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Natural remedy to assist in healing nerve damage, tingling, and numbness in hands and feet.

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What is Numbness?
What Causes Numbness?
Help for Numbness

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What is Numbness?

Numbness is an abnormal sensation that can occur anywhere in the body, but is most commonly felt in the hands, feet, arms, or legs. Common symptoms include tingling and numbness in hands and feet, ranging from the harmless numbness you get when your fingers are too cold, to more serious conditions that require immediate medical attention, numbness is a fairly broad term.

Numbness is also often referred to in an emotional context to describe feelings of detachment or the lack of any emotional response, a symptom commonly associated with depression. In a physical context, numbness is generally as a result of damage, blood deprivation or disease of certain nerves in the body.

What Causes Numbness?

Numbness can have all kinds of different causes, as it is a symptom of many different ailments, diseases and conditions. A proper diagnosis is therefore crucial, so that you can treat the cause of the numbness rather than just treat the symptoms of numbness itself which include tingling and numbness in hands and feet.

It’s also important to take additional precautions as loss of sensation can lead to increased chances of accident and injury.

Possible Causes of Numbness

Not enough blood flow to the various extremities of the body. This often occurs when one remains in the same position for too long, or sits in an awkward position that restricts blood flow to a certain area. This can also happen to extremities when it is very cold as blood vessels constrict brining on tingling and numbness in hands and feet.
Injury to a nerve such as a neck or back injury may cause numbness in various areas of the body, most commonly along the arms or legs.
Pressure on the spinal nerves, such as that due to a slipped disk, often present in a type of numbness referred to as sciatica.
Lack of blood supply to an area in the body - usually due to plaque buildup in the blood vessels, an inflammatory condition or to poor circulation.
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Complication from Diabetes, often called diabetic neuropathy
Migraines
Multiple sclerosis
Seizures
Stroke
Transient ischemic attack (TIA)
Underactive thyroid
Abnormal levels of calcium, potassium, or sodium in the body
A lack of vitamin B12 or other vitamin
The side effects of certain medications
Toxicity in nerves, caused by toxins such as lead, alcohol or tobacco
A side-effect of radiation therapy
After-effects of some surgical procedures

Help for Numbness

In order to treat numbness, it is important to find the underlying cause. Whether due to poor circulation, diabetes, or multiple sclerosis, nature has a number of herbal and homeopathic remedies with ingredients to tackle both the underlying cause as well as the symptom itself. It is believed for example that homeopathic remedies may play an essential role in healing nerve damage.

Biochemic tissue salts such as Ferrum phosphoricum, Kalium phosphate and Magnesium phosphate can be of great assistance in healing nerve damage which is often the cause of numbness. These have been shown to assist in the nutritional needs of your brain and nerves, while promoting systemic balance in the entire nervous system.

Other herbs used for healing nerve damage are Matricaria recutita, Rosemary and Ginkgo biloba which address some of the underlying causes of numbness and act as a tonic for an all round healthy nervous system!