Description
Our flu mix consists out of the following:
Gelsemium – Excellent remedy for influenza. Person feels very lethargic, muscles ache and feel bruised. Congestive headache with glazed heavy eyes and dusky red face. Sneezing with fullness at root of nose, watery and burning discharge. Headache extends to forehead and eyeballs with a bursting sensation. Fever with a lac of thirst. Good for tonsillitis.
Eupatorium – This homeopathic remedy is one to consider when you find you have intense aching in the limbs and back, often with stiffness and general soreness when rising to walk.
With flu-like symptoms, there is often a chill at between 7:00AM and 9:00AM preceded by a thirst for cold water. The characteristic deep aching (felt as if in the bones) also typically precedes the chill. There can be nausea and vomiting between the chilly and fever stages with this remedy.
The chill itself will often come with much shivering.
Another characteristic of someone needing the remedy, is typically deep soreness of the eyeballs.
If a headache is part of the flu-like symptoms, the pain, which can be throbbing, is most often felt in the back of the head.
Rhus tox – Indicated for Better motion, Blisters, Itching, Minor arthritic pain, Poison ivy. Rhus toxicodendron is a homeopathic remedy often used to treat minor joint pain that is better from motion and worse in cold, damp conditions. It is also a remedy commonly used to treat poison ivy rashes. Other indications include great restlessness with any pain, lameness or stiffness on beginning to move, worse during sleep and rest, better warmth and change of position.
