Hi, I'm Dr. Amit Agarwal, naturopathic doctor and psychotherapist practicing in Kenya at the moment running mobile clinics and private practice as well. And I want to share some exciting information on how we can use homeopathy and bought flowers to treat anxiety and depression and other emotional illnesses. The key take home message I want to give today is that emotional illness, whether it's anxiety, depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, all of these things, including actually physical symptoms can have a trigger an emotional trigger from the past what we call trauma or shock. The shock can be financial loss, sexual abuse, parents fighting relationship, breakup divorce, whatever it is. These events will alter the person's life It will alter the perception of themselves, it will alter their behavior, it will alter their interpretation of the environment around them it will make them feel less secure, more threatened. All these effects actually have Long term impact on person's life and contribute towards emotional illness such as anxiety, depression, chronic illness, even bipolar, and schizophrenia at times.

So, the idea is when a person comes to you with, with anxiety or depression or any other symptom, find out the root cause, right. And if it does stem from an emotional issue or an emotional event, then treat that emotional event, while you're doing all the other supplementation and adrenal support and all that, it's important to actually resolve the shock. And that's where homeopathy can work really well and finding. So I also use psychotherapy, however, I'm finding homeopathy can do the same, if not better, and really going deep into undoing traumatic events from a person's history. So we're all used to using homeopathy constitutionally, doing a detailed case intake, and I definitely recommend doing that. Still is a very important.

However, while finding the constitutional remedy, it's equally important to actually look at the shocks in the person's life, any significant life events that happened to them and then choose a remedy based on those shocks and I'm going to show you how I'm and then also when you're looking at the shocks, look at them in sequential order, most recent first treat that and then move backwards in time until you get to childhood, traumatic events. So how do you find a remedy to treat the shock well, cancer repertory and a couple of other laboratories have a great chapter called mind ailments from and mine ailments from deals with specific traumatic events in a person's life and actually gives you remedies to heal those traumatic events. So for example, if you look in your repertory, you'll find mine elements from abuse. You'll see remedies such as ignition stepheson sexual abuse Carson Olson, Ignatius Knoxville Mecca staff is angry again.

My name is from shame. A we have Oram Ignatius, not mere opium Steph sangria elements from violence. We have Oram Brian graffia. So the good thing is you will actually see some common remedies coming up Stafford, sangria, opium magnesia. Or these are these remedies. Often you'll see them occurring quite often in various chapters of the repertory for ailments from significant events in a person's life.

So, before I go on to the other chapters or rubrics that deal with trauma, how do we select the right remedy? Number one, you look at the symptoms of a person in the present moment, so are they crying a lot or Are the suicidal suicide a lot of suicidal feelings often indicates Oram? Are they timid and holding back a lot of feelings then you're looking at staff as agria. If they appear weak, broken, poor memory, just fatigue then you're looking at phosphoric acid. So, look at their present symptoms and select remedy according to that and see if it also matches the event that they went through. Or you could also ask, how did they initially react to the shock?

You know, were they stunned, numb, speechless, then you looking at opium as remedy? aconite will also fit aconite is more has more fear symptoms in it as well in a lot of fear and paranoia after the event. Some homeopaths will actually use four or five different remedies all at one goes space, maybe half an hour apart or given on the same day or one day after the other. So let's say He's been through sexual abuse and this Carson Olson or magnesia will give all of those three remedies spaced about day apart to deal with all parts of the shock. Some homeopaths will disagree with this approach however, I've definitely seen it work with a lot of people and yeah, if it works for you then give it a try and use low dose when you're doing multiple remedies just so as not to overwhelm the person and also then you can monitor the response a bit more clearly.

And then decide to increase the dose of the remedy that's working well for them. You can also use energetic testing and intuition to select remedies from a narrowed down list so let's go on to the other rubrics that mind ailments has so you looking at mine ailments from love disappointed ailments from disappointment, friendship, deceived discords between parents. And this is a really interesting one actually. have treated a lot of patients who grew up in an unstable home environment. Either their mom was being beaten or abused by the father or they were just arguing. And graffitis has come up quite often with that and I've actually treated xima resulting from childhood stress using graffitis.

And when I investigated further, the most of the stress had come from the parents fighting. And you'll notice in a lot of these rubrics love discipline, elements from love disappointed disappointment and friendship deceived. We'll see some common remedies coming up such as Oram ignition, the cases phosphoric acid was forecast is a great remedy for burnout, fogginess, and just feeling broken after an event. And I'll cover more details later on and specific remedies. There's another remedy that pique My interest is Carson Olson, given when a child has grown up with too much domination from their parents, and they actually develop rebellious kind of symptoms because they're trying to create boundaries for themselves. So they start doing that they start rejecting the environment around them, and carcinogens a good one to really dispel some of those energetic influences from the past.

Other rubrics from bad news death of a loved one side of an accident from fright. All these are external events happening. Common remedies we'll see here, Jill Semyon aconite are Steadicam. And OPM. Ignatius also won. fright.

Aliens from flight has higher scientists and streamium as well I like these two remedies because they really deal with anxiety Well, if somebody is quite unstable Slightly delusional, paranoid. I find magnesia higher science and ceremonial which belong to the same family. They work really well. Especially when you see fear of the darkness or mourning is quite well indicated. I've had some patients who were in the West Gate terrorist attack in Kenya, where terrorists actually murdered shot blew up a lot of people right in front of their eyes. Of course, aconite was a fantastic fantastic remedy during this event.

However, I found a lot of people need opium because when they witnessed the so called accidental terrorist attack, they were they were numb, they their body just or their mind just escaped from the event. So they could not even relate to what happened. You know, the body wouldn't allow them to go to that place because it was too traumatic. So giving opium in low dose will subtly allow a person to come out of trauma or PTSD in a safe manner so that even when you're doing counseling actually they'll go through counseling much more gently, much more gently. I'm also ailments related to business stuff and failures in like money financial issues. We have a bunch of rubrics here and also from stress so we have mind ailments from mental exertion mind ailments from failure business failure ambition disappointed next lawmaker comes up quite often here strongly indicated and then you have other remedies such as calculator carbonic, come calc FOSS.

Cooper is also a good one for Workaholics. We will see phosphoric acid come up again, that's for burnout, mental fatigue, forgetfulness, great remedy great remedy in any significant anxiety and depression. In fact, I'd use phosphoric acid if the person had has experienced burnout in their life. And then they're not manifesting those symptoms. Now I will still give false forecasts because that burnout feeling and that stress is stored somewhere in the person's body and homeopathy can get to it. And so the acids are very well indicated for burnout.

Keep those in mind bigger Cassatt, phosphoric acid florrick acid. And there's an interesting rubric I found mine alcohol ailments from alcoholism. So if somebody is a recovering alcoholic, or they recovered completely part of their mind and their body is affected, of course, their livers affected so you're looking at using our cinnamon Knox Formica to help move the liver around. I'll often use sulfur to reduce cravings and alcoholics are recovering alcoholics, and self was great one because I'm finding a lot of alcoholics can be very, very intelligent and intellectually justify their habits. Self sulfur reduces the intensity of those justifications and finding So let's cover a few remedies in a bit more detail. The first one is arm, great remedy for depression, great, great remedy, especially when there's suicidal tendencies.

So the Oram person has a lot of high expectations for themselves. So when an event happens, let's say the fail in something, they tend to blame themselves a lot and go through a lot of regret. And if they are neglected by someone or they go through a breakup, and they've sent a lot of sense of worthlessness feeling lonely and just very sensitive to criticism, because they're feeling useless, they don't want feedback. They have a lot of suicidal thoughts and people who have committed to attempted to commit suicide a lot. I would use them in low dose in the beginning, just to make sure that they don't aggravate on those symptoms. Like I said, because they have high expectations on themselves, they'll go through a lot of guilt, shame and regret.

And they blame themselves a lot. Yeah. And that makes their depression worse. Of course. What I'm finding also is if you find someone who prays a lot obsessively, and has the other symptoms as well, form is quite well indicated there as well. And if you look at Shelton's chart of elements, for the homeopathic remedies indicated according to mind symptoms, religiousness comes up a lot in the bottom column where Oram is located.

Carioca bonica is for people who are overwhelmed with push themselves so far, but it's just burnt out. The overwhelm with managing too many events, too much work. Even managing a wedding for example, in the midst of work, they just burned selves out very quickly. And in the burnout state feel a lot of discouragement confusion. A lot of anxiety can happen they break down crying quite often. A lot of self pity as well going on like Poor me, feeling.

I don't deserve this sort of feeling. Now, Carioca bonica people are quite insecure. So they worry about their health and their job security. thing is when they burn out, so it's, they're less capable of performing well, so that gives him even more anxiety. Carioca bonica is also good for people who are affected easily by bad news. So if you have someone with anxiety and depression, and you're wondering, okay, what remedy to use and then you find out okay, they're easily affected by watching TV, bad news on TV or just like hearing about bad things happen to relatives, then definitely think about telco bonica magnesia is one of the first remedies I think of when somebody's gone through grief and disappointment or some shock, especially heartbreak and humiliation.

They suffer from anxiety mixed with depression and fear. There's a lot of fear indignation and they tend to keep their tears back. They keep their feelings inside when they're around people. And they cry a lot when they're alone. It's a deep state of anguish actually ignition people have the key symptoms of ignition or sighing a lot and feeling of a lump in their throat. And they can be despite their vulnerable state or weak feelings.

They can become quite angry with people and overly sensitive when somebody contradicts them which is different from Staffordshire because Deaf sagra is more timid and holds your feelings back but ignatia because So vulnerable and raw and everything's pile up inside. They can't hold it any longer. They just need to retaliate and push people back as soon as they feel threatened. And that's part of the dealing or rejecting the humiliation that happened to them. So great, great remedy to use even if Oram as indicated for a deep depression. If somebody has gone through significant humiliation in their life or death of a loved one or a relationship breakup in their past, and all depressed now I will often give ignatia as a backup reading to undo the stress from the traumatic event.

So ignition is great for peeling away stress that's lingers in the body. Kelly FOSS is one of the best rooms as seen for nervous exhaustion. I also use it in tissue salt form so you can take it more often it just builds up the adrenal glands much faster. Kelly Foster's for people who have worked themselves and suffered long emotional stress, like continuous stress They're so burnt out their concentration is poor. And so they lose their confidence quite easily similar to Cal Carioca bonica. With Cali fosse they feel very overwhelmed easily.

Once they lose their once they lose their confidence from not being able to perform well, which makes them even more nervous and even more depressed. With Kelly Foster, the key thing to look for is the nerves around so they're quite sensitive to light and noise and stimulus, external stimulus and can actually suffer from insomnia quite easily. And that's where Kelly falls in tissue solid form can work really well. I find people who need the acids or even calibers for a gun in any form of like burnout depression, I always give adrenal support with them, whether it's rhodiola ashwagandha, or a nice B complex. So keep that in mind as well. Nutrition is very, very important.

And even though you're treating homeless empathically nature muriatic acid is probably one of the favorites of most homeopaths when it comes to relationship breakups and senses of betrayal. And just general unwellness nature muriatic them is also great when this issues with the mother neglect from the mother or early separation in childhood going to boarding school, or even divorce cases, especially when the child had to remain with the Father. Nature muriatic them people internalize their grief quite a lot. And they hold on to their grief for a long time. They dislike discussing their emotions and they don't cry very easily, and they prefer to be left alone. So they're quite sensitive and they don't like being consoled.

In fact, they might retaliate or just reject you if you try and control them because they internalize Hold on to their feelings for a very long time. These are the people who tend to be more resentful. And feel mistrustful for people who have heard them in the past, they don't get over the hurt so easily. In private, they do cry quite a bit. And music makes them crying. So certain music moves them to tears.

So that's a key indication to use to look for when you're thinking about giving that mirror. Now, another symptom I find new people tend to be quite over responsible in life or, you know, duty bound intellectual types and they can also be prone to headaches. So those are great indications for nature muriatic as well. Knox Veronica, the elixir of liver detox Knox wommack is great for people who are irritable. They get upset easily and that's because of the liver, liver picture. related to Chinese medicine, when the liver is stagnant, irritability increases, it's like the fire rising in a person lacks warming up, people are irritable with business matters or things are not in the correct place.

They're very meticulous. They're stressed out, they're very stressed out people. Now, stress in a person's life, of course, increases livers stagnation. stress causes us to breathe more shallow, so we don't use our diaphragm to full capacity. And when your diaphragm is not massaging your liver when it's when it's not used to full capacity, your liver does not detoxify well enough and hence the liver stagnation that comes from chronic stress. So I find Knox farming is a great remedy to reduce some of the side effects of stress such as liver stagnation, gas, bloating, constipation.

And because constipation gas and bloating Of course will cause more leaky gut And inflammatory symptoms in the entire body. And as we know, leaky gut also affects your neurotransmitters. So, think about treating someone physiologically as well. Not only emotionally when you're treating them for anxiety and depression, and if you're finding that they have liver symptoms then use Knoxville Mecca, or like a podium, or Carbo vege. Those are three of the main liver remedies that I use. phosphoric acid one of my favorite for burnout and this is burnout due to emotional stress relationship breakups or overwork.

When people who need phosphoric acid, they're in a burnout state that's more indifferent. They just apathetic and they don't enjoy activities or they don't pursue activities that they would normally enjoy when they were healthy. And they can also be apathetic towards family members. They just shut Down, right, and they're so shut down. It's hard for them to communicate clearly. And they also suffer from poor memory, a lot of fatigue in their life.

So phosphoric acid is great to build them up. And discharge is the type of stress that is holding them down that is fogging the brain. Of course, it's important to give some tissue salts or some adrenal support while you're using phosphoric acid. The recovery will be much faster. A key indication of phosphoric acid. Or another area where I'll use phosphoric acid is if somebody develops gray hair after grief, trauma, or shock.

Phosphoric acid is significantly indicated and people with those symptoms pulsatilla many of our favorite remedy for people who are weak be cheerful and needy. pulsatilla people are a bit different From that mirror pulsatilla people like to be consoled versus not Muir does not like to be consoled. pulsatilla people feel pity for themselves, and they actually cry openly instead of hiding it. What that mirror like so Nat mirror is one that hides the tears and positive cries more openly and positively people feel very comfortable and relieved when somebody pities them or consoles them gives them some comfort. Some people will find the positive or people are quite whining or clingy. So that's something to look out for.

And physically you'll see that positive. The anxiety or depression or the intensity of emotions, decreases for positive people when they are exposed to fresh air. Or once you consoled or after crying positive people feel much better after crying CPR the elixir of hormonal system CP is a great remedy for women who suffer from emotional issues, especially related to hormonal imbalances. Similar to the acid some of the acid ck is also good for people who are overworked and have become depressed from overwork. Like phosphoric acid, they become apathetic towards family members and activities that they used to like. Sleepy people can be quite irritable and they prefer to be left alone.

Yeah. So don't try and console them. A notable symptom of CPAs they quite irritable to people that they close with. And that's very similar to like a podium actually like a podium. Picks or is more aggressive towards family members and fears authority. So CP has a similar picture.

Yeah. Especially irritable towards their spouses. Staff Sagir think of staff as saggy when a person has been humiliated, criticized and has shut down. So they really suppress their anger and I find staff is angry people appear quite timid most of the time. They suffer from a lot of shame and lack of confidence. So they cannot express anger, they cannot stand up for themselves.

And they're sensitive to criticism, which really internalize their grief. They go deeper into grief and emotional distress when they're criticized rather than explaining themselves in standing up for themselves. So it's hard to tell that they're in distress because they'll appear pleasant. They're people pleasers. Some people are finding though that staff is angry at people, because they internalize their emotions so much so much. They will have those moments of irritability like a bout of just Emotions just rising and letting it out.

Which is healthy for them at some level. And by giving them the right remedy, this will be more stabilized and they'll be able to dialogue more and explain their feelings and come out of that state of shame about their own feelings. staffers, great remedy for internal grief and humiliation and depression. Great. that's those are the main homeopathic remedies I wanted to cover today. And so just to summarize these remedies, those remedies that we covered just now, I've given you the remedy picture, and those often come up in emotional issues.

And I also covered some remedies that you use based on the shock that a person experienced, right. So there's two ways to use homeopathic remedies. One is that the picture that they're presenting so like a constitutional remedy, and the second way is to use homeopathic remedies that matter The type of shock a person went through. And I use both systems at the same time on a person because I feel like I want to cover both angles when a person is suffering from significant emotional issues. So let's go on to Bach flower remedies now. Everyone can use Bach flower remedies they're very easy to use.

They're great because they don't suppress your symptoms. And they cover a wide range of symptoms. There's over 30 Bach flower remedies out there for emotions such as guilt, anxiety, fear, jealousy, anger, depression, regretting the past or longing for the past, and also for shock and exhaustion. So even though somebody is taking a homeopathic remedy, sometimes it might take me a while to find the best remedy for them. So I'll often use Bach flower remedies concurrently because but flower remedies help manage intense emotions. So if somebody has significant depression and is really overwhelmed by depressed feelings, and you need to stabilize them, and if the homeopathic remedy is not working fast enough or you haven't found the right one, then Bach flower remedies are a safe way to go to alleviate some of the symptoms.

It just it peels away a layer of blockage, and the person actually has a better chance to recover. So when I use Bach flower remedies, I combined up to a maximum of five remedies together most of the time. So let's look at some remedies for anxiety. Agra money is a great remedy if the person pretends to be okay. And they put on a brave cheerful face despite the emotional difficulties. But underneath that brave face, of course, there's a lot of distress and anxiety and they may lay awake at night with stressful thoughts.

So you can get them to fill out a questionnaire to find this out if they don't explain it openly themselves. Aspirin is a good remedy for nervousness and anxiety. They have a sense of dread, a sense of anticipation and there's no real cause for it, they can point pinpoint exactly what's causing them. That sense of unease. So they have what would say unexplained fears and worries, or fears for unknown reasons. Serato is a good one for people who doubt their own judgment.

And they can't make decisions. So they always asking for guidance. They don't trust themselves, which is different from sclerotic sclerosis is a lot of indecision. They just can't come up with a decision and Serato is more they don't trust in their own judgment. So Serato people will also ask a lot of questions because they've lost their confidence in their own choices. So they're looking for that reassurance.

Cherry plum is for people who feel losing control of their mind and body. They have compulsive behaviors. And they know they're wrong but they just have difficult difficulty controlling these impulses because of the just they're vulnerable this state of vulnerability and weakness. In some cases, they actually fear hurting others or themselves. And the difficult a lot of control or they feel they have to use a lot of effort to control their thoughts and emotions because they just feel they have no control over them. So great one to use when you see signs of that.

Crab Apple is good for people who feel ashamed about something they've done or about their body. They feel contaminated by something. So I'll often use it if somebody's done something wrong sense of guilt or if even somebody's been sexually abused. When you feel dirty or unclean inside then crab was a good remedy to alleviate the intensity of some of these feelings so that they can just cope with life a bit better. So I've used crab Apple also in cases with self abuse, anorexia and self mutilation. I are for I also had a great response with our cynical album homeopathic, for cases of self mutilation.

In fact, two of them two cases of self mutilation. Both were female patients under the age of 20. responded really, really well, to our cynical album 30 see. Just to finish off crab Apple is good if for people who worry about themselves, they're obsessed about the way to a little pimple or blemishes they're very self conscious. crab apples a great remedy for that. lm is good. If you feel overwhelmed We're not an panicky about your responsibilities so similar to Cal Carioca bonica homeopathic Lee is for people who have taken on too many commitments, too many responsibilities.

And they're too many things to deal with. So Elm people will feel that they cannot cope anymore. They're on the edge of burnout. In fact, they're burnt out and they're just on their last thread. So, I totally combined tokiko Monica, and Ellen as well, just to give some management of symptoms and then after a while, I remove lm or the buffalo remedies and only use the homeopathic remedy. The next remedy to look at is large, large is a fantastic, fantastic remedy to improve confidence in a person.

So people who need large they lack confidence and they lack confidence in their own skills as well so they won't even try things. because they're afraid of failing, which is also similar to like a podium homeopathic Lee, so to L remedies people who need larger also those people who feel inferior to others, because they have a sense that other people are more capable than themselves. So there's a fear of trying and sense of being less than others. Large is a great one for that. Coming back to fear remedies memoryless is a good one for people who are shy or fear specific issues. So we had we had Aspen, which was for people who fear unknown things or who can pinpoint with their feet off and meaningless is for people who can specify what they are afraid of.

So they might be afraid of the dark of spiders of social gatherings of light. or anything like that. Yeah. And they can also have deep seated fears such as fear of poverty and fear of things going wrong in their life. I would combine mules with Aspen in large to give them more confidence in just get ahead out of their anxious state. All of is a great one for burnout.

People who suffer from nervous exhaustion or who have gone through chemotherapy or significant ordeals in their life long stress so all there is a great Bach flower image to use with phosphoric acid or calculate carbonic I'm as well just undo the effects of chronic illness or chronic stress, overwork, or any burnout, whether it's from financial stress, divorce, you name it. So I use all of both in cases for depression and anxiety because depression and anxiety can both come from burnout and adrenal fatigue. The next remedy that we're going to look at is pine. Pine. They feel guilty and blame themselves a lot. This guilt can be quite overwhelming for people and it actually makes them more depressed.

So pine helps break the cycle of guilt. Yeah, and helps people overcome limiting behaviors. You know, people who feel guilty a lot will limit what they can do in life or limit going forward because they might feel that they don't deserve it or they want to pay back for their misbehavior. And some people will remain guilty unnecessarily. And they just remain chronically chronically depressed and anxious. So I use pine wood that I often find that I'm using pine wood, crab Apple because there's a feeling of something wrong inside.

Read chestnut is a good remedy for anxiety especially for people who are over anxious about their loved ones or or concerned about others. They fear something bad will happen to their family members and this is very common symptom. So while you're looking for this specific homeopathic remedy, use red chestnut in conjunction with other buffalo remedies to reduce the symptoms, at least that way your patient will be more compliant and also more satisfied and feeling will feel better and will trust in the process. Because if they're not getting any relief at all, while you're looking for the best homeopathic remedy for them, your patients might get disappointed and not trust in the process anymore. So look for pioneers also sorry red chestnut is a great one also for parents who are worried about their children too much. Rock rose Simmons similar to start with Bethlehem, which we'll cover later rock roads is a good one for people who have experienced something terrifying in their life, like a terrorist attack or a significant accident, or children who have experienced abuse of their parents or of themselves.

I've used rock rows for a child who witnessed a mother being beaten by the father was very traumatic, very traumatic, and rock rose is a good one, to take that child out of the compensator II behavior that they develop after witnessing such terrible terrible scenes in their life. So rock rows people will suffer from extreme terror sometimes and have nightmares. Either because they're prone to it or because they've experienced a terrible event in their life. Yeah, so use rock was also for people who panic easily for panic attacks will become hysterical. The next remedy we're looking at is sclerosis. So This is now for indecision.

A lot of uncertainty, hesitancy can make up their mind. Yeah. And really, these are the people who really feel a lot of stress and anxiety, anguish, really, when they're asked to make a decision or when they're when they're forced to make a decision. Yeah. They also don't know how they feel about situations in life about their, or about their life in general or what they want to do. Right.

So they can even go through significant mood swings, they're happy, they're sad, they're really overwhelmed with decision making. starve bethlem is the first remedy of choice when it comes to shock. Great remedy. Use it also with rock rose but Stark bethlem is should be definitely part of the mixture that you make when there has been a history of shock. So it's really the Bach flower remedy for ailments from shock I've seen Star bethlem help with even events that happened long time ago in a person's life. Yeah.

So again, childhood trauma, the way like a terrorist attack watching of accidents. Star president is really good for that. And you'll you'll see people will recover much faster, even if you've given them nutritional supplements. giving them an energetic remedy for shock just takes stops the adrenal glands from staying in a state of compensation. Yeah. So start with them will really help the brain rewire itself into a healthier state.

Sweet chestnuts, great remedy for people who are in significant despair. Yeah, they reached their limit of endurance and are really in a state of fear. anguish at the end of the woods. Yeah, sweet just really gives people A lot of hope, when they're significantly distressed. So bring this remedy in together with Star of Bethlehem when somebody's really suffering quite badly, I'll also use sweet chestnut for depression. So the anguish the mental anguish can be due to anxiety as well as for depression.

So keep that in mind. walnut walnut is a great remedy for people who want to break away from old habits, unhealthy relationships and go through change. You know, change could be marriage divorce, finding a new job. One that just helps people transition through life much easier. So if somebody is making changes in their life and you've helped them homeopathic Lee or with other Bach flower remedies, and they've got an alleviation of symptoms, give them large and walnut together to give them the confidence to go through new phases in their life and to make improvements for themselves. White chestnut is the remedy intrusive thoughts, unwanted thoughts?

Yeah, repetitive thoughts and great for just people think, gosh, I can't control these thoughts in my mind. I'll also use it for states of paranoia or schizophrenia as well, just to reduce the intensity of those symptoms, of course along with the right nutritional supplements and constitutional homeopathic remedy. So people who need white chestnut will complain about mental arguments that go on in their mind or they might not be able to sleep well because you're worrying too much. So a lot of preoccupation with thoughts use white chestnut there. Okay, great. Let's move on to Bach flower remedies for depression.

So some of the remedies we've covered in Bach flowers for anxiety, also spill over for depression. I'll point those out for you. So Jensen, helps people to recover from disappointments and failures in their life. Jensen is a way for people who feel discouraged and doubt their ability to succeed after a setback in life. So they're really their depression comes from disappointment. And when they're depressed, it's hard for them to be motivated and succeed again in life.

And so they get even more depressed. So look for this pattern. And gentian can really take people out of this self sabotaging habit or issue. gorse is number one remedy, along with mustard actually for depression, especially when somebody feels like giving up and has a sense of despair. They don't see a point in trying anymore, and they've lost hope. Yeah.

So they're really quite discouraged about their own condition. Yeah. They're quite discouraged about the depression themselves. honeysuckle is for people who dwell on the past rather than focus on the present and they regret the past. Or they just think about somebody they've lost or do and focused on an old breakup. honeysuckle will help people move away from that sense of loss and reminiscing.

It'll help them open their heart to new people in their life, new relationships, new opportunities in their life and just move forward a bit. On beam, good remedy for depression as well, especially when there's fatigue and lassitude, procrastination. Yeah, because they feel they just put things off because the task is too overbearing for them. They don't have the stamina or the confidence. They're really in a state of adrenal fatigue. And this is where I'll also use rhodiola in conjunction with hornbeam because rhodiola gives that helps people go forward in life and not collapse into apathy or procrastination.

Mustard again, like I said, is one of the best remedies for depression. This is really the depressed feeling a sense of a dark cloud over had a sense of gloominess, lack of joy, chronic sadness, or whether it's for known or unknown reasons. Mustard is the remedy to use in conjunction with other remedies when it comes to depression. Sweet chestnut like a covered in the section on anxiety is four deep sense of mental anguish, a sense of despair, a sense that there's no way out of this depression, right? So you feel overwhelmed, tormented. Really, the soul is suffering here.

So sweet justice will relieve this mental anguish. And just stop the overwhelming feeling and give people I think the the hope to become more positive, give them a sense of hope. will always for people who feel sorry for themselves and live with feelings of resentment similar to Nat mirror to feel like life has been unfair to them and others. have been benefited without deserving without deserving what they're getting. They really resent the success of others, because they feel they're the ones who should have those who deserve the prize or the success. So, obviously, these resentful feelings will keep a person more depressed and more unsuccessful because they're just preoccupied with other people's business.

So Willow will help them move away from the self pitying and self sabotaging behavior. And so they'll be more accepting of other success and they'll feel more motivated themselves as well to be successful and just go forward in their life. Okay, now I want to cover a few case studies. The first one is Oram case of depression Selena will call her 35 year old woman grew up with a very depressed mother and eventually her mother committed suicide. Selena came in with a sense of hopelessness, sense of worthlessness and she'd been through years of therapy, years of psychotherapy now, Selena could not stop her mother committing suicide. It was a deep sense of failure, a sense of worthlessness.

And her signs of depression seem to have stemmed from this event or this experience. Of course with psychotherapy, she did gain some confidence and some strength, but she did still had her tendency of depression and underlying sense of worthlessness. We gave her Ignatius at first, which is useful elements from grief, and also Nat Muir was quite well indicated, where we use love that mean for loss of a loved one and somebody having mother issues. These remedies gave temporary relief not enough. And we actually finally did Oram 30 C which is homeopathic gold. We did arm 30 c daily for one week.

And, gosh, it was like lightened day She woke up from a spell literally that's what it looked like you know a lot of confidence sense of self worth, went out, socialize more. And because or I'm 30 see work really well we didn't increase the dose or the potency and after a week because she was stable, just got her to repeat, Oram 30 see once a month for about five months, and now she's she has Oram with her she's hardly using it maybe once in a while, if the weather's really bad or she goes through a stressful period, she might need Oram once in three months, and she just takes a dose of it and feels significant improvement. So why we chose Oram eventually is orams great for ailments from death of a loved one as well. And often comes with a sense of worthlessness a sense of failure.

And it's in match the Suicidal Tendencies within the family. Yeah. So Oram was the right choice for this lady. The next remedy I want to talk about is for boric acid. As we said, fantastic remedy for burnout. This was a case of insomnia.

40 Year old woman, we'll call her Joan. She'd been through a very stressful period in life. In fact, her career was extremely stressful, witnessed a lot of violence, because she worked in Somalia in Congo, and I was actually kidnapped at one point. So of course, all this trauma gave her significant adrenal fatigue and burnout, and she was barely sleeping. Her gi symptoms were sensitivity to noise, so easily startling. Yeah.

We gave her I did give her aconite elements from fright and ignition as well. But the anxiety did reduce but the sensitivity to noise and insomnia did not improve. So finally, we give a phosphoric acid great remedy for adrenal fatigue and burnout and the Key symptoms of course of phosphoric acid are startling from noise or sensitivity to stimulus. phosphoric acid 30 c reduced all their symptoms slightly, but they were the reduction was not long lasting enough. So instead of changing the remedy because all the symptoms were improving, we basically just increase the potency of phosphoric acid so we gave her phosphoric acid 200 C. This brought a lot of really significant relief and it was long lasting. So we repeated phosphoric acid 200 seat for about five weeks, and she's sleeping again and anxiety, all the anxiety and the sensitivity of noises has completely disappeared.

So great use of phosphoric acid there. The last case I want to talk about is john came in with a diagnosis of bipolar. The symptoms were a lot of swings between anxiety In depression, john grew up in a very unstable home environment, his parents were fighting constantly. And his mother was really withdrawn, possibly from the violence of course. And, unfortunately this she also withdrew herself from john. So john grew up with a sense of a lack of connection with his mother.

And, as an adult, he often felt sensitive mistrustful towards others and sensitive to criticism. A lot of his words were like he felt like a victim, victim of misfortune, when something ever went wrong with people or if you ever argue with people now the sense of victim or the suffering like you really suffered silently inside. Yeah, so you wept alone. You wept a lot when he was on his own. And he didn't share his feelings easily with people. And the key symptom of his was he was He was moved easily by music.

So he cried easily when certain types of music were playing. And that's a key symptom of that mirror as well. So in addition to homeopathy, we did give him B complex and rhodiola and change changes diet. And that stabilizes mood. But the constant sadness was basically cured with the NAT mirror. We did not mirror daily for two weeks have a lot of improvement, like I said, when the mood and he actually needed less nutritional supplements over time now.

Yeah, so the bipolar symptoms reduced, there were less extreme peaks and crashes. Although the cycles were still continuing mildly. So we increase the potency to not mere 200 C. And this reduced the bipolar cycles significantly, up to the point where he's off medication. And the cycles that do occur are usually during extreme, like stressful periods of his life or when it's wintertime, like a lot of rainy season where there's lack of vitamin D and sunlight. He still does feel mildly affected. But the great thing is he can live normally comfortably hold stable job.

So he's Yeah, he's quite stable within that mirror. Great. That brings us to the end of this seminar. Thanks for listening. It's been fantastic working with you. I hope you got a lot out of this and I hope you've learned how to use homeopathic remedies for treating drum trauma and shock that happened earlier on in somebody's life.

In conjunction with of course, the remedy the person needs in the moment the constitution remedy. So please take that message home with you is treat past events in a person's life. To give them better results emotionally in the future