Remedies
for Fibromyalgia
If you’ve lived with fibromyalgia, you know it’s not just one thing. It’s pain, fatigue, sleep that doesn’t restore, and emotions that ride high or crash hard. You may have tried medication, supplements, diets - sometimes they help, but nothing seems to reach the heart of it. That’s because chronic illness is layered. It’s physical, emotional, energetic. And to truly heal, you need a system that can meet you on all of those levels. That’s why I work with a set of remedies that address all the layers of FMS. Flower Essences for the emotional layer, Gemmotherapy to gently cleans and detox your body, Cell Salts to rebuild your body from the inside, and Homeopathy to treat the root cause.
Flower Essences
I generally like to begin treatment with a flower essence or two. Fibromyalgia comes with a whole range of emotions from frustration, to anger, to grief, and more. Flower Essences help bring these emotions forward in a way that feels manageable - like having a quiet, steady guide through the noise.
There are thousands of flower essences, each attuned to a specific emotional state. What makes them so powerful is that they can be selected based on your exact feeling and state of mind. Take fear, for example: Mimulus is for known fears such as height or public speaking. Aspen helps with vague, unexplainable anxiety, while Rock Rose deals with intense fear, panic, or terror.
Though the emotion is the same, the quality of it matters - and the right essence can be chosen just for you.
Gemmotherapy
When someone’s been sick for a long time, their body often gets overloaded with toxins and waste. Before real healing can happen, that overload needs to be cleared, and that’s where gemmotherapy comes in.
Gemmotherapy remedies are made from young shoots and buds - the part of the plant that’s still growing. This stage holds the most life force. It’s concentrated, active, and alive. These remedies don’t work by forcing the body to purge. They work by helping the body remember how to clean itself - especially through the organs that do the heavy lifting: the liver, kidneys, lungs, and skin.
What makes gemmotherapy different from other detox methods is how specific it is. There are 51 remedies, and each one targets a different organ or system. If you know what part of your body needs help, you can support it directly.
Cell Salts
If your body feels weak, depleted, or like it’s running on fumes, cell salts are one of the best ways to start building it back up. Cell salts are homeopathic micro-doses of essential minerals - like calcium, magnesium, silica, and potassium. Cell salts are prepared in a way that makes them easy to absorb, even when your digestion is sluggish or your system is worn down.
There are 27 cell salts in total. Each one plays a role in how your tissues grow, repair, and hold themselves together. Over time, they help rebuild strength in the muscles, nerves, skin, bones, and even your energy reserves. For fibromyalgia, this steady rebuilding is key.
What I find especially valuable is that you can learn to recognize which cell salts you need just by observing your face. Each mineral deficiency leaves its mark: a certain kind of wrinkle, skin texture, discoloration, or eye shape. You start seeing your own story written in your body.
Homeopathy
When you’ve been sick for a long time, the real reason you’re sick is usually hidden. Buried under layers of symptoms, trauma, medication, coping mechanisms—sometimes so deep even you forget where it began. But something did begin it. And unless you treat that root, nothing really changes. Homeopathy is designed to find it.
During a homeopathic consultation, we go deep. We look at the exact quality of your pain - burning, stabbing, dull. The emotions tied to it. How you sleep. What you crave. What triggers you. What kind of dreams you have. All these threads form a pattern that leads us to a single remedy that matches you. Not your diagnosis. Not your label. You.
That remedy is made from a natural substance - plant, mineral, or animal -diluted so far that none of the original material remains, only the energetic blueprint. But that’s the part that matters. Because chronic illness isn’t just physical. It’s energetic, emotional, even spiritual. Homeopathy works at that level. It’s a message your body understands, like a tuning fork reminding it of the sound of health.
I’m Dr. Rodger Douglas, DMH, a South African-born homeopath now based in Osaka, Japan. With a psychology degree from Nelson Mandela University and a diploma from the Hahnemann College of Heilkunst, I specialize in holistic care for fibromyalgia. I serve clients by phone or video across the US, Canada, the UK, and beyond, shipping remedies directly from Japan.