Homeopathy for flu diseases

Homeopathy for flu diseases: self-help with flu diseases with homeopathic treatment

Millions get caught every year. As the days get shorter, colder and wetter, viruses spread quickly from person to person. A flu infection is not real Flu or influenza, but an acute illness with temporary weakness, pain and discomfort. It can cause fever, which usually activates and accelerates the body's defenses. Often, but not always, such an infection is connected with secretions of mucous membranes. A dramatic and particularly severe form of flu is genuine influenza, the treatment of which is in the hands of a homeopathic doctor.

General measures.
The most important measure is physical protection. Fever should not be lowered in simple influenza infections, especially not in the first stage of fever with chills; In this phase, external warming by hot drinks, warm clothes or a hot bath is recommended. Care should be taken to increase fluid intake, because the need for sweating and excretion of the mucous membranes is increased.

Medical help is needed if ...
• the fever lasts longer than 3 days, in small children more than one day.
• severe pain persists.
• Muscle cramps, loss of consciousness or fainting occur.
• the entire illness lasts more than a week or reappears after a few days or weeks.
• The disease begins very quickly and quickly becomes severe.

The main means of self-treatment:
Bryonia: The patient is irritable, annoyed and wants to have his rest, he just wants to go to bed. Everything gets worse, especially the stabbing pain, early in the morning, by the slightest movement and touch. Good to do absolute rest, firm back pressure and cooling. Accompanying symptoms: painful cough, headache, night sweats, vomiting and diarrhea with fatigue, dry, chapped lips.

Eupatorium perfoliatum: The remedy for muscle and bone pain, bruised feeling, everything hurts. The trigger is damp, cold weather; The fever appears suddenly, often in the morning between 7 and 9 o'clock and begins with nausea or vomiting. Aggravation by dress pressure, improvement by knee-elbow position, after sweating and addressing and entertainment. Accompanying symptoms: face hot and red, hiccups, pain in the region of the liver, thirst for cold water.

Gelsemium: The patient is weak, shaky and sleepy. He wants to be kept or just lie. Dull pains run from the neck over the head to the forehead, the eyes fall shut. Trigger is often summer heat, humid weather and hypothermia (sometimes only days later), even fright, excitement z. B. before a test. The fever starts in the afternoon (15-17 o'clock) and rises slowly. Aggravation by thunderstorms, hair dryer, exercise, tobacco smoke; Improvement through sweating and urination, closing the eyes, bending over. Accompanying symptoms: shivering, chills, sickly facial expression, drooping eyelids, chin twitching, impaired vision (dull, twofold).

Nux vomica: Triggers are overwork, lack of sleep or cold. The patient freezes a lot, especially on the back and head, the fever often changes with shivering. Aggravation by cold and draft, improvement by heat and rest, preferably under many blankets. Accompanying symptoms: red, possibly swollen face, severe headache, nausea, constipation. Mood irritable, grumpy, craving for coffee, alcohol and cigarettes.

Rhus Toxicodendron: The trigger is wet, cold weather, overstraining and cold. The fever starts rather slowly and is with
Boldness and tearing pains associated. Aggravation at night, by cold and rest. Unusual, but typical of this remedy: continued movement improves, the patient walks around uneasily; Improvement also by heat. Accompanying symptoms: red tongue triangle, strong thirst, desire for cold milk.

Taking homeopathic remedies for acute complaints
Already after 15 minutes, an improvement should occur in acute cases. Only if there is no further progress after an initial improvement should the agent be repeated at the earliest after 15 minutes, the third time after 30 minutes at the earliest. If necessary, repeat up to four times a day. The effect of each gift must be awaited. Melt the globules in the mouth. Do not eat or drink 15 minutes before and 15 minutes after the dose. The German Central Association of Homeopathic Doctors (DZVhÄ) recommends potency C12 for self-treatment of all homeopathic medicines. One gift is 2-3 globules. Homeopathic medicines are only available in pharmacies. (DZVhÄ, 21.12.2010)