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Arsenicum album: great prostration with extreme chilliness and a thirst for
frequent sips of warm drinks. The eyes and nose stream with watery, acrid
discharges. Feels irritable and anxious.
and bruised all over. Profuse perspiration with a high fever and extreme thirst. Feels
(and looks) dazed and sluggish.
Bryonia: flu comes on slowly. Aching pains in all the joints are worse for the
slightest motion. Painful dry cough that makes the head hurt. Extreme thirst at
infrequent intervals. Feels intensely irritable and wants to be alone.
Eupatorium perfoliatum: the pains are so severe it feels as if the bones are
broken. The muscles ache and feel sore and bruised as well. A bursting headache
with sore, aching eyeballs. The nose runs with much sneezing, and the chest feels
sore and raw. Thirsty for cold water even though it brings on violent chills in the
small of the back.
Ferrum phosphoricum: a fever develops, a flu is likely but the symptoms aren’t
clearly developed yet (and Aconite didn’t help). Take 3 doses every 2–4 hours.
Gelsemium: flu comes on slowly especially when the weather changes from cold
to warm. The muscles feel weak and achy. There’s a great feeling of heaviness
everywhere—the head (which aches dully), limbs, eyelids etc. No thirst at all. Fever
alternating with chills and shivers that run up and down the spine. Feels (and looks)
apathetic, dull and drowsy.
Mercurius solubilis: fever with copious, extremely offensive perspiration
which doesn’t provide any relief (unlike most feverish sweats). The breath smells
bad, there’s more salivation than normal and an extreme thirst.
Nux vomica: gastric flu with vomiting and diarrhea. The limbs and back ache a
great deal. The nose runs during the day and is stopped up at night. Fever with
chills and shivering especially after drinking. Very chilly and sensitive to the slightest
draught of air or uncovering. Feels extremely impatient and irritable.
Pyrogenium: serious flu with severe pains in the back and the limbs and a terri-
ble, bursting headache. Feels beaten and bruised all over. Very restless and feels
better on beginning to move. Chills in the back and the limbs with a thumping heart.
Rhus toxicodendron: flu in cold damp weather. Great restlessness: aching and
stiffness in the joints is worse for first motion, it eases with continued motion and then
they feel weak and have to rest after which they stiffen and have to move again.
Pains are better for warmth. Feels anxious and weepy.
Recovering from the Flu
Kali phosphoricum: weakness after the flu with depression.
China: weakness after a flu with serious fluid loss (through sweating and/or
vomiting). Pale, wan and touchy.
Gelsemium: weakness after the flu. The flu symptoms continue with aching
and dullness.
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About the contributors
in this issue:
Miranda Castro is a British
homeopath, and a Fellow of the
Society of Homeopaths (UK) who
has been living happily in the U.S.
since 1994. She is the author of The
Complete Homeopathy Handbook,
Homeopathy for Pregnancy, Birth,
and Your Baby's First Year, and A
Homeopathic Guide to Stress.
She lives, practices, and teaches
in Gainesville, Florida and can
be reached by email at
email@mirandacastro.com
and through her website at
www.mirandacastro.com
Dr. Timothy R. Dooley is a
graduate of National College of
Naturopathic Medicine as well as
Oregon Health Sciences University
School of Medicine. He practices
homeopathy in San Diego,
California, and teaches at the
Southwest College of Naturopathic
Medicine and Health Sciences. He
is the author of the easy-to-read
introductory book, Homeopathy:
Beyond Flat Earth Medicine. The
complete text can be read on-line
at www.beyondflatearth.com.
For more information, visit www.
drdooley.net. He can be reached
at (619) 297-8641
or drdooley@drdooley.net.
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ear infections
I f you can make simple observations, you can quickly learn enough
homeopathy to practice on the home-health level. You don’t need to be
an expert in anatomy, physiology, or pharmacology. You do need to be able
to observe your child’s symptoms and any changes in them: thirst, skin
color, appetite, mood, discharges, modalities (what makes symptoms bet-
ter or worse), etc. And you need to be able to match these observations
with the symptoms and changes that medicines can cause—and therefore
cure when applied homeopathically.

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N AT I O N A L C E N T E R F O R H O M E O PAT H Y 4
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