This document discusses four homeopathic remedies - Apis, Lachesis, Sepia, and Sulphur - that can help reduce menopausal hot flashes. Apis can help with heated exchanges and issues with reproduction or productivity. Lachesis may help with anxiety, chest oppression from suppressed emotions, and sensitivity to heat. Sepia can address hopelessness, stagnation, and confusion over identity. Sulphur can enhance heat tolerance and reduce eruptive flushes from internal heat. All four remedies may lessen hot flashes and shift the individual to a new remedy state with improved symptoms.

1. Menopausal Hot Flashes
Four Key Homeopathic Remedies

2. Though poorly understood..
◊ Menopausal hot flashes to some extent
reflect:
• A rise in adrenalin levels and a decrease in
estrogen levels
• Heightened sensitivity to external heat
• An imbalance in the autonomic nervous
system (both the Sympathetic and the
Parasympathetic)

3. Homeopathy, a Synopsis
◊ Key Ideas
• Mirroring: nature’s reflection in remedies
• The Law of Similars
• Nudging the vital force

4. Courtesy of the honeybee,
Apis

5. Understanding Apis (crushed
angry bees)…
◊ Ouch! I’ve been stung!
…it burns and itches!
…now it’s swelling!
…I can’t sit still!
…quick, put some ice on it!

6. Understanding Apis…
◊ What’s in the venom?
Hyaluronic acid

7. Understanding Apis…
◊ Hyaluronic acid
An inflammatory agent but paradoxically used
to treat arthritis in bee sting therapy (Hey!
That sounds homeopathic!)
A component of the sperm cell’s warhead
“acromium,” enabling the sperm to explode its
way into the egg.

8. Understanding Apis…
◊ In summary Hyaluronic acid…
…connects the dots between inflammation
and reproduction

9. Understanding Apis…
◊ Mysteries of the honeybee
* A sisterhood unisphere
* Heat control in the hive from beating wings
* Who gets to be anointed with the Royal Jelly?
* Virgin queens and their hunger games
* The hive divides along royal lines

10. Apis as a mirror for hot
flashes:
◊ “Heated” exchanges
◊ Thermal control of the hive
◊ Thwarted reproduction an inflammatory issue
◊ Suppressed productivity as an inflammatory issue
◊ Entrenched adrenalization

11. The hot flashing Apis woman
has likely experienced:
◊ A history of bloating during her menses
◊ Some degree of conflict between procreation
and work in her life
◊ Placing a high value on the importance of
family
◊ Intense rivalry with a sister
◊ Restless desire for an active community life

12. What to expect from Apis
◊ A general cooling of the hot flashes or
less aggravation from their presence
◊ Reduced agitation and jealousy
◊ Possible shift into a Natrum Muriaticum
remedy state characterized by
suppressed grief

13. Courtesy of the bushmaster
snake, Lachesis

14. Understanding Lachesis
(made from the snake’s
venom)
◊ A battle between the Id and the
Supergo
• Strong primal instincts
• Suppressing instinctual intensity
• Jealousy
• Sexuality
• Loquacity and throat sensitivity

15. Understanding Lachesis
◊ Emotionally charged relationships
◊ Clairvoyance
◊ Pressure cooker (delusion she is under
superhuman control)
◊ Nightly aggravation (when the Id is free
to assert itself)

16. Lachesis, a mirror for hot
flashes:
◊ Internal energetic compression
• Promoting hypertension
◊Anxiety
◊Chest oppression
• Resulting from emotional intensity
◊Grief
◊Betrayal
◊Frustration (thwarted control)

17. What to expect from Lachesis
◊ Reduction in hot flashes or sensitivity to
heat
◊ Less talkative and less anxious
◊ Likely switch to another less jealous
snake remedy state

18. Courtesy of the cuttlefish,
Sepia

19. Understanding Sepia (ink of
the cuttlefish)
◊ Though essentially an optimist she finds
hope has become toxic
• Due to repeated disappointment and
resentment
◊ Confusion as to psycho-sexual identity
• Am I a vibrant reproductive woman or am I
barren?!

20. Understanding Sepia
◊ Stagnation
• Abdominal bloating
• Flattening of the breasts
• Emotional flatness
◊Apathy
◊ Indifference to loved ones
• Exhaustion

21. Sepia as a mirror of hot
flashes:
◊ Spewn ink muddies the waters
• Where is the fish? Where is the woman in
life?
◊ Spewn ink stagnates the water
• Stagnation promotes heat as in the
example of decomposing matter in a
composte heap

22. Sepia explained by Traditional
Chinese Medicine:
◊ Constrained Liver syndrome
• Resentment or internalized anger
disharmonizes the Liver
◊The Liver’s energy knots up
◊The Liver’s heat energy or Yang becomes
hyperactive and rises causing a heat flush

23. What to expect from Sepia…
◊ Renewal of hope
◊ Resolved stagnation and better energy
◊ Reduced hot flashes
◊ Shift into another remedy state (again,
Natrum Muriaticum is a possibility)

24. Courtesy of the volcano,
Sulphur

25. Understanding Sulphur
◊ Derived from vulcanic magma deep
within the earth
• Like having an inefficient furnace within
oneself
◊Aggravation from heat
◊Excessive appetite
◊Gassiness
◊Dry skin eruptions
•

26. Understanding Sulphur
◊ Positive pole
• Primal creativity
• Childlike curiosity
• Lush vegetation of the Hawaiian Islands
• I am the center of the universe personality
• Formidable woman

27. Understanding Sulphur
◊ Negative pole
• Poorly consolidated energy
• Laziness or lack of follow-through
• Slovenly
• Mad scientist
• Social alienation

28. Sulphur, as a mirror of
eruptive heat
◊ Burning like the heat of a volcano
◊ Eruptive skin ailments
◊ Offensive, excoriating discharges
◊ Sulphuric flatulence
◊ Intolerable flushes

29. Sulphur accounted for by
Traditional Chinese Medicine
◊ Internal pathogenic heat
• Causes
◊ Excess Yang and deficient
Yin from
• Overthinking
• Improper diet

30. What to expect from Sulphur
◊ Enhanced toleration of heat
◊ Reduced hot flashes
◊ Decreased appetite
◊ Enlarged social awareness
◊ Shift into a more socially aware remedy state
such as Calcarea featuring cautiousness and
concern for shelter or Lycopodium (featuring
insecurity)

31. How cool is that?
So glad I tried homeopathy!