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Homeopathic
medicines should be placed under the tongue of adults and children
or in the cheek of an infant where they will dissolve. It is
preferable that there be nothing in the mouth to eat or drink 15
minutes before or after taking homeopathic medicines.
Here's a little
more detail:
Look under your
tongue. It is an environment full of capillaries (blood vessels)
surrounded by very soft tissue. If you want something to be absorbed
directly into the human body, what better place to do it than
somewhere that is rich in blood vessels that carry blood throughout
your system rapidly!
Homeopathic
products are very clean-meaning they have no binders, fillers or
coatings. The soft molded lactose tablets are made to dissolve
almost instantly when placed in the mouth. Because the remedies
dissolve in the mouth, they are absorbed by the mucous membranes in
the mouth and carried directly into your system. For this reason,
the remedies work faster than conventional medicines because
conventional medicines are usually coated and don't get absorbed
into the system until the coating is dissolved by the stomach acid,
and that generally takes about twenty minutes.
Homeopathic
medicated pellets take longer to dissolve, but they don't taste bad
so it is worth the wait. Dilutions are liquid and should be dropped
directly under the tongue.
Because the
remedies are very clean and fragile, avoid handling them. It is
preferable to drop the tablets or pellets into the cap of the
bottle, and pour them from the cap into your mouth. If more than
four pour into the cap, take four-don't put the pills back into the
bottle.
You cannot
overdose on homeopathic medicines. If you take fifteen tablets or
five tablets (or 100 tablets for that matter) AT ONE TIME it is one
dose. You will stimulate your curative response one time. So, it is
not a tragedy if more than six tablets fall into the cap, just take
them rather than risk putting a contaminated pill back into the
bottle to contaminate the others in the bottle.
Finally, things
like mint, caffeine and other remedies may antidote homeopathic
medicines. In order to help prevent antidotes, take your remedies
one at a time, with a "clean mouth". It is best not to eat or drink
15 minutes before or after taking the remedies. |
