Month: March 2022

Long Covid

March 25, 2022

This is a term used to describe symptoms that people have long after recovering from Covid-19 infection. What are the symptoms? Well there is no official diagnostic criteria, but it usually includes symptoms that have continued for at least 4 weeks after the initial infection. Symptoms include fatigue, shortness of breath, cough, headaches, low mood, brain fog, chest pain, muscle aches and pains or weakness, heart pounding, beating too fast or chest pain, sleep disturbances and changes to smell and …

Convalescence

March 21, 2022

Convalescence literally means recuperation, time spent recovering from an illness or medical treatment, or after a trauma or death. It is something that we don’t really acknowledge in society these days. There is little patience or understanding for the fact that time is needed to recover and one doesn’t just bounce back after surgery, illness or childbirth. So what do we need for recovery? Time Low stress Nutritious food Adequate hydration Did I mention low stress? Sleep Currently there is …

Trauma, emotional exhaustion and Covid fatigue

March 18, 2022

It’s been a long two years. So many people are exhausted by the ongoing emotional ups and downs. If has been like living on a roller coaster at times, and this can be exacerbated by family circumstances, health conditions, job stresses, and lack of connection with friends and whanau around New Zealand and overseas. There have been many incidences of trauma, and what traumatises one person may not be a problem for others. One common thing with trauma is people …

Chocolate, the Homeopathic remedy

March 12, 2022

When looking at a remedy, we first look at the substance itself as there are often parallels. Feel free to have another look at my post from Thursday about chocolate, but here are a few key things that we will discuss further below. Chocolate is sweet, has a specific texture, melting in the mouth. Women often crave chocolate around their period, but more than that people eat it for the happy feelings it brings, for feelings of love or to …

Remedies for Chocolate Cravings

March 11, 2022

Homeopathically there are over 200 remedies that crave chocolate. I’m only going to talk about a few that strongly crave chocolate. Phosphorus has a very strong craving for chocolate and is one remedy to think of for excessive chocolate consumption- one case I have seen the patient was eating a king sized block of chocolate a day – this reduced along with an improvement in many other things after a dose of Phosphorus. Phosphorus is a social remedy, they love …

Chocolate

March 10, 2022

I love chocolate. Dark, milk, flavoured, plain, pretty much anything is what I like. When I crave it I can eat 1/3 of a block in a sitting, picking I’m at it one piece at a time. I know I’m not alone in this either. Chocolate was originally a drink similar to what we call Hot Chocolate, introduced to Spain by the explorer Hernan Cortes after returning from an expedition to Mexico in 1519, and from Spain spreading throughout Europe. …

Electricitas

March 6, 2022

Imponderable remedies – those not made from physical substances- have become more common in recent years. There are colour remedies (some of which I have used with great success), remedies from sunlight (Sol – excellent for both sun exposure and to treat sunburn) and moonlight (Luna), as well as even more esoteric remedies like Time. I was expecting Electricitas to also be a new remedy, but in fact it has been around for over 100 years, and was written about …

Names have power

March 2, 2022

I’m a big fan of fantasy and science fiction. Or to be honest most genres of fiction, my little bit of escapism. One common idea across many authors of fantasy is that names have power. Knowing the true name of a faerie or demon or other creature can give you control over them, or the ability to summon them, or similar. Sometimes in fiction there is some form of truth, whether it is historical detail that is exquisite, or it …