

Every individual child has his nature which will be similar throughout his life. A child may be formed, but he can be formed or can form himself only according to his nature, which is almost homoeostatic. This homoeostatic state can be called the constitution. The constitution is “what is” and the temperament is “what becomes”.
The Temperament of a child may change over time, and be affected by many external factors, such as the physical and emotional environment in which the child is raised, the illnesses to which they are exposed, vaccinations, drugs used, and so on.
In my observations over the years as a mother and homoeopathic practitioner I realized that not only does “like cure like” but also, “like attracts like” and can be considered as true.
Though H.A. Roberts states that prescribing on types, or temperaments, is at best a slack method of using the blessings of Homoeopathy and refers to it as keynote prescribing, I disagree with him on that and feel that the individual temperaments seem to attract certain constitutional remedies fitting the totality of symptoms. Knowledge of these different types can be of value in practical prescribing in the treatment of children.
I am suggesting that a particular Temperament can lead to a characteristic remedy. But of course there is not only one characteristic remedy for a particular temperament but many more to choose from taking the totality of symptoms of the individual child into account.
