What are the top sleep remedies?

Homeopathic remedies for a better night’s rest - especially around the holidays!

For all practical purposes, the holidays are here, and the New Year is approaching fast. For many of us, anticipation, the stress of spending money, dealing with crowds, and the natural things that contribute – like shorter days, colder, more cloudy weather, all make it more difficult to settle in for a good night’s rest. And even though kids don’t deal with the same issues adults do, you can count on them feeling some of these effects. For that reason, we’re taking a closer look at each of homeopathic sleep remedies in Hyland's Calms Forté™.

Avena sativa, Chamomilla, Humulus lupulus, Passiflora, plus Calc phos, Ferr phos, Kali phos, Mag phos, NNat phos

Hyland's homeopathic remedy for sleep, consistently ranks among the highest selling natural products in North America and is the number one selling homeopathic sleep remedy. It provides 100% all-natural, temporary relief of simple nervous tension, restlessness and insomnia (sleeplessness). Whether travel, stress or worry break up your regular routine, this homeopathic combination ensures a good night’s rest with no grogginess the next morning.  Hyland's Calms Forté works without contraindications, has no history of side effects. No drug hangover, no sedatives, just nature's answer to a good night's sleep.

Passiflora - for restless or wakeful sleep from exhaustion

Avena sativa - for stress, nervousness or nervous headache

Humulus lupulus - for drowsiness with incomplete sleep

Chamomilla - for nervous irritability

And the following homeopathic cell salt phosphates remedies for enhancing cellular function: Calcarea phos, Ferrum phos, Kali phos, Natrum phos, Magnesia phos.

What the Pros Say about these homeopathic sleep remedies?

While you can click on most of these remedies to find our listings, these excerpts from highly respected homeopathic texts offer special insights into why these are considered the top homeopathic sleep remedies.  Please note: these statements are based upon traditional homeopathic practice.  They have not been reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration.

Avena sativa
In his book, Lotus Materia Medica, Robin Murphy offers these nerve symptoms for Avena: "Avena sativa has a selective action on brain and nervous system, favorably influencing their nutritive function. The leading indications are:

Nervous exhaustion, general weakness. Sleeplessness with nervous exhaustion and weakness. Insomnia due to drugs or alcohol.
... Mental symptoms from mental or physical overwork. .... Inability to keep the mind fixed on any one subject... Brain-fatigue with sleeplessness.
Insomnia worse during convalescence.
Avena sativa is pre-eminently an anti-neurotic, quieting the nervous system to a remarkable degree.
The writer has employed this drug in his private practice for a number of years with the most gratifying results. He has very rarely found it to fail when indicated...."

Chamomilla
Among a long list of descriptive symptoms, Miranda Castro lists these sleep-related symptoms for Chamomilla in her book, Complete Homeopathy Handbook:
"Insomnia with sleepiness. This insomnia results from pain, anger or stimulants (coffee, etc.), or it can be caused by too much chamomile tea
- even in babies. The person may be restless.
It is especially suited to teething children and women in labour, and anyone who has been in a highly emotional state (especially angry) for a long period of time and who has become over-sensitive, mentally or physically, as a result. Hahnemann said of this remedy, ‘It ought not to be given to those who bear pain with patience and resignation,’ as its keynote is unbearable pain."

Humulus lupulus (hops) currently not in stock as a single remedy
Whether you call it Humulus lupulus or Lupulus humulus, you won’t find this remedy in every book on homeopathy - or even in our current stock of single remedies. But a few books offer insightful details: A Modern Herbal, by Mrs. M. Grieve, offers the herbal background:

"The Hop (Humulus Lupulus, Linn.) is a native British plant... given in nervousness and hysteria and at bedtime to induce sleep; in cases of nervousness, delirium and inflammation being considered to produce a most soothing effect, frequently procuring for the patient sleep after long periods of sleeplessness in overwrought conditions of the brain."
Frans Vermeulen’s Concordant Materia Medica offers these homeopathic insights on the remedy from the same source, hops, Lupulus humulus:
"Characteristics: Is a good remedy in unstrung condition of the nervous system and nausea, dizziness, headache... Urethral burning. Drawing and twitching in almost every muscle. Nervous tremors; wakefulness and delirium of drunkards. Giddiness and stupefaction...
Sleep - Drowsy during the day."
Robin Murphy’s Lutus Materia Medica adds:
"Drawing and twitching in almost every muscle. Slow pulse. Nervous tremors, wakefulness and delirium of alcoholics. Giddiness and stupefaction...
Mind - Confusion. Frequent starting from deep sleep with violent delirium from which he could only be aroused with great difficulty...."

Passiflora
The list of symptoms for Passiflora is not very long, but includes these telling nervous symptoms in Franz Vermeulen’s Concordant Materia Medica:

"An efficient anti-spasmodic. ...Has a quieting effect on the nervous system. Insomnia, produces normal sleep....
Has been used for breaking the morphine habit.
Sleep - Restless and wakeful, resulting from exhaustion, esp. in the feeble, infants and the aged. Insomnia of infants and the aged, and the mentally worried, and overworked...
Worse: Mental worries. Exhaustion. Mental excitement, Night. After meals. Nervousness"

The Five Phosphate Cell Salts
Calc phos, Ferrum phos, Kali phos, Mag phos, Nat phos
Cellular support that helps the body fight against weakness, inflammation, spasms, cramps, stiffness, acidity, growing pains, nerve pains and much more that might be keeping you awake. You can read all about them in our enews issue A Closer Look at Tonic Tissue E.
But when discussing sleep remedies, Kali phos stands alone among these cell salts.
Kali phos (potassium phosphate)
In Lotus Materia Medica, Robin Murphy offers these sleep-related details: "One of the greatest nerve remedies. Conditions arising from lack of nerve power, neurasthenia, mental and physical depression, are wonderfully improved by this remedy.
Sleep - Night terrors of children. Drowsy. Yawning. Sleepwalking. Sleeplessness from worn nerves, business troubles, etc. Amorous dreams, restlessness and heat during sleep. "

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Homeopathic Sleep Remedies

Calms Forte 4 Kids 

This homeopathic combination soothes and relaxes children so they can get the sleep they need. Targets the causes that inhibit healthy sleep patterns including restlesness, growing pains, night terrors, causeless crying and even sleeplessness from vacation travel. Also helps to relieve lack of focus and restlessness anytime. Specially designed for children 2 and up.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

Aconitum Nap. 6X HPUS - for physical & mental restlessness

Calc. Phos. 12X HPUS - for pains in joints & bones, peevishness

Chamomilla 6X HPUS - for irritability, restlessness, sleeplessness

Cina 6X HPUS - for nightmares, irritability of temper

Lycopodium 6X HPUS - for lack of focus, extreme sensitivity

Nat. Mur. 6X HPUS - for irritability, crying, oversensitivity

Pulsatilla 6X HPUS - for causeless crying, sleeplessness from travel

Sulphur 6X HPUS - for irritability, peevishness

Insomnia Tissue A

The cell salts in this combination offer fundamental relaxing sleep support. Made from the natural compounds already in our cells, it is perfectly safe even for babies. By combining the anti-inflammatory cell salt, the nerve nutrient cell salt and the anti-spasmodic cell salt, this unique formula offers relaxing support and peace of mind.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

Ferr phos - A fortifying anti-inflammatory cell salt, offers support for fatigue and calms any inflammation or slight fever that might delay your dreams.

 Kali phos - The ‘nerve nutrient’ of cell salts can help you rest easier if restless nerves, nervous fatigue, sadness or nerve pain are at the source.

 Mag phos - The anti-spasm cell salt relaxes leg cramps, muscle spasms, tension, radiating pains and even certain coughs so you can sleep naturally.

Sleep #173

A simple plan for sleep: Take a few tablets of #173, remember that there’s plenty of time to worry tomorrow, take a deep breath and count the colors of the rainbow. This special formula combines three of the simplest nerve calming, sleep-inducing ingredients in homeopathy to give everyone easy access to 100% natural sleep support, with no groggy or habit-forming side effects.

Not a sedative, not addictive, safe for kids and adults alike. The three singles remedies in this combination have calming applications that can ease nervous, excited, tired, stressed out nerves so you can sleep, naturally.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

 Avena sativa - The remedy derived from the common oat helps nerves that feel ‘too tired to sleep’ after a day of mental exertion or worry, or when drained by illness, fatigue or alcohol consumption.

 Kali phos - The nerve nutrient cell salt restores calm and composure to over-stressed, restless or emotional nerves, as well as injured painful nerves.

 Passiflora - Though its name is passionflower, this remedy is known for its ability to bring on sweet dreams when the day’s passions are past.

Homeopathic remedies for maximizing the holidays and minimizing the consequences.

December means the holidays are approaching fast. This brings a mixed bag of delights, memories, festivities, social settings, shopping, cooking, feasting, opportunities and obligations which teach us many things. With all the potential for over-indulgent behaviors and their consequences, it's a perfect time for some simple homeopathic solutions. 

Whether you've been naughty or nice, whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, something else or just enjoy family and friends around the holidays, make sure you put some homeopathic remedies on your holiday shopping list!

I. Homeopathic remedies for steady nerves and a sound sleep

The secret to a happy holiday can be as simple as finding a calm moment or getting good night’s sleep. Sometimes we do not even have time to recognize the stress until it catches up with us as a headache, backache, cold, flu or irritable morning. These relaxing homeopathic remedies can help you minimize the strain and maximize the fun. Try one of our homeopathic sleep remedies to see what you've been missing.

Homeopathic Remedy Combinations:

Insomnia Tissue A: Homeopathic cell salt remedies work together to calm the nerves, tension and irritation that keep the sandman at bay.

Hyland’s Calms Forté: This homeopathic remedy did not win its incredible popularity by just working once in a while.

Hyland’s Calms Forté 4 Kids: Too excited to sleep? No problem. This homeopathic formula made just for kids saves the day with a good night’s sleep.

Sleep #173: Not a sedative, not addictive, safe for all ages, this simple homeopathic remedy combination can calm nerves day and night.

Tranquilizer #74: Though not the kind of tranquilizer that prevents you from driving, this homeopathic remedy has a very calming effect on stressed out nerves.

Homeopathic Single Remedies:

Arsenicum alb: If worry and anxiety intrude on your fun, this homeopathic remedy might make this holiday extra special.

Cocculus: Jet lag insomnia, motion sickness? You’ll wish you packed this single remedy.

Coffea crudum: Whether you drank the frappacino or not, if it feels like you did, this homeopathic remedy is for you. When every pain’s too painful and every nerve too nervy.

Nux vom: Anxious, irritable, fatigued? This is the homeopathic remedy for the modern schedule - if you feel like a candidate for over-doers anonymous, you might want to read up on this one.

Passiflora: Workaholics, alcoholics, worriers, and insomniacs of all ages like this homeopathic remedy’s calming touch.

II. Homeopathic remedies for energy

The first ingredient for a stress free holiday season is a bundle of energy. The second may be nerves of steel.  Fortunately we have plenty of homeopathic remedies to balance the highs, lows, excitement and fatigue.   As always, the first homeopathic remedies to look at to spark the energy within are cell salts. Beginning with these balancing homeopathic combinations:

Bioplasma: sometimes it takes all 12 homeopathic cell salts to perk up the 12 cell salts inside us.

Tonic - Tissue E: The cell salt phosphate remedies combine to sort out which energies should go where, especially when overall vitality is running low.

Nervous Tension - Tissue P: Designed to help us through the first nine months, there's no limit on this homeopathic remedy's supportiveness.

III. Homeopathic remedies for indigestion, gas & upset stomach

Indigestion #178: A homeopathic remedy with a two phase approach to improve digestion and ease gas, nausea and heartburn.

Gas Tabs Wise's #413: This customer favorite quickly relieves gas, heartburn, flatulence and diarrhea.

Carbo veg: Perhaps the most popular homeopathic remedy for gas, heartburn, with burping, constipation, fatigue and convalescence

Nux vomica  - When the digestive system is stressed, Nux can quickly relieve heartburn, indigestion, gas and constipation from too much fatty food, alcohol/hangovers, coffee, stimulants or other excesses.

Homeopathic Kits

   Simplify Your Life

The Handy Kit: Just like the name says, the 12 products in this pouch are the most convenient homeopathic remedies to have on hand in every situation. With its 5 basic combinations, 6 most critical single remedies, Arnica Bump Stick, and instructive card insert, it is the perfect way to introduce your friends to homeopathy's great healing.

These lightweight homeopathic remedy kits are easy to take anywhere.

Little People Kit: From teething and colic to growing pains and study headaches, and all the bumps and bruises in between, this homeopathic kit makes watching them grow up, much more relaxing.

Cell Salt Travel Kit: Whether on the road or at home, having all 12 cell salts with you makes life healthier.

At 1-800 homeopathy we also have oodles of larger homeopathic and professional remedy kits - even special ones for the pet lovers, vets, midwives, mothers-to-be on your list.

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How to quickly find the best homeopathic remedy for cold, flu, or fever symptoms.

With an abundance of homeopathic remedies available for cold and flu symptoms, it can be a challenge to find the best one, even for more experienced homeopathic practitioners.  Some people exhibit the same symptoms all the time, making the homeopathic remedy selection more simple, but for others, cold and flu symptoms can be diverse, changing and often difficult to determine, especially at the onset.  We also talk to practitioners who describe the process of managing cold symptoms as though they are peeling back layers of an onion: after one homeopathic remedy succeeds in relieving symptoms, a new group of symptoms appear that require a different homeopathic remedy. 

While recognizing symptoms and matching them with a homeopathic remedy is key, it can by time consuming - and most of us want relief fast!  One of the best tools we've seen that can help speed the process, is a flow chart developed by renowned homeopath Stephen Messer, ND, DHANP. 

We've converted this flow chart into an easy to use (click) Cold & Flu Remedy Finder here!

For a closer look, the flow chart starts with what is probably the most obvious or easily answered symptom question.  Here's a snapshot of the process highlighting the key homeopathic remedies to consider when a fever is present:

 Is there a high fever?  If the answer is yes, you get directed to the most likely homeopathic remedy and a short list of key symptoms to look for.

Belladonna

Fever Symptoms

Sudden, violent onset
Red face
Hot, Dry skin
Chills
Cold hands and feet
Restless, thrashing about, twitching in sleep
Sleepy, but cannot sleep
Hard pounding pulse
Better from standing or sitting erect
Worse from noise, touch, bright light, lying down

Cold Symptoms

Fever, Throbbing headache, Hoarseness

Cough Symptoms

Dry barking cough, in racking fits
Worse at night or with deep breathing

If these symptoms don't describe the subject, than a quick link takes you to the next most likely homeopathic remedies:

Aconite

Fever Symptoms

Sudden violent onset, after exposure to cold, dry wind
Restlessness

Headache Symptoms

Heavy, throbbing, bursting pain
Sensation of fullness in forehead
Dizziness, worse on rising & shaking head
Better from open air
Worse from warm room, evening and night

Ferrum phos

Fever Symptoms

Gradual Onset
Early stages, no clear symptoms for any other remedy
Pale, easy flushing, rosy cheeks
Rapid, soft pulse
Restless
Better from touch, cold application
Worse from night, motion, right side

Homeopathic Combination Remedies for Cold & Flu

Flu / Severe Colds #86

Strong colds and feverish flu can find natural relief in this unique combination. Its classic homeopathic ingredients can ease symptoms and encourage a speedier recovery from acute fevers and flu symptoms. Its versatility lets it treat sudden fevers with chills as well as stifling slow moving, bone chilling miseries with lingering coughs and irritations.

Homeopathic Ingredients: Ferrum phos, Belladonna, Bryonia alb, Eupatorium, Gelsemium

Hyland's DEFEND Cold 'n Cough for Adults

100% Natural, Gentle, Safe and Effective liquid formula for cold and cough relief. Defend Cold & Cough's comprehensive formula from Hyland's covers a broad range of cold symptoms including nasal congestion, cough, sore throat and sneezing. As with all the homeopathic products we offer, this remedy does not contain any of the controversial cold medicine ingredients in the press today, such as Diphenhydramine, Dextromethorphan or Phenylephrine. Its ingredients are classic, well proven homeopathic remedies that have a known potential to relieve cold symptoms. They are so safe, you can take them before symptoms fully develop.

Homeopathic Ingredients: Allium Cepa, Hepar Sulph Calc, Hydrastis, Natrum Mur, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Sulphur

Hyland's DEFEND Nighttime Cold 'n Cough for Adults

Hyland's liquid nighttime formula combines classic proven homeopathic ingredients for common cold and cough symptoms with a few of the best for a calm restful night's sleep. Its comprehensive formula offers relief for nasal congestion, cough, sore throat and sneezing symptoms plus calming support for sleeplessness, restless sleep or frequent waking.

Homeopathic Ingredients:  Allium Cepa, Hepar Sulph Calc, Hydrastis, Natrum Mur, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Sulphur + Chamomilla, Coffea cruda & Nux Vomica

How to turn back the clock on fatigue and simple stresses!

In another week or so we set the clocks back.  Yes, it will get dark earlier, but you've probably already noticed the days getting shorter.  Dealing with the physical effects of shorter days is tough enough for most of us, but when you throw in the sudden change from daylights savings time, our aging  bodies can suffer from additional stress and fatigue in more ways than one.  Whether it's a lack of energy, getting your body clock back in synch, or just managing simple stresses, homeopathic cell salts are often the best way to restore balance.  Here's a few key homeopathic cell salt combinations to consider:

Tonic Tissue E:

When energy feels drained or out of sync, due to illness, stress, growth or convalescence, this remedy’s replenishing cell salt ingredients help restore vitality and balance. Physically, the five phosphate cell salts in this remedy offer natural support for growing pains, bone repair, cramps, nerve pain, indigestion and acidity issues.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

 Calc phos - Growth and repair cell salt helps the body maintain healthy cellular activity through growth spurts and convalescence.

 Ferrum phos - The anti-inflammatory cell salt helps the blood do its work and minimizes inflammation and general fatigue.

 Kali phos - The ‘nerve nutrient’ cell salt helps when mental or physical energy is out of whack due to stress, pain, sadness or sleeplessness.

 Mag phos - The anti-spasmodic, relaxing cell salt helps relations between nerves and muscles to ease tensiton, spasms, cramps and radiating pains.

 Nat phos - The acidity balancing cell salt helps with both digestive and tissue/joint aggravations by keeping acids at bay.

Debility Tissue B:

With the cell salts critical to growth, repair, inflammation and healthy nerves, this combination offers fundamental aid for stressed systems. Its gentle worry-free support can be applied anytime energy feels challenged. Rest assured, these simple tablets are 100% natural and safe to take with any form of medicine.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

Kali phos - The nerve nutrient cell salt helps balance stress by relieving restless nerves, nervous fatigue, sadness or nerve pain.

 Calc phos - The cell salt for growth and repair stress, supports recovery, aids weakness and nutrition, and eases growing pains and related stresses.

 Ferrum phos - The anti-inflammation and fever cell salt helps reduce inflammation, acute fevers and general fatigue.

Bioplasma

#1 Best Selling Cell Salt Combination & Best Value! Offers balancing support to anyone, of any age, any time a refreshing dose is needed. If feeling just a ‘bubble off plumb’, recovering from a vigorous run or workout, suffering from an unbalanced diet or working to get back in sync after an illness, Bioplasma can be highly restorative. It’s the only combination available in multiple potencies - 6X, 12X and 30X.

Homeopathic Ingredients: (Contains all 12 Cell Salts)

Calc fluor (Calcium Fluoride)

Calc phos (Calcium Phosphate)

Calc sulph (Calcium Sulphate)

Ferrum phos (Iron Phosphate)

Kali mur (Potassium Chloride)

Kali phos (Potassium Phosphate)

Kali sulph (Potassium Sulphate)

Mag phos (Magnesium Phosphate)

Nat mur (Sodium Chloride)

Nat phos (Sodium Phosphate)

Nat sulph (Sodium Sulphate)

Silica (Silicon Dioxide)

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Get to Know Your Homeopathic Cell Salts!

The simplest step into homeopathy’s safe effective healing, is getting to know the twelve cell salts. Most of the cell salts and the ‘Biochemic Theory’ behind them were the work of German chemist and physician Dr. Schuessler. He analyzed human tissues, found twelve inorganic substances in common and studied imbalances in these cell salts that related to diseases. From this he deduced that abnormal conditions (illnesses) arise when there is an imbalance in one or more of the basic “salts” or inorganic mineral compounds.

Dr. Schuessler discovered that supplements were not always safe or effective alone, so he made the compounds into homeopathically prepared remedies and found that whether applied to cases of excess or deficiency, the biochemic cell salt remedies helped the body restore a natural balance.

Our History and Theirs

After working with the cell salt’s founder
Dr. Wm. Schuessler in Germany in the 1890s, F. A. Luyties brought an enthusiasm for the cell salts back to his grandfather’s pharmacy that remains with us today.  In J.B. Chapman’s book, Dr. Schuessler’s Biochemistry, he says of our company:
“The Luyties Pharmacal Company were pioneers in the introduction of these remedies to the physicians in the United States.”

In homeopathic potencies, the cell salts are mild and safe at any dosage, and can benefit
the whole family!

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Sinuses, Sniffles & Sneezes

How to get cold relief without suppression. 

We have to admit, this topic has been on our minds since the fall, and cooler weather set in, because we're starting to see more colds in the office and among family members.  Sometimes, colds are just a nuisance, not fully debilitating or overwhelming, but other times, they really drain your energy.  Fortunately, homeopathy offers safe solutions for either situation and the range of symptoms that accompany any cold.  You can start by looking at these three key homeopathic remedies to help you fight colds and cold symptoms this season.

Our #1 homeopathic combination remedy for colds

Nasal / Sinus #10 

Tough stubborn mucus has met its match!

♦ Whether stubborn mucus blocks nasal passages, sinuses or bronchial tracks, this remedy offers natural support that will not suppress phlegm.

♦ This unique formula is designed to stimulate natural healing to fight off sinus pressure, nasal congestion and post nasal drainage.

♦ Relieves lingering cold symptoms– chesty coughs and stubborn nasal discharge.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

Antimonium tart - A master of coughs and stubborn mucus, helps when the sinuses, or any part of the respiratory system are full.

 Kali bich - Homeopathy’s #1 real sinus reliever, helps clear thick, yellow-green, stringy mucus that clogs the sinuses, blocks nasal passages, lines the throat and lungs and may fill the ears as well.

 Mercurius viv - Offers added relief if there is much mucus in the throat and pain in the front and back of the head.

Spongia tosta - Helps most when there is mucus irritation, but everything feels dry and tight - blocked sinuses with bursting headaches, and dry suffocating coughs.

 Favorite homeopathic single remdy for early onset of cold symptoms

Aconite Napellus

Sudden sniffles, scares and shocks are Aconite’s trademarks.

♦ For first aid after a scare or accident, it can be critical for calming fear and minimizing the chance of shock.
♦ For colds, most texts recommend it be taken at the first sneeze, sniffle, dry throat, acute fever or fear that a cold is coming, particularly when symptoms begin suddenly after exposure to cold winds or emotional trauma.
♦ If fearful anxiety is present, it also eases: sleeplessness, restlessness, pain and burning headaches.

Lingering colds that drain energy with fever, chills, hoarseness and hacking coughs.

Cold Solutions with Zinc

Natural relief for a range of cold and hay fever symptoms, including sniffles, nasal congestion, acute fever, restless fatigue and heavy achy discomfort. With Zinc and classic cold remedies, #399 offers help to every cold it touches.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

Aconite - Fast acting support at the first sign of a cold, especially sniffles, sneezing or sore throat after a cold wind.

 Allium cepa - Relieves burning, watery runny noses and watery eyes due to colds or hayfever.

 Gelsemium - Relieves and speeds recovery of energy-draining, heavy, yet restless, colds and flu.

 Zinc gluc - Relieves dry sore throats, hoarseness and spasmodic cough.

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A closer look at homeopathic Nux vomica for excess.

In recent weeks, we've noticed a startling increase in web site searches on two key words - "Indigestion" & "Stress".  Although we've written seperately about the topics of indigestion and stress before, the relationship both of these "keynotes" have with a particular homeopathic remedy, seemed like less of a coincidence, and more like a sign of the times.  So this week's blog takes a much closer look at the homeopathic remedy Nux vomica, one that is largely characterized by symptoms from excess - excessive work, excessive play, excessive eating, excessive drinking, excessive medication and generally speaking, too much of any one thing!

Nux Vomica -  The stress of deadlines, tests, mental strain, parties, stimulants, sedatives, etc., tend to lower vitality, increase susceptibility, and lead to the many ailments this comprehensive homeopathic remedy can relieve, including: Restless cold or flu with extreme chilliness, suffocating cough and fatigue; Digestion with heartburn, gas, vomiting and constipation from fatty food, alcohol, coffee or stress; Pains including pressing headaches, sore lower backaches, and heavy menstrual pains. Keeping an aggravated state from becoming angry or violent is a Nux vomica trademark.

Typical adjectives for Nux vomica individuals or states include: competitive, impatient, impulsive, ambitious, aggressive, fastidious, restless... You know the feeling when you have worked harder than anyone else, you know you are right and want to rage against all the red tape? That is typically the Nux vomica moment. Some people are that dedicated or engaged all the time, others only feel it under stress.

Under stress, the Nux vomica workaholic might form habits like drinking a pot of coffee to wake up, overeating during a sedentary day, then taking something to induce sleep, but the homeopathic remedy can help us all unravel our nerves and change indulgent behavior. Helping an aggravated state from becoming an angry or violent state is a trademark of Nux vomica.

Then there are the physical effects of stress that Nux vomica can relieve. It aids very restless hay fever, cold and flu symptoms that may include extreme chilliness, bone, back and joint pain, headache, suffocating cough and fatigue. Extreme chilliness marks a Nux vomica fever - drafts are unbearable. The cold may have burning mucus that blocks the nose at night and a rough sore throat that sends pain toward the ears on trying to swallow the lump in your throat. Ear pain that hurts on swallowing will often find relief in Nux vomica, as well. The hay fever Nux vomica applies to has these same common cold symptoms.

When the digestive system is stressed, Nux vomica can quickly relieve heartburn, indigestion, gas and constipation from too much fatty food, alcohol/hangovers, coffee, stimulants or other excesses. Car sickness with a faint feeling, stomach flu with bitter vomiting and constipation during pregnancy may need Nux vomica, too.

Then there’s the pain. Nux vomica specializes in pressing, tearing headaches that worsen at night or in the morning especially following mental strain, alcohol or 3 a.m. sleeplessness. Nux vomica also helps backache with pressing bruised pain in lower back and periods with heavy aching pain and lower back spasms.

Illness and fatigue bring out Nux vomica's most impatient, irritable and hypersensitive behaviors. Nux vomica patients find relief in a nap, moist air and hot drinks, and aggravation in cold open air, tight clothes, stimulation and on waking early. Without Nux vomica, the only alternative for such workaholics may be utter fatigue, which falls under Nux’s range of support as well.

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Homeopathic Remedy Combinations with "Nux Vomica" as a key ingredient

Hangover / Recovery #77

This very versatile homeopathic remedy combination blends four of the most comprehensive remedies for relieving headache, flu, cough, nausea, hangovers and stress-related symptoms. Whether in the thoes of misery or in the recovery stage, this unique homeopathic formula offers calming, stabilizing support without any risk of interference with other medicines or groggy side effects.

Hyland's Defend Nighttime Cold and Cough

Hyland's liquid nighttime formula combines classic proven homeopathic ingredients for common cold and cough symptoms with a few of the best for a calm restful night's sleep. Its comprehensive formula offers relief for nasal congestion, cough, sore throat and sneezing symptoms plus calming support for sleeplessness, restless sleep or frequent waking.

Gas Tabs Wise's #413

This unique homeopathic formula relieves gastric complaints from many sources, including digestive excesses (too much alcohol, coffee, rich food, etc.) as well as stress, emotional strain, grief or anger. It even has a dash of nutmeg’s remedy to help when weak digestion turns all food to gas and bloating.

Dyspepsia #22

A homeopathic remedy complete with relief for digestive issues that develop soon after eating, plus support for ongoing nausea and constipation from weak or sluggish systems. When rich meals result in heartburn, gas, belching, sleeplessness and/or diarrhea, this comprehensive homeopathic remedy works with the body’s own balancing responses to ease discomfort quickly.

Defend Against Summer Cold & Cough Symptoms with Homeopathy

Is your typical summer cold different than the one you might get in winter?

"Summer cold" is an expression you've likely heard, but aside from the fact that you may get a cold in the summer, is there a difference between summer colds and winter colds?

The simple answer is yes. While the symptoms of both summer and winter colds can be similar, the causes can be different. Corona viruses are more active in winter and early spring. The distinguishing characteristic of this type of cold is the tendency to attack the respiratory system. Rhino viruses, on the other hand, are more active in late spring, summer and early fall. Rhino virus symptoms tend to be more "sinus" related, including runny nose, blocked sinus, sneezing and sore throat. The real challenge of a summer cold, however, is that the viruses that cause winter colds, sometimes combine with the viruses that cause summer colds. Some doctors say this can make a summer cold more difficult to treat and longer lasting.

Best Homeopathic Remedy Combinations for Summer Colds

Sinus #203

This head clearing homeopathic combination works with the body’s natural decongestants and histamines to clear the sinuses of stubborn mucus and ease profuse discharges. Its relief extends to bursting catarrhal headache pain and eye, nose and throat irritation due to allergies, hay fever, colds or congestions.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

Euphrasia - Relieves sinus troubles that behave more like colds with profuse burning tears especially in the morning, plus profuse, bland nasal discharge, and often a bursting catarrhal headache that may set everything running.

Kali bich - Among the masters of sinus trouble, it helps clear thick stringy yellow mucus that clogs eyes, ears, noses and throats causing pressure and pain, especially at the base of the nose.

Hydrastis - Applies when post-nasal drip and profuse burning yellow mucus lead to a dull, pressing headache and a harsh cough.

Pulsatilla -  Helps clear thick yellow mucus in the eyes, nose, chest or sinuses which often results in a pressing sore headache and violent, must-sit-up night coughs.

Hyland's DEFEND Cold & Cough for Adults - New!

This 100% Natural liquid provides multi-symptom relief, is free of dies, and has no alcohol or sugar.  Hyland's DEFEND Cold & Cough for Adults is also available as a "Nighttime" formula with three extra ingredients to help with sleeplessness and fatigue.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

Allium Cepa - sneezing, watery eyes, burning watery nasal discharge, and hacking cough.

Hepar Sulph Calc - Cold, sneezing

Hydrastis - Rattling or tickling cough, sinus congestion, dry/raw/sore throat

Natrum Mur - Dry or rattling cough, sore throat

Phosphorus - Hoarse/dry cough, nasal congestion, chest congestion, weak limbs

Pulsatilla - Spasmodic cough, cold, nasal congestion

Sulphur - Chest congestion, nasal congestion, burning, runny nose

Hyland's DEFEND Nighttime Cold & Cough also contains these additional homeopathic remedy ingredients to help with sleeplessness and fatigue:

Coffea cruda - Sleeplessness, Restlessness

Chamomilla - Sensitive, irritable, fussy, nocturnal sleeplessness

Nux vomica - Tired, difficulty falling asleep, frequent waking

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Key Single Homeopathic Remedies for Summer Colds

As each single remedy covers an array of cold symptoms, they usually have applications that suit both summer and winter colds. However, when you divide head colds from chest colds, there are a few striking remedies to consider for summer and fall, most of which overlap well with allergy symptoms:

Kali mur

As its source is critical to breaking down white mucus and discharge (fibrin), Kali mur (potassium chloride) helps cleanse colds, coughs and sinuses troubled by white mucus, as well as thrush, pimples, blisters or eruptions with white discharge.

Kali bich

This master remedy for helping break down thick, ropy, sticky, tough, stubborn mucus helps clear away sinus congestion, post nasal drip, hawking, blocked nasal passages, stubborn gagging coughs, plus related stomach distress and migraine-like headaches. If mucus suppressants, spring pollen, or too much beer are in the picture, that’s more evidence that Kali bich could help.

Euhprasia

This fast acting single helps brighten eyes and clear congestions. Whether allergies, hay fever or a watery cold produces burning, watery, red, irritated eyes, this remedy offers needed relief. Other symptoms may include coughs, headaches and noses change from blocked and stuffy to runny and profuse. If a smoky warm room is even worse than a garden in full flower, your eyes might like this remedy.

Hydrastis

As all autumn hay fever sufferers know, this plant’s bright yellow flowers cause (and thus cure homeopathically) thick, yellow, ropy mucus, everywhere – from ears, eyes and throat to stomach, and other organs. Profuse thick yellow expectoration in the throat and chest sets off its stubborn cough.

Natrum mur

The cell salt made from sea salt restores a range of imbalances. For colds, sinus pressure, post nasal drip, hay fever and sore throats, the use of Nat mur is indicated by a dry rawness and thickening clearish mucus.

Pulsatilla

The pink flower that gives us this remedy is perfect for the character it mends. Whenever you read about Pulsatilla, a specific personality shows up, something like ‘soft, gentle, mild, affectionate, as well as clingy, weepy, moody, sometimes childish’. The most important aspects of Pulsatilla are a deep need for security with fear of abandonment, and ever changing moods and symptoms.

Homeopathy - Frequently Asked Questions

Are these remedies herbal?

No, while many homeopathic remedies are derived from plants and even herbs, their processing and highly defined principles of application are unique to homeopathic medicines.

Who Can Take It? Everyone!

You’re never too old, young, weak, strong, sickly or healthy to benefit from homeopathy. For children under 2 years of age, professional guidance is recommended with every form of self care.

When dosing babies, do tablets need to be placed under the baby’s tongue?

Many parents have success putting the tablets on the baby’s tongue, just inside the baby’s cheek, or between the cheek and gum, where the soft tablets dissolve instantly. If giving them a remedy that comes in a harder tablet or pellet, you can crush the tablets between two spoons or dissolve them in a teaspoonful of water before giving them to your child.

Should I keep dosing until the bottle runs out?

Not unless your homeopath or program advises it. In general, it is best to stop dosing when you feel a marked improvement or change, even if after only one dose. Just assume the body has the message and does not need further doses to confuse its progress. If improvement ceases, you can always resume dosing. This approach is especially apt when using higher potency singles.

Is homeopathy safe to take with my other medications?

Yes, prescriptions, OTCs, supplements, etc.– homeopathy has no contrandications and because it works with the body’s own resources, it has no risk of habituation or ‘druggy’ side effects.

What role does the FDA have in homeopathy?

Two organizations are involved in the standardization and oversight of homeopathic production, the FDA and the HPUS. The Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the US (HPUS) establishes the tests, standards, assays and production methods for each remedy it approves. The FDA uses HPUS monographs plus the same rules and regulations it applies to other forms of medicine to oversee and scrutinize homeopathic manufacturing, production, labeling and advertising. Homeopathic medicines are not herbs or supplements, they have been recognized by the FDA as drugs since 1938.

Do your products have an expiration date?

Homeopathic medicines are good indefinitely as they are very stable when stored under normal conditions (away from moisture and excessive heat or cold). For this reason the FDA has exempted homeopathic manufacturers from posting expiration dates.

Is it safe to use your tablets if I am lactose intolerant or if I have a sensitivity to milk?

All our tablets contain pure Lactose N.F. (National Formulary), which is without casein, whey or the other milk proteins that often trigger reactions to dairy products. Most people who are lactose intolerant are able to use our products as the amount of lactose is relatively small. But if still concerned, you can dilute a dose in water and take a sip of that as your dose.

Single Homeopathic Remedies - Stock Up & Save!

Having what you need when you need it is a great comfort.  Our C kits let you carry the 27 singles you need for your family or your profession. For complete listings of all our kits, visit our website’s Homeopathic Kits page.

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Please note: For accuracy, the Selected C-Kit remedy choices must be submitted via the special page on our website, by mail, or faxed to us as they require much detailed processing.

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How to Take Homeopathic Remedies?

Basics

Unless otherwise indicated on the label, the best way to take the small homeopathic tablets and pellets is to pour 3-4 into the lid, spill under your tongue and let them dissolve in a clean mouth (avoid eating for 15 minutes before and after a dose). If symptoms do not change, try avoiding contact with strong coffee, mints and chemical odors, as these can disrupt remedies if you are sensitive to them.

Frequency

How often you dose is more important than the number of tablets you take. You can dose more frequently the more severe the symptoms, even every 5 or 15 minutes for a few doses. Otherwise, 1-3 doses per day, or as needed, is standard for lower potencies. When symptoms improve, you should stop dosing and trust that your system has the message, especially when working with single remedies.  Combinations often call for more frequent dosing than single remedies and lower potency singles call for more dosing than higher potencies.  See page 29 for an illustrated explanation of potency.

Lactose based tablets come in 6X, 12X and 30X. They dissolve under the tongue almost instantly.

Sucrose based pellets are available in 30C, and 200C. Note: Photos are shown at approximate size.

Welcome to Our Homeopathic Single Remedies

Single remedies are derived from a single source– primarily plant, mineral or chemical. They are the essence of homeopathy and therefore engage all the principles and concepts that make homeopathy a comprehensive system of medicine. Highly multifaceted, most single remedies address a wide array of health issues. We only sell single homeopathic remedies in potencies that make them absolutely safe!

Let Like Be Cured By Like

Coffee for jittery nerves?  Homeopathy’s principle of similars makes it fascinating, highly consistent and essentially limitless.  In essence it means that our bodies can respond to extremely safe versions of what otherwise could cause symptoms similar to those we may be experiencing.

So Many Symptoms

If taken in large quantities (not homeopathic doses) over time, coffee, irritating chemicals and even herbs have proven they will impact us mentally, emotionally and physically. When you apply the law of similars (described above), this is why most remedy descriptions involve so many symptoms and characteristics. The challenge can be in finding the remedy that fits your particular pattern of symptoms. If finding the right match takes a few tries, don't worry, when homeopathically processed, there's no chance of harm.

Feminine Cycles & Life Stages

Homeopathy offers balancing support for all women - hormonal cycles, shifts and changes included! The supportive relief in these remedies can save you time and energy for the things that matter most.

Mothers tend to put everyone else's needs first when it comes to health concerns. While homeopathy addresses a wide range of issues in support of your family's health, we’d like to remind you that it also offers gentle, yet impressive relief, especially for women.

After all, sometimes the caretaker needs a little care herself.

Treat Yourself to Some Worry-Free Relief!

Female Wise’s #47

• Leucorrhea • Pain • PMS • Mood swings • Backache

Among this combo’s four single homeopathic remedy ingredients lies vast potential for balancing relief of many female complaints.

Homeopathic Ingredients: Zincum met, Pulsatilla, Ova testa, Lillium tig

PMS and Painful Periods #18

• Mood Swings • Bloating • Cramping • Irritability

Anything more than slightly inconvenient is too much. Find balancing relief from women’s cyclical aches, bloating, mood swings, bearing down pains, cramping pain, irregular flow, headaches and more. As the homeopathic remedy Caulophyllum helps induce labor, this is not a remedy for expectant mothers.

Homeopathic Ingredients: Caulophyllum, Pulsatilla, Viburnum op

Menopause #310

• Hot flashes • Pain • Heavy menses • Leucorrhea • Mood swings • Cramping pain

Along with easing the emotional turbulence, waves of heat and anxiety that so many women suffer, this powerful homeopathic combination remedy addresses a range of pains, headaches and discharges. With or without #310, a check-up is always advisable.

Homeopathic ingredients: Ustilago may, Lachesis, Sanguinaria

Vaginal Irritation - Tissue N

• Cramps • Discharge • Leucorrhea • Thrush • Irritation • Dryness • Acute anemia

Fundamental cell salt support designed to relieve symptoms of irritation, cramps, thrush, pain and fatigue.

Homeopathic Ingredients: Calc phos, Kali mur, Kali phos, Mag phos

Single Homeopathic Remedy Female "Specialists" worth investigating:

Pulsatilla: Talk about mood swings and PMS!

Sepia: When hormones refuse to harmonize.

Lachesis: Hot flashes, mood flashes...

Cimicifuga: Gloomy clouds and pressing headaches contribute to PMS?

Arsenicum: If cleaning or worrying are your only choices.

Phosphorus: Burning the candle at both ends?

Mag Phos: You and your cramps can relax with this remedy and a glass of hot water.

Plus Combinations including: Bladder Irritation #69, Incontinence #160, Hyland’s Enuraid...

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Homeopathic Medicine for Women

Expert advise for treating a wide range of mental and physical symptoms.

Medical doctor and psychiatrist, Trevor Smith, MD, offers sage advice and describes the appropriate homeopathic applications for a wide range of mental and physical symptoms and conditions both simple and complex. His topics include and extend well beyond the applications for PMS, Conception, Pregnancy, Breast Feeding and Menopause. Trevor Smith, MD, 176 pp. paperback.

This important and long-awaited guidebook brings together information and advice about the homeopathic treatment of a full range of gynecological disorders.

The author, a well-known practicing homeopath and psychiatrist, gives a clear description of each disorder and its causes and symptoms.

He discusses the conventional treatment of the complaint, and provides a list of homeopathic remedies, indicating exactly how each remedy is to be applied to specific physical and psychological symptoms.

What's the first clue that you may need a "hot weather" homeopathic remedy? 

Heat Headaches.

The heat in summer can be dangerous. Emergency rooms often fill up with patients who did not feel the heat in time. Heat headaches are often the first clue that you are entering the danger zone. Fortunately the homeopathic remedy that matches your heat headache can also help your other systems battle the heat as efficiently as possible.

Although nothing helps as much as an air conditioner and drinking lots of water and electrolyte drinks, here are some helpful clues to homeopathic remedies that can ease your headaches and sunburn issues, plus some hints for immediate non- homeopathic solutions and links to websites that can help you get through a summer heat wave in the best of health.

Hot Weather Homeopathic Remedies

Belladonna - #1 for heat: as soon as the face gets flushed, especially if not perspiring, get this homeopathic remedy out. The full picture of symptoms includes dilated pupils, a throbbing headache, radiating heat with little or no sweat. A cold compress to the head may feel the most soothing.

Bryonia - This headache might not start while on the field, but if a worse-with-motion frontal headache sets in after the game or the next morning, Bryonia is a homeopathic remedy that can save your day.

Ferrum phos - As the anti-inflammatory cell salt, this homeopathic remedy relieves heat related headaches (when temples and vertex throb or ache), plus weakness, fatigue, acute anemia and similar symptoms that the body is over-taxed.

Lachesis - As heat is a part of almost everything about Lachesis, it can be a very cooling homeopathic remedy. Hot flashes, hot sweats, hot heavy headaches and the fatigue that follows heat, all can find help here.

Pulsatilla - Though they love fresh air, and dread stuffy rooms, Pulsatilla people wilt in the sun with pressing 'as if bruised' throbbing headaches.

Headaches #33 - With Belladonna and Aconite for sudden flushes of heat and Bryonia to cover the after effects of heat, this is a very handy homeopathic remedy combination to take along wherever you go.

Fever #7 - Whether the heat comes from your internal furnace or an external source, this cooling homeopathic remedy can be very helpful for cooling off and minimizing the fatigue that usually follows.

Bioplasma or Tonic Tissue E - Make sure you have these homeopathic cell salts on your side whenever you are facing stresses.

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Homeopathy's Sunburn Solutions

The new talk is that we too often want a cold splash which makes the difference in temperature even greater and can lead to worse burning. (Same for scalds and burns.)

So it is best to start with tepid applications and let it cool with your skin. Ideally you mix up a bath with Calendula and Hypericum non alcoholic solutions in the water and stay in it as it cools.

Cantharis: a dose or two can ease the pain and minimize the blistering of burns and scalds with rawness and smarting, blistering sunburns, relieved by cool applied

Urtica urens - pain and itch relief from prickly heat to sunburn with intense burning, itching and red blotches.

Keokuk Burn Ointment - Keep one by the stove, one by the iron and one by the pool! This ointment is a wonder for easing burns, scalds and sunburns, and preventing blisters.

Bedbugs are trending on the internet!

Are bedbugs the latest craze?  Web MD claims that the term "bedbugs" is currently one of their top 5 search terms, and Google's keyword search tool indicates more than 1.5 million monthly searches.  While bedbugs were near elimination in the US in the 1950s, their numbers are on the rise, largely due to their increasing resistance to pesticides.

While bedbugs have a nasty bite more irritating than mosquitoes, the only good thing about bedbugs is that they are not thought to spread disease.

One way to tell if bedbugs are bugging you, is the pattern of the bites, they are usually in a rather straight line and often take some time to appear.  For easing the itchy red bites and rashes, 1-800 Homeopathy has plenty of help.  For help identifying and gettting rid of the culprits, see this website for resources and info: Bed Bug Info.

Homeopathic Bug Bite Relief - BedBugs Included!

Hyland's Bug Bite Ointment is the first step in soothing bites of all kinds.

Hyland’s Bug Bite Ointment is a fast acting ointment to relieve the swelling and itching from bug bites. The citronella oil in the base makes it smell good and helps to deter insects from the second bite. It’s not a repellant, but it does offer fast acting and long lasting relief! 

Homeopathic Ingredients:

Apis Mellifica – eases pain from red, swollen bites
Calendula Officinalis – helps to heal the skin
Echinacea Ang – eases pain and swelling
Ledum Palustre – eases pain from white, hard bites
Urtuca Dioica – Eases itchy, red bites

Homeopathy's Two Best Bug Bite Experts

Apis mel - When systems over-react with puffy swelling and burning stinging pain, this bee sting remedy can apply to any bite, hive or rash.

Ledum pal - This expert eases bug bites of all kinds, especially if they feel worse the more you scratch, and the area of the bite is cold to the touch even though there is inflammation.

Meanwhile, sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite!

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Cleanse, Soothe and Heal with More Homeopathic Ointments

Panacea Ointment

A natural ointment to relieve sores and blisters and assists burns and warts.  

This comprehensive combination of classic homeopathic remedies (Arnica, Calendula, Hamamelis, Thuja) and natural oils applies healing and purgative relief to a range of skin applications including sores, blisters, warts, minor wounds, minor burns, bruises, eruptions and varicose veins.

Echinacea Ointment

Cleansing Echinacea and purgative Thuja mix to ease a variety of blemishes.  Insect bites to rashes and warts, this cleansing purging ointment relieves many skin conditions.  Homeopathic Ingredients:
• Echinacea - Soothing,cleansing relief for rashes, pimples and sores.
• Thuja - A purgative ingredient applies to warts, rashes and eruption.
• Chlorophyll - Natural cleansing support.

PRID - Smile's Salve

An old time purgative favorite for skin irritations, sores, eruptions, splinters and bruises.

One Key to Digestive Balance - Carbo veg

Homeopathic relief for indigestion, gas and other digestive complaints

Somewhere deep inside that charred beech wood, there is heat enough to revitalize the weary and purify pent up gas. The shared qualities between charcoal and its homeopathic remedy are fascinating. Carbo veg charcoal is the result of letting burning wood smolder in an air tight container (a pressure cooker of sorts). On the gastric side, think of opening a sealed container full of out-of-date sauce and the gas it releases. When your stomach feels like a tight drum relieved only temporarily by gas escaping in bouts of belching (sometimes quite sour) and flatulence, the homeopathic remedy Carbo veg, can calm the indigestion, nausea, heartburn, bloating and soon-to-be-airborne gasses, especially if digestion is sluggish and rich fatty foods or milk were recently consumed. While very similar to Lycopodium’s indigestion, Carbo veg usually has more upward gas– belching.

Now consider charcoal’s ability to consolidate the fire into a slow burning consistent heat. Carbo veg’s second and often most important work is in convalescence. “It restores the vital force in a most fundamental way,” says Roger Morrison, MD. It offers profound support for the weary who, following illness, accident, surgery, breastfeeding, food poisoning, too much carbon monoxide or just the effects of aging, become sluggish and very weak with much coldness: cold sweat, cold legs, feet and even breath. A critical key to Carbo veg is a desire for fresh cool air, though generally they feel cold to the touch. They may want the air conditioner turned up and a fan on. When ill, their temperament tends toward apathy and irritable indifference.

Top Homeopathic Remedy Combinations with Carbo veg

Antacids tend to stimulate more acidity issues and slow digestion, laxatives are addictive, but airborne gasses are embarrassing and colic hurts.  Fortunately your system can use these remedies to relieve symptoms on the spot and correct imbalances over time.

Indigestion #178 

This homeopathic remedy combination provides homeopathic and enzyme supportive relief for a range of digestive complaints. Its wide ranging support helps improve digestion while relieving gas, heartburn, belching, nausea, diarrhea, sour stomachs and vomiting, especially if due to dietary errors or weakened digestive systems.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

• Carbo veg - Provides fast relief of gas and related complaints like heartburn, belching, flatulence, bloating and pain.
• Hydrastis - Helps those whose sore stomachs make them loath food, which, if eaten, usually causes vomiting - the only exception may be watered down milk.
• Natrum carb - Aids weak digestion disturbed by slight dietary errors, as when fats lead to heartburn, bitter taste, belching and sour stomach, temporarily relieved by soda biscuits.
• Papain - This is made from the digestion supportive papaya enzyme.
• Zingiber - Made from ginger, it relieves nausea with belching and diarrhea, especially if the stomach feels like a heavy stone.

Gas Tabs Wise's #413

This unique formula relieves gastric complaints from many sources, including digestive excesses (too much alcohol, coffee, rich food, etc.) as well as stress, emotional strain, grief or anger. It even has a dash of nutmeg’s remedy to help when weak digestion turns all food to gas and bloating.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

• Carbo veg - Eases upward gas that begins soon after eating with sour belching, hiccups and heartburn.
• Lycopodium - Helps lower gas especially after over-eating brings on bloating, abdominal pain and flatulence.
• Ignatia - Relieves indigestion in empty feeling stomachs with a lump in the throat sensation, often following grief, anger or other emotional turmoil.
• Nux vom - The stress expert single offers natural relief for heartburn, knot-like stomach pain and gas with rumbling and flatulence due to stress, rich food, coffee or alcohol.
• Nux muschata - Made from nutmeg, it helps when weak digestion turns all food to gas and bloating.

Stomach Tabs Wise's #319

When digestive systems needs friendly support, this formula delivers some of homeopathy’s most helpful ingredients. Whether the symptoms lean toward vomiting, heartburn, gas and sour burping, or burning stomachaches, colic, and flatulence, this combination offers natural relief that will not hinder digestion.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

• Bismuth - Offers relief if liquids are vomited soon after consumption.
• Carbo veg - Relieves gas soon after eating with sour, putrid, often burning eructations, heartburn and/or burning stomach pain
• Lycopodium - Eases lower gas with bloated abdominal fullness and colicky pain, especially from fermentable foods.

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Homeopathic Belladonna & Other Headache Remedies

“Is your face red, hot and swollen?  Do you feel worse lying down, better sitting up?  Do you feel the desire to escape?  Is pain mostly in forehead, and worse on the right side? 

Belladonna

This homeopathic remedy is hot! Hot fevers, hot to the touch, hot face, hot temper, hot spots, hot throats, hot ears, hot teething gums, hot flushes... though hands and feet are probably cool. Belladonna is also restless - restless sleep with grinding of teeth, restless fevers, restless with pain, restless desire to escape...

Belladonna, the essential homeopathic remedy for fever and heat exposure, is also useful as a headache remedy. It can quickly relieve dizzying, throbbing, burning headaches that will not let you bend over.  Individuals may also have a stiff neck and lower back pain.  Since heat and redness are this homeopathic remedies primary keynotes, belladonna is a great "hot weather" homeopathic remedy to keep handy when heat headaches are more prevalent. 

As for the people who can benefit most from belladona: Belladonna is what homeopathic practitioners call “constitutional” for individuals who are lively and happy when well, but illness or stress can bring out a restless, wild, uncontrollable side that if not controlled can bite, kick, rage and scream. Like its fevers, these tantrums can subside as quickly as they began. There may be a restless desire to escape somehow - even if just into the imagination. Though not excluding factors, a fear of dogs and fascination with fire fit into Belladonna's whole picture.

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Nux Vomica

"Are you stressed from a deadline or other project?  Are you worse in the morning and / or from mental exertion?  Are you better from rest, lying down and strong pressure?"

Stress and excesses of work, fun, food, stimulants, anger, etc, can stimulate the symptoms this versatile homeopathic remedy relieves. When too many deadlines, tests, projects, plans, medications, parties, become too much, we become susceptible to the physical, mental and emotional states that Nux vomica is especially apt at addressing.

Typical adjectives for Nux vomica individuals or states include: competitive, impatient, impulsive, ambitious, aggressive, fastidious, restless... You know the feeling when you have worked harder than anyone else, you know you are right and want to rage against all the red tape? That is typically the Nux vomica moment. Some people are that dedicated or engaged all the time, others only feel it under stress.

Nux vomica is a homeopathic remedy that specializes in pressing, tearing headaches that worsen at night or in the morning especially following mental strain, alcohol or 3 a.m. sleeplessness. Nux vomica also helps backache with pressing bruised pain in lower back and periods with heavy aching pain and lower back spasms.

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Homeopathic Remedy Combinations for Headache and Migraine Headache Relief

Headaches #33

From sudden fierce headaches to slow moving, heavy headaches, 1-800 Homeopathy's Headache's #33’s provides extensive, worry free relief. This unique formula’s calming applications apply to a variety of pains including throbbing, bursting, shooting, pressing and nauseating headaches.

Migraine #233

Success stories keep coming in about this homeopathic headache combination! Its highly specialized formula applies to many very vexing migraine pains. Dr. Luyties carefully selected its homeopathic ingredients to relieve diverse headache and migraine symptoms including pressing, pulsating, bursting and nauseating pains.

Hangover / Recovery #77

This very versatile homeopathic combination blends four of the most comprehensive homeopathic remedies for relieving headache, flu, cough, nausea, hangovers and stress-related symptoms.

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Arnica montana: The Best Homeopathic Remedy to Prepare for Summer Chores, Fun and Fitness

“It may be said to be the traumatic par excellence. Trauma in all its varieties and effects, recent and remote, is met by Arnica as by no other single drug...” – Dr. John Clarke?

Whether off to the gym, the back yard, the mountains or the playground, the best way to feel confident and worry-free is having the healing power of the homeopathic remedy Arnica. For its unparalleled ability to reduce bruising, bleeding, swelling, shock, pain and recovery time following injuries, strains, sprains, dental work, surgery, childbirth or exercise, Arnica has won many hearts to homeopathy.

• Injuries

By reducing bleeding, bruising and swelling, Arnica ASAP reduces the extent of injuries, blows, falls, dental work and surgery. Arnica’s presence adds efficiency to healing, it does not suppress the body’s own healing mechanisms.

• Muscles and Fitness

As muscles generally build by tearing and repairing, Arnica is ideal for reducing the pain and strain of exercise.

• Joints and Limbs

“As if bruised” soreness anywhere tends to respond well to Arnica. Its presence can greatly reduce the soreness, swelling and trauma after sprains, twists and turns. Weakness in joints from injuries old or new often find relief in Arnica, too.

• Shock & Nervous States

For shock, Arnica is key if people say, “No, I’m fine, don’t touch me, I don’t need a doctor,” when it is obvious they need help; versus Aconite which helps ease shock in patients who scream for help.

The Arnica Story

As the common name of this plant in Germany is Fallkraut, Arnica’s reputation for easing trauma was established long before homeopathy refined it. Folklore claims that knowledge came from mountain goats who scrambled to eat it after falling.  Homeopathy’s founder, Samuel Hahnemann, observed that in extremely large doses, the Arnica plant has the ability to ‘disorganize tissues’ therefore in small amounts, and especially in homeopathy’s finely processed dilutions, it has an uncanny ability to help the body “re-organize tissue” after trauma or strain.

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Key Homeopathic Arnica Products

Arnica Bump Stick 

This lightweight dispenser offers no muss no fuss applications of our clear Arnica ointment onto bruises, tender chaffed skin, chapped lips and dry skin. Its size makes it easy to carry the healing benefits along on outings and trips.

 Arnica Ointment

Vital for every first aid kit, this clear, Arnica-rich ointment relieves bumps, bruises, soreness, chapped lips and skin externally. You can smooth on relief for bumps and bruises and massage in relief for sore muscles and achiness.

Hyland's Arnica Spray

Often, as in cases of bruises and sprained ankles, the area is quite tender and the thought of touching it can send you through the roof.  Spritz on relief with an alcohol based arnica solution.

Hyland's Arnicated Oil

Hyland’s Arnicated Oil is an extract of Arnica in a base of mineral oil. Arnica Montana is known for its healing power for bruising and muscle soreness. This oil is perfect for massaging into sore muscles.

A Mother's Stress is Like No Others

Mothers may have an abundance of advice for their children's stress, but too often forget to treat their own.  When mother's take time to pamper themselves, everyone benefits. Here are a few of the many stress relieving homeopathic solutions to help give mom a break.  In addition, some of the parent's at Hyland's Homemopathic & 1-800 Homeopathy put together a sweet video with some shared wisdom below.  Click here to see the video.

Sleep #173 - Too tired, jittery, nervous or restless to sleep? Not a problem for this remedy.  A simple plan for sleep: Take a few tablets of #173, remember that there’s plenty of time to worry tomorrow, take a deep breath and count the colors of the rainbow. This special formula combines three of the simplest nerve calming, sleep-inducing ingredients in homeopathy to give everyone easy access to 100% natural sleep support, with no groggy or habit-forming side effects.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

Avena sativa - The remedy derived from the common oat helps nerves that feel ‘too tired to sleep’ after a day of mental exertion or worry, or when drained by illness, fatigue or alcohol consumption.

Kali phos - The nerve nutrient cell salt restores calm and composure to over-stressed, restless or emotional nerves, as well as injured painful nerves.

Passiflora - Though its name is passionflower, this remedy is known for its ability to bring on sweet dreams when the day’s passions are past.

Anxiety/Depression #304 - 1-800 Homeopathy's Best Selling Stress Combination offers steadying, calming support for stage fright, performance nerves, despair and anxious worried nerves. This formula’s stabilizing influence extends to nerves struggling with homesickness, grief or sadness as well. By helping the body balance nervous energy, this combination can relieve sleeplessness, irritability, restlessness, headaches, fatigue and other stress responses.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

Agnus - Helps when despair and great sadness make one easily distracted and forgetful.

Gelsemium - Ideal relief for anticipatory nerves before exams, performances, interviews or other stressful situations when a heavy dulness and butterfly stomachs get in the way; also useful for effects of excitement - highs or lows.

Ignatia - Offers critical calming support when grief, homesickness, heartbreak, disappointment or shocking news strain nerves and energy.

Lycopodium - Relieves worried, anxious nerves overwhelmed by stage fright, apprehension or indecision.

Kali phos - Nerve nutrient cell salt helps nerves counter-balance stress, worry, sadness and fatigue.

Passiflora - Offers gentle calming support for natural relief and a good night’s sleep.

Female Wise's #47 - This remedy's balancing relief extends to burning leucorrhea (discharge) between periods, acute abdominal pain, painful PMS, backache and emotional fluctuations, bearing down bloated discomfort, moodiness, restlessness, low spirits and more.

Homeopathic Ingredients: Zincum met, Pulsatilla, Ova testa, Lillium tig

PMS and Painful Periods #18 - This combination can help your body stay in sync when hormones and tissues are not cooperating. Symptoms covered include headaches, cramps, a range of shooting, bearing down or violent pains, moodiness, breast pain, scanty or heavy cycles and more. Not a remedy for expectant mothers.

Homeopathic Ingredients: Caulophyllum, Pulsatilla, Viburnum op

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Here is a short video from Hyland's Homeopathic - What We've Learned About Parenting. 

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Cleanse, Relax & Restore with Homeopathic Cell Salts

A Closer Look at the "Postassium" Cell Salts

The cell salts are made from the natural mineral compounds that combine with water and organic matter to compose the cells and tissues of our bodies. As Schuessler himself said: "The twelve inorganic (mineral) salts are all essential to the proper growth and development of every part of the system." Because of the homeopathic preparation, they are perfectly safe at any dosage, yet can often restore a deficiency faster and often more effectively than a supplement.

In this post, we take a closer look at the "Kali" or "Potassium" Cell Salts, Kali mur, Kali phos and Kali sulph.  Kali mur is found in our muscles, blood and saliva; Kali phos in our muscles, nerves and skin, and Kali sulph is present in skin, intestines, hair, stomach and tissue cells.

Kali mur - A Cleansing Cell Salt

Is your tongue coated white? Do your child’s ears hurt when on an airplane? Are congestions common to your systems - ear, sinus, skin, glands? Are you and your nursing baby sharing thrush?

As its source is critical to breaking down white mucus and discharge (fibrin), Kali mur (potassium chloride) helps cleanse colds, coughs and sinuses troubled by white mucus, as well as thrush, pimples, blisters or eruptions with white discharge. When marked by white spots, white discharge or a white coated tongue, Kali mur’s cleansing applications extend to a range of congestions including sore throats and oral or vaginal thrush, as well as sluggish digestive complaints including heartburn, acidity, gas, diarrhea and sick headaches. Cleaning out congestions before white matures to yellow, saves energy and distress.

Key Homeopathic Remedy Combinations with Kali mur: Acne Tissue D, Colds Tissue J, Tummy Aches #179

Kali phos - Nerve Nutrient Cell Salt

Do your worries keep you up at night? Do you get stress or study headaches? Are you generally timid except when your temper flares? Is your child fretful or bashful? Does he throw tantrums?

The cell salt that nerve and brain cells depend on, Kali phos (potassium phosphate), helps nerves recover, relax and regain strength. Kali phos offers balancing, revitalizing support when injury, illness, stress or sadness result in a heavy, yet restless fatigue or loss of nerve power. Its nerve calming or debuzzing pain relief extends to nervous headaches, backache, sciatica, neuralgias and buzzing in the ears. On the emotional plane, Kali phos aids many common stress responses - temper tantrums, sleeplessness, nightmares, hypersensitivity, sadness and gloom.

Key Homeopathic Remedy Combinations with Kali phos: Anxiety/Depression #304, Debility Tissue B, Insomnia Tissue A

Kali sulph - Restorative Cell Salt

Are you miserable in hot stuffy rooms? Do your colds or congestions last longer than they should? Are you generally timid but sometimes irritability takes over?

As recorded in Dr. Schuessler’s Biochemic Theory, this tissue salt’s source transfers oxygen from the lungs to the iron in our blood and from the blood to the tissue cells. It is a crucial part of our skin, mucus membranes and respiratory systems. Without potassium sulphate, systems stagnate, thus this natural cell salt’s cleansing applications include many conditions with yellow mucus including colds, croupy coughs, sinus or ear congestions, vaginal irritation or diarrhea, as well as skin conditions such as yellow flaky dandruff, skin eruptions or itchy rashes. Other symptoms that suggest a need for Kali sulph include a yellowish coating on the tongue, a sensitivity to heat, shifting joint pains, acute wheezy bronchial irritation, and heavy fatigue with a stuffy or boxed-in feeling.

Key Homeopathic Remedy Combinations with Kali sulph: Muscular Tissue I, Bioplasma Sport

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Cell Salt Testimonials

Cell Salts offer School Support

My son is in High School and I was concerned about exam stress, peer pressure and all the other demands a teenager copes with. Before exams or presentations he always had a sore stomach accompanied by diarrhea, he often had trouble sleeping, feeling restless and nervous. All this while growing leaps and bounds.

I know that dealing with stress is a normal part of growing up, but I looked for something simple and natural to provide support. The cell salts are already in our bodies, so I'm not even adding anything new, just encouraging the bodies tissues to keep up to speed.

Since I've introduced The "Nervous Tension - TISP" in his life, it's been a lot easier for him to do his best. He doesn't get colds or diarrhea anymore when he's got a big test coming up and he's sleeping much better. I've got another son moving into High School and it's great to know we've got some back up support. 

Hayfever Woes

Our oldest son, Rick, would get Hayfever so bad in the spring and summer he could not mow his lawn without a nose mask on. I gave him a bottle of Bioplasma and told him to take them two or three times a day, four under his tongue. Well, he didn't stop until he had taken the entire bottle over a period of time. The good news is it completely healed his hayfever and he can mow his lawn and never gets the sneezes or watery eyes no matter where he goes or what he does.

We wouldn't be without our Homeopathics. I can't even begin to know how many doctor visits and money we have saved over the years.

Homeopathic Cell Salts to Help Your Family Flourish (part 1)

A Closer Look at the "Calciums"

These special homeopathic single remedies help the body find what it needs from your diet, supplements and reserves to keep cells, organs and systems healthy and in sync.  Each cell salt description includes "keynote" questions to help guide your choices.

Calcarea fluor - Elasticity Expert

Is growth a strain on your baby or child?  Do you need to bounce back faster from pregnancy, sprains or illness?  Are your veins varicosing?  teeth loosening?  Do your joints get stiff from inactivity?

Restoring elasticity to veins, muscles, skin, bones and other tissues is the specialty of Calc fluor (calcium fluoride’s). This cell salt’s natural support aids conditions resulting from inflexible tissue or lax tissue that cannot bounce back from injury, pregnancy, growing, aging or illness.  Calc fluor’s healing support benefits elasticity issues as varied as stretch marks, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, muscular weakness and stretch marks, as well as backache, lumbago, stiff joints, weak ankles, repeated sprains and weak teeth. For joint and lower back pains, Calc fluor shares many traits with (and is often taken alongside) the stiff achy joint remedy Rhus tox. Both remedies specialize in helping joints that feel worse in cold wet weather, sitting still and on beginning to move, and improve with gentle continued movement and heat.

Key Homeopathic Remedy Combinations with Calc fluor: Elastic Tissue G, Varicose Veins #119

Calcarea phos - #1 for Growing Bones

Do you often wish you were somewhere else, doing something else? Does your child often complain of boredom? have growing pains?  Does your spouse fidget, grumble about everything, but not have the energy or direction to do anything? Do you just need a boost?

Concerned parents have made Calc phos (calcium phosphate) a popular favorite. Its natural support is ideal for easing growing pains, teething issues, study headaches, sugar highs, weakness and a general discontentment. At any age, its support applies to structural stresses– injured bones, slow healing wounds, joint pain, back pain, weak digestion, iron deficiency and heavy periods.  Key indicators include a desire for change or travel, cravings for fatty, salty foods and an intolerance for dairy products or fruit. On a constitutional level, it applies to those who feel very discontented, dissatisfied; they may complain, want to move to find happiness somewhere else, but can be friendly and open.

Key Homeopathic Remedy Combinations with Calc phos: Tonic Tissue E, Teething Tablets #30

Calcarea sulph - Sinus & Skin Cell Salt

Are your skin and cold symptoms taking too long to clear up?  Does your child have a lot of middle child issues, jealousies, or trouble fitting in with siblings? Does your child have a strange fear of birds?

As calcium sulphate is a vital part of our cleansing systems, its cell salt remedy helps us mend slow-healing wounds, skin disorders, pimples, sore throats and other conditions which tend to suppurate– form yellow pus. Calc sulph helps cleanse colds and allergies if thick yellow mucus causes eye irritation, runny noses and nasal blockage. Calc sulph is most suited to allergic individuals who enjoy walking in the open air, but it can give us all a good cleansing when needed.  It can also be the perfect follow up for Hepar sulph or Silica. Calc sulph symptoms are aggravated by heat and hot stuffy rooms. According to T. F. Allen, Calc sulph applies best to those who may, “desire to weep and to be miserable, alone, and unhappy.”

Key Homeopathic Remedy Combinations with Calc sulph: Acne Tissue D

Introducing... Bioplasma Sport with Electrolytes

Hyland's Bioplasma Sport with Electrolytes is a sports recovery formula in an "on-the-go" dosage form. The powder is developed to dissolve instantly on the tongue and enable more rapid absorption. Pouches are light weight, moisture resistant and allow for greater mobility. Easy to slip in the gym bag or put in your pocket when you head out for your workout.

Bioplasma - All 12 Cell Salts In One

Best Selling Cell Salt Combination & Best Value! Offers balancing support to anyone, of any age, any time a refreshing dose is needed. If feeling just a ‘bubble off plumb’, recovering from a vigorous run or workout, suffering from an unbalanced diet or working to get back in sync after an illness, Bioplasma can be highly restorative. It’s the only combination available in multiple potencies - 6X, 12X and 30X.  

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Homeopathy makes spring break travel easy

Heading out of town for spring break?  Don't forget to put these important homeopathic remedies in your suit case or travel bag.  From motion sickness and stress to traveler’s diarrhea...Homeopathy helps you get there, and enjoy your stay without the common health problems associated with travel.  Whether your heading off by plane, train or boat, have a good look at the journey-inspired remedies below and make sure to include them in your travel kit.

Jet Lag #101

Diarrhea • Nausea • Loss of sleep • Irritability • Fatigue

You don’t waste time catching up with the clock with this remedy. Cocculus, the best travel remedy, has the key symptom ‘ailments from loss of sleep’, plus helpful complaints like ‘vertigo from riding on a train’, motion sickness, nausea, and pain in the small of the back. Arnica helps the muscle soreness gained by sitting too long, carrying luggage or any other cause of bruising soreness. As well as helping deep tissue injuries and cases of ‘the Railway Spine,’ Bellis per can aid exhausting headaches. Chamomilla helps gassy colic and hypersensitivity from food, frustration or fatigue. Lycopodium helps keep food, gas or constipation from getting in the way of a good time. With a few doses before you go and after you get there, you can enjoy your travels to your heart’s content.

Homeopathic Ingredients: Arnica, Bellis per, Chamomilla, Cocculus, Lycopodium

Car Sickness #100

Motion sickness • Diarrhea • Vomiting • Nausea • Irritability

Keeping children in the back seat is tough if one is always car sick. And what about the one who has to have the window down? or the spouse who can’t take a cruise without spending every day in sick bay? Peace at last with #100. Cocculus fights off motion sickness, insomnia and lower back pain. Petroleum covers the longer lasting symptoms resulting from car, train or sea sickness, especially in gastric complaints with diarrhea and nausea. Pulsatilla’s multipurpose nature extends to car sickness when the only relief is to have the window down (fresh air). Tabacum can save your vacation if the typical faint, sinking feeling, vomiting, nausea and vertigo prevail. With this remedy on board, you should make good time - or at least have a good time getting there.

Homeopathic Ingredients: Cocculus, Petroleum, Pulsatilla, Tabacum

Anxiety #320

Anxiety • Anger • Low spirits • Restlessness • Sadness • Shock • Insomnia • Irritability

The nerve calming/healing cell salt Kali phos is only the beginning of this remedy’s relief for unsettled, aggravated nerves. Our restless Aconite calms sudden frights, anxieties and worries to minimize shock and other effects. With Caffeinum you only need to remember the homeopathic principle ‘Like Cures Like’ so, ‘that which can cause jittery, restless, insomnia-inducing nerves and dizziness, can also cure them.’ Nat carb can ease the cross irritability that wants no company and may disturb concentration. Listening to music or other noise may be enough to trigger Nat carb’s weakness and depression. Then sweet Passiflora is here to assure your nerves a good night’s sleep, no matter where you are.

Homeopathic Ingredients: Aconite, Caffeinum, Kali phos, Nat carb, Passiflora

Cocculus  - The #1 Homeopathic Remedy for Travel!

Motion sickness • Vertigo • Jet Lag • Insomnia

Motion sickness, vertigo, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, weariness, jet lag and even a nasty lower back pain may all be working against you until you remember to take your Cocculus along for the ride. Whether caused by loss of sleep, excessive work strain, caring for the sick, anger or grief, as well as train, boat, bumpy plane or car rides, if it makes you feel forgetful, weak, unable to communicate, ‘like a hollow drum inside’, Cocculus is probably your best companion. Other symptoms may include: weakness on standing, no appetite, diarrhea, light-headedness, nightmares, headaches, painful periods and restlessness. Symptoms feel worse for exertion, movement or walking in fresh air. Regardless of the cause, Cocculus can help you catch up on your sleep.

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Cell Salt Travel Kit

Having all twelve cell salts at your fingertips is as comforting as having your bags packed the day before your flight. Practical at home or on the road, this go anywhere lightweight kit has all twelve cell salt remedies(6x potency)plus a card explaining each remedy's primary uses, all in a convenient nylon pouch. It's so stylish it makes a great gift for any level of interest and a perfect companion for new and expectant moms. 12 strong plastic bottles (125 tabs each - 6x potency).

Hangover / Recovery #77

This very versatile combination blends four of the most comprehensive remedies for relieving headache, flu, cough, nausea, hangovers and stress-related symptoms. Whether in the thoes of misery or in the recovery stage, this unique formula offers calming, stabilizing support without any risk of interference with other medicines or groggy side effects. Its many applications make it a great travel companion as well.

Traveller's Diarrhea #335

Between motion sickness, jet lag, change of diet, excesses and overall stress, travel often leads to diarrhea and nausea. Even if rich fatty foods, alcohol, coffee, stimulants, tainted food, stomach flu or constipation are part of the cause, this formula helps balance the body’s response to change and eases the discomfort and fatigue of watery or burning diarrhea.

Homeopathic Remedies To Help You Manage Stress, Before Stress Manages You

Stress seems to be a normal part of life, and according to some experts, in just the right amounts stress can be motivating and possibly good for us.  But too much stress can lead to anxiety, depression and other emotional and physical issues.  The trick is to manage stress before it manages you.  One of the best pieces of advice I've heard, was to step away from the TV and 24 hour news cycle, take a walk and breath in some fresh air.  This works for many of us, but some of us can still use a little help from homeopathic remedies.

Because homeopathic remedies are natural and worry free, you can call on these specially formulated nerve remedies anytime to minimize the effects of stress and steady your nerves.  As everyone's nerves respond differently to stress, each of these offers a unique range of  homeopathic support so you can calm the stormy sea of nervous tension.

Tranquilizer #74

Growing nerves, aging nerves, grieving, angry, tired and sleepless nerves, will all love this gentle calming remedy. Each of its ingredients contributes support for specific symptoms: Kali phos, the nerve nutrient cell salt, calms sore, sad or jittery nerves aggravated by mental or physical stress. Ignatia relieves nerves frayed by emotional stress due to grief, breakups, anger, jealousy or sadness. Agnus castus is called in to lighten the nerves and sadness that can haunt the weary. This simple solution can help take the weight off of life at any age.

Homeopathic Ingredients: Agnus castus, Ignatia, Kali phos

Anxiety/Depression #304

From stage fright to homesickness, this remedy offers comprehensive stress support. When it's your turn at the podium, this combination can be a great companion whether your restless nerves dull your wits and give you butterflies or the apprehension makes you certain that you will fail. When grief or homesickness strike, it can help keep nerves from becoming too agitated or fatigued. For pain, fears, sadness, or other stresses, it has bolstering support, and can also help you combat irritability, anger, forgetfulness, lowering spirits, heavy fatigue, sleeplessness and hypersensitivities.

Homeopathic Ingredients: Agnus cast, Gelsemium, Ignatia, Kali phos, Lycopodium, Passiflora

Nervousness #4

Whether stress, fear, grief, disappointment, homesickness, or illness tax the nervous system, Nervousness #4 is specially designed to step in before nerves spiral out of control. When touchy irritability, listless indifference or stubborn disobedience dominate, its natural balancing support can prove highly beneficial, especially if debility, growth or hormonal changes contribute.

Homeopathic Ingredients: Cinchona, Ignatia, Kali phos, Phosphoricum acidum

Ignatia

As one of the key ingredients in each of these homeopathic combinations, it's worth saying a few extra words about Ignatia.  Whether natural to the individual or induced by emotional stress, the individuals who need Ignatia’s support the most are sensitive, idealistic, sometimes secretive. Their moods may alternate frequently - tears turning to laughter and back again. They may internalize their feelings so well that only their sighs let you know what is beneath the surface. Over time, they can become very defensive, touchy, suspicious, jealous and even rude. The line between Nat mur and Ignatia for grief and suppressed feelings is narrow. One way to tell the difference is their response to sympathy, Nat mur may resent it, while Ignatia just prefers to be alone. Ignatia should be considered first when overwhelmed by recent grief.  Isn’t it fitting that such an emotionally stabilizing plant is the namesake of the patron saint of ‘spiritual retreats and exercises’ who introduced it to Europe from the Philippines?

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Arnica and other Homeopathic Remedies for Sports Injuries

The expression “No pain, no gain” is an over-rated and often health-threatening motto for athletes and weekend warriors alike. Many people feel the need to push themselves to improve, but too often ignore or suppress pain with anti-inflammatories or pain killers. The continued use of these can turn a simple sprain into tendonitis or a shin splint into a stress fracture.

More and more athletes are embracing homeopathy as not only the most ethical way to treat and prevent injuries, but the most effective. “Homeopathy can be effective in treating almost anything short of what needs surgery,” says Kate Schmidt, a two-time Olympic medalist in javelin throwing.

What does an individual gain from suffering with pain? Whether they are young, old or in-between, athletic, out-of-shape, passive or aggressive, the body wants to heal, and with the right stimulus, it can. Homeopathy works with the immune system toward physical, mental and emotional freedom and balance.

So, what can athletes (or the rest of the population suffering from similar complaints) expect from homeopathy? Efficient safe healing and often prevention from bruises, muscle aches, muscle spasms, leg cramps, sprains, carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, bursitis, arthritis, and a lot more “itis-es”.

And it doesn’t stop there. Sports injuries are not only caused by accidents, training errors or equipment. Sometimes mental attitudes can push one beyond what the body is prepared to do. Sometimes a performance anxiety single, like gelsemium, before a game or competition, will help keep the mind better tuned to what the body needs to prevent injury, heighten performance, and maintain the mental balance to know when to stop.
After the game, everyone should be going for the Arnica. It will minimize any bruising, muscle strain or trauma. It is also recommended to take Arnica before a big workout to minimize muscle aches and bruising.

Sports Medicine: Doctors Extol Arnica Montana and the Virtues of Homeopathy

On homeopathy in general for sports, A. Dwight Smith, MD, claims it can “Cut healing time by 50-85%.”  In his article “Homeopathy and Sports Medicine,” he also states: “With a minimum amount of homeopathic instruction, most trainers, coaches, and athletes themselves, can successfully treat and cure many of the most common athletic injuries. Their willingness to do so will have two results: quicker and more comfortable healing for the athlete; and thousands of dollars saved for the athletic club.” (American Homeopathy: vol.1, No. 6, June 1984)

In his book, Homeopathic Treatment of Sports Injuries, Dr. Lyle Morgan states: “Arnica should be considered first in all cases of physical injury.” He lists Arnica montana's benefits throughout the book, including: “Arnica works quickly to repair damaged blood vessels, to reduce swelling at the site of the injury, and to eliminate pain….

In his book, Musculoskeletal Healing, homeopath Asa Hershoff states: “Arnica is the most renowned trauma remedy, and is without equal as the primary remedy for injury of any kind whatsoever.”…

For past injuries, he states: “Homeopathy is the first choice when a person has ‘never been well’ since a specific traumatic incidence. Arnica and Hypericum are the main remedies, prescribed in high potency for several doses, for erasing the imprints of trauma within the nervous system and tissues.”
The list could go on and on, but suffice it to say, that those who have worked with Arnica in sports medicine concur that it should be in the gym bag of every athlete, ‘weekend warrior’, coach and trainer.

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On Track with Arnica Montana

Arnica Montana and other Homeopathic Remedies for Sports Injuries Homeopathy comes through with flying colors in the sports arena. The relief of tired, achy, overused and injured muscles and joints overrides the complexity of how this 200-year-old form of medicine works. It is effective in treating everyone from the noblest weekend warriors to professional athletes. The mechanism of action in homeopathy seems wildly opposite to conventional medicine; however. As a complementary treatment it succeeds in preventing and treating a myriad of sports conditions naturally.

Overexertion, Sprains & Strains

Arnica Montana: is the number one remedy to consider with any type of injury. It helps to reduce swelling, promote healing and ease pain. Take it immediately for the shock which results from injury and when there is bruising and swelling. Arnica may be used to prevent sore muscles from intense training or competition by taking a couple of pellets before the event.

Rhus tox: Used in homeopathic form, Rhus tox is nicknamed the ‘rusty gate’ remedy. It is effective for joints that are stiff from injury or overexertion such as from golf, running or baseball. It is particularly useful when muscles or joints are worse first thing in the morning, with cold, damp weather, but feel better after gentle motion and with warm applications.

Bryonia: earned the name ‘The Grumpy Bear’ remedy because it helps people who do not want to be bothered or move in any way. It has a keynote symptom of pain that worsens with the slightest movement. This remedy, derived from wild hops, relieves pain that is ameliorated by pressure, or by lying on the painful side. When someone is exhibiting these particular symptoms, and this type of pain pattern, Bryonia is very effective in reducing the discomfort.

Calc phos 6x: As a cellular building block, Calc phos aids many conditions involving structural stress and growth. Derived from a mineral containing phosphorous and calcium, primary constituents in bone, it plays an important role in bone repair after fractures (non-union) and during grown periods.

Homeopathic Chamomilla
for Teething Babies & Cranky Kids of All Ages.

Though well known as a baby and children’s remedy for calming restless, teething, irritable insomniacs, Chamomilla has been a wonder to young and old when an attitude change is needed. Whether teething, tummy-aches, cold symptoms, pain or stress is at the source, contrary irritability is the result. The baby or child needing Chamomilla wants to be carried and stubbornly rejects things soon after demanding them. The contrary and irritable adult is not much better, when stress, anxious dreams or PMS makes anger dominate and any pain intolerable. When Chamomilla's kind of irritability dominates, a dose or two can calm a whole household.

Chamomilla - best known applications:

Mental Emotional - Stubborn, angry, irritable, contrary, inconsolable, sleepless and restless.

Colds, Fever - Fever due to teething, colic, ear congestion, colds, etc., marked by one red cheek.  Dry cough, acute asthma.

Digestive Issues - Colic with one red cheek, green diarrhea.

Pain & Inflammation - Teething, ear pain/congestion, colic, and abdominal pain.  Overly sensitive to pain.

Modalities - Better for warm wet weather, being carried, sweating. Worse for wind, coffee, fresh air.

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From An Expert:

“This homeopathic remedy is indicated for anyone who has been in a highly emotional state
(typically angry) for some time, becoming oversensitive as a result, either mentally or physically or both– with severe pains that cause more anger.” – Miranda Castro, Homeopathic Guide to Stress

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"When my youngest child (now 5) developed colic, our bible study group played pass the baby. Until one day, our Pastor's wife introduced us to Chamomilla. One or two tablets and the baby wasn't fussy anymore. This remedy also calmed my three year old's irritability, and my 5 year old's stomach pains. Two tablets in the morning before school and he was good to go. "  Pam H. 

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Chamomilla also lends it’s soothing nature to these popular homeopathic remedies:

Diarrhea #334 - 100% Natural relief for diarrhea plus related colic, fatigue and gas.

Calms Forté - Blends cell salts and sleep specialists for a refreshing sleep without grogginess.

Calms Forté 4 Kids - Soothes night terrors, restlessness & growing pains to help kids sleep.

Baby Tabs Wise#302 - Gently eases babies through colic, teething pain, diarrhea and sleeplessness.

Colic #81 - Designed especially for babies, this gentle formula provides fast, effective relief for colic.

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Homeopathy & Teens: Mood Swings, Sleep Issues, etc.

The beauty and bane of homeopathy is its individuality. Each teenager has his or her own traits and characteristics to look for in a homeopathic remedy.  That's why constitutional* care with a professional homeopath is sometimes the best option.  Whether you want to work with cell salts, combination homeopathic remedies or single homeopathic remedies, the best place to start is with a list:

• What are the physical symptoms: acne? headaches? pale weakness after growth spurts? joint pains? menstrual cramps? etc.

• What are the mental/emotional symptoms: indifference? hypersensitive nerves? nervousness or anticipation nerves? fatigue? temper tantrums? clingy, weepy? sleeplessness?

• If you want to really dig in, make notes of what makes them better or worse: do they have to have fresh air like Pulsatilla and Kali sulph? do they wake at 3 or 4 am like Nux vom? or wake unrefreshed like Sulphur?

Then turn to your options:

Nerves & Stress

With combination homeopathic remedies like Anxiety/Depression #304, you are likely to find a connection that will help calm nerves or relieve the effects of stress in many individuals.

Nervousness #4 has a range of support for indifference and emotional swings.

Anxiety #320 focuses support on jittery, nervous nerves.

Hyland's Calms Forté and Sleeplessness #173 have many fans in the sleepless department.

Cell Salts for Growing Pains

With hormonal flux, peer pressure, schools stress and growing pains that teenagers face all at once, you can always turn to the Cell Salts and Cell Salt Combinations for fundamental support.

Tonic Tissue E combines all the phos remedies to help balance energy issues throughout the body.

Acne Tissue D combines remedies that apply to more than skin issues.

Key Single Homeopathic Remedies

Overall, the Key Single Homeopathic Remedies that apply to stress in adults, can help teens as well.  Getting familiar with these homeopathic remedies can be very rewarding.  Here is a brief look at the "Mind" rubrics from Boericke:

Nux vom - Very IRRITABLE; sensitive to all impressions.
Bryonia - Exceedingly IRRITABLE; everything puts him out of humor.
Gelsemium - Desire to be quiet, to be left alone.
Lycopodium - MELANCHOLY, AFRAID TO BE ALONE.
Phosphorus - Great lowness of spirits. Easily vexed. Fearfulness, as if something were creeping out of every corner.
Pulsatilla - Weeps easily. Timid, irresolute. Fears in evening to be alone, dark, ghosts. Likes sympathy.
Sulphur - Very forgetful. Difficult thinking. Delusions; thinks rags are beautiful things

One other place that can be very helpful and kind of fun is the Bach Flower Essence remedies. You can find them on our website along with a set of questions under each product listing that can help you pick the prefect formula for yourself and your teen. For a shortcut, the Bach combination Rescue Remedy offers a calming boost whenever needed.

For the vast range of targeted support homeopathy has to offer, the best results come with the care of a professional homeopath. They are trained to sleuth out the best in all of us.

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Homeopathic Sore Throat Remedies and Sore Throat Symptoms

Here in the northern hemisphere, we're deep into some of the coldest temperatures winter has to throw at us.  Ultra cold usually means more time spent inside where we're closer together and that means more chance to catch cold viruses.  For many of us colds can start with sore throat symptoms and this is the best time to treat a cold with homeopathy.  The correct homeopathic remedy selection at this stage can profoundly impact the duration of the cold, sometimes driving it out all together and other times, by moving you into and out of subsequent phases of the cold more quickly.  Here are a few homeopathic remedy suggestions for sore throat symptoms.  Remember, the sooner you catch it the better!

Throat Irritation #17 - From sudden dryness to lingering inflammations, here’s calming throat relief.

If trying to stop a cold while it is just a sore throat or tame painful inflammation in the throes of a cold or flu, this combination offers natural healing relief. This formula’s ingredients have applications for treating sore throat symptoms ranging from mild inflammation to dark red swellings that make swallowing very painful.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

Ferrum phos - The anti-inflammation cell salt, relieves inflammation at the source.

Belladonna - Quickly relieves very dry, red, swollen sore throats that feel raw and constricted especially on the right side.

Mercurius bin - Helps swollen sore throats that hate to swallow due to a lump sensation; its pains move from left to right and may extend to stiffness in muscles of throat and neck.

Phytolacca - Specializes in helping dark red, very painful, swollen sore throats that send shooting pains up to the ears and make sticking your tongue out a painful ordeal.

Throat Tissue K - Eases sore throat pain and inflammation with the cell salts throats depend on.

The cell salts in this combination work with the body’s natural chemistry to speed healing and soothe throat irritation. With the cell salts most important for healing inflammations and acute fevers, breaking down phlegm and congestion, and soothing pain, this natural tissue remedy supports the body.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

Ferr phos - Eases inflammation and boosts cellular support.

Kali mur - Helps the body break down mucus discharge (especially white mucus with white coated tongue).

Kali phos - Eases pain and calms irritated nerves.

Best Single Homeopathic Remedies for Sore throat Symptoms

Mercurius viv -

The Merc viv soar throat sympsoms begin on the right side.  Too hot, too cold but rarely just right. Like the thermometer it has given us, Mercurius cases are very sensitive to temperature changes and often take cold or become discouraged, weary and restless when the weather is too hot, too cold, too cloudy or too damp. That’s just the beginning of this remedy’s instability.

Merc's many trademark symptoms include smelly discharges, mouth symptoms and a tendency to catch colds or other acute irritations frequently. Mercurius colds have a very sore throat and thick yellow discharges that leave nose, eyes and even ears raw. This leads to sinus congestion, sinus headaches with tearing pains and congestion with bouts of coughing and yellow green mucus.

Kali bich -

The Kali bich sore thoat symptoms are higlighted by red and inflamed throat and swollen glands. Kali bich’s sore, stitching, as if bruised, wandering but ‘in one spot’ pains usually come and go suddenly. Chilly individuals who are sensitive to cold (especially on the back of the neck), yet cannot take much summer heat are prime targets for Kali bich symptoms. They tend to avoid mental and physical exertion, are sensitive to allergies, and prefer to live an orderly life completely by the rule book.

How to relieve muscle pain & muscle spasms with homeopathy.

Over use, strain and injury are common causes of muscle pain that we talk about frequently, but another common cause of muscle pain and muscle spasms that gets less attention is tension and stress.  While "Arnica" is the first remedy that comes to mind when dealing with muscle pain and injury, stress and tension related muscle spasms are often better served with different homeopathic remedy selections.  Here's a closer look at some of those homeopathic remedies and the homeopathic ingredients that match stress and tension related muscle symptoms:

Muscular Tissue I: Reduces inflammation, speeds healing and relieves pain and cramping naturally.  This spasm and inflammation easing cell salt combination gives muscles what their cells need to stay healthy. Made from the minerals muscles use to flex, lift, push, pull, repair and relax, without inflammation, pain, cramps or spasms, this 100% natural tissue combination can be taken anytime at any age.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

Ferr phos - The anti-inflammation cell salt made from iron phosphate helps assure good oxygen delivery which keeps muscles strong and helps control inflammation after over-exertion, sprains and strains.

Kali sulph - The cell salt made from potassium sulphate is critical for lubricating tissues to keep muscles sliding smoothly and for getting oxygen from blood cell to tissues.

Magnesia phos - The anti-spasmodic cell salt made from the mineral muscles and nerves need to communicate coherently helps relax muscle cramps, spasms and tension.

Elastic Tissue G - The cell salts veins and other tissues need for growth, repair and flexibility.  From growing pains and stretch marks to varicose veins and hemorrhoids, this unique cell salt formula adds bounce-back-ability. Veins, muscles, bones, tendons and skin all depend on these cell salts for strength and flexibility. Safe at any age, Tissue G, offers natural support to symptoms involving growth, injuries, aging and repair.

Though we often think of elasticity as an aging issue, imagine the elasticity it takes to go from an egg to 8 pounds, or a newborn to over 5 feet. The elasticity in our veins keeps them from getting stretched and varicosed. The elasticity in our muscles, tendons, skin and nerves keeps them strong and flexible.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

Calc fluor - The cell salt most important for elasticity in veins, skin and even bones helps the body restore tone and heal varicose veins, hemorrhoids, stretch marks, lumbago, growing pains and other conditions that lack flexibility.

Calc phos - The growth and repair cell salt boosts nutrition and cellular activity to help restore tone to weakened or growing tissue.

Kali phos - The nerve nutrient cell salt helps the nerves stay calm and healthy while the other salts are working.

Natrum mur - By aiding water distribution, this cell salt helps circulation, stiff joints and other tissues.
Whether growing up, growing older, or recovering from an injury, illness, fitness class, puberty, pregnancy or the blahs, this remedy can keep you bouncing back. Because they are made from minerals essential to our cells, the cells salt remedies and their tissue combinations provide the gentlest, most straightforward way to help the body restore balance, health and vitality.

Hyland's Leg Cramps with Quinine PM - Keep muscles relaxed and crampless all night long!  This unique version of Hyland’s popular Leg Cramps with Quinine relieves pain and cramps in lower body, legs, feet and toes with accompanying nighttime sleeplessness. Its effective pain relief helps you fall asleep and get back to sleep at night. 

Individual Cell Salt Support for Muscle Pain and Muscle Spasms

Mag phos

The simplest, most natural way to ease and prevent cramps, spasms and radiating pains is to encourage the connection between nerves and muscles with the cell salt they depend on. Mag phos is a fast acting remedy that benefits symptoms as diverse as leg cramps, muscle spasms, menstrual cramps, spasmodic coughs, colic and hiccups, as well as backache, right sided sciatica, facial neuralgia, tics, toothache, stabbing headaches and weary nerves. Anytime symptoms improve with heat and worsen with cold, it’s perfectly natural to try this popular favorite. Sipping hot water with a dose can speed its action.

Ferrum phos

As its source helps us build strong blood cells, Ferrum phos (iron phosphate) helps the body face many stresses, including inflammations, acute fevers, injuries, blood loss, nose bleeds, heat fatigue, etc. Whenever redness, heat, throbbing or fever, suggest the first stages of acute inflammation (common colds, bronchitis, joint pains, fatigue, skin eruptions, etc.), Ferr phos offers a worry free boost. It can be particularly helpful in turning around a child’s sudden fever or a young girl’s pubescent weakness.

Help for Your Skin In Winter

When you prepare for seasonal skin problems, it's important to remember that caring for your skin in winter is just as important as it is in the summer.  Winter gives rise to environmental challenges that often lead to dry itchy skin, sun burns, and other skin conditions.  Cold wind outdoors and exposure can lead to chapped and chafing skin, while indoor heating systems can dry your skin out without warning.  We've outlined a few natural and homeopathic remedies to help you take care of your skin in winter.

Skin Irritation #94 - Healing skin support for diverse irritations, including rashes, bed sores, eruptions, acne and blemishes.  This homemopathic remedy combines ingredients that support healthy skin with those that help the skin purge itself of eruptions, acne and other irritations. This includes relief of dry itchy skin, weak skin with burning eruptions, itchy rashes and pustular rashes. In short, #94 offers a healthy dose of healing support.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

Arsenicum alb - Relieves itching, swelling and burning eruptions that are often dry rough and scaly and may ulcerate, but they are almost always worse with cold.

 Berberis vulg - Applies to eruptions that like cold applications to soothe the itching, burning pustular rashes, especially of the hands and anus.

 Echinacea ang - Helps the system tackle recurring sores/pimples, ulcers or bed sores as well as irritation from insect bites or aggravating plants.

 Sulphur - Helps various eruptions with dry scaly unhealthy skin that itches and burns and does not like to be scratched or washed.

Weleda Skin Food Cream - Dry, rough skin of any age gets indulgent moisture with this intensively nourishing, deeply hydrating cream. It’s a unique, ultra-rich whole-body cream that deeply hydrates, restores and protects your skin.

Active Ingredients:

Organic Sunflower Seed Oil - Stubborn dryness on your elbows, hands and feet are moisturized and conditioned with the essential fatty acids and vitamin E in our organic sunflower seed oil.

Organic Pansy - Known for its mild antiseptic properties that calm dry irritation.

 Rosemary & Calendula - Soothing rosemary leaf extract’s mild antiseptic properties and the anti-inflammatory properties of Biodynamic® and organic calendula flower extract gently nourish and care for your skin.

Hyland's Skin Therapy Ointment - If you suffer from minor cuts and scrapes, rashes, sunburn, windburn, chapped or dry skin, Hyland’s Skin TherapyTM can make your world a softer place. For centuries, Calendula has been used to help skin heal and generate new skin when needed. Hyland’s hypoallergenic lotion in a non-greasy base is lightly scented with lavender fragrance so it is as gentle on the nose as the lotion is on the skin.

Cell Salt Support for Skin In Winter

Calc Sulph - As calcium sulphate is a vital part of our cleansing systems, its cell salt remedy helps us heal wounds, skin disorders, pimples, sore throats and other conditions which tend to suppurate - form yellow pus.

In skin conditions with yellowishness, Calc sulph encourages healing in wounds, eruptions, pimples, acne and sores. It is particularly useful when sore has opened and continues to discharge. Thus it is commonly used after Silica, the cell salt often used to bring skin issues to the surface. If you have burning, itching, sweaty soles and the typical strong foot odors that follow, Calc sulph can bring much relief.

One factor that separates Calc sulph from the other Calc remedies (and a very similar remedy, Hepar sulph), is that heat makes everything feel worse. Though cold air may aggravate symptoms, those who need Calc phos most hate being too hot or in hot stuffy rooms and will kick off the covers most of the time. For its mental or constitutional range, most books refer to a brooding jealousy or sibling rivalry. Though most suited to individuals with allergies and skin problems who enjoy walking in the open air, Calc sulph can give us all a good cleansing when needed.

Silica - As many cells need its source for strength, the cell salt Silica helps restore weak tissues that lack the strength to expel or root out congestions and irritants. For skin, it helps eliminate splinters, acne, eruptions and corns.

Made from rock crystal, this cell salt’s source provides the strength in straw, plant stems, sponges, feathers, hair, skin, nails, bone surfaces and other tissues. Nicknamed the ‘grit’ cell salt, Silica’s strengthening action helps many conditions that need strength, cleansing or purging, especially in weakened individuals and disorders.

When weak or overtaxed cleansing systems cause skin and glandular symptoms, Silica can help the body clear out many issues. In the skin, it helps clear acne, splinters, sores, corns, scar tissue, tooth pain, athlete’s foot and toenail fungus.