous problems.
Peppermint: these children are sleepy after eating, have difficulty maintaining mental attention, and seem unable to use their mental forces adequately; promotes an active, awake state of mind and aids in overcoming mental lethargy and sluggishness.
Pine: self-critical, filled with guilt, and always hard on herself; set unrealistically high standards for themselves and take on responsibility for the mistakes of others.
Pink Monkeyflower: always wanting to hide and avoid attention, these highly sensitive children have difficulty expressing their feelings, are afraid of being hurt and create barriers out of a sense of shame, unworthiness, and sense of vulnerability; they hold their real feelings deep inside because they fear judgment or censure and think others wont understand or accept them.
Poison Oak: hypersensitivity and fear with an impatient, hostile and irritable defense; afraid of contact with others, they are unable to form sympathetic bonds; instills respect and awareness for boundaries and limitations in social and environmental situations.
Quaking Grass unable to listen well, these children have difficulty working with others in group situations.
Rabbitbrush: confused and overwhelmed easily by too much going on at once or too many details, these children need more alertness, mental adaptability and ability to synthesize.
Rescue Remedy (Five-Flower Remedy): this well-known combination helps rescue a child from crisis, panic and trauma, when both the child and the situation seem totally out of control; faciliates rapid equilibration, centeredness, and inner harmony in situations of extreme stress; use externally or internally for any situation which depletes vital force (mental, emotional or physical).
Rosemary: helps provide a greater wakefulness and vitality, especially with children who are sleepy, forgetful during the day, and prone to prone to out of body experiences; a classic remedy for poor memory, Rosemary also aids stagnant digestion.
Shasta daisy: promotes awareness, concentration and insight; resolves scattered thinking and enhances mental clarity, especially with those unable to put the pieces together into a whole
Snapdragon: for children who snap back or get irritated too easily when feeling challenged or attacked; angry and argumentative when communicating with others, these children are inclined to verbal abuse and derogatory comments; they often even bite!
Vine: a bully who always has to be in control of the situation and will put their own wishes before those of others.
White Chestnut: for the child whose mind is never still, is often unable to let go of a worry or event; constant unwanted thoughts and preoccupation causes lack of concentration; inescapable mental chatter causes sleeplessness at night and tiredness and depression during the day.
electromagnetic
Abrams: 970 (mental); 35 (psychic)
color
blue (promotes relaxation; lowers high temperatures and reduces inflamed tissue; can help support the pineal gland; strengthens energy) and magenta (helps to balance emotions and enhance energy; helps to build up and balance the functional activity of the heart, kidneys, adrenals, and the reproductive system) on front
green (balances brain when placed on face and back of head; balances the body when used on the front; can support and balance pituitary) on face or front
(Dinshah, 1985, pp. 48, 49)
gems and minerals
citrine: releases mental/emotional blocks, promotes mental clarity, sedative, relaxant (Wright)
rose quartz: calming to the heart; enhances tenderness, joy, sweetness, nurturing, inner peace
footnotes