Homeopathic remedies for anxiety attacks

A trained homeopath can be beneficial for the treatment of chronic anxiety disorders but for shorter episodes of self-limited and transient anxiety, appropriate remedies can be used. The 6x potency should be taken in the beginning and two tablets should be taken in every two to four hours depending upon the acuteness or severity of the illness. On noticing the improvement, intervals between the dosages can be improved and treatment discontinued when improvement seems to be well on its way. The remedy should be taken with a clean mouth free from food, drink, toothpaste, mouthwash or tobacco.

Rather than swallowing the granules or tablet with water, they should be allowed to dissolve slowly in your mouth and after the intake of remedy, nothing but water should be ingested for at least fifteen minutes.
Some of the medicines useful in treating the symptoms of anxiety are as follows:

Aconitum Napellus (commonly known as Aconite): It is a kind of sudden panic attack accompanied with a strong fear (often of death). This remedy is effective in case of these symptoms shown: dizziness or faintness upon waking up, intolerable pain often followed by tingling or numbness, painful urination accompanied with anxiety, flushing of the face, shortness of breath and strong palpitations.

Arsenicum Album: This remedy is useful for people who are deeply anxious regarding their health and extremely concerned with security and order. Panic attacks usually occur around midnight or very early hours of morning. The person may be restless-fidgeting and still exhausted, pacing and moving anxiously to different places. These people can suffer from asthma attacks followed by anxiety and digestive problems too. The other symptoms for which this remedy can be prescribed are drowsiness with insomnia, vomiting after eating and drinking with or without diarrhoea, anxiety associated with sneezing and later stages of head-cold, fearing suffocation while lying down and asthma getting worse after midnight.

Gelsemium (Gels): This remedy is given when you experience trembling, weakness, and mental dullness on being paralyzed by fear. It is useful during anxiety about and upcoming event such as interview or public performance, or anxiety before taking a test, visit to dentist or some other stressful events. A fear of falling, fear of crowd or fear of heart getting stopped suddenly is some of the indications for Gelsemium. The symptoms are fatigue and whole body ache, lack of thirst, sore throat, nervousness, head, limbs and eyelids heavy etc.

The other such remedies for short term anxiety attacks are Argentum Nitricum (Arg-n), Lycopodium, Phosphorous, Silicea, Pulsatilla, Ignatia Amara, Kali phosphoricum, Natrum muriaticum which are effective for some specific symptoms.