What time is it again?

In spring the clocks go forward, in autumn they go back.

Or, hang on … is it … that’s right, isn’t it?

It’s that confusing time of year again when we discover that time is even more relative than Albert Einstein once thought.

Last night I went to bed at my usual time and mysteriously lost an hour overnight. That blasted hour will be missing all summer until it sneaks back in November and the whole palaver over the clock change starts all over again.

Our body lags behind

My head understands it all perfectly well, but my body sometimes doesn’t – and I know I’m not the only one who experiences this.

Across the USA (except Hawaii and Arizona, where people apparently have more entertaining things to do than change their clocks twice a year) people struggle with the after-effects of the time change, because this week it’s that time once again.

These effects can show up as tiredness, too little or too much sleep, irritability or simply frustration when, once again, you don’t know how to adjust that one impossible clock that each of us seems to have.

A friend of mine had so much trouble with the clock in her car at the last time change that she eventually gave up – and got used to the clock being an hour fast. (But at least it’s showing the correct time again now!)

Nux vomica gives the body a boost

If I don’t feel quite myself after the clock change, the homeopathic remedy Nux vomica 30 helps me put everything right again (except, of course, the clock in the car).

I take it twice daily for a few days until I have settled into the new rhythm. If my symptoms are really severe, I take Nux vomica 200 as an acute emergency remedy.

I don’t want to foist a whole history lesson on you, but the current version of daylight saving time began in the early years of the First World War as an attempt to save fuel by reducing the use of artificial light.

Disrupted sleep-wake rhythm

What it actually does, though, is tinker with our collective sleep-wake cycle – our biological body clock – twice a year, in the finest tradition.

But of course we can’t blame this top-down time change for everything. Essentially we do the same thing when we travel. We get on a plane, jet around the globe and expect our body to instantly synchronise with a distant time zone.

We’re certainly expecting too much!

Jet lag is nothing more than the symptom of a biological body clock thrown out of balance … and another reason to take Nux vomica. I have also used Arnica for this purpose, as you can read in my blog post My Trip to India.

For travel I recommend the following dosing: take the remedy that best matches your symptoms the day before departure, on the way to the airport and, if needed, once more immediately after arrival – until you have adjusted to the new time zone.

What would our great-grandparents have made of it? For them it would have seemed like something from the “future”. Isn’t it ironic that a medical model that has been used for 200 years can still stabilise our body today, in these modern times?

If only we had a simple solution for that annoying clock in the car…

Warmly,

Yours

Source:https://joettecalabrese.com/blog/what-time-is-it/