Homeopathy and Birth Control

There are homeopathic remedies to help women have regular, rhythmical cycles that are hormonally balanced.  Homeopathic prescribing helps your body establish a cycle that is regular, that lasts a predictable amount of time and is pain-free.  YES, it is possible to have a period without pain. 

Hormonal imbalances may also show up as skin outbreaks, low sex drive, poor lubrication during sex, chronic yeast infections, pain during ovulation, fertility issues, headaches and bowel changes around menses.  Homeopathic prescribing can assist your body in shifting into hormonal balance which will have a cascade effect on your body.  Regaining this balance will allow all these other pieces to fall into place effortlessly. 

Lastly homeopathy is an excellent choice to make the transition from long-term birth control pill use.  It will help you to regain the rhythm of your own cycle and re-establish your fertility patterns, cervical mucus and sex drive.  Homeopathic folliculinum is one of the remedies especially useful in this regard and I encourage you to seek more information on this remedy found within this site.

Homeopathy and PMS

In practice I view complaints about  PMS as a socially acceptable opportunity for women to get angry.  It is about the only time it is o.k. for women to get irritable and express themselves in what is viewed as a negative fashion.  Many women save it all up for that time of the month.  What would happen if you were regularly “allowed” to speak your mind, say what you need and what you want on a daily basis? 

Give yourself some permission TODAY and practice it regularly – see if that shifts your PMS.  There are remedies such as Folliculinum that support hormonal balancing after interference from the birth control pill and other estrogen based drugs but the mental/emotional aspects of PMS usually have quite a bit to do with suppression.  Not suprising considering the birth control pill and other forms of birth control are all about suppression.  It makes sense that if you suppress yourself physically it will also show up on a mental/emotional level.  Consider what you are not saying or doing in your life that you would like to say or do and then go ahead and do it anyway.

Folliculinum (Homeopathic Estrogen) and Excessive Bleeding

Homeopathic estrogen is called Folliculinum.  This gem of a remedy can correct imbalances created by an estrogen poisoning in our bodies.  Estrogen poisoning most commonly occurs through the use of a the wide variety of birth control pills, drugs and injections we use to control our menstrual cycle. 

Through this poisoning many shifts occur – we lose sight of our own rhythm, we lose a sense of who we are and what we want and our bodies reflect this. 

• excessive bleeding
• no menses
• frequent menses
• no ovulation
• fertility issues
• miscarriages
• difficulties in labour
• difficulties with breastfeeding

Folliculinum is a gentle way to guide yourself back to your original rhythm, wisdom and knowing.  Collect yourself, find out what is prompting your body to speak to you in this manner and address it.  Treat your body with tenderness and listen to its distress – don’t attempt to control and suppress your own rhythms, they are an important, delicate balance which needs to be protected and supported.  In the long run that dedication will provide you with smooth transitions from adolescence to motherhood to menopause.

Folliculinum and The Birth Control Pill

Homeopathic estrogen is called Folliculinum.  Folliculinum was created by Melissa Assilem, a British Homeopath.  One of the most common uses of Folliculinum is to assist women that are coming off of the birth control pill.  To restore their bodies on a physical and mental/emotional level.  The Pill is one of the ways we are taken away from our natural rhythms and this disruption carries over into the mental/emotional sphere as we start to lose a sense of who we are and what we want.  Some of the symptoms that show up when you need a dose of Folliculinum include:

• spotting, pain and ovarian cysts, all worse during ovulation
• PMS – swollen, painful breasts, migraines, nausea and vomiting, weepy, depressed, indecisive, panic attacks and mood swings.
• fibroid
• polycystic ovaries
• ovarian cysts

Mental/Emotional Picture

• feels controlled by another
• living out another’s expectations
• no sense of what she wants or who she is
• drained
• lives only to give it away to everyone else – energy, time and attention

Think long and hard before taking the birth control pill as it impacts women in many  more ways then just as a method of birth control.  I often see women with difficulty getting pregnant after being on the pill.  After having their contraception controlled they they then go on to have their conception, labour and postpartum controlled.  Get a sense of your own body and its  rhythms and work with it. 

Check out – Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Welcher – an excellent resource to connect back to yourself if you have been “away”.  Treat yourself with love and honour your body. 

Homeopathic Estrogen – Folliculinum

One of the ways homeopathic remedies develop is that homeopaths look at substances that are in a sense poisoning society.  Estrogen is one of those substances.  the most common way in which this is occurring is due to the effects of the birth control pill.  One of the main symptoms of this remedy is that mentally/emotionally it seems to create a state in which the woman forgets who she is, what she needs and wants and only begins to live to please everyone else.  It is interesting that as a drug the birth control pill is most commonly prescribed during the teenage years.  This would be the very time that  most young women are just forming a sense of them selves, separate from their families.  What happens when the birth control pill comes into action at this point?  Some of the common symptoms include:

• Emotionally/psychically sucked dry
• postpartum depression
• self denial
• forget who they are
• gets lost in relationships
• addicted to rescuing people
• difficult bond between mother and child
• as if controlled by another

We seem to start to remember who we are as menopause approaches and the estrogen levels start to decline.  Folliculinum can really support women as they break addictions and relationships that promote a loss of the self.  For some fabulous information on Folliculinum please visit www.melissaassilem.net- this is the homeopath that created the remedy and the symptom picture of Folliculinum.