The nature of autism and the homeopathic approach to it

Autism is the congenital absence of emotions. The main psychiatric criteria for autism are: complete indifference and non-responsiveness to human contact and relations, lack of emotional expression and voluntary eye contact, mechanical action, behavior and speech, language problems, stereotyped, repetitive and ritualistic patterns of behaviour and body movements, restlessness, grimaces, spinning and swinging, aggression, self injury, aversion to any change, onset before the age of three, coincidence of epilepsy and mental retardation. Autism is considered to be an incurable disorder. The disease has to be differ…