Homeopathy for hot flashes: best treatments

Menopauseemotional shock, hormonal variation… and you’re in the water! To counter the hot flashes, there are many treatments (to see with his doctor). Can also try homeopathyit can sometimes help.

What are the homeopathic treatments for hot flashes?

There are about ten homeopathic treatments that can relieve women with hot flashes, among which :

• lachesis mutus,
• sulfur,
• acthéane (a complex of five treatments),
• belladonna,
• amylium nitrosum,
• glonoinium,
• sanguinaria canadensis.

What homeopathic treatment during menopause?

“In premenopause or menopause, hot flashes can set in and often constitute the first reason for consultation“, explains Dr. Christelle Besnard-Charvet in the book “Homeopathy in gynecology”. The homeopath can offer:

• Lachesis in 15 CH : for women suffering from migraines and/or having sweating problems;
• Belladonna in 9 CH : for those who have vascular congestion with a red face;
• Kalium Carbonicum : for people with palpitations;
• Glonoinium : for women with a very accelerated pulse;
• Aconite, arsenic or natrum muriaticum : if sadness is associated;
• Staphysagria : if the hot flashes occur after a fit of anger;
• Sepia : can be offered to women also feeling heaviness and digestive disorders;
• Sulfur : for people who also have joint disorders;
• Thuja : for women whose sweats are smelly.

What homeopathic treatment apart from menopause?

“For those who have hot flashes outside of menopause we easily offer the following treatments“:

• Calcarea;
• Gelsemium;
• Caustic,
• Kali carb,
• Lake,
• Platinum

These lists are not exhaustive as there are 3000 homeopathic treatments ! “It is of course advisable toadapt your diet And balance your stress in order to have an organism that reacts as little as possible to inflammationwarns Karine Thépot. This is the reason why comprehensive care is often advised And a micronutrient supplement – or food education – is relevant”.

The homeopath needs a lot of objective information and subjective in order to allow him to individualize the patient and thus offer her the most personalized treatment. If hot flashes can often be linked to a hormonal imbalance caused, for example, by menopause, they can also have a more emotional cause following illness or death, for example. A fragility of the body can then settle. “Fact, the search for this adequate treatment can take a long time, sometimes several months“, warns Karine Thépot, homeopath-unicist midwife. Especially since there is 3000 homeopathic treatments. Each homeopathic treatment has a source which can be vegetable mostly, animal or mineral. Each woman has a different sensitivity. Offering mineral homeopathy to a woman receptive to plant homeopathy will therefore have no effect. To understand this sensitivity, a study must be carried out and this can be long. “It is by grouping a large part of the symptoms that we will determine the personalized unicist treatment for the patient. In the meantime, we will use so-called recipe remedies to try to lessen the symptoms.”, assures the midwife. In order to find the right treatment, Dr Christelle Besnard-Charvet explains that “the patient must be able to answer specific questions to refine the search“. These questions are as follows:

• What is the frequency puffs?
• When do they occur?
• What is the location ?
• Has there been an association with other signs (sweats, redness or palpitation…)?
• Is there an impact on the sleep ?
• Because of what or thanks to what and are the symptoms getting worse or better (cold, fresh air, heat)?

Thanks to Karine Thépot, homeopath-unicist midwife and author of Homeopathy in gynecology by Dr Besnard-Charvet Christelle (Elsevier Masson editions).