Homeopathic Treatments to Cough and Flu
November 25, 2009 by admin
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When flu season is in full force, there’s almost no escape from getting cough and flu yourself. Except when you’ve had a flu shot, you’re very susceptible to catching the flu virus. And when you do, it’s something you want to get rid of immediately, as it disrupts your daily activities like work and school. So if you want to get right back on track, one way to do so would be to rely on homeopathy.
Homeopathy is a popular alternative medicine today, and there’s a reason why it’s so. Based on the principle of ‘like cures like,’ it makes use of substances in small doses which would normally cause the symptoms in a normal person. It is symptom-based, meaning the treatment highly depends on the symptom experienced. Nowadays, there are several homeopathic remedies being used to treat various symptoms of illnesses, such as cough and flu.
Homeopathy for Cough
Laura Paris, O.M.D., L.Ac, has created a table of homeopathic remedies for two types of cough: dry cough and productive cough. Still under that heading is a list of different forms of cough.
If you experience constant, loud and hoarse cough together with dryness of chest and a suffocating sensation with every breath, you can seek relief from aconite.
Belladona is recommended for burning, tickling, and barking short cough. It is a good remedy for whooping cough with dryness, scraping, and spasms in larynx which cause difficulty in breathing.
Antimonium tart is advised for too much mucus in bronchial tubes but too little expelled. Kali Bich is for hacking cough with thick white or yellow mucus, while Stannum is perfect for loose cough with heavy and green expectoration.
Homeopathy for Flu
At the onset of flu, Anas barbariae may be taken. If you take such remedy together with other remedies in the first 4 to 12 hours of experiencing the symptoms, you can decrease the time of being sick with the flu.
If flu still persists, you can go for Eupatorium perfoliatum, which is advised for flu symptoms including headaches, fatigue, muscle aches, and chills while Arsenicum album may be used for those with red and runny noses, and people feeling restless, weak, and chilly.
Homeopathy has treatments for cough and flu, depending on the nature of cough and flu symptoms you exhibit.
