some suggestions for acute Viruses:
for those of you that have the 36 or 42 Remedy kit you are well covered. I have been communicating with Homeopaths all over the world and here are some of the main remedies that have come up:
Gelsemium: # 1 Flu remedy
Exhausting influenza, overall weakness
Muscle aching throughout body
Pressing headache across forehead and back of head
Dizziness as if drunk
Extremely dull and weak, thinking is an effort
Profuse urination and perspiration
Chills up and down the spine
No thirst even during Fever
Bryonia:
Cold or infection that comes on slow
Remarkable dryness with heat, chapped lips
All symptoms are worse for any kind of motion
Extremely irritable patient that wants to be alone
Bursting, splitting headaches
Chest infections, dry hard cough
Stiff neck and back pains, feels better for lying on painful part
Joint pain, red, hot and swollen
Constipation with dry hard stools
Great thirst for cold drinks
Eupatorium
Deep bone aching, feels as if the bones are broken
the patient is restless but doesn’t find any relief from moving around. very little perspiration
Alternating chills and heat with great thirst
Nausea, drinking water makes the nausea worse
Loose cough with very painful chest
Vertigo and headaches
Arsenicum:
Great remedy for people that have a lot of fear, fear that they are going to die from the illness
Tremendous Restlessness
External coldness with extreme internal heat
Unquenchable thirst with craving for cold water
Convulsive spasmodic cough with constriction in the larynx
Irritation in the air passage from trachea
Watery burning discharge from the nose
Watery burning diarrhea