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The Healing Power of Pollen

Chapter Eight: Children

‘Children bring with them innumerable cares.’ -Erasmus 1522

Child health must begin at the beginning. There is now ample evidence to show that breast feeding contributes greatly to sound health and a good constitution. It is now generally realized that solids, especially cereals, should not be given before the twelfth week. This is because there is a small but definite risk of an adverse reaction; a risk usually passed by the third month. Some people simply cannot breast feed or they may have children who were not breast fed. In such cases second to best just has to be good enough.

The next important aspect is diet. We know what should be done, but do we do it? The average person eats far too much fat, salt, sugar and refined foods, and not enough roughage, whole grains, lightly cooked or raw fruit and vegetables. Give your child a good start by ensuring a sensible and balanced diet, avoiding anything more than the occasional sweet or sugary soft drink, making doubly certain that fond relatives and friends do not use sweets as a reward. Eat sensibly yourself – example is better than mere words – avoid smoking (especially during pregnancy and lactation). Alcohol is now known to have a detrimental effect on the developing fetus and should only be taken in very modest amounts.

Add fresh air, exercise, sunshine, a stable loving home life and plenty of fun and companionship. For most children such simple steps as these are sufficient to reduce to the minimum the likelihood of childhood illness. In spite of a good deal of back-sliding of all concerned and without taking it all too seriously such a philosophy as I have outlined has helped our own two children to spend at least their first eleven and thirteen years respectively relatively free from illness and exhaustingly full of energy.

But things do go wrong. Epidemics occur at school. The sun doesn’t shine all summer, or hardly seems to, so that resistance is reduced. Visits to exhibitions or concerts, rides on trains, and buses all seem sometimes to be part of a gigantic plot to expose the family to germs, which seem to have left their producers in a catastrophic stage. Happily up till now we normally get off very lightly. While those all around are falling down, at worst ours have a slight sniffle needing an early bedtime rather than a week away from school.

Of course, there will be times when everything fails and rest in bed is the only answer. But the secret of a good deal of success is to take up battle stations as soon as there is a risk of serious infection. And here the bee comes to the rescue and is part of our defenses. A two or three months’ course of pollen in the autumn, especially if the summer has been bad, is a wise and effective precaution. The evidence that pollen also aids concentration could be an added bonus at school!

But when danger really threatens and the children are exposed to many germs, then, at the first sign of distress – however slight – give vitamin C (natural if possible) at least 300 to 500 mg a day together with one or two capsules or lozenges a day of propils, the bee resin described in Chapter 2, and if there is anything more than the slightest symptoms step up the vitamin C for children over the age of ten to a gram three or four times a day and when over the age of fifteen to gram every three hours for at least two days (not necessary at night).

At the same time increase the propolis to three or four capsules a day. If you can find propolis tincture then take five drops in a glass of water, gargle with it and swallow the mixture at the first signs of a sore throat. Propolis and vitamin C are, like pollen, very useful in all infectious illnesses and are not contra-indicated by any other treatment that is being given by your practitioner (although it is sensible to let him know what you are doing) and even when it does not completely clear up the illness this treatment has been shown to help keep the symptoms reasonably mild in the majority of cases.

Hay Fever

Children tend to suffer from hay fever far more frequently than adults and it is certainly worth while reading the chapter on hay fever and giving pollen a good trial, preferably over two years. Another excellent hay fever treatment which can be used as well as pollen and is often dramatically swift in the relief of symptoms is Combination H, a biochemic tissue salt mixture which has been homeopathically prepared and is quite safe even for the youngest child.

Wheat Germ and Pollen Sachets

Some people, especially children and the old, find tablets and capsules difficult to take. After two years of research there are now available delicious sachets of wheat germ with pollen made by the Pollen-B Company (Bee Pollen from England). These are produced by a special cold process which preserves the enzymes whilst protecting the granules.

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