Natural Flu Prevention with Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a 200 year old healing modality and is widely used in Europe and India. Homeopathic medicine is a safe and inexpensive way to promote optimal health and assist the body in both avoiding infection from influenza and in recovering from the flu.

Each homeopathic remedy has specific documented effects upon the mind and body. The homeopathic medicines listed below are indicated for the prevention and treatment of influenza symptoms.

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

Alternatively, a simplified and equally effective way to use homeopathy is to purchase combination homeopathic medicines. Some natural medicine companies, such as www.KingBio.com, provide single products that contain 10 to 20 carefully selected homeopathic remedies that treat and/or prevent the flu. With these products you are more likely to have your influenza symptoms covered with out the need to select the exact remedy and correct potency.

The most useful homeopathic remedies for treating and preventing flu symptoms are listed below:

China Officinalis: For relief of throbbing headache, sneezing with watery discharge, violent, hacking cough, pain and weariness in limbs and joints, and fever with debilitating night sweats.

Sarcilacticum acidum: For alleviating a tired, "sore-all-over" feeling, restless sleep, and nausea or uncontrollable vomiting.

Gelsemium Sempervirens: For relief of sneezing, runny nose, dull headache, diarrhea, and fever.

Rhus Toxicodendron: Indicated for nausea, abdominal pains, and diarrhea. Also helpful with bodily aching and stiffness, dry cough, chills, and a sore, swollen nose.

Eucalyptus Globulus: A powerful antiseptic, useful in conditions of the mucous surfaces of the air passages and gastrointestinal tract.
Relieves dull headache, acute diarrhea, high fevers, and sore throat with swollen tonsils.

Baptisia Tinctoria: For alleviating a confused feeling in head, sore feeling in abdomen and constricted feeling in lungs, as well as loss of appetite, fevers accompanied by chills, and sleeplessness.

Echinaccea Purpurea: Particulary helpful in controlling fever, and lymphatic inflammation.

Eupatorium Perforatum: For relief of sick headache, violent chills, and bone-pains.

Bryonia alba: For use in the control of irritability, nausea and dizziness, unrelenting cough, painful joints, abdominal pain, and a pressive headache.

Wyethia: Extremely helpful in relieving sore throats, hoarseness, and dry, hacking coughs.

Sulphur: Indicated for a recurrent, beating headache, burning eyes, stuffy nose, loss of appetite, mucous congested cough, heaviness in arms and legs, and night sweats.

Causticum: For relief during illness of a burning, raw, sore character, also ringing in ears, hoarse cough, and weakness, heaviness, and pain in extremities.

Lachesis Mutus: Helpful with headaches relieved by the onset of nasal discharge, sneezing, sore throat with thick mucous, constipation, and intermittent fevers.

Arsenicum Album: For alleviating a feeling of debility, exhaustion, and low vitality accompanied by anxiety. A great remedy for nausea, vomiting, heartburn, and high fevers.

Dulcamara: For relief of ailments worsened by cold weather, such as congestive headaches, rattling cough, icy cold feet, and stiff neck and shoulders.

Phytolacca Decandra: Helpful with runny nose, sore throat, swollen tonsils, tickling cough, shooting pains in limbs, and high fever alternating with chilliness and great prostration.

Anas Barbarie: A remedy of great assistance in the relief of fevers, chills, body aches and pains.

Influenzium: This nosode developed from the most current flu virus strains is helpful in alleviating inflammation of the mucous membranes, particularly respiratory, as well as general relief of flu-like symptoms.