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!

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.