Inspired Herbal Medicine

 

E: info@angeliquevickers.co.uk

T: 07595 914044

 

I will support you on your journey to health with a holistic and personalised approach. My aim is to help you adapt and re-calibrate, with herbal formulations that guide the body to recovery and self-regulation. I work specifically and constitutionally to rebalance and restore.

To arrange a consultation please complete my Contact Form (click the link, it takes about two minutes to complete) and request my free pre-consultation chat (up to 15 min).

 

Anxiety or Low Mood

There are many organic avenues leading to increased anxiety or low mood:

  • Continuous pressure of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis) through, for example, unresolving physical or emotional stress, can lead to depletion of the adrenals and inappropriate cortisol response. Depleted adrenal function can affect emotional coping states and this is often reported as anxiety.

  • The gut-brain axis can also play a large part in sustaining of low mood or anxiety states through gut inflammation, an altered gut microbiome and ‘leaky gut’.

  • Thyroid or glucose imbalances can also play an important role in on-going anxiety or low mood.

These are all treatment targets that can improve chronic feelings of anxiety or low mood.  Herbs can be synergists for global improvement in mental wellbeing through action on the hormonal axes and the gastrointestinal environment.

 

Sleep Disorders

Good sleep is a most significant pillar of health as a biological stage for deep repair and recovery.  Any chronic or recurrent problem with sleep reflects a deeper imbalance; in turn, lack of sleep becomes in itself an aggravating factor by impacting negatively on general health, for example, on mood, energy and focus, weight control, immunity and blood pressure.

Sleep problems can persist even if you have a good sleep hygiene because they are physiological and systemic.  Patterns of sleep disorders may look like any of the following: 

  • Difficulty falling asleep

  • Difficulty staying asleep or waking too early through vivid dreams, anxiety, intrusive thoughts

  • Disturbed sleep by frequent toilet visits

  • Bad quality of sleep, waking up unrefreshed

Herbal medicine can help rebalance the nervous system and calm the mind allowing the body to go through restorative sleep.