Pellet Roulette
It has been a busy couple of weeks of traveling. According to a Boiron email that was in my inbox, 49% of Americans are traveling more this summer than last year, so I am not alone. The completely full flights I have been on seem to corroborate this idea.
I carry remedies with me pretty much every where I go. Why wouldn’t I? They do me no good tucked in my cupboard at home! (If you’re interested in what I generally carry and why, see here.)
I noticed on my last trip that my very old (but otherwise completely fine), miniature tubes of Arnica had been compromised. My 200c had somehow gotten wet and is now just a clump in the bottom of the little glass vial*. The lid on my equally old and equally little tube of Arnica 1M had come off and spilled in the bottom of my little remedy bag.
In anticipation of this next trip, I went through and took a second look at what I am carrying around with me and I replaced the Arnicas. I thought I was good to go.
Fast forward to today when our flight was re-routed due to weather and my neck and shoulder were feeling jolly uncomfortable in my middle seat following a pre-departure, fitful night’s sleep. I grabbed my little bag in eager anticipation of a dose of Arnica and the cap on my brand new little tube of Arnica was floating freely. Might the little pellets be loose on the bottom of the bag? Maybe, but it wouldn’t be my first spill of pellets in that bag, so I abandoned the idea of playing pellet roulette.
With our connecting flight long departed without us, we had many, many hours to kill so I visited the chair massage place. When I was paying, guess what they were selling? Various homeopathic combination remedies.
How cool is that?!
I have heard it said that Arnica is the “gateway” to further homeopathy use and as a homeopath, I can’t begin to tell you how happy I was to see remedies for sale in as mainstream a place as an airport**.
Now, let’s talk about X-ray machines. Some people claim putting the remedies through the machines can damage them. I have never found this to be the case. I have flown many, many times with my remedies. In my early days of using homeopathy, I would ask for them to be hand inspected, but I only did that a couple of times. Each of the remedies in my travel kit of 100 remedies has worked fine and dandy for me every time I have used them — seemingly no worse for the X-ray exposure.
Some of my remedies travel in a little bag with EMF lining to protect them. Others, like my 100 kit, do not. Why are some protected and others not? No reason in particular. I have the little bags because they’re cute and easy to find in my luggage. (If you’re interested, there are some good options on Etsy.)
Can any harm be done by playing pellet roulette? In my opinion, no. Especially when the pellets have been hanging out on the bottom of a cloth bag for a while. Remember, the medicine is sprayed on the outside of each pellet and most likely has rubbed off.
Wishing you happy and restful summer days.
Julia Coyte, CHom
Classically Practical homeopath
#wellnessawaits
* I needn’t throw this vial out. To use it, all I would have to do is put a tiny bit of water in this tiny little vial and have a tiny little sip. Voilà. A dose of Arnica.
** I’ve never tried this brand of remedies, but I am seeing them quite frequently now, so I’ll give them a try one day soon and let you know my thoughts.