11/12/2025
This is a great post from the Faculty of Homeopathy - qualified doctors who are also qualified homeopaths. People are worried about the flu and homeopathy has some great solutions
Snapping at anyone who dares to disturb you…
You shiver under the blankets.
Every draft cuts to the bone. Every sound feels unbearable.
Someone hums softly in the next room, and irritation flashes through you.
Noise, light, and odors pierce your senses.
Even a simple question feels like an intrusion.
You long to be left completely alone, craving silence and warmth that never quite reach you.
This is the Nux vomica state, the flu that makes you cold, tense, and irritable to the core.
Your head feels as if the skull would burst.
Your body burns with fever, yet the moment you uncover, the shivering chill returns. The nose runs by day, blocks by night.
Sleep is broken; you wake around 3 a.m., restless and unrefreshed.
And then the stomach: sour, cramping, full of pressure and unease.
You feel nauseated, especially after eating or drinking coffee.
The abdomen feels tight, bloated, and sensitive to touch.
Every part of you protests.
Every stimulus feels too much.
Worse in the early morning, from cold air, drafts, or uncovering.
Worse after coffee and alcohol.
Even emotions disturb, anger, disappointment, mental strain.
Everything provokes, even kindness can feel like irritation.
This is the flu of tension and oversensitivity,
the unmistakable picture of Nux vomica.
In homeopathy, the focus is never on the virus itself,
but on the person who is experiencing it.
On how the illness expresses itself through your unique state, your sensations, your emotions.
Two people may have the same flu, yet need different remedies, even when they share similar symptoms, their inner experience is never quite the same.
Next week, we’ll explore another homeopathic remedy,
one that expresses influenza in a completely different way.
