Homeopathic Remedies for the Holidays

Homeopathic Remedies come in potencies: always a lower potency is better and taken more often when purchasing over the counter. Each dose is 4-6 pellets. Place under the tongue and allow to melt in mouth. Please take away from food, drink and toothpaste by 15 minutes. Take only when symptoms return.

If your symptoms match those below, that remedy may be of help to you. You should respond to the remedy within a few minutes.

Overeating including too many sweets or alcohol:

Lycopodium: With belching and bloating. Craving for sweets and alcohol and warm drinks, huge appetite.

Nux Vomica: With irritability and constipation, colic and cramping, worse tight clothes, better warmth and warm drinks, addictive cravings, impatience..

Argentum Nitricum: Rectal gas loud enough to earn a reputation, stomach distension, desires sweets including sugar, desires salt.

Sulfur: Rectal gas that earns the reputation for its odor, having a stool upon waking, hemorrhoids, itching or burning at the rectum.

Anticipation with excitement:

Argentum Nitricum: Impulsive, sympathetic, compulsive thoughts, anxiety while anticipating and needs company, fear to be late, hurried, worse from eating sweets.

Coffea: Sensitive, nervous and over-reactive, insomnia, uncontrollable thoughts and racing mind, ecstatic states, ailments from grief.

Gelsemium: Timid, quiet, reserved, stage fright, fear of a crowd or falling, fatigue and weakness, trembling from anticipation.

Feelings of abandonment:

Pulsatilla: Soft, open, easily influenced, feels forsaken, changeable moods, desires and is better from consolation, weeps easily and recovers easily, sadness, needs air, warm-blooded.

Aurum: Serious, melancholic demeanor, severe depression, thoughts of suicide, outbursts of anger, better from music, fear of failure, feels better in the evening.

Naturm Muriatricum: Responsible, ailments from grief and disappointed love, serious and overly proper, easily offended, difficult to cry, does not like to be consoled, holds on to wrongs, perfectionistic.

Grief from missing loved ones at holiday time

Ignatia: Changeable moods, always disappointed, does not like to be consoled, easily hurt feelings, idealist, wants to run away, sighs.

Causticum: Sincere, intense, great sympathy for others, cannot tolerate other’s suffering, checks and rechecks tasks, fear that ‘something bad will happen’, political.

And those that are listed above under abandonment.

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