Palpitations - arrhythmia

Our brains are ‘hard-wired’ to react with alarm to any kind of unpleasant or unusual sensation in the heart so a disturbance to the regular rhythmical beating of our heart can create considerable distress.

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The herb Motherwort is very specific for palpitations and it is a herb that you can get results with quite quickly if you are open to finding the dose that works.

Some notable cases in my practice have responded very well to Cayenne. It is not a herb for everyone but there is something about this fiery herb that can work to get the heart back into balance again.

Finding the right herb for the right person and then working with it in the right form and dose can be an art in itself and it may well be best to find a good herbalist.

Palpitations, arrhythmias, are a problem that is similar to that which is experienced by insomniacs in the way that the more you try to sleep the less you end up sleeping.  The more you worry about your heart rhythm the worse it seems to get.

Partly the answer to that is finding the right medicine to help so you know it is not just up to you (there are plenty of drugs that are used to treat heart arrhythmias but they all tend to have some degree of a sedative effect so in the long term it will definitely be a good idea to work out which herbs do the same kind of job).

And partly the answer to the self-perpetuating nature of this problem is to just ‘give into’ it being there, at least for the time being. As soon as you stop trying to get away from it people generally find that it very quickly lessens off of its own accord. It is as if the alarm signal in the brain is able to be turned off or at least turned down when we stop trying to leave the building but instead go the source of the alarm and see that everything really is still ok.

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