HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES FOR COLDS
Allium Cepa 30 : A streaming cold with much sneezing and watery eyes. Eyes feel burning and smarting and are sensitive to light.The watery discharge from the nose is burning and can make the upper lip and nose raw. All symptoms are better in the open air and person feels worse in the evening and in a warm room.
Mercurius Sol 30: cold with alternating sweats and chills worse at night. Watery discharge. Inflamed throat and glands.
Sweetish, metallic taste in the mouth and you may have mouth ulcers.
Arsenicum Album 30: very restless and anxious, thin watery discharge that burns. Nose is blocked, sneezing without relief. Intense thirst little and often.
Feels better with hot applications, hot food and drink. Worse at night and in cold air.
The head is hot but the body is cold. Maybe feeling a bit breathless from a dry or a wheezing cough.
Pulsatilla 30: this is for colds where there is a lot of congestion and a thick discharge which can be green-yellow.
The nasal congestion tends to be on alternate sides of the nose and is worse inside the house but better in the fresh air. Loss of smell with the cold. Thirstlessness .
The person feels miserable and wants sympathy and comfort.
Nux-Vomica 30: the nose feels blocked but is running at one side. It may alternate between a watery discharge and be blocked.
The discharges tend to flow during the day and in open air but are obstructed at night.
The person may be very irritable with the cold.
There is a lot of abortive sneezing.
Kali-bi 30: this is for thick, stringy, lumpy discharges and congestion at the root of the nose. Tough and elastic plugs.
Complete obstruction of the nose. Sneezing worse in the morning.
Tickling in the larynx with a cough worse when eating.