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Cold & Flu Homeopathy Remedies:
Common Colds, Coughs and Flu

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  • Aconitum Napellus (Acon.)
    A state of fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body. Restlessness. Sudden and great sinking of strength. Complaints and tension caused by exposure to dry, cold weather. Eyes feel dry and hot, as if sand in them. Pain at root of nose. Tingling in cheeks and numbness. Gums hot and inflamed. Tongue coated white. Vomiting, with fear, heat, profuse sweat and increased urination. Bitter taste of everything except water. Intense thirst. Cough, dry, short, hacking; worse at night and after midnight. Tingling in chest after cough.

  • Allium Cepa (All-c.)
    Watery and acrid nasal discharge which becomes worse in warm room. Oppressed breathing. Tickling in larynx. Eyes sensitive to light. Burning in nose, mouth, throat, bladder and skin. Sneezing, especially when entering a warm room.

  • Antimonium Tartaricum (Ant-t.)
    Respiratory problems, rattling of mucus but little expectoration. Thirst for cold water but little and often. Great drowsiness.

  • Arsenicum Album (Ars.)
    Influenza with thin, watery and excoriating nasal discharge. Sneezing. Photophobia. Restlessness. Intolerance of smell of food.

  • Belladonna  (Bell.)
    Sudden and violent complaints and inflammations. Headaches with pains which come and go suddenly. No thirst. Redness of affected organs. Skin sore and sensitive. Eyelids red and swollen. Spasmodic hiccough.

  • Bryonia Alba (Bry.)
    Excessive irritability. Dryness of all mucous membranes. Great thirst for large quantities of water. Constipation. Dry cough. Joints red and swollen. All complaints are aggravated by motion.

  • Chamomilla  (Cham.)
    Excessive irritability and impatience specially in children. Violent earache. Diarrhea of children during dentition. Tickling cough.

  • Drosera Rotundifolia (Dros.)
    Spasmodic, dry, irritating, choking cough (much like whooping-cough) with hoarseness of voice. Nose bleed. Disinclination to speak because talking creates breathing difficulties.

  • Dulcamara (Dulc.)
    For flu aggravated by the transition from summer to fall. This is one of the best remedies in the acute form; the eyes are suffused, the throat is sore and the cough hurts because of the muscular soreness. Brought on by damp, cold changes in the weather.

  • Euphrasia (Ephr.)
    Similar to Allium in all respects with profuse bland nasal discharge and acrid, scalding tears which is reverse with Allium. An eye remedy, conjunctivitis with violent attacks of profuse secretion  stinging eyes, dust or sand in the eyes.

  • Ferrum Phosphoricum (Fer-ph.)
    Headache better by cold applications. Eyes red, inflamed, with burning sensation. Face flushed; cheeks sore and hot. Ulcerated sore throat. Tonsils red and swollen. Eustachian tubes inflamed.  Congestions of lungs. Expectoration of pure blood in pneumonia. Palpitation; pulse rapid. Restlessness and sleeplessness.

  • Gelsemium (Gels.)
    Acute influenza (flu) or sore throats, with weakness, limp limbs, chills, fever, headaches with double vision, and heavy, drooping eyelids. There may be a lack of thirst, even during fever. Slowly developing acute coryza days after an exposure to warm moist, relaxing weather. Frequent sneezing with fluent excoriating coryza, sore throat, difficulty of swallowing; dry, tickling cough; a feeling of hot water passing through the nostrils; relieved near the fire; general prostration.

  • Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum (Hep.)
    Cough when exposed to dry and cold wind.

  • Ipecacuanha (Ipecac) (Ip.)
    Nausea and vomiting due to any reason. Diarrhea with grass-green stool. Sleep with eyes half open. Suffocating and wheezing cough.

  • Kali Bichromicum (Kali-bi.)
    Thick, ropey, sticky secretions. Loss of smell.

  • Lachesis Mutus (Lach.)
    Left sided sore throat.  Other complaints related with throat and respiratory system.

  • Lycopodium (Lyco.)
    Aggravated on the right side. Symptoms go from right to left.  Aggravated 4 to 8 pm., afternoon,  in morning on waking, on fasting. Ameliorated in evening and in open air. Ear infection (Otitis media) aggravated on the right side. Sinusitis which is aggravated on the right side. Complete stoppage of nose, breathes with open mouth and protrudes the tongue; frontal sinuses involved.  Obstruction is aggravated at night. Snuffles of infants. Pharyngitis and Tonsillitis. Aggravated or starts on right side, ameliorated by warm drinks. Cough is a chronic, dry tickling cough. Bronchitis, pneumonia, aggravated on the right side.

  • Mercurius Vivus - Mercurius Hydrargyrum (Merc.-v)
    Yellow, bloody discharge from ears. Sneezing in sunshine. Swelling of nasal bones. Intense thirst for cold drinks.

  • Mercurius Sublimatus Corrosivus (Merc. Cor)
    Inflammation and soreness of eyes. Red, swollen and painful throat.

  • Mercurius Solubilus (Merc.)
    Ear infections either chronic or acute. Nose has chronic coryza with offensive, greenish discharge. Sneezing ameliorated by lying. Cough is aggravated at night, by warmth of bed, lying on right side. Mouth ulcers or canker sores. Throat  INFLAMMATION, acute or chronic. Pharyngitis, tonsillitis. Swelling of glands. Diarrhea with strong urging. Stool is offensive, greenish, bloody, slimy.

  • Nux Vomica (Nux-v.)
    Initial stage, caused by dry cold weather or by sitting on cold steps or in cold places.  Headache in sunshine and on waking in the morning. Right sided complaints. Sneezing, nose stuffed up at night and in open air but fluent in a warm room and during day, with scraping rawness in the throat. Dullness or oppression in the frontal sinuses and watering of the eyes.

  • Phytolacca Decandra (Phyt.)
    Dark redness of throat with swollen tonsils.

  • Podophyllum (Podo.)
    Profuse, painless, watery, gushing diarrhea.

  • Pulsatilla Nigra  (Puls.)
    Mouth is dry but no thirst. Taste of mouth keeps changing. Secretions from eyes, nose and mouth are all thick. Measles. "Ripe cold" in which the discharges are green and bland, not in the least excoriating; bad smell in the nose, as of old catarrh. Secretions from eyes, nose and mouth are all thick. Measles.

  • Rumex Crispus
    Conditions are aggravated by cold, open air, undressing or uncovering, or change of temperature. Violent sneezing, aggravated in evening, night. Throat has a scraping, raw feeling, aggravated by open air.

  • Spongia tosta (Spong.)
    Dry, hacking, croupy, barking cough, day and night, exhausting the person. Worst at midnight. Better with hot drinks. From exposure to dry cold winds.

  • Veratrum Album (Verat.)
    Extreme coldness, blueness and weakness. Pale face. Painful diarrhea followed by great weakness.










 

 

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