As a first step... when you feel that agonising pain, the best evidence suggests that it is stretching out the muscle, not fluids, that provides relief. If you feel that pain in your calf muscle you grasp your toes and gently ease your foot towards you.
This stretches the muscle and eventually eases the pain. Muscle cramps may be brought on by many conditions or activities, such as :
Exercising, injury, or overuse of muscles. Standing on a hard surface for a long time, sitting for a long time, or putting your legs in awkward positions while you sleep.
Cramps may also occur because of decreased amounts of minerals, such as calcium and magnesium. Exposure to cold temperatures, especially to cold water.
Medical conditions such as:Not having enough potassium, calcium, and other minerals in your blood.
Arnica, homeopathy’s premiere first aid remedy, reduces muscle strain and speeds healing by reducing bruising, bleeding and swelling of muscles and joints following workouts, injury, overexertion or sprains.
Bryonia soothes aching joints and muscles, stiff lower backs, inflamed joints and even chest muscles aching under a hard Bryonia cough.
Cimicifuga aids numbness, aching and muscular soreness in the limbs, cramping pain in the calves (especially with periods) and pain in the chest and large muscles.
Mag phos, the cell salt all muscles need, relaxes muscle spasms and cramps including leg cramps, menstrual cramps, muscular tension and radiating nerve pains.
Rhus tox, the joint pain specialist, relieves tearing pain and soreness in muscleswhen related to joint pain, swelling and sprains.
Ruta grav, the tendon and muscle remedy, eases sprains, injured joints and out-of-whack backs.
Mag phos - #1 for Cramps & Spasms • Leg cramp relief • Radiating Nerve Pain
If you feel tight, tense, in a knot, then think Mag phos, and relax. An imbalance in our magnesium causes nerves and muscles to get out of sync. They cramp, spasm and shoot off pains. An imbalance in phosphates disturbs our vitality. Found in muscles, nerves, brain tissue, spinal marrow and teeth, the compound magnesium phosphate is vital to proper communication throughout the body. Mag phos aids many spasmodic conditions in which nerves and muscles cannot cooperate these include leg cramps, menstrual cramps, abdominal pain or colic, back spasms, writer’s cramps, muscular tension, hiccoughs, tics, twitches, certain cases of bedwetting and other cramp or spasm symptoms. For nerve pain, Mag phos specializes in radiating pains but applies well to shooting, stabbing pains as well. It can be very useful for stabbing headaches, backache, right-sided sciatic pain, facial nerve pain, toothache, right-sided ear pain, and inflamed, injured or weary nerves.
Now for the big IF: an important key to Mag phos’ relief is that symptoms feel better for heat and worse for cold. This is so strong that many recommend a sip or two of hot water immediately after taking the remedy to speed its action. If a hot bath, hot tea, and a warm bed sound ideal, add Mag phos to maximize the relief.
