Homeopathy & Influenza

Did you know that you can naturally and effectively treat influenza symptoms? Homeopathy has proven to be an effective natural treatment and was even used during the Influenza Outbreak of 1918. In fact, the mortality rate for those receiving homeopathic treatment was 1.05% compared to 30% for those receiving conventional medical treatment!

Homeopathic medicines can be given as soon as symptoms start to present. You can also take homeopathic Oscillococcinum throughout the flu season to prevent your chances of getting the flu.

Common cold and flu are different. Influenza is more severe than a cold and includes runny or stuffy nose, body or muscles aches, cough, chills/fever, headaches, fatigue, and sore throat. A cold is less severe and symptoms are generally a runny/stuffed nose.

So here are a few remedies to consider for flu and all are safe to be given to any person whether they are for yourself, for children, the elderly, immune-compromised, or infants.

• Allium Cepa – influenza after exposure to a cold damp wind, with bland watery discharge from the eyes, and excoriating discharge from the nose. Throat and larynx are raw extending into the chest; tickling cough and tearing pain in larynx with cough - usually left - sided nasal catarrh.
• Arsenicum Album – Influenza with great restlessness, anxiety, chilliness and thirst for small quantities often. Chill and generally aggravated by cold. Desires heat; can hardly ever be too warm. General aggravation at midnight or from twelve AM to 1 or Two AM. Pains are usually burning in nature (and yet better from heat). Discharges are offensive. Prostration and exhaustion which may alternate with restlessness.
• Baptisia – influenza comes on rapidly, prostration, stupidity, mottled face, bleeding and putrid mouth; the patient looks as if he were drunk; confused, delirious, disassociated, feels that there are two of him; his limbs are scattered, restless, tosses and turns.
• Bryonia - Influenza, with intense aching which is worse from any kind of motion, severe headache, coated tongue and great thirst for cold water. Very sleepy & lethargic. Dislikes being disturbed and very irritable. Backache, aching limbs and does not want to move or even talk. Profuse perspiration. Genearlly will feel under the weather for several days before full symptoms develop.
• Eupatorium perfoliatum - the extreme aching and soreness into the muscles and even into the bone, especially of the back or limbs - feeling as if the bones would break; the patient is extremely restless; there is no comfortable place in bed; it feels hard. Coated tongue. There is great heat but no perspiration. There can be high fever, chills or rigor with scant perspiration.
• Hepar Sulph – Patient feels cold in the back of the neck on moving. There is stitching pain in the throat; he is sensitive to any kind of pain; irritable, nasty tempered to those near him. Needs to cover back of neck with woolen shawl even in bed. Profuse perspiration. Difficult patient mentally, always complaining about everybody that comes near.
• Gelsemium - think of this remedy when the chief complaint is weakness. or exhaustion. This weakness can be seen on all levels - mental, emotional, and physical. Great exhaustion, weariness, prostration, so tired he cannot exert himself to move or turn round, wants to be left alone. Face suffused and congested. Thirstless.
• Nux vomica - The patient feels cold, shivers, shivers from motion, moving bedclothes will bring on a shivering attack. Patient is disagreeable, bad tempered, snappy, wants to be left severely alone. Aching in all limbs, severe headache, eyeache, worse moving eyes or turning to the light, prefers the dark. nausea and thickly coated tongue.
• Pyrogenium - similar to Eupatorium. It has the deep aching in the bones - excessive restlessness, he has to move, although it hurts; the bed is uncomfortable and hard. There is profuse perspiration, the bed is soaked rapidly, the patient is delirious, he is always looking round for parts of his body, that is, he has too many legs, etc., in his delirium.
• Oscillococcinum - Influenza of all types, especially in the earlier stages. Bursting headaches and muscle aching. Gastro-intestinal troubles with the influenza. Given early it is very efficacious. To obtain good results in a case which begins and to cut short the manifestations of influenza, it is necessary to use one dose of Oscillococcinum 200c every 2 to 3 hours or repeat only if necessary.

Sources:

Morrison’s Desktop Guide, Murphy’s Materia Medica, Shepherd’s Epidemic Diseases

Homeopathy & Spanish Flu 1918: http://bit.ly/32UBi9A

Effectiveness of Oscillococcinum Studies: http://bit.ly/2PxfgWm & http://bit.ly/34d9XzN