13/12/2025
INFLUENZA 🤧
Below are some homoeopathic remedies you may find useful to help with flu symptoms that work with you naturally...
🌿 ACONITE:
Symptoms start very suddenly, especially after being out and experiencing a cold wind or a shock to the system.
The intensity strikes fast and hard ~ fine one minute and then High fever, dry heat, sore throat, respiratory symptoms , coughing and extreme restlessness.
This remedy if taken quickly, will answer the call of the vital force and sometimes nips colds and flu’s in the bud. The face may be flushed, pupils constricted.
🌿 BELLADONNA:
A Belladonna type of flu again starts suddenly, often frighteningly.
The face will be hot, the skin red, the eyes glazed, and the pupils can be dilated. Throbbing headache.
Any motion and jarring, or for being bumped makes the symptoms worse.
The fever can be worryingly high but with little or no thirst.
May want lemons.
Hands and feet are icy cold even though the body is hot. There may also be delirium with the fever. All senses are over-sensitive so the patient feels worse for light, being touched, and noise. Symptoms worse at 3pm.
🌿 GELSEMIUM:
One of the best known homoeopathic remedies for flu.
Think eeyore … from Winnie the Pooh
Symptoms develop gradually over 1-3 days with feelings of heaviness.
Heavy eyes.
General sleepy feeling. Heavy head hardly able to lift head off the pillow. Low spirited, dull foggy. Yellow coating on tongue.
The weakness is accompanied by trembling.
Limbs ache and shivers may run up and down the spine. They usually have a heavy headache that starts in the back of the head and radiates to the forehead.
The headache may sometimes be relieved by passing urine.
🌿 EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM:
Intense aching deep in the muscles and bones. So much so that the bones can feel broken. Very High fever.
Thirsty for cold water. Chills often come in the morning, sometimes with shaking and they may ask for cold drinks even though they will be chilled by them. They can be thirsty just before the chill and have a severe headache as the fever peaks. Symptoms worse between 7 to 9am.
🌿 BRYONIA:
With this remedy picture, progression is gradual rather than sudden in onset.
There is irritability and the patient prefers to be left alone. All symptoms, such as severely aching muscles or joints, are worse for movement and better for rest and being still.
You will find people who need this remedy holding onto their chest or their throat when they cough as the pain upon movement exacerbates. Acts of bracing themselves as the pain intensifies.
Even talking aggravates.
Thirsty for large, infrequent gulps of water. They also have dry skin, dryness of the mucous membranes, a coated tongue, cracked lips, or a left-sided headache.
🌿 ARSENICUM ALBUM:
The symptoms of an Arsenicum flu consist of marked restlessness and anxiety, hot face and cold body. The restlessness can lead to exhaustion and collapse.
Gastro flu - Vomiting and diarrhoea may also be present, chills and rigor follow the fever.
Burning sensations. The patient will be thirsty for small sips of water and desire constant company.
Being along will make their anxiety worse and they may fear death.
Thirsty for small sips of water but generally worse for eating and drinking.
Symptoms heighten around midnight, 1pm.
🌿 FERRUM PHOS TISSUE SALTS :
Ferrum Phos acts as an oxygen carrier in the body, helping transport oxygen from the lungs to tissues via the blood.
When iron phosphate is deficient, oxygen delivery falters, leading to increased circulation and heat, manifesting as fever and inflammation.
This cell salt is prized for supporting the immune system and helping the body fight off early infections, especially colds and flu.
Early stage remedy for mild, vague symptoms. Slight fever and gentle weakness with a soft coming down with something feeling.
