How to handle and store homeopathic remedies?
Updated: Sep 15
If you are new to homeopathic remedies, you may have questions about how to take, handle and store them.
Here are some practical guidelines to help you look after your remedies and understand when it is helpful to check with your homeopath.
After a consultation with a homeopath, you may be given one or more homeopathic remedies to take at home.
If you are new to homeopathy, you may have questions about how to take, handle and store your remedies. The following are some general guidelines, but your homeopath may give you specific instructions depending on your individual prescription.
I will write some basic rules here, so please read before taking remedies.
#1 - Keep remedies away from :
Homeopathic remedies are vibrational medicines. This energy medicine is sometimes disturbed by certain frequencies.
Electronic equipment: telephone base stations, mobile phones, TVs, computers, microwaves.
Or remedies are kept in a foil wrap or EMF protection case.
X-ray machines at airports are ideally avoided. However, inflight solar radiation is even more powerful, and the consensus view is that remedies survive these exposures as long as they are not too frequent. Alternatively, you can purchase a lead-lining pouch.
#2 - Don’t exposure remedies to :
Strong sunlight: extremes of heat and cold: damp or strong smells like garlic or un-stoppered Essential Oils : (kitchens or bathrooms are not good places). Ideally, keep them somewhere reasonably dry with a fairly constant temperature between 18-25℃
#3 - How to take homeopathic remedies
Instructions can vary depending on the remedy, form and prescription. The following are general guidelines used in homeopathic practice; if your homeopath has given you different instructions, follow those instead.
Take the remedy away from food and drink or from having had something strong-smelling in the mouth such as toothpaste or tobacco. Allow about 20 minutes on either side of eating, drinking, or smoking etc. If you take more than 2 remedies at the same time, please take remedies at least 20 minutes apart from each other.
Put the doses directly under the tongue where absorption takes place. Do not wash it down with water, unless directed to do so by a homeopath. Allow it to remain in the mouth for up to 10 seconds, after which it may be swallowed, or crushed down.
Pour or shake the solid dose required into the cap of the remedy bottle, and directly into the mouth.
Sometimes a remedy is taken in water using a spoon – Always clean the spoon and glass (if applicable) with very hot water after use.
Do not risk cross-contamination by opening at a time in case you put remedy A in with B or vice-versa; don’t ever store a remedy in a bottle in which a different medicine or homeopathic remedy has been contained.
It is generally recommended you avoid coffee and peppermint whilst taking the course of homeopathic remedies since these substances are thought possibly to be antidote remedies in some cases.
If too many doses of a remedy are taken for too long, symptoms that were originally cleared up may recur (It is called “Proving”), follow the dosing instructions given by your homeopath rather than continuing a remedy indefinitely.
If you are unsure about potency or dosage, you may also find my guide to potency and dose in homeopathy helpful.
#4 - Check with your homeopath
The information above provides some general guidelines. Different homeopaths may have their own instructions about dosage, timing and how to take a particular remedy.
For example, one dose may mean three pills, or a specific number of drops. If you are unsure, please check with your homeopath before taking the remedy.
The way homeopathic remedies are taken and stored may feel unfamiliar at first. The most important thing is not to worry if you are unsure about something.
If you have been given a remedy and are unsure how to take it, how to store it, or whether a particular instruction applies to you, it is best to check with your homeopath.
A homeopathic consultation provides an opportunity to talk through your symptoms, health history and individual experience before considering whether homeopathy may be appropriate for you.
If you would like to discuss your situation with me, you are welcome to book a consultation.
