Cost effective and side effects free, homeopathy might just be the treatment you need this winter for cold, cough or flu. Homeopathic Master Clinician Sujata Owens will discuss how homeopathy decreases the duration and intensity of symptoms, and how to get you and your family healthy faster. This class will focus on empowering you by learning the basics of how and when to use homeopathic remedies at home.
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1. Colds, Coughs, and the Flu Northfield Community Ed and Rec.
Class Sujata Owens, Homeopathic Master Clinician January 24, 2011
Aah..ah..choo!
2. Evolutionary Changes
We are living in one of the most exciting periods in human
history!
Virtually every aspect of human life is undergoing radical
conceptual change: science, politics, economics, ecology, theatre,
music and
..the field of medicine!
3. Whole Man View
The objectified, materialistic view of the world is widening to
include the energetic plane of existence.
The concept of the whole man is replacing previously fragmented
view of the client as a diagnostic entity.
4. Homeopathy
200 year old scientific health care system.
Offers holistic experience of deep healing for your mental,
emotional and physical complaints.
Homeopathy is gentle, permanent and non-invasive
experience.
5. Homeopathic Medicine
Centuries of searching for a non-toxic and cost-effective
alternative medicine has finally come to completion in the
homeopathic system.
Homeopathy is a systematic science which correctly applies the
laws of nature to stimulate the healing energies of the human
being.
6. An Era of Recalls
FDA recalled many over-the-counter cold medicines for all
pre-school children.
American Academy of Pediatrics state that oral cough and cold
medicines don't work in young children, and pose significant health
risks.
Antibiotic treatment is ineffective for viral infections
(except scarlet fever) and will only add to your stress load.
7. Helps all Stages of Illness
Cold
Cough
Influenza
Ear Infection
Croup
Sore Throat
Asthma
RSV
Fever
Itchy Rashes
Swollen Glands
Pneumonia
Homeopathy is an effective treatment.
8. Our Experience at VFC
At Vital Force Consulting we observe quick recovery without
complications with help of homeopathic remedy suitable to
individual persons state.
9. Which remedies will help?
In general, its important to find the closest possible match
between the persons symptoms and the symptoms of the remedy.
With a flu epidemic, many people will have very similar
symptoms so it is possible to identify key remedies. Your
homeopathic practitioner will be the person to contact for this
information and can guide you.
In addition to the remedy name, there will be a number and
letter on the label, like 30X or 6c or 1M
For your home kits, 30c will be the most useful for
beginners.
10. What are Homeopathic Remedies?
Legally, homeopathic remedies are classified as FDA-approved
drugs.
Made from plants, animals and mineral substances, produced in
FDA-inspected homeopathic pharmacies.
Available from your health practitioners and in health food
stores, co-ops, supermarkets and online.
Remedy pills all look the same: simple white sugar tablets or
round pellets.
Store out of reach of children, pets and away from direct
sunlight, microwaves, computers, and strong smelling
substances.
11. How can Homeopathy Help?
Signs and symptoms of an illness manifest themselves because
the body has been unable to restore balance from its inner
resources and needs helps.
Homeopathic remedies stimulate bodys natural ability to heal
itself.
Well selected and well-matching homeopathic remedy strengthen
the immune system and help restore a state of balance and
well-being
12. Homeo = similar pathos = suffering
Homeopathic practitioners recommend one of the many remedies
from its vast pharmacopoeia based on symptom similarity between
your state and remedy state.
13. Aconite
First stage of any childhood illness that starts suddenly and
is accompanied by a high fever; a runny nose; a hard, dry, croupy
cough; red, sore eyes and/or a sore throat. The onset might begin
with exposure to cold North winds. Rashes burn and itch. Children
are restless, anxious and fearful. They may even say they are
scared of dying. They are generally thirsty for cold water; feel
worse for warmth and at night; better for fresh air and for
uncovering.
14. Antinmonium crudum
Childhood illnesses are accompanied by a tickling cough and
nausea. Children are sulky and extremely irritable, they do not
want to be touched or examined, or even looked at. They have cracks
at the corners of their mouth and/or nostrils. The tongue is white;
as if it has been painted. They are drowsy, thirst less and worse
in a hot room. These children are susceptible to corns, calluses
and warts on their feet.
15. Apis mellifica
The rash is slow to come out, when it does it itches and
stings. Face and eyelids are puffy and red. Affected parts (rash,
glands etc.) are puffy also and itch and sting. Children are
extremely restless, anxious, and clingy and cry out in their sleep.
They are generally thirst less; cannot bear the heat or pressure of
any sort; they do not want to be touched. They have a high fever
with scanty urine, and feel better for cold and cool bathing.
16. Belladona
The violent illness starts suddenly and can be accompanied by
bedwetting; a runny nose; a cough; sore throat; a throbbing
headache and/or burning, dry, red eyes. The head is hot, the face
red and the extremities feel cold. The pupils are dilated, and the
tongue is red with white spots (like a strawberry). The rash is
red, hot, dry, burning and very itchy. Children are restless and
irritable, and delirious with a high, dry fever. With mumps the
glands are hot and swollen and sensitive to touch. They are
generally thirstless (although they may ask for lemonade); feel
worse in the afternoon and cannot bear light, noise or pressure.
They like rest and warmth.
17. Bryonia
Illness is slow to develop; the rash is slow to appear or
doesnt come out fully. There is a hard, dry, painful cough which is
worse for movement, and may be accompanied by a bursting, frontal
headache. Children are irritable and want to be alone; they do not
want to be disturbed or moved. They are generally thirsty for large
quantities (gulp them) at infrequent intervals; and worse for heat;
or movement of any sort.
18. Calcarea phosphoricum
Children are weak and tired after a childhood illness. They are
irritable, hard to please. Enlarged tonsils and adenoids. Colic.
They look pale and anemic and cant wake up in the mornings.
Children grow too rapidly. Headaches, stomachaches in school aged
children are common. They crave the salt of smoked meats, and "fat
bacon. The bones become soft, thin and brittle.
19. Coccus cacti
Whooping cough with a choking, racking, tickling cough.
Coughing fits end in retching and coughing up copious mucous which
hangs in strings. Generally worse for stuffy rooms and around
midnight; better for fresh air.
20. Drosera rotundifolia
Whooping cough (or for cough after measles) with severe,
violent cough with vomiting and nosebleeds. Face may go blue with
each coughing fit with violent paroxysms that follow one another so
rapidly child cannot get breath; . Voice becomes hoarse. The cough
is worse when lying down, after midnight, when talking or laughing;
better for fresh air. Constant titillating cough beginning as soon
as head touches pillow at night; especially in children.
21. Euphrasia
Colds or coughs with very sore, swollen, burning, watery eyes
which are sensitive to the light. Nose streams also but does not
irritate. There may be a harsh, dry cough which is worse in the day
and better when lying down& and a headache which is better once
the rash appears. Keynote is when coryza or allergy is centered
especially in the eyes.
22. Gelsemium
Gradual onset with cold or flu-like symptoms that are
accompanied by a great weariness and heaviness. The eyes are
swollen and watery. Children are generally apathetic and thirstless
and feverish with chills. They feel better after urinating.
Dullness, dizziness and drowsiness are characteristic of someone
needing this remedy.
23. Ipecac
Rashes are slow to come out and there is constant nausea with a
clear, red tongue which isnt helped by vomiting. Cough with nausea
which is dry and comes in fits which end in choking in gagging.
Children are hard to please, generally thirstless and worse from
heat.
24. Treatments for the flu
Use homeopathic remedies
Support your immune system
Nurture your body and soul
Rest, rest and some more rest
25. Flu Pandemic of 1918-1919
26. Time to take action
Call 911 with severe respiratory problems or fever over 103
degrees.
Go to Urgent Care or the ER with severe vomiting and/or
diarrhea which is causing dehydration.
Call your doctor if symptoms persist for more than 24 hours and
sooner if symptoms are severe enough.
Call your homeopathic practitioner.
27. Aconite (Monkshood)
A key remedy to consider when there is simple inflammatory
congestion with severe inflammatory fever, whether or not
accompanied or followed by violent shooting pains in the chest
Anxious, thinks shes about to die
ACUTE onset, SUDDEN and VIOLENT : Especially after exposure to
cold, dry wind or emotional shock or fright
Very restless, Cough is DRY, hoarse, frequent and
suffocating
28. Arsenicum album
Extremely restless yet weak and exhausted.
Anxious, fearful
Thirsty but drinks in sips, small quantities often
White expectoration
Diarrhea after eating or drinking
Nausea on seeing/smelling food
Burning pains
Does not want to be left alone, yet cannot trust anyone.
Very neat, upset by clutter
29. Baptisia
Listless, exhausted and indifferent
Offensive smelling diarrhea
Feels bruised all over, parts rested upon feel sore and bruised
(bed feels hard)
Marked gastro-intestinal symptoms
Looks drowsy and drunk, dull red face, as though may fall
asleep any time
High fever, Flu comes on suddenly.
Painless sore throats and offensiveness of all discharges
The body and limbs feel as if they are scattered
Stupefying headache, with confusion
Client smells bad
Delirium with strange sensations (as if there is somebody else
in their bed)
Profuse sweating, intense thirst
30. Bryonia
Bronchial and going down
Very grumpy, irritable, feels miserable with the flu, wants to
lie still and be left alone
Headache, severe, throbbing, stitching pains.
Muscle aches and cough or stomach pain
Everything worse from even the slightest motion. Wants to lie
still and be left alone.
Mouth is usually dry, with thirst for large quantities of cold
drinks infrequently
Slow onset
Pains (headache, body pains) better from pressure, lies on the
painful part
Dryness everywhere
constipation
Nose bleed
Pneumonia, especially of the right side
Pleurisy (pain on breathing and coughing)
Wants to go home. May be confused and not realize she is at
home.
Talks of business, work.
Better: Pressure, rest
Worse: Any excitement, noise, touch, movement, bright light,
from eating and coughing
31. Dulcamara(Bittersweet)
Eyes are red, throat is sore.
Cough hurts because of muscular soreness. Cough with
expectoration of bright red blood. Oppression of the chest from
excessive mucus, has to cough a long time to expel phlegm
Finds it difficult to talk
Offensive sweat
Brought on by damp, cold changes in the weather. The back and
neck are stiff and the bones ache. Worse for sudden change of
weather and from becoming chilled when hot.
32. Eupatorium perfoliatum
Lots of soreness and aching of the entire body
Hoarseness and cough, with soreness of the larynx and upper
respiratory tract
The cough is shattering , hurts head and chest
Holds the chest with hands during cough
Deep, bone breaking pains
Feels as if run over by a truck, with pain deep in the
bones.
Bursting headache and sore eyes
Thirsty for ice cold water (opposite of Gelsemium) but may
cause vomiting
Chills running up and down the back.
High fever preceded by chills, especially from 7 9 am
Worse: Movement
33. Gelsemium
Dull, dizzy, drowsy, apathetic
Low thirst
Constant chilliness, begins in hands and feet, runs up and down
spine, sits near the heat
Weak, tired with intense aches and muscle soreness throughout
the body
Moderate fever
Cough is hard and painful, paroxysms of sneezing with
excoriating discharge
Feel as if run over by a truck
Slow onset
Sore throat
Bursting headache beginning in the neck, which may extend over
the head to the eyes and forehead; relieved by copious
urination.
Double vision often before or during the headache. Eyelids are
heavy and droopy, cant keep them open.
Fatigue, heaviness and dullness just want to lie in bed
The legs feel weak and shaky
Worse: Early morning and last thing at night, in the sun,
exposure to tobacco smoke
Better: Urination, fresh air.
34. Ipecac
Nausea pronounced with profuse saliva
Vomiting of large quantities white shiny mucous, no relief
Sleepy after vomiting
No thirst
Cough: dry spasmodic, constricted, asthmatic, rattling of
mucous with inhalation
Violent painful breathing, with wheezing and anxiety about the
stomach
Threatened suffocation from mucous
Pain in bones as if all torn to pieces
35. Nux vomica
Great irritability, over sensitivity and impatience
Easily offended and angry
Very chilly. Chilliness on slightest movement, on slightest
exposure to open air--shivering and chilliness for an hour
Dreads to go out into the open air, gets chilled by the
slightest draft
Great coldness not relieved by heat, or bed coverings
Wants to be completely covered
Very sensitive to light, noise and odors
Shivering and chilliness immediately after drinking
Fastidious--wants everything just so
Collapse and fatigue from overwork
Brought on by overdoing (overeating, overwork, drinking,
etc.)
36. Phosphorous
Flu that quickly affects the lungs, especially the base of
the right lung
Lots of coughing and bleeding
Weakness following flu, this is the great post-influenza
"tonic
Bloody sputum, bright red.
Craves cold drinks, which may be vomited when they become warm
in the stomach
Burning, pressure and constriction in the chest
Nose bleed, bright red.
Cough, worse talking and laughing
Worse: Lying on the left side, lying on the painful side
cough).
37. Rhus toxicendron
Severe aching in all the bones
Sneezing and coughing--cough is worse evenings, caused by a
tickling behind the upper part of the sternum.
Useful in cases brought on by exposure to dampness
Lots of weakness and depression
Restlessness especially at night
Stiff and restless, better with movement (worse on first
starting to move, then better)
Red triangle on the tip of the tongue
Intense fever
Thirsty
Great prostration
Weeps without knowing why
Fear of poisoning--may refuse take medicine, thinks it is
poison
Anxiety and fear that are worse at night
38. Oscillococcinum
Made from the heart and liver of a duck because ducks contain
80% of all flu viruses in their digestive tracts.
Most effective if used during the first 48 hours of the start
of flu symptoms.
Follow instructions and directions from the packet.
Stop when you notice improvement and repeat if symptoms come
back.
If you do not notice any improvement within 24-48 hours and
sooner if severe symptoms, you may need to take action by calling
your licensed physician.
39. Homeopathic prophylaxis
Influenzinum 30C :
One popular protocol is to take one dose once a month through
out flu season. Another is once a week for 4 weeks and then repeat
one dose at the end of month through out flu season.
Follow the hand outs from Vital Force Consulting for detailed
instructions.
Constitutional Remedy helps immune system stay strong.
40. Using Homeopathy
It is best to consult with a homeopathic practitioner and
follow a protocol that best matches your symptoms
The goal is to match the intensity and pace of symptoms with
the remedy in order for the homeopathic remedy to help restore
health most effectively, rapidly, and gently
Homeopathic practitioners are trained to match the intensity of
the remedy with the intensity of your symptoms
The benefits of individually matched homeopathic remedies far
exceed over the counter or at home prescriptions
41. Home Management
In general, use remedies of 30C potency every 3 to 6 hours for
up to five doses.
If significant improvement doesn't occur after 24 hours, please
call a homeopathic practitioner and your licensed physician.
If significant improvement occurs in first 24 hours, take an
additional dose only if improved symptoms regress.
For severe or life threatening symptoms, call your licensed
physician or go to the ER.
42. Flu Remedies Available from Vital Force Consulting
Have key remedies on hand
The big kit contains 46 vials of 26 different remedies (some
are in more than one potency)-- $125.00
The small kit contains the 11 remedies covered in this
presentation in 30c potency-- $50.00
Individual 30c remedies are available -- $11.00
43. Vital Force Consulting
Sujata Owens, CCH, RS Hom (NA), Homeopathic Master Clinician,
has been offering cost-effective, safe, and natural homeopathic
approach for healthy mind and body for 23 years in Northfield,
MN.
44. [email_address]
108 E. Third Street Northfield, MN 55057 (Look for my sign
above PanPan on Division Street)