Using Some Common Home Remedies Could Save Your Life!

I love those self help books which tell you how to easily remove stains and odours, be more efficient and various other useful tips, just by using some common sense and normal household cleaning products, such as vinegar and bicarbonate of soda.

Do you know that practically all cleaning can be done efficiently and quickly using these two amazing, totally safe and non-toxic ordinary household items?

I’m not going into this here, because this article is all about using some really common homeopathic remedies at home. But I encourage you to check them out. Just imagine, no more toxic fumes or dangers for small children or pets. Or you, for that matter.

Back to home remedies.

Just imagine your small daughter falls and cuts herself badly. She’s screaming, you’re panicking and you’ve got a flat tyre on your car. Your neighbours are away on holiday on one side, and at work on the other. The bus drivers are on strike. Your family live miles away. And you’re a single parent.

Well, you could panic some more.

Or you could ring for a taxi, which will probably take a while to come.

You might try ringing your friend, but she could be out of town. Or, at the very least, a few minutes drive away.

You drive to the local hospital.

And then you wait...

Don’t you just love the wait?

You could be dying, for all most hospitals seem to care. They seem to be more interested in your private insurance cover, or your next of kin - great feeling of confidence.

Now supposing you had a small kit of common homeopathic home remedies, with an instruction sheet.

You could quickly get that out, run through the ailments section and pick the appropriate remedy for the wound.

That might take a couple of minutes.

Almost like magic, your daughter stops screaming. With peace descending, you wash and dress the wound. By the time your friend or the taxi arrives, the worst is over. Your daughter wants to get back to playing.

You’re left wondering why you were in such a panic. But you know it was real. There’s a wound to prove it.

Homeopathic home remedies work so fast, as soon as they hit your tongue they’re working, provided you have selected the correct one.

Learning something new, like using the most appropriate home remedies in emergencies, is something so valuable for us all, if should be taken very seriously.

So, where do you look for help?

My suggestion is to find a good, regular (at least weekly) natural health or homeopathic ezine (internet magazine) to subscribe to. This way, learning becomes almost effortless. Learning which common home remedies do what, could stand you in good stead later in life.

Choosing A Natural Health Magazine Which is Unbiased

Natural health magazines abound, often giving you conflicting advice. Who should you believe?

I believe any good natural health magazine, like any good magazine, shouldn’t so much give you advice, rather they should give unbiased important pros and cons and leave you to work out the best solution for you.

After all you are unique. What is helpful to the magazine editor may be harmful to you. Only you can decide.

Being unbiased is hugely important. We’re all reading in the news how doctors have been paid to create unsubstantiated ‘scientific’ papers supporting some drug or other.

Natural health magazine editors are people too. Some good, some bad, some indifferent. If the editor only advocates items they receive a royalty form, they aren’t unbiased.

Sure, we all need to make our daily crust, but it’s best to be open about what we profit from.

A good natural health magazine should look at all aspects of health, not just focus on physical ailments. For example, diet is critical to good health.

I recently read of six people, all suffering with type 2 diabetes, on insulin and all obese. Within one week of a change of diet, most were off their insulin. Within one month, they all were.

Isn’t that awesome?

I find it extraordinary that doctors receive no nutritional training whatsoever.

Yet I doubt there is a natural health therapist who doesn’t understand the importance of diet.

Natural health covers every aspect of who you are. You aren’t just your body. You aren’t just your mind. You are a unique and complex unit. Your feelings and emotions are as important (actually more so) as your thoughts and creations.

So any natural health magazine worth its salt will cover aspects of your emotional health, as well as your physical health. When you ignore your emotional health, sooner or later you’ll suffer physical ill health.

Everyone knows that stress causes anxiety and that anxiety causes higher blood pressure and faster heart rate. While that’s fine for a short period, if you continually have these ‘anxiety attacks’, your physical health will deteriorate.

But you don’t have to resort to drugs. There are many effective, natural alternatives. And homeopathy can actually get to the cause of why you are suffering these attacks in the first place.

And fix it.

And lastly, your magazine should have a readers question area. Whilst the answer may not be specifically helpful for your ailment, they should be able to point you in the right direction. They should know what areas each natural health modality excels in and which has limited ability.

For example, you wouldn’t go to a masseuse if you had incontinence. And you probably wouldn’t go to a chiropractor if you had a torn ligament. It’s doubtful you’d see an acupuncturist if you had been abused as a child.

Yet all these health issues can be resolved using homeopathy.

Using Natural Home Remedies, in Particular Homeopathy, Effectively

There’s nothing more empowering than using natural home remedies effectively. It has enormous WOW factor. Why? Well for a start, using natural remedies, you know you can’t do any harm as they’re gentle, non-invasive and work in harmony with your body. But the real WOW factor comes when you do good! It can be so exciting, that you can do so much good, in the comfort of your own home, without knowing much.

There are a variety of natural home remedies that you can safely use yourself, without knowing very much. There are some herbs (although many need more in depth information), there’s flower essences, there’s aromatherapy, there’s good nutrition, there’s kitchen home remedies and then there’s homeopathy.

Perhaps, out of all of them, homeopathy has the potential for doing the most good. All of the commonly available homeopathic remedies have a wide scope of use. For instance, the homeopathic remedy Arnica, the king of injury remedies can resolve the following conditions:

• any ailment which stems from an injury, however far back including concussion, surgery, dental extractions, sprains, strains
• jet lag
• shift work fatigue
• labour
• arthritis, rheumatism
• sepsis, infections
• colds, flus
• skin eruptions
• malaria
• whooping cough
• pneumonia
• gout
• meningitis

Whilst I’m not proposing that you, as a home prescriber, attempt to treat such serious ailments as meningitis or pneumonia, I am suggesting that, with a bit of knowledge and a sharp eye, you have the potential of nipping these conditions in the bud.

Using natural home remedies does mean that you have to be a bt of a detective. You need to notice things about you or the family member you’re trying to help. For instance, you need to know their normal habits and traits, so you know when they have deviated from them. Someone who needs the homeopathic remedy Arnica is often averse to the approach of others. It’s logical when you look at it. As Arnica is the king of injury remedies, those needing it have been hurt. If they’ve been hurt once, the approach of someone may raise fears that you may further hurt them.

This isn’t a normal behaviour. So if your dog is suddenly apprehensive of your approach, he may have been injured.

I remember hearing of someone who had suffered severe gastritis for years. He’d been to see doctor after doctor, to no avail. Finally, he saw a homeopath. Homeopaths always ask about what happened to cause the problem. This was easy - a kick in the stomach from a donkey. Arnica was prescribed, and the gastritis disappeared completely.

Now if that had happened to you, with your homeopathic kit of natural home remedies, you could have prevented something like that from developing.

Lets dip into the mix and see what other examples of natural home remedies there are. Tomatoes are a popular food and can be easily grown in many climates. Tomatoes are full of a nutrient called lycopine. Lycopine is a natural sun screen. If you know some basic nutritional knowledge like this, you can eat your sunscreen - a much healthier option than the topical one.

What do you do if you’ve been stung by a plant or insect which packs a punch, and you’re in the middle of nowhere, with help miles and hours away? If you know your natural home remedies well, you’d know that if you urinate on the area, all will be quickly resolved.

Isn’t it fun!

Homeopathy is Powerful, Effective, Low Cost and Above All, Easy to Use at Home

Did you know, that apart from consulting with a professional homeopath, you can also use homeopathy in the comfort of your own home?

Some of the more common homeopathic remedies cover such a broad scope of ailments, you can use them successfully at home, without having to know very much about homeopathy or how it works.

Arm yourself with a kit of remedies, a good beginner’s book and a helpful and regular ezine or magazine and you’re away.

Homeopathy is a natural and complete health modality. You can use it to heal minor ailments such as a cold or ant bite. Or you can use it to treat major things like anaphylactic shock or broken bones. Although in the latter situation, I highly recommend you also use the medical services to have the bone set!

And as a beginner I don’t suggest you try to tackle anaphylactic shock, as it’s quite a serious issue.

But the potential is there for you.

I can tell you that success goes to your head! You can get quite euphoric when you’ve successfully treated an ailment, whether your own or a family members. It spurs you on to greater things.

But you’ll also experience failures, where, despite your best intentions, you didn’t manage to change anything. But, you know what I find so amazing, is that even though you didn’t manage to do any good, neither did you do any harm.

Homeopathy is very gentle and very forgiving. No-one is going to get worse for your administrations and you can do a lot of good.

The one trouble I think homeopathy suffers from is that the ailment doesn’t disappear with bells and whistles, announcing it’s departure.

It’s not uncommon for homeopaths to hear from their returning patient that nothing has happened. However, on closer inspection;
Q - “Do you still get those daily headaches?”
A - “No, they went just after I saw you.”
Q - “What about your sore knee. You were having trouble with it giving way suddenly.’
A - “That’s almost completely gone now. I don’t think about it very much.”
Q - “When you were here a month ago, you said your energy was really low, you had to drag yourself out of bed in the morning and went to bed early. How’s that doing?”
A - “Well, I’m not exactly bouncing out of bed now, but I’m not dragging myself out either. And I find I’m not falling asleep in front of the television, in the evening either.”
Q - “Did you say nothing had happened?”
A - “You’ve reminded me what I was like a month ago. I’ve moved on. Things just slipped noiselessly away. I didn’t notice them go.”

Isn’t homeopathy great? It’s so effective, you just don’t notice ailments disappearing, as they go so easily. So it’s a good idea to make notes and quite detailed ones at that. Then you can go back and see how you’ve moved on.

Homeopathic Remedies - What You Need to Know For Home Prescribing

You’re probably well aware just how wonderful, deep, thorough, gentle, powerful (I could go on) homeopathy is, but did you know that not only can you receive wonderfully effective treatment from a professional homeopath, you can also use homeopathic remedies in the comfort of your own home?

Home prescribing is, naturally, limited to the less complicated ailments. But there’s a tremendous amount you can do at home.

Lets look at what some of the common homeopathic remedies can do, those that you’ll find in most first aid or common ailment kits.

• pain management - forget analgaesics
• injury - achieve fast healing with no discomfort
• fever - cure it naturally, without suppression
• food poisoning - quickly allays the purging with no side effects
• burns - treated quickly will ensure blisters and pain don’t develop
• colds, flus - nip them in the bud or prevent them altogether
• insect bites or worse - no infection can develop
• hangovers - never have another one
• abscess, boils, carbuncles - no need for antibiotics here
• regular nose bleeds? - not any more!

Isn’t that an impressive list? And it’s by no means exhaustive. Imagine the satisfaction of being able to treat a painful ear in the middle of the night. No one wants to be dragged out of bed for an endless wait in hospital, only to be given a drug which may knock you out, but leaves you feeling drugged in the morning and hasn’t resolved the cause, anyway.

Homeopathic remedies only work if you have selected the right one for the job. If you have selected the wrong one, nothing happens. You can’t do yourself any harm.

Isn’t that just a fabulous concept? If you get the wrong remedy nothing happens, if you select the right remedy, the problem just melts away. It’s as if it was never there. Newbies to homeopathy can be forgiven for feeling that - did I really have that pain? - because there are no after effects.

So how do you know which remedy to select for which problem?

Well, apart from the instructions which come with every kit, there are books you can purchase. I love books and learn a lot from them. But sometimes it’s nice to have a person to chat to, or a personal view, or an anecdote to relate to.

Subscribing to a regular eletter will keep you plugged in to thinking in the way you need to. Believe me, using homeopathic remedies is not like using typical over-the-counter drugs. You do need to know a bit.

And I can guarantee you won’t always make the right choice, you won’t always be able to make a difference. But the feeling of elation when you do is worth all the waiting,

I well remember my first success story. It was when I was a homeopathic student. One of my cats became ill and stopped eating. A veterinarian diagnosed kidney failure and gave her, in effect, a death sentence.

I dug out my newly purchased box of homeopathic remedies and a book I’d recently bought. It only took me about five minutes to reach a conclusion. I’ll never forget what happened after I gave her just one dose. She walked into the kitchen, demanding food! Was that sweet or what?

She lived another three, healthy years after that.

Are You Looking for Natural Remedies to Use in the Comfort of Your Own Home?

There are a host of natural remedies on the market, but before you start trying them, it’s an idea to know what they do and what they are capable of doing.

Don’t think, for one moment, that just because the remedy is natural, that it is also harmless. Most natural remedies are powerful. You do need to know what you’re dealing with. Granted, they don’t have the severe side effects of drugs. But they’re not pussy cats either!

I’m no herbalist, but I do know that you shouldn’t use the herb pennyroyal around pregnant women, as it encourages miscarriages.

The effects of aromatherapy oils can be huge, both good and not so good, if you don’t know what you’re doing.

I know some people have suffered quite badly at the hands of chiropractors. They may have been heading that way anyway, but it does show you, you need to be aware of just how natural remedies work.

On the whole, natural remedies are healthy, do far more good than harm, can cure deep seated issues, and you can sometimes find what you’re looking for yourself. I love that aspect. I love empowering people. Learning to do it yourself may have its limits, but boy, does it make you feel good when you achieve something!

Out of all the natural remedies that I know off, I consider the flower remedies, or essences, and homeopathy to be both the most effective and with the least potential for causing harm if you don’t know what you’re doing.

I don’t use flower essences much, as their effect can take a while to happen and I’m impatient! I like to see results quickly. But then, flower essences were designed to be used by the lay person, with little knowledge. So they are brilliant in that aspect.

My all time favourite natural remedy modality is homeopathy. You can buy a kit which contains 10 - 40 home prescribing remedies and armed with the information leaflet that accompanies the kit, you can do some spectacularly good work.

The remedies in a homeopathic home prescribing kit are generally of low potency. So if you get the wrong remedy, no harm is done. Just nothing happens.

Once you’ve had a few successes, it can go to your head! You then want to do more, to learn more. One of the easiest ways of learning more is subscribing to a magazine which specialises in what you’re trying to learn. Magazines normally make things light and easy to understand, with anecdotes that tend to stick in your mind.

Much easier than labouring through a manual on natural remedies, which may be dry and uphill reading. That can come later, when you know enough to make it interesting and if you want to go still further in your knowledge.

To give you some tasters of what you can do with natural remedies:-

A mother, who had recently bought one of my homeopathic home prescribing kits, rang me up to say her daughter had a throbbing headache and was hot and feverish. I suggested she give her daughter Belladonna. A few doses and a couple of hours later, and her daughter was back to normal, eating heartily and racing around as usual.

One of my patients who had recently bought a kit, told me about when her cat had returned home one day, a bit worse for wear. It looked as if she had been bitten. A few doses of Ledum from the kit and the cat slept. When she awoke, she was back to normal, eating well. No infection resulted.

I hear stories like this all the time. And I love to hear them. I love knowing that people are taking control of their own lives and are finding out what can help them and their families.