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Leah Bugg - Leap Homeopathy Postpartum homeopathy support for exhausted moms. Free Birth Recovery Guide and 1:1 support available.

T is for Thallium metallicum❕When postpartum hair loss goes deeper than the usual shed. ❕Thallium is a lesser-known mine...
11/15/2025

T is for Thallium metallicum

❕When postpartum hair loss goes deeper than the usual shed. ❕

Thallium is a lesser-known mineral remedy, sitting between Mercury and Plumbum on the periodic table and known in the materia medica for rapid, aggressive hair loss following exhaustion, alongside nerve-depletion symptoms like numbness, spasms, electric-shock pains, tremors, and profound weakness.

This is NOT your everyday postpartum shedding.
It’s the kind of sudden, dramatic loss, happening too fast and especially after a period of intense strain on the system - sleeplessness, infection, major stress, or a long recovery.

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Why it can be helpful in postpartum

▫️Alopecia after acute, exhausting conditions (Boericke)
▫️Neuralgic, spasmodic, shooting pains
▫️Numbness, tingling, tremors, or paralytic heaviness of the limbs
▫️Endocrine involvement -especially thyroid and adrenals (Boericke)
▫️Electric-shock pains in stomach or bowels
▫️Night sweats and deep fatigue following illness
▫️Sleeplessness with sadness, irritability, and frequent waking (Vermeulen)
▫️Cyanotic or cold extremities; nerve exhaustion running from fingers/toes upward

In other words:
Thallium speaks to a state of extreme depletion involving the nerves and the endocrine system - it’s a much deeper state of depletion than you’d see with typical hormonal shedding.

If your hair loss feels extreme, or paired with numbness, nerve symptoms, tremors, night sweats, or thyroid/adrenal strain, this is one to explore with a skilled homeopath who can take your case fully.

Homeopathy supports your body’s natural ability to heal itself. When used mindfully and appropriately, it can become one...
11/12/2025

Homeopathy supports your body’s natural ability to heal itself. When used mindfully and appropriately, it can become one of the most empowering tools in your personal care toolkit.

Now booking clients into December and January. Head on over to the link in my bio to get connected. 🌷

P is for PULSATILLAWe can’t talk about pregnancy or postpartum without talking about Pulsatilla. Pulsatilla is the wind ...
11/09/2025

P is for PULSATILLA

We can’t talk about pregnancy or postpartum without talking about Pulsatilla.

Pulsatilla is the wind flower - soft, sensitive, and ever-shifting. Her symptoms, like the breeze, change from one moment to the next. She can cry easily, laugh soon after, and find comfort in the smallest acts of care.

For babies, think teething upsets with changeable stools, clinginess, and relief from being held, rocked, or carried in fresh air. Discharges are typically bland, thick, and yellow-green, whether from the eyes, nose, or chest.

For mothers, think of postpartum hormone shifts: weepy when nursing, craving reassurance and gentle words; scanty or delayed menstrual flow, after-pains that linger, or low energy and mood changes that ebb and flow. Digestively, she may feel off after rich or fatty foods and often feels thirstless. Occasional urine leaks may appear with laughing, coughing, sneezing, or lying down.

When it comes to lactation, Pulsatilla may help when the milk flow varies. Abundant milk, and at other times scanty or suddenly suppressed after exposure to cold, damp, or a chill. Breasts may feel tender, heavy, or sore, with discomfort that shifts from side to side. There can be an excess of milk early on, followed by irregular or diminished flow as hormones fluctuate.

It’s also a leading remedy when there’s failure to re-establish a normal menstrual cycle after birth, especially with a mix of chilliness combined with intolerance to heat, absence of thirst, and a changeable, weepy disposition.

Pulsatilla is one of the best remedies for loss of libido postpartum, when emotions are mixed, confidence feels low, and there’s a withdrawal from intimacy.

The person needing Pulsatilla softens with consolation, open air, and a good cry. She’s emotional. Warm rooms and heavy foods make her worse; kindness and cool air bring her back to balance.

Save this for your postpartum toolkit.

🫶🏻 A sweet client testimonial I received via Homeopathy 247
11/09/2025

🫶🏻 A sweet client testimonial I received via Homeopathy 247

I cried to my homeopath today.I didn’t expect to.It wasn’t part of what I planned to say.But somehow, in the safety she’...
11/07/2025

I cried to my homeopath today.

I didn’t expect to.
It wasn’t part of what I planned to say.

But somehow, in the safety she’s built for me, in the space of that therapeutic relationship, the tears came. They needed to.

I came to talk about a tight chest that lingered after a cough.
What spilled out instead was the grief I’d been holding since September, when a friend and coworker was tragically killed. The shock of it had taken my breath away.

In Chinese Medicine, they say the lungs are the seat of grief.
I’d had a cough, but maybe the tightness in my chest wasn’t about the sickness. Maybe it was the loss I’d tucked away tightly, sitting in the protective wall-space around my heart.

I don’t think I can ever return to a mindset that assumes our body, mind, and emotion are separate. We speak the language of our symptoms. Every part of us does.

I’m grateful, as a homeopath, that I have a homeopath.
That she held space for me without judgment.
With presence. With permission.
Held in all my humanness.

That, I think, is the real remedy.

And I’m deeply grateful that I get to offer that same kind of space to others.
This work is a privilege.

A is for ACONITEAconitum napellus is the remedy of sudden shock and violent beginnings, when everything changes in an in...
11/06/2025

A is for ACONITE

Aconitum napellus is the remedy of sudden shock and violent beginnings, when everything changes in an instant and the body hasn’t yet caught up. Illness or fear comes on abruptly after a fright, birth trauma, cold wind, or sudden chill.

It’s helpful for mothers who felt terrified during labour or after delivery, whose heart still races with fear, who say “I thought I was going to die.” The storm may have passed, but the body is still stuck in a state of fear or shock.

For babies, Aconite can help after a difficult or frightening birth, or when they suddenly wake screaming in panic, inconsolable, eyes wide and startled.

Everything about Aconite is sudden - sudden fear, sudden fever, sudden pain. The initial imbalance. It’s usually an initial remedy given, then followed up with other remedies.

Save this for your postpartum toolkit.

We often divide illness into two types - acute and chronic.An acute illness can arrive like a sudden storm. It comes fas...
11/06/2025

We often divide illness into two types - acute and chronic.

An acute illness can arrive like a sudden storm. It comes fast, runs its course, and usually passes on its own. A cold, a fever, a stomach bug - your body shows its strength by moving through it, often on its own, and sometimes with homeopathy when the body needs an extra nudge.

A chronic illness is usually slower. It comes on over time and lingers.

Sometimes there is an acute flare of an underlying condition - it is the body’s way of speaking about a chronic imbalance underneath.

And sometimes after taking a chronic remedy, acute-like symptoms can appear. The job of the practitioner is to discern what might be an expression of a remedy response, an acute flare up and a true acute.

Sometimes the acute expression is part of the healing - a release that perhaps it wasn’t able to complete before.

In homeopathy, we treat the presenting symptoms.
We support the body so it can recover or be palliated. We aim to raise the vital energy of the person. That may mean making some adjustments to the chronic remedy to manage the symptoms, or giving the chronic remedy in a different way if it covers the pattern. Or it may mean pausing treatment to deal with a true acute. We let the expression of the symptoms guide us.

Are you seeing acute issues arise more as we head into winter. I’m available for acute and chronic care over at Leap Homeopathy.

👻 What’s scarier than ghosts?Ignoring your symptoms until 2026.Putting off making that call. You don’t have to wait for ...
10/31/2025

👻 What’s scarier than ghosts?
Ignoring your symptoms until 2026.

Putting off making that call.

You don’t have to wait for your health to hit crisis mode before asking for help.

The exhaustion, mood swings, irritability, or anxiety you’ve been brushing off, those are whispers, not background noise. Don’t wait until they haunt you.

There are eight weeks left in the year.
That’s eight weeks to have already had an initial consultation and one or two follow-ups.
Eight weeks to start shifting what feels stuck so you when you’re making your New Year’s resolutions you’re not starting on your back foot and you’re ready to walk into 2026 with strength and steadiness.

Don’t ghost your symptoms.
I’m not scary and I have open bookings in November. Book a discovery call to get started.

👻

R is for RHEUMThe sour one.Prepared from rhubarb, Rheum is a gentle yet powerful remedy for mothers and babies with a ke...
10/29/2025

R is for RHEUM

The sour one.

Prepared from rhubarb, Rheum is a gentle yet powerful remedy for mothers and babies with a keynote of “sour.” The stools, the sweat, the breath and even the mood! The sour smell seems to linger no matter how often you wash or bathe.

It’s particularly suited to babies with colic and sour-smelling diarrhoea during teething. The little ones who cry for something, then push it away, restless and hard to comfort. You’d likely compare this remedy with Chamomilla.

For mothers, Rheum can help with postpartum digestive upsets, loose, sour stools after birth, or it can be helpful when baby refuses milk because it tastes bitter. It’s also mentioned for urinary irritation or weakness following delivery.

There can be sourness, restlessness, and impatience, where you feel better from warmth and gentle wrapping, and feel worse from uncovering or motion.

Save this for your mom and baby toolkit.

I used to think true health meant I should feel good all the time. No pain, no fatigue, a good mood.But over time and es...
10/29/2025

I used to think true health meant I should feel good all the time. No pain, no fatigue, a good mood.

But over time and especially through motherhood,
I’ve learned that health isn’t about that.

It’s waking up after a really rough night and realizing you can still be kind to yourself when you look in the mirror (I still have to work at this often).

It’s finding your calm, when the house is so loud and the laundry pile never ends.

It’s that small voice that reminds you to take a breath and realize you’re ok, even when you’re in pain or everything around you feels like a bit of a sh*t show.

It’s the grace you extend yourself for a half finished job.

I’ve seen the shift in myself and in the mothers I work with and I’ve seen how it can vary day to day, just as healing does.

We’re can support pain and discomfort but the goal is not to try to erase every single symptom or negative emotion. It is to bring back steadiness. A way to not to let the body’s messages derail us. Discomfort will arise from time to time.

Building resilience - in our immunity, in our emotions, in our nervous system. So when the symptoms come we can move through them and with them with more ease.

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I have a couple of spots open for new clients mid to late November. Book your discovery call today. Link in bio 🌷

T is for THYMUS GLANDThe quiet restorer.The thymus sits just above the heart and plays a vital role in early immunity, h...
10/25/2025

T is for THYMUS GLAND

The quiet restorer.

The thymus sits just above the heart and plays a vital role in early immunity, helping train and regulate the body’s defenses through childhood. In homeopathy, Thymus Gland is a sarcode — a remedy prepared from healthy tissue — used to help restore balance, vitality, and resilience after stress or depletion.

Doris Beauchamp, in The Sarcodes Materia Medica, describes Thymus Gland as useful for children who are slow to develop or never well since early illness or vaccines, and for adults who have never fully recovered after accidents, prolonged stress, or trauma — a sarcode that supports vitality and balance.

We can think of this remedy when someone has never fully felt well again since illness, shock, or emotional strain. In the postpartum season, that might look like lingering fatigue, low immunity, or a sense of not quite feeling “yourself” after birth or a long recovery.

Thymus Gland reminds the body how to come back into rhythm, supporting immune strength, energy, and emotional steadiness. It’s not usually found in a home prescriber kit, but sarcodes can be wonderful tools for homeopaths to use when needed to support a case.

Want to learn more about the use of sarcodes in homeopathy? Drop me a DM!

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