Homeopathic Flu Remedies

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Hi everyone...

 

Here is a list of homeopathic remedies, and the most recognized flu

symptoms they will help... But a list is not all I would use when

choosing... There is a whole philosophy that goes behind the

selection of a good remedy. For example, some remedies like

mercurius I would be very hesitant to give... It can stir up way too

much, and should not be given lightly... Likewise, nosodes should be

used judiciously. And when you look at these lists, if someone had

every one of these symptoms- surely they would be on their death

bed!! How can you make sense of it?? Rest assured, not every

symptom has to be present, sometimes a remedy can be indicated just

on one or two striking symptoms of the remedy... But as a beginner

it can be hard to know what is essential to the remedy, and what

is " fluff " if you will forgive the term... So... Before you use

homeopathy, if you would like to talk about it here first, I would be

glad to help in any way I can...

 

Be Well,

Misty L. Trepke

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Homeopathic Flu Remedies

 

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THE HOMEOPATHIC FIRST RESPONDER

 

INFLUENZA

 

Influenza is a acute viral miasm that affects the respiratory system

and produces generalized aches and pain, especially in the limbs and

back; malaise; prostration; fever; coryza, headache; with photophobia

and retrobulbar aching; and inflamed respiratory mucous membranes. The

incubation period is around 48 hours. The symptoms begin with sore

throat with substernal burning; nonproductive cough; and coryza.

Cough usually becomes severe and productive and causes pain in the

chest. The soft palate, posterior hard palate, tonsils and throat

become reddened and painful. The eyes water easily and the

conjunctiva may be mildly inflamed. Sweating and weakness may

continue for weeks. Complications include bronchitis; pneumonia;

breathlessness; spitting of blood; pulmonary edema; encephalitis; and

death.

 

Old people; babies; those confined to bed; or with chronic pulmonary

or heart disease are the most at risk. Susceptibility to influenza

seems to be increased in those who have psora and TB miasms.

Influenzinum, a nosode made from the flu virus, can be used as a

prophylactic during epidemics. Baptisia has also been used for this

purpose. The " remedy epidemicus " can be found by using the totality

of symptoms in several cases of the the present epidemic.

 

Materia Medica

 

ACONITE (2). Inflammatory symptoms, high fever, dry skin; dry,

violent, racking cough, with or without oppression; stitches in chest

after exposure to cold winds. Early stages with rapid onset. Much

restlessness, anxiety and fear.

 

ARSENICUM (3). Sudden onset of suffocation at night. Influenza in

children with sudden onset and much prostration; child looks as if it

had been sick a week. Violent sneezing with blood-tinged discharge;

profuse watery discharge from nose, corroding nostrils making upper

lip sore, worse <at night, after meal. Spasmodic cough, with desire

to vomit or vomiting and expectoration of watery mucus. Running eyes,

excessive photophobia; inflamed eyes with ulcers on cornea.

Anxiousness and restlessness with much weakness. Thirst for warm

drinks in sips. Worse < after midnight.

 

BAPISTIA (3). Great languor, rapid prostration, soreness of the body,

bruised feeling, heaviness, numbness, aching of muscles, want to lie

down, chilly in open air. Lifeless body but restless mind, tosses and

turns, mottled, dark face, besotted look, putrid smells, foul

discharges. Confused, dull, indifferent, delirious, thinks he is

broken or double. Can only swallow liquids, gags on solid food. Worse

< open air, cold wind, autumn; < hot weather, humid heat, fog,

indoors; < pressure, walking, pressure.

 

BRYONIA (3). Dryness of mucus membranes, stitching, tearing pains,

worse <on motion, Headache on coughing, on stooping as if all the

contents of head would issue through forehead. Aversion to light,

esp. sunlight. Constriction and stitches in the chest worse < on

moving or coughing. Frequent sneezing, often between cough. Fluent

coryza, watery or greenish discharge. Mouth dry, lips cracked, with

thirst for large amounts of cold water. Dry hacking cough < smoking

or talking, when coming from the open air into a warm room. Rheumatic

pains in extremities. Sleepy, heavy, lethargic, irritable, wants to

be left alone, desire for things that are rejected when offered,

talks of business. Worse < motion, deep breathing, stooping, becoming

warm, warm room, eating and anger. Better > lying on painful side,

pressure, rest, quiet, cold things, drawing up knees, sitting up.

 

CAUSTICUM (2). Immediate sensation of weakness and paresis in all

extremities, loss of muscular strength., unsteady when walking, easy

falling. Cough with sensation as if can't cough deep enough to raise

mucus. Feels better after a sip of cold water. Cough causes escape of

urine. Cough is incessant, short, hollow, from crawling, tickling

with much mucus in the throat, causes soreness in chest. Aphonia,

difficulty speaking, contraction of the esophagus, painful sore

throat. Pain in the hip while coughing. Thick yellowish or greenish

discharge, nostril ulcerated. Coryza dry by day fluent at night.

Burning, rawness, soreness, tearing, drawing pains. Very

sympathetic, thinking of complaints < aggravates them, hopeless,

despondent, ambitionless, mentally fatigued. Child does not want to

go to bed alone, least thing makes them cry. Worse < clear fine

weather, dry cold air, winds, drafts, extremes of temperature,

stooping, 3 to 4 AM. Better > cold drinks, damp wet weather, wasing,

warmth of bed, gentle motion.

 

CHELIDONIUM (1). Shortness of the breath with tightness of chest, loud

mucous rales in bronchi. Violent pain in forehead above eyes, drawing

in nape and occiput. Photophobia with lachrymation. Dryness of the

nose, tongue, and throat; great dry heat in face, thirst, with dry

mouth, or thirstlessness, no appetite. Delirium mostly at night

followed by lethargy with continues throught the day. Anxiety and

restlessness. Aversion to conversation. Despondent. Feels like cry

with ill humour for no reason. Liver complications, biliousness,

yellowness of eyes and skin, aching pain at inferior angle of the

right scapula. Worse < right side and right lung.

 

EUPATORIUM PERF (3). Violent deep aching pains in the bones, as if

broken. Bruised sore feeling of the muscles of chest, back, and

limbs. Flowing coryza. sneezing, hoarseness, with roughness of voice,

hacking cough in the evening, with soreness in chest. Restlessness,

and moaning with constant change of position although he wishes to

stay because it hurts to move. Lassitude. Worse < cold air,

periodically, 7 to 9 AM, or third or fourth day. < Lying on part,

motion, coughing, sight or smell of food. Better >conversation, by

getting on hands and kness, lying on face, sweating and vomiting bile.

 

GELSEMIUM (3). The patient is apathetic, dull, dizzy, drowsy, droopy,

heavy, tired, aching, weak, and sore. Trembing of the limbs with lack

of mucular co-ordination. Want to lie down and be left alone. Face is

hot, flushed, with a heavy besottled look, droopy eyelids, lower jaw

dropped, putrid breath, the tongue is thickly yellow coated and

trembles when protruded. Chills up and down the spine. Dryness and

heat with thirstlessness. Soreness of throat, pain in left tonsil,

extending to soft palate, along left nostril, sensation as if stream

of scalding water rushing along nasal passage on every inspiration

while right nostril is stuffed up. Continuous accumulation of

irritating mucus in throat, hard, painful cough with shooting pain

into ear when swallowing. Never well since flu. Worse < emotions, bad

news, damp, humid weather, heat of sun, summer, 10 AM, periodically,

thinking of the ailment.

 

INFLUENZINUM (1). Used as a preventive during epidemics or never well

since a case of influenza. General feeling of chill, headache, eyes

heavy and sensitive to movement, diffused pains, general stiffness,

lingering fever, weakness, anorexia. Post-grippal neurotic,

depressive feelings.

 

MERCURIUS (2). Rheumatic pains in the head, face, ears, teeth and

extremites with sore throat, swollen glands, and excessive salivation

which may wet the pillow during sleep. Tongue moist, yellow coated,

flabby, showing indention of the teeth. Weariness, prostration and

trembling with produse sweat that does not relieve. Intense thirst

for cold water. Sensitive to heat and cold. Fluent coryza, acrid

watery discharge with sneezing. Dry hacking cough as though head and

chest would burst. Dry at night, in daytime expectoration of thin,

acrid purulent, yellow mucus often mixed with blood. Creeping

chilliness, < in the evening and night. Groaning and moaning with the

pains. Irresolute, constantly changing their minds.

Dissatisfied,complains about everything, his relations, surrounding,

etc. Weakness of the memory,forgets everything, thinks he is losing

his reason. Worse < at night, sweating, lying on right side, heated,

from cold or heat, changing weather, cloudy, damp cold, drafts, wet

feet. Better > moderate temperature, rest.

 

NUX VOMICA (2). Rough, raw, and hollow cough, scraped feeling in

throat, with mucus rales and thick expectoration.Violent headache as

if the brain were bruised,, cough brings on bursting headache,

heaviness of head, vertigo, pains in loins, constipation, loss of

appetite, nausea and desire to vomit. Sleeplessness or restless

sleep, with anxious dreams. Can't sleep after 3 AM until towards

morning, awakes feeling wretched, better >after a nap. Stitches and

pain in chest as if raw, fluent coryza by day but dry at night. Body

burning hot, esp. face, yet can't move or bear unovering without

feeling chilly. Very irritable, angry, and impatient, complaining,

fault-finding, wants to be left alone. Can not bear the slightest

noises, odors, or light. Worse < early morning, cold, open air,

drafts, wind uncovering. Better > from a nap, free discharges,

wrapping head, hot drinks, lying on the side.

 

OSCILLOCOCCINUM (1). Useful if given at the first onset of the flu.

Anxiety, paleness, and chill. Fixed ideas and obsessions, fear of

dirt, infection, of being polluted, must wash his hands often and is

aftraid to shake hands because of fear of pollution or contagon.

Fears storms. Obstinate, agony, anxious without any motive. Sensitive

to meteorological changes. Stuffed nose,, nasal obstruction, sneezing

serous discharges followed by muco-purulent. Pain in frontal or

maxillary region. Nasal voice, aphonia, dry painful cough. Muco-

purulent expectoration with humid cough. Worse < by milk and eggs.

Better > heat and rest.

 

PHOSPHORUS (3). Intense bronchial and painful laryngeal affection,

affecting the voice and rendering speech almost impossible. Dry,

tickling cough, with tightness aross the chest, worse < evening and

before midnight. Coryza alternating fluent or dry, with frequent

sneezing. Hard, dry, tight racking cough. Whole body trembles with

cough. Sputa rusty blood-colored or purulent. Goneness and faintness

in region of stomach, painless diarrhoea. Craves cold, iced drinks

and foods. Burning in all parts of the body and limbs, violent

congestions, flushes of heat, rushes of blood, and haemorrhages.

Open, friendly, sympathetic people who become weak, needy,

anxious, restless and figity when ill. Fears being alone at twilight.

Worse < change of weather, wind cold, thunderstorms, lightining,

lying on the left or painful side. Better > lying on right side, cold

food, cold, open air, eating, dark, massage, being magnitised.

 

PYROGEN (2). Abnormal balances between pulse and temperature, pulse

decreases while temperature increases or pulse increases with

temperature decreases. Pulse abnormally rapid, out of proportion to

temperature. Profuse sweat, bed is soaked, yet temperature does not

drop. Offensive smells and discharges, septic states when blood is

disorganized, heart weak and muscles prostrated. Aching, bruised,

sore, bone pains. Prostrated yet restless, bed feels hard. loquacity,

thinks and talks faster then ever before, talks or whispers to

herself in sleep, can not tell if they are dreaming or awake.

Sensitive, anxious and confused. Worse < cold, damp, sitting, moving

eyes. Better > heat, motion, heat, pressure.

 

RHUS TOX. (3). Flu after exposure to wet, damp weather or getting wet.

Stiffness in muscles and joints < first motion but > by limbering up.

Tearing, shooting, stitching pains < at night, can not rest in any

position, severe aching of the bones. Restless, sore, bruised and

stiff. Copious coryza with redness and edema of throat, sneezing and

coughing, edema of glottis, puffed, translucent uvula. Pharynx and

larynx feel intolerably raw and rough, full of vesicles. Dry cough <

from evening till midnight or from uncovering the body. Mind and

senses become cloudy. Extreme restlessness with constant changing of

position, great apprehension at night, can not remain in bed. Worse <

after midnight, jar, riding, ice cold drinks, side lain on,

drenching, uncovering parts, during rest. Better > limbering up and

continual motion.

 

Repetorium

 

Influenza-Acon., All-c., Arn., ARS., Ars-i., BAPT., BRY., Calc.,

Camph., Carc.,Caust., Chel., Dulc., Euph., EUP-PER., Ferr-p., GELS.,

Med.,Merc., Merc-i-r., Naja.,Nux-v., Ph-ac., PHOS., Pyrog., RHUS-T.,

Sabad..

 

Ailments, from- Abrot., Ars., Bry., cadm-m., Calc-p., GELS., Ph-ac.,

Psor., Scut., Tub..

 

Weakness after- Abrot.,Bapt., BRY., Carc., Con., Chin., GELS., Kali-

p., Ph-ac., Scut., X-ray..

 

 

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Jennifer Ruby

 

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