If you’re in the Southern hemisphere, it’s getting chilly. So it’s a great time to start thinking about homeopathy for winter ailments. We love homeopathy for cough and cold support, flu remedies, and immune boosting remedies over the cooler months. Homeopathy is a wonderful natural health alternative to help pre-empt winter illness, as well as treat it as it unfolds.

So when the days begin to get shorter, and the nights cooler, a little forward thinking here goes a long way. I like to prepare my family coming into Winter with a full suite of winter-related homeopathy and other natural solutions on hand. We can seldom get away without sickness over winter, but having homeopathy for cough and cold symptoms in all its various guises at your fingertips can mean you can act swiftly to follow those symptoms as they present. Potentially, preventing more significant illness from setting in.

Watch my latest video or keep reading below, to see my recommendations for homeopathy for cough and cold prevention and moving through various levels of support, from small sniffles or niggles through to flu support, sore throat, sinus, infection and more. I hope it’s helpful.

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Build a strong immune system

The first thing that I always recommend to my clients and my own family is to start building up the immune system. We want to make sure that it’s nice and strong to make its way through winter. So we have an Immune Boost combination of remedies that you can start taking prophylactically. You could start with maybe one dose daily or one dose every second day preventatively, just to make sure that everything is at optimum to keep you healthy.

If illness has taken hold in your community, a Natural Hand Sanitiser can be a handy addition to the handbag, or school bag for older children. It is important to mention that what is meant for us will usually find us, however a little extra attention to hand-washing and sanitising can often prevent us picking up a bigger dose of illness when it is circulating.

Homeopathy for cough and cold in early stage

If you feel like something is coming or perhaps some of your kids start with a little sniffle or a cough, it’s good to get on top of that as quickly as possible. So our Coughs & Colds combination remedies, or if there’s a lot of bone pain and body aches involved, then the Flu Support combination remedies will help you to get onto that as quickly as possible.

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So with those, I suggest taking three doses straight away at the first sign of any symptoms and then just to stand back for a few hours and see whether or not you’ve nipped it in the bud or perhaps it has taken hold and you can start supporting yourself or your children through that.

In terms of single remedies that you might want to use, things like Aconite or Arsenicum Album are really good if you didn’t have my combis on hand.

Suitable remedies as symptoms progress

If something does take hold and it feels like that cold is settling in. I like to support using the Coughs & Colds combination of remedies along with the Inflammation & Infection combination.

I find when you put the two together, you get a much better action, one to treat the underlying inflammation and then the Coughs & Colds to support all of the symptoms moving through.

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Something that’s important to remember with colds, heavy colds as well as flu is that we are looking for a steady progression. Every day needs to be a little bit different. So even though the symptoms might be similar, we are looking for a slight change. A change in the colour of the mucus, a change in where it’s presenting a change in the cough, and we are also looking for a downward and outward direction of cure. So we might start with a foggy head and some congested sinuses and then some phlegm in the throat and then finally a chesty cough. Very happy with that downward progression.

When we are monitoring for these things to be moving along and that we’re dosing appropriately to keep us supported through the process. We are also looking for the bell curve of the inflammation. So it’ll start off slowly, it’ll gain momentum, there’ll be some sort of healing crisis, which in a cold can come with a mild fever that will break naturally and then it’ll start tapering off. So as long as we are seeing that progression line and that bit of change every day, generally we are okay. But of course, as always, if you’ve got any questions, you can just reach out to us.

Homeopathy for specific symptoms

You can use the Coughs & Colds, Inflammation & Infection and Immune Boost combis in the background throughout the illness to treat and support the whole process. However, it’s also helpful to have combination remedies on hand that act on more acute symptoms as they progress.

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Chesty cough

I like using the Chesty Coughs combination of remedies here because you’ve got your kiddos that will just do the chesty cough. Or others might do a really heavy set in, tight chesty cough. Or they could be croupy or they could even be whoopy. Or maybe a slight bronchitis would be starting to set in.

So I like to use a wide variety of remedies in combination. I find you get a really good response that way and the cough starts resolving quite fast.

Sinus and mucus congestion

If the illness seems to be making the sinus and head feel congested, try the Sinus & Mucus combination remedies. Also wonderful to add to your steam vaporiser and have that running overnight. Remember to elevate the head of the mattress just ever so slightly with your little ones to help them with drainage.

The homeopathic remedies are beautifully complemented by some lovely Breathe-Easy Balm, and other winter essential oils like Breathe-EasyEssential Oil, or Aroma Defence Essential Oil that you can pop into your diffuser.

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Sore throat

If yourself or your loved one is experiencing a sore throat, I love the Sore Throats combination remedies. Just in case there’s that rawness either from coughing or maybe from the inflammation. You can also try one of our Sore Throat Spray if needed.

Here’s to moving through winter ailments much easier!

Hopefully these suggestions will all help make the process smoother and hopefully get illness clearing through faster if indeed you didn’t manage to get ahead of it. I hope that’s helpful. Stay warm, healthy and happy this winter 

Putting it all together

If you’d like to know how to practically and naturally treat these acute situations with confidence, then you’ll love our Homeopathic First Aid Course. We have a module dedicated to treating Coughs and Colds with homeopathy, as well as 12 other first aid issues we may experience in the home.

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