Homeopathic Remedies For The Festive Season

Across winding roads and rolling hills, we visit friends, family, and loved ones during the festive season. Mince pies, rich cream, endless cups of coffee or tea, mulled wine, or perhaps something stronger fill our gatherings. Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year’s celebrations bring lavish meals and drinks. Yet, with little physical activity and hours spent lounging in front of the TV, it’s easy to overindulge in food and drink.

Some navigate the Christmas and year-end festivities with mindful awareness, emerging unscathed. Others, however, lose sight of self-control or succumb to temptation, leading to overeating, overdrinking, hangovers, and digestive troubles.

For many, Christmas is a joyful and uplifting time. But for some, it can amplify feelings of loneliness or resurface painful memories of grief, stirring deep emotional strain. In these moments, Rescue Remedy can be a gentle ally—a bottle of which every household might consider keeping on hand.

The Bach Flower Rescue Remedy helps to soothe us emotionally when we are tense, frightened, shocked or traumatised. 

For those who are alone, who have sad memories that tend to come up at holiday season, Ignatia  is a fantastic choice of remedy. (One of the main keynotes of Ignatia is a deep, sad sigh.) 

Aconite is fantastic for acute anxiety and stress, fear and worry. Aconite is good for stress, anxiety and fear during the holiday season, particularly with a pounding heart. 

Gelsemium can be helpful for anxiety related to performance, whether pre-performance jitters before a play or chorus or anxiety over performing at a family meal or a get-together. 

For children who cannot sleep with the excitement of anticipation,  Coffea can help. Cocculus is indicated for the stress of shopping for everyone, staying up late at night, attending too many parties, and depriving yourself of sleep.

Staphysagria is extremely good for dealing with anger and resentment. It helps people to verbalise things more appropriately they might need to express to your family or friends during this time, or to process  emotions more internally.  Staphysagria can be empowering. It’s also an excellent remedy for urinary tract symptoms (because sometimes it is more socially acceptable or safer to be “pissed off” on the physical level, swallowing resentment or humiliation and keeping it inside, than to express it verbally). It also helps gastrointestinal symptoms that might have had their origin in the “swallowing” of something that was emotionally unpalatable.

Nux Vomica 30C : the first choice remedy for symptoms that arise from over indulgence in food, alcohol and hangover. A very useful remedy for over eating and drinking , first remedy for hangovers and over indulgence. Headache and migraine after excessive consumption of alcoholic drinks, stomach feels heavy like stone is sitting inside it, with nausea,  vomiting and ineffective urging for with vomiting or diarrhoea. If you wish you would just vomit and get it over with, then this is your remedy. Nux vomica will put a stop to nausea and vomiting in a relatively short time. Nux vomica is the main choice for the familiar hangover. 

Carbo vegetalis 30C: another good remedy for over indulgence, patients feels cold but aversion to heat, air hunger, and desire to be fanned. Extreme indigestion and bloating and belching after eating late and excess alcohol.

Lycopodium 30C : A good remedy for indigestion as a result of bad diet and over eating. Bloated abdomen, rumbling noise, they like sweet and chocolate. Indigestion after eating , onion, oyster, and cabbage.

Pulsatilla 30C : Another over indulgence remedy, most of indigestion problems can be relieved by this remedy, there is desire for fatty, creamy food like, butter, ice cream, cheese, which cause bloating and nausea. There is an aversion to fatty food anyway and in normal circumstances like pork meat which can cause indigestion if eaten.

Nat phos 6x taken at every hour is very good for simple indigestion and over acidity and best substitute for antacids.

Ipecac 30 – Continuous vomiting is the main symptom, the best indicated remedy is Ipecac 30.

Lastly, Arsenicum album 30 – For true food poisoning,  that is, vomiting, diarrhoea with chills, stomach pains and anxiety. And also remember to keep replacing those fluids lost to sickness and diarrhoea.
Two last good words of advice for indigestion, if  you don’t own a homeopathy kit you can try tip number 1:   add a splash of vinegar to a glass of water and drink. 

Or you can try advice tip number 2:   1/8 teaspoon of baking soda plus lemon juice of ¼ lemon in 4 ounces of cool water. Drink it down as the mixture fizzes. Both methods are known to soothe the stomach. Do not try both tips at the same time. Either one or the other. 

By preparing for Christmas homoeopathically, you can quickly deal with simple medical problems. Homeopathic remedies are available at most pharmacies and health food stores.  It is better to be prepared so keep these remedies handy. Try these tried and true homeopathic remedies this season  and you might just find it easier to enjoy yourself even more and with no side effects!! 

Homeopathic remedies are available in many health food stores and pharmacies. Generally, a safe and effective potency to use for self-care is 30C. Homeopathic remedies should be treated with respect. They should always be kept away from risk of contamination by strong smells (such as perfume, TCP etc.) direct sunlight and electromagnetic fields (such as mobile phones, WIFI routers, WIFI modems, TV sets etc).

When taking a remedy by mouth the tablets should not be touched but tipped into the lid of the pot then into the mouth and sucked. Ideally the remedy should be taken away from food and drink, that is, nothing by moth for 20 minutes before and  after taking the remedy.

Dosage should reflect how acute the symptoms are and the remedy should be stopped as soon as the person is well again. If at any time you feel out of your depth or feel the symptoms are not responding quickly enough to the remedies then seek professional medical advice. Here’s how to take the remedy in a gentle way. Put a few granules or two crushed tablets)  of your remedy of choice into a few ounces of water (mineral bottled water). Sip the water as needed. (In the case of Aconite and Ignatia, I put one or two pellets of each in the same glass.)

The more intense and acute your symptoms, the more often you need to take a sip. That might mean anywhere from every few minutes to every few hours. Acute physical pain might necessitate more frequent sips, while the ongoing stress of emotional upsets might be best quieted with a sip every hour or two. It is important to remember that as the symptoms improve, the remedy should be slowed or stopped.

Renata  is not a GP and the relationship between Renata and her clients is not of prescriber and patient, but as educator and client. It is fully the client’s choice whether or not to take advantage of the information Renata provides here in this blog. Homeopathy doesn’t “treat” a dis-ease. Homeopathy addresses the whole person as a matter of wholesomeness and  that is an educational process, not a medical one. Renata believes that the advice and medical diagnosis is often in order. 

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