How to Avoid a Stinging Pain On Urination
Thought of the Week
Enzymes and Weight Gain
Mobile/Cell Phone Dangers
Letting Go
Because urinary tract symptoms can be so painful and so inconvenient, I want to focus on a remedy this week, which is one of the top kidney or kidney related remedies.
Regular users of homoeopathic remedies will know the remedy Apis. It’s made from the whole honey bee.
While homeopaths are committed to ‘doing no harm’, (something doctors used to be committed to, but are no longer), this applies to the making of our remedies as well. The remedies which come from animals are normally milk, discharges or, more rarely, blood or urine. The only animal who dies in the making of a homoeopathic remedy are the insects.
And then that is only once, as that is all we need due to the unique way homoeopathic remedies are made.
Back to Apis.
If you have ever been stung by a bee, you’ll know that the symptoms are:
- bright red swelling
- hard swelling
- shiny swelling
- stinging or scalding pain
In homeopathy, we are concerned with the Law of Similars. In other words, what the remedy creates in a healthy person, will cure in an unhealthy person.
This means that any of the above conditions that occur anywhere in the body are likely to be healed by Apis.
Primarily Apis is all about fluid retention or accumulation. Fluid which fills out the cells to bursting point, which is why they appear hard.
Apis is very marked at healing our fluid excretory system, ie the urine and urine related organs and system.
When the swelling is internal, you might not know its characteristics, but you’re likely to experience the pain. It will be a stinging or scalding type of pain.
Typically a scalding pain can occur during or after urination. A scalding in the urethra. Which makes urination very painful.
Cystitis.
So the urinary symptoms are:
- painful urine, stings, burn especially the last drops
- scanty urine
- urinary sediment, albuminous urine
- frequent urine
- involuntary urine worse at night or coughing
- profuse urine, more than the intake
- difficult or slow urine
- strong coloured urine
Because Apis is all about fluid, your thirst is affected, too. The most likely symptom is a thirstlessness.
Almost always, a bee sting feels worse if you put anything hot or warm on it, but much better with something cold. So the ailing part will be the same - worse for warm applications, better for cold.
So if you suffer from nephritis (inflammation of the kidney) or any kidney or urine related problem that fits the above symptoms, Apis is likely to help you.
To recap, the key symptoms of Apis are:
- swelling, typically hard
- stinging pain
- thirstlessness
- worse for heat, warmth, better for cold application
It’s worth remembering the other key conditions Apis is so good at resolving. Conditions such as
- anaphylactic shock
- allergy with swelling
- swelling around the eyes, throat
The key mental symptoms of Apis is a busyness. You just can’t sit still, you must keep doing things. You’re restless. Being on the move constantly, makes you feel better.
Cats are particularly prone to kidney related symptoms, with nephritis being a top cause of death. Even though it’s difficult to know the types of pain a cat may be experiencing, you should be able to see enough of the objective symptoms to make an accurate assessment of the likely remedy.
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Thought of the Week
Do not believe in anything
- simply because you have heard it
- simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many
- simply because it is found written in your religious books
- merely on the authority of your teachers and elders
- in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Siddhartha
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Enzymes and Weight Gain
There used to be a weight loss diet plan that had you eating half a grapefruit before every meal.
This was a very good idea, as the raw grapefruit provided you with enzymes which helped digest the meal (probably cooked) that followed.
Cooking destroys enzymes. But enzymes are essential to your good health.
I tend to go on a bit about raw diets. This is because raw food is rich in enzymes. Enzymes are complex proteins and are responsible for utilising ingested nutrients as well as countless other activities in your body.
If you don’t eat much raw food, your body can’t utilise the food, so stores it instead. This leads to weight gain and even obesity. So even if you don’t want to convert to 100% raw food just yet, make sure you start each meal with some raw food, such as fruit of veggies.
Many nuts and seeds you buy from the supermarket won’t be raw, having been heated or pasteurised.
You might like to read this report, too.
Learn about the Important Link between Enzymes and Weight Loss
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Mobile/Cell Phone Dangers
Are you still thinking about purchasing a wave shield for your mobile or cell phone? Maybe you’re still not convinced they cause brain tumours.
Can you risk it?
A brain tumour tends to be fairly final.
The wave shield protectors are low cost and unobtrusive.
It seems to me to be a no-brainer.
Wave Shield Protection.
Brain Damage from Mobile Phone Radiation.
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Letting Go
It seems to be a human habit to collect. You tend to hang on to something that has once been useful. Until your house is over run with clutter and cupboards are packed full of things you’ll probably never use.
Physical clutter tends to go with mental clutter.
Having a big clear out does wonders to lightening your mental load. Take as much as you can to charity shops so others can also benefit. Maybe the rest can be recycled.
Making space in your house also makes space in your mind. Now there’s room to change, to do the things you always wanted, to move on.
Have a spring clean, even if it is autumn in your part of the world!
