The Longer I Ride, The Better I Feel…

by lotus_admin | Jul 8, 2016 | Athletic Injuries, Bellis Perennis, Old Injuries

Bill Walton was an NBA All-Star when I was a kid. He was fun to watch. Definitely a fan favorite. But he was frequently injured and has spent much of his life in pain, according to an article in the April 21, 2016 edition of the Wall Street Journal.

WebP5261152 Long since retired, he has become a bicycling aficionado, to say the least. Even when he was a child, he loved riding his bicycle, to practice, back home, to school, and just for fun. Now as a retired athlete, he has a great deal of time to ride his bike and rides it many hours each day. He feels more comfortable on his bike than any other activity in which he may participate. “The longer I ride, the better I feel,” he says. Unlike many former pro athletes, he takes no medication and has no pain.

That statement is a perfect description of the remedy Bellis perennis.

Bellis Perennis, the Remedy

Bellis perennis is a relative of Arnica montana, so it has a lot to do with pain and trauma. Arnica is a mountain daisy. Bellis is a common daisy, and it is well known for “old gardener’s injuries”, according to the old homeopathy books. Indeed, it is also a remedy for old football injuries, and perhaps old basketball injuries.

Bill Walton with both knees supported!

People who need Bellis perennis often say that once they start moving they feel better, but their first motion is very painful until they have gotten going. This is also true of the remedy Rhus tox.

The difference between the two remedies lies in Bill Walton’s statement, “The longer I ride, the better I feel.”

Like Bellis perennis, Rhus tox feels worse on first motion and better on continued motion. But with Rhus tox, eventually, enough is enough and you feel worse again. With Bellis perennis, you can never move too much. You just feel better and better as you keep moving.

Here is a summary of Bellis perennis:

Modalities for Bellis Perennis:

Pain better from continued motion. Rhus Tox also has this modality, but eventually you move too much with Rhus Tox and you must stop moving. This is not true for Bellis Perennis.
Better from cold applications but worse from cold air or cold bathing.
Could also be better from Cold bathing, but generally always worse from cold air or wind.
Better from warm and warm applications.
The pain is worse than it seems it ought to be given the situation.

Here are some situations where you would choose Bellis Perennis over Arnica:

Injury to the Coccyx (Tailbone).
An old injury that has flared up. I had an old injury to the tailbone that reappeared with just a minor touch on the edge of a table I had bumped into. It was much more painful than it seemed it should have been and it was better if I kept walking. A week of Bellis Perennis 30c 3x a day made the injury disappear for good. This was several years ago. I haven’t felt the pain since.
Recovering from surgery, especially deep surgery.
Abdominal surgery or injury.
Help speed recovery from any surgery.
Head Lice. (22 other remedies cover that symptom as well.)
When Arnica has ceased to work or simply isn’t working but seems like it should.
When you have left over pain and bruising (ecchymosis) from surgery or an injury that Arnica can’t heal.

Mental Picture of Bellis Perennis:

Arnica often denies that anything is wrong. This is not part of the picture of Bellis. Bell-P has ritualistic behaviors, so when injured might be very structured and insist on doing things a certain way. They also might be slow to figure out what is going on. They are generally cheerful, and often compensate by being the tough guy (Compositae family of plants and remedies).

I’m not trying to get Bill Walton to stop riding his bike, but he definitely could use a break from riding hours on end. (See need for ritualistic activity, above.) Several doses of Bellis perennis over time would definitely enable him to feel less pain and have a more multi-dimensional life.

Oddly, Bellis perennis is not readily available in the store. So if you experience the feeling of “The Longer I Ride The Better I Feel,” you need some to have on hand. If so, please contact me.

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Meet Kathryn Berg the Classical Homeopath at Lotus Homeopathy, Inc.

Some of you know me, others of you may have heard of me. And for most, you probably have no clue about me or my business. So I wanted to take a few minutes to introduce myself, my family, my business, why I am a homeopath and how I became a homeopath—not necessarily in that order.

Like many people, I found out about homeopathy accidentally. I fell down while walking my Akita pup on an icy sidewalk on a typical Minnesota winter day. I was scheduled to go to a friend’s house later that day, so when I did, I asked her for some ice. You need some Arnica, she told me. Arnica? What’s that? She explained that Arnica is a homeopathic remedy for trauma.

At the time, the only place to get homeopathic remedies was a book and herb store in South Minneapolis. So I went there to get some. When I got there, I decided I should read some books so I actually knew what I was doing. I left with the Arnica 30c and three books. By the time I got done reading them, I knew I wanted to be a homeopath.

It was only several years later that I realized that I was attracted to homeopathy as a profession because I am a problem solver. It is what drives me. There is nothing like a well chosen homeopathic remedy to solve problems.

At the time I decided to become a homeopath, there wasn’t even a school here in in Minnesota. But eventually, my homeopath and his business partner started the Northwestern Academy of Homeopathy. I was a graduate of the third class. At the time I went there, it was a part time program taking three and a half years! Since then I have studied with numerous other well known and respected homeopaths in continuing education studies.

While I do work with all sorts of folks with a variety of conditions, I really have studied how to treat people suffering from PTSD, health issues related to aging women, and children’s health issues of all sorts, including autism. I have also been successful in removing blockages to healing due to suppression of symptoms by western medicine. I chose those specialties because people really suffer who have those forms of dis-ease, and Western Medicine doesn’t seem to have much of a solution for them.

After over twenty years of practice, I still get excited for clients when a remedy has helped them heal.

So that is about my business. Now, a little bit about me.

I have two adult sons in their early twenties, so I have shed the title of “Soccer mom”. My husband and I are empty nesters living in Woodbury, MN. For fun, I like to play piano, sing, sew, garden, hike, and travel. I am in a community choir. I also enjoy cooking healthy meals and, out of necessity, am an expert at cooking for special diets.

If you have any questions about homeopathy or my approach to homeopathic case taking, please feel free to put some questions in the comments below.

If you have a health issue you need help with, please click the Book Now button on my Facebook page or Main page of my website and schedule a complementary consult to see if homeopathy can help you!

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