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Question by : Pls let me know if homeopathic treatment cure high tsh level.?
I was diagnosed with hypothyroid my tsh LEVEL IS 27.82. I am taking thyroxine for 3 weeks but having lack of sleep due to the meds if anyone have knowledge of homeopathy please tell me if
hypothyroid can be treated by homeopthy.I would be thankful.

Best answer:

Answer by Gary Y
No, definitely not. Homeopathy consists of plain water and sugar pills – no active ingredients. It’s absurd nonsense that has never been substantiated to work for any condition.

Anyone who suggests homeopathy will cure your condition needs to back up their claim with valid peer reviewed data, otherwise they are just making stuff up. Not a good option for health care.

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The Resilient Warrior: Healing the Hidden Wounds of War

It has been said that the only warriors who do not suffer after being in combat are those who were killed. I cannot attest to that for all battle-tested warriors but I certainly can for one-me.
It has been estimated that 35-40% of those who have served since 2003 are victims of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Since the average age of the current military is 21, these veterans will require care for 50 or 60 years. The cost to care for our veterans as estimated by Stiglitz and Bilmes in their book The Three Trillion Dollar War will be ,765.00 per veteran per year; a total that could reach 717 Billion Dollars just to service the estimated 2.1 million veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. This does not take into account additional costs to the Government for benefits to the families of the wounded and mentally ill veterans. Every veteran, either wounded or mentally ill affects everyone in his household adversely. The entire family suffers and has needs.

If I am an example of a recovered PTSD veteran, Transcendental Meditation should be offered to all veterans as an option. The cost per veteran for a lifetime of health is just one-fourth of the annual projected cost to the VA for one year of treatment. Why aren’t we pursuing this 5000 year old modality to help our young veterans and their families recover from the profound affect Iraq and Afghanistan has had on our military?

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Homeopathic Sleep Aids

When sleeping difficulties hit you hard, you will have to find a way to relieve yourself of it. When most would go for the conventional sleeping pills and other prescription drugs, some like it a bit more natural for a change. Such people see homeopathic sleep aids as the better alternative to a source of anxiety and irritation. These types of remedies bring benefits without the adverse side effects and are seen as not merely quick fixes, but as long-term cures.

Formal medical science doubts their effectiveness, but a lot of people say otherwise. These remedies have been around for most of human history and their benefits have been documented. These homeopathic sleep aids come in many forms and are not always taken orally. Some are in form of either topical application or just a medical technique. Numerous claims have been made to prove effectiveness of each treatment theory, but so far, a handful stands out. Here are some of them:

Hydrotherapy

This treatment aims to induce relaxation for the patient. A soak in a warm Epsom salt bath in 20 to 30 minutes can soothe muscles and nerves, subsequently promoting sleep. Soak nightly as needed.

Acupuncture

A traditional Chinese technique, acupuncture has surged in popularity in the recent decades. With the use of needles, an expert can stick them into pressure points to release endorphins, which can relieve pain, remove muscular tension, and soothe the patient. Regular sessions can help with sleeping problems.

Acupressure

If needles are too much to handle, then acupressure is an alternative that can be utilized. By pressing on the appropriate pressure points, endorphins can also be released, as well as massage the body. This relaxes the muscles and releases tension for the patient, helping him/her sleep better.

Herbal Remedies

A common option as a sleep aid, herbal remedies are sought after by multitudes of sleep-deprived people who are looking for a cure. Some good examples are chamomile, valerian root, hops, Californian poppy, rosebud, and many more. Some can be infused and brewed into tea, while others can be taken directly. Dosages are upon the patient’s discretion and moderation is advised.

Yoga

The ancient Hindu practice of yoga has taken the world by storm, helping millions to develop healthy habits and prolonging their life spans. Basically a set of stretches and breathing techniques to help soothe muscles and calm the mind, yoga can also help with sleep deprivation.

Meditation

One of the most well-known relaxation techniques in the world, meditation is seen as a practice that does best in calming one’s mind. By meditating for at least half an hour everyday, one can ease tension and get rid of anxiety, which helps in promoting sleep, as well as improving concentration. It does take some getting used to, but it is absolutely worth it.

With these options amongst many others, one can put all reservations about homeopathic sleep aids to rest and take away the disadvantages of being sleep-deprived. These are best done together instead of just individually as their effects can collectively improve your chances in getting some sleep. As long as proper procedures are followed, then you will be sleeping in no time.

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Question by : Really need answer now?
My bro has ate a bottle of homeopathy sleeping pills,with over 200 little pills,the dose is 4.what can happen now?

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Answer by I <3 Andy Sixx
Call the poison control hotline now!
And rush him to the ER

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Question by JB007: Anybody knows some treatment or medicine for to work day and night (without sleeping)?
I want to work day and night (without sleeping) Anybody knows some treatment or some medicine in Alopathy / Homeopathy / Ayurved / Naturopathy / Accupuncture / Yoga / or in whatever pathy. Militry people may have some kind of treatment for this.

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Answer by cp_scipiom
Can be done of course.
There is one problem though- subjects in experiments usualy last 3 to 4 days, but then go mad
The research was made by the nazis during WW2, in Aushvitz. By a certain dr Mengele.

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How to Cure Insomnia With This Homeopathic Medicine

If you are wondering how to cure insomnia, this homeopathic medicine may be the answer you are seeking. Insomnia, or an inability to get to sleep or constant waking, can be serious. A lack of quality sleep can lower your energy, stop your immune system looking efficiently and generally make you rather irritable or grumpy.

Some people get round this by regularly taking sleeping tablets. Although this appears to give you a good night’s sleep, actually it’s a drugged sleep. A drugged sleep is rarely refreshing. And the side effect is the harm it does to your liver in the long run.

So sleeping pills may get you through an acute bout of insomnia, but shouldn’t be taken over the long term. But you still need your sleep, so what are the alternatives? There are always alternatives to every problem. Just as a diamond has many faces. In learning how to cure insomnia, be open minded.

Homeopathy works by finding out what the cause of your insomnia is. That is, what was going on in your life when it started. Maybe you lost a loved one. Maybe you suffered a bad fright. Maybe you had a bad accident. There are as many causes for any ailment as there are people with it.

The next area that homeopaths work with are your unique and personal symptoms. For example, one insomniac may not be able to fall asleep for several hours, but once asleep, won’t wake up. Another person may be able to fall asleep, but wakes after a couple of hours and can’t get back to sleep. Someone else may be able to sleep until 4 am, then not get back to sleep.

All these individual symptoms will indicate the best homeopathic medicine for you, to a trained homeopath. However, there are some common home prescribing medicines you may feel are suitable for you. The homeopathic medicine Staphysagria can help if your symptoms include being sleepy all day, but sleepless at night. If you can nap during the day, you generally wake wishing you hadn’t, as you feel worse, rather than better.

Staphysagria has an excellent reputation for resolving the problem, when the insomnia started after being humiliated or angry. This can come about after an invasive surgery, or by sexual abuse, even rape. Not only will those who are likely to benefit from Staphysagria have sleeping problems, but also a skin condition, too.

This is very common in pets who are sterilised. Not only was the surgery invasive, pets are never consulted about the procedure, so can become quite angry. This anger is normally internalised, rather than expressed. Having matched your symptoms and cause, the right medicine works by stimulating your immune system.

Question by nandu: My son’s C.P.K-MB test value is 31 U/l what is the affect of this?
he is not able to walk properly and his legs shivers, earlier he also suffering with convulsions problem (without fever in sleep). presently homeopathy treatment in progress.

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Answer by Madan Mohan B
CPK enzyme is released from the break down of muscles. CPK-MB is specific for the damage of cardiac muscle. The normal values are up to 25 u/L so it is just marginally increased.
Your son’s CPK level might be high because of muscle damage due to convulsions. The estimation of enzyme CPK would be more rationalistic.

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Can Homeopathy Cure Swine Flu?

There is considerable evidence that homeopathy can successfully treat any influenza, be it the current Swine Flu also known as H1N1 or any other flu, provided the correct homeopathic medicine is used. In the influenza epidemic of 1918-19, only 1% of those treated with homeopathy died, compared to 30% of those treated with conventional medicine. **

In the following case of influenza, it is not known whether the infecting virus was H1N1 or another strain, as the patient was not tested.

A 19 year old Houston girl had been vacationing in Spain, where there were over 1,500 confirmed cases of H1N1 influenza as of July 31, 2009, with presumably many thousands more that were not tested.

The course of her influenza during the first four days was as follows:

Day 1-July 10, 2009-she flew from Barcelona to London. On arriving at Heathrow she felt ill. She and two friends took a taxi to a hostel. On the way there, her she noted, “My whole body felt really weak.” When she got out of the taxi she was too weak to lift her 60 lb. backpack that she had been carrying without difficulty for over a week.

She began to have fever alternating with chills. The exact sequence, which she described to me later, was as follows: “I would feel really hot and open the windows. After a while, I’d feel chilled, and I’d get into bed under a comforter and sleep. I’d wake up in a sweat, feeling very hot.” So she would uncover. This sequence-chill then heat followed by perspiration-continued for four days.

Day 2-July 11th-she vomited once and developed a painful throat. The glands along the sides of her throat became swollen and tender. Also, the muscles on both sides of her neck became painful. It was later determined that these were the sternocleidomastoid muscles which act to flex and rotate the head.

Day 3-July 12th-she was having trouble swallowing. “It was painful to swallow and the floor of my mouth towards the back felt closed off whenever I swallowed.” Her eyes became sensitive to light. That night she became short of breath. Her spine was so weak that she could not sit up without the support of the bed board. During this period, she was not only weak but uncoordinated. “I had to hold on to the wall and the door just to make it three feet to the bathroom,” she said. “My whole body was weak and trembling. I felt off balance. Even sitting on the toilet it was hard to hold my back up. It was so weak. I would hold onto the washbasin with my arm.”

She was very short of breath. She could not breathe in without the breath suddenly stopping in mid-inhalation. This frightened her. “It felt as if my throat would close off,” she said, pointing to her trachea.

Day 4-July 14th-she began to see double especially after sleeping. She felt as if there were a weight on her chest.

Her mother, who had been in phone contact with her, became so alarmed that she flew to London from Houston. Once there, she found out her daughter was taking two acetaminophen and two ibuprofen every four hours. These had been prescribed at an emergency room in London. Believing her daughter was taking too much medicine, her mother immediately stopped the ibuprofen.

U.K. health authorities estimated there were over 100,000 cases of influenza that week, most of which were presumed to be H1N1. No hospitals were admitting influenza cases due to overcrowding.

Her temperature did not go above 99.9ºF throughout the illness. (This is a typical finding in the current Swine Flu H1N1 virus-no or very low temperature.)

By the eighth day she was well enough to travel and flew back to Houston. Since she was still not well she saw a local medical doctor who prescribed an antibiotic that badly upset her stomach.

When I saw her three weeks after the onset she was still quite tired and sleeping 12 to 13 hours a night. Her main complaint concerned her vision which had worsened about the time she started the antibiotic.

She said the vision was “messed up.” I asked her to elaborate. She said, “It’s like I’m tripping on drugs.” I asked for more information. “Since this thing began,” she said, “when I close my eyes I see dotted lights that move up and down. Some are white, some are blue-electric blue. Sometimes there is green.”

She said her arms and legs still felt weak. “If I sit for twenty to thirty minutes my legs go numb.”

She is an artist but since the flu, she had found it harder to draw. “I get confused and nervous and can’t draw or paint for more than ten minutes. Then I’ll start staring.” After resting a bit she could continue to draw. She showed me two simple sketches. “They took me 45 minutes to an hour to do,” she said. “Normally, I could do those in 10 to 15 minutes.”

Her eyelids felt heavy.

“I feel slow, a lot slower than normal.”

Her thirst, which had been low in London, was now high.

She mentioned again that during the acute phase in London her whole body visibly.

“Currently, I can’t look at any one thing too long. When I do my vision becomes confused-my mind, too.”

“Two days ago everything I looked at became foggy. I’d close my eyes for awhile and when I opened them I could see the object again.” Because she had double vision, I asked if she could force the two objects to merge into a single object by force of will. She said she could.

I asked her if she had had any hemiopia-a condition in which there is blindness in one half of the visual field of one or both eyes. She had had the vertical kind in which half the side vision in both eyes disappears.

Currently, when she looked at an object then turned her eyes away the image of that object often followed her gaze.

If she looked to either side it caused pain in the eyes.

I asked about reading. “When I read the letters overlap,” she said.

I wanted to know more about the acute phase when she was in London. “Did you notice your heartbeat?” I asked. “Yes. I remember when I was having trouble breathing my heart would slow down. My Mom said so, too.” Later I asked her mother who said she put her ear to her daughter’s chest and noticed the heart rate sounded slow.

“In London, when you were trembling and frightened, did you have your Mom hold you?”

“Yes, she did. I remember that.”

She also had been feeling as though there was a lump in her throat since returning to Houston and taking the antibiotics.

She had another unusual symptom-she was “seeing” wavy lines, thousands of them, in her visual fields when I saw her on August 1, 2009.

At this point I examined her neck. I placed the flat of my hand against her right cheek and I asked her to turn her head into my hand. That maneuver caused the left sternocleidomastoid muscle to contract and become both visible and palpable. I moved my free hand along the muscle and it was still somewhat sore. The medicine I prescribed is known to affect those particular neck muscles. (see below)

I did not feel the antibiotics had been warranted but I also did not think they caused the vision to deteriorate since certain viruses are known to interfere with the vision. Presumably, the virus that had earlier ravaged her whole body was now interfering with her vision.

The homeopathic medicine she needed and received was Gelsemium which comes from the plant, Yellow Jasmine.

She improved immediately on Gelsemium and two days later reported her vision much improved. There was no diplopia; she was able to draw without difficulty; she could read without the letters overlapping; there was no hemiopia, and no foggy vision. A few days later, she “saw” occasional blue dots. All other symptoms had vanished.

I wish to stress that I saw her three weeks after the acute phase. When I saw her she was still tired and she had the many visual symptoms already mentioned. Gelsemium clearly made her vision normal.

The question is: could Gelsemium have cured her in the acute phase (day one to four)? I contend it could have done for the following reasons:

* The kind of fever she had: chill followed by heat followed by perspiration.

* The heaviness of her eyelids and the sensation of general bodily heaviness.

* Her general weakness coupled with incoordination.

* Her trembling.

* The pain that localized in her sternocleidomastoid muscles.

* The extreme weakness of the back.

The above symptoms are all covered by Gelsemium and can be found in our various reference works.

I propose that we keep Gelsemium in mind as we approach the coming fall with the very real likelihood that the swine flu will continue to spread.

It is of interest that Gelsemium was the most commonly prescribed homeopathic medicine during the 1918-19 flu epidemic.

Though it is possible in the current pandemic that Gelsemium will be curative in many cases it is also possible that other medicines will be needed. AS ALWAYS WITH HOMEOPATHY, THE SPECIFIC SYMPTOMS WILL LEAD TO THE CORRECT PRESCRIPTION. There is no one-size-fits-all medicine.

Each of the following rubrics (symptoms as they appear in the Repertory) contains the medicine Gelsemium.

EYE – Staring

EYE – Heaviness – Lids – Upper

GENERALS – Trembling, Externally

CHEST – Pain – burning

FEVER – Succession of states – chill – followed by – heat – then perspiration.

BACK – Weakness

VISION – Diplopia

VISION – Diplopia, strength of will ameliorates

VISION – Wavering

VISION – Confused

VISION – Exertion of the eyes aggravates

VISION – Fade away, then reappear; objects

VISION – Hemiopia – vertical

VISION – Images, too long retained

VISION – Looking – concentrated, focused, aggravates

VISION – Looking sideways – aggravates

VISION – Mental exertion aggravates

VISION – Run together – letters

EXTERNAL THROAT – Pain – Sternocleidomastoid muscles

THROAT – Lump, sensation of

THROAT Pain – swallowing aggravates

**See Julian Winston’s well-researched article: http://www.nesh.com/main/nejh/samples/winston.html