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eyes/ears/nose/throat
rhinitis/common cold
homeopathy

remedy differential

Aconitum napellus: best remedy at onset, feverish with dryness and tingling in the nostrils; restlessness
Aesculus: dryness of posterior nares and throat; sneezing, followed by severe coryza; stinging and burning pain, dull frontal headache; thin watery discharge, sensitive to inhaled air, mucus drops down and causes choking
Allium cepa: excoriating discharge from nose and bland discharge from eyes; sensation as if hooks were in the larynx, < in a warm room
Ammonium carbonicum: dry stuffed coryza, < at night; breathes with mouth open; inability to blow the nose
Arsenicum album: thin watery discharge from the nose with irritation and sneezing; restlessness
Arsenicum iodatum: frequent sneezing, copious watery nasal discharge that burns the lips; burning watery discharge from the eyes like ars. but < in warm room and > in open air and cold application
Belladonna: smell acute, at other times dull; frequent sneezing; tickling, esp. in left nostril; one side stopped; suppressed catarrh with maddening headache
Bryonia: nose blocked with congestion in the head; cannot breathe through the nose; dry cough with pain in the chest; excellent remedy for flu
Benzoicum acidum: seems to smell dust, cabbage or something stinking; coldness in head from every exposure to cold; sneezing with lightness of head and hoarseness
Carbo vegetabilis: watery discharge with irritation extending into chest accompanied by hoarseness and rawness
Causticum: hoarseness and catarrhal aphonia; frequent sneezing with pains in chest; fluent coryza with pain in chest and limbs; itching of tip of nose and alae, as well as inside; rawness and burning under sternum
Eupatorium perfoliatum: coryza with aching in every bone; lassitude; fluent coryza with sneezing and hoarseness; weight over head and forehead, nose and eyes both streaming with water at intervals
Euphrasia: reverse of all-c., the discharge from the eyes is acrid whereas from the nose is bland
Ferrum phosphoricum: it is specific for colds at early stages; use 30C
Gelsemium: bland discharge from the nose which is thick; sneezing; headache, chilliness in the back and aching pains
Graphites: frequent discharge of thick, yellowish, fetid pus from nose; painful dryness of nose, bleeding of nose; periodical attacks of fluent coryza, with continual stoppage and breathing through the mouth; dullness and heat in head, face, esp. the nose; soreness of larynx with tickling cough, obstruction of nose with badly smelling slime, sometimes discharge of bloody mucus
Hepar sulphur: after partial relief from merc-s., generally when every breath of cold air causes a new attack of catarrh or headache, or when it remains confined to one nostril and headache < by motion; nose swollen and sore to touch, sensation when swallowing as something sticking in throat
Kali carbonicum: opening up of the nose in open air with burning and headache which is very severe; the nose stuffs up in warm room; headache disappears when the discharge appears
Kali iodatum: nose red and swollen externally, discharge cool (ars. hot), irritating, acrid, watery; tightness at root of nose, < least cold; chilliness alternating with feverishness; rheumatic pains, < evening, preceded by chilliness
Lachesis: coryza preceded for one or two days by a feeling of soreness, rawness and scraping in the throat; excessive sneezing; extremely copious watery mucus; swelling and soreness of the nares and lips; plugs in the nostrils; instead of discharge, obstruction of the nose, ill-humor; inability to drink, intense throbbing headache relieved as soon as coryza is established
Lycopodium: catarrh of nose and frontal sinuses, discharge yellow, thick; frontal headache, yellow complexion, nose swollen, discharge acrid, posterior nares dry, nose stopped at the root, breathes with open mouth and protruding tongue, especially at night; burning headache when shutting eyes
Mercurius corrosivus: nasal catarrh thick, acrid and glue like, excoriating
Natrum arsenicosum: dull supraorbital headache, feeling of fullness of head and face; eyes heavy and at times soreness of eyeballs, burning of eyes and congestion of conjunctiva; watery discharge from one or both nostrils, or stoppage of nose; dry cough, < mornings, must breathe with mouth open at night
Natrum carbonicum: violent sneezing, profuse discharge of rather thin white mucus,
< from least exposure to air or removing an article of clothing; loss of smell and taste; nose stopped up at night, < on alternate days, > after sweats (merc. < after sweat); removes disposition to catch cold
Natrum muriaticum: catarrh of frontal sinuses with neuralgic pains, involving the sinus and eye, often extending down to the cheek-bone, with puffiness of the eyes, < when moving the eye, especially when looking downward; squirming in the right nostril as of a small worm; sneezing < undressing at night, or rising in the morning; loss of smell and taste; great liability to catch cold; discharge of clear mucus alternating with stoppage of nose; hoarseness and tickling cough; nose sore and interior swollen, fever-blisters
Nitricum acidum: coryza, especially when associated with some malignant disease, as scarlatina of diphtheria; discharge watery, offensive, excoriating every part it touches; fetor in throat, with sensation of a splinter there
Nux vomica: stuffing up of the nose in a warm room
Phosphorus: coryza fluid or dry; dullness of head; sleepiness, esp. during the day and after meals; blowing blood from the nose; frequent sneezing; dry crust adhering firmly; profuse discharge flowing down into fauces; neck swollen, eyes staring, cold begins in chest and runs up nose (ars. nose first, runs down chest)
Phytolacca: total obstruction of the nose, when riding, so that he has to breathe through the mouth, not relieved by blowing the nose, flow of mucus from one nostril, while the other is stopped; thin watery discharge from the nostrils, increasing until the nose is stopped up, mucus discharged with difficulty, constant hawking
Pulsatilla: coryza fluid or dry; loss of taste and smell; nostrils sore, wings raw, later yellow-green discharge, < in-doors; chilliness, face pale, head confused, frontal headache; chronic, thick yellow, bland discharge or later yellow, green and offensive
Rhus toxicodendron: copious coryza with redness and edema of throat; severe aching in bones; sneezing, dry cough, < from evening till midnight, and from uncovering body
Rumex crispus: dull headache < by motion; sore feeling in eyes, without any external sign of inflammation; fluent coryza; painful irritation in nostrils; violent and rapid sneezing; feeling of dryness in posterior nares; cough excited by tickling in throat-pit and < by least current of air; hoarseness
Sabadilla: hay fever, coryza, with severe frontal pains and redness of eyelids, violent sneezing, and copious watery discharge from nose and eyes
Sanguinaria: post-nasal catarrh; chronic bronchitis and laryngitis
Sepia: dry coryza, nostrils sore, swollen, ulcerated and scabby, discharging large green plugs; very sensitive;to noise, music and odors, smell of cooking nauseates
Silicea: nasal catarrh due to suppression of foot sweat
Squilla: nasal discharge fluent and corrosive; absence of sweat; internal chilliness with external heat, or intense heat followed by chilliness and soon as patient uncovers; painful stitches in different parts of chest; loose morning cough, more fatiguing than dry evening cough
Staphysagria: violent coryza, one nostril is stuffed up; much sneezing and lacrimation; with nasal voice, dull feeling in head, with inability to perform any mental labor
Sticta pulmonaria: excessive dryness of the nasal mucous membrane, which becomes painful; secretions dry; rapidly forming scabs difficult to dislodge, swallowing painful, from dryness in the throat, < at night; incessant sneezing; burning in the eyes; dull frontal headache, with feeling of fullness at the root of nose; hard, dry barking cough
Sulphur: profuse discharge of burning water, fluent burning coryza out-doors, nose stopped up in-doors; frequent sneezing; discharge of blood from the nose on blowing; loss of smell, soreness and ulceration of nostrils


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