Remedy for apres shoveling
Back sore from shoveling? If you live in the Northeast, Texas, or anyone else who has been busy digging out of their homes from feet of snow, I have a recommendation.
Most everyone that knows of Homeopathy is familiar with Arnica Montana. It is a homeopathic remedy widely available for acute physical trauma. After an accident or sudden extreme strain or injury, it will stop pain, swelling, and internal bleeding. Have it handy, for when you need it, nothing beats it.
Shoveling, however, calls for Arnica’s first cousin. In the same compositae family, Bellis Perennis, a cheerful and enduring daisy, helps ease the strain of long and enduring labor. It has been known as a gardener’s friend. This winter, I would bet that anyone who has a driveway they have been shoveling would benefit from a dose. Feel free to email me if you are unable to find it. betsy@betsyreilingwellness.com.
This from Dorothy Shepard’s A Physician’s Posy – a homeopathic classic written over a century ago:
“Have you noticed how often you see old men hobbling along country lanes? They have been stooping over garden beds or in the fields, hoeing and weeding, sowing and planting, all through their lives. As a result of their labours, the prolonged bruising of their muscles, overuse of their spinal muscles, along with imbibing cold drinks when hot, they are bent almost double. give Bellis Perennis in the early stages to these gardeners and farm labourers, and you would save many a poor old chap from such crippling rheumatism and stiffness of back, spondylitis, slipped disc and the rest.”
