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Homeopathy At Home with Melissa
Homeopathy At Home with Melissa
Your Guide to Healthy and Stress-Free Travel
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Ever wondered how to breeze through your travels without succumbing to common ailments? This episode promises to equip you with indispensable homeopathic remedies that can transform your travel experience from stressful to seamless. Learn how to protect and carry these remedies safely, including the benefits of using an EMF protective bag and the necessity of requesting hand checks at airport security. We share essential remedies for typical issues like Arsenicum Album for diarrhea and Nux Vomica for constipation, plus insights into remedies for symptoms caused by specific conditions, such as Mag Phos for dehydration-induced constipation.
Facing jet lag, overindulgence, or chemical sensitivities during your journey? We've got you covered. Discover how remedies like Arnica and Cocculus can alleviate jet lag and how Nux Vomica can help with stomach issues from overindulgence. We also delve into managing allergic reactions with Apis, the onset of illness with Aconite and Bryonia, and motion sickness with Kali Muraticum. Tune in to build a well-rounded homeopathic kit that ensures a healthier and more comfortable journey, no matter how often you travel. Don't miss out on these practical tips and expert advice that can make your next trip a breeze!
Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa. Hey, Melissa.
Speaker 2:Hey Brie, I'm excited to talk about this subject today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're doing topical this week, so just a topic. We've talked about a little bit, maybe here and there peppered in other ones, but thought we could do kind of a comprehensive overview of travel sickness, so things that might come up when we travel. People ask this actually pretty often we're going to go on, I'm going to fly to this place, or what should I bring with me? And even though probably Melissa and I are like bring them all, put them all in your suitcase, take your whole 100 kids.
Speaker 1:Yeah take it all, but here are maybe some common things you could have on your carry on or on your person if you're driving, even some things to expect. So we're going to do it kind of like interview style. I'm going to just ask you some questions and put Melissa in the hot seat and give me some options.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like it, I don't, we don't. I don't have any notes, I don't know what I'm going to say, other than just whatever remedy comes to my mind, but also, you know what. Let's start with. The really common question is how do you travel with your remedies, and so you do more traveling than I do. Why don't you answer that question?
Speaker 1:Okay, so I will also disclaimer how I travel with my remedies might not be how I would tell other people to travel with their remedies, so if you've been around long enough, you know that's kind of the case with me. Um, I travel with them. I have an EMF protective bag now that I carry my remedies and all the time in my purse or backpack with a laptop or whatever Um, so I would really highly suggest that. So I've actually you know what my habits have gotten better. So here we go. We have a beautiful wow, that's very beautiful. It's embroidered with her N and M. So Sue LeMay at Rural Hill Creations I can't ever say that well, that word Makes very beautiful lots of different design bags. There you go. Melissa is showing us here, if you're watching on YouTube, and also we did a podcast with her, so go back and listen to that. She has an Etsy shop, rural hill creations. She will also custom design some or make them a little more unique if you want them. She's such a wonderful lady. We have several bags from her um that I think we both love, so I put them in there.
Speaker 1:Um, I fly. When I fly with them, I usually check several and I don't worry about putting those to protect it, unless I'm traveling very often, but usually it's a few times a year and in my carry-on I have them hand check them. So I'll take the pouch out and I'll just ask, can you hand check these? And that just means they're not going to go through the x-ray machine and they'll just typically they open it and take a little swab inside there, run it through their machine and it's good to go. They've never asked me about them. I know some people have been asked and they just say their medicine and they're like okay, so they don't show up with anything bad and then they don't go through the machines.
Speaker 1:Um, I have had them. I've forgotten and put them through the x-ray machine before and it's not, they still work fine. If you're flying regularly, I would really have them protected and have them hand check your remedies. Yeah, and then that way if your bag gets lost also, you have it with you. So I I don't really put them in my under, in my checked baggage very much. That's how I do it when I drive. I just put them with, keep them with me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, perfect, sounds good. Thank you for that. All right, what's first on your list? That's how I do it when I drive. I just put them, keep them with me. Yeah, perfect, sounds good.
Speaker 1:thank you for that all right, what's first on your list? Okay, first thing I feel like everybody wants to know either diarrhea or constipation, something disrupted in my gut when I travel so diarrhea, I would do.
Speaker 2:Arsenic album. Arsenic album is probably always my first go-to for diarrhea. It's not the only remedy for diarrhea, but it's a number one, I believe. And then constipation my first go-to is Nuxvomica. Nuxvomica is a great constipation remedy. There is a Banerjee protocol for constipation like a plum, like a podium mixed with plum bum. I really prefer just Nux Fomica over that. So yeah, and then Nux. Nux is also great for the, maybe even the um. This, if you're kind of stressed, you know about traveling and then you and it results in constipation. That's going to be a great remedy.
Speaker 1:So now, what it matter if, let's say, I have constipation just because, like maybe my I'm nervous, like you said, are stressed, versus I've been sitting in the car all day not moving. So does etiology matter in remedy choice for these things in particular?
Speaker 2:That's a good question, so I guess it could matter. Usually, yes, we say, if we know the etiology, then we want to address that, and when you just said that, the first thing that came to my mind was magfos, and I don't know why.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, that did come to my mind actually as a really good one. And if you think about it, you're kind of if you're driving, you're typically dehydrated because you don't want to stop a lot. You're not drinking much, you're maybe drinking a lot more coffee. So magnesium in general would probably I mean, listen, that's not a scientific thing. I just said I don't know why those two facts would even go together, but it made sense to me. Yeah, makes sense. Okay, great, going with that. Also. We, melissa and I, both really like Magboss in a 200. Going with that Also. We, melissa and I, both really like Mac Boston at 200.
Speaker 2:Like I, I almost never use it in any other potency.
Speaker 1:Six X, nope, no, some people do and it's great, but we both like 200. Um, okay, anxiety. I'm nervous about traveling. I'm like a nervous driver. I'm nervous about my plane ride.
Speaker 2:What if?
Speaker 1:it crashes. What if I get rear-ended or flat tire?
Speaker 2:Okay. So, like all these remedies just went through my mind. So fear of flying aconite, aconitum nappellus, all the what ifs, all that work, that's a worry. All the what ifs, all that work, that's a worry. All the what ifs is Ignatia. What if this happens? What if that happens? And then there was something else came to my mind. What was the very first thing that you said? You probably don't remember.
Speaker 1:I'm just like being in a new, in a new place, traveling.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well.
Speaker 1:I guess routine Think of somebody who's like out of the norm gets them anxious.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so change? Having a really hard time with change likes things to be the same. That's going to come to me, or can you think of something?
Speaker 1:Well, chronically carcinogen comes to my mind, but that is probably not something I use acutely. So maybe arsenic and album, maybe there's a lot of um restless nerves.
Speaker 2:Okay. So if you're, if you're anxious about getting sick because you're traveling right Cause you're worried about now I'm coming into contact with all these new germs or I'm going to be sitting on germs. All that fear of germs and catching things that's arsenic album. All the worry and the what ifs is Ignatia. And then the fear of flying or the fear of getting on a ship you know if you're going on a cruise is Aconite.
Speaker 1:So what about anticipatory anxiety leading up to it Would? You take Ignatia leading up or the protocol.
Speaker 2:I like Gelsimium 200 mixed with Caliphos 6C for anticipatory anxiety anxiety, and you can start that as soon as you start worrying about the the trip even if it's a month away okay, you can take it at every time you get nervous and upset about it. Just take it okay, um okay.
Speaker 1:Next one trouble sleeping because the bed's weird. You know, everything's weird not for a problem?
Speaker 2:I'm not not because they're sick, just I can't sleep well so if the bed is uncomfortable and hard, then maybe arnica, okay, or what's the one that starts with a, b it's not maybe Baptisia, but Baptisia really is if you can't get comfortable in bed because you're sick. So I think Arnica, really Arnica is a great sleep remedy, but so, especially if the bed's really hard and uncomfortable or you know whatever it's causing, Like I got a kink in my, in my neck see, that's why I take my pillow everywhere.
Speaker 1:I know I am. I'm about that old no offense, because you're not like old, but there's like bring your own pillow old and that's like mid-30s I think I'm there oh, I'm definitely.
Speaker 2:I pack my own pillow everywhere I go. So anyway, yeah, but if the bed man, the beds at the retreat were so comfortable.
Speaker 1:I almost need to, now that you say that, I want to go back and tell them thank you for the really nice beds.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, everything was so clean.
Speaker 1:So that will make or break us an experience for me.
Speaker 2:Right, it really will. An uncomfortable bed where you're sleeping on an incline.
Speaker 1:Or the pillows at the hotel that you, I swear. All they did was stuff a bunch of cotton balls in there. Why is it so lumpy Like? What did you put in there? Not a pillow, Anyways? So that actually segues into what would be my next question Jet lag or for kids to like disrupted sleep schedules because you change time zones?
Speaker 2:that's a good one, I know it, but I can't so jet lag, I know this is one huh.
Speaker 1:I think article was one that made me think of it, unless I got that wrong oh, cocculus, okay, oculus, that yeah, oculus is.
Speaker 2:I mean arnica might be. Oh, here's another. Oh no, that's cocculus again okay yeah, that's a big jet lag one okay, um, what about?
Speaker 1:obviously, overindulgence. What are overindulgence? Whether it's you go out and drink too much or you have a ton of food that you're not used to, maybe, so maybe like overindulgence, but also when you're in, especially if you're visiting another country, it might not even be that you had too much. It's just very different from your norm.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So if you overindulge, you had too much of anything sugar, junk, gluten, dairy, any kind of drink, sun activities, nux, vomica is the first one to go to. Okay is the first one to go to Okay. But if it's because, if so, if you're in another country and the food is just different, well then I think it would depend on what the symptoms are for you. So if you get bloated, it's like a podium. If you just get a stomach ache, that's not spomica. If you have diarrhea, arsenic, amalgam, what else could happen for different food? I mean?
Speaker 1:that's just like crampsamps. What if you don't even really have diarrhea, but like your stomach is not settled?
Speaker 2:so when my stomach is is like that cramps, or said well, I could just. I mean, yesterday I ate cherry pie and that's just something way out of my norm, and then last night I had like really crampy, but for me it usually comes with a little some burning also. So if it's like cramping and burning, it's really that like stomach ache from eating something different. Um, carboveg is great for that, really. Or NatFos. Natfos, you know, has the indigestion, the heartburn, um, but if your stomach is really just cramping and there's no diarrhea, then maybe noxvomica. I mean sorry, magfos.
Speaker 1:Okay, or like any cramping like that. Okay, what if you have chemical sensitivity to fragrances, like Airbnbs that have those things all over the place, or cleaners or things like that?
Speaker 2:and isn't that so common? And that was another thing about the retreat place there was no chemical cleaner it smelled like a log cedar cabin so wonderful it was great yeah, so, um right, so I hate all those smells. You walk into a hotel room and it's just bleach and or yeah or the plug in thingy. So Napmur is the first one that comes to my mind for chemical sensitivities.
Speaker 1:How would you do something like that? Not something like that, that's. I mean that mirror how would you?
Speaker 2:dust that mirror well, a 30 c or below, unless you just have had a lot of nightmare in your life and you, you know, you, you know how you respond in that mirror and you need a 200 and that's perfectly fine. Um, but I also think it could depend on how I think I would also look at what does it look like in that person? So when I walk into a room or a place with a lot of with those plug-in things and all the scents, I actually get angry. Yeah, okay. So then I would probably take Nuxvomica, because Nuxvomica has a high hypersensitivity to smells and you know.
Speaker 2:Then it has an angry sensitivity to smells and you know, then it has an angry if they, if it makes you feel sick or dizzy, you know, then maybe something.
Speaker 1:What would be? Oh um, oculus is good for dizzy.
Speaker 2:That's true. Yeah, nausea.
Speaker 1:What about a headache? Maybe not in your nest, maybe not here in that? Oh, a headache from the chemicals, yeah, yeah, and so that how or dosing would also depend on maybe how severe. So maybe you do it a couple times a day for the first couple days and then just kind of wait and see how you feel I would.
Speaker 2:So we meet the intensity of the condition with the frequency of dosing. So if, if it's really bad, like it's disrupting your, your vacation, you might take it every couple of hours.
Speaker 1:Okay, um, okay, let me see what else on my list. Okay, what about? Uh, you kind of brought it up to that irritability. So I'm thinking of, like my kids just being out of the norm, maybe get irritable or grumpy yeah, I think nox has a lot of irritability and grumpiness.
Speaker 2:Um what else can you think?
Speaker 1:of anything. Oh, chamomilla, what about?
Speaker 2:chamomilla, yeah, when that grumpy kid, yeah, angry, angry. And then, what you know, pulsatilla for the, the um, the weepy, whiny, clingy kid. Because they're out of their norm and you know they're everything's different. They want to be at home in their bed. Also, pulsatilla has homesickness.
Speaker 1:I was going to ask homesickness next. So pulsatilla. Is there anything else or just pulsatilla? Would you start there?
Speaker 1:definitely start there okay, um, I think the last one I have is I've actually seen this fairly frequently recently um people going to mexico and coming back with like um h pylori type deal like gut par, something terrible in their gut, or just diarrhea for weeks after that. I know arsenic and all of you mentioned for diarrhea. Is that what you would probably use too for like if you drink bad water or when you come home from traveling and have prolonged diarrhea?
Speaker 2:I would definitely do. Yes, arsenum, if there's prolonged, I would start there. It might not, that might not be the remedy, but but then China, china can also. These dogs in here about to go crazy, um, china can also be helpful for when there's been a lot and it can help build up your, your um, your energy.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I think that's all of the the questions I came up with. Um, I know we have stuff like the typical first aid things like an allergic reaction. You want APIS on hand. Typical first aid things like an allergic reaction. You want Apis on hand If you start coming down with something Aconite and Bryonia, or we like Belladonna and Gelsamium.
Speaker 2:Is there anything else that you can think of? Just motion sickness. We did a whole podcast on motion sickness, so go listen to that one and, oh, ears popping when you fly.
Speaker 1:Cali, mirror Cali, is going to be the biggest like when you take that if your ear just can't go back right, it gets stuffy, or you're right.
Speaker 2:There's a Banerjee protocol um travel sickness. It's on page 122 in the book and of course tobacco is there and that's that's in our motion sickness one. But it also says for air sickness, particularly when the ear is blocked take sanguinary at 200 C, one dose before boarding an aircraft, followed by pulsatilla 30 C, one dose if there's any disturbance in the air, followed by Pulsatilla 30C, one dose if there's any disturbance in the air. So that's interesting.
Speaker 1:But Dr Murphy taught me, you know clogged like a clogged ear or that you know that won't. Whatever, Cali mirror. Okay, I think that's pretty good. Yeah, that's a lot, so I'm going to make sure I have all those things. I mean, I'm bringing them along, so I will have them.
Speaker 2:Usually all of these remedies we talked about are in a regular kit, you know a 50, top 50. So nothing weird and I don't think that we discussed anything.
Speaker 1:Maybe not sanguine area.
Speaker 2:Right Maybe.
Speaker 1:But sometimes it is in there. So just double check what you have, yeah, but yeah, everything else is very normal remedies that you can find.
Speaker 2:Yay, thanks for talking about travel sickness, thank you.
