Autism is a Neurological Disorder with its onset commonly seen in infancy or early childhood. The lack of awareness about this condition is the reason why it is considered ‘rare’. Autism occurs along a ‘spectrum’, meaning that the symptoms and characteristics can occur in a variety of combinations, from mild to severe. No two individuals with Autism are exactly alike, even in the way their Autism shows itself. An Autistic child is a child who has lost or never achieved a contact with other people and is totally withdrawn and preoccupied with his own fancies and stereotyped behavior.
What are The Early Signs?
- Onset within 3 years of life
- Child looks at one object constantly
- Child does not give an eye contact on calling
- Child does not respond to his name
- Child has speech delay
- Child does not give a social smile
- Child does not recognize family members
- Child is busy in his own world
The Common End Symptoms Might Be Some or Many of The Following:
- Annoying obstinacy in behavior
- Poor verbal expression uses gesture to means for his needs
- Repeating words or phrases
- Laughing, crying without apparent cause
- Prefers solitude
- Throws Tantrums
- Difficulty in social interaction together with his age or elders
- No eye contact while communication Unresponsive teaching
- Failure to perceive fears of danger, resulting in jumping from high place, twiddling with pointed objects
- Physical hyper-activity or under-activity
- Underdeveloped fine motor skills
- Not aware of verbal instructions with normal hearing
- Spinning objects
- Inappropriate possessiveness to objects
- Over-sensitivity or under-sensitivity to pain
- Screaming and shouting out of proportion
- Repeats the same words (echolalia)
Treatment is typically slow and gradual and requires careful case management skills. Anxiety, desperation, and sometimes dysfunction in Autism. Simultaneous use of many forms of intervention, including diets, supplements, chelation (in various forms), and a myriad of other therapies such as behavioral therapies, auditory therapies, osteopathy and craniosacral treatment. Many treatments are that specialize in the myriad symptoms (e.g., gut problems) instead of the underlying explanation for the disease. Homoeopathy is a relatively newer mode of intervention in the treatment of Autism and its merits remain shadowed from the general population, as Homoeopathy has a long way to go before its well-deserved credentials are felicitated by the modern
world. All Autistic patients should be treated with Homeopathy.
Three main reasons:
- First, the conventional treatment of psychiatric drugs is meant to calm the patient down, not to cure.
- Second, Autism is really a spectrum. It ranges from mild to severe. Dr. Shubie Raj’s perspective is that Autism caused by prenatal hypoxia, some neurological disorder, genetic, biochemical disorder, etc. With accurate Homeopathic treatment, all cases will move within the right direction. It is only a matter of how far. However, intervention at an early stage and treatment can help kids with Autism cope with it. Homeopathy is an extremely effective treatment for autism and has proven efficacy in treating it.
- The third reason for choosing Homeopathy is that many of the other therapies, such as diet and nutrition, seem to work much better along with Homeopathic treatment.
Improvement in Individual Autistic Symtoms with Homeopathy
Symptoms of Autism vary from child to child. Homeopathy can help relieve a lot of such symptoms. With homeopathic medicines, it has been observed that there is:
- Improvement in self-rocking behavior, violent anger spells, poor attention, random laughing, disturbed sleep pattern, self-biting, eating of wall materials, control of urination & defecation and communication skills
- Improvement in eating and drinking abnormalities
- Better control of the bowel and bladder especially bedwetting decreased by 80%
- Immunological and allergic reactions reduced by 70%
- Less gestures and sensory issues (visual, touch, pain and temperature)
- Lessening of echolalia (unnecessary repetition of speech)
- Jumping, spinning, hand flapping was decreased by 83%
- Some children who were eating leaves, lipstick and creams showed complete reversal of the habit.
Statistics show that
72% of cases who continued homeopathic treatment for more than six months showed significant improvement in:
- Hyperactive behavior like restlessness and tantrums
- Impaired sensory defenses
- Eye contact
- Speech.
- 60% of cases with mild autism regained speech
- 50% of cases (without significant retardation), which continued for more than two years got rehabilitated in mainstream school or slow ‘learners’ setup while others were enrolled in special school
Obsessive acts and self-stimulations showed insignificant change in first six months and took longer to respond.
Dr. Shubie Raj’s research helped us to understand that Homeopathic medicines do not merely act on any one particular organ of an individual, but it has much more deeper and central action on psycho-neuro-endocrinological and psych- immunological axis it works well to correct the accentuated state of sensitivity. It also helps improve fine motor skills as well as perceptual difficulties. Behavior modification through Homeopathic medicines is an age old well documented function. Carefully selected Homeopathic medicine brings about qualitative change at a wide range of symptoms in children with Autism. It also helps in behavior modification to reduce child’s hyperactivity, irritability, violence etc. Thus, it plays a distinct role in reducing or eliminating Autistic features Homoeopathy ranks higher than other forms of medical management of Autism, as unlike others, it acts at the level of miasm, susceptibility and sensitivity, which are important in the genesis of Autism and the manifestation and progression of its various symptoms. Thus, we conclude that Homeopathy is an effective weapon to tackle this epidemic of Autism
and can bring a smile on the face of parents as well as the children suffering from this disorder.