Phobias

This term descibes a tension, fear, or panic arising in a situation or during an activity that in a situation or during an activity that in itself usually presents little danger: the middle of a crowd, speaking in public, the sight or pressence of an animal, a confined space(lift,cave), the edge of a void, or simply height, some means of transport(aeroplance, undeground train...). Phobiaaffects as many as one in two pepole,

- Available in 500ml bottles
- Take 1/2 capful once or twice daily on an empty stomach
Lithium orotate (Vitamin Research Products) 120mg:
- Available in containers of 120 capsules - One capsule twice daily with meals.

Acupuncture

Acupuncture has proved not merely useful but sometimes indispensable, thanks to its sedative action and ability to restore the equilibrium.

- Treatment Regime: An initial weekly or twice-weekly treatment can be suggested in periods of great stress, followed by maintenance treatment once a month for several months.

Relaxation methods

Relaxation is essential for learning to control the emotions and muscular tension, and reducing, channelling, and even suppressing the effects of stress and twice as many women as men. Half of them try to avoid the situation, one in seven make sure that they do, but only one in four have tried any treatment.

Homeopathy

Aconite, gelsemium

- Four granules of one of these two remedies at 7c to be sucked like sweets, two or three times in succession, depending on the symptoms.

Aconitum napellus
- Vegetable origin: aconite, a mountain plant
- Homeopathic remedy for anxiety states with 'fear of imminent death'
- Characteristic sign: agitation

Gelsemium sempervirens

- Vegetable origin: jasmine, a climbing shrub with large, scented, white or yellow flowers
- Homeopathic remedy for fright, trembling
- Characteristic sign: a feeling that the legs are about to give way

• You can use Spascupreel@ (Heel). which contains Gelsemium D6, Cham om ilia D3, Passiflora D2...
  - Available in containers of 50 or 250 tablets
  - In general, one tablet dissolved under the tongue three times daily. In acute cases one tablet to be repeated every
  15 minutes

You should also definitely add a constitutional remedy, chosen upon consultation with your homeopath; in this case it will often be Argentum nitricum, Arsenicum album. Ignatia.

Argentum nitricum

- Chemical origin: silver nitrate
- Homeopathic remedy for fear regarding what is about to happen
- Characteristic signs: patient agitated, in a hurry, anxious to finish before starting

Herbal treatment

Hawthorn, passionflower

These two plants can be prepared and made up by your herbalist, alone or in combination. as a mother tincture, powder in capsules, dried extracts..

• You can use a fresh whole-plant suspension: thanks to a method of cold stabilization, the suspension provides the full therapeutic effect naturally present in the whole plant.

Possible Prescription: Ask your herbalist to prepare a 60ml bottle of whole-plant suspension of hawthorn or passion flower. Take a half teaspoonful in a little water. morning and night. For adults only.

• You can use Valerianaheel@, which contains mother tinctures of Crataegus, Valeriana. Chamomilla. Avena (oats) and Lupulus (hops) combined with Hypericum (St. John's Wort) D1, Kalium bromatum D1:
  - Available in drop bottles of 30 and 100ml
  - In general, 15 drops 3 times daily, in the evening 25 drops. Single dose for infants and young children. Age 2-6 years, 5 drops; 6-12 years, 10 drops.
• You can use Passiflora complex (Bioforce), containing Passiflora and Oats: - Available in drop bottles of 50ml
  - 20 drops twice daily in a little water

Oligotherapy

Essentially magnesium

This trace element is normally supplied in the diet, which should be varied and of good quality When there is a deficiency, which is frequent in the case of magnesium, it may be taken as a supplement.

Dietary sources of magnesium

Present in almost all foods, but unfortunately mainly in those that are rich in calories. Magnesium is found mainly in citrus fruits, bananas, whole cereals (oat flakes, bran...), cocoa and chocolate, shellfish (winkles, shrimps, oysters, clams..) and oily fish, snails, figs, hard cheeses, dried fruit and nuts (almonds, peanuts, hazelnuts, walnuts..), vegetables (spinach, dried haricot and green beans, split peas, soya.), wholemeal bread.

• Magnesium medications: there are many different brands and 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 I 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

Possible Prescription: One dose of magnesium to be taken twice a day for a few days or weeks.

You can take higher doses of magnesium during the week preceding an event that you are worried about, using MagAsorb@ (Lamberts) 150mg:
- Available in containers of 60 or 180 tablets
- One tablet one to three times daily.

Relaxation

Relaxation is essential for learning to control the emotions and muscular tension, and reducing, channelling, and even suppressing the effects of stress.

After a few hours' work on the emotions with a qualified practitioner, certain techniques such as neurolinguistic programming (NLP) may eliminate a troublesome phobia.