COLD & FLU REMEDIES

COLD + FLU are natural processes established by the body as a means to eliminate the accumulation of cellular debris and toxins. They are essentially processes of cleansing that re-calibrate the system. Although acute illnesses such as these may be activated by exposure they are primarily the result of our frequency - illness can only manifest where we have the vulnerability to it.

Rather than suppress what the body is attempting to with medications there is an opportunity to support this process homeopathically.

Following are 21 KEY REMEDIES that commonly arise in COLD + FLU

ACONITE

• MIND: panic, fear, fear of death, fear of the future, anxiety, restlessness, unbearable pain, anxious dreams, insomnia

• FEVER: high fever with chills, sudden onset

• EYES: fearful, panicked, red inflamed, lids swollen, profuse watering

• HEAD: headache, as if hair being pulled, face red, flushed, swollen, one flushed cheek

• BODY: stiff, numb back, sensation bruised between scapula

• DIGESTION: vomiting

• RESPIRATORY: shortness of breath, throat constricted, red, dry, oesophageal burning

• SENSATIONS: burning, bursting, pressure, tingling in cheeks and jawbone

• PAINS: intolerable, unbearable, fearful

• WORSE: dry, cold winds, evening, night, warm room, rising, aversion to light,

• BETTER: open air,

• THIRST: very thirsty for cold water

ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM

• MIND: anxious, fearful of being alone, hopeless, despairing, irritable

• EYES: sunken, sore, burning, tearing

• HEAD: tongue painful, flaccid, dry, red, coated, face pale, sickly, band-like feeling over head, mouth sore difficult to swallow

• BODY: cold, clammy perspiration, copious cold and clammy perspiration

• DIGESTION: nausea, constipation, diarhhoea, vomiting, stools watery, mucusy, bloody, grass green, offensive

• RESPIRATORY: rattling of mucus in chest, lungs feel full of mucus, painful swallowing, difficult expectoration, thick white mucus when able to eliminate, dizziness with cough, suffocative shortness of breath, severe pneumonia, gasping for air, nausea in waves

• SENSATIONS: roaring, quivering, rattling, fluttering, numbness, electric shocks on falling asleep

• PAINS: violent, heaviness, sharp, inflamed

• WORSE: swallowing, warmth, warm room, warm weather, overheating, cold dampness

• BETTER: open air, lying on right side, belching, vomiting

• FOOD: total aversion to food, loss of appetite, desires apples

• THIRST: thirsty for cold water in frequent small sips, thirstlessness

ARSENICUM ALBUM

• MIND: great anxiety, restlessness, anguished, highly sensitive, fastidious, fearful, fear of death, of health

• FEVER: cold sweat, internal chills with external heat, desire for warm drinks during fever

• EYES: burning acrid discharge, pupils either contracted or dilated, swelling around eye

• HEAD: headaches better cold, icy scalp, periodic,

• BODY: oedemas, burning pains in the back, weakness of limbs

• DIGESTION: diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting, retching, indigestion, heartburn

• RESPIRATORY: wheezing, anxiety in chest, tightness of chest, cough exhausting, after drinking, deep, dry, suffocative sensation when sleeping, pneumonia, expectoration frothy, bloody, thick, yellow, green, scanty

• SENSATIONS: chilly with burning sensations, as if torn, ice cold parts, stiffness, trembling, jerking, twitching, spasms

• PAINS: burning, itching, drawing, darting, convulsive

• WORSE: after midnight, lying down,

• BETTER: warmth, fresh air, warmth, sitting up, moving

• FOOD: loss of appetite with thirst and nausea, many foods aggravate, craves lemons and sour foods

• THIRST: very thirsty but tends to only sip drinks, desires warm/hot drinks

BAPTISIA

• MIND: indifferent, as though drunk, bewildered, feels broken in to parts and scattered, confused, despair about recovery, fears sleep in case of suffocation, drowsiness

• FEVER: sudden onset, low grade fever, hot, dry, burning face, with rheumatic pains, gastric fever

• EYES: soreness, severe pain when trying to read, eyelids heavy, half closed

• HEAD: mouth very dry, tongue feels burnt, sweating, headache,

• BODY: heaviness, aching muscles, prostration, feels separated, painless sore throat

• DIGESTION: nausea, vomiting, abdomen distended, rumbling, sore on pressure, burning in the anus

• RESPIRATORY: weakness in chest, suffocative, craves air, chest feels tight, compressed, feeling of suffocation, sharp pain in chest, chronic cough

• SENSATIONS: sore, bruised, stiffness, scattered, tightness, aching, dryness

• PAINS: root of nose, back, limbs, when walking, sharp, stitching, burning

• WORSE: swallowing makes gag, walking, cold air, cold dampness, washing

• BETTER: open air, when alone, standing, cold foods,

• FOOD: loss of appetite, aversion to sweet foods

• THIRST: very thirsty, thirst during chill

BELLADONNA

• MIND:

• FEVER: a key fever remedy, sudden onset high fever

• EYES: glistening, dilated pupils

• HEAD: flushed face, tearing pain in middle ear, acute hearing, humming noises, headache

• BODY: radiating heat, cold hands and feet

• DIGESTION: empty retching, nausea, vomiting, distended, cutting pain left worse coughing

• RESPIRATORY: dry, hot, barking, whooping cough. Stitching chest, painful larynx, dry nose, throat, hoarse voice, difficult breathing

• SENSATIONS: body jerks, extreme sensitivity stomach. lump in throat, vertigo

• PAINS: throbbing, stitching, sharp, needle like

• WORSE: afternoon and night around 9pm, lying down, often worse on right side, dryness

• BETTER: sitting up slightly

• FOOD: loss appetite, desire lemon/lemon taste, averse meat and milk

• THIRST: dread drinking, thirstless, dryness with thirst

BRYONIA ALBA

• MIND: grumpy, cross, desire to be left alone, irritable,

• FEVER: dry burning heat, blood feels hot, rheumatic fever, painful, ongoing fevers, profuse perspiration

• EYES: burning, worse movement, light sensitive

• HEAD: migraines, headache, sinus, occipital, tongue feels dry, vertigo

• BODY: muscles stiff, severe back pain or neck, perspiration oily, sour, profuse

• DIGESTION: nausea, vomiting worse after eating, stomach sensitive to touch, constipation, pain in the liver region

• RESPIRATORY: breathing hurts, cough hard, hacking, dry may automatically hold chest, tough mucous, hoarse, desire to take long breath, discomfort extends to right shoulder

• SENSATIONS: dryness, parched, splitting, sensitive to touch, as if stone in abdomen, stiffness

• PAINS: sharp, stitching, swelling, sticking, pressure, tearing, bursting, splitting

• WORSE: movement, warmth, morning, eating, arguing, coughing, deep breathing, bread

• BETTER: being left alone, pressure, cold thing, cloudy damp days

• FOOD: aversion to greasy foods, milk, aggravated by cabbage

• THIRST: very thirsty for large quantities of cold water or thirstless, strong desire for coffee, desires warm drinks

CAMPHORA

• MIND: fearful of being left unattended, alone, afraid of own thoughts, fearful at night, insomnia, restlessness, frenzied, hysterical, awkward, anguished, anxiety, insomnia

• FEVER: chills with shaking, sudden fever, icy coldness of the whole body, runs hot and cold

• EYES: dilated pupils, objects appear too bright

• HEAD: headaches, headaches with sneezing, face pale, cold perspiration, head drawn to one side, terrible breath on waking

• BODY: cold hands, sudden collapse, cold sweats, ice cold feet, tension in neck and shoulders, cramping in the calves, coldness of the body, skin sensitivity,

• DIGESTION: vomiting, abdominal cramps, sensation of fullness, cold or burning heat in the upper abdomen, palpitations after eating, black stools,

• RESPIRATORY: oppressed, sighing, anxious breathing, dry cough, cold feeling in the chest, stopped up nose, sneezing

• SENSATIONS: shaking, coldness and burning, numbness, tingling, stiffness, as if cold air being blown on the skin, tongue feels cold

• PAINS: throbbing, cramping, stitching,

• WORSE: touch, sitting, tobacco smoke

• BETTER: lying down, being covered, warmth, free flowing discharges like sweat

• FOOD: tastes bitter

• THIRST: excessive thirst, desires cold drinks

CARBO VEG

• MIND: weakness, exhaustion, debilitated, lifeless, confusion,

• FEVER: burning in specific places, hectic fevers, exhausting perspiration, warm head yet cold limbs

• EYES: muscles painful when looking up

• HEAD: hot, face blue, pale, cold, sweaty, teeth sensitive when chewing, nosebleeds, perspiration on face sour, headaches, hair feels sore,

• BODY: blood stagnates leading to coldness and low vitality, severe pain in lumbar, throat feels closed,

• DIGESTION: flatulence, bloating, distended abdomen, painful diaarhoea, stool escapes when passing wind, stools acrid, burning, moist

• RESPIRATORY: air hunger, breath cold, thick, acrid discharges, hoarseness

• SENSATIONS: lack of vitality, lack of reaction, bruised, soreness, heaviness, slowness, numbness

• PAINS: tender, dull, compressive, heavy

• WORSE: tight clothing around waist, from the smallest amount of food, rich food, extremes of temperature, from depletion or since a recent illness

• BETTER: cool air, belching, elevating feet

• FOOD: aggravated by coffee, butter, milk, wine

• THIRST: coldness with thirst

CHINA officinalis

• MIND: overactive, indifferent, muddled thoughts yet clear mind in the evening, irritable, sensitive, mistakes in speech and writing, insomnia from ideas

• FEVER: debilitating sweats, canine hunger during fever

• EYES: inflamed, itching

• HEAD: headache accompanied by ringing in ears, headaches congestive, throbbing, face sallow, pale, lips deep blue,

• BODY: exhaustion, drenching sweats,

• DIGESTION: constipation, extreme distention of abdomen, diarrhoea, dehydration, flatulence

• RESPIRATORY: cough spasmodic, violent, hacking, dry, irritable, cutting pains in abdomen during cough, difficult expectoration, violent dry sneezing, chest feels sore, heightened sensitivity to smells

• SENSATIONS: numbness, trembling, heaviness, bruised, as if stone between scapulae

• PAINS: throbbing, neuralgic, bursting, intolerable, periodic, pressing, stinging

• WORSE: loss of vital fluids, talking, laughing, hot foods, milk, bad meat, impure water,

• BETTER: open air, hard pressure, bending double

• FOOD: voracious appetite or complete loss of appetite, desires sour fruit, food tastes bitter

• THIRST: thirsty for cold water

EUPATORIUM-PERFORATUM

• MIND: restlessness, anxiety, frightened

• FEVER: intermittent, alternating hot and cold, chilliness preceding thirst, insatiable thirst before and during chill and fever

• EYES: glistening, yellow, painful, redness,

• HEAD: headache throbbing, with sore eyeballs, heavy, violent, headache coming on with chill

• BODY: back, neck pain, back weakness, dark or alternatively clear urine, pain in calves,

• DIGESTION: abdominal distension, hiccoughs,

• RESPIRATORY: cough loose, ticking, hectic, chest sore, hoarse voice, holds chest when coughs, sore behind sternum, pain right lung on inhale, difficulty breathing

• SENSATIONS: bruised, as if bones would break, trembling, soreness

• PAINS: deep in the bone, aching, beating, intense, spasmodic, sharp

• WORSE: night, motion, 7am to 9am, cold air, smell of food, tight clothing,

• BETTER: on hands and knees, vomiting bile,

• FOOD: voracious hunger, craves ice cream

• THIRST: thirst for cold water, desires acidic drinks

FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM

• MIND: talkative, funny, excited or alternatively angry, apathetic with the need for quiet

• FEVER: night sweats, fever with sore throat, chills while eating, chills with desire to stretch

• EYES: sensation of something inside upper lid, inflamed, stye on lower lid

• HEAD: nosebleeds, earache, face alternating red to pale,

• BODY: hot with sweaty hands, stiff neck, back pain, night sweats,

• DIGESTION: sour belching, vomiting, stomach pain aggravated after eating, diarrhoea, stools yellow, watery, bloody, undigested

• RESPIRATORY: tickling or hacking, short, spasmodic cough, dry, persistent, painful cough, tonsils red, swollen, watery discharge from nose, chest feels heavy, sore,

• SENSATIONS: roaring, buzzing, stiffness,

• PAINS: rheumatic, throbbing, stinging, neuralgic,

• WORSE: going into open air, morning, evening, shaking head, stooping, tea, coffee, 4am to 6am, noise, cold drinks, sour food

• BETTER: night, cold applications, lying down

• FOOD: desire sour tastes, stimulants, loss of appetite

• THIRST:

GELSEMIUM

• MIND: anticipation, worse bad news, dullness, apathy, lack of fear, heaviness, listless, desire for quiet, fear of falling, of doctors, fright

• FEVER: chills especially in the back alternating with heat, chills run up and down the spine

• EYES: double vision, pupils may be dilated or contracted, heavy eyelids, dullness, inflamed

• HEAD: dizziness, dusky complexion, facial neuralgia, face is hot, heavy, flushed, fatigued, headache dull, band-like, heavy, occipital

• BODY: aching muscles all over the body, muscular weakness

• DIGESTION: diarhhoea,

• RESPIRATORY: breathless, breath slow, sore chest,oppressive sensation on chest, heaviness at the centre of the chest, loss of voice, swollen throat, cough ticking, dry, croupy, convulsive, spasmodic, irritable

• SENSATIONS: fatigue, relaxation of muscles, lump in throat, tickling, itching, from throat to ears. lightness in the head, body, band-like headaches, trembling

• PAINS: shooting in to ears, dull, aching, heavy, back, hips, legs, lumbar, sacral

• WORSE: damp weather, 10am, swallowing, wine, motion, anticipation

• BETTER: open air, continued motion, profuse urination,

• FOOD: low appetite,

• THIRST: thirstlessness

IGNATIA

• MIND: sighing, sobbing, changeable, sadness, worse from a shock, grief, disappointment or loss, anger

• FEVER:

• EYES: inflamed, red, light sensitivity, stabbing, blue rings around eyes,

• HEAD: sour taste, face red or pale, lips dry, cracked, headaches sudden, congestive, following extreme emotion

• BODY: painful, jerking, heavy limbs,

• DIGESTION: colic, cramping, sinking sensation, intestinal rumbling, flatulent, diarrhoea, nausea, hunger and nausea simultaneously

• RESPIRATORY: sharp pains in left chest, chest feels constricted, cough spasmodic, hacking, irritating, tickling, in quick succession, dry, hoarse, nervous, sighing, oppressive breathing, slow inhale quick exhale, choking breath

• SENSATIONS: stitching, tendency to choke, lump in throat, jerking, twitching, weakness

• PAINS: trachea, calves, soles feet, throbbing, cramping, aching, stabbing, spasmodic

• WORSE: coffee, smoking or smelling tobacco smoke, grief, shock, worry, slight touch

• BETTER: belching, deep breathing, pressure, lying on back

• FOOD: tastes bitter, loss of appetite

KALI CARBONICUM

• MIND: discontent, changeable moods, anxiety, anxious about state-of-health, obstinate, highly sensitive to pain, worry, desires company

• FEVER: surging fever with throbbing sensation

• EYES: stitching sensation in eyes, lids stick together, swollen eyelids, vision of spots, pain shutting eye

• HEAD: tongue burning, tip of tongue feels raw, headache from cold wind, in to eyes, when sneezing, coughing, congestive

• BODY: back pain, burning in spine, kidneys, right scapula, offensive sour perspiration, skin dry, sensitive

• DIGESTION: chokes when eating, anxiety in stomach, acidity and burning, flatulence, constipation, diarrhoea, burning in rectum or anus, anxiety felt in the stomach, nausea

• RESPIRATORY: nose stopped up, post nasal drip, yellow discharge, sore nostrils, nosebleed, sore throat, wheezing, hoarseness, dry hard cough, accumulation mucous worse morning,

• SENSATIONS: stitching, stiffness, paralysis, oedema, back, thighs, lump in stomach, trembling

• PAINS: cutting, stitching, extreme sensitivity, congestive, pulsating, throbbing, burning

• WORSE: warm room, washing face, 2am to 4am, right lower chest, exertion, loss of fluids

• BETTER: warm weather, moving, open aire, sitting with elbows on knees

• FOOD: desires sweets, perspires after eating, aversion to food or ravenous

LACHESIS

• MIND: restlessness, paranoid, suspicious, talking, quick speech,

• FEVER: chilly felt in back, hot flushes,

• HEAD: gums spongy, painful facial bones, swollen tongue,

• BODY: pain in neck, coccyx,

• DIGESTION: pain in pit of stomach.

• RESPIRATORY: sore throat, constant need to hawk, throat painful to touch, sensitivity in the windpipe

• SENSATIONS: neuralgia, dryness,

• PAINS: swollen, sensitivity to touch, burning

• WORSE: rising from sitting, swallowing liquids, scarf around throat, lying down

• BETTER:

• FOOD: gnawing pressure with desire to eat

• THIRST: craves alcohol
  

LYCOPODIUM

• MIND: sad, anxious, angry on waking, weak memory, very sensitive, difficulty with change

• FEVER:

• EYES:

• HEAD: headache, pain in temples, teeth, dry mouth, foul breath, cracked and swollen tongue,

• BODY: limbs fall asleep, calf cramps, painful heels and soles of feet,

• DIGESTION: abdominal fullness, bloating, flatulence,

• RESPIRATORY: tickling cough, burning in chest, pneumonia that has been neglected, sore throat, laryngitis,

• SENSATIONS: swelling, moves from right to left, dryness,

• PAINS: throbbing, tearing,

• WORSE: bread,

• BETTER:

• FOOD: desire for sweets, hot drinks and food, hungry during the night

• THIRST:

MERCURY VIV/SOL

• MIND: underlying sense of restlessness and anxious, tired, weary, loss of will, slow response

• FEVER:

• EYES:

• HEAD: band-like sensation around head, nosebleed, metallic taste, excessive saliva,

• BODY: profuse perspiration, offensive odour, skin can seem oily, oedema especially feet and legs

• DIGESTION:

• RESPIRATORY: foul smelling breath, loss of voice, sneezing, pain sternum,

• SENSATIONS: chilly, bruised, burnt, spongy

• PAINS: tearing, band-like. stinging, burning, raw, sore, sharp,

• WORSE: night, damp weather, in bed, lying right side, cold or hot,

• BETTER:

• FOOD:

• THIRST: very thirsty,

NUX VOMICA

• MIND: dramatic, sensitive,irritable, nasty, demanding, fault-finding, fastidious, restless, fear of death, weak memory, insomnia,

• FEVER: sour perspiration, chilly, aching back and limbs

• EYES: bloodshot, twitching, sensitive to light

• HEAD: migraines, headache over eyes, occiput, frontal, toxic, from sunshine, alcohol, tongue red, sore, yellow, vertigo

• BODY: liver congestion, limbs feel stiff,

• DIGESTION: flatulence, cramping, sour and bitter belching, nausea, vomiting, sensation of emptiness, constipation, sensation of incomplete passing of stool, indigestion

• RESPIRATORY: tight, dry, hacking cough, blocked nose at night and when outside, violent sneezing, oppressive breathing, loud snoring during sleep, sensation of suffocation, cough aggravates headache

• SENSATIONS: numbness, as if weight in stomach, loss of power, tickling

• PAINS: tearing, cramping, aching, spasmodic,

• WORSE: over exertion, stimulants, pressure, warm room, after 3am

• BETTER: warmth, after a nap, damp weather, moist air

• FOOD: desires stimulants, craves pungent foods, hungry yet aversion to food

• THIRST: thirstless during heat but thirsty during chills

PHOSPHORUS

• MIND: wants company, excitable, brain fog, anxiety, fearful, highly sensitive,

• FEVER: excessive perspiration, unnatural hunger, chilly in the morning

• EYES: blue rings under eyes,

• HEAD: head pain with dry cough,

• BODY: palpitations with anxiety, fast pulse,

• DIGESTION: sour belching, nausea, vomiting, h

• RESPIRATORY: hard, dry, hacking cough, congestion of lungs, for symptoms going to the chest and/or threatening to turn into pneumonia, cold air aggravates chest, throat and neck symptoms, as if heavy weight on chest, larynx very painful

• SENSATIONS: sensitive to light and noise, abdomen feels cold, cold knees in the evening, body trembles with cough,

• PAINS: sharp, cutting, burning, neuralgic,

• WORSE: in the dark, cold food, cold water, left side, lying on left, cough worse from laughing and talking,

• BETTER: stomach pain better cold food,

• FOOD: hunger even after eating

• THIRST: cold drinks, craves icy water, desire to drink huge quantities, desire for cola

SULPHUR

• MIND: irritable, apathetic, depressed, sadness, forgetful, easily bored, ambitious, workaholic

• FEVER: flashes of heat, night sweats, dry skin,

• EYES: inflamed, trembling, styes

• HEAD: bright red lips, headache, white tongue with red tip, face appears sickly, headache with pressure in temples, sweaty scalp

• BODY: jerking, twisting, offensive discharges, unhealthy skin,

• DIGESTION: nausea, feeling of faintness mid-morning, diarrhoea, nausea, haemorrhoids, abdomen sensitive to pressure, colic after eating, acidic system

• RESPIRATORY: loose cough, throat burning, red, dry, shooting pains through chest,

• SENSATIONS: burning, dryness, pressure, heat on top of head, ball rising in the pharynx, throat pressure as if from splinter, as if band around the chest or bones

• PAINS: throbbing, shooting, beating, burning, heavy

• WORSE: milk, 11am, warmth, bathing

• BETTER: open air, dry weather, warm weather, lying on right side

• FOOD: loss or alternatively excessive appetite, bitter, sour, sweet taste

• THIRST: very thirsty

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• MIND: low mood, brooding, indifferent, haughty, sits in a stupor, despairing, mania, wakes during the night trembling, fearful, fear of death, anguish, religious mania, guilty as though had committed a crime

• FEVER: chilly with extreme and external coldness and internal heat

• EYES: dark rings, dry, heavy lids, as if eyeballs are bruised

• HEAD: headaches, face very pale, bluish, sunken, red cheek, sensitivity to noise, cold sweat,neck feels too weak to hold head up, icy coldness at nose tip

• BODY: palpitations with anxiety, very cold, cramping pain between scapulae,

• DIGESTION: nausea, vomiting, thirsty but vomits as soon as swallowed, irritable digestion, belching of froth, very weak after vomiting, abdomen sensitive to pressure, stools large, thin, watery, ribbon like, odorless

• RESPIRATORY: oppression of the chest, pain on inhaling, as though air is too hot, rattling in chest, barking cough, cough aggravated entering warm room from being in cold air

• SENSATIONS: contractions, tingling, bruised, pinched, tearing, coldness, as though lump of ice on top of head

• PAINS: neuralgic, shooting, cramping, cutting

• WORSE: warm foods, exertion, drinking, wet cold weather, exertion, cold drinks, fright, damp, touch, pressure

• BETTER: warmth, eating meat, being covered, lying, walking

• FOOD: voracious appetite, aggravated by potatoes, green vegetables, fruits

• THIRST: thirsty for cold water, craves iced water, mouth dryness not relieved by drinking