Discover a Different Use for Table Salt
Thought of the Week
Look After Yourself. Don’t Expect Others To.
Dwell in Possibilities
Staying on the urination theme for another week, the theme of this week’s remedy is pain just after urination. But it also has a bigger theme of being unable to urinate in the presence of others. So if, say, a public toilet has only partial walls, or bad sound proofing, those who need this week’s remedy would rather hang on than risk the embarrassment of letting others hear their ‘tinkling’.
Perhaps most of us have been there as teenagers, but some remain in this state. You could say it’s a very Victorian way of being, when body parts weren’t discussed.
Victorian ‘purity’ even extended to covering up table legs...
So those needing this remedy may get incontinence from stress, from holding on too long and so putting the sphincter under strain, or on laughing or sneezing.
This week’s remedy is called Natrum muriaticum, Nat mur for short. This is simply the Latin name for ordinary table salt. But Nat mur is far from an ordinary remedy.
It’s one of our polycrest remedies, resolving ailments from urination related problems, to severe migraines, to deep seated grief and a host of ailments in between.
If you think about salt, it’s all about the sea, as that’s where salt comes from. So salt is connected to water. So it should come as no surprise that it helps those suffering from urine related problems.
Not surprisingly, those who do well on this remedy have a craving for salt. I don’t mean a little, light sprinkling. I mean a plate that looks like snow has hit it.
And, with a high intake of salt, you tend to be very thirsty, especially for icy cold drinks.
Staying with the watery theme, Nat mur is a great remedy for allergy sufferers where you get watery discharges. The most common one is hay fever.
On a deep level, water is all about emotions.
So those who benefit from this remedy may have suffered a huge grief or disappointment in love. And you have never been able to get over it. Thoughts constantly turn to what might have been...
But you don’t want to talk about it, so can appear very closed. It’s just that if you talk about it, you start to feel the pain again, so would rather stay mute.
Sodium is a vital requirement in the normal function of nerves. So you might get ailments related to nerves. One of the most common of these is headaches or migraines, since the brain is the nerve centre of the body.
Nat mur headaches tend to be worse during the daytime, and subside at night. The worst hour may be mid morning.
Just as you would get dry lips, possibly with cracking, if you allowed salt to remain around your mouth, Nat mur is excellent for clearing up cracked lips or herpes around your mouth.
Mostly, those who do well on Nat mur are warm blooded. You just don’t feel the cold.
So lets recap the main points of Nat mur related to urine problems:
- bashful people who are easily embarrassed by body functions - eg sound of urination
- urine related ailments such as pain at the end of urination
- desire for salt
- thirst for icy cold drinks
- warm bloodied
- worse during the day, especially mid morning
A few other symptoms Nat mur is good at resolving are:
- deep seated grief, can’t talk about it so appear closed
- headaches, migraines worse during the day
- cracked lips, herpes around the mouth
- sun burn or sun stroke
- allergies with a watery discharge
Homeopaths like to amuse ourselves by trying to work out what remedies best reflect a particular culture or country. We mostly think of Britains being Nat mur people. It’s that stiff upper lip approach to life, at least in the past.
And if you resonate with Nat mur, then look to your pets. They may need it, too.
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Thought of the Week
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde, author of "The Soul of Man Under Socialism"
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Look After Yourself. Don’t Expect Others To.
We live in a strange world where we value someone else’s view point more than our own. We value left brain education more than we value right brain intuition.
And yet most of us have experienced an intuitive thought that saved us from something, possibly dangerous.
Valuable those left brain, logical thought is, it’s nothing without right brain instinctive knowledge that is valuable possibly only to ourselves.
Take food.
Most people are too busy making a living to prepare or even eat nutritious food.
Many people would rather buy their kids expensive toys than nutritious organic food.
Your health comes last on your list of priorities. That is, until something goes wrong.
With that attitude, you’re likely to be low in energy, everything is a chore, you easily get over whelmed, you can’t be bothered to socialise.
But if you take responsibility for your health BEFORE it starts to deteriorate, making it your priority, then you’re likely to be able to achieve everything you want, and more besides, easily.
Start looking after yourself. Eat quality food. Make it a mission of yours to learn about food. Read ingredients on everything you buy. Take responsibility for everything. Don’t look to others to do it for you. They won’t.
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Dwell in Possibilities.
from Daily Celebrations dailycelebrations.com
The Jains sect of India discuss philosophy with the doctrine of syad-vada, the "perhaps method:" For any question, there are 353 different viewpoints. To any discussion or perspective, the thoughtful reply is "perhaps," or "maybe it is and maybe it isn't."
Granted, syad-vada sounds a bit "wishy-washy" because it allows you to say yes, no, maybe, and 350 other things at the same time. But the basic concept also allows you to EXPAND the way you problem-solve. And come up with solutions outside the box.
Marcel Proust wrote: "The only true voyage of discovery, the only really rejuvenating experience would not be to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees."
If you have a problem or are searching for answers, look at the situation through the eyes of another. Consider the possibilities. Open your heart and mind to the options.
"If you tell a person they should have done something, they will come up with 50 reasons why they couldn't have," explained writer Hendrie Davis Weisinger. "Change your should statements to could. It creates options for people, making it easier for them to improve and to change."
Imagine what you COULD do...
