This week, lets look at how to prevent flu if you regularly succumb to it. It’s worth mentioning here, that everyone has their own achilles heel. Yours may not be your respiratory system. Your weakness may lie elsewhere. So if you don’t have a history of getting colds bad enough to send you to bed, or bad bouts of flu, I suggest your weakness doesn’t lie here.
Which means its pointless taking a flu preventative.
However, if you do have a tendency to bad colds or flus, then I suggest you get a supply of a great remedy called Anas barb. For non French speakers this translates as barbery duck. This remedy has been made from the internal organs of the barbery duck.
Although homeopathic remedies contain no trace of the original substance, relying instead on its energy, vegans may not wish to take this remedy. It’s also noteworthy to know that homeopathic remedies are rarely made from the products of a dead animal, except with insects. Mostly remedies made from animals come from a discharge or their milk.
More over, the endless supply of a remedy will come from the original stock remedy. So only those original ducks are the source of this remedy.
Anas barb is the exception. It was made in France, by a group of homoeopaths who connected seasonal flu with birds.
So lets get into this remedy.
Generally it’s only available in the 200c potency. Again, an oddity in homeopathy. Which means you need to exercise a little caution here. Don’t treat it like a lower potency and happily swig away at it.
To prevent flu, the recommended dose is once a fortnight. However, as homoeopaths are very aware of individualising, I suggest you learn to work out what is the best dose for you.
To do that, you can also take it at the first sign of a cold. It generally won’t work to help a full blown cold or flu. But it will at the start.
So let’s suppose you’ve been taking the remedy once a fortnight, but you have been around people with colds or the flu and know the signs when you are affected. So you’ve been taking additional doses at these times, to good effect. You notice that you’ve actually been having a dose every week.
That may be you optimum dosage, during the cold and flu season.
Maybe you have been taking the remedy once a fortnight, and have been around people with bad colds and flu, but haven’t been affected at all. In your case, dosing every three or even four weeks, during the season, may be your optimum dose.
Play around a bit and see what suits you best. But don’t overdo it.
This remedy is also called Oscillococcinum, Oscillo for short. Why it’s called that is a bit too complicated to go into here.
If you feel a cold or flu coming on, you can take more of the remedy, as long as each dose gives you some relief. That may be every few hours. Then the relief wears off, so dose again.
Oscillo is a great flu remedy for some people. Again, we come back to the homeopathic approach to individualising people.
So it will heal flu (or any other disorder) if you have some of the following symptoms along with the normal eye and nose discharges and general low energy:
- bursting headache
- muscle ache
- sensitive to the cold
- sensitive to barometric changes in the weather
- gastro intestinal symptoms
- bronchial congestion, perhaps with a cough
- paleness
- painful ears, may be like needles
Not a remedy I recommend regular cold or flu suffers to be without.
It’s worth mentioning here that classical homoeopaths don’t adhere to the principle in preventing sickness, but to deal with it as it arises. While there is merit in this approach, we live in today’s world with it’s warped view on health and sickness. Therefore, I feel it is necessary to help prevent disease in an holistic, do-no-harm way, to those who wish it.
