Can I use homeopathy
Medication homeopathic are prepared from highly diluted vegetable, animal, mineral or chemical substances. The good news is that they do not cause side effects and do not pose a risk of overdose.
There are two main families of homeopathic medicines: those which do not include a therapeutic indication or dosage, because they can be used for very different symptoms. For example, the same medication can be prescribed for cases of sunstroke, insect bite, flu, headache …, these are the famous granules;
And those which include precise therapeutic indications, accompanied by a dosage. They are found in the form of tablets, syrup, drinkable single doses, ointments, and other preparations.
Without risk for your pregnancy, you can therefore consult a homeopath (or a doctor who uses homeopathy as part of his prescriptions) who will carefully study each of your disorders in order to prescribe the most appropriate remedy.
Herbal medicine, the ally of pregnant women?
Like other alternative medicines,herbal medicine is useful during pregnancy to relieve many minor ailments. Against nausea, we can for example mix meadowsweet, chickweed, blackcurrant leaves and obtain a calming herbal tea. Likewise, against states of stress and anxiety, a herbal tea combining lemon balm and poppy will have a soothing effect.
Can we use essential oils?
With the greatest caution, yes. And on the advice of a specialized therapist, it’s better. Because contrary to popular belief,essential oils are not recommended for pregnant women, and many of them can be used to relieve minor ailments of everyday life: stress, irritated gums, colds, hemorrhoids … Danièle Festy, pharmacist and author of “To treat yourself with oils essential during pregnancy “(ed. Leduc.s), reminds us:” Essential oils are not necessarily dangerous, they are powerful, which has nothing to do with it. But they can indeed become so if they are misused. Exactly like Doliprane®, a car, the sun, electricity or water. Not all essential oils are prohibited for pregnant women. If some of them, provided with potentially dangerous components for the mother or for the baby, are indeed, a good thirty are perfectly tolerated, either because they contain strictly no toxic molecules in high concentration, or because, at the recommended doses and over an extremely short period of use, they do not present any danger. “
Good ideas? Treat yourself to Danièle Festy’s guide book and scrupulously respect the dosages of her remedies, consult an aromatherapy specialist (doctor or pharmacist), and prefer organic essential oils, 100% pure (not cut by a foreign substance), 100% natural (not denatured by synthetic molecules …).
