A Homeopathic Kit for Sports Season
Categories: Excerpt Fitness & Sports Health & Healing
Fall is here, and kids are getting back to school, and back in to sports. You’ve got bandages, orange slices, and lots of water. But to be truly prepared for everything, consider bringing along a homeopathic kit—complete with Aconitum, Arnica, Bellis, Bryonia, Gelsemium, Glonoinum, Hypericum, Ledum, Rhus Tox, and Ruta Grav—to treat injuries on the field. Shelley Keneipp’s book, The Parent’s Guide to Homeopathy: Safe Natural Remedies for Children from Newborns Through Teens, shares remedies for more than 150 common ailments from colic to stage fright.
Below, Shelley covers the ten most common remedies for problems on the sports field. You can purchase these homeopathic remedies, as well as a printable version of this list, through Shelley Keneipp’s website.
Tags: Children's Health Homeopathy Shelley KeneippRemedies for Problems on the Sports Field
For each ailment, give two pellets of the remedy at a time. Two pellets are considered to be one homeopathic dose.
NOTE: Please seek professional help for: blows to the head, profuse bleeding, collar bone injury, or compromised breathing, or if you suspect the child has sunstroke, a dislocation, a fracture, or internal bleeding.
Anxiety
Aconitum Fear of crowds, faintness, hyperventilation, heart palpitations, restlessness and impatience.
Arnica Nightmares about an injury that occurred, or flashbacks of the injury.
Gelsemium Paralyzing fear of losing control, and fear of public performance. Dizziness, heavy limbs, diarrhea, and trembling.
Blows to the Muscles
Arnica Muscles feel sore, bruised, and beat-up. This remedy reduces pain and swelling.
Bellis For deeper trauma with more severe swelling and bruising than for Arnica. Sore, achy, and throbbing pain.
Byronia Tearing and needle-like pain. Child does not want to move. This remedy reduces swelling and inflammation.
Rhus Tox Tearing pains, inflammation, and stiffness.
Blows to the Back or Tailbone
Arnica Give this remedy first for tailbone injury, then Hypericum. Back feels sore, tender, beat up, and bruised.
Hypericum For tailbone injury, or a back injury with intense pressure and shooting pains. Child is tender, sore, weak, and trembling.
Injuries to the Eye
Aconitum For splinters or sharp objects that penetrate the eye. Red and inflamed eye.
Arnica Eye socket and surrounding soft tissue feels bruised and very sore. There is swelling.
Hypericum Intense, severe, and shooting pain. Also for pain after removal of foreign object.
Ledum Severe black eye. Area around eye usually feels cold. Eye is swollen, tender, and purple.
Blows to the Head
Arnica Give 2 pellets right away. Reduces swelling of bumps on the head. Put 2 pellets inside of cheek if they are knocked out.
Hypericum Bursting headache, dizzy, shooting pains, or heavy feeling.
Blows to the Lips, Mouth, or Teeth
Arnica Soreness, swelling, or bruising to teeth or mouth.
Hypericum Area is extremely tender and sensitive. This remedy relieves nerve pain that shoots up.
Heat Exhaustion or Sunstroke
Bryonia Severe, splitting, and bursting headache. Does not want to move.
Gelsemium Drowsy, with droopy eyes, flushed face, cold hands and feet, and dry, hot skin.
Glonoinum Sunstroke (flushed, hot face, throbbing headache, sweaty).
Injuries to the Bones
Arnica Give 2 pellets first. Helps with shock, swelling, and bruising.
Ruta Grav For injury to shin or collar bone. Intense soreness and achy pains. Reduces bruses and inflammation. Weariness.
Injuries to Soft Tissue
Bellis Injuries to soft tissue of breasts, abdomen, and pelvic area. Bruised, swollen, sore, and achy.
Puncture Wounds
Hypericum For insect bites that are very painful. Shooting pain in nerve-rich areas such as fingers, toes, or lips.
Ledum Wounds to the palm of hand or sole of foot. Insect bites or splinters. Affected area feels cold and numb. Pains are shooting, pricking.
Shock
Aconitum Child is fearful, anxious, very reactive to pain, inconsolable. Glassy eyes or dilated pupils. Screaming and crying out in terror.
Arnica Child is stunned, exhausted, and irritable when offered help. Anxious because they do not want to be touched.
Sprains and Strains
Arnica Muscle feels sore, bruised and beat-up. Over-stretching of a joint. This remedy reduces pain and swelling.
Bellis Deeper trauma with more severe swelling and bruising than Arnica. Sore, achy, and throbbing.
Bryonia Tearing and needle-like pains. Reduces swelling and inflammation. Red around joint. Good for knees. Does not want to move.
Ledum Injured joint is very swollen, cold, and numb.
Rhus Tox Tearing and shooting pains. Hot, swollen joint. Much inflammation and stiffness on first movement after being still.
Ruta Grav Intense, sore, deep, achy pains. Reduces bruises, weariness, and heat. Good for wrists and ankles, and torn tendons.
Excerpted from The Parent’s Guide to Homeopathy: Safe, Natural Remedies for Children from Newborns through Teens by Shelley Keneipp. © 2015, North Atlantic Books.
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Julia Kent
After graduating from UC Berkeley in 2007, Julia was delighted to find out that “professional book recommender” was a job. She has been working in marketing and publicity with independent Bay Area publishers ever since. She joined North Atlantic Books in 2014. She lives with her husband and two very nice cats in Oakland.
