Do you ever notice that you feel a bit different around the full moon? Perhaps you’re more emotional, your sleep goes a bit wonky, your mind feels muddled, or you’re simply feeling a little more… well, loopy?
The relationship between the moon and human experience has fascinated people for centuries, and the impact of the moon on people and the planet is well documented. For example, many women get their menstrual cycle on a full moon. Tides, fishing, gardening, sleep, animal behaviour, earthquakes and even higher crime rates are often attributed to the effects from the full moon.
And let’s not forget the word lunatic - what do those first four letters spell! (The word lunatic comes from the Latin luna, meaning moon.)
Meet Luna - a fascinating homeopathic remedy in the materia medica. Yes - it really IS made from moonlight.
Luna belongs to a group of remedies traditionally known as imponderables. These are remedies prepared from influences that don’t have a conventional material substance in the way a plant, mineral or animal remedy does.
According to the classical Materia Medica of John Henry Clarke, Luna is prepared by exposing lactose (milk sugar) to the rays of the moon, then preparing it through the usual homeopathic process of potentisation.
Other preparations have used water exposed to moonlight.
