Who knew Hay fever had anything to do with emotions?

I talk a lot about self-help homeopathy to relieve everyday health niggles and homeopathy is brilliant for hay fever symptoms. Today I’m introducing you to another dimension of homeopathic support, a much deeper level which is best entered into with a qualified homeopath.

I’ve had hay fever this year and I don’t usually.

I’ve had:

• Watery, red, itchy, sensitive eyes with a creamy discharge which dries crusty and is worst in the morning;

• Bouts of sneezing

• A drippy nose which happens randomly when I’m outside.

Yes, it’s been an incredibly warm, dry spring with little rain to damp down the pollen, but if the lovely weather and copious pollen was the entire reason then everyone would have hay fever, and they don’t! So, something else must be involved. As a homeopath I’m looking in another direction to explain my symptoms.

I’ve been to 3 funerals so far this year, and one of those was my Mum’s, so there’s been a fair bit of grief welling up in me. One of the main principles behind homeopathy is that what’s going on in our mind and emotions affects what happens physically in our body. What I’m considering as the explanation for my hay fever symptoms is grief which hasn’t fully come out as tears or sadness because my mind has subconsciously suppressed it. When this suppression happens, the grief is ‘held’ in my physical body and appears as unwanted symptoms. When someone as significant as your mum dies it’s hard to deal with all those feelings, and that’s without needing to process another death as well, let alone 2 more.

How can homeopathy support me with this? Well, let’s have a look at the physical and emotional symptoms which are helped by some of my favourite hay fever remedies:

Natrum mur: nose dripping like a tap, alternating with dryness; watering eyes, sensitive to the light; violent sneezing worst in the morning; loss of smell/taste;

Worse after grief, guilt, disappointment, betrayal, sunlight, being by the sea.

Pulsatilla: bland yellow discharge from nose, eyes; nose swollen and itching in the evening; frequent sneezing, even in sleep; itchy eyes, must rub them; headache over eyes worse morning and evening.

Worse after suppressions, abandonment, grief, rich food, stuffy hot rooms; worse morning and evening

Looking at my hay fever, these 2 remedies pretty well have my symptoms covered, both the annoying hay fever ones and the underlying emotions.

Over the years I’ve worked with plenty of people who’ve had hay fever (or allergic rhinitis caused by pet allergies etc.) I always ask when the symptoms started, and many people have been quite certain about the timing:

• When they moved to a new area, away from friends

• After parental break-up, going to visit the parent they no longer lived with

• Going back to school at the end of the holidays

• Leaving home for the first time

• After losing a pet or treasured possession

Now isn’t that interesting? There are likely to be strong emotions involved in each of these scenarios, and grief is likely to be one of these, but not the only one. From experience, once someone’s body gets into a pattern of producing symptoms like this it goes on doing so long after the original emotions have gone away, which is why people ‘have hay fever’.

Working with a qualified homeopath provides the opportunity for slowly and gently releasing these trapped emotions. Gradually hay fever symptoms can become less and less, and life can feel lighter. Of course, it’s not just hay fever which starts with strong emotions we don’t realise we’ve got, but that’s what I’m focusing on today.

If you’re a hay fever sufferer and you’d like to explore homeopathy to help manage your symptoms and more, why not get in touch and see what might be possible.

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Do you have Hay fever? Do you know someone who has Hay fever?

Homeopathy can do more than help manage symptoms, it can get to the root cause. It can take a long time – most people have had their hay fever for a long time so it’s going to take a long time for it to go too. But, by working 121 with me, you’ll experience rapid relief from your symptoms (using the wide range of remedies I have at my fingertips) and an empathic, supportive approach to addressing your current behaviour patterns which will gently enable you to let go of issues you’ve been holding onto for years!

Just arrange a call to clarify your needs. I’m sure you’ll enjoy feeling lighter and setting yourself up for a more expansive future.