Jeff jumped up every few minutes to sharpen pencils or chatter with his friends.

Anything and everything distracted him. His mind drifted constantly. His mother told us, "He can even hear the grass grow."

Jeff simply could not hang on to directions. He talked out in class on a regular basis. His teachers lost patience with Jeff because of his interruptions and inability to focus. Jeff was quite a storyteller. He would also conveniently forget to tell his mother when he got into trouble at school. His academic abilities were a real problem. He was held back in the first grade because he could not read.

When we first saw Jeff, he had just started the second grade and was writing his numbers and letters backwards. Jeff's parents divorced when he was three. It was an awful time for him. He continued to act like a baby for several years. Jeff did not want to stop nursing. He was very insecure, "a momma's boy." He became frightened very easily. He acted in a charming, sweet manner with adults and younger children, but he was shy with kids his age. Jeff had a very hard time making friends. He was afraid to try anything new. He could never get enough attention and always insisted, "Watch me, watch me!" Jeff experienced enormous mood swings. His mother described his as "happy as a lark or mad as a hornet." He cried, screamed, swore, slammed doors, and alternately told his mother that he loved and hated her. When he was angry, he became wild, throwing things on the floor and ripping up paper.

Life was scary for Jeff. He was afraid to look out of the windows at night. He slept in bed with his brother until recently because he was afraid to be alone. Jeff held his mother's hand while watching scary movies until he was seven. He did not like the dark and slept with a night light. He complained of diarrhea, stomach aches, and a constant runny nose. He loved chicken, sweets, and hamburgers. Jeff became wound up and wild after eating sugar. His ears and face turned bright red and he could not stop talking.

The medicine that benefited Jeff the most was Lycopodium (Club moss). This medicine can help fearful children who act immaturely and try to cover up their mistakes. They make every effort to appear courageous and powerful, but inside they are timid and afraid. Kids like Jeff often feel more comfortable playing with younger children rather than their peers, because they feel older and can boss the younger children around. These children are very concerned with what others think and try to look cool at all costs. A deep insecurity inside often causes them to feel very anxious about performing in public or taking examinations where their inner weakness or lack of mastery might be revealed. There may also be a tendency to dyslexia and distractibility. These children often go wild for sweets but can also have a bad reaction to sugar, physically or behaviorally.

Two months after he was given the medicine, Jeff got his highest marks ever in school. His dyslexia was improving. He was able to sit still, raise his hand, and pay attention in class. Over the next eighteen months, Jeff's behavior steadily improved. He was able to make new friends more easily. The other children started to look up to Jeff because he was so agile in physical education. He acted less impulsively and his teachers reported that he was extremely well behaved. He accomplished two years of math in six months. For the first time, the teachers recognized that Jeff was very bright. They removed him from special education classes where had been placed due to his unruly behavior. Now, three years after beginning homeopathy, he continues to do very well in a regular classroom.
 
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