Remedies tried this month
On a tip from a Shiatsu-Dancer friend, we have tried homeopathic Arnica, which is meant to be excellent at banishing the yucky feelings of jet lag. We tried this blended version on our USA-UK and back again trip.
It includes Arnica and a bunch of other stuff which helps with the general greggy-big-leggy feeling as your limbs seize up and you start to get the dry insane feeling in your head which needs to stop, oh stop, why doesn’t it stop already?
So here is what it has in it.
Arnica Montana for mental strain and shock, physical strains and tension, restlessness and sleeplessness.
Chamomilla for emotional and mental stress. It also helps with sleeplessness, impatience and intolerance and disorientation. basically it’s like having a portable nice Mummy cuddling your inner child to spleepy sleep whilst cooing “oom bah, oom bah.”*
Bellis Perennis (not Dennis Pennis) for muscular soreness, sleep interruptions and to allieviate the excitingly named venous congestion (which sounds like it is snake related, so it might help with Snakes on a Plane or with headache caused by spending the afternoon punching Draco Malfoy on his weedy pale arm until he cries like the girl he is)
Ipecacuanha which is obviously South American sounding, is for dehydration, nausea and irritability in the chest and tummy.
Finally it contains Lyvopodium otherwise known as Wolfsclaw, so it must be really cool. Indeed it says that it helps with anxiety, fear and over-sensitivity. I wonder if it helps with rabies?
I think it worked a treat, but I am a believer. Adam just shrugged and mumbled “whatever” under his breath, but I noticed that he took them without protesting and looks brighter eyed and bushy tailed today than he would usually after a flight.
I would also like to give a big hand to
Valerian
This robust yet stinky herbal pill is friend to you but the enemy of all black cloaked and hooded horrors, including the Dementors, Nazgul and the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come. Have you noticed how the Scottish Widows adverts don’t even bother trying to hide that they are evil husband killing witches anymore?
Anyway, Valarian wipes out the anxiety, dread and panic associated with badly directed Xmas BBC versions of Dracula and also it helped with the suffering I endured because I didn’t get to see the Doctor Who Christmas Special on Christmas Day and now have to wait for it to download.
Lastly, and to my mind the greatest of them all
ooh la la Lavender
She’s the Jurassic Park of all aromatherapy oils. She is the one who makes everything ok again, burns, spots, bruises, aches, pains, colds, flu, heartbreak hotel and Bates Motel alike, Lavender has been a constant companion and a very good healer. She even helped with the unidentified flying bruises that I managed to aquire every time I got drunk. Lavender, I love you, you are like having Doctor Beverly Crusher in a tiny blue bottle squeaking “Let me out, I need to take care of Wesley.”
*see Birth Bot – Star Wars III – Revenge of the Sith