Category: Dr. Misty Scevola

What do you do when you come down with a cough? In homeopathy, it doesn’t always matter why you have the cough, but more importantly it matters what type of cough is presenting. By this I mean, how does the cough sound? When did it start—is it more in the throat or the chest? Is it part of a cold or the flu? When does it occur—when mostly lying down or after eating? Is it dry or is it croupy? 

There are many homeopathic remedies to take for many different kinds of coughs. To simplify it a bit, we will start out with a remedy that will stop a cough and will also work for a cold or flu as well. Such a bargain!

When you first feel the ticklings of a cough coming on, the remedy to take is Aconite 200C taken together with Bryonia 30C, every 3-4 hours. Take up to 4 doses to see if there is a change. Both remedies address the cough. Aconite is quite good if the cough has just developed in the last 12-24 hours. Bryonia attacks those coughs that go right to the lungs. 

For a croupy liquidy cough try Drosera. It can come with spasms and being unable to stop coughing. For a gagging cough, Ipeccac can be given as an SOS. Hepar sulph 200C is another choice, and is great when there is an infection with a yellow discharge.  Coughs can be tricky, but once you find what works for you and your family, it is well worth the effort. Always call if you have questions.

Sometimes when you get up in the morning you feel just fine. As the day goes on all of the sudden you feel tired or run down. You start sneezing, have a runny nose, or scratchy throat. You feel like you are getting sick. Sometimes you just can’t back home fast enough to retrieve a remedy to stop an ailment. Even on short trips, there is an easy way to carry a small packet in your bag or backpack.  This is where Coldcalm comes to the rescue, and is easily kept in your bag. 

Coldcalm is a homeopathic remedy for the very first signs of a cold or flu. Even if you don’t know if it is a cold or the flu, Coldcalm by Boiron, is an excellent choice. It treats the beginnings of a cold or flu before it becomes too much for the body to handle.

It comes in a blister pack that is easy to keep in your purse and snap out when needed. The directions suggest taking a dose of one pill every 15 minutes for the first hour as soon as you feel a cold coming on. And for being away from home, it is always nice to know you can stave off a cold at the first sign of sneezing or a runny nose.

While we are in the midst of social distancing and self quarantining, one of the few ways to get out is to walk. You can still be out in nature and generally be away from people. But what happens if your foot becomes so sore, you cannot walk? It starts out as a cramp in the arch or the heel of the foot.  Then in the morning you wake up and you can hardly put any weight on your foot. You hobble to the bathroom, and after a little while, with a little bit of stretching it feels better. It settles down and you soon forget it happened. The next morning you wake up again, with barely being able to walk at all. Again it is stiff, but wears off as the day goes on. Plantar fasciitis is a condition where the band of muscle that attaches to the heel becomes inflamed, causing stiffness and sometimes incredible pain.

A few years ago, I had a job that had me on my feet most of the day, running up and down stairs, carrying my supplies with me and changing locations quite a bit each day. I was walking 2-3 miles in a relatively small area, moving back and forth. I developed plantar fasciitis in my right foot, which had always been my good leg, never having sustained any injuries. I was dismayed as I realized I would not be able to exercise the way I wanted to strengthen my injured leg. Now, my good leg was injured too. I was not able to completely stay off of my foot, as I needed to work. I tried creams and all the exercises on the internet, to have some success, but not enough to make it go away. 

Homeopathy to the rescue! The protocol for plantar fasciitis is Symphytum officinale 200C taken with Rhus tox 30 C, twice a day. The treatment took a little time. I started having some relief in a week or so. Overall the amount of pain began to lessen and how long it lasted during the day also lessened. Then I began to have a few days without any pain. Eventually I forgot to take the remedies, and I forgot I had the ailment!

Overall, it took about 3-4 months to totally get rid of the plantar fasciitis. I was so grateful to be able to move again, to walk, run, and dance! As is often the case we don’t realize how precious our health or freedom of movement is, until it is gone. Thank goodness for homeopathy to have remedies that work without side effects!

Do you ever feel like you are under an emotional cloud and you just can’t seem to snap out of it? Sometimes a dramatic event or grief can keep our emotions stuck in place so that we can’t separate what is caused by the emotions and what is our real life. The more we try, the more enmeshed they seem to become. When this happens there is a simple way to check in with the body from Applied Kinesiology, known as the Temporal Tap.

First you want to come up with an affirmation of what you would like to experience. This can be something like…”I am healthy, happy, and full of love.”  Or it could be “I am healthy, happy, and accept unconditional love for all life.” The statement should always be written in present tense.

Hold the ring finger to the thumb. Then with the two remaining fingers (index and middle finger) tap around the ear starting from the top while saying your affirmation. Repeat this two more times. 

Next, with eyes closed, make a counterclockwise circle with the eyes while tapping and saying the affirmation. Repeat this while tapping in a clockwise direction with the eyes still closed. Next, repeat this with the eyes opened in both directions.

This whole process is a little trippy, and can make you feel a little dizzy and uncoordinated.  However, it really shakes up the emotional body and can reset those emotions and feelings, giving you a new place to start from. If later in the day you find yourself falling back into that emotional abyss, just repeat the exercise above. You’ll find it becomes easier and unravels the many layers of the emotions.

Just while you’re happily working away, you pick up something made of wood and you feel a stab of pain from your hand or finger. Little kids will immediately suck on their finger to try and force out that splinter, but older folks will squeeze it tight, trying to see exactly where it is, to push it out. Of course, the first thing one should do is to clean the area. A warm application can even soothe the area and draw out that splinter. 

In homeopathy the remedy to keep on hand for splinters is Silica 30C. Silica works for minor injuries where a foreign object is embedded in the skin, or something is caught in the throat. Take this remedy up to four times a day until it is very much better, for about two weeks. As wonderful as Silica is, there are no worries for implants. Silica does not act on implants or dislodge them from their proper place.

 I learned the power of Silica when I noticed a fierce itching sensation in my leg where I had previously had surgery over three years ago.  A new small hard bump had formed on an old scar that I hadn’t noticed before. Within about two days, a small piece of black nylon thread surfaced and came out. When looking back at what had caused this remarkable surfacing, I realized the Silica caused this foreign object to rise to the surface of the body and expel it. The physical body is amazing when the proper remedy is given!

So many forest fires have been raging in the West this year that the air quality has wavered between hazardous and very unhealthy for over eleven days. We were cautioned to not go outside or let pets outside. Many businesses closed, like drive-through coffee places or anything drive-through, as well as some big box stores. Even at the malls some of the larger stores were closed so that their workers were not exposed to the hazardous air.

Symptoms of smoke inhalation include shortness of breath, coughing, sinus issues, headaches, general tiredness and irritability, as well as all the mental and emotional issues that come up for being forced to stay inside and having to breathe terrible air. With the whole West Coast under the air hazard warnings,  there was no way to get out of the smoke. A 2-3 hour drive might take you to the coast, but the coast has just as poor of air quality. Going north or south doesn’t help either, because the wildfires leave smoke that covers most of the states from Washington to Oregon to California.

What to do about smoke inhalation? One common homeopathic remedy for smoke or particulate inhalation is Carbo vegetabillis. This remedy is good for carbon monoxide and oxygen starvation where there is breathlessness and deep spaciness. Ignatia will help with any mental or emotional distress, and Carbo veg will relieve the smoke intake.

Frequency is made by making more current in the body. In the case of our bodies, we need negative ions to make current. Foods that are alkaline have more current. Alkaline water can provide charge, or being near moving water such as the ocean or streams can provide negative ions. We get negative ions from thunderstorms. Walking on the grass or sand gives us access to Schumann resonances, in which the earth acts as an electromagnet, giving the body voltage. We get voltage from exercise where muscles act as piezoelectric crystals, and most of all hugs, where each person gives or receives charged particles. We can also get current from body work of acupuncture, acupressure, Qigong, and homeopathy.

Frequency machines such as Tens units can change the voltage of an area on the body or whole body by running small electrical signals through the body. In this way, we use Healy devices to enhance the body so it can heal itself, by awakening those forgotten frequencies of good health. When changing frequencies to increase health, most of the time, the body needs to be “reminded” more than once. A gentle healing takes the body time to change, just as it did when it became unbalanced.

When the body and field are affected with positive or healthy frequencies the body can change. Sometimes it changes very quickly and sometimes it is slower. After all, when we have a revelation of the heart, our lives can change drastically, or we can shift in a slower manner, sometimes not noticing the minute changes that happen each day. Changing frequencies means not only changing the mind’s idea about oneself, but also shifting the much more clay-like substance of the body. It can take longer for the body to adjust and need more reminders of its new level of acceptance. 

Some of the first things my clients experience from using frequency healing are small changes of better sleep, or having clearer thinking every three days instead of once a week, and progressing to having clear thinking most days of the week. There may be a reduction of pain over two weeks time. Or perhaps they are more comfortable now so that they can rest in one position instead of trying to find their way through the relentless restlessness for that perfect position that will let them fall back asleep. I, myself, found that a previous surgery on a knee from over five years ago now has newly activated muscles that enabled the knee to work more efficiently and with no pain! When adding frequencies is the only thing that you changed in your life, each one of these changes is a small miracle. 

Albert Einstein said that everything is made of energy. Energy is movement of electrons, negatively charged particles. Every time a chemical reaction occurs in the body, a small amount of electrical current is generated to perform bodily functions. The body uses electric currents for the brain to communicate to and from the nerves, for digestive processes, and for the heart to pump. Electric and magnetic fields also affect voltages and currents in the body. What if we apply frequencies for better health?

Everything on the planet has a frequency or signature. The body has energy centers and pathways that connect to every muscle and organ as well as the nerves. When these centers are blocked or obstructed, energy is impeded and cannot flow. This causes pain, discomfort or affects the ability of the organ or muscle to run efficiently. In turn this affects how we feel, our mental and emotional state, of whether we are sad, or happy for the freedom of what we accept is our right to be content.

We already know each cell has an optimal frequency in which it operates. It is also known that we have more current or electricity when we have more negative ions or charged electrons. The body gains the most current when we can make new cells.  When there is not enough current, we become ill or are in pain. So the question is how do we acquire enough current to produce enough charge to make new cells?

As the end of summer creeps up on us, there are last minute trips to take, bike rides to pedal, and new experiences before everyone returns to school. While we would not want to expect that there are any accidents, sometimes things just happen. The best remedy for mishaps is well known, Arnica. For most injuries, or to recover from a hard day out on the trail, Arnica 30C will work. With a more serious injury, there is often more pain, and a higher potency may be necessary, such as Arnica 200C.

For years I worked full time as a biology teacher and came home to a family, prepared dinner, and then I was off to ballet classes and rehearsal. We had class 3 to 4 times a week, and 6-8 hour rehearsals on Saturdays.  I participated in a small community ballet company performing children’s ballets throughout the city and state. I think back to how I could do all that and still have energy to work, and to be with my family? 

My secret weapon was Arnica. After a long evening class or practice. I would just take some Arnica to relax those tired muscles. Usually within minutes only one dose would do the job, and I was no longer sore. Even if I overdid some jump, or my toes were bruised and red, I would take one dose on the way home and another dose before bed. By morning, I would even forget I had been sore! I will always remember how Arnica saved the day. Arnica is the first go-to remedy for pain, injuries to soft tissues, and head injuries.

Applied Kinesiology (AK) is a holistic form of energy therapy that uses Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) techniques together with the modern concept of muscle testing. The idea is to look at the body as a whole and find places of stress and imbalance. Applied Kinesiology is a tool that connects the mind and body using the electromagnetic diagram that is imprinted on the body, known as the meridian system. It connects the structural, nutritional, mental/emotional, and energetic parts of the body. When touching certain points on the body, postural changes can occur that not only cause physical shifts but also mental and emotional shifts.

Dr. George Goodheart discovered that every muscle in the body relates to an organ. This can be measured by checking the resistance of a muscle before and after touching a particular point on the body. If a muscle tests weak, there is a weakness in the energy level of the associated organ.  By treating the muscle in certain ways that make it strong again, the organ is also treated and becomes strong. In this way the body provides an amazing feedback system of what it needs.

Stressed Out? Here’s an easy way to relieve stress and demonstrate how applied kinesiology works. To calm or relieve stress, think about what is causing the most stress. Note where the stress level is on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the greatest amount of stress. This can be stress or trauma from people, finances, health issues, or grief. Place two fingers on each side of the front of the forehead above the eyebrows. Gently and with a light touch, lift the skin towards the top of the head. Take 3 long breaths in and out. Within just a minute a sense of calm and peace will come over you. Note where you are on the scale now after holding the points. You can hold these points for as long as you would like or repeat this several times during the day. This can even help one fall back asleep. This is the wonder of Applied Kinesiology in action, to know a very simple motion that can make a profound difference.