Homeopathic medicine can be very effective for cold and flu symptoms, along with other ailments and common injuries. Their uses vary and can have tremendous healing powers that over-the-counter medications would not have. Below are some of the homeopathic remedies we carry at The Healing Center.
For sudden onset; best if used within the first 24 hours; frequent sneezing; restlessness; thirsty; high fever; one cheek red and the other pale; barking cough.
Burning nasal discharge that makes nose and upper lip sore; constant watery discharge from nose; headache in forehead; hoarseness; symptoms begin on left side then extend toward right.
Sudden and violent onset; skin red, dry, and hot to touch; flushed face; burning fever; sensitive to light, odors, noise, etc.; pupils dilated; headache and/or earache with throbbing pain.
For head colds that travel to chest; hard, dry, racking cough with painful chest; patient is irritable and wants to be left alone and wants to lie perfectly still; patient feels hot and is thirsty for cold drinks.
Often used for earache; patient very irritable and sensitive (whiny); can’t be pleased; one cheek red and hot, the other cheek pale and cool; intolerant of pain.
Used during later stages of cold; thick, yellow or greenish, stringy mucus; sinus headache with pressure at root of nose; hoarse voice; better from heat and lying down.
Cold begins with creeping chilliness; violent sneezing; thick green or profuse watery nasal discharge that makes nose and upper lip sore; raw sore throat with difficulty swallowing; extreme thirst; coated tongue with bad odor from mouth.
Cold begins with sneezing; nasal discharge is watery or like egg white; lips dry and cracked; great weakness and weariness; depressed and/or weepy mood; hoarseness; nose stopped up; craves salt.
Illness after exposure to cold or cold and dry weather; irritable and easily offended; dry, teasing cough with sore throat; onset is not sudden; chilled and unable to get warm; extremely sensitive to noise and odors.
Laryngitis and hoarseness; hard, dry, tickling cough; appears well despite high fever; chilly and craves ice cold drinks; nervous when alone in the dark; sweats at night.
For a “ripe” cold; thick, creamy, yellow nasal discharge; weepy, wants sympathy and attention; dry mouth with lack of thirst; nose stuffed up indoors and at night; nose runs in open air; fever but no thirst; lips chapped and peeling.
Loud, dry, barking cough; hoarse, rasping respiration; cough worse from excitement and talking; throat sensitive to touch; awakens with suffocative sensation from difficulty breathing; anxious; feels as if plug in throat.