Perfect Fits:
Sport Specifics
Having the right remedies on hand can be essential to faster, more comfortable healing. While every parent, exerciser and athlete should have the basics we introduced in our previous Sports enews (click here), certain remedies have a special aptitude for injuries typical of certain sports. Homeopathic medicines can be used to minimize physical trauma and strain on tissues, ease pain and speed healing without interfering with other meds, therapies or drug tests.
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Homeopathy and Sports --
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"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."
-
A. Dwight Smith, MD,
(Homeopathy and Sports Medicine, American Homeopathy: vol.1, No. 6, June 1984) |
"David Beckham is widely considered the world's best soccer player. He used homeopathic medicines after he broke his foot prior to the World Cup in 2003"*
"Like many leading athletes," tennis superstar, Boris Becker, "has sought the care of famed Munich homeopathic doctor HW Muller-Wohlfahrt"*
Homeopathy in sports can
"Cut healing time by 50-85%." - A. Dwight Smith, MD
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Soccer, Field Hockey and Other Contact Sports
For all the kicked shins, poked eyes and other results of colliding bodies, these can be quite handy, after Arnica, of course, to minimize bruising, bleeding and soreness (see enews Sports Injuries part 1 for the basics):
Bruises, Blows...
Arnica + RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation), plus:
Ruta - Bruises to bone surfaces especially thinly covered bones like shins, elbows, wrists and spine.
Ledum pal - Black eyes and old yellow bruises or puncture wounds, esp. if pains feel better with cold applications.
Hyland's Bumps 'n Bruises® - A first aid formula for pain, bruising and swelling after blows or other traumas.
Symphytum - Broken bones after bone has been set, eye injuries especially blows to eyeball or injury to bone around eyes.
Calc phos - The cell salt to consider for slow healing fractures, our other wounds.
Golf, Tennis and other Joint Challenging Sports
While every sportster is likely to need some of these for injured or inflammed joints from time to time, some sports make extra demands on elbows, shoulders and knees.
Twists, Turns, Pain...
Arnica + RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation), plus:
Ruta - The Joint Injury Specialist famous for healing sprains, pulls and repetitive use injuries like tennis elbow, golfer's knee and typist's wrist (carpal tunnel), especially if joint feels sore and lame.
Bryonia - Swollen joints due to sprains or other injuries which leave the joint inflamed, very painful and worse with any motion. Ruta follows it well.
Rhus tox - When sprains, over stretching, overexertion or arthritis leaves joints restless, inflamed, stiff and in need of gentle motion and warmth.
Hyland's Arnicaid® - This natural first aid formula extends to joint pains as well as bruising and pain following injuries.
Backache #199 - A classic combination is a convenient source of relief for any aching joint.
Calc flour - It never hurts to add the elasticity cell salt to joints recovering from sprains, twists, overextensions, etc.
Swimming Specialists
Ears & Eyes
Swimmer's Ear #32 - Relieve blocked ears and the resulting pain and noises that tend to plague swimmers and divers.
Mullein Oil - A few warm drops of this oil helps relieve pain and blockage in stopped up ears.
Boiron's Optique Eye Drops® - Eye irritation specialist relieves swimmers' red dry eyes.
What about Performance Nerves?
Anxiety/Depression #304 - This customer favorite helps steady nerves at the plate as well as at the podium so you can give your best performance anytime.
What about Sunburn, Cuts and Stamina?
See our first issue of this
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