Dr. Shalini Kapoor
shalini.dr.kapoor@gmail.com
HOMOEOPATHIC PAEDIATRICIAN AND COUNSELING EXPERT
An important part of a building a happy life is creating a balance among work, personal, and family needs that allows us to pursue our dreams, achieve our goals, and enhance our physical and emotional well-being. It is usually discovered that finding and maintaining the balance that suits us the best are not always straightforward endeavors.
Today, many people feel that their lives are out of balance. Their priorities always seem to be competing in disturbing ways—perhaps they enjoy their career achievements but can’t find the time to take care of themselves and exercise, or their work seems to be interfering with having a loving family life.
The pressure of work has been intensified and quiet demanding in recent decades.
Consequences of Work Struggles
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Reduced efficiency and productivity.
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Adverse health consequences, such as stress-related illnesses, can result when you are chronically tense or upset.
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These illnesses can be further exacerbated such as hypertension, heart ailments etc.
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Disturbed sleep resulting in
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Stress and anxiety
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Anger, irritability and depression
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Difficulty in concentrating
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Impaired ability to motor coordination
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Suppression of the immune system
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Requests by family to spend time together can feel like more demands rather than closeness and fun.
It is not uncommon to see, when people don’t get the care they need, they are more likely to suffer serious states of anxiety, depression, and stress-related illnesses; rely on less adaptive outlets (e.g., alcohol or drugs)
MEASURES TO COPE UP
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Don’t go to bed unless you are sleepy.
Read a book, listen to soft music or browse through a magazine. Find something relaxing, but not stimulating, to take your mind off of worries about sleep. This will relax your body and distract your mind.
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If you are not asleep after 20 minutes, then get out of the bed.
Find something else to do that will make you feel relaxed. If you can, do this in another room. Your bedroom should be where you go to sleep. It is not a place to go when you are bored. Once you feel sleepy again, go back to bed.
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Begin rituals that help you relax each night before bed.
This can include such things as a warm bath, light snack or a few minutes of reading.
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Avoid taking naps if you can.
If you must take a nap, try to keep it short (less than one hour). Never take a nap after 3 p.m.
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Keep a regular schedule.
Regular times for meals, medications, chores, and other activities help keep the inner body clock running smoothly.
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Don’t read, write, eat, watch TV, talk on the phone, or play cards in bed.
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Do not have any caffeine after lunch.
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Do not have a beer, a glass of wine, or any other alcohol within six hours of your bedtime.
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Do not have a cigarette or any other source of nicotine before bedtime.
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Do not go to bed hungry, but don’t eat a big meal near bedtime either.
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Avoid any tough exercise within six hours of your bedtime.
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Avoid sleeping pills.
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Make your bedroom quiet, dark, and a little bit cool.
HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES
Homeopathic remedies are useful during episodes of insomnia, and may also help individuals with longer-standing sleep disorders. If problems are serious or very distressing, a professional help should be fetched.
Arnica
Good for physical overwork and when the bed feels too hard and uncomfortable. This remedy is also useful for jet lag.
Aconite
Used for acute insomnia caused by shock, fright, bad news, or grief. Also for fear, anxiety, and restlessness. May be woken by nightmares.
Arsenicum album
When you feel sleepy during the day but anxious at night. Restless in bed with anxious dreams and nightmares. Also for warmth, warm drinks, moving about, and sleeping propped up in bed.
Calcerea phosphorica
Difficulty waking and getting up in the morning, waking up before midnight. Painful teething in restless babies. Anxious, irritable, sluggish, and restless. Dislikes routine. Babies who scream in their steep and need lots of attention
Causticum
Bedwetting in the early part of the night. Over-sensitive child easily upset and tearful. Afraid of the dark. Strong sense of justice.
Chamomilla
Irritable baby who refuses to be calmed. Sleeplessness caused by teething, anger, or Colic. Moaning when asleep, eyes are half open when asleep.
For the person who exhibits irritability, peevishness, and restlessness. It is an antidote for overuse of coffee. Exhibits sleeplessness and restlessness during the first part of the night. They have frightening dreams.
Cocculus
If exhaustion is related to changing work shifts or too many nights of staying awake, as when caring for a sick person. For overtiredness and exhaustion, use 12X.
Coffea
Coffea, the homeopathic remedy made from the coffee bean, is very useful in cases of sleeplessness when the mind is awake and working. Shows inability to relax due to the overexcitement caused by good news or ideas. Vivid dreams, overactive mind, overexcitement. The thoughts are not fixed on a disappointment, but nevertheless the nervous system seems to be overexcited, as if from drinking too much coffee. Take 3X to 200X for insomnia following too much coffee drinking.
Equisetum
Wetting the bed during dreams. Nervous-system immaturity.
Ignatia
Sleeplessness caused by shock, emotional stress, or grief, where the person has become overwrought and moody, with frequent yawning or sighing. Jerks limbs when falling asleep. Mood swings, no thirst, dreams with bottled up anger and tension.
Kali phos
Right terrors, or waking with a sinking feeling in the stomach. Caused by excitement or mental strain. Also for anxiety, irritability, and muscle fatigue Exhausted by stress or overwork.
Lachesis
SLEEP problems during the menopause. Sensation of suffocation at the throat or bed swaying as you go to steep. Dread of going to bed because of sudden awakenings and the sensation of swaying. Tendency to hold breath white fatting asleep. Night sweats. Waking anxious and feeling unwell.
Muriaticum acidum
Generally used for emotional problems.
Nux vomica
Excellent for the person who is irritable and sleepless from stopping sedatives, or from too much mental stress, alcohol or food. For alcohol, overeating especially spicy, foods, noise, LACKof steep. The sleeplessness typically occurs after waking up very early in the morning. The person cannot get back to sleep until just before the alarm goes off, and then gets up irritable and angry from lack of sleep.
For wakefulness in the middle of the night, use 6X to 12X.
Opium
If the person is feeling sleepy but unable to get to sleep, if the bed is too hot, or else sleep comes but it is so heavy that the person snores and cannot be roused.
Pulsatilla
Early waking with an overactive mind and/or recurrent thoughts. For anxious or vivid dreams, night sweats. Person is restless in first sleep, feels too hot and throws covers off, then feels too cold and lies with arms above head, not thirsty, or if the insomnia is worse after rich food.
Sepia
Difficulty falling asleep. Waking early feeling unrefreshed. Exhausted and depressed by over work and mental stress. Feels irritable and sleepy during the day. Suffers headaches, nausea and dizziness due to tiredness. Night sweats.
Sulphur
Awakened by the slightest noise and finds it difficult to get back to steep. Feels hot and thrusts limbs out from under the covers. Kept awake by a continuous flow of ideas. Vivid nightmares, disturbed and unrefreshing sleep , waking in the early hours then steeping late.
Thuja
Wakes up early and unrefreshed just before time to get up. Pain where you have been lying, feeling cold, sleep -talking, anxious dreams, stress headaches.
Dr. Shalini Kapoor
shalini.dr.kapoor@gmail.com
HOMOEOPATHIC PAEDIATRICIAN AND COUNSELING EXPERT
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