IS IT A COLD OR ALLERGIES? HOW IMPORTANT IS DIAGNOSIS?

I know the question sounds crazy, but in an acute situation proper treatment with homeopathic medicine is based on symptoms, rather than the ‘modern’ system of diagnosis.

When symptoms set in with great rapidity and develop with extreme intensity, the ‘go-to’ remedy is Aconitum (more commonly known as Aconite.) This remedy will quickly begin to relax the body and also to adjust the emotional anguish that starts to grip the mind when illness strikes. It does not matter if the symptoms are brought on by an allergy attack, or the common cold.

If your eyes are tearing, your nose is running and you are sneezing, the remedy is Allium Cepa. The remedy works equally as well if the symptoms are due to a cold or from hay fever.

If you have violent sneezing attacks, watery nasal discharge and a tickling in your nose with irritating discharge, the remedy is Sabadilla. As you see, these can be cold symptoms, as well as being caused by allergies.

I think you are getting the point.

Whenever a client contacts me and says, “I have a cold, what should I take?” my answer is always the same…I need specific symptoms in order to suggest a remedy that will bring relief. Later we sort out if this is a cold or something more chronic.

So how do we sort it out? Usually by observing the duration and inquiry into the frequency of the illness. If it occurs every year at the same time when the cactus bloom, we know it is more than the common cold.

I was visited by a Mom with her baby in toe. She said she had a sinus infection brought on by a cold. When I investigated further she said she seemed to now be getting a cold every year at this time. As the conversation continued it was apparent that she was not getting colds from a lowered immune system, or from going through pregnancy, as she suspected. What she did exhibit was a pattern that coincided with seasonal allergies. Not being native to the U.S. she also mentioned she did not have this issue in her home land.

Now I knew she needed more long-term treatment for seasonal allergies. We started her on Sanguinaria 30c potency for her immediate symptoms and added Calcarea Carbonica 200c, every other day for an extended period of time to begin to relieve the chronic allergies.

The point of this blog post is to expand the concept of homeopathy as symptom driven remedies. If your child has a fever in the middle of the night, observing their specific symptoms will lead you to the correct remedy.

Homeopathy can be magical in helping the body to reset. We just need to pay attention to the symptoms that direct us to the correct natural substance the body needs at that time to rebalance.