Restless Legs

If your legs won't stay still, by day or especially - night, you have restless legs syndrome. The symptoms include stinging, burning, or tingling sensations, or outright pain.

Fifteen per cent of the population suffers from the condition to some degree. It is most often benign, but quite often runs in families, affecting more women than men. It may be made worse by the consumption of alcohol, coffee, or cigarettes.

Homeopathy

Zincum

- Four 5c tablets to be sucked slowly between meals, twice a day

Zincum metallicum

- Mineral origin: the metal zinc
- The specific homeopathic remedy for restless legs

• You could try Lehning@ Tarentula Complex 71, whose ingredients include Tarentula 6x and Zincum valerianum 6x:
  - Available in 30ml bottles of oral drops
  - Fifteen drops to be taken in a little water, three times a day
• Another alternative is Spascupreel@ (Heel), which contains Magnesium phosphoricum D6, Colocynth is D4, Gelsemium D6
  - Available in packs of 50 and 250 tablets
  - In general, one tablet to be sucked three times daily. In acute disorders, one tablet every 15 minutes.

Oligotherapy

Zinc

Trace elements usually come from the diet, which should be varied and of high quality. In cases of deficiency, zinc can be given as a medicinal supplement.

Dietary sources of zinc

Zinc is most plentiful in seafood, fish, oysters ++, and shellfish, as well as in cereals, some vegetables (broccoli. mushrooms, spinach, and beans), brewer's yeast, walnuts, wholemeal bread, egg yolk, and meat.

Zinc treatment: this is available in various forms, such as Organic Minerals (Colloidals) which contains 70+ trace minerals:
- Available in 946ml bottles
- Take 1-3 caps just before breakfast and/or evening meal
- Children 1 teaspoon daily for each 20lbs of body weight

Or Maximol (Ionized colloidals):

- Available in 500ml bottles
- Take 1/2 capful once or twice daily on an empty stomach

• You could also try Pic-Mins (Thorne), a trace mineral combination (in picolinate form) which includes a blend of selenium, vanadium, manganese, chromium, boron, molybdenum and zinc:
  - Sold in containers of 90 capsules
  - 1 capsule 3 times daily.