Before I return to the series on my Everyday Remedies Kit, here’s an embarrassing story about me lacking grace and balance, and homeopathy coming through to help me not pay quite as dearly for my blunder.

My daughters and I had a chiropractor appointment (we all three go at once to make it more fun), and we decided to eat breakfast together afterwards at a nearby restaurant. It was raining a bit and the floor just inside the restaurant door was wet from various people coming and going. There definitely should have been a rug at the entrance, but sometimes things just don’t work out the way they should. My Crocs flip-flops made contact with the wet tile floor and magically turned into water skis. The next thing I knew, I was skidding headfirst, Saturday morning cartoon style, into the metal frame of the inner door. Later, when I was a little less surprised, I laughed at how I must have looked – I could almost hear the “whoop-whoop-whoop-whoop!” sound effect, like this one:

They got out a dose of Aconitum 200c and dumped it in my mouth because they know that Aconitum is the first thing to give someone who has just experienced a shocking event or sudden trauma. The smack my head made on that door frame definitely qualified! They walked me into the restaurant and sat with me at a table, where they got out a dose of Arnica 200c for me. By then, my focus had returned and I was able to thank them for their perfect and knowledgeable response to the situation. I knew that a dose of Arnica 200c every 15 minutes was very likely what my body needed to set itself on the right path to quick healing, so I looked at my watch and calculated the time of my next dose. Over the course of the next hour, we ordered food and ate it, I took the remaining doses of Arnica, and we took a few progress pictures of the welt on my head. The lighting made it difficult to see, but here are a couple of photos where the developing swelling and discoloration are visible.

It went through all the stages: throbbing pain, swelling, tightness, redness, total goose-egg roundness in two places, tenderness – everything within the hour that we were sitting in the restaurant. I drove home to show Alfredo and go on with my day, and I didn’t actually take any more Arnica orally the rest of the day. I used my Arnica cream twice just because, but the pain, swelling, and everything else decreased quickly over the next few hours so that by evening when I made the video there was no visible swelling or discoloration left.

Wouldn’t you love to have a natural remedy that effective in your “wallet” at all times? I’m sure glad that I do!

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