Calf cramp every night, any remedies?

Question:

Everytime I sleep on my back I get nocturnal calf cramps.
If I sleep on my stomach the problem doesn't occur, but of course people move in their sleep and it would just be nice to lie on my back. Has anyone suffered from the same ailment or found a cure?

Answers:
I contacted my alternative healer for persistent cramps in my feet. (I also got them in my legs occasionally.) Potassium might help, as stated above, but it may not do the trick. I will give you some information that is going to sound mighty strange if you aren't familiar with alternative medicine. I wrote this down and rely on the info:

For cramps in the left leg:
Calcium and magnesium. Add vitamin D if you don't get 15 minutes of sun daily.

For cramps in the right leg:
1) Potassium, sodium and magnesium balance may be out of balance. (Most of us get too much sodium in a diet high in processed foods.) Try potassium and magnesium. If this doesn't work:

2) Try a homeopathic phosporus with above. Or:

3) Take trace minerals. Or:

4) Take lecithin, choline and inositol.

Drink red clover tea or spearmint tea. Spearmint essential oil rubbed on the cramp may be helpful. (I like organic oils if I'm putting them directly on myself, since I don't want solvents absorbed into my body with the oil.)

Cramps are no fun. Hope this works for you, too.

you need more potassium in your diet a banana and a glass of orange juice a day will help. I get them awful from water pills, and that seems to do the trick.

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