Homeopathy is a form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) that stimulates the body's own healing process and was founded by German physician Samuel Hahnemann in 1796. It first made its way to America in the 1820s. But did you know that there were ancient medicinal practices that already followed homeopathy’s key holistic principle of “like cures like”?
Back in 1500 BC, the ancient Egyptian papyrus of Ebers includes examples of using herbal substances to heal patients suffering from symptoms similar to those the herb would produce in healthy people.
Another example is the Simile of Hippocrates (460 – 375 BC), which is the belief that what causes a disease in health mediates it in disease. This idea of a simile repeats itself through history and can be seen again and again, such as with Theophrastus von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus, a Swiss physician practicing in the 16th century.
While homeopathy is being used to ease a large variety of illnesses, a cough and cold that cause inflamed mucus and respiratory infections are popular examples among them.
In this post, we’ll explore more about coughs and colds, how homeopathy’s approach promotes a healthy immune system, and how AnnaKare’s homeopathic Cold Armor oral spray holistically helps reduce the symptoms of a cough and cold and supports a smooth recovery.
Homeopathic Remedy for Colds & Coughs
Why Do We Get Colds?
Colds come from a virus entering our oral cavity causing inflammation of the membranes that line the throat and nose. The rhinovirus causes the most colds and spreads easily by airborne droplets when we cough or sneeze. The virus can also be spread when we touch germ-filled surfaces, such as a grocery cart.
The chances of catching a cold increase during the fall and winter season largely due to more time spent indoors, such as when school starts back up again, and because there is less humidity in the air. Low humidity makes us more susceptible to developing a cold because it causes our nasal passages to be dry.
Higher levels of stress also augment our susceptibility to the common cold, and while stressful situations can occur at any time, December is known as the most stressful month of the year due to year-end pressures at work, shorter days, less sunlight, and a decrease of the restorative effects of sleep.
Why Do We Get Coughs?
Coughs are an important reflex that protects your airways and lungs. They can occur whether you’re sick with a cold – and even when you’re not. While there are many reasons we may cough, allergies, smoke in the air, and post-nasal drip, we’re focusing on the cough that comes along with a cold.
Your throat and airways have cough receptors that have a thin layer of healthy moist mucus within that protects and coats your airways. Your cough receptors are activated when an irritant, in this case, excessive mucus from inflammation, gets stuck in your airways.
The cough receptors send a message up to your brain which in turn sends a message back to your chest muscles to rapidly take a deep breath in and out to remove the irritant. We cough the air out (and hopefully part of the irritant) at an impressive 50 mph.
How Homeopathic Remedies Support the Immune System
While conventional medicine works to temporarily relieve and suppress the discomfort, which in the moment is good, it doesn’t work to strengthen your immunity. Strengthening is important so that your body can fight the disease or infection, and those that come in the future; this is where homeopathy’s principle of similia comes in.
Homeopathic remedies provide minute doses of natural substances the body recognizes as similar to the event that caused the illness at the onset. This stimulates the body’s own defenses and brings about a healing response. This approach does not suppress symptoms and helps improve your immune functions.
Homeopathy goes even further. A compromised or lowered immune system can be challenging to boost. This is because the immune defense system is not a single unit but, as we know, a complex body system. Many may not realize that our liver, bone marrow, spleen, and lymph nodes play a crucial role in our immune defense.
These organs can be filled with toxins from our lifestyle choices, including the food we eat to the air we breathe. Homeopathy works to help detoxify and remove poisons in these organs to help strengthen and ensure they function properly.
Long-term medication use can result in an inferior immune system. Your immune response can become either weakened or overstimulated. One example of a long-term medication is the frequent use of antibiotics.
When a person is suffering from a compromised immune system, it is even more important to control opportunist invaders. Try homeopathic remedies that are working to strengthen the immune system back up! They are known for their high safety record and can be combined with conventional medicines.
The addition of quality vitamins can play an essential role for proper immune function as well.
How Homeopathic Remedies Reduce Colds and Coughs
Allopathic treatments may provide relief of a cold and its symptoms, but the cold doesn’t leave the body and the inflamed organs are not supported in the needed process of cleansing and regeneration. Homeopathic remedies go to the root of the cold, helping break a fever, moisturizing the respiratory passages, draining the congestion, and soothing the symptoms that come with it.
Many parents will tell you the frustration they feel when treating a child with a cough or a cold. Conventional medications are limited and visiting the doctor’s office is timely and doesn’t always give parents the answers they need.
Homeopathic remedies are toxin-free, leaving your immune system free to do its job at fighting off your current cold or future infections. As they come from natural substances, they are safe for all ages and don’t cause negative side effects like nausea or drowsiness.
There are key homeopathic ingredients that help fend off symptoms of the common cold. They include the following:
Allium Cepa (Red Onion): Aids in relieving a runny nose with clear discharge and the burning sensation that can sometimes come with it. Also helpful with sneezing, sore or hoarse throat.
Hydrastis Canadensis (Goldenseal): Useful for the relief of a stuffed-up nose or congested chest with thick, yellow mucus. Take when experiencing an endless blowing of the nose or coughing up of excess phlegm.
Pulsatilla Pratensis (Windflower): Helpful with relief of a dry cough in the evening and night or a loose cough in the morning. Aids in ridding body of chills.
Dulcamara (Bittersweet): To be used when experiencing a tickle in the larynx or when having a hoarse, spasmodic cough. Also helpful when experiencing a dry burning heat or fever with body aches.
Nux Vomica (Strychnine Tree): Useful when stuffed up at night or experiencing a congestive headache. Also beneficial to take when feeling nauseous or experiencing a stomachache.
Ferrum Phosphoricum (Iron Phosphate): One of Dr. Schuessler’s 12 cell salts, Ferr Phos aids in modulating fever and shortening the life span of a cough.
Gelsemium Sempervirens (Yellow Jasmine): Add this favorite cold remedy when experiencing body weakness, stiffness or achy muscles, a sore throat, runny nose, fever, chills, or shivering.
Kali Bichromicum (Potassium Dichromate): Colds that give yellow, thick, and sticky mucus can be aided with the addition of this remedy, particularly when it is trapped in the nasal passage. Also add for stomach pain and nausea.
Because finding all the ingredients listed can be cumbersome and tricky to administer, AnnaKare Cold Armor for Cold and Cough Relief includes a balanced doctor-formulated blend of the above essential homeopathic cold and cough remedies in one convenient oral spray.
Together, the holistic formula will help ease the congestion, improve your breathing, better your sleep, and support a faster and gentler recovery.
Homeopathic Remedy for Colds & Coughs
The spray is easy-to-use, gets quickly absorbed, and has an enjoyably sweet taste. Prepared with vegetable glycerin and no alcohol, it is loved by children and adults.
Cold Armor is an ideal natural alternative to regular OTC cold medicines. It can also be combined with conventional medications if you are new to natural remedies or prefer to double up.
Take two squirts per dose – one squirt for children – three times a day. On the first and second day of symptoms, feel free to increase the quantity to six times per day. Consider taking this remedy at the first sign of a scratchy throat or other early manifestation of a cold as it may help you avoid more severe symptoms.
And you may find it helpful to take several doses of Cold Armor before traveling or before any other situation where your immune system may get challenged by rhinoviruses or other respiratory germs as a precautionary measure.
Final Thoughts
While a cold is never a welcome guest, extra mucus in form of a cough and rhinitis are necessary to aid the body in ridding itself of the infection. Homeopathic remedies to ease unwanted respiratory ailments have been used for centuries and are an effective and natural way to help bring relief.
The addition of homeopathy not only assists in ridding the body of the virus, but it also works to strengthen the immune system, helping it to better prepare for and tackle the next foreign invader.
Enjoy the homeopathy support your body craves during a cold and cough with the help of Cold Armor oral spray prepared for you and your family by our family of natural health experts.
Product descriptions grounded in homeopathic practice. They have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. If symptoms get worse and do not get better, fever is greater than 101.3 degrees Fahrenheit for adults or 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit for children, wheezing or intense sore throat occur, visit a doctor.
Resources:
http://www.h2rc2.com/Homeopathy/Homeopathy/HomeoHistEgypt.html
https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/warning-signs-of-lung-disease/cough/learn-about-cough
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1297514/
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/common-cold
