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Is Your Mind Exhausted? Try any of these Top 9 Homeopathic Medicines

Mind exhaustion refers to a tired state of mind resulting from excessive mental activity and cognitive work. Cognitive refers to intellectual work that requires reasoning, thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering. Generally, repetitive physical stress on any body part results in physical overuse injuries, for example, carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) resulting from overuse of hands in typing work, or playing an instrument over long time periods frequently without proper rest. One may feel physically tired/exhausted after intense workouts for long hours without a break. Similarly, when the brain works overtime without any breaks or required rest, then mental exhaustion can happen, for example, overstudy, and overwork at the office can sap the energy of the brain and lead to an exhausted mind. Besides, mind exhaustion can lead to long-term stress and worries.  Grief (like the loss of a loved one) or suffering from mind-related health problems (like depression or anxiety) or any other long-term health problem, financial stress, taking care of a child or an elderly person in the house, or multitasking without breaks can drain the brain and cause mind exhaustion.

Mind exhaustion can further lead to physical tiredness. It can make thinking difficult and can also affect emotions. With time, it can hinder following a daily routine and cause issues in relationships with family members. The symptoms of mind exhaustion include difficulty in focus and concentration, sadness, depressed feelings, anxiety, irritability, helplessness, feeling dull or sluggish, drowsiness, decreased productivity or poor performance at work, delaying certain tasks, negative thinking, arguing with family members, difficulty managing responsibilities, and suicidal thoughts. It can be associated with physical symptoms as well like body aches, sleep problems, headache, stomach issues and physical fatigue/tiredness. Persons having mind exhaustion may have a desire to be alone and avoid people, and may start consuming alcohol or some other stimulants.

Homeopathic Management

Along with proper rest and certain life style changes, homeopathic medicines can prove highly effective in cases of mind exhaustion. They help in boosting energy levels of the brain to overcome exhaustion. Homeopathic medicines stimulate body’s healing mechanism to overcome health issues naturally. These medicines boost brain power and also manage symptoms that have arisen from mind exhaustion. These medicines are suitable for people of all ages, and the best part is that they are free from any sort of toxic side effects, so are very safe to use due to their natural origin. Homeopathic prescriptions for mind exhaustion vary from case to case depending on the characteristic individual symptoms. So, it is advised to take any homeopathic medicine under the supervision of a homeopathic physician.  It is further advised to avoid self–medication.

Homeopathic Medicines For Mind Exhaustion

1. Kali Phos – Top Recommended Medicine

Kali phos is one of the most widely used homeopathic medicines for managing mind exhaustion. This medicine is indicated when the mind get exhausted from excessive mind-related intellectual work, like excessive study. It is further indicated for mental exhaustion that results from long-term stress and worries. Persons needing it feel depressed, sad, irritable, and lethargic. They have a dull mind and a weak memory. They think negatively and are anxious all the time. They tend to avoid meeting people and cut themselves off socially. They also feel physically tired. Doing little work seems to be a huge task for them. They may also face sleeplessness.

2. Gelsemium – With Excessive Dullness, Drowsiness

This medicine is very effective when there is excessive dullness and drowsiness due to mind exhaustion. Thre may be dizziness and the mind feels tired. Persons needing this medicine also face difficulty with focus and concentration. They also wish to be alone and remain quiet. They feel irritable most of the time and do not feel like talking. They also get angry quite easily over small issues. Along with the mind, they also feel physically tired and weak. They can have muscle aches as well along with the above complaints.

3. Anacardium – For Mind Exhaustion After Overstudy

Anacardium is beneficial for persons who suffer from mind exhaustion after excessive study for examinations. Those needing it feel like sitting idle all the time and doing absolutely no work at all. Mind dullness, memory weakness, forgetfulness, absent-mindedness are some of the important symptoms. Such people are very irritable and get offended and angry very easily. They feel depressed, sad and helpless. Along with mind exhaustion, there is physical fatigue as well.

4. Picric Acid – For Exhausted Mind From Mental Strain And Anxiety

This medicine is indicated for persons who have mental exhaustion following long-term anxiety and mind strain. They have an aversion to doing any work or exert mind to think anything or talk. They show forgetfulness. They feel tired from little reading or writing. They show indifferent behavior. They also have muscle weakness and tiredness in their limbs.

5. Phosphoric Acid – For Mental Exhaustion Followed By Physical Tiredness

This medicine works well in cases where mind exhaustion is accompanied by physical weakness  and tiredness. Person requiring it feel as if the mind has gone slow. It is attended with excessive confusion and difficulty in thinking. Thinking leads to dizziness in many of the cases. There is dullness of mind along with indifferent behavior. There is a desire to be quiet and alone. Additionally, anxiety, hopelessness can occur. While trying to read, thoughts seem to meander far away from the mind. This medicine is also well indicated for mind fatigue that occurs after suffering grief of any kind.

6. Silicea – With Fear To Do Any Mind-Related Work

Silicea is helpful medicine for persons who fear to undertake any mind related work and tend to postpone it due to exhausted mind. They cannot even think to over exert their mind. They also have poor focus and concentration. Confusion of mind prevails among them. They also feel sad, hopeless. This medicine is highly suitable to students who get mind exhaustion from excessive literary work.

7. Ignatia – For Exhausted Mind After A Grief

This is a highly suitable medicine when mental exhaustion occurs after a grief. Physical exhaustion attends it. There is sadness, frequent weeping spells and feeling of hopelessness. There is indifferent behaviour and desire to be alone. Consolation seems to make the symptoms worse. There is oversensitivity and nervousness. Irritability and anger can also appear at times. In some cases, sudden mood changes from sadness to joy and vice versa may be felt. One may suffer from sleeplessness.

8. Natrum Carb – With Difficult Concentration

Natrum carb is an effective medicine when concentration becomes difficult due to an exhausted mind. There is inability to do any work that requires application of mind. There is great difficulty in connecting thoughts when listening or reading. The aboveabove-mentioned mentioned complaints are accompanied by sadness and depression. The person remains irritable and may suffer from anxiety attacks.

9. Cocculus Indicus – For Exhausted Mind Due To Loss Of Sleep

This medicine is beneficial when mind exhaustion results from lack of sleep. Persons needing it facedaytime issues like a slow mind and weakening of memory. They may have intense sadness and depressed feelings may occur in their minds. There is also excessive drowsiness in the day time due to lack of sleep at night.

 

 

 

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Mind and Homeopathy

The brain is an enigma for scientists, and its dynamics are not so simple to be easily deconstructed and understood. As the modern medical world inches towards a more profound unraveling and a better understanding of the complexities of this 10 trillion-celled mass called brain, the last century has seen considerable progress being made in realizing (pardon me for not using the word ‘understanding’!) the connection of the mind with the physical body. This quest has also contributed to the discovery of an entirely new set of afflictions that can be described as psychosomatic disorders.                                    psychosomatic homeopathy

The term psychosomatic disorder defies a clear-cut definition. But broadly, the term mostly refers to physical disorders whose causation lies in psychological or emotional factors. For example, a particularly stressful event, like grief or bereavement arising from the loss of a loved one, may in one individual trigger high blood pressure shortly thereafter or even a heart attack. In another person, the same sense of grief might result in a peptic ulcer or a series of asthmatic attacks. A third individual, equally grief-stricken, might not show such symptoms of sickness at all.

Mental and Emotional Triggers

Social and psychological stress can trigger or aggravate a wide variety of diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus), leukemia, and multiple sclerosis (MS). Even ailments like colitis, spasm, Basedow’s disease, and dysmenorrhea mostly manifest psychosomatic causality. Certain cancers like lung cancers are also believed to be triggered or aggravated by emotional and psychological stress.

Various lifestyle diseases like anorexia nervosa or enuresis, which have an unusually high incidence among adolescents and women, are popular examples of psychosomatic disorders. They are believed to be rooted in psychological factors such as lack of self-worth, social or peer pressure, depression, etc.

Other common ailments like bronchial asthma are also many times a manifestation of psychological and emotional conflict. Scientists believe that often respiratory disorders such as asthma and dyspnoea are rooted in the “protection” instinct or the “breathing space” instinct. The emotional stress arising from being denied mental or emotional space, from suffering a sense of suffocation, or from being denied a sense of affirmation can be the causative factors contributing to the lungs feeling constricted, leading to a difficulty in breathing and gasping for breath. Asthmatic conditions can also be a manifestation of a subconscious desire for protection or be triggered by acute grief or mourning.

Psychological Defense Mechanisms

Another typical example of psychosomatic affliction is skin disorders. Experts believe that many skin diseases have their roots in emotional distress or “separation conflict,” which arises from a fear of being separated from loved ones – be it parents, partner, progeny or peers. In such cases of emotional stress or distress, the skin loses epidermal cells, or begins to lose sensation, or peels off, becomes flaky and rough. These physical symptoms, such as loss of epidermal cells, are nothing but often a psychological defense mechanism to protect against a future fear of separation.

Even the incidence of multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease pertaining to the auto-immune nervous system that affects the neurons, is often attributed to emotional trauma or psychological stress. The psychosomatic causes of MS could range from grief, anger, dejection or suppressed emotions such as hurt or humiliation in personal or professional relationships.

Psychological afflictions like depression can also suppress the immune system, making a depressed person more vulnerable to even uncomplicated infections, such as those by the viruses that cause the common old.

So can the mind (brain) alter the activity of white blood cells (blood cells responsible for the body’s defense mechanism) and thus an immune response. If so, how does the brain communicate with the blood cells? After all, white blood cells travel through the body in the blood or lymph vessels and aren’t attached to the nerves.

Research corroborates the existence of psychosomatic causality.
For instance, an ailment such as hives or urticaria manifests both mental or physical causality. In the same way, a problem like stress, which is triggered by psychological factors, has physical manifestations even though no physical ailment exists. Some of the physiological manifestations of psychologically-triggered stress could be a rise in blood pressure, heart rate, increase in sweating or muscle pain in various parts of the body. All these are a reaffirmation that many disorders are rooted in psychosomatic causality.

Homeopathy’s Synthesis Approach

A skilled homeopath shows a deep understanding of this relationship between the mind and the body. His great masters like Hahnemann and Kent have taught it to him. Homeopathy entails taking a holistic view of wellness, and ascertaining the physical factors in consonance with the emotional or mental triggers to get the big picture. The hallmark of the homeopathic approach to disease is an assimilated view of the multiple causalities of ailments, be they mundane or significant disorders. Homeopathy favors a synthesis approach to treatment that does not segregate the psychological causality from the physical manifestations.

The homeopath ensures that chronic cases like a migraine and peptic ulcer, which have their origin in a mental trauma or prolonged stress, disappear with a few doses of a correctly prescribed homeopathic medicine.

The holistic approach of homeopathy does not segregate the mind and body when assessing causality. Rather, homeopathy has an assimilative approach that examines both physiological as well as psychological causality when diagnosing a patient.
This acknowledgment of interconnectedness is not merely a vague, impractical concept. Homeopaths base virtually every homeopathic prescription on the physical and psychological symptoms of a sick person.

Psychological symptoms often play a primary role in the selection of correct medicine. Several schools of psychologists categorize people into certain psychological or characterological types. Others in medicine, genetics, and sports may classify people on the basis of various body types. Homeopaths, in contrast, acknowledge certain ‘body-mind’ types. They determine their medicines based on the constellation of physical and psychological symptoms. The homeopathic treatment is highly scientific and artful, thus making it by far the best treatment for psychosomatic disorders.

The biggest advantage homeopathy offers is its assimilative approach towards causality and cure.

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