"Let food be your medicine and your medicine be your food. Each one of the substances in a person's diet, acts upon the body and changes it in some unique way, and upon these changes the whole life depends, whether in health, in sickness or convalescent."  

Hippocrates 2 000 years ago.

Home Remedies for Palpitations

If you are here looking for home remedies for palpitations then you, like most people have sometime or another experienced the occasional bout of palpitations - that is the awareness of the heart beating faster or irregularly during physical exertion or when you are particularly angry, anxious or scared

Heart palpitations can be a very distrressing experience, but there are natural remedies that may help alleviate them.

By incorporating herbs and nutritional remedies into your routine, you can potentially find relief from these unsettling sensations.

Here are some home remedies that harness the power of nature to support heart health and reduce heart palpitations.

However, if they do recur persistently, a doctor should be consulted.

Medical Terms for these Palpitations

Ectopic Beats or skipped beats are beats that are premature with a longer rest period following the beats which are not in rhythm.    Some moments of rest between the beats are longer than others.

Arrhythmia is an irregular heartbeat. Palpitations are irregular or even regular, pounding heartbeats. Tachycardia is when the heart races while it is resting. Bradycardia is when the heart beats too slowly when it is resting. Fibrillation is literally a quivering or twitching instead of the normal rhythmic beat.

Can You Die from Heart Palpitations?

Before looking for natural  home remedies for palpitations you should know when to rather seek immediate medical attention, and this is important.... and it should be should be if you:

• Have pain or pressure in your chest
• Feel extremely weak
• Feel dizzy or faint
• Have shortness of breath
• Feel nauseous while having palpitations

 Symptoms of Heart Palpitations

• Rapid Heart Beat
  
  
• Slow Heart Beat
  
  
• Your heart feels like it skips a beat
  
  
• Your heart seems to thump suddenly
  
  
• Irregular Heartbeat
  
  
• A fluttering sensation in your chest
  
  
• Sudden awareness of your heart beat
  
  
  

What is the Cause of Heart Palpitations?

A rapid or irregular heartbeat can be caused by: Stress an overactive thyroid gland an excessive intake of caffeine or alcohol an allergic reaction to food lack of magnesium smoking may also exacerbate the symptoms

Prevention of Palpitations

• Some medications can cause palpitations.   You may need to discuss your medication with your Doctor.
  
  
• You must manage your stress levels.   Stress increases adrenaline, which, in turn can cause a rapid heartbeat and palpitations.
  
  
• You should also take a look at the substances that can stimulate your heart and cause palpitations:  amongst the culprits are caffeine, tobacco, alcohol and recreational drugs, including cocaine, amphetamines and marijuana. 
  

HERBAL REMEDIES FOR PALPITATION

• Hawthorn contains flavonoids, which may help to control an irregular heartbeat.   Visit your local health shop and let them advise you on the dosage.
• Motherwort helps with palpitations linked to tension, stress and anxiety.
• Peppermint like Motherwort Peppermint is another herbal remedy popular for its analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, antioxidant and vasoconstrictor characteristics which all serve to benefit the heart. 

Hawthorn for irregular Heartbeat

• Lavender Oil can cause a significant drop in blood pressure, heart rate and skin temperature.   
• Since panic and anxiety attacks are often accompanied by heart palpitations, this oil will be a perfect home remedy to help relax the nervous system.
• Rub 2 drops of neat lavender oil in the palm of your hands, rub together and inhale deeply.

Cayenne proves to be one of the best herbs to promote heart health, and one of our home remedies for palpitations. It has the ability to deal with different sorts of heart conditions which include angina pectoris, chest pain, congestive heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias and of course heart palpitations

Cayenne Pepper

Garlic

Garlic the champion herb of this website works by controlling the occurrence of cardiovascular conditions that trigger heart palpitations. Garlic is also very good for reducing one's risk for blood clotting as well as in reducing the level of cholesterol and blood pressure which can also cause heart palpitations.

NUTRITIONAL REMEDIES FOR HEART PALPITATIONS

Benefits of Spinach

Include foods rich in magnesium in your diet, such as fish, spinach, nuts and dairy products.   Magnesium is a mineral that helps to  regulate the heart's rhythm improves energy levels reduce insomnia ease and prevent muscle cramps and muscle pain reduces fatigue relieves the effects of stress

Remember to always listen to your body, it talks to you, and will give you little warnings (sometimes big ones) that all is not right!!

YOUR NATURAL MEDICINE CHEST

What to Keep in your Medicine Chest

Arnica

Keep a tube of this cream for relief for muscle strains as well as bruises.

Calendula

Get this from your health shop in a cream or gel form and use as a salve for burns, cuts, scrapes and insect bites

Chammomile

Use the dried flowers to make a tea and use for stressful situations and also stomach upsets.

Echinacea

You can get these at your health shop as an  extracts or capsuled and use for colds, flu, cuts, infections and scrapes.

Eucalyptus

An absolute must for your herbal medicine chest for respiratory congestion and muscle soreness.

Ginger

Use this herb as a fresh root from your veggie store, or if you like gardening, grow them, it is an excellent medication for colds, respiratory congestion, nausea and stomach upsets

Lavender

Keep Lavender as an essential oil for stress, insomnia and headaches.

Sea Salt

Gargle with this salt for sore throats and also for bath salts.

Tea Tree

Use as an essential oil for skin infections and insect bites.

Valerian

Use as an extract for mild pain relief and insomnia

Find out how the many ways one can prepare herbs for usage.

A-Z of Ailments and the Herb that can be used to help the symptoms.

An uncomplicated way of understanding the terminology used in this website.

Natural Laxatives for daily use and also for when there is an emergency.

Healing Plants A comprehensive list of Healing Plants which highlights a specific medical action and links all the applicable common herbs to that action.

Natural Antibiotics Natural Antibiotics - straight from heaven to planet earth especially for you.

Natural Antioxidants If its not life threatening, why not take a look at the natural sources available to us first??

Iron Deficiency As one gets older it is believed that even a slight deficit in iron my slow down thinking and impair the memory, so keep the memory and brainpower going by ensuring you are getting enough iron in your diet.

Calcium Deficiency A calcium deficiency can affect us in so many ways from cancer to osteoporosis, to high blood pressure, to epilepsy.

Magnesium Deficiency