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Backache #199 - Aconite, Arnica,
Bellis per, Bryonia, Mag phos, Rhus tox
Keynotes: Back pain, Sore muscles,
Spasms, Cramps, Sprains
For acute
backache from exertion, minor injury,
fevers, or just living,
#199 can bring you the much needed
relief you seek. If cold air aggravates your
numb, stiff, painful, tingling or sore
back/neck,
Aconite will help you breathe freely.
Arnica is the acute remedy for sore,
aching, backs tired from jogging, driving,
gardening, lifting or getting bruised.
Bellis’ sore back is known as the “railway
spine,” though it helps anytime deep tissues
are aggravated or sprained, especially if a
hot bath and a warm bed feel best.
Bryonia specializes in neck and lower
back stiffness aggravated by any motion,
quick temperature changes or fever. The
spasm stopping cell salt
Mag phos is a must in any back remedy.
When motion actually makes the stiffness
improve, there is always
Rhus tox, particularly if the floor
makes a better bed than a mattress. |
Praise for
Backache/Sciatica#199
I was diagnosed with natural degeneration of
the spine. I tried
Luyties #199 and my back is wonderful
compared to prior treatment. With
temperature changes my back and spine will
be uncomfortable but without the help of
these tablets I may not be walking and
continuing daily life.
D.
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These Homeopathic Superstars Give
#199
it’s Ability To Minimize Muscular
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Arnica Montana
Leopard’s Bane
If this remedy were in every glove
compartment, first aid box, purse, office, suitcase, gym bag,
dugout... , countless hours of pain and aggravation could be saved.
This premier first aid remedy has won many hearts to homeopathy by
minimizing bruising, bleeding, swelling, shock, pain and recovery
time following strains, injuries, dental work, surgery, childbirth,
exercise... Even without bruising or obvious signs of injury after
trauma,
Arnica relieves the aftershock, soreness and pain that follows.
A dose after every head injury is very highly recommended, but
please call your practitioner even if it feels better.
Whenever
backs are lifting and joints are twisting,
Arnica can minimize the swelling, bruising and pain. Asa
Hershoff’s perfect formula for sprains begins with
Arnica. For broken bones (with a doctor’s guidance,
Arnica given in the first stage can minimize the swelling and
get you in the final cast much sooner. Once the bone is well set,
low doses of
Symphytum should take
Arnica’s place. On the skin, Arnica can help bruises, minimize
bleeding of cuts plus ease tender sore spots like boils, acne or
blood blisters. For aches and muscles,
Arnica can bring much comfort when a strong cough has your
ribcage feeling sore, or a flu has your muscles aching. A dose
before and after a workout can minimize the next day’s stiffness and
help the muscles heal.
Though we all need
Arnica, a few mental clues underline its importance in certain
applications. In
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cases of shock,
physical or mental,
Arnica is most important for patients
who say, “No, I’m fine, don't touch me, I
don’t need a doctor,” even when it is
obvious they need help. Another indicator is
when the whole body feels oversensitive,
sore/bruised and does not want to be
touched.
Arnica can also help when injury or
shock leads to nightmares and worry. The
other key contender for shock, Aconite, is
critical when shock brings on intense fear,
anxiety and cries for help.
In short,
Arnica is so important in minimizing
trauma, especially in soft tissues, it needs
to be available 24-7. We cannot
underestimate its importance for everyone,
pets included, and are pleased that it is
finding its way into everyday care around
the world. |
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Bellis Perennis
Daisy
Acting on behalf of the muscular fibers of
the blood vessels, this remedy helps deep
muscular soreness with intense pain and
intolerance of cold. When chilly food or
drink make you feel worse, or a cold wind
intensifies the pain, look into this remedy.
W. Boericke, M.D., in his
Materia Medica says “It is a princely
remedy for old laborers, especially
gardeners.” Many of us, who have spent some
hours bent over our hopeful flower beds on a
damp spring day can relate to the difficulty
of trying to straighten up again!
Some of Bellis’ other guiding symptoms are
vertigo in the elderly, headaches or
varicose veins accompanied by a bruised,
sore feeling and muscular pain along the
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Bryonia
Wild
Hops
When stress turns your
playful buddy into an irritable bear, you might enjoy
this one.
Bryonia was given the nicknames ‘grumpy bear’ and
‘hangover’ remedy because it helps conditions that do
not want to be spoken to, bothered or moved in any way.
Bryonia
relieves ailments that approach slowly, linger too long
and may result from being chilled when overheated or
from fast weather changes. It has earned much fame by
relieving intense, bursting, frontal headaches that may
build to cover the whole head and do not want to be
moved or jarred in any way. They feel best when buried
under a pillow in a dark room. These headaches accompany
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Its ‘keynote’ symptom ‘pain worse from
slightest movement’ apply best to its
swollen, red, hot joints aching from
arthritis or sprains. These joint
applications are very like
Apis but are not
shiny and pain is more stitching than
stinging. It can be a wonder for stitching
pain and stiffness in the small of the back
and in the neck. Most
Bryonia pains find relief in applied
pressure or lying on the painful side.
Bryonia best applies to reliable, tidy
individuals who are driven to succeed by a
need for financial security. If their effort
fails, grumpy irritability and sadness can
dominate. They approach life and work
methodically without letting emotions get in
the way. With a little
Bryonia, grumpy bears can return to
their playful antics in a very short time. |
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Rhus Tox
Poison Oak
For all the
individuals plagued by this plant’s nasty summer rashes,
take solace in that poison ivy’s remedy can relieve much
more– skin rashes, joint pain, various inflammatory
symptoms and flu/fevers
included.
Rhus’ ability to ease joints with tearing rheumatic
pains swelling, redness, sprains, stiffness, etc.,
further extols the value of this plant’s existence. It
earned the title “Rusty Gate Remedy” by relieving joint
and back pain that hurts on initial movement but
improves after limbering up - just like an old gate
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 squeaks
at first but quiets down after a bit. Also
like the rusty gate, these joints do not
like cold damp weather - they can be great
storm predictors. For back relief,
Rhus specializes in strain or injury,
stiff necks, lower back pain, lumbago, even
sciatica, that feel better lying on a hard
surface, walking or bending backwards.
Similar joint pain shows up in
Rhus’ flu or fever along with a dry
swollen throat, hoarseness, chills and much
weariness and fatigue.
Rhus’ mental symptoms include extreme
restlessness, anxiety, a sense of
helplessness, withholding of emotions,
desire for fresh, but not cold, air and much
distress at night. Sleep may be disturbed by
dreams of exertion, a feeling of some
unknown threat, general restlessness, and a
desire to stretch. It applies best to chilly
individuals very sensitive to cold
conditions. All its symptoms are better with
heat, hot bathing and dry weather, and worse
at night and with damp cold.
Knowing when to take which joint remedy
frustrates even the most informed. But if
you capture the keys you will do well:
Ruta - weakness, repeated injury;
Caulophyllum - small joints, erratic
pain;
Apis - red, swollen, shiny, burning;
Ledum - cold better with cold;
Bryonia - small joints worse with
movement;
Silica,
Calc phos and
Calc fluor - weakness needing general
support... The list goes on and on, but if
stiff and restless, try your
Rhus tox. You, too, will be
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Aconite nap
Monkshood
Aconite’s most common application may be cold
prevention, but its ability to minimize the negative
responses to physical and emotional shocks make it
critical for first aid. When fear and anxiety threaten
to induce panic following an accident or trauma,
Aconite can steady the nerves and help you address
the situation. To define
Aconite’s pain applications, we can turn to books
like Robin Murphy’s Homeopathic Remedy Guide, for
insights such as “The key word in Aconite cases is
“tension”. There is emotional and mental , tension of
the systemic vessels, as in the effects of a chill,
muscular tension, tension of involuntary muscles, even
the breath can become tense and tight.
Aconite is known as one of the great pain
remedies... Pains are intolerable...tearing, cutting,
are attended by restlessness...There can also be a sense
of chilliness down the back that could be accompanied by
numbness, stiffness, and pain and/or crawling and
tingling sensations, as if bruised. Whenever anger,
shocking news, night frights, exams or even getting
stuck in an elevator or lost in a crowd, induce a state
of panic,
Aconite calms the nerves and
minimizes the latent physical and mental effects. Keys
to look for are sudden, intense responses, tingling
and/or burning sensations and a flushed face that
becomes pale on standing. Though generally a remedy for
the first 24 - 48 hours,
Aconite has helped complaints that started after a
previous panicky situation.
When do you choose
Aconite or
Arnica first after an accident?
Arnica is stunned but says something like, “no, I’m
fine, don’t touch me,” while
Aconite is restless and more apt to say, “help me,
I’m scared.” Both remedies have a place in every first
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Mag Phos
Magnesium Phosphate
Back spasms
and leg cramps can be a gardener’s primary opponent
without
Mag phos around. If you feel tight, tense, in a
knot, then think
Mag phos, and relax. When things go awry, the strong
weaken, the studious grow drowsy, the pains radiate, the
muscles tense, the nerves spasm, etc., that’s when you
know the body needs
Mag phos. An imbalance in our magnesium causes
nerves and muscles to get out of
sync. They cramp, spasm and shoot off pains. An
imbalance in phosphates disturbs our vitality causing
anxiety, forgetfulness, and confused thinking. Since
magnesium phosphate is the compound bodies
need in muscle, nerve, brain, spinal marrow and tooth
tissue, this remedy can work wonders to those in pain.
You know the relief you feel when you relax a tight
fist? That is the relaxation this remedy brings to tense
muscles, cramps and neuralgic pain.
Muscle spasm and nerve symptoms as diverse as leg
cramps, spasmodic coughs, abdominal pain/colic,
flatulent colic, hiccups, toothache, teething pain,
stabbing headaches and sciatica yield to this cell
salt’s soothing touch.
Mag phos aids many spasmodic
conditions in which nerves and muscles cannot cooperate:
charley horses and other leg cramps, back spasms,
menstrual cramps before and during cycle, musician’s and
writer’s cramp, hiccups, colic, and in
certain cases, bedwetting. Except for burning
pain, most forms of neuralgia need
Mag phos as well, particularly radiating, stabbing
or shooting pains including: backache, right sided
sciatica, facial neuralgia, tics, twitches, toothache,
neuralgic right sided ear pain, neuritis and injured or
weary nerves.
Now for the big IF: an important key to
Mag phos’ relief is better for heat and worse for
cold. This is so strong that many recommend a sip or two
of hot water immediately after taking the remedy to
speed its action. If a hot bath, hot tea, and a warm bed
sound like paradise, you might get there with
Mag phos. |
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MuscleAches/Cramps #44 -
Arnica, Bryonia, Cimicifuga, Mag phos, Rhus
tox, Ruta grav
Keynotes:
Leg cramps, Muscle pain, Cramping, Spasms,
Sprains
Muscle aches
are only the beginning of this remedy’s pain
relief.
Arnica, the #1 first aid remedy, aids
bruised sore muscles following injury,
overexertion or sprains. Arnica’s backup
when joints are injured is
Bryonia. It soothes aching joints and
muscles, stiff lower backs, rheumatic joints
and chest muscles aching under a hard
Bryonia cough. Cimicifuga aids numbness,
aching and muscular soreness in the
limbs, cramping pain in the calves
(especially with periods) and rheumatic pain
in the chest and large muscles.
Magnesium phos also covers muscle cramps
and charley horses or cramping pain
anywhere, plus the soreness after cramps.
Though more known for joint pain,
Rhus tox relieves tearing sore muscles
from rheumatism or sprains. The tendon and
muscle remedy,
Ruta grav, works with sprains, injured
joints and out-of-whack backs. Whether you
are planning to jog ten miles or stroll
through the park on a wet chilly day, #44
can be a
great companion. |
Hyland’sLeg Cramps Ointment -
Aconite, Arnica, Ledum pal, Mag. phos, Rhus
tox, Viscum alb
A traditional
formula in a non-greasy base. This ointment
works quickly to relieve cramps and pains in
the legs and calves while warming the
affected area.
Muscular - Tissue I - Ferr phos,
Kali sulph, Mag phos
Keynotes: Muscleache, Spasms,
Cramps, Sprains
This trio is the one-two-three of muscles.
For muscular first aid,
Ferr phos (iron phosphate) helps assure
good oxygen delivery which keeps muscles
strong and controls inflammation on sprains
and
strains. Without
Kali sulph (potassium sulphate), the
oxygen cannot get from the blood to the
tissue. It is also the anti-friction salt to
keep muscles sliding smoothly. Without
Mag phos (magnesium phosphate), our
muscles and the nerves that guide them
cannot communicate coherently because the
white nerve fibers cannot relax, so we get
painful spasms and charley horses. That
concludes your
class in Muscles 101. |
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Watch out for “Fat Wallet
Syndrome”
A
more-common-than-you-think cause of back-pain can be the
habitual carrying of thick wallets in a rear pocket! If
you’re sitting a fair amount, the imbalance can cause
you’re lower back to cry out for attention. An
easy solution is to transfer your personal effects to a
jacket pocket, another is to get rid of some of the
excess receipts, family photos and business cards that
accumulate. |
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Fat Wallet Syndrome is becoming an official term in Orthopedic
Medicine and in books like Steven Subotnick’s, Sports &
Exercise
Injuries. |
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Enjoy the Fruits of Your Labour with
Healthy Muscles, Back and Joints
No pain no
gain? Not with homeopathy around. There is no need to
suffer with all the painful muscle aches, acute
backache, bumps, bruises, leg cramps and other pains
related to being alive. These safe, self-healing
solutions leave your body stronger, more prepared for
the next workout. |
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