Homeopathy At Home with Melissa
I am a Registered Homeopath and Lactation Consultant who loves Jesus and believes in the power of prayer in healing and restoration. God designed our bodies to heal themselves. We interfere with the body’s abilities by introducing medications which stop the action our bodies were made to do - heal! Homeopathy comes in and stimulates the immune system to help the body remember how to heal itself. ALL people are welcomed here, no matter your beliefs! I discuss mostly homeopathy here, but also I bring an encouraging word from the Lord and touch on the topics of parenting, homeschooling, marriage, and nutrition. Welcome to my world! It’s a beautiful, healthy life!
Homeopathy At Home with Melissa
Achieving Hormonal Harmony with Homeopathic Remedies
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Are you tired of dealing with PMS and menstrual disorders? Discover how homeopathy can be your saving grace in this eye-opening episode. We focus on Sepia, a powerful hormone and liver remedy that's especially effective for those who have been on birth control pills in the past. Hear firsthand how Sepia can alleviate extreme irritability, indifference towards family, and low libido. Plus, we discuss other remedies like Pulsatilla for younger girls and Lycopodium for those experiencing anxiety or low self-confidence during their cycles.
Delve deeper into the world of homeopathy as we uncover various remedies for dysmenorrhea. Learn how to use these remedies, along with protocols and other applications, to help alleviate your symptoms and achieve a more balanced hormonal state. Don't miss out on this valuable information that can make a significant impact on your monthly cycle and overall well-being!
Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa. Hey Melissa, hey Breeze, great to be here. I'm really looking forward to today. It's exciting because it's a little bit of a teaser, but also it's about menstrual disorders, so something a lot of our listeners are going to use or can use this information. Do you want to give us a little background on what today is going to be and what's coming up?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So we're going to talk about right now, today in this podcast. We're going to talk about PMS just a little bit and some great remedies for PMS and menstrual disorders. We're just going to hit a few of the top remedies and their keynote symptoms And if you need more, want more, look out for the course that Bree and I are going to teach together coming up More. Depending on when you've listened to this, it might already be out, so look at my courses tab at MelissaCrenshawcom and it'll likely be called menstrual disorders. We don't have it all together yet, but we'll go into great detail about menstrual disorders and the top remedies for those things.
Speaker 2:So let's just get started with PMS. So PMS can be very severe, which will be like PMDD, and there can be physical symptoms like craving, swollen breasts, bloating, sometimes diarrhea or constipation. Different women get different things, or it can be emotional irritability, anger, weepy, crying, easily all the emotional things that come along with PMS for some women and, having suffered from PMS for many years, my heart goes out to those of you who are suffering from PMS and homeopathy can absolutely help. The top remedy for PMS and menstrual disorders is sepia, and so sepia is a huge hormone and liver remedy, and some of the keynote symptoms of sepia are that most women who need sepia have been on birth control pills in the past. Even if it was for a short amount of time, a long time ago, then that can really mess with your hormones. So you could still probably use sepia if you're having a lot of these symptoms.
Speaker 2:So they're extremely irritable. They're really indifferent, especially towards their family, so they might. They're more irritable and more indifferent towards their family than anybody else. So they might go to work and just be happy and like you would never know anything was wrong. But at home they're just really really irritated with the ones that they love the most. And then, when it's over, the sepia is like oh man, i'm really, i'm so sorry y'all, i don't want to behave that way. I don't know why I do, and in the moment they know that it's irrational behavior, but they literally can't stop it. They want to, they don't want to be that way. So they just they're so remorseful at the end, but then they only have two or three weeks of relief and then it happens again, right, because it's like a week and sometimes two before every period.
Speaker 2:So they feel just too busy, overwhelmed, like nobody cares, nobody loves them And they're doing everything for everybody and they're they feel bogged down by motherhood and just in womanhood And they don't want to play with their children. Everybody, they're touched out, everybody wants a piece of them, everybody wants to touch them and they're like if one more person touches me. You know, and I've been there, i feel that. So libido is low And sometimes there can be hot flashes. More in the menopausal stages would be hot flashes. But let's see, cp Aquino is irritable, tired. Go ahead, brie.
Speaker 1:Is. Cp is something you would use even for a young teenager or maybe in college who has extreme PMS symptoms.
Speaker 2:Good question. I wouldn't start there with the younger girls. I would start with Pulsatilla with the younger girls, and Pulsatilla is one that we'll go into great detail in the course about. We're not going to hit that one tonight, i don't think. But the younger girls I would do Pulsatilla. And then so you know, there's no hard and fast rules in homeopathy. But When you get into your 20s and you have these symptoms or you've ever been on birth control So maybe the doctor put you on birth control at 16 because of heavy periods or acne or whatever they do that for, yeah, then you could use CPIA if you're having these symptoms. But so top keynotes for CPIA irritable with family, tired and different. Nothing really gives them pleasure like it used to Too many demands on them. They feel dragged down in a loss of libido. So it could be a low libido, but it could also be just a total loss.
Speaker 1:And now, is that libido just premencerally, or is that always? Could that be an indicator at all, all the time?
Speaker 2:It could be all the time, especially in menopause, but for the while you're still having periods, i think it could be either, or I think it could be a loss. So here's the thing, before you start your period it's normal, is it not normal? Like it's? I don't know, it's fairly normal.
Speaker 1:Okay, so when you think about, i would expect libido to be highest during ovulation, that's right, and then maybe little by little like taper off some. But I don't know that there is a really a standard actually.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, because we have to remember what our libido is, for God made it for us to recreate. And so, women, when you're in menopause and you're trying to increase your libido I'm not saying it's impossible or that you can't or shouldn't It might change, but it goes down for a reason. So we'll get into that more in the course. Okay, so those are the main things. With sepia. What's our next remedy? Brie?
Speaker 1:The next remedy we're gonna cover tonight is lycopodium. You may be more familiar with lycopodium or indigestion, but it's a really great PMS remedy also. It's also another irritability remedy, maybe a little bit more emotional and tearful during PMS accompanied with a lot of anxiety. And one of the key notes of lycopodium and I'll go over this again right at the end is a lack of self-confidence, so really feeling down and maybe this is noticeably lower pre-vents really And again more tearful, more irritable.
Speaker 1:During that time It can look a little bit like pulsatilla, so that wanting reassurance, wanting to maybe be physically touched, and tearful like pulsatilla is a little bit. It often like a podium, will have more physical symptoms maybe than some of the other remedies. So you'll notice bloating And if you're familiar with like a podium, that is a big, it's a big bloating remedy. So this is pretty extreme breast tenderness, maybe sugar cravings And one of the other keynotes is the afternoon, the tired in the afternoon with like a swing of energy or surge of energy again after like 8pm Maybe there will be migraines also. So some of the keynotes of like a podium are that breast tenderness, the low self confidence, bloating, sugar cravings.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, okay, good Yeah, because like a puppy is a big liver remedy. So the sugar cravings and the bloating, yeah, makes sense, okay.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to interrupt you. I know I just noticed sepia and like a podium are both big liver remedies. Yeah, and both really good for hormones. Yes, i don't know what exactly that means, but I just know it's a link, so mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Yep. I think, often what I see in my practice is women with liver, hormone and gut issues, like it's almost like a trio that always goes together. Not always, but yeah, there's just Well.
Speaker 1:I would say it's probably hard to distinguish when it's a liver Like. I know a lot about my body, a lot about a lot of things with my body, but not my liver, right, you know? not like all my liver acting up again. But now that I know what to look for, i actually have noticed a lot more liver things than I knew. Yeah, i didn't know what to label it.
Speaker 2:Anyway, our next remedy is Is it lackasins Did I say I was going to be lackasins? Okay, very insecure. Lackasins is very insecure and jealous And so this is a change from the norm. So, okay, lackasins can be. If they're always like this, just not just with PMS, then it's something you would take.
Speaker 2:You could take chronically, you know ongoing, but if it's just PMS, so sometimes these feelings of insecurity, jealousy, the need to defend themselves, and they can really, they can really cut you with their words. If all that is just PMS, then you could, you know, still uproot that using lackasins every month or, you know, ongoing. If these are the feelings that you get every single month, then you might think of lackasins. So they just, they want to hurt you, they want to wound you And they're aggressive and spiteful And then they say I'm a horrible person, i say terrible things to my children. You know they, they, and just like sepia, afterwards they're like I didn't mean it, i don't know why I said those things, i don't want to say those things, you know. So, really, most women who behave this way, they really don't want to. It's it's almost impossible to to contain yourself. It's because of the hormones just being out of balance So they can do things that are destructive and mean.
Speaker 2:And the main keynote about lackasins, the minute they start bleeding they completely feel better. They're back to normal. Everything else feels better. So it's that better for discharge. As soon as it comes out, they're like a whole new person. So also, lackasins is very bloated and they're very sensitive to this bloating. So they feel like they have a lot of fluid retention and that their skin feels tight and they don't like tight clothing So they're not going to wear. If the pants feel too tight around the middle, they're not going to wear. Those pants are gonna find, you know, sweatpants or whatever else. That's stretchy means they cannot take the feeling of the tightness while they're bloated.
Speaker 2:There's that might be every single person on the period ever You know maybe not That's what I would think, but sometimes I see women with, you know, something like I'm one of those. I can't stand really tight stuff pushing in on my belly. So when I'm seeing women with like something really tight pushing in, i'm like, ah, it looks so uncomfortable. but you know, that is true.
Speaker 1:I usually actually prefer, like those really good tight leggings because it feels good for it to be squeezed, but my sister will be like taking all these clothes off. I'm putting on you're like borrowed my dad's sweatpants, you know, because of something that barely is on me.
Speaker 2:Barely yeah, That's what I like Just barely touch me Hot flashes. Lack of this can also have. So those are your main, your main keynotes and symptoms of lack of cis. What's our next remedy?
Speaker 1:Our next and our last remedy for tonight is magfoss.
Speaker 2:Okay, good one.
Speaker 1:The greatest little remedy for many things, but we love magfoss. Magfoss is really, really great for cramping, and I've recently heard more women having premenstrual cramping. I don't think I realized this was as much of a thing that women deal with.
Speaker 1:I only ever had them during my period. I've never had cramping before ever, and I've heard it yeah, isn't that funny. So I really was, i guess, just totally naive to that. And so magfoss could be good for premenstrual cramps. But you're also your period cramps. These are also good for a neurologic pain, pain relief in general, especially when they just are radiating and strong. Better for heat. So I mean that's often you put a heating pad or something or a hot bath you could take magfoss, and magfoss also can work really well in hot water.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Which is not common. Just think better for heat, better bending over, so you might wanna lay down and curl up with the heating pad. It's worse for cool or cool air. So sometimes worse at night, worse for stretching out. You just wanna like crumple up and squeeze together And maybe you wanna moan or like complain or whine, you're crappy, which I don't blame people for that.
Speaker 2:So I'm happy to do that, not with period cramps, but when I was sick I would moan and it would drive my mom crazy. She was like, could you please?
Speaker 1:it made me feel better to moan, isn't that funny? Okay, i remember feeling that way and I wish I would have known this postpartum, the postpartum cramps Oh my word. Moaning made me feel better, like I would lay there and really had to be like. You know, i'm not gonna do that on here, it's gonna be awkward. Let's just make that noise. Yeah, you're welcome everyone. I didn't do that, but it was pretty terrible. So that's Mac Foss. You can take that. Just to clarify, we say this in our classes you can take that in a 6x because it's a cell salt. You'll commonly see it that way, but I know, melissa, you used it in a 200C and it works really well for you. So feel free to try different potencies. With that one I feel stuck. That's all the remedies.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So what I wanna do is, you know, just encourage you to join us in the mental disorders class. And again, depending on when you're listening to this, it might be coming out, it might already be out, but I'm gonna go quickly through. We're gonna go into a lot more detail on sepia And we're gonna go into noxivomica, not a common, you know, mischievous disorder remedy that you wouldn't normally think of. We're gonna go into a lot more detail on lycopodium and lacocysts, and I'm just going down my list here. We're gonna do lac canineum, in that course. We are going to do the anterior pituitary gland as a remedy. We're gonna do that one And chamomila, which makes sense, right For that being upset. We're gonna talk about dysmineria, which is painful periods. We're gonna talk about the remedy, the bernum, the bernum, and let's see what else have we got on here.
Speaker 2:Magfoss, we just did, we might go and we might do. We'll do Magfoss again, just to include it in the course. It's a short little remedy, but we'll go into detail and call a phylum All right. We're also gonna do a very, a little remedy called xanthozylum Dioschoria hellonius, which I often think of for blood sugars, but it's a big. It's like a pretty big menstrual disorders remedy. We're gonna talk about miniragia, which is very heavy periods, and the remedies for that. So we'll go into great detail about remedies for that And which is one, two, three, four remedies and probably more. So usually when I'm creating a course I go into, i do more than what I planned. So just come and learn all about these remedies, how you can use them. You'll learn some protocols, you'll learn you know how to use them. Just you know outside of a protocol, and I hope you'll join us in that class. Have a great night.
