Post-nasal drip
For a post-nasal drip where the mucus runs down the back of the nose and throat, consider the following remedies:
Stop press: Gastro doing the rounds
There is a terrible gastro virus on the rampage in the Joburg area. It starts suddenly after eating. Symptoms include severe abdominal cramps, nausea, irritability and extreme thirst and medium fever – followed by projectile vomiting, sometimes every 10 minutes. Vomiting becomes pure bile, i.e. very yellow. This is followed by severe diarrhoea. It is very important to keep the sufferer hydrated. The following remedies have been found to most effective:
Is there a remedy for chilblains?
Chilblains are small, itchy, painful, red swellings on the skin. Chilblains are thought to be caused by an abnormal skin reaction to cold. They tend to occur on the extremities such as the toes, fingers, nose and earlobes.
Bach Flower Remedies for negative emotions
The Bach Flower Remedies are very helpful in alleviating all sorts of negative emotions and can be taken with any other remedies or medicines. They work amazingly well. See if you can identify your symptoms in any of the following:
No sweat
Q: Hi Genie, I have a client who perspires excessively, and is quite stressed about it as it’s rather embarrassing. Armpits, face, hands and feet. She is becoming desperate!!! Please advise, thanks
Help for pterygiums
Q: Good day, I had bilateral pterygiums removed a year ago and they have grown back rather quickly. I am trying to find an alternative as I do not want surgery again, is there anything you could suggest?
The common cold and flu
What makes us sick?
Micro-organisms live in and around us all the time but do not harm us. However, any stressor, whether emotional, physical or mental, creates the ideal conditions for micro-organisms to flourish and then make us sick.
Eugenie’s recommended teething trio
Chamomilla – for extremely painful toothache that is made worse if anything warm touches the tooth; person is driven to distraction from the pain which seems worse at night; excessive salivation; glands around the throat and jaw may feel sore and swollen; great irritability, anger and impatience; fever.
Remedies for grief
Both Aurum and Ignatia are effective remedies for people suffering from depression and grief.
Aurum: Melancholy mood with restlessness; Irresistible inclination to weep; Despair; From slightest opposition flies into a heated passion and anger; Alternate laughing and crying, or alternate anger and sadness; Has no confidence; Has a feeling of self-condemnation and worthlessness; Great mental anguish; tired of life; Mental labour is difficult; Oversensitivity
For the sceptics…
PEOPLE OFTEN SAY … Homeopathy? It’s nothing but a bottle of water! Sadly, this is a widely held view. Echoing this, the Académie de Médecine (in France), once asked Guizot to exclude Hahnemann, who was the founder of homeopathy. And how did the minister respond? Simply, “Hahnemann is a scholar of great merit. Science must be free for everyone.