ANXIETY THE NATURAL CARE IS THERE
Generalized anxiety or that with panic attacks is often declined to women and sometimes not recognized because we tend to look for physical causes for the symptoms and discomfort it presents. We can draw basic aid from nature to check and correct some erroneous arrangements.Anxiety is one of the disorders that sooner or later everyone grasps.
There are both character predispositions and contingent situations that can influence the way we face the day, the difficulties and be engulfed by what surrounds us, until we take our breath away and make our heart feel in our throat.
We can resort to natural remedies from flower therapy to phytotherapy to appease anxious conditions and face our unknown tomorrow with serenity.
The Floritherapy for Anxiety
In true healing there is no thought of illness; it is the mental state, the only mental difficulty to be considered: it is where we are wrong in the divine plan that counts. This disharmony with our spiritual self can produce hundreds of different defects in our bodies, because our bodies are after all simply the product of the condition of our mind. What does that matter? If we fix our mind, the body will soon be healed “- Edward Bach.
The flower therapy directs its influence on the subtlest part of our being , the psychic sphere, our emotional part and anxiety is one of those disorders that can be treated with Bach flowers . Let’s see the most suitable ones.
> Agrimony : it is the anti- anxiety flower par excellence , indicated for all those who do not want or think they can not admit their inner condition of discomfort. The Agrimony wear a mask , pretending that everything goes well, then in sleep grind their teeth, bite their nails, are caught by palpitations and shortness of breath, but prefer to keep everything under control to avoid having to dig too deep.
> Elm : it is the flower of the manager , of the one who bears organizational responsibilities and who suddenly goes into crisis. Elm is a perfectionist and tends to manage everything by himself, because only in this way things are done well and accurately. She becomes anxious when she fears she will not make it, when her physical and mental energies have run out and she can not delegate.
> Red Chestnut: it is the flower of the umbilical cord never cut or of the too symbiotic bonds. Red Chestnut worries excessively about what could happen badly to people who love and lives in fear, in constant unmotivated apprehension , to the point of completely neglecting himself in an almost suffocating afflatus towards those around him.
Phytotherapy for Anxiety
There are many herbal remedies that through their roots, leaves, buds or phytocomplex are able to modulate our mood, anxiety, over-concern, tachycardia.
We can use them in the form of Gemmoderivato , a glyceric macerate solution that uses young jets rich in all the new strength of the plant and particularly indicated in case of long-term intake, also suitable for children and animals.
In Erboristeria we also find the Hydroalcoholic Extracts and the Dry Extracts , all titled and standardized for a weighted dosage. Drops, capsules or tablets of natural remedies with their active ingredients can be introduced for some periods in our diet.
> Crataegus Oxiacanta : the Hawthorn in gemmoderivato , a gentle remedy that controls mild states of nervous tension, irritability, stress. It helps to reconcile sleep, rebalances the pressure too high, calm tachycardia episodes.
> Tilia Tomentosa: It has sedative properties and is indicated in case of anxiety, insomnia, nervousness, palpitation. The lime tree is also suitable for children who are struggling to sleep and are very agitated.
> Albizia : also known as Acacia di Costantinopoli , is a remedy used in the cortex and has sedative, hypnotic, antidepressive, analgesic properties . It is indicated in cases of emotional stress , anxiety, tachycardia, insomnia
Anxiety, what is it?
The Italian Treaty of Psychiatry defines anxiety as ” an emotional state with an unpleasant content, associated with a condition of alarm and fear that arises in the absence of a real danger and that in any case is disproportionate to any triggering incentives “.
Often but not always anxiety is a woman, the ratio is 2: 1 compared to men. We can speak of generalized anxiety (ADI) or anxiety with panic disorder, whose symptoms are distinct but growing and some may be the symptoms of others.
Symptoms of Anxiety
The symptomatology of the anxious includes conditions of restlessness, fatigue , difficulty in concentration, memory lapses , difficulty in sleep, tachycardia, up to result in tremors, feeling of suffocation, nausea, vertigo, hot flashes or cold with chills, numbness Arts.
Often these symptoms are not immediately recognized for what they underlie, and we tend to look for a physical cause. The WHO reports a 5% incidence of generalized anxiety on the world population, but only one third addresses the specialist!
