15/10/2025
Some of the common Homeopathic remedies used for Autumn diseases
COMMON COLD
Colds are usually mild illnesses and don’t require treatment with medicines of any kind. We suggest you to treat yourself or family members with homeopathic medicines only if the cold or cough is particularly severe or lingers for more than a few days.
Aconite: indicated when the cold symptoms come on suddenly, often after exposure to cold weather or cold, dry wind. Aconite is indicated only in the first 24 hours. Symptoms come violently within few hours, experiencing high fever, anxiety, restlessness, sensitive to light, and thirst.
Belladonna: indicated in early in the course of the illness. Symptoms include high fever, leaping pulse, flushed dry face, redness and heat. Skin is hot.
Allium cepa: with profuse discharge from the eyes and nose, with burning, biting and smarting in the eyes, and corroding the nose and upper lip and is worse in the evening and indoors and better in open air; there may be headache which is also worse in warm room and better in open air.
Euphrasia: has non irritating cold, watery nasal discharge and copious, burning tears. Nasal discharge is worse in open air, morning and when lying down.
Arsenicum album: useful for both head colds and cough. Profuse watery nasal discharge that burns the skin. Irritation and tickling in the nose and frequent violent sneezing. In time nasal discharge becomes thick and yellow. Dull throbbing headache.
Hepar sulph: indicated in the later stages of a cold. Symptoms may have begun several days earlier with a watery runny nose, but by now a thick, yellow and sometimes offensive smelling discharge is present. Patients may sneeze at the slightest exposure to cold. Cold air, eating cold foods and exposure to the winds causes cold and cough.
Mercurius: creeping chills, worse in the evening and night, even in bed; the nose discharges thin water with sneezing, watering of eyes, and sore throat, which stings and pricks, with constant inclination to swallow saliva which accumulates in plenty, with a bad smell from the mouth; slight fever with profuse sweat which does not relieve.
Nux vomica : is the remedy of first stage of cold. The nose is blocked, or stops at night and runs through the day; there is frontal headache; sore throat and very sensitive to inhaled cold air. The most characteristic indication is that the patient is chilly on the least motion or uncovering, and even during the fever must be covered and keep quiet.
Pusatilla: It comes at the third stage when the discharge becomes thick. Bland, thick yellow discharge from the throat, loss of smell and taste, or bitter taste; no thirst and generally poor appetite.
Sulphur: cases become chronic with thick yellow discharge, or running in to the chronic form with thick discharge of offensive smell.
