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Homeopathic Cough Medicines
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When you educate yourself about possible treatments for a cough, you will find yourself reaching for a treatment that is safe and gentle for children, adults and the elderly. With the correctly chosen remedy, treatment with Homeopathic remedies helps your immune system, and does not suppress your illness
Homeopathy requires and demands that you pay very close attention to the distinguishing characteristics of the cough. This will lead you to the best possible remedy which can alleviate your symptoms without suppressing the cough, and possibly driving the disease further into your body.
Contact Carol Ann Hastings, Homeopathic Physician (see website contact info) should you require more information, or your cough is associated with other symptoms.
NOTE: Seek medical advice if the coughing is accompanied by high fever, chest pain, or bloody sputum or lasts longer than a week or so.
A few commonly indicated Homeopathic rx’s.
The following homeopathic medicines are frequently indicated for uncomplicated acute coughs. Once the medicine has been selected, try taking it in the 30c (or X) potency, one dose every three to four hours until clear improvement is noted, usually within 12–24 hours. If the remedy hasn’t helped within that time frame, try a different remedy. IMPORTANT: STOP TAKING THE RX ONCE YOUR SX ARE BETTER.
Bryonia (wild hops). The keynote for this remedy is aggravation from motion, however slight. The person may hold their chest when coughing to keep it from moving.
- dry cough
- Painful chest
- Stitching pains when coughing and moving.
- May also be worse after eating or drinking
- Worse on entering a warm room
- Worse after a deep breath
- Headaches from cough or motion may occur
- Pains are better from pressure
- Thirsty, irritable, and wanting to be alone.
Nux vomica (poison nut).
Keynote for Nux Vomica coughs are extreme irritability, aversion to answering any questions or communicating.
- Head colds descend to the chest and produce coughing that is typically dry and teasing
- Exposure to dry, cold weather aggravates.
- The cough is often worse after eating and better from warm drinks.
- Usually very chilly
- Chills result from motion and uncovering.
- Coughing will cause headache.
- The cough may cause headache.
Hepar sulphuris (calcium sulphide).
The key to this remedy are people who are also intensely irritable and extremely chilly. (more so than Nux vomica)
- Cough is more moist, with rattling of mucus in the chest.
- The throat may be sensitive to touch, with a splinter-like pain.
- The larynx may be painful, worse from cough and from swallowing food.
- Can be effective remedy for croupy coughs that are worse after 4 a.m.
Phosphorus (phosphorus).
Key notes for the Phosphorous cough is a strong thirst for cold drinks, are often chilly and anxious and they do not want to be alone.
- Cough is dry and tight, and often there is a pronounced sense of oppression of the chest.
- Worse from laughing
- Worse from talking
- Worse lying on left side
- Worse exposure to open air and changes in temperature
- Worse when going from cool outside air to a warm room or vice versa.
- Sputum may taste salty or sweet, or appear rusty.
Causticum (potassium hydrate).
Worse from bending head forward.
- Raw, hoarse cough, that is often associated with laryngitis.
- Highly characteristic is the difficult expectoration of mucus; one can’t cough deeply enough to dislodge the mucus or must swallow it.
- Often the person has urinary incontinence with the cough.
- The cough is relieved by cold drinks.
Rumex crispus (yellow dock).
Worse from bending head backward.
- The cough is due to a tickle in the throat pit (the soft indentation immediately above the breast bone).
- It is very much worse from cold air and better from warmth and covering up.
- The cough may be dry or associated with tough mucus; coughing may be worse from bending the head backward.
- (A Causticum patient is worse from bending the head forward.)
Kali carbonicum (potassium carbonate).
- The cough is worse at 3 a.m.
- Intense cutting pains in the chest when breathing.
Pulsatilla (wind flower).
The Pulsatilla patient is intolerant of heat, wants to have the window open, and is thirstless, sensitive, sometimes weepy and wanting love and attention.
- The cough in Pulsatilla cases is moist; the mucus is yellow-green
- Much worse from warmth and better from open air.
- Cough may also be loose in the morning and dry in the evening
- Typically worse on first lying down at night, calming down as the night advances.
Sulphur (sulphur).
Pains of the Sulphur patient are burning type sensations.
- This remedy is often useful for coughs that linger.
- Worse all night long.
- The patient wants the window open.
- They may have local burning sensations of heat, such as burning sensations in the chest, head, or face.
- The patient is often hungry and thirsty
- He may put his feet out of the covers at night.
- Look for the telltale unusual redness of the lips.
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