Arsenicum Album 

A patient who has frequent colds, sore throats, and chest problems; symptoms with burning pain and feelings of weakness, restlessness, and anxiety, head may feel hot while the rest of the body is cold, problems worse near midnight. The nose often feels stopped up, and the person may sneeze repeatedly, without relief. White, think, burning mucus.

Belladonna

This remedy relieves high fever of sudden onset with sweating, sudden stopping of nasal discharge, and it is replaced by a congestive, usually throbbing, headache and high fever.

Natrum Muriaticum:

Colds with clear/transparent nasal discharge, sneezing (worse in the morning), headache, and a diminished sense of smell and/or taste.

Nux vomica:

This relieves spasmodic sneezing in the morning, with a dry nose during the night, nose alternates between having fluent discharge and being dry and blocked. The discharge is usually fluent in the daytime and obstructed at night.

Pulsatilla:

This remedy relieves non-irritant yellowish nasal discharge with a dry nose at night that becomes runny during the day, and loss of smell and taste, patient have thick, yellow or greenish mucus, and a bland discharge (a discharge that does not irritate or burn the nostrils/facial skin); nasal congestion worse at night, especially upon lying down, which leads to mouth breathing during sleep. Nasal congestion tends to alternate sides and is worse in a warm room while fluent in the open air.

Aconitum Napellus:

This remedy relieves high fever of sudden onset, with a hot face and dry skin, especially after exposure to intense cold; Patient wakes from sleep with a dry, hoarse, croupy cough, dry mouth, shortness of breath, and little expectoration.

The cough is worse from being cold, drinking cold water, from tobacco smoke, lying on either side, and at night/after midnight.

Allium Cepa:

This relieves spasmodic sneezing and runny nose with an irritating, watery discharge – profuse, fluent, burning nasal discharge which are worse in warm room and better in open air., improved by fresh air. Raw feeling in the nose with a tingling sensation as well as violent sneezing.

Baryta Carbonica:

This remedy is indicated for people who frequently catch colds from getting chilled.

A runny nose and swollen upper lip, swollen lymph nodes, tonsils, and adenoids in kids are typical symptoms.

This remedy is often helpful to children who are bashful and slow to develop.

Drosera Rotundifolia:

Discharge of blood on blowing the nose. Black pores on the nose. Constant dryness of the nose. Great sensibility to acid smells. Fluent coryza with sneezing. Hardness of hearing, with buzzing, roaring, humming and drumming in the ears. Tingling and shooting in the larynx, which excites a slight cough. Fever, shuddering over the whole body, with heat of the face, icy coldness of the hands and absence of thirst, or shivering with coldness and paleness of the hands, the feet, and the face. Intermittent fever, with nausea, and inclination to vomit, and other gastric sufferings, or with sore throat.

Dulcamara:

Epistaxis of a very hot and bright red blood, with pressive pain above the nose. Coryza; dry; with stoppage of the nose. Sore throat. Burning heat in the palate. Oppressed breathing, from a cold; from accumulation of mucus. Cough, similar to whooping-cough. In evening temperature with severe body pains.

Natrum Arsenicicum:

Coryza. Diphtheria. Eyes inflammation; granular lids. Hemoptysis. Interscapular pain. Miner’s asthma. Nose infections. Esophageal constriction. Pityriasis rubra. Post-nasal catarrh. Tuberculosis. Smell defective or lost. Nose constantly stuffed. Nasal discharge yellow, tough; hawked or drops from posterior nares. Pieces of hardened bluish mucus flow from nose, after which mucous membrane feels raw. Tonsils, fauces, and pharynx purplish and edematous; patched with yellow mucus; diphtheria. Uvula, tonsils, and pharynx thickened; surface irregular, swollen, purplish-red, covered with yellowish-grey mucus, which is hawked out. Hawks up greyish or white tenacious mucus.

Gelsemium:

Lethargy and aching, with headache and droopy eyes, watery nasal discharge, sneezing, and fullness at the root of the nose; Fever and chills run up and down the spine, and heat or pressure may be felt in the face and nose, trembles and is shaky, or feels extremely dull.

Gelsemium is often helpful for colds that come on in hot weather.

Mezereum:

Sneezing, coryza, interior of nose, excoriated. Post-nasal adenoids. Soreness and burning in bones of thorax. Constriction across chest. Cough. Otalgia, with drawing and acute Pullings. Itching and oozing eruption. Adenoids – post nasal. Diminution of smell, with sensation of dryness in nose, and sometimes ineffectual desire to sneeze. Frequent sneezing, accompanied by pain of excoriation in chest. Fluent coryza, with secretion of liquid and yellow (thin, at times bloody) mucus, excoriation and burning in nose, and eruption on lips. Hoarseness, with burning and dryness in throat, irritation which excites coughing. Difficult respiration. Intermittent fever, Chilliness, shivering, and coldness of whole body.

Kali Bichromicum:

This helps relieve thick, greenish, irritating nasal discharge, post-nasal drip, sneezing- worse by exposure to cold or in the open air.

Sabadilla:

Spasmodic sneezing, with running nose. Coryza, with severe frontal pains and redness of eyes and lachrymation. Copious, watery, nasal discharge, tough phlegm, Vertigo, Over-sensitiveness to odors, headache and sleeplessness. Eyelids red, burning, lachrymation. Difficult hearing.

Dry throat, Sensation of a lump in throat with constant necessity to swallow. Chronic sore throat; worse, from cold air.

Rhus Toxicodendron:

If a cold begins with stiffness and body aches, especially during cool damp weather or weather changes, and leads to nasal congestion or sore throat, sneezing; coryza from getting wet. Tip of nose red, sore, ulcerated. Swelling of nose, the person feels extremely restless warmth and motion bring relief (both physically and mentally). Swollen glands. Sticking pain on swallowing. Parotitis.

Dry, teasing cough from midnight until morning, during a chill, or when putting hands out of bed. Hemoptysis from overexertion, Influenza, with aching in all bones, Bronchial coughs, worse on awaking and with expectoration of small plugs of mucus.

Capsicum Autumnale:

Acute drawing pains in the ears. Itching and pressure in the bottom of the auditory tube. Painful swelling on the bone behind the ear. Tearing behind ear. Diminution of hearing after previous burning and stinging in the ear.

Epistaxis, especially in bed, in the morning. Painful pimples under the nostrils. Dry coryza, with tingling and tickling in the nostrils. Sore throat with painful deglutition and pulling sensation in the pharynx. Inflammation, with dark redness and burning of the throat. Hoarseness. Cough, more violent in the evening and at night, with pains in the body. Deep breathing. Oppressed respiration. Pulse irregular, and often intermittent fever. Febrile shivering and cold over the whole body, with ill-humor increasing with the cold, or else with anxiety, dizziness and dullness of the head.

Hepar Sulph:

Nose sore, ulcerated. Soreness of nostrils, with catarrhal troubles. Sneezes every time patient goes into a cold, dry wind, with running from nose, later, thick, offensive discharge. Stopped up every time patient goes out into cold air. Smell like old cheese. Hay-fever (Hepar Sulph lower potency will start secretions and profuse drainage in stuffy colds).

Sensation as if a plug and of a splinter in throat. Quinsy, with impending suppuration. Stitches in throat extending to the ear when swallowing. Hawking up of mucus.

Loses voice and coughs when exposed to dry, cold wind. Hoarseness, with loss of voice. Cough troublesome when walking. Cough/Choking cough/Rattling, croaking cough excited whenever any part of the body gets cold or uncovered, or from eating anything cold. Croup with loose, rattling cough; worse in morning; suffocative attacks; has to rise up and bend head backwards. Anxious, wheezing, moist breathing, asthma worse in dry cold air; better in damp.

My (Dr. Qaisar Ahmed) prescription for patients with flu or with cough:

We have to make a combination from list above, because no one medicine has all those symptoms with which a patient came to the doctor.

If our target is to destroy something (here our target is virus) we have to choose HDP (Highly Diluted Potencies).

For changes in body like pains, aches nasal stiffness, sour and/or burning/aching throat etc.; Doctor should be kind- that means prescribe lower potencies.

Advise your patient to take sunbath few times a day.

I’m sure your patient will be completely cured with in two/three days without any signs.

Flu vaccine

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Flu vaccine (influenza vaccine made from inactivated and sometimes attenuated [noninfective Homeopathic dilutions] virus or virus components) is specifically recommended for those who are at high risk for developing serious complications from influenza infection.

In general, the majority (about 90%-95%) of people who get the disease feel terrible (see symptoms) but recover with no problems.

People with suppressed immune systems historically have worse outcomes than uncompromised individuals; investigators suspect that as swine flu spreads, the mortality rates may rise and be high in this population. Current data suggest that pregnant individuals, children under 2 years of age, young adults, and individuals with any immune compromise or debilitation are likely to have a worse prognosis.

Complications of swine flu may resemble severe viral pneumonia or the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by a coronavirus strain).

Pneumonia (viral and secondary bacterial pneumonia), is the most serious complication of the flu as it can cause death. Other complications include sinus and ear infections, asthma exacerbations, and/or bronchitis.