Nikki relates:

<<  Babies (and children) love the remedies
 because they are sweet. A wrong remedy of low potency will do nothing.>>

snip

<<If a child, heaven forbid, ate a bottle of homeopathic remedy, nothing
 would happen. That certainly isn't the case if a child eats a bottle of any
 drugstore medicine> >>

This all of a sudden brought back a VERY vivid memory.  My parents were
missionaries and we were living in England, I believe, at the time.  My
mother was a great believer in homeopathy, and had her little store of
homeopathic remedies which we carted from country to country.  (My dh has had
a wonderful time clearing out my mother's medicine cabinets finding
ointments, salves, and medicines from our days in China & Australia... "but
it WORKS" she would say...).  The two I remember specifically were Belladonna
and Aconite (aconite being the "sneeze pill" at our house).  Anyway, these
came in little vials with a cork top, and were teeny tiny sugary pellets,
probably no larger than the head of a pin, if that.  Medicating someone
wasn't exact -- you shook a bit out in the palm of your hand and ate them.
ANyway, one day I got into the little chest where she kept them and had a
wonderful time eating these little candies -- until all of a sudden I
remembered that I would REALLY get in trouble when Mother saw that over half
the bottle was gone.  Whereupon I tried to spit them back in the bottle to
cover up my sin....little white sugary pills and spit.

And I thought she wouldn't notice.

I was not the world's brightest four year old.

But Nikki is right -- the little pellets didn't hurt me, but the board of
education applied to the seat of learning certainly did!

Jan Barger - in sunny, warm, and bright Wheaton.

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