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HOMEOPATHY SELF HELP Nowadays, we use Arnica for all sorts of trauma. And it works well for other problems too. When analysed from the point of view of Traditional Chinese Medicine, it acts to bring what are called ‘Qi and Blood’ back together: it brings ‘order to the body’. In an accident, shock often leads to pallor, shortness of breath, anxiety, shakiness, increased pulse, and so on. In bad shock, you may fall in and out of consciousness. There may be bruising, sore muscles, twitching and prostration. Later, though tired, the victim cannot sleep. There may be involuntary bowel movements or urination. But you can get this – or some of it - from other situations too: fright, anger, indignation, shock, overuse of some part of the body, overexertion, excessive sexual indulgence, even from being stressed or over-hurried. The symptoms also arise in some kinds of septic fevers, such as typhoid. The remedy is also often useful after an operation, or where there are pustular swellings. Nowadays, pregnant mothers take it before and after childbirth. And we find it often helps jetlag, when the symptoms match. Many people also use the remedy as a cream or ointment for bruises and sprains, although it is arguable whether benefit is derived more from the action of the remedy (where one might think it had been contaminated by the cream), or from the act of rubbing the affected area. What does it do? It doesn’t usually stop a bruise from appearing, though it can ‘hasten bruises’ – an old-fashioned way of saying that it brings them to the surface and helps mend them faster! More often it supports the heart, by calming you, making you less shakey, less twitchy, less stressed, less anxious and more in control. It helps you sleep. It speeds recovery of injured limbs and sore muscles. It brings order to the constitution. It helps you recover faster from over-exertion, illness and fever. Even this list is only a small indication of its potential use. But please don’t imagine that it can cure every kind of stress or problem. If you are always stressed by everything, in a continuous state of shock, or frequently get pustular swellings, or always feel as if you have over-exerted yourself, or your lifestyle is such that you put yourself in these situations, you need to stand back from your life and take a longer view. Perhaps your occupation, unless you alter it, will cause you illness. Perhaps you need a different job or house or relationship. And perhaps a homeopathic remedy will help you stay healthy. Meantime, try a few doses of Arnica 6, by all means! It is very safe - but remember that the way homeopathy works is by introducing a kind of ‘false’ illness. From this your body quickly recovers, and in so doing, recovers from the main illness. But if you keep on dosing yourself with Arnica, the experience of provers over the last two centuries is that you will ultimately make yourself ill. So, if a few doses help, fine! But if you have to keep taking it indefinitely, you will make yourself ill. Ring us if you need advice – Freephone
0800 298 7015 if you live in the
UK. Every house should have a supply in both the 6th and the 30th potency - Arnica 6 and Arnica 30. Better still, buy our handy £38 kit of 36 remedies, many of which we shall be discussing over the next few months. (That's a plug, in case you hadn't noticed - and for UK customers only! Sorry, everyone else!) Look at Storing Remedies to see how to keep and how to take it. We shall be adding other remedies to this list as the months go by. FURTHER READING There are a number of good books, such as:
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