Way to reduce our stress reactions

·       Reappraising the situation: The most of the stress reactions occurs due to preoccupied thought or perception. This condition can be reduced by modifying perceptions. Reappraising means re-examine one’s initial perception. For example, before operation, researcher taught patient how to reduce stress. They first explained that it is rarely events that causes stress. Then they explained that no situation either positive or negative. If the patient was cope with effectively, he tries to took the positive side. Finally, they encourage the patient to consider the positive aspects of undergoing surgery, such as improved health, extra care after surgery etc. 

        So, reappraising the situation has three beneficial effects. First, it focusing on positive aspect of life and distracts the person from dwelling negative aspect. Secondly, it generates positive emotional states, which block negative conditions. Thirdly, it increases the person’s sense of control in a threatening situation.

·       Reduction of tension: Tension can be reduced by following process:

*** Offering prayer: If one feeling of anticipation, offering prayer can distract him from the subject of overthought and anxiety. Because by offering prayer one should be concentrated his mind to God thus increases his patience.

Offering prayer also helps to reduce his stress and concentrated his mind over the subject of anxiety and thinking properly to find out a solution.

*** Taking regular exercise: Exercise taking a regular basis also helps to coping with physiological reaction to stress. Physical exercise increase to taking working overload. Because during stress the physiological disruption is arouse involuntarily, while exercise induce arousal is voluntarily done. Thus, vigorous exercise provides self-control and reducing the physiological stress reaction.   

*** Meditation and hypnosis: Stress may also reduce by the process of meditation and hypnosis. By this process body and mind is relaxed deeply that helps to focusing our mind to the subject of attention.

*** Relaxation: Stress can be reduced by progressive relaxation. While you are in stress, placed your right hand over the right knee and closed your eyes and make a fist. Focusing your attention to the cramped sensation about five seconds. After then simply relaxed the hands by letting fingers out. This process may bring relaxation of the body and feeling warm.

·       Family and social support: Family and social support plays and important role to cope with the stressful condition. Like, a child of a broken family may continuously face the problem of depressions and guilt and to brings their gratification they are engaged with various anti-social activities which also make him unaccepted by society. So, family and social support has great role to maintain self-esteem and increases one confidence to do our everyday activities as well as overcome our stressful condition.

·        In some case, sedatives are required to reduce stress. But it has less value to overcome the condition because sedatives are used as short time to avoid aggravations. On the other hand, it only brings sleep which is not an appropriate solution to reduce stress and tension.

·       Homoeopathic medicines for reducing stressful conditions:

Most of the Homoeopathic medicines are acts over the mind. During taking the case we are try to find out the patient mental conditions by continuous conversation and following his behaviors during visit.

There is no specific Homoeopathic remedy to reduce stresses but symptomatic Homoeopathic remedies are effective to reducing stress reactions. Here, I describe some symptomatic Homoeopathic remedy to relieving stress:

          ***Anacardium orientale: Anacardium patients are very much forgetful in nature. They are embarrassed themselves for their forgetfulness. Lack of confidence due to forgetfulness. They are suspicious too. Delusion that someone followed him. Takes the bad side of everything. Due to their mental weakness they deserve them as burden and desire to bodily injured himself. They also feeling anxiety and misfortune of future.

          *** Aconitum napellus:  It is a great panic remedy. Intense, uncontrollable, anguish, anxiety and the fear are the characteristic symptoms of this remedy. Fear of every kind like, fear of disease, fear of crossing the road, fear of misfortune, fear of darkness, fear of ghost, fear of going out, fear to doing any hard task etc. is successfully treated by this remedy. The peculiar symptom of this remedy is prediction. They predict the time of death while in disease. Music is unbearable to him.

          *** Arsenicum album: Arsenic patients are restless and fearful. Feels very much anxiety about disease also look Hippocratic (pale and shrink looking). Arsenic is come if a person feels anxiety over a trivial matter and got debilitated physically. Although they are debilitated but they continuously moving from one thing to other, that is characterized as restlessness.

          *** Phosphorus: Phosphorus patients are sympathetic. He feels each and every matter are related to him and shows great passion to others. Never accepted others burden because it hurts him mentally. Great fear of disease. Desire company during disease.

          *** Gelsemium: Gelsemium is come when physical weakness is developed due to over thought of mind or thinking very much about the trivial matters. Like, diarrhoea is come when appoint to office, attend to exam, going for dealing business, to the court etc.

          *** Lycopodium clavatum: Lycopodium has bashful behavior. They have great fear of doing. Even a skilled person does not desire to go his working place due to fear and nervousness. If he is forced to attend then he wants to go.

          *** Carcinosinum: Carcinosin is come when there is prolong history of unhappiness. The patient either dull or intelligent but feels fear and fright due to anticipation that something bad will be happened.

          *** Aurum metallicum: Aurum are useful to the patient who are hopeless and despair. They are thinks that they had done unpardonable sins in their past. So, they want to separate themselves from their family and friends. They desire to killed themselves. They also think that their sins are unpardonable by friends and even by the God and always blaming themselves.

          *** Pulsatilla nigricans: Pulsatilla patients are highly emotional. Mental conditions are changeable. One time irritable another time they are affectionate. They are usually gentle, amiable in character, cannot opposition to others. They have a peculiar symptom that fear of being meet to opposite sex. Consolation reduce their stress.

          *** Ignatia amara: Ignatia is come on the persons are mentally shocked, depressed and then not to overcome from the situations. These symptoms are found to the person who are disappointed in love, after failed in examination, after loss or family separation, loss of property. The peculiar symptom of this remedy is involuntary sighing without any reason.

          *** Natrum muriaticum: It is useful to the patient who are suspicious in nature and cannot bear contradictions. They suffer from difficulty in concentration. Consolation aggravates their condition.

          *** Graphites: Graphites patient are despondent, sad, prostrated and music makes her wipes. The person become hesitate to making decision. Like, if he is forced to do anything, he become thinks a lot before doing and also continuously thought the good and bad side about the matters that he has already done.

These are the description of some symptomatic Homoeopathic remedy that are definitely usable to reduce stress. If you notice that your stress is not reduce then you should appoint to a psychologist for betterment of your life.

 

___Amatul Zami Aditi

Student (final year B.H.M.S.)

Govt. Homoeopathic Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.