I do not know if my husband was a night person before Korea. He was born in a farm family and would have been dragged out of bed to do chores at daybreak no matter what his preference would have been.
Daughter was born C-section, came out terrified and screaming and still at it. Wish I knew about Aconite 35 years ago. She is (and husband was) an adrenaline junky as I suspect client is. (Ambulance squad, firefighters, etc).
Let's, for discussion purposes, revolve around the PTSD - increased cortisol plus melatonin - alert and awake at night then add more stimulation with emergency alarms going off and the rush of excitement to put to good use those high levels. Afterwards the Exhaustion and adrenal fatigue and greater ability to rest?
There has to be a way out of that cycle.
Cortisol in high potencies?
Maria
Cortisol/melatonin connection
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Irene de Villiers
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Re: Cortisol/melatonin connection
Hi Maria,
I am a little doubtful whether it is that easy.
In my own case I did try cortisol to no good effect. I also tried chlorpromazine after getting it made specially, as the symptoms looked a better match than cortisol, but it did nothing. (OA Julian repertory has some useful provings for remedies in this kind of area.)
My ICT remedy has helped however, since I used it in Fibonacci series, up to 233C. It has helped with my better being able to handle the symptoms (which can not be removed, as maintaining cause is still there).
By "handle" I mean for example, that when the high cortisol triggers a high adrenaline release to some little event, instead fo a normal amount being released.... I get the expected extreme phyiological responses associated with that sudden high adrenaline (heart racing, blood pressure instantly jumps from say 130/73 to 230/185 for example in my case, protein is turned to glucose so my blood glucose shoots to over 300).... but ....I now can mentally tell my system to take it easy, that it was a false alarm, and it no longer escalates more and more as it used to do, ending in heart attack (I have had several) or stroke (I have has one and been close several times with the same symptoms I felt right before the first stroke).
However the ICT is not enough, it still needs first aid when an event that triggers excess adrenaline happens.
I still need Arnica 1M to stop the impending heart atack.
need insulin to slam down the glucose.
And I need three hours of time out to fix the blood pressure using
High dose potassium and magnesium
herb teas (hawthorne berry, passion flower, lindenbalm)
hour of relaxation yoga (which drops systolic 20 points in one hour without any herbs or other help),
and a lamb chop (my most effective protein) with half a glass of Shiraz (forces the muscles to stop jangling till the potassium and magnesium can be absorbed).
What the ICT remedy does is to put brakes on. Before using it, once this adrenaline rush started, it affected the brain so it goes round and round and you cannot switch it off, and that makes for still more adrenaline in a vicious cycle.
SO now I can mentally give my system feedback and switch off that vicious cycle.... PROVIDED I can force the causative situation to get the three hours time-out I need. It is not controllable if one is in a tense situation and one cannot be removed from it.
What I do nto know is whether ICT would permanently fix someone with PTSD after the maintaining cause is removed.
My own biggest issue is not eing able to remove the cortisol producing tumors.
I hope what principles I learned from using ICT may be useful to others.
However you bring up the relevant point that people can be adrenaline junkies. That is such a different cause than an unwanted supply of cortisol from a tumor. I would assume it would point to different ICT types. I am NOT normally an adrenaline junkine, just the opposite, though I have in common, the ability to handle serious emergencies with calm thinking at the time. (Then get all shaky later and hope it never happens again. I do not enjoy it and want more.)
I think these differences in approach - mine versus an adrenaline junkie - also suggest that a specific individual remedy is needed in each case raher than a cortisol detox approach.
Namaste,
Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.Furryboots.info
(Info on Feline health, genetics, nutrition & homeopathy)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."
I am a little doubtful whether it is that easy.
In my own case I did try cortisol to no good effect. I also tried chlorpromazine after getting it made specially, as the symptoms looked a better match than cortisol, but it did nothing. (OA Julian repertory has some useful provings for remedies in this kind of area.)
My ICT remedy has helped however, since I used it in Fibonacci series, up to 233C. It has helped with my better being able to handle the symptoms (which can not be removed, as maintaining cause is still there).
By "handle" I mean for example, that when the high cortisol triggers a high adrenaline release to some little event, instead fo a normal amount being released.... I get the expected extreme phyiological responses associated with that sudden high adrenaline (heart racing, blood pressure instantly jumps from say 130/73 to 230/185 for example in my case, protein is turned to glucose so my blood glucose shoots to over 300).... but ....I now can mentally tell my system to take it easy, that it was a false alarm, and it no longer escalates more and more as it used to do, ending in heart attack (I have had several) or stroke (I have has one and been close several times with the same symptoms I felt right before the first stroke).
However the ICT is not enough, it still needs first aid when an event that triggers excess adrenaline happens.
I still need Arnica 1M to stop the impending heart atack.
need insulin to slam down the glucose.
And I need three hours of time out to fix the blood pressure using
High dose potassium and magnesium
herb teas (hawthorne berry, passion flower, lindenbalm)
hour of relaxation yoga (which drops systolic 20 points in one hour without any herbs or other help),
and a lamb chop (my most effective protein) with half a glass of Shiraz (forces the muscles to stop jangling till the potassium and magnesium can be absorbed).
What the ICT remedy does is to put brakes on. Before using it, once this adrenaline rush started, it affected the brain so it goes round and round and you cannot switch it off, and that makes for still more adrenaline in a vicious cycle.
SO now I can mentally give my system feedback and switch off that vicious cycle.... PROVIDED I can force the causative situation to get the three hours time-out I need. It is not controllable if one is in a tense situation and one cannot be removed from it.
What I do nto know is whether ICT would permanently fix someone with PTSD after the maintaining cause is removed.
My own biggest issue is not eing able to remove the cortisol producing tumors.
I hope what principles I learned from using ICT may be useful to others.
However you bring up the relevant point that people can be adrenaline junkies. That is such a different cause than an unwanted supply of cortisol from a tumor. I would assume it would point to different ICT types. I am NOT normally an adrenaline junkine, just the opposite, though I have in common, the ability to handle serious emergencies with calm thinking at the time. (Then get all shaky later and hope it never happens again. I do not enjoy it and want more.)
I think these differences in approach - mine versus an adrenaline junkie - also suggest that a specific individual remedy is needed in each case raher than a cortisol detox approach.
Namaste,
Irene
--
Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.Furryboots.info
(Info on Feline health, genetics, nutrition & homeopathy)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."
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Maria Bohle
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Re: Cortisol/melatonin connection
In the case of my client, etiology was a bad accident. So will prob treat the shock first. Maybe shock is enough of a jolt to throw the cortisol levels off.