Jet lag happens when you travel rapidly across multiple time zones and your body’s internal biological clock no longer matches the local time at your destination. This disturbance affects the following aspects:
- Sleep–wake cycles
- Melatonin secretion
- Digestive rhythms
- Hormonal balance
- Mental alertness and energy
Common symptoms includes fatigue, sleeplessness, irritability, poor concentration, brain fog, headache, digestive upset, bloating, dizziness or floating sensation, or body aches.
MAIN REMEDIES
1. Cocculus
Exhaustion from loss of sleep, dizziness and nausea from travel, mental confusion and dullness, nervous exhaustion, weakness after long journeys and motion sickness associated with fatigue. Vertigo on getting up, sleepless despite exhaustion, nausea from flying or motion, feels dazed and disoriented. Ailments mainly from loss of sleep and nursing the sick.
2. Nux vomica
Irritability and digestive complaints, constipation after travel, overstimulation from coffee, alcohol, airport stress, oversensitive to light or noise, wakes up at 3am or 4ma and cannot sleep again, overworked and driven personalities. Insomnia from mental strain.
3. Arnica
Physical exhaustion and soreness after flying muscle soreness, feels bruised, body aches, says everything is fine despite exhaustion, fatigue from physical strain, overexertion.
4. Gelsemium
Heavy fatigue, drowsiness, mental dullness, great desire to lie down, foggy thinking, trembling weakness, heavy eyelids, muscular weakness, dullness.
5. Kali phos
Mental fatigue and nervous exhaustion, poor concentration, burnout from travel and work, irritability from exhaustion, weak memory, sleepless from nervous fatigue, nervous prostration.
6. Coffea cruda
Cannot sleep because mind is overactive, racing thoughts, overexcitement after travel, nervous excitement, hyperalert mind, body is tired but mind stays awake.
7. Phosphoric acid
Apathetic exhaustion and mental burnout, weakness from loss of sleep, brain fog, slow thinking and nervous debility.
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