Words: Dr Joette CALABRESE
Q: My friends tell me, and also believe, that a homeopathic remedy is helpful to keep the dreaded mosquito and its bite away. I am sceptical about it. My apparent question is: is there any truth in it?
— RG, Shillong
A: Insult to injury. There’s no better way to describe it.
After the recent flooding from heavy rains and storm surges in the US, for example, it was only a matter of time before mosquitoes moved in, bringing aggravation, discomfort and other potential ill-effects with them.
Eating garlic — lots and lots of garlic — has long been advised to prevent annoying mosquito bites.
Does it work? The mosquitos will stay away, but so will everyone else.
Preventing Annoying Mosquito Bites With Homeopathy
While I don’t often teach homeopathy as a prophylactic, the homeopathic remedy, Staphysagria 30C, has historically been shown to act as a deterrent to bugs.
Now, before you order Staphysagria, let me quickly remind you once again: homeopathy is a medicine, not vitamin, or supplement. Therefore, we don’t want to take a preventative medicine day-in and-day-out for an extended period of time.
However, if going into a ‘bug-infested area,’ one might consider employing Staphysagria 30C, the night before, and in the morning, right before entering the fray.
If one is living at ‘Ground Zero’ of Bug Central, the use of Staphysagria may be continued for up to a week, or so.
The great thing about homeopathy is that we know when we are not utilising the correct medicine by observation. If the medicine helps, we know we’ve chosen correctly. If it doesn’t help at all, then we know we need to go back to our knowledge repertory and pivot to another potential choice.
Observe To Recognise If A Proving Occurs
A tipping point occurs when we start to develop symptoms of a different condition than we’ve previously experienced. This is called a ‘proving.’
A proving can occur when we use a remedy incorrectly, or too frequently, bringing to the fore the symptoms that the medicine is intended to correct.
A Testimonial For Staphysagria’s Usefulness Against Bug Bites
One of my team members recently found Staphysagria helpful in avoiding bug bites by accident. After the recent hurricanes, she and her husband spent days in the yard cleaning up the blown leaves, fallen trees and branches. When the task was finished, my poor team member was practically eaten alive by bugs [mosquitoes, chiggers and other anonymous creepy-crawlies].
Her husband, on the other hand, had not one single bite.
That’s when the answer suddenly dawned on her. Her husband had been on a regular schedule of Staphysagria for another condition. She had not. The Staphysagria was not only working to resolve his initial condition, but also was protecting him from the critters that had relentlessly made a meal out of her.
That’s win-win, right?
