Flu Remedies

Homeopathic remedies for acute conditions with flu-, covid- or cold-like symptoms.

What follows is a brief Materia Medica of the most common remedies useful for people suffering with flu-, covid- or cold-like symptoms.  These remedies, manufactured by FDA regulated US pharmacies are included in the Remedy Kit available for sale on this site (see below). If you get a flu-like illness, it is always a good idea to see your doctor to be sure you are not missing something important in your healthcare.  The homeopathic remedies may help your Vital Force deal with the virus more effectively.

We recommend you work with a professional homeopath to figure out the best remedy for you.  However, if you want to treat yourself, it is possible.  If you decide to do that, we recommend you read some beginner homeopathic books to familiarize yourself with the basic homeopathic philosophy and procedure. For a brief discussion of Homeopathy in general and suggested reading list see www.BookOnHealing.com. Read through the descriptions of the symptoms and compare to your symptoms.  The remedy that matches your symptoms the best is the one most likely to help.  In most cases start with the lower potency of the indicated remedy, take it every hour or two as long as it is effective, then go up in potency if the effectiveness wanes. Once you feel better on a remedy, stop taking it.  When you feel worse again, start taking it again.

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Purchasing Homeopathic Remedies:

Here are a list of some retail outlets in Minnesota that sell homeopathic remedies. We have also included links to homeopathic pharmacies in and out of state for your convenience.

  • Mastel’s Health Foods- www.mastels.com – St Paul, MN,Tel: (651) 690-1692
  • Present Moment Herbs and Books- www.presentmoment.com – Minneapolis, MN, Tel: (612) 824- 3157
  • Valley Natural Foods Co, op- www.valleynaturalfoods.com – Burnsville, MN, Tel: (952) 891- 1212
  • Whole Foods Market, Excelsior Blvd, Minneapolis, MN, Tel: (612) 927 – 8141
  • Whole Foods Market, 7401 France, Ave, Edina, MN, Tel: (952) 830 – 3500
  • Whole Foods Market, 222, Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN, Tel: (612) 313 – 7101
  • Lakewinds Food Co op, 6420, Lyndale Ave, S, Richfield, MN, https://www.lakewinds.coop/, Tel: (612) 814 – 8000
    Note- Lake Winds in Minnetonka Tel (952) 473 0292: and Chanhassen Tel : (952) 697- 3366 also stock remedies
  • Whole Foods Market, 1575, Selby Ave,St Paul, MN, Tel: (651) 690 – 0197. To check the nearest Whole Foods Store, click here
  • Minnesota Remedies, Tel: (952) 242 – 2909. Please note- This center sells homeopathic remedies to clients working with a professional homeopath only. To find a professional homeopath, check here
  • Hahnemann Labs, CA- https://hahnemannlabs.com, Tel: (888) 427 – 6422. Please note- it is Mail-order pharmacy only. Please call to place your orders.
  • I & E Organics Apothecary- https://www.iandeorganics.com/collections/frontpage/products/oligotherapy-kit, Tel: (619) 908 – 2165
  • OHM pharma inc, Mineral Wells,Texas- https://ohmpharma.com/products Tel: (940) 325- 4797. Please note- OHM PHARMA only provides remedies to professional homeopaths, students of homeopathy or patients/clients with a practitioner’s order. To know more about check https://ohmpharma.com/how-to-order/
  • Washington Homeopathic Pharmacy www.homeopathyworks.com, Tel : (800) 336 1695

Our FluSolution Remedy Kit Contents:

Our FluSolution Remedy Kit contains 30C, 200C, 1M potencies.  We do not recommend going above 200C without the advise of a professional homeopath.

The following list of remedies have been updated in Apr 8, 2020 during the height of this year’s health crisis.  This is our best guess list.  We can’t guarantee it contains every possible remedy one may need.

We are pleased to offer our FLU KIT, series 005-a, containing 50 vials of the remedies most likely to be needed in influenza, as discussed on this page. 10 most common remedies are in 30C, 200C and 1M potencies, and the rest are in 30C potency only, plus one in 1M. They are packed in 1/2 dram vials in a very sturdy 50-vial capacity ammunition box. More remedies may be added to the box later.
Top 10 remedies (30C, 200C, 1M):  Acon, Gels, Eup-per, Nux-v, Ars, Bapt, Bry, Pyrog, Bell, Rhus-t.
 30C remedies: Am-c, Ant-t, Arn, Asc-t, Camph, Carb-v, Chin, Ferr-p, Ipec, Kali-bi, Kali-c, Lyc, Lach, Merc, Phos,  Squil, Stan, Sulph, Verat-v. AND
1M Remedy– Adamas
Contents: lactose, trace ethyl alcohol, dynamic essence of the substance on the label. No detectable traces of the material substance present. Remedies are prepared according to standard homeopathic procedure.
 
01-15-2022 update
 
Omicron variant has changed the disease picture somewhat.  The disease appears to be milder and there is less lung involvement.  According to Drs Joshi in India, the remedy Rumex may be useful frequently.  See its Materia Medica below.  It is not in the kit at this time, but should be easy to get from above mentioned outlets. We can supply it as well.   Andre Saine suggests Carboneum oxygenatum (Carbon monoxide) is often indicated currently in patients with severe apathy and lethargy.  Carbn-o is not in the kit.  We just ordered it for our pharmacy.
 
The kit currently retails for $100 plus $10 shipping within USA and can be ordered by emailing Dr. Mirman at: jmirman@demystify.com
or Sally Tamplin at sally.tamplin@gmail.com
 
A box with Rumex 30C, 200C, 1M and Carbn-o 30C, 200C, 1M is $20 plus $4 shipping via USPS First Class or $10 via USPS Priority (no extra shipping charge with kit purchase).
 
If your homeopath can quickly provide the needed remedies, you may not need to buy the kit.  However, if you live far away from your homeopath’s practice, you may benefit from having a “just in case” collection of remedies, so if you do get sick, you don’t have to wait a long time to get the remedy. Outlets listed above have kits available for this purpose.  You can also get our kit.
 
As the homeopathic thinking changes, we update our kit.  Owners of the older versions of our kit can order the recently added/changed remedies by emailing Dr. Mirman at jmirman@demystify.com. These remedies cost $4 each plus $4 shipping via USPS First Class or $10 via USPS Priority.  Please note: these prices  apply only to updates.
 
Homeopathic Remedy Preparation-
To understand the homeopathic remedy preparation process please read this page.
The medicating remedy solutions used in our kit are obtained from standard homeopathic pharmacies – Boiron and OHM Pharma.
The lactose pellets for medicating are from Paular corp.
All remedies should be used according to standard homeopathic indications.  Consult a professional homeopath before using these and other homeopathic remedies. The prescriptions must be individualized for the person suffering with the malady, not the malady itself.
 
Visit this website regularly for kit upgrades and other info.
As of 01-15-2022 kits are available.

Swine Flu Word Cloud Concept in Red Caps

As more cases of any specific epidemic are seen by homeopaths, it usually becomes clear that two or three remedies cover the majority of the cases.  A remedy most often seen in an epidemic is called Genus Epidemicus.  Unfortunately, we don’t know what it is until many people become sick and are helped by that remedy.  As soon as this information becomes available, we will place it on our web site and the remedy will be made available.  Until then, we should be ready with the following remedies.

Please note: 

As of 01-15-2022, we still don’t know the Genus Epidemicus remedy to be used in COVID-19 cases.  Presentation changes from variant to variant and patient to patient, so we must choose the remedies based on presenting complaints.

In a nutshell:

People around the world use homeopathy to help them recover from acute conditions like colds, coughs, flu, etc, and some countries include it in their state sponsored health plans.  A correct homeopathic remedy causes a quick shift in Vital Force and the person starts improving  within several hours.  A wrong remedy does not cause any harm or improvement. If the remedy has no effect, the case is retaken and a different remedy is prescribed, hopefully the right one, causing the right shift.  The prescription has to be individualized to the case, regardless of the conventional diagnosis. 

Disclaimer:

It is important to understand that homeopaths never make any claims to mitigate, prevent, treat, diagnose, or cure any disease. Homeopathic remedies do not cure or treat flu, ebola, COVID-19 or any other infectious disease. Homeopathic remedies do not have any direct effect on the infectious agent. But once you get sick, homeopathic treatment aids the body’s Vital Force in recognizing the disease and handling it more efficiently, thereby reducing the duration and intensity of the disease. See the Organon of Medicine by Samuel Hahnemann for an in-depth explanation of this concept.

What to Expect from a Good Remedy

In Par 148 of Organon of Medicine Samuel Hahnemann says that in acute cases, once a good remedy is given, the disease disappears within a few hours.  This needs to be understood correctly.  It does not mean that the sick person is completely well this fast.  In most cases it takes longer to get to complete health.  However, what we usually see following administration of a good remedy, is that the “energetic” disease disappears, and the Vital Force is able to affect complete healing much faster.  In other words, the person’s “operating system”, once “debugged”, is able to correct all the physical abnormalities quickly and efficiently.  

In practical terms we hear our patients/clients say within a few hours (and often minutes) things like “wow, I feel better!”, “I have more energy”, “my headache (and sore throat, body aches, fever, cough, etc) is improving”.  The family will report the patient is not as distressed, they fall asleep and sleep better, their mood improves, all of a sudden they are not as cold as they were half an hour ago, they want to eat, etc.  They are still not completely well physically, but there has been a shift, and the improvement has set in. A small shift is enough, and we expect progress from here. If this does not happen within a few hours of starting a remedy, this remedy may not be the best one and its choice may need to be reconsidered.

Common Flu Remedies

We update the Materia Medica below as new information comes in. Rely on your homeopath to know what to prescribe for you.  Consult your doctor for all health advice.

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Aconite: Sudden onset of the flu with great anxiety and fear. She thinks she is about to die.

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  • Symptoms come on very suddenly, especially after exposure to a dry, cold wind or from an emotional shock or fright
  • High fever, dry cough, sore throat and feeling of great worry and fear
  • The individual is very restless
  • Fear of death with anxiety, tossing and trembling
  • Croupy cough, symptoms of early stages of croup
  • Symptoms of pneumonia with sudden onset.
  • Coughing up of blood.
  • Better: in fresh air
  • Worse: in a warm room, in the evening or at night, lying on the left side, hearing music, when exposed to tobacco smoke.

Other uses:  any situation where the person is scared, such if they just witnessed something horrible, were just involved in an accident, etc.

Adamas (Diamond)

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  • Fever, sudden onset
  • Fever with shaking, heat, sneezing and coughing
  • Burning pain with cough
  • Difficulty with breathing, burning in the lungs on inspiration
  • Suffocative cough
  • Struggling for breath, gasping for air
  • Cold air feels as if it burns its way into the lungs
  • Feeling of heaviness in the chest
  • Themes around power versus powerlessness

Ammonium Carb (Smelling Salts)

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  • Symptoms consistent with pneumonia, emphysema, chronic bronchitis
  • Dry cough, coughing only during the daytime or only at night, incessant cough at 3- 4am
  • Hoarseness
  • Difficulty breathing worse from any effort, especially walking up stairs or entering a warm room
  • Weak pulse, prostration, wants to lie down
  • RIGHT side of the body is mostly affected (Bell, Lyc, Merc)
  • Swollen veins and bluish color of the extremities   (Carb V, Lach)
  • Nightmares every night
  • This remedy is suited to stout people with short legs

Arnica:  Flu with a feeling of soreness, as if bruised internally and externally.

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  • Sends others away saying, “I’m fine, there’s nothing wrong with me,” when it’s evident that they are very sick.
  • Complains that the bed feels too hard.
  • Fear of others approaching and touching them because their body is so sore.
  • Desires sour drinks and alcohol.

Other uses: This is the main initial remedy for acute trauma, injuries and accidents.  Bumps, bruises, sprains, strains, cuts, etc.  It is commonly given to patients before and after surgery to improve outcome, decrease bleeding and bruising and promote healing.  You will find Arnica in all homeopathic emergency kits.

Arsenicum Album: Extremely restless, oversensitive, anxious and weak.

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  • Fear of death.
  • Extreme prostration, out of proportion to the disease.
  • Very restless, can’t stay in one place.
  • Does not want to be left alone.
  • Chilly.
  • Pale face with an anxious expression.
  • Burning pains that are better with warm applications.
  • Thirsty, drinks in small sips often.
  • Worse between 1 and 2 a.m.
  • Vomiting and diarrhea are common.
  • Diarrhea with acrid, offensive, watery stools.
  • Too neat, upset by clutter.
  • Desires fatty and sour things, especially lemon.

Other uses: Food poisonings, stomach flues.

Baptisia:  Looks drowsy and drunk.  Flu-like illness with high fever and a feeling of being bruised all over.

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  • Flu that comes on suddenly
  • Sensation of being bruised and sore all over, the body and limbs feel as if they are scattered
  • Profuse sweating with a high fever and an intense thirst
  • Dull red face, looks dazed and sluggish as if they may fall asleep at any time
  • The bed feels hard (Compare with Pyrogenium and Arnica)
  • Stupefying headache, with confusion
  • Delirium with strange sensations, like as if there is somebody else in bed with him, parts of her body are separated, etc
  • Patient smells bad

Belladonna: Flu-like illness with a high fever, red face and dilated pupils. Dryness and burning heat. Everything is intense and concentrated in the head.

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  • High fever that comes on suddenly, often as a result of a change in temperature (e.g. becoming chilled or overheated, washing the hair)
  • Flushed face, sore throat, eyes wide and staring, pupils dilated, bright red tongue, red throat with white spots on the tonsils
  • Constriction on attempting to swallow
  • Ejection of food and drink through the nose and mouth from spasm.
  • There may be confusion, delirium or vivid hallucinations.
  • Twitching and starting
  • Headache
  • Symptoms tend to affect the right side of the body
  • Craving for lemon or lemonade
  • General aggravation at 3 p.m.

Better: standing, sitting upright, in a warm room.

Worse: any noise, bright light, movement, lying down, night. Other uses: strep throat, meningitis, abdominal cramps, menstrual cramps, etc, when the overall picture fits.

Bryonia:  Extremely irritable, talks about business. Flu-like illness with a severe, throbbing headache, body pains.  All symptoms are worse from any motion.

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  • Slow onset
  • Thirst for large amounts infrequently, preferably cold
  • Pains (headache, body pains) better by pressure.  Lies on the painful par
  • Dryness everywhere, dry tongue, with generally a white coating
  • Nose bleed
  • Symptoms of pneumonia, especially of the right side; pleurisy (pain on breathing and coughing)
  • Business: worries, talks and dreams about it
  • Wants to go home.  May be confused and not realize she is at home

Better: pressure, rest Worse: any excitement, noise, touch, movement, bright light, from eating and coughing and at around 3am and 9pm.Other uses: Pain in joints, sprains, strains, when symptoms are worse from movement.

Asclepias tuberosa

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  • Influenza-like illness with marked weakness on walking
  • Shooting pleuritic pains (pains with inspiration) during and lingering after influenza
  • Bleeding from gums, coughing up blood, bleeding from nose

Worse: Lying, especially on left side. Motion of arms. Deep inspiration.
Better: Bending forward.

Eupatorium – perfoliatum: Flu-like illness with body pains so severe, that the bones feel broken. 

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  • Feels as if run over by a truck, with pain deep in the bones
  • Bursting headache and sore eye
  • Thirsty for ice cold water (opposite to Gelsemium, which is not thirsty)
  • Chills running up and down the back
  • High fever preceded by chills, especially from 7 – 9am

Worse: movement

Ferrum Phos: Flu without any localizing or characteristic symptoms.

  • High fever, usually 102 degrees or higher
  • Right sided complaints – Symptoms of pneumonia
  • Flushes or redness or pallor
  • Hemorrhage [Nose or Chest]


Gelsemium: Flu with chills and paralytic weakness.   They feel as if run over by a truck.

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  • This tends to be the number 1 flu remedy
  • Slow onset
  • After worrying about a forthcoming task or event such as a public speaking engagement
  • Sore throat
  • Bursting headache beginning in the neck and which may extend over the head to the eyes and forehead; relieved by copious urination
  • Double vision often before or during the headache. Eyelids are heavy and droopy, can’t keep them open
  • Fatigue, heaviness and dullness.  The legs feel weak and shaky and they just want to lie in bed
  • Pain is felt in the muscles
  • No thirst
  • Aching muscles
  • Chills begin in the hands and feet, and run up and down the spine

Worse: early morning and last thing at night, in the sun, and when exposed to tobacco smoke. Better: urination, fresh air Comparisons:

  • Bryonia also has pains, but they are much worse from any movement.  Gelsemium patient does not want to move due to fatigue and heaviness, not aggravation from movement.
  • Eupatorium perfoliatum patient also feels as if run over by a truck, but the pains are more severe, and they are felt in the bones.  In addition, Eup-per patient is thirsty, and Gels patient is not.

Other uses: Anxiety anticipating an important engagement.

Ipecacuanha: She coughs till she vomits

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  • Dry, spasmodic cough ending in choking, gagging and vomiting.  Person stiffens and becomes pale or blue; gasps for breath
  • Constant nausea not relieved by vomiting
  • Clean tongue
  • Profuse salivation with the nausea
  • No thirst

Worse: Heat. Other uses: Any ailments or pains attended with constant nausea and clean tongue.  Whooping cough.

Kali- Bichromicum

  • Affections of the mucous membranes, eyes, nose, mouth, throat, bronchi, gastro – intestinal and genito – urinary tracts
  • Discharge of a tough, stringy mucus which adheres to everything and can be drawn intro long strings
  • Discharge of plugs, tough, ropey, green fluid mucus. Violent pain from back of head to forehead if the discharge ceases
  • Violent, rattling cough with gagging from viscid mucus in the throat
  • Headache with blurred vision or loss of sight before the attack. Sight returns as headache increases. Must lie down, aversion to light and noise
  • ANT TART follows well in catarrhal affections

Kali- Carb

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  • This remedy is adapted to weak, anemic and easily exhausted patients who are always tired
  • Aversion to open air and draughts, fever is higher in the open air
  • Flatulent
  • Dry paroxysmal cough, night sweats and sometimes expectoration of bloody pus
  • Spasmodic cough with gagging or vomiting from the stomach
  • Pain in the lower right chest through to the back
  • Aggravation after exertion and at 3am
  • This remedy is indicated in pleurisy
  • Dr.Hahnemann wrote: “Persons suffering from ulceration of the lungs can scarcely get well without this anti-psoric.”
  • Complimentary to Carb-V and Phos. Follows well after Phos and Stannum in loose, rattling cough


Mercurius solubilis:  Dirty, smelly, drooling.

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  • Increased salivation, offensive breath, profuse offensive sweat.
  • Filthy tongue, large, flabby, tooth – notched
  • Thirsty
  • Craves bread and butter.

Worse:  night, heat of bed

Nux Vomica: Flu with great irritability and over sensitivity.  Easily offended, angry, cold.

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  • Irritable, impatient, angry and easily offended
  • Very chilly. Chilliness on the slightest movement. On the slightest exposure to the open air, shivering and chilliness for an hour; dreads to go out into the open air. By the slightest draught he gets chilled. He cannot get warm. Great coldness not removed by heat, or by bed coverings.  Wants to be completely covered
  • Very sensitive to light, noise and odors
  • Shivering and chilliness immediately after drinking
  • Fastidious. Wants everything just so
  • Collapse and fatigue states from overwork

Other uses: Ailments from overdoing: overeating, overwork, etc.  Hangover.


Phosphorus:  The flu quickly affects the lungs, especially the base of the right lung.  Lots of cough.  Bleeding.

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  • Bloody sputum, bright red
  • Craves cold drinks, which may be vomited when they become warm in the stomach
  • Burning pressure and constriction in the chest; worse lying on the left side; worse lying on the painful side (patient and the cough)
  • Nose bleed, bright red
  • Cough, worse talking and laughing


Rhus toxicodendron: Stiff and restless, better with movement.

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  • Restlessness.  Wants to move all the time
  • Aching and stiffness in the joints, worse on first starting to move and better with continued movement
  • Red triangle on the tip of the tongue.
  • Intense fever: thirsty: great prostration: weeps without knowing why
  • Severe aching in the bones
  • Fear of poisoning.  She may refuse taking medicine feeling it is poison
  • Anxiety and fear which are worse at night

Other uses: Sprains, strains, when the pain is better with movement (opposite of Bryonia).

Rumex (not currently in the kit)

  • Incessant cough, worse exposure to cold air, talking, taking clothes off, turning in bed

Stannum (Tin)

  • This remedy has a special affinity with the lungs and the LEFT side
  • Extreme weakness, too tired to talk
  • Sweaty
  • The cough is pronounced during the day
  • Expectoration is easy and extremely copious
  • Greenish – yellow, salty or sweetish tasting phlegm which is in the shape of balls – worse in the morning and lying on the right side
  • Thick white expectoration in the morning
  • Sensation of weakness or sinking in the chest as if it were empty, particularly after expectoration or speaking
  • Painful rawness after coughing
  • Stannum is also followed by Phos and Sulph

Squilla

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  • Hard or violent coughs, either dry or loose and rattling with expectoration of much mucus. Often worse and loose in the morning and dry in the evening
  • Bubbling sound when fluids are present in the lungs with shortness of breath and runny nose and sneezing
  • There may be painful constriction and heaviness in the chest
  • Sharp pains, especially in the LEFT lower chest
  • Cough is worse when taking a deep breath and < by cold drinks and from going from warm air to cold air
  • Chilly, wants to be wrapped up
  • Involuntary loss of copious colorless urine and offensive stool from coughing
  • Copious, colorless discharge from nose
  • Asthma and respiratory infections such as bronchitis and pneumonia especially in old people. Reputation for pains or disorder of the spleen

Sulphur

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  • Hot, burning sensations. This is a well known remedy for skin irritation.
  • Partially recovers and then relapses
  • Very sensitive to the open air and drafts (opposite to Pulsatilla); worse from washing and taking a bath
  • The crown of the head is very hot but the feet are cold
  • The soles of the feet burn at night; they must be put out of the bed
  • Hungry and starving at 11am, but not before then
  • Often left-sided
  • This one is hard to figure out. Your professional homeopath will know when it is indicated.

Veratrum Viride

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  • Symptoms of pneumonia
  • High temperature
  • Hard pulse, full and rapid
  • Rapid respiration often associated with gastric trouble
  • Symptoms of acute bronchitis and asthma and great difficulty breathing associated with severe congestion of the lungs and great difficulty breathing
  • Sensation of a heavy load on the chest
  • Quarrelsome and delirious
  • Followed well by Arn in pleurisy and Bryonia in pleurisy and pneumonia

Desperate case remedies

Coffin in morque

 

 

Antimonium Tartaricum: Rattling of mucus in the chest.

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  • Profuse mucus in bronchi with drowsiness. Loose, coarse rattling but scanty expectoration. Suffocative shortness of breath; alternating with cough. Chest seems full, yet less and less is raised, followed by vomiting or sleep
  • Nausea; in waves; with weakness and cold sweat
  • Forcible vomiting, followed by exhaustion and sleep
  • Tongue coated thick white with reddened papillae and edges
  • Vomiting better lying on right side
  • Desire for acids, apples
  • Anxiety, aversion to being looked at; wants to be left alone
  • Sleepy, weak, sweaty

Worse: heat; warm room.

Camphora: Flu with laborious, asthmatic breathing, accumulation of phlegm in the air tubes, cold, dry skin.

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  • Profound prostration/collapse
  • Coldness and shivering
  • Cold to touch, yet cannot bear to be covered
  • Very sensitive to cold air
  • Face is pale and blue, lips are livid
  • Pulse is weak and scarcely perceptible.
  • Collapse in cases of pneumonia or bronchitis. Irritability

Worse: Cold

Carbo –vegetabilis: “Corpse reviver”

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  • Desperate cases
  • Cold; even the breath and tongue are cold; very pale, air – hunger, asks for the windows to be opened, to be fanned
  • Shortness of breath.  Must sit up in bed 
  • Bloating, indigestion, and tremendous amount of gas
  • This is a frequent ICU remedy, when life seems to be draining away

China (Cinchona officinalis):  Ailment from loss of fluids: blood loss, vomiting, diarrhea. 

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  • Desperate cases
  • Debility with chilliness
  • Anemic; pallid; weak. Sensitive to touch: motion: to cold air
  • Worse at regular period: alternate days, every third day, every seven days, etc
  • Weariness of the limbs, with desire to stretch, move or change position
  • Painless diarrhea with a lot of gas

Pyrogenium:  Septic states

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  • Extremely restless.  Has to keep on moving, rocking, wringing, for momentary relief
  • The bed feels too hard, aching everywhere, feels beaten and bruised
  • Everything is offensive: sweat, breath, discharges, stool, etc
  • The pulse is abnormally rapid for the temperature. High temperature with slow pulse, or the reverse
  • Creeping chills in the back, with a thumping heart
  • Bursting headache
  • Rapid bed sores
  • Feels as if someone else is in his bed
  • Consciousness of the heart beating

Other uses: A very common remedy for diarrhea

Lachesis

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  • Snake remedies have an affinity with hemorrhage, the blood  of Lachesis is dark, watery, offensive and non- coagulable
  • This is a prominent LEFT sided remedy but complaints transverse from left to right
  • Cough provoked or aggravated by the least external pressure to the throat
  • Choking from clothing around the neck, great sensitiveness to touch
  • All complaints are aggravated during and after sleep whether by day or night
  • Suffocative cough during sleep
  • Hot patients, hot sweats with a hot burning sensation in the body
  • This remedy is complimentary to Kali- C. It follows well after Carb-V, Nux-V and Sulph
  • This has been found to be helpful particularly in alternation with Arsenicum and China in serious, desperate cases accompanied with extreme prostration of strength, cold feet and offensive discharges

Lycopodium

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  • ANT TART is similar to Lyc
  • In Lyc there is greater and more distressing shortness of breath, much mucous rattling stitching and stabbing pleuritic pain and a tendency to abdominal distention
  • Marked weakness
  • Struggle for breath with a flaying of the nostrils
  • Lower lobe of the RIGHT lung
  • Thick, purulent, yellow sputum
  • Aggravation 4- 8pm and by warm food
  • This remedy is complimentary to Kali- C and Lach. It follows well after Carb-V, Lach, Nux-V and Sulph
 

 

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