Unfortunately, many people experience trauma on planet Earth. Trauma may be verbal, physical, psychological, sexual, and/or violent. Rape, miscarriage, robbery, and accidents are all traumatic. Though females are the most often affected by sexual abuse, abuse occurs to many males. In some cases, both partners have been victims of sexual trauma. If abuse issues are never brought up, they can continue to affect current relationships in subtle ways. If abuse occurred via the opposite sex, feelings of hurt, anger, and grief can be transferred to others of that sex. Counseling can help even if the trauma occurred years ago. It’s important to ask for what you want and need to heal completely. Here are some natural remedies that also help.
AT EASE TRAUMA
Herbs that ease trauma include oat straw, motherwort, and Saint-John’s Wort, all of which nourish the nervous system. Oat straw makes a lovely tea, but the last two can be found in tinctures and capsules and 1 or 2 can be taken up to 3 times daily.
Schizandra berries are beneficial following trauma and eleuthero can also support the body during times of stress. Both are adaptogens, helping the body adapt to difficult situations, and are available in tea, tincture, or capsule form, taken as directed on the package up to 3 times daily.
Raspberry leaf, which is mineral rich and targets the reproductive centers, can be taken in tea, tincture, or capsule form 3 times daily to help heal sexual trauma.
ESSENTIAL OILS AND FLOWER ESSENCES THAT EASE TRAUMA
Flower essences for trauma include Star of Bethlehem, which is beneficial for great physical shock and trauma such as rape, injury, robbery, and accidents. Rescue Remedy is a combination Bach Flower remedy good for panic, shock, grief, despair, and other crisis. Take two drops in a glass of water 3 times daily.
It can also help to smell lavender oil or even take a bath in it. Rose essential oil can be inhaled to soothe emotional traumas.
SOOTHING PRACTICES TO EASE TRAUMA
Soak your feet in warm water to which a bit of cayenne pepper has been added and stirred. The warmth infuses the body with a feeling of safety and security.
Apply acupressure to point two thirds up from upper lip to nose.
Eat soothing nutrient-dense foods, seaweeds, wild rice, black sesame seeds, and especially chia seeds, which can be soaked and consumed as a raw breakfast cereal. (Flavor with blueberries, apples, raisins, and/or honey.) According to Asian medicine, foods that are black in color are high in minerals that affect the kidneys, the organ system associated with fear.
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A Chinese patent formula to use for stress resulting from bad fright or severe shock to the emotional body is ding Xin Wan, also called Calm heart Pill. It can also help relieve posttraumatic stress. Follow the directions on the bottle.
Surround yourself with the healing color green. Green clothes, green bedding, green foods, and green plants all have a calming presence.
When you allow the pain of old emotions to resurface, after you feel them, you can release them. It can help to discuss your wounds with a trusted friend. Don’t be afraid to express feelings of hurt, anger, and grief. It’s okay to feel! You can also benefit by writing about your feelings.
Another way to heal is to take two deep inhalations, allowing hurt feelings to leave the body with each exhalation.
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Homeopathic Ignatia helps when sexuality has been altered by grief or trauma. Take 3 or 4 pellets slowly dissolved under the tongue as needed, up to four times daily. For more information, see my book sexual herbal.
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If you are providing comfort to someone experiencing trauma, offer words of encouragement, such as “it’s okay. I’m here for you. I care.” offer a tissue. Avoid correcting or analyzing. Don’t tell the person to get over it or put it behind them.
This Natural Trauma Treatment article is taken from :
The Country Almanac of Home Remedies - Brigitte Mars
