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Common Winter Ailments - Can Homeopathy Treat It?

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Dr. Rishabh VyasHomeopathy Doctor • 9 Years Exp.BHMS
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The colder temperatures and climate changes that occur during winters are connected with a group of medical issues, which can weaken your body. Herbs, medicines, therapies, healthy diets and lifestyle changes can give helpful results. However, for some, homeopathy conveys quick and long-lasting results to these issues even as they are simple to utilize. Yet, they must necessarily be prescribed by a doctor. Here are a few homeopathic treatments for some of the common winter ailments:

Joint pain or arthritis

  • Actea spicata – Useful when there is pain in the joints and every touch or movement of the bones hurts
  • Apis – Helpful when there is redness and swelling and warmth may cause pain
  • Arnica – One of the best solutions when a patient feels bruising pain. Movement causes a lot of pain in this condition.
  • Bellis perrenis – Works the best when joint pain occurs and increases in the cold and icy wind
  • Berberis vulgaris – Very effective when a patient feels rheumatic pain, which gets more painful from standing or due to any movement

Bronchitis

  • Aconite – Taken when there is pain in the chest from exposure to cold and cool dry winds. It gets worse in the evening and hinders the sleep.
  • Bryonia alba – A cure for dryness of mucous with pain that is frosty
  • Ferrum phos – Helps cure bronchitis in its initial stages, which is more terrible around evening time
  • Opecacuanha – Used to cure bronchitis with rattling of mucous. It is better for the patient to go outdoors and rest. Also he/she may realise this is more regrettable during winters.
  • Phosphorous – Helps cure painful bronchitis with loss of voice or roughness in the throat. The situation might be more terrible at night, from breathing in chilly air.

Chilblains

  • Agaricus – Better for moderate movement, when conditions get worse in the open or chilly air
  • Crot. horridus – When the chilblains are worse in the morning or during soggy, wet climate
  • Hepar sulph – When the blains get worse with the frosty air and leaves water like skin that is saggy

Common Cold

  • Aconite – For colds that happen all of a sudden from icy, dry climate or frosty winds and the condition becomes more terrible during the evening
  • Allium cepa – For colds from icy, soggy climate with harsh nasal release
  • Arsenicum collection – For colds with wheezing and blazing of bodily fluid. They become more awful from chilly or wet climate.
  • Euphrasia – For colds with much thin flat mucous, which get more awful in warm air and at night.

Cough

  • Aconitum napellus – For coughs that happen after exposure to cool and dry chilly winds. The cough increases during the evening, in a warm room or in chilly air.
  • Belladonna – For dry sensitive cough, which is more terrible during the evening and while resting
  • Drosera – Used to treat whooping cough and other uncontrollable coughs, where the patient ends up choking and vomiting
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