HOMEOPATHY FOR WINTER DISEASES
Even though we enjoy wintery mornings and enjoy the cold weather, let us
not forget the repercussions of winter. To enjoy this weather and in good
health some health precautions are needed.
Winter can be a tough time for people who tend to have a weaker immune system.
During winters, the body heat usually experiences a drop as the environment
cools. At the same time the body is adjusting to the new climate. As a result,
the change in the process is demonstrated through a number of diseases. Adults
as well as the children are very susceptible to the change in climate. Children
especially end to be more absent from school and are more prone to catch a lot
of winter related diseases as their immunity is still developing.
During these months we are susceptible to diseases and should know how
to manage ourselves better. Most of the diseases affect both adults and
children.
Let’s take a look at
some common winter woes:
COMMON COLD: The direct result of
the loss of body heat due to an obvious drop in the temperatures leads to cold.
However, one is more likely to catch cold even one keeps switching over warm
and cool environment owing to air conditioners. It’s important to keep ACs at
an even temperature during winter. Prevent this infection by washing your hands
regularly.
FLU: Shield yourself
from chilly winds, wear warm clothes. This illness is airborne and hence beyond
a point there is no control over it.
ITCHY SKIN: A lot of
derm-sensitive people develop itchy skin during winter. Keep your skin
moisturized with petroleum jelly, coconut oil or almond oil regularly.
HEADACHE: Cold winds can
sometimes play havoc on your head. Hence, shield yourself with a warm muffler
or scarf.
SORE THROAT: They are common in
winter and are usually caused by viral infections. Gargle with warm salty
water, it really helps in soothing the throat due to its anti-inflammatory
properties.
ASTHMA: Cold air is a major
trigger of asthma symptoms such as wheezing and shortness of breath. People
with asthma should be especially careful in winter, be regular with your
medicines and keep reliever inhalers close by.
PAINFUL JOINTS: Many people
with arthritis experience painful and stiff joints in winter. Daily exercise
can boost a person’s mental and physical state and thus overall health.
HEART ATTACKS: Heart attacks are more common in winter. This
may be because cold weather increases blood pressure and puts more strain on
the heart. Your heart also has to work harder to maintain body heat when it’s
cold. Stay warm.
BRONCHIOLITIS: Bronchiolitis is a
common viral respiratory infection in young children. It is most frequently
seen in children less than 12 months old. Symptoms include nasal congestion,
cough, low-grade fevers, and wheezing.
PNEUMONIA: Unlike the other common winter illness,
pneumonia is often caused by a bacterial infection. It can present in many
different ways. Sometimes it starts as a cold that just continues to worsen. If
your child has had a cold for several days and suddenly develops a high fever
and worsening cough, this could be a sign of pneumonia and you should seek
medical help.
TONSIL
INFECTION: It causes irritation of the throat, pain in the throat, enlarged
tonsils and the child is unable to gulp food or liquids. Eating anything cold
may trigger this or even a virus or bacteria in the air can cause it. Avoid
feeding your child anything cold when the weather is cold.
ACUTE EAR INFECTION: This leads to ear
pain, blocked ears, itchy Ears. Excessive cold may result into an acute ear
infection. Another cause of bacterial ear infection is due to moisture in the
ear. A ear infection can occur even overnight, so it is best to identify it at
the earliest.
Stay healthy this
season with Homoeopathic medicines. Eat freshly cooked food preferably warm and
choose immunity boosting vegetables to fight off small colds and coughs.
HOMEOPATHY
Homoeopathy today is a rapidly growing system and is being practiced all
over the world. It strength lies in its evident effectiveness as it takes a
holistic approach towards the sick individual through promotion of inner balance
at mental, emotional, spiritual and physical levels. When Winter diseases are
concerned there are many effective medicines available in Homoeopathy, but the
selection depends upon the individuality of the patient, considering mental and
physical symptoms.
Homoeopathic medicines are effective both for controlling and preventing
winter diseases.
ALUMINA
Alumina is prescribed for skin symptoms worse in winter. Red rhagades on
hands, worse in winter and from washing.
AMMONIUM BROMATUM
Ammonium bromatum is indicated for fever troubled with cold in winter.
Must warm feet even in warm room.
AMMONIUM CARBONICUM
Ammonium carb is prescribed for cold in
winter season. Catch cold easily in winter. Profuse watery coryza. Discharge of
sharp, burning water. Stoppage of nose at night with long continued coryza.
Cannot breathe through nose. Snuffles of children. Ammonium carb is suited to
overweight persons, scrofulous children and stout and sedentary women.
ARGENTUM NITRICUM
Argentum nitricum is indicated for violent pain in chest and shoulders
pressing inward, returning every winter.
ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA
Asclepias tuberose is effective of diarrhea in winter. Diarrhea worse in
winter. Stool with a feeling as stream of fire passing through abdomen. Stools
like white of eggs , yellow, green, clammy, enveloped in froth like moss.
Stools smell like rotten eggs or burn like fire.
BISMUTHUM
Bismuthum is prescribed, where headache returning in winter season.
Cutting or pressure above right orbit extending to occiput. Headache alternates
with stomach pain.
BRYONIA ALBA
Bryonia alba is prescribed for cough during the winter season. Cough ,
which is dry, or mucus very difficult to cough out. The
patient experiences severe chest pain during coughing. Cough worse from motion,
and better when taking rest. There is an increased thirst for large quantities
of water. Inflammatory rheumatism in winter
CASTOR EQUI
Castor equi is prescribed, where the person dreams of fruit
hanging on trees in winter.
CHAMOMILLA
Chamomilla is best for cough in winter. Cough and hoarseness with
rattling mucus trachea, especially during winter. Rough, scraping cough of
children in winter with tickling in supra sterna fossa, worse at
night. Cough worse at 9-12 p.m during sleep, does not wake up the
child. Hot coryza with obstruction of nose inability to sleep.
DOLICHOS PRURIENS
Dolichos is indicated for itching in winter. Itching without eruption.
Itching first on feet, every winter higher up, after 7 years reaches hip and
abdomen. Itching, worse at night. Itching with liver problems.
FLOURIC ACID
Flouric acid is prescribed, where sensation of increased ability to
exercise his muscles without fatigue. Flouric acid is less affected by
excessive heat in summer or in cold weather.
GELSEMIUM SEMP.
Gelsemium is indicated for flu symptoms during winter season. There is
running nose, which is bland and sneezing accompanied by pain in eyes and head.
The patient may also experience weakness, dizziness, and drowsiness. There is
frequent and violent chilliness up and down the back, face flushed and dark
red. Aching pain in muscles. No thirst, but severe headache is a leading
symptom. Hoarseness with dryness of throat, burning in larynx, descending into
trachea. Cough from tickling and dryness of fauces. Sensation of soreness in
chest when coughing.
HEPAR SUPHURIS
Hepar sulph is indicated for loss of voice and cough in winter or when
exposed to dry, cold wind. Cough excited when any part of the body gets cold or
uncovered. Whitlows occurring on upper limbs every winter for
several years is another symptom of Hepar sulph
KALI BROMATUM
Kali bromatum is best for slightly elevated, smooth, red patches like
urticaria , but with hardened bases like erythema nodosum , especially in winter. Itching
worse at night in bed and in high temperature.
KALI BICHROMICUM
Kali bichromicum is prescribed for winter complaints with complete nasal
obstruction, worse in the cold, better with heat, accompanied by a nasal tone
of voice and thick, stringy mucus.
KREOSOTUM
Kreosotum is indicated for violent winter cough of old people, with
spasmodic turns at night, and very copious light coloured mucous sputa. Also
pain or pressure referable to sternum.
NUX VOMICA
Nuxica vomica is effective for stuffy colds, snuffles after exposure to
dry, cold atmosphere, worse in warm room. Coryza, fluent in day time, stuffed
up at night or alternates between nostrils. Sneezing, violent, abortive from
intense crawling in nostrils. Acrid discharge, but with stuffed up feeling. Difficulty
in breathing.
PETROLEUM
Petroleum is one of the top remedies for skin complaints during winter
season. Deep cracks appear in folds, nipples, finger tips etc. Scaly eruptions
on hand in winter. Dirty, hard, rough, thickened skin like
parchment. Ulcers in winter. Skin gets raw, festers or won’t heal,
worse in folds. Slightest scratch makes skin suppurate. Thick, greenish,
crusts, burning and itching, redness, raw, cracks bleed easily. Eczema in
winter. Chilblains, moist, itch and burn, become purple.
PSORINUM
Psorinum is another top remedy for winter complaints of skin. Eruption appears
around toes and finger nails in winter. Skin dirty, scabby, greasy, breaks out
in folds. Intolerable itching is another character which is worse from heat of
bed. Herpetic eruptions, especially on scalp and bends of joints with itching.
Eczema behind ears. Excrescences disappear in summer, only to occur again in
winter. All skin complaints are worse in winter.
RHUS TOXICODENDRON
Rhus tox is indicated for inflammatory rheumatism worse in winter.
Slight hacking cough in winter.
RUMEX CRISPUS
Rumex is a remedy for cough in winter. Cough originally produced by cold
air during winter. Cough worse by laying down, and especially 11 o’clock at
night. Cough is excited by tickling behind the sternum and attended by a sprain
like aching near sternum and with accumulation of mucus in fauces near the
posterior nares.
SEPIA OFFICINALIS
Sepia is another winter remedy, where
catarrh every winter with violent coughing; after being in a draft cough
tormenting and dry. Severe orthopnoea, had to sit straight up day and night,
with horrible anxiety about a rattling in chest, with soreness as if raw on
chest. The person fears to suffocate.
STANNUM METALLICUM
Stannum met is a remedy of constipation
appearing every Monday or on days after a fete, but only in winter, while the
rest of the week the stools were regular. There is fullness in lower part of
abdomen, with swelling, malaise, great heat in head, better in open air, returning
in house, with ill-humour and sadness. The person felt hungry at noon but no
appetite in evening.
STAPHYSAGRIA
Staphysagria is indicated for croupy
cough in winter, alternating with sciatica in summer. Cough drove him out of
bed compelling him to sit up all night, could not breath while lying down.
Sensation as if something were loose in pit of stomach, like loose flesh, that
pulled every time he coughed. Cough excited by tobacco smoke.
SULPHUR
Sulpjur is prescribed, where deafness
and surging noise in right ear in winter , worse on excitement or moving.
Rheumatism in winter, worse warm in bed; at night, pain in face, comes on 11 to
12 p.m. Headache, worse in winter. Ulcer of more than two years on
duration on left leg, above outer malleolus, as large as a quarter dollar, with
areola much swelled, very hard, dull purplish red, stinging pains, scanty
discharge. Before appearance of ulcer had much rheumatism, better in winter,
worse before a storm. Feet hot at night, keeps them out of bed.
SYPHILLINUMSyphillinum is
indicated for chronic asthma in summer, especially when the weather was warm
and damp; most frequently in evening, passing off at daybreak; soreness of
chest, with great anguish and inability to retain a recumbent position. In
Winter severe bronchial cough succeeded asthmatic attacks. A regular type of
chills and fever developed; suffered from this many years before. Cold pain in legs.
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