These days, it seems as though no matter who you talk to, someone is sick with the cold or flu. Each year’s cold and flu season appears to be getting worse, including a lingering cough that never wants to go away.
Not only are you at risk for catching a cold or flu, but COVID is still around with more variants and there is also the risk of catching the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
Symptoms such as runny or stuffy nose, sore throat, yellow mucus, coughing and difficulty breathing, fever, sore throat, aches and pains, and fatigue are typical and can overlap.
While a cold is usually characterized by milder symptoms, the flu is often a more severe illness with higher fever, increased body aches, and a risk of leading to complications such as a sinus infection or pneumonia when left untreated. The flu can keep you in bed for days and make you feel drained for weeks.
One other major difference between a cold and a flu is that a cold is caused by a rhinovirus or another respiratory virus, while the flu is always caused by an influenza virus.
The homeopathic pharmacopeia offers a variety of remedies that have helped holistically ease and relieve stubborn and uncomfortable symptoms caused by the common cold and the flu for over 200 years. And they offer natural support for fighting symptoms from COVID or RSV, too.
Many are key homeopathic remedies and great to have in every home's medicine cabinet. They even come blended as smart homeopathic combination formulas for cold and flu targeting specific symptoms, and are prepared by our experienced homeopathic doctors, pharmacists, and natural health experts.
Homeopathic medicines can help you recover gently and more quickly and make your body stronger and less receptive to colds, flu, and other viruses in the future. They don’t cause drowsiness and are not known for side effects and can be combined with conventional medicines.
Note that if your symptoms get worse, persist for more than three to five days, or do not improve with home treatment, it is advised to go see your health care provider.
Top Homeopathic Single Remedies for the Common Cold
Allium Cepa (Red Onion): Helps fight a runny nose with a clear discharge that may cause a burning sensation. It is often associated with frequent sneezing, hoarseness, and a sore throat.
Hydrastis Canadensis (Goldenseal): Is a remedy ideal for aiding in the relief of thick, yellow mucus production from the nose and chest. Great when you tend to blow your nose all the time and/or keep coughing up phlegm.
Ferrum Phosphoricum (Iron Phosphate): One of Dr. Schuessler’s 12 cell salts, Ferr Phos is the first remedy to think of at the beginning of a nondescript cold which can include a fever and the start of a tickle in the throat or a cough.
Gelsemium Sempervirens (Yellow Jasmine): This popular cold and flu remedy covers symptoms including extreme chilliness, dizziness, shivering, and chills especially up and down the back; overall weakness, paralyzing exhaustion, numbness, muscle aches, stiffness, and heaviness of limbs; stiff neck, neck ache, sore throat, runny nose, and fever. The infection may be associated with emotional excitement, stress, or fear.
Kali Bichromicum (Potassium Dichromate): Eases mucus inflammation in air passages, stomach, and bowels. Commonly used for relief from yellow thick and sticky mucus in the nasal passage. Kali Bic also helps with frontal headaches spreading over one eye, full ears, and inflamed mucus that can extend to the stomach and trigger stomach pain and nausea.
Cold Armor Oral Spray – Homeopathic Combination Remedy for Colds and Coughs
While you can take one or more single remedies to help ease symptoms of a cold or flu, homeopathic combination remedies have the benefit of helping relieve multiple symptoms in one easy and convenient formulation.
Homeopathic Remedy for Colds & Coughs
Cold Armor comes in the form of AnnaKare’s popular and convenient oral sprays. Including all of the above-described ingredients for cold and cough relief plus more of homeopathy’s best respiratory remedies, it is made with vegetable glycerin, free of alcohol, and ideal for children and adults.
Best taken as soon as you feel the first symptoms, it is recommended three to six times a day, has an agreeably sweet taste, and should be kept handy from fall to spring or better year-round.
Leading Homeopathic Single Remedies for the Flu (Influenza)
Aconitum Napellus (Monkshood): Is ideal for a cold and cough with sudden onset from exposure to dry and cold weather and indispensable during the first 24 hours of a severe cold or the flu.
Arsenicum Album (Arsenic Trioxide): Great remedy for a flu that starts to come on after a chill with a change of body temperature, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and exhaustion with neuralgia, fever, and thirst.
Baptisia Tinctoria (Wild Indigo): Quintessential flu remedy for types with muscle pains and soreness all over the body, high fevers, weak and stiff limbs, headache, and sore throat; also effective for gastric complaints and severe diarrhea.
Bryonia Alba (Wild Hops): Is a key remedy for types of flu with slower onset that manifest themselves in the chest with a dry cough and bronchitis; helps relieve aching in every muscle when one cannot bear to move; eases gastric complaints and fever. Recommended when one is very irritable or frustrated.
Eupatorium Perfoliatum (Thoroughwort): For types of flu with intense bone pain and violent aching as if broken; bursting headache with soreness internally and restlessness; nausea at sight or smell of food; vomiting of food and bile; fever.
Virus Defense Oral Spray – Homeopathic Combination Remedy for Flu
Thousands of natural remedy enthusiasts have put their trust in AnnaKare’s Virus Defense made with the above and more of homeopathy’s primary ingredients for harsh viral infections such as the flu and formulated by our homeopaths and naturopaths for holistic support during the COVID pandemic.
Symptoms addressed include fever, shivering and/or sweating, difficulty with breathing, cough, chest pain, fatigue, heaviness and pain of muscles and bones, headache, and more.
Virus Defense is recommended three to six times a day for acute symptoms and three to six times per week as a precautionary measure during the flu season from September to April.
Take it with you when you travel and use it before using shared and public transportation, attending parties, gatherings, or visiting crowded public areas to avoid, ease, and/or recover more gently and fully from disagreeing viral infections.
Summary
Homeopathy is a complementary and alternative healing system and a leader in relieving and helping you recover more holistically from uncomfortable and weakening respiratory and viral infections like the common cold and a flu or influenza infection.
By not suppressing symptoms and leaning into your body’s own healing tendencies, homeopathy also helps strengthen your immune system, making you stronger long-term with regular use.
If you are unsure about whether you should be taking cold remedies versus flu remedies, we welcome you to reach out. We are a natural health family and community looking out for one another and are happy to give guidance to any questions or curiosities.
Contact us with your questions and look up more holistic cold and flu remedies here on our site.
The content and product descriptions in this article are grounded in traditional homeopathic practice. They have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.
