GAERTNER 30

Action of Medicine:

• Children are restless wandering about looking at things, but their attention is not held.
• Gaertner is pessimistic, lack of confidence.
• Gaertner has its greatest action on digestive tract. Children fed on artificial food have poor digestion.
• The inability to digest fat, celiac disease, ketosis intestinal infantilism are disease complex found under the provings of this nosode.
• This remedy is valuable in malnutrition, either from lack of adequate diet or failure to metabolize, e.g. in steatorrhea, celiac disease or following gastric operations and in some cases of colitis.
• It used to be of value in marasmic children and may well have a place in underdeveloped countries and among refugees with inadequate diets.
• Emaciation in malignant disease and in the elderly is a further indication.
• The children are hypersensitive to all impressions, physical and psychical with fear of the dark and being alone.
• They have active brains, although poorly nourished bodies and poor muscular development.

Reference: Boericke’s New Manual of homeopathic Materia Medica with Repertory