(by Fiona Donohoe-Bales & Kate Mirow)
Homoeopathy is an energetic form of medicine that can act on both physical and emotional spheres within the body. The correctly chosen and applied remedy can have a profound effect on a range of conditions, including anxiety and depression. There are thousands of different homoeopathic medicines available and your homoeopath needs to obtain a good picture of both your mental/emotional symptoms and your physical symptoms to correctly prescribe your remedy.
It’s helpful for your homoeopath to know what factors make your symptoms better or worse, what time of the day various symptoms occur, whether anything else occurs at the same time (fort example, anxiety and palpitations) and how long ago these symptoms started. These and other details will help your homoeopath arrive at the correct remedy.
Some examples of possible remedies for anxiety and depression, and the type of person who will benefit from them, include:
Ignatia – for problems with sleeping, depression, nervous symptoms, deep sighing, being easily startled, changeable moods, sensitivity and grief.
Aurum met – used in cases of melancholia and hopelessness, feelings of not being good enough, being emotionally closed and feeling separated from the world. Often used in intelligent, hardworking and successful people who feel despondency and dissatisfaction with life.
Lachesis – for melancholia, sadness and lack of confidence, and complaints caused by fright, disappointed love or jealousy. Also for people who have no feeling for family members or where there is a persistent lack of peace with family members. May be useful if the person becomes jealous and vengeful.
Arg nit – for those who are nervous, anxious, impulsive, experience fear of social situations or fear of appearing in public, have low self-confidence, mental weakness and often experience digestive complaints.
Arsenicum – for anxiety, restlessness, deep-seated insecurities and dependency on other people, a need for reassurance and support, possessiveness about things and people (may be generous but with an expectation of receiving something in return), those who are compulsively fastidious and obsessed with cleanliness and order, and fearful of death.
Sepia – used for anxiety that something bad will happen, lack of feeling for partner and family, and anger. This patient may be resentful towards the family with a feeling of exhaustion, may not feel the natural affection for her children, may logically feel her husband is nice but not have the attendant feeling for him. May be frightened by the internal feeling that she does not care, which may cause weeping.
(Source: Wellbeing Health Guide – ‘Depression & Anxiety – the up side of down’ by Fiona Donohoe-Bales & Kate Mirow)
