How to beat colds with homeopathy

Natural cold remedies. How to stop a cold at the first sign with this homeopathic remedies

Winter is the season of colds!!! During this time of the year, all of us are susceptible to acute viral conditions affecting the upper respiratory tract which shake up our organisms for several days.

This makes us feel unwell and often we lose a few days of work or school.  
 
Homeopathy is a very safe, gentle and effective form of medicine that can help us to recover faster from winter cold and flu symptoms.

BANERJI PROTOCOL FOR COLDS

It works extremely well at the first site of developing a cold. Try it and you will never look back to taking anything else!!

Bryonia 30 and Aconite 200 both remedies taken together at the same time as a dose every 3 hours.

​HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES FOR THE COMMON COLD

ACONITE 200c: use for a cold that comes on suddenly from being chilled by cold dry weather or sweating and then getting cold.

For instance, you start with the cold symptoms when coming back from a walk in the countryside on a very cold morning and feeling chilled. Or maybe feeling cold after sweating in the gym. 

This remedy is useful primarily during the first few days.

Symptoms may include restlessness, red hot cheeks, intense thirst, clear watery discharge and high fever.

​ALLIUM CEPA 30c: A streaming cold with much sneezing and watery eyes.

A clue: your face may look as if you have been chopping an onion!

Eyes may look red, they feel  burning and smarting and are sensitive to light. There is also a raw feeling in the nose and a tingling sensation with violent sneezing.

There is a profuse watery discharge from the nose is burning and can make the upper lip and nose raw.  

All symptoms are better in the open air and person feels worse in the evening and in a warm room.

EUPHRASIA 30c: This remedy has opposite symptoms to Allium Cepa.

The profuse eye watery discharge is acrid and the nasal discharge is bland.

The white of the eyes and the chicks may become reddened by the acrid tears and the lids feel like burning and they are swollen.

There is a frequent inclination to blink. The nasal discharge is worse at night and while lying down.

MERCURIUS SOL 30c: cold with alternating sweats and chills worse at night.

Colds that travel upward and attack the eyes.

Thick yellow-green discharge of either nose or ear with the cold. This discharges can be quite bad smelling and the skin around them can be sore.

Inflamed throat  and swollen glands of the neck.

Sweetish, metallic taste in the mouth and even mouth ulcers may accompany the cold.

ARSENICUM 30c: very restless and anxious, thin watery discharge that burns.

Nose is blocked, sneezing without relief.

Intense thirst little and often.

Feels better with hot applications, hot food and drink. Worse at night and in cold air.

The head is hot but the body is cold.

Maybe feeling a bit breathless from a dry or a wheezing cough.

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​PULSATILLA 30c: this is for colds where there is a lot of congestion and a thick discharge which  can be green-yellow.  

This remedy tends to be more indicated in ripe colds.

The nasal congestion tends to be on alternate sides of the nose and  is worse inside the house but better in the fresh air.
So you may find that your nose starts running as soon as you come home.

Loss of smell with the cold. Thirstlessness .

You may feel miserable and wants sympathy and comfort. Feeling "sorry for yourself".

The congestion can extend to the ear and they may feel blocked or if they are about to pop.

NATRUM-MUR 30c: Infallible for stopping a cold commencing with sneezing.

Violent fluent discharge of thin, watery like raw white of egg or cold with discharge only in the morning.

Violent sneezing and dryness of the throat and nose producing scabs.

The cold symptoms may start with an emotional upset of some kind, for instance grief such as a divorce, loss of a pet, argument with a friend of family member, etc

BANERJI PROTOCOL TIP

For blocked noses and sinus pressure during a head cold the Banerjies suggest:

• ​Sanguinaria 200 twice per day

​NUX-VOMICA 30c: the nose feels blocked but is running at one side.

 It may alternate between a watery discharge and being blocked.

The discharges tend to flow during the day and in open air but are obstructed at night and it feels very stuffed up. There is a lot of abortive sneezing and the person feels cold.

The person may be very irritable with the cold.

KALI-BICH 30c : this is for thick, stringy, lumpy discharges and congestion at the root of the nose. Tough and elastic plugs. 

Complete obstruction of the nose.

Sneezing worse in the morning. Tickling in the larynx with a cough worse when eating.

Sinus complaints.

GELSEMIUM 200c : great weakness,  symptoms are slow to appear, drowsy and lethargic, the eyelids feel heavy.

There is aching, soreness and heaviness of the limbs too.

The person wants to lie down and may have a heavy head.The discharge is very watery.

This remedy is indicated for a heavy cold or the flu.
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BOOK AND APPOINTMENT IF YOU ARE STRUGGLING WITH A COLD