Each year, I hear from families asking about how they can reduce or remove symptoms from the cold and flu bugs that seem to run amok during the winter months. I’ve compiled a list of the top ten remedies with symptoms to match. (jump to remedies)
The challenge is to listen to your body and interpret its messages as symptoms. Feeling tired, sneezy, a little achy? Your body is sending you signals that your vital force is out of alignment and wants your attention.
A strong immune system may not be too challenged, and symptoms may be gone quickly. If your immune system is fatigued, perhaps with added stressors in your life, or a schedule that doesn’t lend time to rest and reset, homeopathic remedies can make the difference between a few days or a few weeks of symptoms.
Ignoring our body’s messaging is a chronic occurrence in our society. Taking the time to listen and pay attention to the gentle nudges your body gives you before your health becomes life altering, or a chronic condition, is where homeopathy shines.
Monaliz states, “More often than I’d like to admit, someone enters my office when surgery or medication didn’t address the core issue. Sadly, as a last resort. Imagine going through a healing paradigm shift when you are in fight or flight?"
“One of my personal drivers is to educate as many families as I can on the possibilities of healing, before the body is negotiating its way through a labyrinth of dis-ease.” - Monaliz Caissie
What Remedy is Right for Me?
If you are new to homeopathy, its important to align your symptoms with the remedy. Rest easy knowing that remedies are safe and don’t interfere with medication.
Example
Symptoms | caught a chill, a dry cough, and your symptoms occurred within the first 24 hours of being in a cold drafty wind,
Remedy | Try Aconite! *
Best Practices When Taking a Remedy
1. Avoid handling. Tilt a remedy into the cap, or as instructed by the packaging, and place under tongue. Some packages twist and release one remedy at a time.
2. Wait 15 minutes after eating, brushing teeth, or having a beverage.
If the remedy doesn’t shift your symptoms within the hour, try another remedy or book with Monaliz for a complimentary 15 minute consultation (Menu>Services) or call 250 808 3104.
Top Ten Remedies
Remedy | Aconite
Use this remedy when your cold starts very SUDDENLY and you’ve been exposed to a cold drafty wind and perhaps caught a chill. You might also be experiencing a dry cough. Use within 24 hours of symptoms occurring.
Remedy | Allium Cepa
Fluent and sometimes burning nasal discharge that irritates the nostrils, fluent tearing from the eyes and frequent sneezing, all of which are worse in warm or stuffy rooms.
Remedy | Arsenicum
Consider this remedy when a person has a burning, irritating, watery nasal discharge that is usually worse on the right side and the person is more chilly than normal. These people are aggravated from being outside and being exposed to cold. This person has great thirst but prefers to drink only sips at a time.
Remedy | Belladonna
When a cold has a sudden onset and is accompanied by a high fever (over 102), flushed, red face, and a reddened sore throat, think of this remedy. Characteristically, the person tends to have glassy eyes and dilated pupils.
Remedy | Kali-Bichromicum
If a person has a nasal discharge that is thick and stringy, consider this remedy. This person may also have a postnasal drip and pain at the root of the nose.
Remedy | Pulsatilla
This remedy is often given to children and those people who tend to be weepy, clingy and desirous of sympathy during their ill state. Typically, it is indicated in people who have thick yellow or greenish mucus and who experience an aggravation of symptoms in warm stuffy rooms and at night. These people strongly prefer to keep windows open to help breathe fresh, cool air. Lack of thirst is also very common.
Remedy | Nux Vomica
This remedy should be considered when a person experiences a runny nose during the day and in warm rooms, and a stuffy nose at night and indoors. Typically, symptoms of a cold may start either after exposure to cold or after overeating, over-drinking (alcohol) or abuse of recreational drugs.
Remedy | Bryonia
People who have marked body aches during their bout of flu that are aggravated by any type of motion suggest the need for this remedy. Generally, these people also have a headache in the front part of their head that is also aggravated by motion, have dry or chapped lips, a dry cough and a great thirst for cold water.
Remedy | Gelsemium
When fatigue and a generalized heavy, weak feeling pervades the person, even leading to heavy half-open eyelids, this remedy should be considered. People with these symptoms tend to have little or no thirst, can experience chills up and down their spine, and have a headache in the back part of their head.
Remedy | Eupatorium Perfollatum
People with the flu who experience aches in the muscles and who have pains in the bones often benefit from this remedy. Another characteristic symptom of people who need this remedy is that they may have chills that occur in the morning, especially between 7 and 9 am.
Remedy | Rhus Toxicodendron
This remedy is effective for people with muscle aches that are aggravated by initial motion but relieved by continued motion. These people are often very restless, especially at night in bed, tend to have a sore throat, and are very thirsty but only for sips of water at a time.
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