1. Homeopathy is hard to explain and some may feel that its all 'hog wash' anyway but, as a user myself, I
find homeopathy powerful, and wonderfully effective. Homeopathic medicines can stimulate your body's
response to heal itself by dealing directly with the sources of your symptoms. In the article to follow Azna
Amira, a Co-op owner and shopper, outlines some commonly used homeopathic remedies and gives her
perspective on their benefits.
-Meg Jensen Witt, Wellness Manager
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Though the "home" in homeopathy is cream. Not only did I not get blisters, but
really part of the prefix meaning "like cures the pain was also much reduced," she says.
like," it can also serve as a reminder that
simple homeopathy can be practiced by Ledum palustra and Cantharis pills
anyone, with a home first aid kit that can are also helpful with burns, and these, along
travel with you to picnics in the park or with hypericum, and rhus toxicodendron
rday, October 15 camping in the north woods. (commonly called rhus tox) are ideal for
led Barn Farm Though homeopathy is most often insect bites-- including bee stings—and
4:30 p.m., dinner served at 5. used by a practitioner to treat chronic run-ins with poison ivy. In the event of eye
g at 5:30, followed by music from 6-7. conditions that have proved resistant to injuries, a wash of calendula and hypericum
more traditional methods, it is easy to can be applied to prevent infection.
make a kit of simple remedies for those (Just Food sells several gels and creams
minor mishaps that bedevil our precious that combine these remedies for a greater
warm season outings. range of effectiveness).
pizza, side dishes and live music. (While ready-made kits are available
online and through your homeopath, it is Bryonia alba is the remedy of choice for
more economical to simply select from the heat exhaustion—the loss of fluid due to
dly event. We hope to see you there! full line of remedies available in Just Food's extreme heat.
wellness aisle).
Nux VOmica can quell the queasiness of
Arnica Montana is familiar to many as motion sickness, whether on land or water
a treatment for aches and bruises; it is also if taken preventively about an hour before
useful on cuts and scrapes. The Co-op sells travel.
both the cream and pill forms.
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"My husband was afraid he had wrecked his Though remedy dosages do vary, the dose
shoulder, and wouldn't be able to make his available at Just Food—3oC—is the one
Boundary Waters trip," says Jessica Bettinger, recommended for most first aid uses.
receptionist for Vital Force homeopathy The pills are dissolved under the tongue,
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practice. Her husband Arlo had injured and should be taken about an hour before
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himself lifting kegs on his job with a local mealtime for maximum absorption. They
brewery and nothing had worked. "But after do not need refrigeration, but should be
only five days of rubbing in arnica cream and stored away from moisture and strong odors.
taking the pills," says Bettinger," he had no The remedies come packaged in tiny
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trouble paddling and portaging on that trip." tubes with caps, should be shaken into the
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cap to administer them, avoiding contact
with skin.
Calendula is good for healing the skin,
whether from abrasions and lacerations, or Azna A. Amira is a freelance writer based in
from burns and scalds, or sunburn. Northfield. She enjoys reviewing books, and is
interested in holistic health, nutrition, and energetic
"I was taking a pan of lasagna out of the medicine-especial!); as they are practiced in our
istiigf, irfi», design oven, and somehow managed to place both community.
- at a price you can afford. hands on the hot pan" says Sujata Owens,
owner of Vital Force homeopathy practice. Sujata Owens is conducting a webinar on how to
"I, of course, immediately plunged them into use homeopathic remedies at home. It will he on her
website, www.vitatybrceconsuteng.com on Monday,
cold water, then slathered on the calendula September 19, from 11 a.m. to 12 noon.