Dr Jana Mostert

25/05/2026

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Play, joy, and love are biological necessities, and the science is unambiguous. 🧬

Laughter lowers cortisol and epinephrine, crying releases built-up nervous system tension, hugging shifts you out of fight-or-flight and into calm, singing stimulates the vagus nerve (which governs your heart rate, digestion, and immune response) and dancing actually promotes the growth of new brain cells.

These aren’t fringe concepts, this is your physiology responding to joy in real time.

We’ve built entire industries around optimizing food, sleep, and exercise, and those things matter deeply, but joy, play, and love belong in that same conversation.

Think of them as part of your health stack — non-negotiable, not optional, and available to you right now.

Joy IS health.

15/05/2026

The metabolic cause of PCOS has been recognized by changing the name to PMOS.

15/05/2026

Treating the whole person rather than only the diagnosis provides much better results in homeopathy

“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
— William Osler

Three people may all suffer from headaches… but each person’s story can be completely different.

One person may get headaches just before the menstrual cycle starts, with pain focused in the left temple.
Another may feel pressure on the top of the head after stressful days at work.
A third person may live in a difficult or abusive relationship and carry constant tension in the back of the head.

The symptom may look the same on the surface, but the underlying cause can be very different.

This is one of the reasons why homeopathy looks at the person as a whole, not only at the diagnosis itself. Until the deeper pattern is addressed, the body may continue to repeat the same symptoms.

If you would like to learn how remedies are chosen based on the individual person rather than only the disease name, join our One Day Workshop for Beginners online on the 24th of May.

You will learn:
• what homeopathy is
• how remedies work
• how to choose remedy strengths
• simple remedies for common acute ailments at home

We would love to have you there! Visit our bio or www.ish.ie/courses for more information.

26/04/2026

'Homeopathy has changed my life'. It certainly has changed mine.

17/04/2026

Skin is often a reflection of internal imbalance.

Remedies to consider:

🌿 Sulphur – dry, itchy, worse from heat, scratching brings relief
🌿 Graphites – cracked, oozing, sticky skin
🌿 Rhus tox – itchy rash with small blisters, better with warmth
🌿 Apis mellifica – swollen, red, burning, stinging skin

Suppressing skin symptoms isn’t the answer—understanding them is.

Healing from within creates lasting change 🌿

16/04/2026

Hormonal shifts (especially in your 40s and 50s) can feel overwhelming.

Common remedy pictures:

✨ Sepia – burnt out, irritable, wants space, hormonal fatigue
✨ Pulsatilla – emotional, weepy, changeable symptoms
✨ Lachesis – intense, worse before me**es, heat, irritability
✨ Calcarea carbonica – sluggish metabolism, weight gain, fatigue

Homeopathy gently supports your body through these transitions 🌸

15/04/2026

Struggling to fall asleep—or waking at 3am?

Different patterns need different remedies:

🌿 Coffea cruda – overactive mind, can’t switch off
🌿 Nux vomica – wakes at 3–4am, busy mind, stress-related
🌿 Arsenicum album – anxious waking after midnight
🌿 Passiflora (tincture) – gentle support for restlessness

Sleep is foundational to healing. When it improves, everything shifts 🌙

14/04/2026

Bloating, nausea, reflux, IBS… so many patients struggle silently.

Some helpful remedies include:

✨ Nux vomica – indigestion from stress, rich food, or overwork
✨ Carbo vegetabilis – bloating, gas, heaviness after eating
✨ Lycopodium – bloating worse in the afternoon, small appetite but full quickly
✨ Pulsatilla – digestion worse from rich or fatty foods

Your digestion reflects your overall balance—when we treat it holistically, everything improves 🌿

13/04/2026

Headaches are incredibly common—but not all headaches are the same.

Homeopathy looks at the type of headache:

✨ Belladonna – sudden, throbbing pain, heat, sensitivity to light
✨ Bryonia – worse from movement, better lying still
✨ Gelsemium – heavy, dull headaches with fatigue
✨ Sanguinaria – right-sided migraines, often cyclical

The key is matching the remedy to your experience.

If headaches are recurring, your body may be asking for deeper support

03/12/2025

Dr Jana will close on the 12th of December and will open on the 5th of January. If you need repeat prescriptions, please place orders by 10 December to ensure timely preparation and collection/ delivery. Wishing you a restful and blessed holiday season.

Contact us: 0716002033 / 0114822296