Recapping How to Treat Hangovers, Overeating, Eating too Much Rich Food.
Food Poisoning. Feeling Ill After Eating Too Much Sugar.
More Humour....
Is Your Job Fulfilling You - A Thought for the New Year.

Just to recap the last couple of weeks - I’m determined you’ll have all the necessary remedies to have a healthy time this holiday - we’ve covered how to avoid or cure hangovers with Nux vomica, eating too much rich or fatty food and over-eating with Pulsatilla and Carbo veg. (Click on the remedies to go to the e-letter about them.)

A reminder about food poisoning. This is normally something you get on holiday in another country, but it can happen anywhere. It’s a miserable thing to have and apart from the discomfort, it can ruin a family get-together and who wants to spend hours waiting in a hospital for treating something you can easily deal with in the comfort of your own home?

Which is really what these e-letters are all about. Empowering you to treat yourself easily, at home, holistically, for many, many ailments.

Food poisoning has been covered in a previous e-letter, but there are many other ailments cured by this amazing remedy. Click on Arsensicum album to see the fuller picture.

The common symptoms of food poisoning that needs this remedy is vomiting and/or diarrhoea with a burning feeling in your stomach. You generally have a thirst, but because of the vomiting, can only sip water. You’re totally shattered, with no energy.

Arsenicum album will pick you up easily and quickly - see dosage depending on the severity of your complaint, in the column on the right.

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This week, I want to concentrate on a remedy which resolves ailments from eating too much sugary or sweet things. Another way of saying sugar abuse. This remedy is called Argentum nitricum, or Arg nit for short.

Most of us feel a bit ill if we’ve eaten too much sugary things, and stop before that. Some can suffer sugar poisoning from not very much sugar.

The main symptoms of too much sugar is a great bloating, with lots of gas, especially burping. The burping is normally frequent and loud, Usually the discomfort is relieved by the burping, as in Carbo veg, but not always.

Typically, there is a great desire for sweet things, which don’t agree with you. It’s normal to crave that which doesn’t agree. It’s as if someone is telling you to do something, it’s in your face.

There can be diarrhoea or watery stool after too many sweets, showing a strong dietary disturbance. This can be noisy, sputtering or green, like chopped grass. (I tell you, you get to be an expert on the different types of poo, as a homoeopath....)

The funny thing about the main remedies which resolve sugar poisoning, is that they also have a strong anticipation anxiety. Normally this is for important events, such as exams, interviews, competitions, seeing the bank manager, that sort of thing.

Arg nit is no different. You can suffer so much from nerves before an important event you get diarrhoea the night before.

There’s anxiety and panic for other things too, especially heights and flying. Driving over a bridge can cause real problems.

Arg nit is a nitrogen salt of silver. Argentum is Latin for silver, and nitricum is nitrogen.

When you have a combination remedy, you have symptoms of both the parts:

Argentum comes from a group of remedies which have throat and voice issues such as splinter like pains in the throat or hoarseness in singers. The same group has a lot of nerve issues (anxiety, tingling).

Nitrogen wants to enjoy life, overdo things (dietary indiscretion), are generally hot and worse for heat.

The keynotes of Arg nit are

• craves sweets and sugar
• sugar poisoning, ailments from too many sweets
• loud and frequent burping
• throat and voice issues (Arg)
• hot, worse for heat (nitricum)
• anxiety, panic, especially for anticipating an important event, and for heights and so flying is a problem

Along with all remedies, the acute action listed here can be very different from a chronic action, such as when you have been given a remedy by a practitioner.

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In line with how humour can make you healthier, I received this story from Sue. Thanks Sue. The website has some other interesting stories, too. Click here for the beaver dam story.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/beaverdam.htm

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Not being happy in your work can seriously affect your health.  I thought this story was worth passing on.

‘Some years ago a friend of mine slipped from the saddle and fell heavily, leaving her leg and ankle still tangled in the stirrup. Ouch! She broke her leg in six places, wrenched her ankle apart and dislocated her hip.

‘Result: mucho weeks in hospital and plenty a pins ‘n’ screws. It was a year before she could walk again. In that time, however, she had lost her job.

‘So, having more than a passing interest in bones and ligaments due to wrecking a few of her own, she decided to retrain as an osteopath. I’m pleased to say that she succeeded in this.

‘She now has a queue of private patients, all willing to pay £40 for a half hour session with her, because, in actual fact, she’s very good. And even better, she loves the work. Wished she’d done it years ago, in fact.

‘Isn’t that always the way?

‘Now you’ve probably guessed the ‘take home’. It took a VERY serious accident for her to leave her deadly-dull office job (which, of course, she hated) and find something she loved.

‘I know one thing for sure: if she hadn’t fallen from the horse, she would still be in that office until she retired (by the way, she was 51 when she fell and 54 when she finished training).

‘You know what’s coming...

‘What are YOU doing to earn your crust and does it give you joy or even satisfaction?

‘If it doesn’t, why not retrain? Just do something completely different to what you’re doing now. Something you might get pleasure and satisfaction from. Take an Open University degree; go on a 1-year training course; do whatever it takes to get qualified in your new profession.

‘Sure it won’t be easy. It may cost you some money. But heck, are you REALLY going to keep on doing what you’re doing now until you retire?

‘Perhaps, that doesn’t bear thinking about.’