HOMEOPATHIC for Swine Flu

SWINE FLU

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Pandemics (including Swine Flu)There has been a lot of media-hype about the potential for a Swine Flu pandemic. I do believe a lot of this is overstated and hysterical, similar to the SARS and Avian Flu epidemics of recent years. However, I do understand some people are very anxious and feel vulnerable, especially with winter coming to the Southern Hemisphere.

While the current pandemic is being titled "swine flu", it is actually a form of Influenza A or H1N1, similar to the Spanish flu of 1918. The form we are currently seeing is a very mild version and the deaths are usually attributed to complications due to other factors. The concern within Australia is that we are now into winter when flu would normally be a concern and there are currently other strains of flu around as well, which may cause more problems if they combine. As always the best advice is good hygiene, good nutrition and quick action with your homeopathics.


Remedies for InfluenzaBelow is an indication of the best remedies for both treatment and prevention.We have recently updated our Colds and Flu Kit (which includes Anas Barb) to include a Flu combination and a sinus combination.Do contact me if you have any individual concerns.

Preventive Remedies: Swine Flu, Pandemics & general Anas Barb (Oscillo) 200c taken fortnightly thru winter can be a good remedy if you are prone to picking up colds or flu, and especially for children in care or starting school. As France’s number one flu remedy there’s plenty of clinical experience to show it is an effective remedy for the majority of situations: a bit like a homeopathic flu shot.

Influenzinum 30c can also be used weekly on it's own or in alternation with Anas Barb if you are highly susceptible to influenza. However, I have found Anas Barb to be sufficient.This is also the remedy par excellence for situations like Swine Flu, Avian Flu, SARS, etc. It can be taken weekly for 4 weeks, if a pandemic threatens and increased to every 2 hours if symptoms arise. You should not panic as this causes the body to increase the depth of symptoms. If you use homeopathics you have good and effective tools to help you thru this situation. If you are not confident to prescribe in this situation consult your homeopath.

Early Treatment of InfluenzaAlong with Anas Barb you should be thinking of remedies like Aconite, Gelsemium or Eupatorium in the early stages, or our new Flu Remedy – AGE 30c – which is a combination of Arsenicum Iodatum, Gelsemium and Eupatorium 30c and covers a broad spectrum of flu symptoms. Additionally, having treated a wide range of cases so far this winter, Phosphorus, Bryonia and Influenzinum are well indicated in many cases.

Other practitioners have also cited Nux Vomica as being a big remedy in this current pandemic.
Top Remedies for Colds & FluAconite 30c – No.1 remedy for first stages of a cold, fever, sore throat or similar illness. Onset is usually sudden and often after becoming chilled. Much sneezing with pain at root of nose, tingly throat, dry mucous membranes. Worse in the evening or night, especially around midnight.

Allium Cepa 30c – Common feverish cold with streaming eyes and nose. Profuse water nasal discharge which burns upper lip. Red, running eyes with bland discharge. Headache worse in warm room.Arsenicum Album (Ars Alb) 30c – Catches cold easily, burning, watery nasal discharge alternating with dryness. Frequent sneezing, nostrils become sore and red and nose feels blocked. Chilly and shivery. Wants to sip hot drinks.

Worse: change of temperature, cold, damp and around midnight.

Better: heat, warm applications, hot drinks.A.G.E. 30c (Flu Remedy) – see above, useful for typical flu symptoms if you aren’t sure what to give.Bryonia - Headache with pain on moving the eyes or head, harsh dry cough, thirst, irritability.Eupatorium Per 30c – Chill followed by heat and sweating. Intense aching of bones as if broken or bruised. Great thirst for cold drinks.

Worse: movement, cold, open air.

Better: resting, warmth, sweating.

Ferrum Phos 30c – First signs of cold or flu, especially if you have no strong picture and are not sure what to give. Tired, weary, not feeling quite right. Red inflamed eyes, and/or hot, burning, gritty. Chill with shivering and fever with flushed face. Better: rest, cold applications.Gelsemium 30c – No. 1 remedy for flu. Symptoms usually come on slowly over a number of days. Dull, sluggish with heavy looking eyes, dull headache usually at the back of the neck, burning throat. Chills and shivering up and down the spine. Aching muscles in limbs and back.Nux Vomica 30c – Colds and flu with extreme chilliness – unable to get warm. Nose blocked at night, running during day or much sneezing alternating with blocked nose.

Sore or raw throat and teeth may ache. Thirsty and irritable. Worse: early morning, eating. Better: heat, lying down, sleep. Phosphorus 30c - Second stage cough, green or yellow/green mucous tinged with blood, loose productive cough or tight hacking cough. Strong thirst for cold drinks.Pulsatilla 30c – Chilliness even in a warm room. Thick, bland mucous, dry mouth but no thirst. Painful headache with changing, shifting symptoms. Worse in a warm room, after lying down. Better in open air. Rhus Tox 30c – Very restless with aching in all muscles and stiffness. Cannot get comfortable. Heat alternating with chills, pain in head and eyes, with red face. Worse: night, first movement. Better: warmth.Stramonium - Severe headache in forehead and over eyebrows which remedies such as Bryonia or Belladonna do not resolve. High fever with or without delerium. Sensitive to light and noise.

Sinus Combination - For sinus symptoms which come on after a cold or do not resolve quickly – Ferrum Phos, Kali Mur, Kali Sulph, Nat Mur 6x Tissue Salts.`Congestion Combination - When the above does not resolve the mucous in the sinuses (as opposed to the pain), the remedies in the Congestion remedy are more heavy duty for an of excess mucous in either the sinuses or the lungs, with remaining hacking or tickly cough.

Contains Kali Bich/Hydrastis/Pulsatilla 30c. -----------------Myself I´m taking now Aconitum as preventive so the flus or colds don´t even intend to come. I would use for swine flu Nux V 30 just once first and then alternating Acon 200, Gelsem 200 and Belladonna 200 in common case with fever, but individual differences might be considered. Very stubborn fever casescould still take Ferrum Phos 6 x. If it is old case, might need Bryonia and Hep s 200. All in 200 potency but specially children can give 30, except Hep S always 200.

By Didi Anna Purna