Suggested Homeopathic Remedies for Swine Flu

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From the symptoms of swine flu collected so far, homeopathic communities world

wide are predicting the following remedies to be useful in swine flu cases. Many

more remedies may get added as the time passes and we collect more information

on avian flu.  This information is hypothetical and has not been tested in the

field.

 

Aconitum napellus: A intense flu with sudden onset with fever, anxiety,

constricted pupils, and strong thirst—is likely to respond to this remedy. The

person may feel fearful or agitated, and the fever can alternate with chills.

Symptoms are often worst around midnight. Exposure to cold wind or a shock of

some kind often precedes the illness.

 

Antim tart: Shaking, loose cough, with oppressed breathing, which is relieved by

expectoting; gastric symptoms.

 

Apis mellifica: This remedy may be helpful if a person has dry fever that

alternates with sweating, facial flushing, and a very sore throat with swollen

tonsils. Pain may extend to the ears, and the eyelids may be swollen. Exposure

to cool air and cold applications may bring relief. Despite the fever, thirst

usually is low. The person can be very irritable, disliking interference.

 

Arnica montana: A person who needs this remedy during flu feels shivering all

over the body. Heat and redness of head, while rest of the body is cold. Limbs

and body ached; as if beaten, as if sprained. Bed feels too hard. Sore lame

bruised feeling all over the body. Respiratory symptom includes paroxysmal cough

aggravated in night and during sleep. Pneumonia; approaching paralysis.

 

Arsenicum album: A person who needs this remedy during flu feels chilly and

exhausted, along with an anxious restlessness. The person may be thirsty, but

often only takes small sips. If the digestive system is involved, nausea with

burning pain, or vomiting and acrid diarrhea may occur. If the flu is

respiratory, a watery, runny nose with sneezing paroxysms and a dry or wheezing

cough are often seen.

 

Baptisia: Looks drowsy and drunk.  Flu with sudden onset and high fever and a

feeling of being bruised all over, the body and limbs feel as if they

are scattered. Profuse sweating with a high fever and an intense thirst. Dull

red face, looks dazed and sluggish as if they may fall asleep at any time. The

bed feels hard .Stupefying headache, with confusion. Delirium with strange

sensations, like as if there is somebody else in bed with him, parts of her body

are separated, etc.  the key note of the remedy is every discharge is very

offensive.

 

Belladonna: Sudden, intense symptoms — including fever, red face, hot skin,

and extreme sensitivity to light and jarring — suggest a need for this remedy.

The person may have a very red sore throat, a bounding headache, a tickling

short bounding cough, or other throbbing and inflammatory symptoms. Despite high

fever, the extremities may feel cold.

 

Bryonia: When a person is very grumpy and feels miserable with the flu, wanting

only to lie still and be left alone, this remedy is likely to be useful.

Headache, muscle aches, and coughs or stomach pain may be the major symptoms.

 If the digestive system is involved Nausea and faintness when rising up may

occur. The key note of the remedy is everything feels worse from even the

slightest motion. The person’s mouth usually is dry, with a thirst for long

cold drinks.

 

Eucalyptus globules: This remedy may be helpful during flu with high fever. As

compared to high temperature the pulse is not so strong. Stuffy nose with watry

coryza. Excessive saliva with slow digestion. Acute diarrhea preceded by sharp

pains. Acute nephritis complicating influenza.

 

Eupatorium perforliatum: Flu with aching  pain with soreness of flesh in back

and in bones of extremities often responds to this remedy. Pain may be felt in

the eyeballs, with a heavy sensation in the head. Illness often begins with

chills and thirst, followed by high fever. Chills may be felt the back and legs,

and the aching in the bones is worse from motion. The person feels “wiped

out†and miserable.

 

Ferrum phosphoricum: This remedy may be helpful during flu with fever, headache,

rosy cheeks, and a feeling of weariness. Sensitive eyes, a short hard cough,

strong thirst, and vomiting after eating are other indications. This remedy is

often helpful in early stages of flu or fever, even if symptoms are not

especially clear.

 

Gelsemium: Dullness and achiness that come on gradually, increasing over several

days, may indicate a need for this remedy. The face feels heavy, with droopy

eyes and aching. A headache may begin at the back of the neck and skull, and the

person may feel chills and heat running up and down the spine.. Complete absence

of thirst is the kye note for the remedy. Anxiety, trembling, dizziness,

perspiration, and moderate fever with chill are other indications

for Gelsemium.

 

Kali sulphuricum: Fever with easy sweating . Yellow slimy tongue, nasal

discharge, ear discharge, diarrhea. Cough with easily expelled yellow slimy

sputum. Thirsty.  Averse to hot drinks. Wants to lie down, but it makes her

worse, so she must walk for relief.

 

Lachesis: Feels worse after sleep; fever worse in afternoon; sweat without

relief.

 

Mercurius solubilis: Dirty, smelly, drooling. Increased salivation, offensive

breath, profuse offensive sweat. Filthy tongue, large, flabby, tooth – notched

,Thirsty,Craves bread and butter.Worse:  night, heat of bed.

 

Nux vomica: When this remedy is indicated in influenza, the person may have high

fever, violent chills, strong nausea and cramping in the digestive tract (or a

painful cough and constricted breathing if the flu is respiratory). Headache

usually occurs, along with oversensitivity to sound, bright light, and odors. A

person who needs Nux vomica is often very irritable, feeling worse from

exertion and worse from being cold in any way.

 

Phosphorus: When this remedy is needed during flu, the person has a fever with

an easily-flushing face, and feels very weak and dizzy. Headache, hoarseness,

sore throat, and cough are likely. If the focus is digestive, stomach pain and

nausea or vomiting usually occur. A person who needs this remedy often has a

strong anxiety, wanting others to be around to offer company and reassurance.

Strong thirst for the cold water, with a tendency to vomit when liquids warm up

in the stomach, is a strong indication for Phosphorus.

 

Pulsatilla: Flitting chilliness; chills in spots.  Chilly in a warm room. One

sided chilliness – heat – sweat.  One cheek red, the other white.

Palpitations with anxiety: must throw off the clothes. Dry cough at night,

better sitting up, worse on lying down again. Thick yellow-green discharge from

nose.  Yellow-green expectoration.   Craves butter, cream, pastries.

Thirstless. Tearful, craves company and sympathy. Worse: external warmth, closed

room; Better: open air, outside, slow motion.

 

Pyrogenium: Septic states. Extremely restless.  Has to keep on moving, rocking,

wringing, for momentary relief.  The bed feels too hard, aching everywhere,

feels beaten and bruised. Everything is offensive: sweat, breath, discharges,

stool, etc. The pulse is abnormally rapid for the temperature. High temperature

with slow pulse, or the reverse. Creeping chills in the back, with a thumping

heart. Bursting headache. Rapid bed sores. Feels as if someone else is in his

bed. Consciousness of the heart beating.

 

Rhus toxicodendron: A person who needs this remedy during flu feels extremely

restless. Fever is accompanied by bone and muscle aches. Sore throat, red

tongue, a teasing cough, and nausea and bloating are other likely symptoms.

Soreness and stiffness may be felt all over, with improvement from hot showers

or from getting up and pacing. A person who needs Rhus tox usually feels worse

when waking up, beginning to move, after lying in bed, or from keeping still too

long. Symptoms are relieved by continuous motion, rubbing and stretching, but

especially warmth and movement.

 

Sabadilla: Lachrymation in open air, when looking at bright light, when coughing

or yawning. Sleepy in day time; chillyness, with heat of face; cough on lying

down.

 

Sangunaria: Smell in nose like roasted onion; wheezing-whistling cough and

finally diarrhea, which relieves the cough.

 

Sticta pulmonaria: There is general feeling of dullness and malaise with raw

throat. Droping of mucous posteriorly. Dry, hacking coughat night; worse,

inspiration.

 

Sulphur: This remedy may be useful if a flu is very long-lasting or has some

lingering symptoms—often after people have neglected to take good care of

themselves. Symptoms, either digestive or respiratory, will often have a hot or

burning quality. The person may feel hot and sweaty, with low fever and reddish

mucous membranes. Heat aggravates the symptoms, and the person often feels worse

after bathing.

 

Was homeopathy successful in treating the flu epidemic of 1918?

 

Yes. While the mortality rate of people treated with traditional medicine and

drugs was 30 percent, those treated by homeopathic physicians had mortality rate

of 1.05 percent.

 

Of the fifteen hundred cases reported at the Homeopathic Medical Society of the

District of Columbia there were only fifteen deaths. Recoveries in the National

Homeopathic Hospital were 100%. In Ohio, of 1,000 cases of influenza, Dr. T. A.

McCann, MD, Dayton, Ohio reported NO DEATHS.

 

What homeopathic remedies were used to successfully treat the Spanish flu in

1918?

 

Gelsemium and Bryonia

 

According the Dr. Frank Wieland, MD, in Chicago, “(With) 8,000 workers we had

only one death. Gelsemium was practically the only remedy used. We used no

aspirin and no vaccines.â€

 

Homeopathy was 98% successful in treating the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918?

Yes.

Ohio reported that 24,000 cases of flu treated allopathically had a mortality

rate of 28.2% while 26,000 cases of flu treated homeopathically had a mortality

rate of 1.05% . In Connecticut, 6,602 cases were reported, with 55 deaths, less

than 1%. Dr. Roberts, a physician on a troop ship during WWI, had 81 cases of

flu on the way over to Europe. He reported, “All recovered and were landed.

Every man received homeopathic treatment.

 

Reference:

1.      Center for Disease Control (CDC), USA

2.  World Health Organization

 

" Vaccination wastes resources, gives false hopeand distracts attention from what

needs to be done. " - Dr Surinder Bakshi, Consultant Communicable Disease, UK,

the Sunday Times,15 April 2001.