3 medicines for cough

Aconite- Aconite is indicated in sudden attack of cough and cold from exposure to dry cold wind; Dry, hoarse, suffocating cough with loud labored breathing; Grasps the throat every time he coughs; Cough dry, short, hacking, worse in the evening and at night; Cough on inspiration; blood comes up with hawking; tingling in chest after cough; larynx very sensitive to touch; feverish feeling or there may be high temperature.

Bryonia- The cough of bryonia is generally dry and concussive; it seems to come from the region of stomach, and is preceded by a tickling in the epigastrium; During the cough the patient holds the sides of the chest with his hands, as the cough not only shakes the chest, but also hurts distant parts of the body; Cough is worse while eating, drinking, laughing, walking and when attempting to take deep breath; Great thirst for large quantities of cold water at longer interval.

Antim tart- Antim tart is a very good medicine for catarrhal conditions of trachea and bronchial tubes; The chest is full of mucus; cough is of rattling type but the mucus does not come up or only a small quantity comes up; attacks of cough during sleep; patient want to be supported in bed in a sitting posture, generally relieved by expectoration of phlegm; Expectoration is frothy, white, mixed with blood; Cough and dyspnoea attended with prostration, sweat, pallor, coldness and blueness of face; Great sleepiness or irresistible desire to sleep; Patient is thirstless.

3 medicines for Cold

Aconite- When the attack comes on suddenly after an exposure to cold, dry wind, with chilliness, followed by fever, Aconite will be the remedy. It should be administered just as soon as the patient realizes that he is taking cold. There is yet no discharge, but from the congestion the nose is swollen, hot, and dry and stopped up, and this stoppage is apt to change from side to side; there is tingling and burning in the nose and a throbbing frontal headache; there may be sneezing also. These symptoms are all better in the open air.

Allium cepa- One of our best medicines for cold in the head; The discharge is profuse, thin and acrid, with great smarting in the nose and eyes; Under Allium the edges of the eyelids burns and the eyes are red and sensitive to light; The nasal discharge is thin and flows constantly, excoriates the upper lips, and there is prolonged sneezing; A peculiarity of Allium is that the discharge ceases when the patient goes into the open air, but returns when entering a warm room again; If there be a splitting laryngeal cough, causing the patient to wince and crouch with pain, it is all the more indicated.

Gelsemium- It will cure a cold at the beginning quicker than any other medicine with these indications- Fullness of the head, fever and chilliness, as if a cold were coming on; The patient is dull and weak, chills run up and down the back, with a watery, excoriating, or bland discharge from the nose and sneezing; Colds brought on by warm relaxing weather especially indicate Gelsemium, hence it seems to be most useful in spring and summer weather, and corresponds well to some epidemic colds; There is a predisposition to take cold on any change of weather; It has been found specially useful in influenzas with fever; It is a remedy that must be used early in cold.

Role of Homeopathy in Bronchitis

Bronchitis is an infection of the bronchial tubes that carry air from your throat to your lungs. When infected, bronchial tubes become inflamed, making it difficult to breath, and produce mucus which causes coughing. Other symptoms may include a slight fever, sore throat, muscle pain when breathing, and wheezing. It is even possible, during acute bronchitis, to cough so hard that the explosive vacuum you create in your lungs can crack or otherwise hurt your ribs, which makes further coughing even more painful.

Bronchitis can be either chronic or acute. Acute bronchitis is often the result of a cold or flu, in which case it is said the cold 'turned into bronchitis'. Acute bronchitis is most often caused by a virus, rather than bacteria, so taking antibiotics will probably not help, although doctors often prescribe them because their patients insist.

Acute bronchitis will usually go away on its own. The best treatment is bed rest and fluids. Because bronchitis causes the buildup of mucus, an expectorant cough syrup can help thin down the mucus and make it easier to cough up. Drinking fluids will also help with this, as well as replace the fluids you lose to the infection. See your doctor if you are still having symptoms after two weeks - you may have another respiratory problem.

The best way to avoid acute bronchitis is the same way you would try to avoid a cold. Wash your hands often, disinfect as necessary during cold season, and avoid crowded or confined spaces if there's 'something going around'.

Chronic bronchitis is a condition most often seen in smokers. This is a more permanent inflammation of the bronchial tubes caused by the irritation of cigarette smoke. Chronic bronchitis is like an on-going, less severe case of acute bronchitis. The bronchial tubes are always slightly inflamed, mucus is always being produced, and the result is the 'smoker's hack'. The best cure for chronic bronchitis is to stop smoking, but if that is unworkable for you, cutting down can reduce the stress on your bronchial tubes and allow them to recover somewhat.

Homeopathic Medicines:
Belladonna- Belladonna suits cases of bronchitis with a violent fever, short, dry, continual, distressing cough, worse at night and on lying down, where the breathing is irregular and hurried, no expectoration, or if present, it is apt to be blood streaked, fullness in chest without any pain, the skin is hot and inclined to moisture; there is a tendency to drowsiness, the patient does not sleep, but dozes in semi conscious manner and starts frequently. The cough is spasmodic and the child cries after each paroxysm.

Phosphorus- Especially to sub acute cases in delicate, tall, slender, overgrown or phthisical subjects. Every cold settles in chest when coughing; Sense of heaviness and constriction in the chest; Paralytic weakness of lungs; Cough worse from laughing, talking, eating, drinking and when lying on right side; Expectoration is copious, bloody, rust colored, frothy but becomes thick, yellow and sweetish later on; Pain in sternum when coughing; whole body shakes and trembles with cough; great thirst for icy cold water; burning in chest and spine.

Antim Tart- This remedy corresponds to two stages of bronchitis, an early one and a late one. In the beginning of capillary bronchitis in young infants, or in old people, this remedy is very effective; there is sub-crepitant rales throughout the chest, wheezing, the cough sounds loose, but no phlegm is raised; in children’s the cough is infrequent, and the child becomes drowsy, the respiration is superficial, requiring labored efforts of the respiratory muscles, and vomiting of food and mucous may be present; the patients own mucous secretions drown him.

3 Medicines for Asthma

Ipecac- This is very effective remedy for asthma, especially to the spasmodic variety where the symptoms are great weight and anxiety about the chest; sudden wheezing, dysponoea, threatening suffocation aggravated by motion; the cough causes gagging and vomiting. The cough is constant, the chest seems full of phlegm, yet none is expectorated, and the extremities are covered with cold perspiration.

Arsenic Alb- The symptoms of asthma aggravates just after midnight in arsenic patients; the patient is anxious and restless, he cannot lie down for the fear of suffocation. There is anxiety and general sweat, and burning pain and soreness of chest. It is especially the remedy if the disease is chronic and the dyspnoea is dry & habitual. There is thirst for small quantity of water in short intervals. The asthma of arsenic is accompanied by great debility and burning in the chest, and is especially useful in anemic persons.

Natrum Sulph- Its general symptoms are worse on change to damp weather; moist asthma with a great deal of rattling in the chest; looseness of bowels after each attack; the attacks generally comes on 4 or 5 O’clock in the morning with cough with copious greenish expectoration; good medicine for asthma of hay fever; another symptom of natrum sulph which is characteristic is that the patient must sit up and hold the chest with the hands during the attack.