HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT FOR ADRENAL FATIGUE

In clinical practice there are varying degrees of adrenal fatigue and insufficiency. Some are tired and wired others flat and burnt out while many are up and down like a yo-yo with their energy in a given day. The best success for treating these cases has come from accurate case taking and history along with proper diagnostic measures (blood & saliva results) prior to preparing a treatment plan.

Many patients typically ignore or neglect key symptoms that help accurately determine the most beneficial remedy or remedies for treatment. Proper administration of the treatment plan, nutritional, and lifestyle advice and patient compliance pay dividends in healing. These are some key remedies in treating Adrenal Fatigue.

PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM

• The common acid “debility” is very marked in this remedy, producing a nervous exhaustion. Mental debility first; later physical. A congenial soil for the action of Phos acid is found in young people who grow rapidly, and who are overtaxed, mentally or physically. Whenever the system has been exposed to the ravages of acute disease, excesses, grief, loss of vital fluids, we obtain conditions calling for it.
• Impaired memory, apathetic, indifferent, cannot collect his thoughts or find the right word, difficult comprehension, effects of grief and mental shock, delirium, with great stupefaction, despair.
• Heavy, confused, pain as if temples were crushed together, worse shaking or noise. Crushing headache, pressure on top.
• Craves juicy things.
• Pulse irregular, intermittent.
• Tearing pains in joints, bones, and periosteum, cramps in upper arms and wrists.
• Profuse sweat during night and morning.

KALI PHOSPHORICUM

• Weak and tired, especially adapted to the young, marked disturbance of the sympathetic nervous system, neurasthenia, mental and physical depression are wonderfully improved by this remedy. The causes are usually excitement, overwork and worry.
• Anxiety, nervous dread, lethargy, indisposition to meet people, extreme lassitude and depression, nervous, starts easily, irritable, brain-fag, hysteria, night terrors, loss of memory, slightest labor seems a heavy task.
• Subnormal temperature
• Worse from excitement, worry, mental and physical exertion; eating, cold, and early morning. Better from warmth, rest, nourishment.

GRAPHITES

• Unable to decide, disposition to work, fidgety while sitting at work.
• Stout, of fair complexion with tendency to skin affections and constipation; fat, chilly, with delayed menstrual history, gets colds easily.
• Sexual debility, with increased desire

RIBES NIGRUM

• Stimulates adrenal cortex and adrenal gland
• Anti-inflammatory
• Asthma
• Allergies
• Chronic fatigue
• Hypo-adrenal
• Auto-immune diseases 

COFFEA CRUDA

• Great nervous agitation and restlessness.
• Neuralgia, always with great nervous excitability and intolerance of pain, driving to despair. Unusual activity of mind and body.
• Gaiety, easy comprehension, irritability, excited; senses acute, impressionable, especially to pleasurable impressions. Full of ideas, quick to act, tosses about in anguish
• Wakeful, constant motion, sleeps till 3 am, after which only dozing; wakes with a start. Sleep disturbed by dreams, sleepless, on account of mental activity; flow of ideas with nervous excitability. Disturbed by itching of anus.

GELSEMIUM

• Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and trembling. Slow pulse, tired feeling, mental apathy.
• Desire to be quiet, to be left alone. Dullness, languor, listless, apathy regarding his illness, absolute lack of fear. Emotional excitement, fear leads to bodily ailments.
• Vertigo, spreading from occiput, heaviness of head
• Cannot get fully to sleep, insomnia from exhaustion, from uncontrollable thinking, tobacco, yawning, sleepless from nervous irritation