Where to buy your remedies
The best option is to buy a remedy kit from one of the homeopathic pharmacies; details of stockists and offers available to readers are detailed at the end of this article.

The kits will provide you with further options of remedies to choose from as well as many other conditions which you can self prescribe for.  The following remedies are not contained in the remedy kits and must be ordered separately in the 30c potency:  Borax, Cocculus (included in the Ainsworth kit), Coffea Cruda, Petroleum, Sol and Tabacum.

Choosing and taking your remedy:
Follow the directions that come with your homeopathic remedy kit.  The idea is to select the remedy which most closely matches the symptoms being exhibited.

Repetition of dose:
If a remedy is helping then it can be repeated when the beneficial effects wear off.  
If the remedy doesn’t help:
If the chosen remedy does not help then repeat it two more times at three hourly intervals and then try the next best remedy.
 
Travel
Insomnia as a result of overexcitement
Coffea Cruda – sleeplessness due to excitement from an up coming event/journey.  

Fear of flying
Take the chosen remedy half an hour before the flight and the night before if needed.
Aconitum – Sudden panic attacks or anticipatory anxiety, fear of death, fear of narrow spaces, predicts the time of death (i.e. at take off).
Argentum Nitricum – Panic attacks, anticipatory anxiety.  Feels trapped and fears closed spaces and heights.  Anxiety and nervousness causes diarrhoea.  Insomnia due to anticipatory anxiety.  
Arsenicum – Fear of death and closed spaces.  Extremely nervous, restless and anxious.  Trembling of limbs.  The arsenicum person may have a fear of robbers, worries about his/her health, be fastidious and obsessed with cleanliness.
Gelsemium – Fear and anticipatory anxiety.  Feels paralysed by fear.  Loss of muscular power, uncoordinated, limbs feel week and tremble, walking is difficult.  
Motion sickness
Borax – Nausea or anxiety caused by downward motions (plane landing, motion of a ship).
Bryonia – Nausea and vomiting from least motion or from looking at moving objects.  Better: lying down and being left alone.  Worse: being spoken to or fussed over, least motion.
Cocculus – Nausea, vomiting, feels faint, weak, wants to be left alone. Worse: thought or smell of food, open air. Better:  lying on side, warm room.
Nux vomica – Nausea with empting retching, feels irritable. Worse: pressure of clothes around the waist.
Petroleum – Nausea with accumulation of saliva in the mouth, vomiting with dizziness and headache.  Worse: fresh air.  Better: eating small amounts.
Tabacum – Nausea and vomiting made worse by least motion.  Face pale and covered in cold sweat.  Profuse salivation with need to spit.  Worse: smell of tobacco, heat, least motion.  Better: cold applications, cold fresh air.

Jet Lag
Arnica and Cocculus - Take one of each (allowing a half an hour interval between them) once before the flight, once during the flight, once after landing and then as needed if the remedies are helping and the beneficial effects are wearing off.
Gelsemium – Muscles feel tired, heavy and weak.  Feelings of dizziness, tiredness, weakness and trembling.  Dazed and apathetic.  Heavy drooping eye lids.

Effects of The Sun and Heat
Sol -  is a great remedy for any ill effects from the sun and can be used in conjunction with other indicated remedies.  It is obviously important to take sensible precautions like using sunscreen, avoiding too much exposure and drinking enough fluids.

Dehydration
China – This remedy can be used to help speed up the recovery from dehydration.
Sun burn and heat stroke
Apis – Skin is very swollen and puffy with burning and stinging pains.
Belladonna – High fever (may be delirious), red, hot, swollen skin, throbbing headache.
Cantharis – This is a great remedy for any type of burn or scald.  It helps take the pain away, aids healing and can guard against blistering.
Sol – see explanation above.  

Prickly heat
Apis – Skin is very swollen and puffy with burning and stinging pains. Itching is better for cool applications and worse for heat.
Rhus Tox – Red swollen skin with intense itching.  Liquid filled blisters.
Sol – see explanation above.

Eating Abroad – food poisoning
Arsenicum – One of the most used remedies for vomiting and diarrhoea from food poisoning.  Restlessness, weakness and exhaustion.  Thirst for sips of cold water.  Feeling that you are going to die.  Worse between midnight and 3 a.m.
Carbo vegetabilis – Flatulent colic better for bending over double.  Abdomen is bloated with gas and symptoms are relieved from passing it unlike China below.
China – Same symptoms as carbo vegetabilis except pains are not relieved by passing wind.  Also helps with the effects of fluid loss from vomiting and diarrhoea.
Phosphorus – Vomiting with great thirst for cold water which causes vomiting once it warms up in the stomach (within 10 – 30 minutes);  Arsenicum also.

Bites/Stings
Arsenicum – Infected or septic wounds.  Itching, burning swellings. The skin may have a bluish black discolouration.  Better from hot dry applications.  Worse from cold applications.
Apis – Skin swollen and red.  Stinging or burning pains.  Pains worse from any form of heat and better from cool applications or cool air.
Hypericum – Use for intense or shooting pains which travel along the nerves.  Very sensitive to touch.
Lachesis – Use for septic or infected wounds when arsenicum does not help or if symptoms are worse for heat.
Ledum – Site of sting feels cold and is better for cold applications or air.  Worse from warmth.  Use if any bruising takes a long time to fade.

Stockists and special offers:
To claim the special offer please quote: ‘angels and urchins,’ the name of this article and this page number.
Ainsworths: ainsworths.com
Special offer: 15% discount on the ‘Ainsworths Essential Remedy Kit’ plus postage and packing.  Call Sarah on 01883 340332.

Helios: helios.co.uk
Special offer: 10% discount on the Helios Basic Plus 36 kit plus postage and packing.  Call Roz Crompton or the office manager on 020 8995 4600.

Maria Nartey, BSc Hons, LCHE
Appointments: maria_nartey@yahoo.co.uk, tel.: 07949 599 054
The Park Club, 020 8743 4321 (non members welcome)