Minutus

The cold season is coming around in full force. let me relate an old medical
school joke that we used to tell the nurses about strep throat. When treated
with penicillin, strep throat will go away in about 7 days; if left
untreated it'll go away in about a week.

This type of comments I use to listen from people about homeopathy. They say
taking homeopathic medicines are same as not taking any medicine. If you
take medicine for coryza then you need 7 days to cure and if you don't take
any homeopathic medicine then you need a week to cure.

What do you say about the idea that homeopathic medicine are nothing but are
spiritual medicine and you know we don't know any thing about spiritual
medicine.
007

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Read the cases that have recently been shared on this list. I think they
reply to this remark better than anything else that could be said.

on 10/13/03 12:18 PM, Homeo Bond 007 at homeobond007@hotmail.com wrote:

At 5:18 PM +0000 10/13/03, Homeo Bond 007 wrote:

Colds are one the hardest things to treat with homeopathy. Most of
the general cold symptoms are very indeterminate and are, therefore,
useless in finding a remedy.

Personally, I have found that unless I can select a good
characteristic symptom for a cold, I'll suffer through it-- because
all I do is chase it with remedies, unsuccessfully, for seven
days....

BUT... I've aborted colds within a day when the characteristic
symptom presents itself...

Sudden onset after exposure to cold= aconite
Onset after emotional upset (like finding house was burgled)= acon/ opium
Onset after grief (friend dies)= Ignatia
Onset as exams at school come up= gelsemium

And once the cold is "settled" I've stopped it with:

Nux= anger, short temper, shivering under covers when moving
Rhus tox = red triangular tip of tongue, restless
Pulsatilla = symptoms of nose cease when going outdoors

I even stopped a post-nasal drip at the end with Eupatorium based on
the symptom, "Cough relieved by getting on hands and knees."

So if you can find a solid characteristic, it will stop it dead in its tracks.
If you can't, it's only a cold. Slow down, drink hot stuff, read a
good book, and wait for a good characteristic symptom to appear.

JW