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The Top Homeopathic Remedy for Flu and Other Viral Infections

By Danielle | Health and Wellness Writer   •   8 minute read

The Top Homeopathic Remedy for Flu and Other Viral Infections

When the world was hit with the Coronavirus (COVID-19), many people didn’t know where to turn for relief. The symptoms were all over the place, including respiratory inflammation, agonizing body aches, intense exhaustion, fever, and more.

Virus Defense was our response to this global health emergency. It was created with the best-known homeopathic ingredients to naturally help the body fight viral infections and support it in avoiding possible complications.

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Virus Defense
Homeopathic Remedy for Viral Infections
homeopathic medicine for viral infections Virus Defense

This article provides information about the natural complementary remedy Virus Defense. When you suffer from a viral infection it is important to know that it is always recommended to contact your healthcare provider.*

Since then, Virus Defense by AnnaKare has become the quintessential homeopathic remedy as an integrative way to help alleviate infections caused by viruses that plague the world. It is the one remedy to have on hand for holistic support with:

  • The flu or influenza
  • Significant colds
  • Infections that cause fever, chills, weakness, head and body aches
  • Bronchitis, sinus infection (sinusitis), and tonsillitis
  • Pneumonia

Virus Defense has also shown significant help with other virus-related infections such as:

  • Stomach flu or gastroenteritis caused by the rotavirus or norovirus
  • Mono, infectious mononucleosis or Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)
  • Measles, mumps, rubella (German measles), and varicella (chickenpox)
  • Shingles
  • And more microbial infections

This natural remedy should also be thought of when experiencing vaccine side effects.

What Makes Virus Defense So Exceptional?

AnnaKare’s Virus Defense includes a harmonious blend of formidable homeopathic healing ingredients that have been used successfully during epidemics of the past and present, most notably the 1918 Spanish flu.

They have been carefully selected and combined by our experienced team of homeopaths, pharmacists, and naturopaths to give you the best support when you’re sick with a virus and include the following:

Aconitum Napellus (Monkshood)

Made from the purplish-blue flowering monkshood or wolfsbane plant, Aconite is helpful with infections that come on suddenly, causing fever, a hot red face, and swollen glands. It helps relieve a dry and inflamed throat and a hoarse, croupy cough; and can aid in relieving shortness of breath and labored breathing. Complaints may include fever, nausea, vomiting, skin rashes, numbness, and tingling, neuralgic pain.

Arsenicum Album (Arsenic Trioxide)

This homeopathic polychrest is ideal for a wide range of infections. The sick person often feels chilly, exhausted, and thirsty, and may be fearful or worried. The pains have a burning sensation. It offers relief from a clogged nose, much sneezing, and thin, watery discharge from the nose. Also assists in alleviating a swollen throat, constricted airways, wheezing respiration, and a late-night cough.

Plus, Ars is the go-to remedy for stomach flu and symptoms of food poisoning, including nausea, retching, vomiting, and diarrhea.

Baptisia Tinctoria (Wild Indigo)

The classic flu remedy Baptisia helps relieve extreme prostration with severe body aches, no appetite, and an inability to think clearly. It is helpful with easing a high fever, a dark red throat, inflamed tonsils, and lungs that feel compressed, making it difficult to breathe. Also effective for gastric complaints and severe diarrhea. The skin may be burning and hot with dark blueish spots all over the body.

Bryonia Alba (Wild Hops)

Another paramount and multipurpose homeopathic remedy, Bryonia is used for conditions caused by inflammation such as influenza, bronchitis, pneumonia, and joint and muscle pain. The typical Bryonia pain is a stitching, tearing pain that gets aggravated by any kind of movement. The sick person is often irritable, likes to lie on the painful side, and prefers to be left alone.

The mucous membranes and throat are dry, causing a hacking cough with tough mucus loosened only by much hawking resulting in chest pain. Lips and skin are often parched and dry. Back, neck, and joints can feel swollen and stiff.

Echinacea Angustifolia (Purple Coneflower)

Echinacea is a popular herbal remedy and was first included in a homeopathic materia medica in 1900 by English homeopath John Henry Clarke. It is recognized for its anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, and anti-bacterial properties. It helps soothe a sore throat, swollen tonsils and lymph nodes, fever, chills, dizziness, and fight fatigue and weariness. Its blood-purifying action helps holistically fight symptoms of the common cold, tonsilitis, bronchitis, as well as skin ulcers and irritations.

Eupatorium Perfoliatum (Thoroughwort)

This white-flowering plant called thoroughwort in English is also known as boneset for its expeditious way to help relieve severe pain in limbs and muscles that accompanies illnesses with fever such as influenza and malaria. It is also helpful in easing bronchitis and sinus infections with hoarseness, a loose cough, and soreness in the chest.

And Eupatorium helps alleviate a throbbing headache, nausea, and vomiting of food and bile.

Gelsemium Sempervirens (Yellow Jasmine)

Gelsemium is a well-known homeopathic cold and flu remedy for its ability to help relieve muscle weakness, chills, and fever. It also soothes pain in the throat and ears, swollen tonsils, and a dry cough with a sore chest. The face may be hot, flushed, or dark red.

Gelsemium is often recommended when the illness was brought on by emotional excitement, stress, or fear. It is a holistic remedy for scarlet fever, the measles, and measle-like eruptions on the skin.

Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Liquorice)

Licorice root is a much-praised natural throat soother, anti-inflammatory, and anti-bacterial. It aids in reducing colds, coughs, and bronchitis, and may help protect from strep throat and other complications caused by respiratory infections.

Hydrastis Canadensis (Goldenseal)

Hydrastis Canadensis or goldenseal is a precious plant that is an endangered species in several areas of North America and vulnerable around the world. It boasts astonishing healing benefits and is a favorite remedy of Anna, the founder of AnnaKare.

Best known for its therapeutic effect on the mucous members, it helps fight inflammation in the nose, throat, ears, and chest. It aids expectorate and reduce think, yellow mucus discharge, and studies of its active compound berberine have shown it to have significant antiviral activity against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV).

Hydrastis Canadensis is a homeopathic remedy recommended for post-nasal drip, sinusitis, ear infections, rawness in throat, and bronchitis. Its use for smallpox greatly mitigated the disease and lessened its danger.

Rhus Toxicodendron (Poison Ivy)

Poison ivy which contains an oil that causes a painful, red, and itchy rash with blisters in 85% of Americans upon only the lightest touch makes an impressive, frequently used homeopathic remedy for many types of infections – viral and bacterial.

Rhus Tox helps relieve pain in muscles, joints, and fascia that benefits from movement or a change of position. It calms a sore throat with swollen glands, particularly the parotid glands which are salivary glands located in the cheeks and often the target of viruses and bacteria causing infections such as mumps, herpes, mono, strep, flu, and more.

It soothes and heals the skin from rashes that look like those caused by the plant including red, swollen, intensely itching hives, fluid filled blisters, shingles with tingling, burning, and neuralgic pains, and dry scaly eruptions.

How to Take AnnaKare’s Virus Defense

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Virus Defense
Homeopathic Remedy for Viral Infections
homeopathic medicine for viral infections Virus Defense

Take Virus Defense at the beginning of an infection. Learn to listen to your body and use it – as is best with all homeopathic remedies – at the first sign of symptoms. Two squirts are recommended three times a day. However, when the symptoms come on suddenly and forcefully, take two squirts up to 6 times a day. Once you start to feel better, reduce the frequency back to three times a day.

One dose of Virus Defense is also ideal several times a week during a harsh flu season, throughout the winter, or if you hear of an infectious disease around you. Take two squirts four to 6 times a week or daily to train your body to fend off infections.

If you experience vaccine side effects, take two squirts three times a day until the pains and discomfort subside.

During the flu season, from October till early March, consider adding a daily elderberry and quality vitamin D supplement. We offer all three in our Immunity Bundle.

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To build your holistic arsenal against winter illnesses and to improve your body’s intuitive immune response, see all our natural and homeopathic cold and flu remedies online.

You may also be interested in learning more about how to distinguish between cold and flu symptoms. Our homeopathic oral spray Cold Armor is formulated to target the less severe, even more easy to catch, and often just as uncomfortable signs of the common cold and a pesty cough.

Cold Armor is also ideal as a complementary remedy to Virus Defense to alternate between the two during the course of the illness or at the end of a flu infection to clear up a nasal congestion and lingering cough.

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What is the Difference between Viral and Bacterial Infections?

Infections are caused by a host of harmful microbes, including viruses, bacteria, as well as fungi, parasites, and other pathogens. Bacteria are bigger and more dangerous than viruses because they reproduce faster and release tissue-damaging toxins.

But all microbial infections have similar symptoms, especially at the onset. Homeopathy chooses remedies based on symptoms and helps you address an infection early, enabling you to avoid complications and secondary infections which is when a viral infection turns into a bacterial infection.

Take Virus Defense at the first sign of an infection as varied as

  • a fever,
  • exhaustion,
  • respiratory disorders,
  • pain,
  • skin changes,
  • and digestive complaints.

It can help prohibit the infection from getting worse, support your body while its vitality is still strong to fight back, and help ease and speed up your recovery.

Conventional medical treatments include drugs and steroids and often antibiotics. Many have side effects, affect the digestive system, and more and more bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics causing people to be sicker for longer.

Homeopathy can help reduce the need for more severe medications and help avoid the overuse of antibiotics. Plus, homeopathy and Virus Defense strengthen your immune system helping you lessen your susceptibility to infections in the future.

Summary: Empower Your Immune Defense with Virus Defense

Virus Defense by AnnaKare represents a comprehensive and versatile homeopathic remedy for tackling a wide range of viral infections from respiratory ailments like the flu and bronchitis to conditions such as shingles and stomach flu.

Virus Defense’s carefully curated blend of ingredients offers targeted relief for symptoms while supporting the body’s natural healing mechanisms. When you address infections at their onset, you not only mitigate their symptoms, but you also lower the risk of complications, reduce reliance on antibiotics, and heal faster without side effects.

Incorporating Virus Defense into your wellness routine equips you with a proactive approach to managing many viral infections and microbial infections overall. Plus, when you pair it with other natural remedies, vitamins, and immune-building herbal supplements, you’ll experience enhanced holistic support and stay resilient during the cold and flu season and year-round.

Top homeopathic remedy for the flu and other viral infections


Please note: Content and product descriptions are grounded in traditional homeopathic and natural wellness practice. They have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.

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