Hello, this is an introduction to using homeopathy at home. For first aid for scribing. You can use the remedy to help relieve a specific symptom at that moment, so you can use it in first aid situations to help your family, your pets and your friends. The remedies themselves will last for many years, as long as you can keep them out of direct sunlight and keep them dry. You'll only use one pill you're at a time. So a packet or a vial of pills will last for absolutely ages.

The remedies are really cheap to buy. And so once you've got them, you can keep them for many, many years. The remedies themselves are made by specific homeopathic pharmaceutical companies and so they're made to a very Precise manufacturing standard. So when we decide which remedy we are going to use for a particular symptom, it differs quite a lot from mainstream medication because there's going to be lots of different remedies to choose from, for a specific symptom. And that's because we all feel the symptom in a different way. So what we want to do is collect as much information as we can so that we're able to choose the right remedy.

So four general symptoms, we're looking at, of course, the location of the symptom, and whether it goes up or down, in or out or whether it moves. What makes the symptom worse, what makes the symptom better? Are there other symptoms related or around it even when you don't think it's related? It's really Really useful to use that to match the right remedy? And very importantly, what is your mood whilst you're experiencing this symptom? So for specific sleeping issues, we need to look at what time you wake up what you're thinking about when you wake up and what feeling or emotion Do you have during the night?

Or when you first go to bed and if you have trouble sleeping, then how often do you wake up? When you wake? Are you hot or cold? Are you hungry or thirsty? When was the last time that you ate? Have we got something going on with digestion at the same time?

So all of this information will help us choose the right remedy for you to use as a first aid remedy. So, homeopaths and people that study homeopathy for themselves will have a book with a whole list of all the symptoms and how you might experience those symptoms. And this is called the repertory. So you might hear that when you are talking about homeopathy to other people. The actual list of remedies and the details about the remedies are all enclosed in a book called Materia Medica. So it's a book of remedies if you like.

So when you go through the repertory, you can find the symptoms which have a list of all of the the remedies that you need to look at. And then you look at a different symptom. And you choose the remedies that are in both of those symptoms. And then so you have a shortlist of remedies that you can look up. So we've provided lots of sleep symptoms and remedy information in the next chapter. So you'll go through that in a moment.

So let's just talk a little bit about potency and dose. So, the doses the number of times which you will give the remedy. One dose is one pellet or tablet and you might see it called a paleo. The potency is the strength of the remedy. So for first aid prescribing, we're generally using a 30 c potency. So how to dose you give one dose that's one pill and you watch and you wait and you see what happens.

If nothing happens, you can give the remedy again. If the symptom gets better, then wait and see if it holds If the symptom stays the same, as I said, you give another dose in half an hour. And if the symptom changes, you need to go back and see if this remedy is still suitable. Or if you now need another remedy. The remedies help your body go through to the next symptom faster. So quite often, we might follow with a different remedy.

We've built an app called homeopathy at home, which has got lots of information on it. It's available at the App Store and Google Play. Look for this logo of the Daisy. And you'll soon see that it's a really useful app on your phone. So you have the information of the symptoms, to rapid rise as in from the repertory, and you have a whole lot of information about the remedies. So it's got its own Materia Medica for about 100 remedies.

So that should be very useful for you