24/10/2025
Have you ever felt the flu strike with a sudden onset?
No warning, no slow build up, just a blazing fever, a pounding head, and a flushed, burning face.
The sensations are intense: burning heat, red skin, glaring eyes, and a mind in a state of wild excitement.
Pains are throbbing and shooting, with congestion of blood to the head and face. That is the picture of Belladonna.
It is not the quiet, slow kind of flu, it comes suddenly and violently.
There may be twitchings and jerks.
You feel worse from noise, light, jarring, touch, or motion and often on the right side.
The fever rises high and fast, the skin is hot and dry, the face burning red, while hands and feet remain icy cold.
You are restless, sometimes even delirious. One moment anxious and agitated, the next falling into stupor or strange visions.
The throat burns with pain and dryness, with a sense of constriction and choking.
And there is a strong craving for lemons and lemon juice.
When the flu takes on this fiery, sudden form, Belladonna may offer its gentle support.
Viruses may change, but our focus remains the same.
In homeopathy, we don’t treat the virus, we treat the person.
Belladonna remains a trusted remedy, just as it has been for more than two centuries.
It shows us the depth of the Materia Medica,
where each remedy carries its own unique signature,
offering support when matched carefully, according to the law of similars, to the individual expression of illness.
Have you used belladonna in cases of influenza?
Stay tuned!
Next week we will share another classical remedy with its own distinct influenza character.
