Taken by mouth, nose or injection
Supplements and cannabinoids
Things a child swallows, inhales or is injected with, sold as regenerative, calming or cognition-supporting. Most of this group sits outside any medicines regulator and is the easiest of all these treatments to start and the hardest to evaluate. It also contains the one exception on this site: a cannabis-derived compound that went through proper trials and became a licensed medicine — for three named epilepsy syndromes, and nothing else.
If everything on conventional care is not yet fully in place, that is where the next decision belongs — not here.
Cannabidiol and cannabis-based products
The one product in this group that became a real medicine — and only for three named epilepsy syndromes. The oil sold in a shop and the licensed solution are not the same thing.
CBD, purified cannabidiol (Epidiolex / Epidyolex), CBD oils, THC, nabiximols
Early research onlyPeptide preparations
Two quite different things share this word: prescription neuropeptide preparations used routinely in some countries, and an unregulated wellness trade. Neither has good evidence in children.
Cerebrolysin, Cortexin, Semax, and “peptide therapy” sold by wellness clinics
Early research onlyMedicinal mushrooms and nootropics
A research band worth watching, and a supplement shelf to approach carefully. Some of these compounds have real laboratory interest; almost none has been tested in children with neurological conditions.
Lion's mane (Hericium erinaceus), reishi, cordyceps, citicoline, piracetam, psilocybin