Summer is here! I gathered for you a handful of information on how to quickly deal with the most common problems that can affect our loved ones and ourselves during the summer days.

First of all – always in my travel medicine cabinet I have a small bottle of propolis, and a bottle of tea tree oil. These are my essential natural medicines with far-reaching effects. But not only that.

Good weather is conducive to rest but also to many activities outdoors. I like to enjoy every opportunity when I get the fresh air! What comes with the outdoor activities is also minor and major injuries – bruises and cuts. I always have with me a disinfectant that does not tingle and does not cause children’s tears and irreplaceable homeopathic Arnica. I know you’ll ask how do I use it. I have the value of 9CH, right after a strong impact every half hour I use 4-5 granules. Then just give 3 balls a day for 4 days. I give the child 2-3 granules. It reduces bruises very quickly and accelerates wound healing. I have seen it many times. In the case of bruises, bumps, and sprains, I reach for Arnigel too. It is worth remembering that these preparations are also used by the French football teams and the best athletes.

In the summer we often stay in the sun and it happens that despite the use of sunscreens, our skin becomes super tan. What you do is chill the skin down. Do not use any heavy and greasy creams, with the exception of honey, which has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, and accelerates healing. It is enough to coat the tanned skin with a thin layer of honey, to feel the relief immediately. Unfortunately, it’s hard to take honey on a trip, so it is worth having, for example, Dapis gel or a regular aloe vera gel, which will immediately bring relief to hot spots. In such situations, I also have a homeopathic Apis mellifica 15CH at hand. With strong redness I give 4 balls every hour, and at a lighter 4 times a day for 4 balls.

This is what I use in case of light sunburns and conditions or first-degree skin burns, when there are erythema and swollen skin. In the case of serious burns, II degree, when there is redness, painful swelling, and blisters on the skin, please go to the doctor. You can use Cantharis 15CH, given 4-5 times a day for 4 balls (it works especially for blisters filled with liquid. Of course, you should remember to avoid the sharp sun in the hours from noon to 4 pm, wearing headgear, sunglasses and drinking a significant amount of water. This way you will avoid overheating the body, which may even lead to sunstroke. However, if after a long time in the sun you notice that someone among your friends or relatives is in a bad mood, suffers from a headache, nausea, or fever, you must act quickly. Immediately let go to a cool place and make them drink a lot. In the beginning, it is also worth giving homeopathic Apis mellifica 15CH and Belladonna 9CH every half an hour for 4 balls, and as the dose is improved every hour in the same amount. If these treatments don’t bring the results it absolutely necessary to go to the doctor!

In such states, it is also necessary to drink a lot! A frequent complaint when staying on the beach is getting in contact with sand or in the pool; chlorinated water, conjunctivitis or just ordinary, sudden dry eyes, for example from the wind (sailing). Traditional help for that includes a pack of infusion of the usual black tea. Moisturizing, soothing and healing eye drops are very helpful too. In case of more inflamed condition, you can also help with the homeopathic medicine Euphrasia officinalis 9CH and Arnica 9CH, given 4 times a day for 4 balls. Arnica is the basis of my first aid kit, because it has a lot of applications! Like Apis – which you have already noticed. 🙂

Exactly because the next problem of summer is insect bites. Flies, mosquitoes, spiders are just waiting in the forest, evening bonfires or by the lakes … biting, leaving itchy and sore scratched wounds that heal even worse and itch more. For that kind of bites, it is best to sooth them. I highly recommend the Dapis gel, which I always have in my purse. For oral use, I highly recommend Apis mellifica 15CH together with Ledum palustre 9CH (at the time of acute itching every half hour, at the moment of relief every hour). Then, give 4 balls 3-4 times a day. The effect is staggering and immediate! I do not part form these.

Bites from wasps and horns can be especially dangerous to people allergic to their venom. Such a person should always carry ampoules with adrenaline. It is also worth smearing the area you have been stung with Dapis gel and give Apis mellifica 15CH as soon as possible (just after biting every 15 minutes for 3 balls, as you feel relief and reduce redness and swelling to half an hour and hour, then you can give 3 times a day after 4 balls). It is worth paying special attention to how and what we eat, drink, where we stay – insects can be in a drink, food or in our footwear …

A specific type of bite is a tick bite because it can carry bacteria that cause Lyme disease. Therefore, whenever we come back from the area with a lot of trees, but also tall grasses or bushes, it is necessary to carefully check the skin of the household members and pets and pay attention to small black spots – especially if they were not there before. The tick must be removed from the skin as quickly as possible – preferably with a tweezer. You can not spin it, but you have to remove it with one firm, simple move, or immediately go to the doctor. Bite area should be disinfected, it is also worth to use topical antibiotic ointment or a good herbal remedy.

For people who go to places known to have Lyme-bearing ticks (endemic sites), I highly recommend that you read the Buhner Protocol. I also recommend drinking the infusion from the purge throughout the whole period of spring, summer, and autumn.

When planning a trip to a country where the cuisine is completely different than your country, it is worth to enrich the digestive system with strong bacterial flora two weeks before departure. I always promote the consumption of silage (pickled cucumbers, beetroot kavas, sauerkraut). If you do not have homemade silage, you can take probiotics. They protect our digestive tract against bacteria that can cause poisoning. If, however, indigestion, nausea, malaise or food poisoning happen, first of all, remember to hydrate yourself and make sure that you do not irritate the stomach again. Avoid milk and dairy products, raw juices, vegetables and fruits and carbonated beverages until the digestive tract gets better. It is worth to drink infusions of herbs, some of them (medicinal primrose, chamomile, licorice root, field clover, and wormwood) perfectly regulate the intestinal function and inhibit diarrhea and also have a relaxing effect. The drug that helps with appearing diarrhea is Arsenicum album 9CH and Aloe 9CH (after each 4 stools given to each stool). It is also worth giving a probiotic. With the occurrence of vomiting, it is worth using Nux vomica 9CH and Ipeca 9CH (after each vomiting, 4 balls). In the case of young children, diarrhea can be caused by drinking water from the pool, but it can also turn out to be a rotavirus, for example.

Infection with it has a very rapid course – it starts with a bad mood, the child becomes lethargic, grumpy and unwilling to play, vomiting (sometimes very violent) occurs after each attempt to give the child a drink or food. Then the diarrhea … What to do? If the child has not yet finished six months, visit to the hospital is unfortunately essential, while the older children, after consultation with the doctor can be helped by home methods. First of all, the patient should be hydrated! Children very quickly dehydrate because they weigh much less than adults. But to be effective, the liquids should be given in small amounts, but very regularly – a teaspoon of weak and sweet tea every 10 minutes, after vomiting 2 teaspoons and successively – tablespoon. The sweetened tea will provide the child with energy reserves and, through the content of tannins, will act therapeutically on the mucosa of the digestive tract.

Remember to “not disturb” the body in getting rid of pathogenic microorganisms – so do not give drugs that inhibit diarrhea. Because pathogenic microorganisms instead of being expelled, stay longer in the digestive tract and cause inflammation of the intestines. However, as in the case of adults, it is necessary to administer probiotics that support the reconstruction of the bacterial flora of the gastrointestinal tract.
In the treatment of rotavirus infection, homeopathic medicines also work. If your child has symptoms of food poisoning or gastrointestinal infection, start treatment with a medicine called Arsenicum album 9CH (after each 4 stools given to each stool). With vomiting, Ipeca 9CH and Nux vomica 9CH will bring relief (4 balls after each vomiting, and when vomiting is very intense, we give the medicine more often when they start to subside – we reduce the frequency of application). In turn, acute diarrhea will help alleviate the homeopathic drug Aloe 9CH (4 balls after each cast stool), obtained from aloe. If diarrhea is urgent and it is difficult for a child to even reach the toilet, in addition to Aloe, it is worth adding Podophyllum 9CH (4 balls after each given stool). For dehydration and weakness, it is recommended to add a preparation called China rubra 4 times a day for 4 balls. It will shorten the convalescence period. Medicines of this type are safe, their advantage is a mild, but effective support of the body in the fight against the virus, while they work very quickly, which is important when the child vomits violently.

Another aliment of summer is the so-called summer angina, which arises if we rapidly chill the heated throat, for example, we eat ice cream or drink very cold drinking. Therefore, children should be given ice cream at the beginning of a walk on a hot day – it will reduce the risk of catching angina. If, however, a sore throat occurs, it is worth giving Phytolacca decandra 9CH, Mercurius solubilis 15CH, Belladonna 9CH and Pyrogenium 9CH (3 balls each hour with severe pain, as 4 times a day improve with 4 balls). Rinse the throat with a chamomile infusion. If you still have a fever and the sore throat gets worse, you may need to see a doctor. During all travels, not just summer, the problem may turn out to be … a travel. I know a lot of people with motion sickness, although it is interesting, for example, that when driving a car, they never experience it. But when they become passengers after just 10 minutes of driving their head hurts, they have nausea and they feel bad! My way of improving driving comfort is, for example, ginger, very helpful during motion sickness. Droplets of natural ethereal peppermint oil or rosemary oil, for example, for a handkerchief or a wet make-up make-up remover and positioned somewhere on the car’s cockpit are also very helpful. This procedure not only refreshes the air, but really eliminates nausea and headaches. There are also known old ways for this ailment – pouring ordinary table salt into the navel and then sealing it completely with a plaster. I admit that I did not use it myself, but I know at least a few people who felt relieve this way! It is also good for children. For adults and for children I also recommend homeopathic medicines, for example Borax, or other, more complex ones, which the homeopath advises us.

I wish you a lot of health, great travels and I send the warmest greetings !!!

In Health,

Angie