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It is important to note that some illnesses can be life threatening, and where possible you should always seek expert medical advice as soon as you can
Before you go
- Check what diseases are prevalent where you are going and familiarise yourself with their prevention and treatment
- Buy a homoeopathic first aid kit – ask your homoeopath to recommend one
- Prepare a small first aid kit in addition to homoeopathic remedies, this should include; wound dressings, re-hydration tablets, sterile needles
- Don’t forget travel insurance
- Find out your blood group in case of emergencies
Water / Food poisoning:
General advice:
- Be aware of contaminated water including ice in drinks
- Drink bottled water if available ensuring seal on the bottle is unbroken
- Be aware of food washed in contaminated water, brushing your teeth and swimming
- Generally be on your guard!
- Particularly after meat / decayed food / watery fruits
- Diarrhoea from bad food with much vomiting
Carbo Vegetalis 30c
- Upper abdominal distension / bloating
- Diarrhoea from bad food / over-indulgence
- Better for burping
China 30c
- Bad food / water / fruit
- Loss of bodily fluids
- Frequent vomiting
- Loud belching without relief
- Hungry but averse to food
- Dark, foul, watery or bloody stools
- Painless / chronic diarrhoea
- After bad fish / fruit
- From greasy / fatty foods
- Vomiting of food eaten long before
- Rumbling, watery stool
- No two stools alike
- Better for open air
- Better for cold food / drinks although not thirsty
Diarrhoea
General advice: To prevent dehydration drink plenty of pure water with half a teaspoon of salt to each litre consumed or add re-hydration salts. Dark urine is a sign of dehydration. If dehydration occurs double the amount of salt per litre or use re-hydration salts. Urine should be pale yellow.
Aconite 30c
- Watery in children
- Green, chopped like herbs
- With nausea & perspiration
- Great fear, anxiety & worry
- Suits healthy people whose complaints come on suddenly
- fter bad food, especially meat
- Worse at night
- Great prostration with mental restlessness and anguish
- Patient feels chilly
- May fear death or being left alone
- Small, green, frequent
- Patient is burning, red, hot
- Sudden onset
- In hot weather
- Lumpy
- Patient irritable, worse for movement
- After bad food / over indulgence
- Patient maybe almost lifeless
- Must have fresh air
- Like chopped spinach
- Hot, green, watery stools
- Smelling of rotten eggs
- Patient is sensitive, irritable, thirsty, hot
- Painless
- Lots of flatulence with undigested food
- Undigested, frothy, yellow
- From fruit, milk, beer
- Patient better for lying down, hard pressure, loose clothes
- From anticipation, fright, grief
- Painless
- Fermented with much wind
- Complete physical prostration
- Desire to be left alone
- Slimy, frothy
- Like fermented yeast
- Irritable although patient doesn't know what he wants
- After alcohol / over-indulgence
- Over-sensitive, irritable
- Worse morning
- After change in weather
- Rumbling, watery, after fruit
- Worse at night
- Patient and symptoms very changeable
- Crave company, moody
- Better for fresh air
- Profuse, watery, copious
- Very painful
- Followed by great prostration
- Restless mentally and physically
- Very chilly
- Desires cold drinks but worse for them
General advice: To prevent dehydration drink plenty of pure water with half a teaspoon of salt to each litre consumed or add re-hydration salts. Dark urine is a sign of dehydration. If dehydration occurs double the amount of salt per litre or use re-hydration salts. Urine should be pale yellow.
China 30c
- Complaints arise after fluid loss e.g. over exposure to sun / diarrhoea / fever
- Weakness / over sensitivity See section on food poisoning
Arsenicum 30c
- Vomiting with diarrhoea
- Food poisoning
- Physical prostration with mental restlessness
- Chilly
- Thirst for frequent sips
- Nausea with retching and vomiting
- Constant nausea not relieved by vomiting
- Vomiting with cough
- Thirstless
- Clean tongue
- Better for open air
- Nausea and vomiting with headache
- Vomiting with diarrhoea
- Cold perspiration on forehead
- Collapse with extreme coldness and weakness
- Thirst for cold water but is vomited as soon as swallowed
- Vomiting from over-indulgence
- Very irritable
- Oversensitive
- Sour / bitter vomiting
- Worse for cold / in morning
- Better for sleep
General advice: Respect the sun, sunburn can be very painful and sunstroke can be fatal. For heat exhaustion use re-hydration methods as described in diarrhoea section and lay patient in horizontal position in shade with legs elevated. Use a ‘safe sun cream / barrier’ see your homoeopath for advice.
Belladonna 30c
- Sun headache, throbbing, severe
- Sunburn - skin dry, hot, red, throbbing
- Sunstroke - fever, redness, delirium
- Eyes glassy, pupils dilated
- Sudden onset
- Thirsty (may crave lemonade)
- Sunstroke - worse for movement
- Thirst for large amounts at long intervals
- "Bear with a sore head"
- Severe sunburn, better for cold applications
- Burns with intense pain
- Burning intense thirst but worse for drinking
- Intense mental and physical irritation
- Sudden onset
- Prickly heat
- Skin - red, swollen, itching, intense
- Cold sores from sun
- Extreme restlessness - mental and physical
- Worse cold
- Better warm, motion, change of position
General advice: Calendula tincture is useful for cleaning cuts, grazes and sores. Use 10 to 15 drops in half a cup of pure water. Arnica cream can be used on unbroken skin to reduce bruising and swelling. Lavender oil applied topically is useful to relieve burnt skin if unbroken. Urtica urens cream soothes hot itchy skin or sunburn. Rescue remedy is very useful to calm the patient after a shock.
Arnica 30c
- No 1 remedy for accidents / shock / exhaustion
- Will reduce swelling / bruising
- May want to be left alone and claim they are ok
- Worse for touch / motion
- Black eyes / concussion / fractures with pain & swelling
- Sore/ bruised deep tissue injuries
- Often useful if arnica has failed
- Worse on left side
- Number one remedy for resuscitation
- Drowning / state of collapse
- Body limp, pale or blue
- Injuries to nerve rich areas e.g. fingers / coccyx
- Fractures with shooting nerve pain
- Extreme pain shoots along the nerves
- Incised, clean cuts
- Lacerated wounds from sharp instruments
- Injuries better for warmth
- Abrasions
- Black eyes
- Deep puncture wounds
- Area swollen, blue & cold but feels better for cold applications
- Pains tearing / throbbing
- Sprains / strains
- Injuries to tendons / ligaments
- Better from continued movement although stiff on first movement
- Stiffness with restlessness
- Pains around joints / aching / sore / bruised
- Triangular tip at end of tongue
- Injuries to bone / tendons
- Patient less restless than rhus-tox
- Worse for lying on affected part
- Pain and stiffness
- Useful for the expulsion of foreign bodies e.g. splinters
- Painless, suppurating wounds - slow to heal
- Do not use if you have a pace-maker / grommets / metal pins etc
- Patient is sensitive and cold and is better for warmth
- Cramp in calves & soles
General advice: The application of a vitamin E capsule every hour promotes healing and prevents significant skin damage. Also see general advice section for injuries / wounds / accidents.
Cantharis 30c
- Better for cold
- Intense pain
- Intense mental and physical irritation
- Pains cutting / burning
- Worse for touch
- Burning heat with itching
- Burn confined to skin
- Scalds
- Worse for water / touch
General advice: If possible try to prevent being bitten by insects, especially mosquito’s as they carry many diseases such as malaria. Take every precaution to avoid being bitten.
- Apply insect repellents, e.g. Citronella
- Wear clothing that is tight at wrist and ankle
- Use a well-fitting mosquito net during sleep.
- Insect bites
- Burning, itching, red, stinging, swollen
- Better for cold
- Worse for heat
- Inflamed – animal or insect bites
- Shooting or tearing pain
- Pains shooting or tearing up nerve pathways
- Animal or insect bites
- Better for cold
- Worse for heat
- Always give if someone receives an animal bite as it prevents a septic state.
Suggested Creams and Tinctures
Rescue remedy: Good for shock and anxiety, fear and panic. (Can add to a bottle of water to sip)
Calendula tincture: To be used as an antiseptic for cuts and grazes. Can be used by putting 2-3 drops in water and apply using cotton wool.
Arnica cream: Apply to bruises only – do not apply to broken skin.
Citronella oil: Dilute with natural oil or make up a spray for a natural insect repellent.
As well as building your immune system with homoeopathic constitutional treatment, some people have found that taking an immune boosting supplement also helps. I recommend VMM which is in tablet form and easy to travel with. Where to find information on Foreign Travel and Homoeopathv
Health Advice for Travellers leaflets:
Tel: 0800 555 777 (free)
Orders for more than 10 copies:
Dept of Health
P0 Box 777
London
SEI 6XH
Or email; doh@prolog.uk.com
www.doh.gov.uk/traveladvice
Recommended reading:
A Handbook of Homoeopathic Alternatives to lmmunisation by Susan Curtis.
ISBN 1 874581 02 9
The World Travellers Manual of Homoeopathy by Dr Cohn B Lessell.
ISBN 0 85207 330 5
Remedy Kits
Hellos Travellers Kit
36 Remedies
£38.95
Tel; 01892 537254
Hellos Homoeopathy Ltd
89-97 Camden Rd
Tunbridge Wells
Kent TNI 2QR
England
www.helios.co.uk
Sun care
Advise patients to use sun care that helps defend sun exposed skin from harsh ultraviolet radiation. Use products that do not contain mineral oil, PABA or benzophenone as they are all ingredients that can suffocate your skin or lead to photo allergenic reactions. Sunscreens are easily absorbed through the skin into the blood stream the effects of which are still unknown. Swiss researchers have revealed that screening chemicals in sun products have been found to be hormone disrupting and acting like oestrogen making cancer cells grow more rapidly. Their toxic build up is also associated with several cancers, cystic ovaries and endometriosis.
natural ways to ease arthritis
Consider food intolerance testing.
These are foods, which can be inflammatory to Arthritis.
- Nightshade family foods-potatoes, aubergines, peppers and paprika
- Dairy Produce
- Wheat
- Oats
- Eggs
- Oranges
- Liver
- Obviously alcohol doesn’t help, even cutting down a little could make a difference
The BEST foods are cabbage, celery, turnip, lemon, dandelion and oily fish.
The following foods are good:-
- Fruits- cherries, strawberries, raspberries, pineapple, apple, plums, blackcurrants, gooseberries, melon, pears, grapes and bananas
- Vegetables- Artichokes, carrots, onion, leek, chicory, olives, dandelions, Jerusalem artichokes, fennel, radish, turnips and nettles
- Grains- Rye, soya, brown rice, millet and buckwheat
- Nuts, seeds, and pulses-walnut, pumpkin seeds, sprouted alfalfa, sprouted mung beans and beansprouts
- Herbs- Chervil, parsley, garlic, juniper, thyme, sage, chamomile, honey, and marjoram
- Green Lipped Muscle Extract
- Omega 3, 6 and 9 (preferably in a combination)
- Glucosamine
- Chondriotin
- Serropeptese.