It all started with a sore throat on Jun 28th…. two days of sore throat where my voice didn’t change, and I didn’t have a cold. Then the 3rd day, I had slight fever and by the afternoon totally lost my voice !
Did some salt water gargling and took lots of honey in warm water. Again no change for a couple of days and just when I thought maybe I should go to a doc, my hoarse voice came back alongwith a cough.
For the first one week, I didn’t miss my walking much and just assumed that this will go away soon, but once the cough came around, it was difficult to do the regular stuff. My eyes went red and I was worried it might be conjuctivitis but thankfully it wasn’t. I canceled an interaction session with the PgpPro batch, canceled several meetings and kept handing the phone to Krishnan anytime I received a call.
The worst thing about a cough is you can’t sleep well. I kept waking up every couple of hours, some days it was quite bad and other days I could get some shut eye. Invariably I would sleep late and the days just became jumbled.
Aarogyahaar
You might be wondering why I didn’t pop pills or take a cough syrup. Well, my health coach Sheetal and Aarogyahaar’s founder Rajan Mahendra helped me understand the psyche behind these symptoms !! We actually need to look deeply at our fears, likes, dislikes and self talk before reaching for that pill.
Do read about the mind-psyche-body connection on Aarogyahaar’s website and do speak to their health coaches. Your body will thank you as it will feel refreshed and healthy. I have always carried around Louise Hay‘s books and the psychosomatic reasons that (late) Ms. Hay speaks of are actually true. What you realise with Aarogyahaar’s health coaching is another level of understanding with evidence of how these symptoms have to be interpreted.
Does it mean you never pop a pill ? Well, that depends on you ! I did take help from Homeopathy and Kousalya’s medicine when the cough became unbearable, but I didn’t take any allopathic medicine because they only treat symptoms, not the underlying cause.
Kousalya’s Medicine
My sister-in-law Kousalya got Amma hooked onto this siddha medicine called Anjol. Kousalya took just Anjol right through Covid and the damned virus stayed away. In Jan this year when we were on the road trip, Amma had a serious bout of cough and it was Anjol to the rescue.
Amma remembered Anjol a couple of days into my coughing. I took it for two nights and it helped bring out the phlegm and reduce the cough. My mother has renamed Anjol as Kousalya’s Marunthu (medicine). It’s really effective and it’s a mix of different herbs, so no side effects at all.
Homeopathy
Homeopathy is the only thing that works for any kind of skin ailments – psoriasis, eczema etc. The first time I started taking homeopathy medicine was in Shillong. Dad always tried alternatives to allopathy and I still remember the homeopathy doctor’s clinic in Shillong. He would pack each dose in a small white paper and because the pills were sweet, I had no issues taking them :).
Again, homeopathy doesn’t have side effects and it treats the whole person, not just the cough or headache. A good homeopath takes copious notes and asks lots of questions about your food habits, lifestyle, “nature”… very similar to Ayurveda.
Ok, enough of rambling. Am fine now. The cough is gone, sore throat is gone, eyes are almost back to normal and I feel good.
Thanks to Aarogyahaar, Homeopathy and Kousalya :):).