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adapted from Clarke - Catarrh, colds and grippe
Hot onion gruel which is a time-honored remedy is close to using Cepa.
Salty foods are good but avoid fatty foods.
Not as wide an effect as Acon.
Chill more marked.
When first feeling a chill, take a dose every quarter hour for a few hours until a reaction sets in.
If the first chill has passed, take a dose every hour for the first five or six hours and afterwards every two hours for up to two days.
Chills up the back, fullness of the head, heat of the face, beating of the arteries in the neck, hot and dry hands, loss of energy and drowsiness.
Less restless than Acon. Symptoms come and go. Chill with much urine which relieves the head. Sneezing, fullness at top of nose, clear discharge from nose and eyes.
Take 3x, one drop or six pellets every hour.
Best remedy for the severe cold.
Discharge thin and irritating with a hot burning sensation in nose and eyes. Burning thirst, red tongue, headache, sleeplessness, anxiety, and prostration.
All symptoms better from warmth.
Take 3x, two drops or two pellets every hour or two.
Abundant fetid discharge from nose which is often swollen and red. Heavy frontal headache, deafness, nightly sweats with alternating chill and heat from fever, great thirst, pains in extremities, low spirits, longing for solitude.
All symptoms worse by both heat and cold.
Take 6x, two drops or six pellets every two hours.
When Merc is indicated but doesn’t act.
Each cold wind gives a new cold or headache. One nostril affected. Headache worse from movement.
Take 6x, two drops or six pellets every two hours.
Fluent discharge, tightness at top of nose, constant sneezing, pain in back, chills, melancholy, anxiety, restlessness.
Worse being in a room, better outside.
Take 3x, two drops or six pellets every two hours.
Yellow-green fetid discharge. Loss of appetite and sense of taste. Head heavy and embarrassed (?), especially in evening and from a warm room. Stopped up nose, no thirst, tendency to cry, chilliness in evening.
Better outside.
Take 3x, two drops or six pellets every two hours.
When cold has little discharge and nose is blocked. Or dry nose in morning and fluent in evening.
Heaviness of forehead, angry and quarrelsome mood.
Worse from mental exertion, in the morning, after dinner, from motion, from slight touch, being outside, in dry weather.
Profuse discharge or dry with much sneezing. Dull heavy pain at top of nose, roasted onion odor in nose, dry lips, tongue feels burned, throat full, swollen and constricted, sharp stitches in chest, depressed and irritable.
Worse in morning and evening, from light, from motion.
Take 1x, two drops or six pellets every two hours.
Take 3x of Sang-n, one grain every two hours.
(One ounce = about 28 grams. One gram = about 15 grains.)
Fluent discharge in chilly people. Chills along back, great thirst, vesicles on lips or tendency to have them, constipation, weight in forehead on rising in morning, unhealthy complexion, sadness, depression and tendency to cry.
Worse in morning and periodically.
Take 3x, two grains every two hours.
Take 6x, two drops or six pellets every two hours.
Profuse clear discharge from nose and eyes. Acumulation of thick tenacious mucus in nose, discharge is greenish-black or yellow with foul odor, nose-bleed, discharge of decomposed greenish-red blood. Sensation of fullness and tightness at top of nose. Swelling and redness of nose. Sensation of fullness in nose. Beating pains in nasal bones. Throbbing and burning in nasal and frontal bone with swelling.
Worse at night, in cold air, at rest. Better from motion.
3x or 30x, two drops or six pellets every two hours.
Try remedies under acute attack first.
Much thick discharge especially coming down from nose into throat. Yellow coated tongue. Constipation tendency. Possible deafness.
Take 1x, two drops or six pellets every two hours.
Pale and plump people or children. Tend to be chilly, usually dry cold, nostrils sore, polyps, eyelids sore.
Worse morning, evenings and after midnight, from cold and cold air.
Take 6x, two drops or six pellets every four hours.
Extreme sensitiveness to damp cold. Nose blocked with discharge that a little cold air will stop. Dry mouth without thirst. Hoarseness.
Worse during rest, better while moving
Take 6x, two drops or six pellets every two hours.
See symptoms above.
Take 3x, two grains.
Take 6x, two drops every four hours.
Stopped up nose either very dry or with abundant thick yellow discharge, bleeding, loss of smell, suited to lean people inclined to stoop or people with skin affections who perspire easily.
Worse from warmth of bed and during rest. Better during motion and when walking.
Take 6x, two drops or six pellets every two hours.
When the loss of smell or taste lingers after a cold.
Take 6x, two drops or six pellets every four hours.
Take two to three times a day for one or two months. Start during or after the cold.
Anemic, ill nourished, chilly people with poor complexions, inclined to be constipated, despondent and tearful.
Worse lying down, from heat. Better in open air.
Take 12x, two drops or six pellets three times a day.
Pale and plump people, abnormally fat children.
Worse from cold and cold air
Take 12x, two drops or six pellets three times a day.
Vital energy is low, veins noticeable giving a blue hue to skin, cold bluish hands and feet.
Worse in damp weather.
Take 12x, two drops or six pellets three times a day.
Tendency to chillblains (swelling after exposure to cold), light hair and lax fiber, old people that don’t exercise much.
Worse at night, in cold air, while resting, before a thunderstorm.
Take 6x, two drops or six pellets three times a day.
Chilly people with tendency to skin irritation or skin disease, tendency to constipation and hemorrhoids.
Worse from warmth and from rest.
Take 30x, one drop or six pellets three times a day.
People with tendency to swollen neck glands or pains in joints. Broken down constitutions, trembling limbs, cold pale hands and feet.
Worse at night from warmth of bed, from perspiring, cold weather, cold evening air, warm autumn days, damp cold nights. Better during daytime and during rest.
Take 12x, two drops or six pellets three times a day.
Can occur after colds causing continual discharge.
Remedies most often used are Calc, Thuj, Nit-a, Sang, Phos, and Teuc. Also a new remedy, Lemna minor, has been used successfully.
A constitutional weakness traced back to gout. Psoric.
Very useful in many cases.
Take 3x, one drop or three pellets every two hours.
Violent sneezing with tears, redness and swelling of eyelids, contractions, and stupefying headache.
Take 3x, every two or four hours.
Thirst, fever, restlessness and anguish.
Worse from cold air.
Take 3x, every two hours during attacks, and twice daily before as a preventative.
Great sensitiveness to cold. Likes to be near fires or wrapped in furs even in summer. Constant sneezing, discharge drops down throat, aversion to washing, weakness, sinking sensation.
Better from lying down.
Take 30x, three or four times a day.
Classic symptoms include severe pains and soreness all over, esp. in the back and head. Repeated chills are followed by high fever with increase in pains. Eyes are bleary, intellect dulled, sleepy heavy condition. Heavy nasal discharge, lasting well after acute symptoms leave. Tongue has bad taste, appetite lacking. Throat is inflamed, great weakness, and mental depression. Pulse is often slow as frequent and does not correspond to temperature.
Best preventative is Ars 3x taken three times a day when epidemic is around.
Nearest specific to flu.
Take any strength every hour. I prefer 30x. In general one or two drop doses of 3x is probably best.
Sharp fever, dry skin, great restlessness, depression, anguish, sense of impending death.
Take 3x, one or two drops or six pellets every hour.
Intense throbbing headache, very flushed face, tendency to delirium, thirst, sore throat. Facial pain and earache, esp. right side.
Take 3x every hour.
Worse from any movement.
Take 3x every hour.
The opposite of Bry. Person can’t keep still and much move to relieve pains. Typical cause is getting wet.
Take 3x every hour.
Paralytic symptoms are strong, esp. in lower limbs. Intense headache, strong full pulse, giddiness.
Take 3x every hour.
Specific when throat is inflamed and spotty. Glands are hard and tender on the outside.
Take 3x every hour. Gargle with 10 drops of tincture to teacup of water every four hours.
Headache is accompanied with giddiness and noises in ears.
Take 30x.
Relieved vertigo, noise in head, debility after flu. Great weakness with tightness of the head.
Take 3x every two or four hours.
Will be frequently required according to indications.
After great weakness and loss of weight.
Take 30x every four hours.
Great chilliness, weakness that requires lying down, sinking sensation and general weakness.
Take 30x, three or four times a day.
