If it's Springtime, it must be allergy season. While most of us are
thrilled to see the budding leaves and blooming flowers, for others it ushers
in weeks of irritating and sometimes debilitating allergy symptoms.
Rather than retreating to a vacuum-sealed chamber until the pollen stops
blowing, homeopathy may well ease your symptoms and enable you to enjoy normal
life despite whatever is blowing in the wind.
Although allergies tend to fall under more of a constitutional umbrella
for treatment (some people have an inherent susceptibility while other people
don't notice a thing), there are still some homeopathic remedies which can
often prove helpful in easing the acute symptoms of allergies. For those
whose constitution actually matches one of these remedies, there may
even be a broader based improvement beyond just alleviating allergy symptoms;
in this case, the whole susceptibility to allergic substances will be lessened
and over time, may become a thing of the past. For others, these remedies
may bring temporary relief of allergy symptoms but because they are not the
true constitutional remedy, such relief may not continue long-term. But regardless of whether
you luck out with a deeply-acting remedy that matches your constitution or
simply find your symptoms temporarily palliated without the risk of side effects
pharmaceutical products carry, homeopathy can be a big help for anyone who
suffers through springtime due to allergies.
Going to the health food store and purchasing a
combination homeopathic remedy specific for allergies is the easiest way to
hopefully find some help. While combination remedies go against one of
the classic rules of homeopathy (which is one remedy at a time), by combining
several remedies which all have allergic symptoms as a strong part of their
picture, the idea is that hopefully one of them will resonate with you and
therefore provide relief. As you have read in this newsletter more than once, homeopathy is individual medicine - what works for one person with a
particular condition won't necessarily work for another person with the same
condition. However a number of remedies that have a strong picture of
specific symptoms (such as runny nose, sneezing, itching eyes, etc.) may frequently
be used successfully in certain conditions (such as allergies). Just as
there are a small number of remedies which are frequently called for to heal
influenzas or injuries, so there are a small number of remedies which are
frequently called for in allergy symptoms and they will be grouped together in
homeopathic combination remedies specific for allergies.
Here are a couple of remedies which will be included in most
homeopathic combination remedies for allergies:
Allium cepa - imagine cutting up an onion.
Think of the stinging, itching watery eyes and nose, and tickling leading to
lots of sneezing. This remedy is made from an onion and it is often
curative for the very symptoms cutting into a fresh onion will create.
Often the discharge from the nose will be acrid and irritate the skin.
Symptoms generally improve out in the open air and worsen inside warm, stuffy
rooms.
Sabadilla - this plant remedy has symptoms of
violent sneezing, copious watery discharge, itching of the nose and the palate
and a lot of stuffiness in the nose. Eyes may burn and turn red and there
can be a headache along with the stuffed nose. This person may feel
chilly and wants warmth - drinks, food, extra sweaters - to feel better.
So for those miserable with allergy symptoms, heading to the health
food store and picking up one or two combination remedies to try is a low cost
and no risk route that may well bring you quick relief. If you have tried
a few different combinations and still suffer strong allergy symptoms then you
may consider constitutional treatment with a professional homeopath as your
system obviously needs a different remedy than those present in the
combinations. Although this route is more costly and time-consuming, the
right constitutional remedy will lessen the overall susceptibility to those
substances that bother you and make springtime something to look forward to,
rather than an ordeal to be suffered through.
