This week it’s about Aconitum napellus, or simply called Aconite.
Okay, I can see you’re looking a little puzzled. (Please don’t forget that I am a mother through and through and I have eyes everywhere!)
I know what you’re thinking: “Poor Joette! She must be so busy that she simply can’t remember that she already wrote about Aconite right at the start of the Emergency Remedy series.”
Well, you needn’t worry about me. I remember my post about Aconite very well, but at the time I only wrote about a specific aspect of this remedy. The wonderful thing about this medicine – besides speed, efficiency and elegance – is its versatility.
That is why Aconite was (and is) my number one emergency remedy … it has a permanent place in my handbag.
Aconitum napellus is, among other things, an excellent choice
for eye injuries. It not only helps to cushion the shock of the injury (which, let’s be honest, causes more shock than most injuries because our eyes are so precious and irreplaceable), but it also helps heal the injury itself. Perhaps you remember that I once described Aconite as an 'eye Arnica'.
An example: One of my colleagues was trimming her hedge in the garden. With gusto. She admitted she had been a little too quick and careless. She leaned over the hedge to snip a low-hanging branch and another twig she had overlooked went into her eye.
Fortunately she was wearing her glasses, so the twig didn’t go straight into the pupil. That could have had catastrophic consequences for her. Even so, the tip of the twig penetrated her eyeball and a tiny hole was visible at the entry point.
This wound was no joke.
Although – I did have to laugh a little when she told me that in her panic she swept her glasses off her face and accidentally cut one arm off with the scissors. So not only was the hedge trimmed, but also the poor glasses.
By the way, the glasses are shown in the photo above… may they rest in peace.
And the eyes? Thankfully her sight was not affected, she was generally fine and she did not have to go to A&E. The eye healed again, probably much faster than her battered ego.
Typically, after such an injury one takes Aconitum C200 immediately and repeats this dose every few hours as needed until the condition has clearly improved. In eye injuries like my colleague’s, homeopathy gives the person the reassurance and the knowledge that everything possible has been done to stimulate the body’s self-healing powers.
(I should add at this point: for extremely severe pain Hypericum C200 or even 1M can be given in addition).
Eye injuries occur more often than we realise and usually happen very quickly, as in my colleague’s case. For this reason Aconite should always be at hand – in your handbag and your jacket pocket, in the home and travel medicine kit, in the office and in the car. That way, if something really does get into the eye, help is at hand! (And the glasses can be repaired by a good optician).
Spread the word – homeopathy helps, especially in emergencies!
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Source: https://joettecalabrese.com/blog/emergency-remedy-series-the-eyes-have-it/
Photo: Shutterstock_732175816, Copyright: Milos Batinic
