Healing Insights
A collection of reflections, articles and resources on emotional, mental and physical healing through homeopathy.
Homeopathy & Mental Health
Mental health touches every part of who we are, how we think, feel, and navigate life. This article explores how homeopathy offers a gentle, individualised path to emotional healing, from anxiety and depression to PTSD and trauma. Discover how tailored remedies can help you reconnect with a deeper sense of balance and wellbeing.
What Is Mental Health and Why Does It Matter
Homeopathy addresses mental health holistically, treating emotional and physical symptoms together. It seeks to find and treat root causes of anxiety and depression, not just symptoms. Remedies are tailored to the individual's mental state, temperament, and health, promoting balance, reducing stress, improving mood, and supporting lasting emotional resilience.
Mental health is just as important as physical health. It includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being—and affects how we think, feel, act, handle stress, relate to others, and make decisions.
Good mental health means having the emotional resilience and clarity to navigate life in a way that supports your values, needs, and relationships.
Common mental health concerns include:
Anxiety disorders
Depression
Behavioural and emotional issues in children
PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)
Obsessive-compulsive behaviours
How Can Homeopathy Support Mental Health?
Homeopathy addresses mental health through a truly individualised lens. Each treatment begins with a full psychological and emotional assessment, followed by a remedy selected according to homeopathic laws and principles.
Rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach, we look at:
How you experience your mental health
The root causes and triggers
Your emotional and physical symptoms
The patterns that make your experience unique
Homeopathy treats the interconnection between mind and body, offering support that is both holistic and personal.
What to Expect From a Homeopathic Appointment
A homeopathic consultation aims to uncover the specific ways your experience differs from anyone else’s.
We’ll explore:
Your thought and behaviour patterns
Emotional tendencies
Medical and family history
Diet and lifestyle
Responses to your environment
Causative and moderating factors
This comprehensive picture helps select a remedy that reflects you, not just your condition.
5 Key Homeopathic Remedies for Mental Health Support
Arsenicum album
Themes: Anxiety, compulsive behaviours, health fears
Profile: Feels vulnerable, weak, and unsafe. Deep fear of illness, poverty, or being alone. Often restless and controlling. High need for reassurance.
Argentum nitricum (Arg nit)
Themes: Anticipatory anxiety, phobias, panic attacks
Profile: Nervous anticipation, fear of failure, fear of high places or confined spaces. Diarrhoea from nerves. Feels time moves too slowly. Relieved by fresh air.
Aurum metallicum
Themes: Deep depression, guilt, suicidal thoughts
Profile: High-achieving, responsible, conscientious. Overwhelmed by failure or loss. Feels life is black and without hope. Suicidal despair with a strong moral or religious conscience.
Aconitum napellus
Themes: Panic, shock, sudden fear
Profile: Intense, sudden fear as if death is imminent. Panic attacks, breathlessness, fear of crowds, accidents, or open spaces. Acute, explosive emotional states.
Stramonium
Themes: Trauma, night terrors, PTSD
Profile: Haunted by terrifying past events. Afraid of the dark, of being alone, or of something lurking. Clings to others, disoriented, fearful of ghosts, demons, or animals. May become aggressive when overwhelmed.
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Aconite
Aconite Napellus is also known as Monkshood, Wolf’s Bane, Granny’s Nightcap and Iron Hat. It is used in homeopathy for a range of acute ailments where symptoms are intensely acute, sudden, violent, painful and accompanied by fear. Aconite is an excellent remedy for the treatment of panic and terror attacks when triggered by a sudden, frightful experience. In this context, Aconite is often indicated in ailments arising from shock, such as hearing bad news, near death experiences, injury (eg. accident), and surgical procedures.
Aconite Napellus is also known as Monkshood, Wolf’s Bane, Granny’s Nightcap and Iron Hat. It is used in homeopathy for a range of acute ailments where symptoms are intensely acute, sudden, violent, painful and accompanied by fear. Aconite is an excellent remedy for the treatment of panic and terror attacks when triggered by a sudden, frightful experience. In this context, Aconite is often indicated in ailments arising from shock, such as hearing bad news, near death experiences, injury (eg. accident), and surgical procedures.
Homeopathy isn't a blanket approach of one size fits all, it is individualised treatment based on a rigorous understanding you and of the interrelationship of how you think, feel and experience being unwell.
If you would like to find out more about homeopathy and how it can support anxiety, fear and panic, as well as a range of other conditions, please contact me on +44(0)7962666873 or info@tonyfox-homeopathy.com
Appointments available via online video.
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Arsencium Album
Arsenicum is often indicated in the treatment of anxiety when accompanied by marked fear, restlessness and irritability. The central theme of Arsenicum is a feeling of being too weak to survive a world that is both chaotic and threatening. In this context, Arsenicum types feel overwhelmed with vulnerability and have a tendency to lean heavily on others for support, which can lead to overbearing dependency. Other characteristic symptoms include fastidiousness, a preoccupation with death and dying, and lots of fears that include cancer, disease, robbers and poverty.
Arsenicum is often indicated in the treatment of anxiety when accompanied by marked fear, restlessness and irritability. The central theme of Arsenicum is a feeling of being too weak to survive a world that is both chaotic and threatening. In this context, Arsenicum types feel overwhelmed with vulnerability and have a tendency to lean heavily on others for support, which can lead to overbearing dependency. Other characteristic symptoms include fastidiousness, a preoccupation with death and dying, and lots of fears that include cancer, disease, robbers and poverty.
Homeopathy isn't a blanket approach of one size fits all, it is individualised treatment based on a rigorous understanding you and of the interrelationship of how you think, feel and experience being unwell.
If you would like to find out more about homeopathy and how it can support anxiety and a range of other conditions, please contact me on +44(0)7962666873 or info@tonyfox-homeopathy.com
Appointments available via online video.
FAQ’s
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Homeopathy & the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety disorders frequently cause intense, excessive and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations. Ongoing anxiety can make a person imagine that things in their life are worse than they really are, which in turn can prevent them from confronting their fears whilst and cause a lot of suffering.
Anxiety disorders frequently cause intense, excessive and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations. Ongoing anxiety can make a person imagine that things in their life are worse than they really are, which in turn can prevent them from confronting their fears whilst and cause a lot of suffering.
Although anxiety isn’t uncommon, the way it’s experienced is unique from one person to the next. These diverse experiences are reflected in the wide range of homeopathic remedies used for its treatment. Many homeopathic remedies cover broad symptoms, such as fear and anxiety, but in order to find a truly effective remedy it must match the individualising symptoms of the patient’s case.
For example, the remedy Arsenicum by the feeling that the world is a threatening and chaotic place, the remedy Aconite feels acute and uncontrollable panic, and the remedy Stramonium feels they’re in a life threatening situation and responds with a flight or fight reaction(eg. PTSD).
If you would like to find out more about homeopathy and how it can support anxiety and other conditions, please can me on +44(0)7962666873 or email info@tonyfox-homeopathy.com or message me via the contacts page.
ANXIETY REMEDIES
Arsencium: The main feeling is that the world is a threatening and chaotic place and Arsenicum feels weak and defenceless within it. This vulnerable feeing leads to loneliness and dependency on others with a constant need for reassurance. Arsenicum has specific fears and anxieties of robbers, poverty and being left alone. There is also characteristic anxiety around health and dying, leading to a hypochondriacal anxiety. Restlessness can be strong in Arsenicum and it is also one of the main remedies for compulsive behaviour.
Aconite: The main feeling of Aconite is of a sudden and intense threat. This is an acute state of anxiety filled mental excitability and hurriedness. This can arise from a fear of walking across a busy street, of an accident, of suffocation, or that you are about to die. When triggered, fear and nervousness rise quickly leading to panic attacks and difficult breathing (shortness of breath). Often the feeling is one of a life and death situation. Aconite avoids crowds, crossing the street and any situation that would excite the mind.
Arg nit: Caused by a sudden danger where you must respond in a crisis, which excites impulsive, restless and nervous behaviour. This could arise in a crowd of people, in closed spaces, tunnels, bridges, aeroplanes, any place that is blocked or high places. Arg nit is anxious to be in control in critical situations so that they can find their way out, for example they will sit near an exit in a theatre or in an aisle seat of public transport to escape quickly. Any kind of situation where the Arg nit feels trapped will trigger an impulse to get out of this situation.
Stramonium: Causations include witnessing death, violence and life threatening situations (PTSD). Stramonium feels helpless, as though abandoned and left in a terrifying place. Fear of darkness and a longing for sunshine, light and company is strong. They don’t recognise anyone, they just cling to whatever and whoever is there. They feel alone, lost and try to escape a perceived terrifying situation. Stramonium lives in fear that there is some kind of immediate danger, they feel disorientated, they stammer, and will kick, bite and scratch to escape. Specific fears of violence, cemeteries, ghosts, water, suffocation, strangers, demons, tunnels and animals.
ANXIETY SYMPTOMS & DISORDERS
Common anxiety signs and symptoms:
Feeling nervous, restless or tense
Having a sense of impending danger, panic or doom
Having an increased heart rate
Breathing rapidly (hyperventilation)
Sweating
Trembling
Feeling weak or tired
Trouble concentrating or thinking about anything other than the present worry
Having trouble sleeping
Experiencing gastrointestinal (GI) problems
Having difficulty controlling worry
Having the urge to avoid things that trigger anxiety
Types of anxiety disorders:
Generalised Anxiety Disorder
Panic Disorder (regular sudden attacks of panic or fear)
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Social Anxiety Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Specific Phobias (overwhelming and incapacitating fear of a specific object, place, situation or feeling)
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