Homeopathy for the Treatment of Seasonal Allergies

Homeopathy is a safe and inexpensive way to treat and prevent seasonal allergies. Each homeopathic remedy has specific documented effects upon the mind and body. The homeopathic medicines listed below are indicated for allergy relief.

The most effective way in which to use these natural medicines is to find the homeopathic remedy that most accurately matches the allergy symptoms that tend to affect you most strongly. Use the homeopathic remedy that matches your individuality.

Alternatively, some natural medicine companies provide single products that contain 10 to 20 carefully selected homeopathic remedies to treating and prevent allergies. With these products you are more likely to have your symptoms covered with out the need to select the exact remedy and correct potency.

Homeopathic remedies for allergy and hayfever:

1. Allium Cepa: (Red Onion) (Boericke's) This remedy is useful for hayfever, inflammation and increased secretion of mucus membranes, burning of eyelids, and throat, nose, mouth, skin discomforts. For relief of headaches (mostly in forehead caused by congestion), thread-like pains in face, earaches and shooting pain in eustachian tube. Relieves sneezing and copious, watery and extremely acrid nasal discharge, hoarseness and tickling in larynx, oppressed breathing from pressure in middle of chest, and yawning with headache and drowsiness. For acute colds from damp, cold weather and wounds that do not heal.

2. Arsenicum Album: (Arsenious Acid) (Boericke's) A great acting remedy on every organ and tissue. Especially for debility, exhaustion and restlessness. An effective remedy for asthma, states of lowered vitality, burning, tearing eyes, throbbing headache, sneezing, bronchitis. Relieves roaring in ears. Relieves raw and burning skin within ear. Nose feels stopped up. For relief of continued sneezing. Face is swollen, pale, yellow, sunken, cold and covered with sweat. Relieves expression of agony. For relief of tearing, needle-like pains and burning in face. For relief of swollen throat and inability to swallow. Relieves pain in teeth. For relief of stitching and burning pain in tongue. Relieves fear of suffocation when lying down. Relieves burning in chest and wheezing respiration.

3. Euphrasia Officinalis: (Eye Bright) (Boericke's) A natural remedy for affections of eyes and glandular swelling. Relieves hawking up of offensive mucus. Relieves bursting headache with profuse discharge from eyes and nose. Relieves inclination to blink frequently. Pressure in eyes. Redness and heat of cheeks. Stiffness of upper lip. Nausea and bitterness after smoking. Frequent yawning when walking in open air. Sleepy during day. Influenza. Gags when clearing throat in morning. Whooping cough in daytime.

4. Galphimia glauca: (Julian) For hypersecretion from the nasal and ocular mucous membranes, edema of the eyelids, sneezing, vesicular eruptions, shooting pains in stomach and hypersensitivity to weather changes. Clinical diagnoses: hayfever, allergic vaso-motor afflictions of the nose, bronchial asthma, skin allergies, neurodermatosis.

5. Kalium muriaticum: (Potassium chloride) (Clarke) Of great value in catarrhal affections, in sub-acute inflammatory states, fibrinous exudations, and glandular swellings. Catarrh. Stuffy cold. Nosebleed. Loss of voice; hoarseness. Asthma, with gastric derangements; mucus white and hard to cough up. Loud, noisy stomach cough; cough short, acute, and spasmodic. Rattling sounds of air passing through thick, tenacious mucus in the bronchi.

6. Natrum Muriaticum: (Chloride of Sodium) (Boericke's) Provides relief from tears, sneezing and loss of fluids. A great remedy for certain forms of intermittent fever, anemia, iron deficiency anemia, many disturbances of the digestive system and skin. For relief of great debility, great weakness and weariness. Oversensitivity to all sorts of influences. Blinding headache. Frontal sinus inflammation. Eyes feel bruised. Eyelids heavy. Roaring and ringing noises in ears. Violent nasal discharge lasting from one to three days then changing into stoppage of nose making breathing difficult. Violent sneezing. For loss of smell and taste. Internal soreness of nose. Fever blisters. Numbness, tingling of tongue, lips and nose. Cough from a tickling in the pit of stomach accompanied by stitches in liver and spurting of urine. Stitches all over chest.

7. Sabadilla: (Cevadilla Seed) (Boericke's) Relieves pressure on eyeballs and asthma symptoms. Acts on mucus membrane of the nose and the tear ducts. Relieves sore throat, much phlegm. Sensation of a lump in throat with constant necessity to swallow. Tongue feels as if burnt. Spasmodic sneezing with running nose. Vertigo. Dullness and oppression. Oversensitiveness to odors. Thinking produces headache and sleeplessness. Difficult hearing. Spasmodic pain in stomach with dry cough. Heat in head and face. Skin is dry, like parchment.