Dealing With Your Ailments From Festivities

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Thought of The Week
The Cholesterol Myth

As we approach the silly season in the western world, I’d like to talk about three homeopathic medicines which may help you through the festivities in a more holistic way.

I’m assuming here that you will be using the 30c potency, the most common in home prescribing kits. If you have a 6c only, more frequent doses will be required.

‘Dose as required’ means that after the initial dosing to see if it’s the correct medicine for you, you only redose when the symptoms return or plateau.

First, the medicine Nux vomica is par excellence for preventing and for curing hangovers from too much alcohol. Hangovers show you that your liver is having a tough time. The typical symptoms of a hangover are:

• headache which is worse for noise and light
• irritable
• very cold, better for warmth
• wants to be quiet and dark

If you take a couple of doses prior to drinking, you are much less likely to have a bad hangover. Then when you return home, drink some water. Then put a couple of pillules in a glass of water and sip this continuously until you fall asleep.

You probably won’t need any more doses in the morning, unless it was a bad binge. Dose as required.

I’m not a big drinker, so can easily get a headache from a bit too much wine. I recently had lunch with a friend at a winery. Of course, we had to sample what was on offer. I think I had a few more samples than was good for me, as I only had a glass and a half with lunch. But I did need some Nux vomica later in the afternoon, for a headache that was developing.

A couple of doses and it disappeared.

Nux vomica works for many more problems than too much alcohol. It’s a great liver cleanser, especially when a lot of drugs have been taken. It can help a well indicated homeopathic medicine to work.

Next, the medicine Carbo veg is the best way to prevent problems from over eating. Symptoms may include:

• great distension of abdomen from gas causing discomfort or pain
• passing the gas brings relief (burping or flatus)
• craves fizzy drinks to encourage burping
• indigestion from over eating
• difficulty breathing after eating too much
• must loosen clothes
• can faint in a stuffy room - craves fresh or moving air

Some people don’t need to eat much more than their normal amount to  get digestive problems. Others can eat an enormous amount before they suffer.

Just remember the key for Carbo veg is the relief gained by passing the gas.

The third medicine is Pulsatilla. This medicine has problems digesting fat, which they crave. It’s odd that people often crave the things they can least tolerate. Maybe it’s showing us which medicine they need. The strong digestive keynotes of Pulsatilla are:

• desires or averse to fatty foods
• indigestion with spasms
• thirstless
• craves fresh air
• hot, better for cold

Both Carbo veg and Pulsatilla craves fresh air and have bloating with an intolerance to fat. The biggest difference is that Pulsatilla is worse for heat, whereas Carbo veg is cold, but averse to being covered. And Pulsatilla doesn’t have the burping to relieve the discomfort.

If you’re throwing a party, these three medicines may well stand you in good stead.

There is no difference in treating animals and people when using homeopathy. Apart from the fact that you can get subjective symptoms from people, but rely only on objective symptoms from animals, there is no difference. Because of this, many people tend to portray their feelings and fears onto their animals.

When looking at your animal’s symptoms, try to be objective, taking only the signs. Don’t try to interpret what they means. For instance, if your dog is bloated, just use the symptom bloating - he may need Carbo veg. Don’t try to hypothesise what it means.

If your cat is swearing and seems irritable after a trip to the vet, maybe she needs Nux vomica.

So the above medicines can be as useful on your animals as they are for you. Hopefully you won’t need to use Nux vomica for the the same reason, as you might after a party, but it is a great medicine for a struggling liver with the same symptoms.

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Thought of the Week

How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint!
How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint!
Nature is always hinting at us.
It hints over and over again.
And suddenly we take the hint.
Robert Frost

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The Cholesterol Myth

If you are taking, or know anyone who is taking statins, you might like to read this.

How to Remain Stressfree in these Troubled Times

We live in troubled times. We can no longer predict what will happen, if we ever could. Businesses, jobs, systems, ways of life, even traditions are disappearing. I believe this to be a good thing in the long run, as the way the world was run wasn’t working very well for many (most?) people. I believe the shake up is necessary to herald in a new, better way.

That doesn’t mean the change over time will be easy. Far from it. We’re all having to adjust and make changes. Some resist these changes and they will be the ones who have the hardest time. Other adapt easily, going with the flow, and they’ll have the easiest time.

So today, we’re going to be talking about a remedy that can help you go with the flow more easily, instead of resisting.

Resistance could be the cause of all your ailments. I believe pain is merely resistance. Exactly what you’re resisting is the challenge to discover. Most people resist change. But you’re changing all the time. Every moment is different from the next. Every hour is different. Every day is different. And every moment you have the potential to change the next moment to suit yourself more.

But this can’t happen by trying to control or force. Think how you react to someone trying to control or force you to do something. If the force used is very strong, you may well go along with what is being asked from you, but never with good grace or willingly.

However, if you are asked, with an option to refuse, you may well be willing.

The history of humanity is thick with control and people being forced to do things they didn’t want to. Is it any wonder you are now resisting? But, although the world is still, to a large degree, being controlled and manipulated, we are now more free than we have ever been.

Now you just need to grasp it and run with it.

Some typical symptoms you have when you resist are irritability, frustration, anger, anxiety and fear. Anger is a form of fear, but it is expressed in a more healthy way for you, than quivering or freezing. You could say anger is active rather than passive fear.

Some typical symptoms you have when you want to control your environment is a compulsive need for order, even fastidiousness. You may become a workaholic as there always remains something that needs to be put right. Outer control appeases your inability to have inner control, at least to some extent.

No-one really likes to live with someone who is constantly angry or controlling.

The homoeopathic remedy Nux vomica fits these symptoms to a tee. Anyone needing Nux vomica tends to be angered easily. They are impatient. They are driven. They are fastidious. They are workaholics, They are compulsive. They are competitive.

Of course, all this takes up huge amounts of energy, so coffee or drugs are needed to stimulate energy. Then it’s hard to relax, so wine and alcohol are used to help unwind and block out the pain.

This in turn leads to liver damage.

This scenario is very common in today’s crazy world. I think there are very few people who wouldn’t benefit from a few doses of Nux vomica right now.

Some other symptoms of Nux vomica include being very cold (this is from a compromised liver, even if you don’t drink).

And sleep is broken. Typically a Nux vomica person will wake at about 3 or 4 am and then not be able to go back to sleep until just before they need to wake up. So you’re tired, as well as irritable!

Nux vomica is wonderful for curing hangovers. A typical hangover is a headache which is worse with bright lights and noise. So Nux vomica can be used for similar headaches which aren’t alcohol related.

It’s also a great travel remedy, as travellers can suffer constipation, being out of routine. And Nux vomica has a healing action on constipation.

It’s a wonderful colic remedy when you want to stretch back, rather than curl up, to relieve the symptoms a bit. Babies needing Nux vomica will be angry and arch their backs.

Horses needing Nux vomica will try to make their backs sag, when they have colic.

Apart from all that Nux vomica can be curative in ‘flus, hay fever and a multitude of other complaints, as long as the symptoms fit.

Nux vomica is probably the second most widely used remedy after Arnica.

As long as the symptoms agree, Nux vomica will help take the resistance out of your feelings of insecurity in today’s world.

For potency and dosage, please see the notes at the side

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Thought of the Week

When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognise your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.
Jane Roberts

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Riding Between The Worlds
This link just blew my socks off. I can’t begin to write a summary about it that will do it justice. But what I can say is that it follows on well from the above topic of resistance! I hope it blows your socks off too!

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I am constantly updating my page on vaccinations. See the link, if you need more information.

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I have posted a couple of articles to my blog recently.

One is on cholesterol

and one is on living life to the full.

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I have enclosed this complete story because I wanted to remind you that you can heal yourself.

KARIZ, THE HEALER KITTY by Annette Maraist
http://www.angelanimals.net/
Mary Perez is living her passion and her dream. She has a home on a cheerful acre of land in the country in Loxahatchee, Florida. Mary is living proof of the healing power of the love of animals and she has defied the doctors' diagnosis given to her seventeen years ago.

When Mary was 24 years old she had everything going for her - a teaching career and a new townhouse. Then life delivered her a blow. She became very sick with an illness the doctors couldn't pin down. They told her she probably had lupus or multiple sclerosis. She was often confined to bed. The doctors told her she would always be in a wheelchair.

One night Mary's roommate talked her into going to a bingo hall for a little bit of fun. While she was there, a woman whom she had never met before came up to her and said, "I have something for you." The woman raised purebred Persians. She insisted on giving an eight-week-old kitten to Mary.

Mary told the woman that she was too ill to care for a pet. But the woman insisted, saying, "You need to have this." So Mary took the lady's phone number and said she would think about it. The following day Mary decided to give the kitten a try. That tiny bundle of fur changed her life.

Kariz, as she named the kitten, was a gorgeous white Persian with round yellow eyes. When Mary was so weak and could only move her fingers and toes, Kariz would lick and play with the fingers and toes.

The kitten gave Mary the determination and will to get well. She says that knowing the kitten needed her to take care of him gave her the strength to recover. Kariz was her angel, and Mary gives him full credit for her recovery. He was the catalyst for the upward turn of her life.

Mary stopped taking all the medications she was on and took steps forward. She went back to work as a teacher and also returned to college, doing both fulltime. She earned her degrees as a guidance counsellor and as a specialist in administration.

Today Mary operates a pet boarding facility at her home. During the holidays she cares for as many as sixty dogs, along with her partner. Her mornings usually begin at 6:00 a.m. and days don't end until about 11:30 p.m.

She shares her home with six shitzus -- Baby, Romeo, Gizmo, Jasper, Jake, and Chino. Since living in the fresh air and sunshine of the country for five years, Mary has not been sick once. And she is physically strong.

The love a pet gives can be a powerful incentive to a sick or depressed person. Bonds between animals and people are spiritual and strong. Animals give unconditional love and they can make you smile and laugh. Perhaps this is the best medicine.