Your Homeopathic First Aid Kit

Have you used a homeopathic remedy before?! Homeopathy is safe, gentle and effective natural medicine that can help heal from minor injuries and illness. As natural-minded women and moms, we are often looking for alternatives to over-the-counter medications for everything from cold and flu, to aches and pains, to upset stomach and digestive issues. Homeopathy is so gentle that it is an option in pregnancy and nursing (when OTC options are so limited anyway) and safe for infants and kiddos - for anyone! These remedies are incredibly useful to have on hand for things that are not bringing you into the doctor's office, but are causing enough discomfort to want to reach for something.

Derived from the natural world, homeopathy is an energetic type of medicine, that works in a “like cures like” fashion. When selecting a homeopathic remedy to take, try to match your exact symptoms to the closest matching remedy. Try a remedy that matches the symptom presentation most closely, dose a few pellets under the tongue and wait and watch. If the symptoms improve, congratulations you nailed it! If the symptoms change, you are on the right track but see if the same remedy still fits before dosing again, or choose a new remedy for the next dose that fits more closely. If nothing happens, no worries just move on to the next best fit. You can continue to dose as many times as needed until symptoms resolve.

Here are my top favorite remedies to keep on hand for common scenarios that may occur for you or your kids:

Aconite - sudden onset of symptoms, or for something shocking or traumatizing

Allium cepa - colds or allergies with watery eyes and clear, runny nose 

Antimonium tartaricum - loose, rattling cough

Apis mellifera - burning, stinging pain, and swelling

Arnica montana - for any injury, bruises, falls, sprains, broken bones, surgery healing

Arsenicum album - food poisoning, stomachaches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea

Belladonna - high fever with a red, flushed face, sweating, noise and light sensitivity

Bryonia - dry, painful cough with dry throat and thirst

Cantharis - burns, and burning urination/UTI type symptoms

Chamomilla - teething or ear pain with irritability and restlessness

Drosera rotundifolia - dry, tickling cough, worse at night

Eupatorium perfoliatum - bone pain, body aches 

Ferrum phosphoricum - low or mild fever at first sign of illness 

Gelsemium - flu-like symptoms with dizziness and profound weakness 

Histaminum hydrochloricum - allergy symptoms

Nux vomica - nausea and cramping stomach pains, vomiting, headaches

Pulsatilla - colds with thick, yellow nasal discharge

Spongia tosta - dry, croupy coughs with a hoarse voice

Sulphur - skin rash worsened by heat and water, redness, itchiness

Helios is a great company for homeopathics and makes a wonderful 36 remedy starter kit: 

https://www.helios.co.uk/en/shop/basic-36-kit

Empower yourself with a homeopathy kit this year and start to play with the remedies. You may feel silly at first but keep trying. This is an art more than a science. I promise you, when you do nail that remedy selection and feel the instant relief, or watch your child's demeanor completely shift as their discomfort relieves, you will be hooked!