Secrets to Cure Motion Sickness
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Many moons ago, when I was a kid, my family travelled around a lot. My father was a teacher in Kenya and we had three months leave every two years. This was supposed to be spent in the UK, but as my mother wanted to see the world, the leave was taken leisurely sailing back, meandering through the countries on route, then spending very little time in the UK, before the leisurely sail back.

I had absolutely no problem with seasickness and was often one of the few remaining on deck, particularly in the tumultuous seas rounding the Cape of Good Hope.

When I became an adult, my sea legs deserted me. Even short trips in slightly choppy seas usually leaves me weak from constant vomiting. I remember that sitting with my eyes closed, or getting into fresh air helped a bit. The minute I hit land, the nausea has gone.

I have to say I haven’t been sailing since becoming a homoeopath, so can’t vouch for a cure personally. But if I do set sail again, I know what I’ll be taking with me.

Tabacum is a remedy made from tobacco or Nicotiana tabacum. It’s a member of the Solanaceae family.

Most of you may have tried smoking as a teenager. You’ll remember the nausea associated with the first time you tried. Nausea is the main key to this remedy. Nausea with a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach. Nausea of motion. Nausea of pregnancy. Nausea from smoking. Nausea from acute gastritis. Nausea from chemo. Nausea from any cause. Incessant nausea. Retching.

Vomiting may or may not accompany the nausea. But, like Ipecacuanha http://www.twolegsandfour.com.au/eipecac.html previously discussed, the nausea doesn’t improve with vomiting. Or only briefly.

You feel totally exhausted by the nausea or vomiting.

Your nausea may produce a headache, which improves a little in fresh air.

Not surprisingly, you’re pale, cold and clammy.

You’d expect it to be a great remedy to help people give up smoking. And it is used in common anti-smoking complexes. But in my limited experience, smoking usually has a much deeper cause behind it. It’s like drinking or taking drugs. They’re covering up something profound. That means you can’t just give up smoking. You need to deal with the issue behind the smoking. Then you’ll just stop smoking automatically, as it no longer serves you.

Smoking is often a prop. Take that away without replacing it and you’re likely to fall over.

Motion sickness implies there’s a problem with your balance, your inner ears. So the remedy covers vertigo and dizziness too. But I’d like to see the nausea there too, before prescribing it.

There’s a funny symptom of Tabacum - nausea with much spitting. Maybe it’s to take the taste away. You may not spit out of politeness, but you may want to.

The keynotes of Tabacum are:-

• number one remedy for seasickness, motion sickness

• deathly nausea with or without vomiting, which incapacitates

• nausea of pregnancy or any cause

• headache with nausea

• cold, pale, clammy

• dizzy, vertigo

• craves tobacco

• likes to spit

• better for cool or fresh air, with your abdomen uncovered

• worse opening eyes, smell of tobacco smoke.

Tabacum has a few other symptoms like constipation in tobacco users, but there would need to be the nausea there too.

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You only find your rainbow after you welcome the rain.

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Sue from Perth wasn’t very impressed with the link I gave you a few weeks back on microwaves (see eletter archive “ Can You Really Have a Healthy Cat“). This opened up a whole new can of worms for me.

Sue wanted to see evidence. And the article only talked about evidence, rather than showing it.

But what is evidence? I’m sure you all know that statistics can be manipulated to say whatever you want it to say. In this cash dominated world we currently live in, there seems to me to be very little real ‘evidence’ out there. It’s more about manipulating you to believe something, normally so you’ll buy a product or service.

For the last 50 years, we’re been told that new wonder drugs have been produced to cure everything, from a headache to cancer. Have there been any? There have been lots of new drugs and lots of them removed. It’s so you’ll buy their products. It has nothing to do with cure.

Look at Coca Cola, Pepsi and MacDonalds adverts? Everyone KNOWS they’re far from healthy, but the ads are rosy so people keep buying them.

So what I’m banging on about here is trust. Looking for evidence may not help because we’re being manipulated. But somewhere along the line we do have to trust someone, as we need to make decisions.

I think the best person to trust, the one who is always on the look out for your own best interests and welfare, the one who will never ever let you down, the one who can see through all the bullshit is.....

YOU!

Your inner voice, your intuition, call it what you will. Don’t trust other people. They may not have your best interests at heart, despite what they say or do or how they have helped others or what their qualifications are. But, you can always trust you, when you start to practice and learn to recognise the signs and feelings.

So, in all the information I send you, how does it FEEL for you? Does it feel good? If not, it doesn’t serve you. Forget it.

If it does sound interesting enough to think about or research some more, well, maybe it’s serving you.

You are unique. What serves you may not serve the next person and vice versa.

Hey, guess what?

That sounds homoeopathic to me.....

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