Homeopathic first aid is a natural and holistic way to support the body through everyday ailments, minor injuries, and common health concerns. Working in harmony with the body’s natural healing processes, you can use homeopathy to address symptoms gently and effectively. In this guide, I share with you the ease of using homeopathic medicines in family first aid situations. As well as our key remedies to include in a homeopathic first aid kit and how to use them with confidence.
What is homeopathic first aid used for?
Homeopathic first aid is a type of homeopathic prescribing for “acute” symptoms caused by everyday issues and ailments that often arise in the family home. Homeopathic first aid kits address common symptoms that we often treat at home as “first response” to ailments, injuries or illness. This is different from the Certified First Aid that we would utilise in life-threatening or emergency situations. Homeopathic first aid provides a natural and holistic approach to managing common illness, aches and pains, stings, vomiting, injuries, and everything in between!
Keep reading below, to understand more about the benefits of utilising homeopathy in your everyday family life.
What does a holistic approach to ailments mean?
Homeopathic first aid is working with natural medicine and it is very much a holistic approach. This means we are treating the whole person, and recognising the body’s own wisdom, working in a supportive manner rather than in a suppressive manner. This makes the treatment really quite simple because you are already working with the body’s natural healing processes.
So when we say a holistic approach, we mean that we want to work in sympathy and in support with what the body is already trying to do. Whether the body is running a fever; or purging things through vomiting or diarrhoea; or busy healing injuries, cuts and scrapes or broken bones; homeopathic first aid is geared towards supporting that natural process.
We want this process to run smoothly and run to its full conclusion. This is an important aspect we consider in homeopathy. We make sure the body moves properly through issues to a full resolution. Supporting the body to have enough energy and vitality to finish the job and do it well.
What should my homeopathic first aid kit contain?
You might already have a lot of single or combination remedies in your homeopathic first aid kit but wonder which to prioritise. Or you might be starting from scratch to build a go-to toolbox for these everyday issues. Here are the top five most important acute issues that I find helpful in my homeopathic first aid kit.
1. Shock and trauma.
The main remedies I would start with in my homeopathic kit are those remedies for shock and trauma. Understanding the importance of treating shock and trauma is actually the first thing I teach in my homeopathic first aid courses! I find that in clinical practice, shock and trauma and unresolved big emotions are some of the most common root causes of long-term ill health. And by having some shock and trauma remedies in your first aid kit, whenever anything scary or unexpected or traumatic happens, you can deal with that straight away by providing those shock and trauma remedies and helping that energy to move through the body instead of to settle in it and then cause long-term ill health. So that’s always my first go-to and that’s always in my kit.
2. Infection and inflammation.
There is such a variety of common inflammations and infections that most families will deal with on a fairly regular basis. And if you can use your homoeopathic medicine for inflammation or infection to support the body in fully resolving that issue without suppressing it, you know that over time you’re going to see less recurrence of that and you’re going to see improved health. So that to me is a fundamental part of my kit. In addition to this base treatment, we can use many other remedies to support the symptoms specific to that infection and we can help you select those as needed.
3. Pain and fever.
Fevers can be very scary to support. They can be very worrying sometimes. But having homeopathic medicine on hand to keep the process moving and keep the person supported takes a lot of that out of it. And we’re able to run those fevers and let them do all the beautiful work they’re doing! At Return to Health we offer a combined pain and fever combination remedy for homeopathic first aid. The pain component of the pain and fever combi is very handy because there are all sorts of aches and pains that can be unpleasant to the individual, but very easy to support and help the body to work through that energy.
4. Chesty coughs.
There just seems to be a lot of respiratory illness going round, a lot of long-term coughs, a lot of really heavy coughs. Over time this really depletes our energy and makes us more vulnerable to ill health. For me at the moment, it’s a bit of a toss up, but certainly the chesty cough homeopathic combi has been helping a lot of our clients at the moment, and this will continue as we head into the colder months here in the Southern hemisphere.
5. Vomiting and diarrhoea.
It is also invaluable to have vomiting and diarrhoea remedies on hand on the off chance of some contaminated food or picking up some sort of tummy bug. Our remedy combi also supports the body’s hydration levels (though of course you still need to drink plenty of clear fluids to help flush things through).
How easy is homeopathic first aid to administer?
Finding the right remedy and potency
Understanding which remedy in which potency to select can be tricky, and sometimes stressful for the inexperienced in the heat of the moment. Return to Health remedies take a lot of the guesswork out of selecting the right remedy and potency for family first aid situations, because they are combination remedies with clear labels. These are perfect remedies to have in your toolbox for family first aid situations because they have broad coverage for a range of needs. So you don’t have to agonise over which remedy is right, and can be moving through the process with more confidence.
Administering the right dosage
It can be confusing to know how to use homeopathic medicine in crunch time when the kids are really sick or it’s two o’clock in the morning or something really urgent has happened. The thing is, we sometimes over complicate it. In homeopathic first aid, your general guiding principle is: match the intensity of the symptom.
The symptom really relates to how frequently you’re going to dose. The good news is, you can’t give too many remedies, but you can give too few, and we often find that many people in homeopathic first aid situations under-dose. Too few doses is not going to give you that action that you are looking for. Here’s an example we might consider when it comes to dosing for fever:
If it’s a very mild or low grade fever, you might give a single dose once every few hours just making sure that the person is comfortable and that they keep moving through the process. However, in a very intense fever, you might be giving a dose every five minutes. That’s what is meant by matching the intensity of the symptom.
So that’s the advice that I would give my clients when it comes to homeopathic first aid dosage. If in doubt, match the intensity of the symptom, and you very quickly build up a feel for that. The more you use your homeopathic medicine, especially in that first aid setting with your family, because of course you know the individuals intimately so you can gauge whether or not they’re moving through and whether they’re comfortable.
Want to boost your skills and confidence in homeopathic first aid?
Homeopathic first aid offers a simple, natural, and effective approach to managing everyday health concerns by working in alignment with the body’s natural processes. With the right remedies on hand and a basic understanding of how to use them, you can feel confident in supporting your family’s health naturally.
If you’d like to deepen your knowledge and skills, our homeopathic first aid course provides practical guidance and hands-on learning to help you feel fully equipped in your homeopathic journey. It is also a fantastic introduction to homeopathy in general, and often ignites a passion to delve deeper into this amazing modality. Take our in-person workshop in Tallebudgera Valley, Gold Coast, or take the online course any time.